When Love Should Determine
Chapter 7

Larissa complained of her lower abdominal pain these few days. He said all this to Hamzah. "Yank, some days my stomach hurts. It feels like menstrual pain, but I'm only a few days away from the moon. Why, huh?."

Hamzah was confused on how to answer it. He scratched his head that was not itchy. "If you ask me, who do I ask?."

"I'm a man, how do I know about that. Ask your mother. He knows it!."

Larissa nodded her head, confirming what her husband said. "Yes too, yeah. Why should I ask him something like this. Obviously he doesn't know. Lah wong he had never experienced it" he murmured inwardly.

"Well, I'll try to ask mom!" answer Larissa. They also resumed their own activities.

Larissa is ready to go to her mother's shop after she finishes breakfast with her husband. This is still in the atmosphere of Eid, Bu Ani stalls are very crowded if you are lebaran.

Arriving at the stall, Larissa immediately helped the mother. He sat down to peel the fruits. Suddenly he felt pain in his lower abdomen. He complained about it to his mother.

"Mom, some days my stomach feels pain, like pain when it comes to the moon, even though I just finished coming months. Especially if used for squatting like this. It was very painful, like something was stuck there" he said, expressing the pain he was experiencing.

Bu Ani looks worried to hear the complaints felt by the child. "Well, what's wrong with you, son? my mother knows less too. Try me later to get Mbah a card. He was a masseuse and a baby shaman. Let me ask you to massage your stomach. Maybe something's wrong there."

Larissa nodded in agreement, entrusting all to her mother.

In the afternoon, Larissa returned home. There is already Mbah karti waiting for his arrival. Without lingering, he immediately poured himself for a massage.

Initially, the back was massaged first, then switched to another part. The comfortable sensation he felt as the massage touched his body.

After massaging the entire body, Mbah Karti asked Larissa to lie down. He switched to massaging the stomach.

After a few moments of massaging the stomach, Mbah Karti asked, "When was the last time you came to the moon?."

"A week ago, Fr!."

Mbah Karti looks smiling himself, Larissa became curious because of it. He asked, "What's wrong, Mbah? is there something wrong with my stomach?."

"No, Nduk, your stomach is okay. He's just adapting to something new!."

"I mean Mbah?" ask Larissa again. He still does not understand the meaning of the words Mbah karti.

"If next month you don't come, then that means you're pregnant."

The answer Mbah Karti said made Larissa's heart happy immeasurably. I can't wait to share this happiness with my husband. She even imagined how happy her husband would be when he heard this news.

"Pregnants are not easy, Nduk. There are many things you will feel. One of them you will often experience pain like this" said Mbah karti, you pay for Larissa daydreams.

"But you calm down. Mbah will help to arrange your uterus so that you do not feel too much pain!" continued.

"Yes, Mbah!" answer Larissa. He no longer cares what Mbah Karti does to his body. In her mind there was only one thing she wanted to do, which was to immediately tell her husband that she was pregnant.

Not long ago Mbah Karti also ended his massage. Larissa gave him a few pieces of money as wages. Not forgetting to say thank you too.

Mbah karti passed from there, while Larissa immediately approached the husband who was washing his motorcycle in the front yard.

"What happy news?" hamzah asked, for a moment he stopped washing his motorbike.

"Let's guess what good news I want to tell you?" larissa said, deliberately making Hamzah curious.

"Oh, I can't guess. I am not a psychic. You're talking straight!" lamented Hamzah.

Larissa laughed at Hamza. "The good news is.." He deliberately paused his speech so that Hamzah was more curious because of it.

"What happy news? come on, cepetan say!" hamzah said impatiently.

"The good news is ....I am now pregnant. There's our future son in my stomach."

Hamzah looked so happy to hear the news. Unknowingly, he immediately hugged the body of the wife. His eyes were so happy. "Thank you, Yank. You have given me the most beautiful thing in the world!."

"Yank, leila. Shame to see people!" larissa.

Hamzah immediately let go of his embrace as soon as he realized what he was doing.

Hamzah then squatted in front of Larissa. He rubbed his wife's flat stomach. "Grow well there my little whiz. Later that 'fighter locust' will be yours!."

Larissa smiled happily at the words of her husband. The hair of Hamzah who was still crouching in front of him.

Combat grasshopper is the name given by Hamzah on his motorcycle. He even dressed the headlights of the motor like a locust's eye. I don't know what the meaning behind the name is.

"So Mbah karti said, if my stomach pain was caused by a change in my uterus, but everything is fine. She had massaged my stomach to feel comfortable and no longer in pain during pregnancy" Larissa said.

Hamzah again landed a kiss on his wife's flat stomach. "Take care of your condition, don't be too tired. There's a child in your womb that you have to look after."

"Yes, Yank, I get it! I promise to take care of our future children as best I can" Larissa replied. Hamzah landed a kiss on his wife's stomach.

"emh, Yank, I'm samperin mommy first huh. I want to share this happy news with him too."

"Yes!."

"Have you eaten, not yet?" ask Larissa.

"Yet!."

"If so we eat together, yuk! I haven't eaten either."

"Come on! But I want to wash the bike first, yeah!."

"Yes, Yank. I'll eat some food first too!."

Larissa went back inside the house. He put food on the plate. Not to forget he shared the happy news with his mother as well, while Hamzah rushed to finish washing the motorbike. And after all, he went inside and ate with his beloved wife.

Time passed, and the moon changed. It turns out that Larissa did not have her moon guests. That means she's really pregnant. His heart was happy to find that.