When Love Should Determine
Chapter 44

"Do I have to be quiet if he hits me? I'm innocent anyway. Why apologize!." Hamzah Kekeh pleaded not guilty and refused to apologize. His self-esteem is too high to just do trivial things but the benefits are great.

Hamzah's nature is hard. He won't apologize if Ira feels innocent. But if he is wrong, without being asked he will apologize by himself.

"It's not so, son! Giving up does not mean losing. But it's more about avoiding that the problem doesn't get bigger." Baskoro still did not give up on giving advice to his son. He knew very well the nature and character of his eldest son.

"I'm not scared! I will face anything" replied Hamzah.

"But giving up is much better than fighting back."

"Then what should I do? Do I have to be quiet when he hits me?."

"If he hits first, of course you have to fight. Everyone has an instinct to defend themselves" Baskoro replied.

"That means I can hit him if I get hurt, right?" hamzah asked with a cynical smile.

"That's not what you mean, son! You just said...." Baskoro seems to have difficulty explaining to his eldest son. Moreover, Hamzah also seems not to want to understand at all.

"Sister can't hit if there's no reason. She acted like that because she felt you made her cry. That's why he was looking for you." Larissa spoke up. She also tried to explain her husband.

"Didn't I say that! I did that because I wanted to protect Fatim. I don't want him to do anything. But why are you blaming me now?" ask Hamzah. His eyes stared hard at Larissa.

"I don't blame you. But isn't there any other way you can not offend your mother."

"What kind of way do you mean?."

"Like....." Not yet Larissa finish her speech, mother metua cut off the conversation. "Based on your brother is excessive. Such a problem is exaggerated!."

Larissa took a breath. He knew exactly where the mother-in-law was talking. "Not exaggerate the problem, ma'am. But the problem here is that my mother's heart is hurting. Obviously, my brother is angry."

"Yes, I know! but that's not the way. Cook my son looking for a guy like a criminal like that. Is my son a criminal who hurt your mother?."

Mother-in-law's words were very piercing. He was unceasingly cornered Larissa. He even defended, and considered that what his son did was not wrong.

Larissa felt there was no meeting point to solve this problem, even tending to blame herself. Finally, he got up from his seat. He grabbed Fatim and took him into a sling. And without saying goodbye, he immediately left the aunt's house.

"Where are you going?" hamzah asked to stop Larisaa's move, but it was not answered in the slightest.

"Wait a minute! Let me take you home" Hamzah did not give up on Larissa's silence, but unfortunately his wife still ignored his words.

When we got home, the door was wide open. Larissa immediately went in and looked for her mother's whereabouts. But after a long search, he did not find his whereabouts.

Larissa did not give up. He immediately looked for his sister's house. He assumed at a time like this, the greatest possibility is that the mother went to the sister's house.

And sure enough, when he got there he found his mother there. Mom sat in the living room chair still crying. In front of her there was a sister-in-law who tried to calm mother.

Slowly Larissa approached her mother. His hand reached out to touch his mother's shoulder. "Mother.." she said softly.

Feeling a touch on her shoulder, she turned to Larissa. Not a word came out of his mouth.

Silence is created without anyone making a sound. Only the melt of tears continued to flow, bearing witness to how heart-wrenching it was at this moment.

"Mother...." After a while, Larissa opened her voice again. "On behalf of Hamzah, I apologize profusely to my mother."

Mother threw her face away, it seemed like her anger was still not quenched. "I don't want to forgive him! If she's really sorry, tell her to come to mom and apologize to herself."

Larissa was silent. Her mother's request was very difficult. She understood the nature of her husband who would never apologize if he felt innocent. She was confused about how to persuade her husband to apologize to her mother. Moreover, he did not get any solution when he came to Aunt's house earlier.

Seeing Larissa's silence, mother spoke again. "Now you have to choose. Stay here with mom, or follow your husband!"

Mother sighed for a moment, continuing her speech again. "Mother would not see Hamzah at mother's house again. If you still want to stay here, then you should leave your husband. I will guarantee all your needs and your child's. But if you still want to be with your husband, please leave this house. And you're not a mother's son anymore!."

Mother's words were like a hard slap for Larissa. He sat down, not knowing what to answer. On the other hand, he loved his mother very much. All this time the mother has struggled hard to raise herself without a husband figure beside her. He did not want to be a child by disappointing his mother.

On the other hand, he also did not want to part with Hamzah. Although her husband often made her cry and hurt, but she still loved him very much. Moreover, there was a young Fatim, who of course really needed a father figure beside him. He cannot be selfish by separating the child from his own father.

'God, why do I always have to be faced with a choice between mother and husband? Can't I live with both?' lament in the heart. Tears flooded his cheeks, showing how scared he was at the moment.

There was the sound of Fatim crying. Larissa calmed him down immediately. "Mother, I'll go home first. Poor Fatim, it seems like he is hungry and sleepy. I'll put him to bed first."

She remained silent, not responding to Larissa's words. Larissa ignored her mother's silence. She kept asking mom to talk. "Mom don't have to think about this anymore. I'm not gonna hurt mom."

Unfortunately, my mother did not respond to his words. Larissa chose to immediately leave the sister's house and return to the mother's house. Moreover, Fatim did not stop crying even though he had given it ASI. Maybe right now, this is the best way.

Arriving home, Larissa immediately entered the room and put her daughter to sleep. Then he threw his body beside the princess. He was tired, physically and mentally tired. He just hopes that there will be a way out to solve this problem.