Enough One Wife
Threatening each other
[So you don't want to know, you have to go home tomorrow or ..] I'm silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.
[What, bang?] jihan asked in a voice that was still slow, indicating his condition was still not recovering properly
[You will sin for disobeying your husband!] I said. [I'll send you the ticket money, get someone to drive you. Understand.]
[Can't yet, bang. There are still many brothers coming. They still want to meet. My brother is busy, too. They also still have to accept guests who come from out of town. It's impossible to just leave.]
[Ahhh whatever, if you don't come home tomorrow, I'll pick up Nabila and Nadira, you're up!] my phone's closed. My attitude apparently made Jihan tremble, she called several times, but I just ignored it.
I'm sorry if I have to be selfish because I really miss you, plus my mother's insistence on making me feel bad. You have to understand my very pinned position.
I deliberately turned off the phone, focused on finishing the job after sending some money for the fare of Jihan and the brother who would accompany her to Jogja. It's really bad that way too, but I had no other choice because like you said, now that Jihan's changed, she's been willing to ignore me.
***
Jihan really didn't come, while Mom got angry. The woman spies on Jihan, thinking of her as a selfless daughter-in-law. About her husband already has a position so that it changes in-laws, even though the wealth of the husband does not fully belong to the wife. It was your son who achieved it all, so Jihan shouldn't have changed.
Mother's assessment is actually not right because Jihan never changed, maybe she only needs a little time with her family, especially they have not met for a long time and once met even in a state of grieving like this, but I can't possibly reveal it all because I can not only be angry at Jihan, but I'll be angry at me too.
"Why don't you ever tell me, San, the same mom about your wife's change? I was so upset about it. Even your phone went unanswered, so arrogant. Do you lest you leave a lot of money for him so that he feels at home lingering in the village while spending the husband's money. Ckckck, what a selfless wife, she should learn to skimp, not that you're still trying, not really rich. Isn't that San?" she looked at me, asking for support.
I don't know what to answer because all the accusations are not true, but if you deny mother, there mother will be angry and then lick home. In fact, persuading mother to want to wait a few days is hard to ask for forgiveness.
"That's it, ma'am, just leave it. Hasan called again. Now we go to the market, shopping for gold for mom. Hasan never bought me jewelry." I persuaded the mother with jewelry, usually it works for the women, not least our mother.
We headed to the nearest gold shop by car. Mother was so happy, along the way praising me, her son, for this was the first time I had bought a mother jewelry.
Arriving at the jewelry store, unmitigated, mother asked to buy a necklace, ring and bracelet that if the total amount is thirty grams. I almost fainted over paying him because all my savings were drained.
"San, your golden wife isn't this big, is she?" ask mother.
I'm silent. Do not buy gold, buy clothes just a while ago. From the very beginning of our marriage, our lives were completely from scratch. In fact, all the supplies of money and jewelry that Jihan brought from her village were forced to be sold for our needs in the beginning.
"San, why not answer? It must be bigger than Jihan's jewelry, right?" mom's staring.
"Well, it should be, San. Mom's first. Not just the wife thinks. You can be successful because the mother's prayer "mother starts singing Little while looking at her new jewelry.
After shopping, I drove my mother to Beringharjo because I wanted to buy some batik stels. At first I thought I was just shopping for a few stels, but I bought a lot of clothes, until my hands were full left and right with my mom's groceries. Fortunately I managed to get mom out of the market quickly, otherwise it would be impossible to get out of there my wallet was dry.
"San, the mother is so grateful that now your sustenance is much better than before." Mother said, re-opening the conversation while we were in the car on our way home. "San, if you don't want to buy rice fields in the village is nothing, but you buy cows a few tails ya San, so that people know that the economy of our family is good." mom kept babbling, while my head was dizzy thinking about Finance being instantly dragged.
***
I don't know how long Ica's been waiting in front of the house. When I saw him he immediately smiled. Waving hands so that it attracts the attention of the mother, the mother whispered, asking Ica.
"Mom, I'm Ica, used to be the same campus as Jihan and mas Hasan." Ica said, greeting the mother with her reverence.
"Came? The Ica .... Oh, that Ica is San," mother tried to remember, I immediately pale, afraid mother said. "You're curtailing that, aren't you? This is Ica, right? What you like is San, before the same Jihan." finally mother conveyed it also makes me unwell because it was discovered to have confided in mother, plus Ica immediately smiles misbehaved.
"What's up, Ca?" my many.
"You offered your condolences to Jihan's mother. Ada, right?" ask Ica.
"Not yet to come home, still in his village. You go home first, I'll tell you later, or you WA Jihan." I said.
"Oh yes already. It's for Hasan and mom." Ica handed me the parcel that didn't know what it was. Mother was happy. "Then I go home first, ma'am, mas .. so as not to disturb." Said Ica who was preparing to return to greet mother, but she was detained by mother so as not to go home immediately.
"Now don't hurry, later. It has come a long time not to enter first, at least drink tea first. Is Ica eating yet?" mother guided Ica into the house, I became unwell but also did not dare to argue with mother.
Mother served three glasses of tea that she made with hot water so it took time to spend. Don't forget Ica's cake.
"Isn't Ica married?" Ask mother.
Mother's question made us both speechless. Ica then smiled, I immediately explained that Ica was married but now divorced.
"Oh is divorced. Divorce is common now, son, not a disgrace anymore. Ica is also sure, Ica boy divorced must be her fault not from son Ica, but from her ex-husband anyway?" Said mother. A question that left us both speechless.
