THORNS IN MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 5 - A HUGE STORM

"Mother!"

I-i know... The middle-aged woman I had known for almost eleven years looked surprised by my arrival.

His face was clearly tense.

"Liana's? Same who? Where's Irsyad?"

I can't stand the turmoil of taste in this soul. Instantly my body ran hugging the body of Mother Agis, Mother Bang Irsyad.

"Don't run! You will fall! You're a big body, Lian! If you fall, you will have difficulty helping!"

Good Lord! My hearing is normal. My mother-in-law was impressed by my body shamming! Good Lord! Am I being sensitive, or is that the intention of Mother Agis to touch my situation?

"Yes...! Bang Irsyad didn't come home last night, Bun!" I told him, which I had considered to be my own Mama Kandung.

"Hhh... What's up again? Hm? A storm? A fight?"

Why does Mother ask like that? We have hardly fought in the past five years! We have been peaceful and peaceful all this time. I thought my house was fine, it turned out... Not unexpected at all!

"Mother knows, where is Brother Irsyad?" I pretended to keep the news that my husband's parents were actually participating in the romance story of Katliya and Bang Irsyad.

"Where's Irsyad? You should know better, Lian! Why even ask Mother who does not live at home with Irsyad? Strange question!" the weirdness that actually opens the veil of the next strangeness in my opinion.

Is it wrong if I ask about his son's whereabouts? Is it strange that question I asked him? Is not the response that seems awkward by pretending to be angry and divert my questions that he already knows? Hm...

"I mean Lian, maybe Mother or Father had heard and knew about Bang Irsyad. Or maybe Bang Irsyad told Mommy herself and Dad!"

"News about what? Aboutwhat? Your question confused Mother, Lian!"

I deliberately resisted the desire of the heart to bombard and break all the words of his tongue that is good at twitching.

I still have to look for a lot of evidence first. Must. Before I open all the guises of their game behind me that stabs me mercilessly.

"Liana!"

My eyes are breaking. Surprised by the loud call of the ten-year-old man to be my bedmate.

Bang Irshad!

Apparently you came too, picked me up! Like,... Your mother told you first that I was in their house to unmask you. But baby, I first know your guise and the ruse you're playing!

Bang Irsyad approached me. His face was stiff with no expression.

"Let's go home! We're talking at home, Liana!" he said while pulling my arm legs without thinking.

"Wait, Bang! Ouch sick! Please don't pull me like this!" pekikku pain.

My husband let go of his hand. His net looked at both balls of my eyes.

"There's something I want to ask Mother and Brother!" i'm firm.

The two faces of the mother and son looked tense.

Now I am the one who is stubbornly holding the anger in his chest.

"What... You guys really doing crazy things behind my back?"

No answer.

But I'm sure, Mother Agis her face immediately pale pias like recycled paper that lacks sunlight.

"Come, go home!"

I am no longer waiting for my husband and mother-in-law to answer. Just silence with a sharp look of disbelief if they can be so cruel to me.

The Xenia car that we bought two years ago in cash was running fast.

Bang Irsyad silent a thousand languages. His face was straight looking forward to the streets of the capital that began to creep densely tend to be jammed in the hours of returning to work.

.............

"What do you want?"

The question that should have come out of my mouth, but it is now coming out of Bang Irsyad's lips.

"What do I want?"

"You can be disappointed. That's natural, considering what I said yesterday morning about wanting me to get married again! But don't act crazy! That's too much, Liana! Mommy doesn't know my relationship with Katliya yet! And don't accuse my Mother of your negative thoughts!"

I exhaled a tired air from inside this chest. Right in front of his face is a lie.

"Did I sound like I was accusing you and Mother? Do you think my question was a crazy question? Think brain, Bang!... Me, you went crazy with what you said yesterday morning! You said you were going to marry Katliya on November 1st! Then, I can't figure out why you're that hard on me, Bang! What wrong? What???"

I'm hysterical.

Screaming out unconsciously and without thinking long if it was my commotion to make Bang Irsyad also become out of control.

Plaques

A slap landed on my right cheek.

The first slap I'd gotten from her for ten years married to her.

"Bang?!?" my cry, I really can't believe it.

"You are silent! I, I.so can't hold my emotions any longer!"

I looked at his eyes that looked angry.

"Dude...!!! Hik hik hicks..."

My eyes water. Sorrow, pain mixed with heartache that increasingly mounts.

His hand grabbed my shoulder. But I immediately pushed aside and retreated away.

"Liana.., sorry!"

I still look at him with hatred.

"Your work, Bang! You slapped me to cover up the sins you committed on me!"

"Be quiet, Liana! Let me talk! Don't monopolize our conversation and want to win by yourself!" he said, full of defense. It was as if his actions were right and I was wrong.

"What's my fault? What mistake??? And why do you so lightly say ask permission to marry again! Even the woman who will be my honeymoon is a female that I have considered my own sister!!!" I shouted back hysterically.

Plaque

Now the two slaps of Bang Irsyad have made my left and right cheeks and my heart even hotter.

"Look at you, Liana! Lookie! Look in the mirror! What are you like now! It's a good thing I survived to ten years receiving all the shortcomings and excess weight of your body that is becoming more and more! I'm sick of living with you, Liana! Even you can't afford to give me offspring as a woman's pride!"

Deg deg deg deg

I know, Bang! I'm self-conscious! I also feel inferior to my own body without having to ask me to look in the mirror! Hik hik...

I know, I'm weak and I don't have the power. But all this is a sign of my fate, Bang! Still have to wait for Divine Greatness to give me happiness with nature as a married woman who can get pregnant and give birth! Please don't blame me for this, Bang! Because our position is the same! You and I, both God has not given the opportunity to bear the status of Father and Mother.

I fell on the floor of the ceramic room. Letting Bang Irsyad pass without a word, go waltzing into the living room of the house as if there was nothing. Like there was no furore of our commotion that sparked after a long time ayem look family.

I wept. Roaring loudly.

Sometimes Ratih seemed to peek from behind the door of my room which was not closed tightly by Bang Irsyad.

While my husband was sitting leaning on a dining chair while sucking deeply into his clove cigarette.

Good Lord! Is this the real form of a man who ten years into a kind, understanding, romantic and wise husband?

Lordy! Where was my old husband? Why did the war suddenly change and become different as it is today? I really don't know him anymore!

But I again had to ask her intentions once again. Must. This is not an action that can be taken lightly. Because it concerns the future of my household with her.

"But! Do you really want to marry Katliya?" ask me after successfully walking with staggering steps.

"Yes!"

A short answer that is cold and sounds haughty and jumawa.

"Why should Katliya, Bang?"

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