When Love Should Determine
Chapter 27

Hamzah did not answer the question that Larissa asked. He turned his face away from his wife.

"My jaw! Do you mean what you say?" larissa asked with tears in her eyes. "If you want to abort this child, it would be tantamount to killing me. You must know very well what the risk of aborting the baby is? Especially at nine months' gestation."

Hamzah is still flinching. Don't know what to say.

"If you mean what you say, then fine. I'll go with Dad. You don't have to bother aborting this kid either, because I'm taking him along. Maybe this is what my dream was about last night"

Hamzah was shocked to hear his wife's words. He knew very well that Larissa's father had long since died. "What do you mean say that?."

"The night I dreamed, my father came to visit me. And when he's coming back, he's asking me to come along with him."

"If you don't want me to be by your side anymore, then I'd better go with Dad" Larisa replied with tears in her eyes.

Hamzah squabbled, aligned himself with his wife. The frail body of the wife. "Please! don't say it like that. I don't want to lose you. I didn't mean it by what you said" he said with tears.

As long as Larisa knew Hamzah, she had never seen her husband shed tears. Hamzah was the toughest man he had ever known.

Larissa looked at her husband's eyes. I see an honesty in what he said. "promise! never say that horrible thing again. You know for yourself, you're the only one I can hold. If you act like that to me, then I'd better go with Dad."

"Enough! don't talk about death anymore. I don't want to hear anymore" Hamzah said as he placed his index finger on Larissa's lips.

"I love you."

"I love you more."

They embrace each other and forgive each other's mistakes.

...****************...

At midnight Larissa woke up. He felt the mattress he was sleeping on was wet, but he felt no bed wet. He lights the lights to see. It turned out to be true, right under him sleeping wet.

Hamzah wakes up when Larissa turns on the lights. Still half sleepy, Hamzah asked, "What's up, Cus? how come people are surprised?."

"The mattress I'm sleeping on is wet, Entik. But I don't feel peeing" Larissa replied with a puzzled face.

"Not to think about it. Maybe you just don't feel it. Yuk! we go back to sleep."

Larissa was not satisfied with her husband's answer. It's not because it's wet. His back is a little sore right now.

Larissa woke up her mother and told her what had happened. "This is a sign that soon you will give birth, son. The water you let out is not urine, but your water that breaks. It was when mom gave birth to you that way too. Even the water that you put out more. Like a man has been bathing so wet. Later if it's been this morning, get water head, so you don't run out of water" explained his mother.

"But, ma'am, I don't feel my stomach. Just a little pain in the back."

Larissa smiled at her mother's explanation. He was happy because soon he would meet the little angel who had been in his stomach. He went back to his room.

"How, Cus? What did mom say?" hamzah asked upon Larissa's return from mother's room.

"Mom says I'm going to give birth soon. The water that I put out was my water that broke" Larissa replied while sitting beside Hamzah.

"really. Then I'll go to the mansion first. I'll cancel the sea today. I want to accompany you in childbirth. Mumpung is still at this hour" said Hamzah with sparkling eyes.

Larissa nodded her head in response. Hamzah put his clothes back on and rushed to the mansion. Hamzah likes to be bare-chested when sleeping. Not long after, he was home again.

Surely said mother. As the dawn of the Adhan reverberated, Larissa began to feel heartburn in her stomach. He told this to his mother. "Relax, son. Later when the sun rises, go to the midwife to check" said the mother calming.

Larisa also nodded. Then she woke her husband to prepare. Naturally Larissa was nervous about facing labor, the article is the first experience for her to give birth to a baby.

The sun showed its light. Warming the cold inhabitants of the earth. Larissa also invited her husband to go to the midwife to check himself after breakfast. The heartburn that Larissa felt was getting more intense. And the longer it gets.

Larissa arrived at the midwife's house. He was immediately examined. It turned out that it had indeed opened, but it was still open one. The midwife gave him a small pill for what it was, and told him to go home first.

Hamza also brought his wife home. But not to go home, but to his parents. Larissa obeyed her husband's wishes, and she wanted to share this with her two in-laws.

Arriving at the house of in-laws, Larissa secretes mucus mixed with blood from her groin. She panicked, afraid that something might happen to her baby.

The mother-in-law said it was natural for the woman to give birth, and Larissa calmed down after hearing that.

Larissa took a walk around the house to reduce the pain she was experiencing. But until night, there was still no sign that she was going to give birth.

Larissa invites Hamzah to return to her home, but Hamzah refuses on the grounds of distance from her parents' house to the house of the Midwife closer. Larissa had to obey despite her heavy heart.

It's not that Larissa doesn't want to stay at her in-laws' house. But more feeling sorry for Hamzah's two younger brothers. Because the house in-laws is very small, only measuring 3×5. There are two brothers and their parents who live there.

Let alone to sleep, to move was very difficult. Forced Alif, Hamzah and Baskoro's younger brothers sleep in Blandongan, where ordinary people relax by the sea.

Larissa's getting bad at it. "Entik, let's just go home, yuk. Pity the same father alif" said Larissa.

"Keep, if you have anything how? My parents' house is closer to that of a midwife's. If you have nothing to go there" Hamzah Keukeh refused to go back home.

"But I don't feel good about them, pity. They're forced to sleep outside because we're there."

"Have it, you don't have to think about it. We're only staying a while anyway. Maybe for a day or two."

Larissa was silent, having to obey her husband's words. He did not want to argue in such circumstances.