The Long Night of Amelia
Chapter 13: The Love Story of Darsim

Mursidah was 16 when he married a man 10 years his senior. Darsim at that time had a bakmi shop in the city of Wonosari. His birthplace. He met Mursidah who was one of his customers who often stopped by his shop. Mursidah lives not far from his home. Mursidah was one of his neighbors.

Luckily Darsim, at that time Mursidah's parents were only a farmer and washing workers considered Darsim was one of the neighbors who was known to be good and polite. In his village, Darsim's parents also have a grocery store that is quite in demand for agents or middlemen to take goods to be resold in retail. At that time in his village, this was considered a sign of prosperity and success. Until without any difficulty Darsim finally could marry Mursidah.

Mursidah was the same as most Javanese women in general. She has dark brown skin because she is used to helping her father in the fields or fields, a plump body contains, her face is typical of Javanese women with a small nose that is not sharp, thick lips filled, black eyebrows

which is quite bushy, round cheeks and oval face shape eggs. His face was ordinary to Darsim at the time. But, the nature of obedience and manners in the elderly and manners with soft words became his attraction for the man. He married Mursidah without any significant obstacles.

At that time Darsim who owned a bakmi shop made his livelihood as well as a place to build a household with Mursidah. He built his shop level with his own savings. A level just to build a bed of bedrooms to be left with his wife.

Years changed...

At that time, Mursidah had a daughter. As time goes on, he grows. The baby, called Ayundra Cantika, is slowly growing. He is slowly entering 2 years. Mursidah began to feel so cramped living in a room on the 2nd floor of her husband's bakmi shop. Not to mention when he had to help serve the customers when crowded...He had to carry his son on his back. There's no way he left it alone on the 2nd floor.

Finally, Mursidah persuaded her husband to move to Jakarta for a better life. After various considerations, Darsim followed his wife's will. He sold his shop and bought a simple house on the outskirts of Jakarta.

Until just when Mursidah was 21 years old, and his son Ayu was 5 years old, Mursidah got a call from the foundation where the channel was to work to become TKW in Hong Kong. Darsim, who wanted to prevent his wife's departure, could do nothing. He realized his pride as a man who could not support his wife and child, making him unable to withstand the departure of his wife.

Early in Mursidah in Hong Kong, she still sent letters and money to her husband through a money order. But after a year passed, Mursidah sent nothing but tuition for Ayu's needs to her husband. He left without any news. Just disappear. Darsim tried to search through his channeling foundation, but according to the foundation's chief administrator, Mursidah had a contract with them for only 1 year. After that, they have no responsibility for it. They also said when the contract expires, Mursidah does not want to return to Jakarta and he has his own job there that he will take care of everything himself.

Darsim felt angry, sad, disappointed, all mixed up at that time. He does not even know the status of his relationship with Mursidah. Marry again ? it ever happened inside him. But he abandoned his intention considering that his economy was still difficult to finance himself and Ayu. Even he still gets the intake of money to meet the cost of daily needs and school just wayang princess.

Darsim sat quietly leaning on his simple wooden couch with a mat of cotton mattresses that had been tepos and kumel. He regretted his life. If he were still in his village.His home life would not be this small. Maybe they live happily even though it is not luxurious, but Darsim sure can meet the needs of his life with his bakmi shop. Maybe he has become a successful businessman in his village. You can open a branch here.

If he did not follow his wife's desire to move to Jakarta...

Darsim is opening his phone screen reading every old chat he reads from a man who claims to be Mursidah's new husband. He threatened to stop approaching her and extorted her money.

Goddammit! You think I'm that bad at extorting money from a woman!There are you who have ruined my household!You savage man!sumpat Darsim in the heart.Want it feels like he killed the man if he knew who the sender of this SMS...