A Reply to My Husband

The flower!

Barra and Rania have returned to their home. As she was about to climb the stairs, Barra saw her mother eating in the dining room. Maybe he just woke up because it looked messy.

"Honey, please get me the debt details paper yesterday, in the room. I'll talk to Mom before she leaves again" Barra whispered. Rania nodded as well.

Barra immediately turned towards the dining room while Rania headed straight for the room.

"Mother ... We need to talk!" barra said firmly.

"Speak what? When I talk about this morning, I don't want to. That's my business" replied his mother.

"Alright, I'm not going to interfere in Mom's personal affairs. It's mom's debt." Barra held back.

"What debt?"

Then Rania is seen descending and approaching Barra.

"This is the paper you asked for" he said, handing Barra the paper. "I'll just go upstairs, I won't interfere."

Barra nodded.

Barra's focus returns to her mother after Rania is nowhere to be seen.

"Please explain to me, ma'am, what do you owe this much for?" barra asked while handing over the paper. His mother received the paper, then opened it and read the contents.

"Is this Barra?"

"Why did you ask me?! Mum should have explained to me what it was?!"

"But I don't understand what this is!"

"That's the details of mom's debt!" snapped Barra. "Mom don't know what pretend not to know?! What's that money for, Mom?!!" Barra started to get emotional. His mother acted as if she knew nothing.

"My debt? I do have debt but not this much!!"

"Mom still want to dodge?"

"But I don't owe this much." His mother still wouldn't admit it.

"Did you know they'd take this house and put you in jail if you didn't pay it off in a month?"

"What??? I didn't hear wrong???" His mother doesn't seem to know anything about it.

"Mom heard me clearly!!! They will confiscate this house and will also put mom in jail if mom doesn't pay it off within a month!! You hear?!!"

"But there was no such agreement before!"

"But there is now. The proof is in my hands!!" barra said rudely. "So please explain to me what that money is for and now where is the money?!! Is it true what you said this morning to the pregnant woman? Mom used it to fund the life of the man who was close to her?!!!" Barra kept yelling at her mother. All this time he kept patiently facing his mother's behavior but this time his mother's behavior had exceeded the limit.

"Eh .. It was me with her, but ... " His mother hesitated to explain.

"Why Ma'am? Do you still want to say I don't have to interfere in Mom's personal affairs? What if this mother's debts I take into account mother's personal affairs? So I don't need to bother thinking about how to pay it off?! How's Ma?? What do you want?!!!"

"Barra .. You can't be like mother to mother ..."

"Or do I just let you go to jail because you've repeatedly told me not to interfere in your personal affairs? Isn't this debt a mother's personal affair, don't you use it to have fun with your lover?" syndicate Barra.

"Now please explain how you can have that much debt. Mom knew? Even if I sell this house and all the assets we have, we can't pay off my mother's debt."

His mother started talking. He clearly explained his debts, what he used for, what date, and how much.

"Are you honest?" barra asked after her mother finished telling her. "So it's true what Ms. Sandy said."

"Yes ... There's nothing I cover anymore."

"Then why is the number different here than what I mentioned?" barra asked while pointing at the writings on the paper earlier.

"Mom doesn't know either. What is clear is that the mother's debt is not that much, so the mother relaxes. I also don't know if they're going to confiscate this house and want to put you in jail."

"After this we go to where mom borrowed money. Ask for an explanation why the mother's debt is written so much on this paper even though the mother's debt is not that much."

"Well, I'll ask you that."

"One more Ma'am, finish the mother's relationship with the married man. He only wants money from his mother and he obeys it. Now I've seen the results like this."

"If the money was for other purposes, maybe I wouldn't be this angry. But mom used it for gambling? check in at the hotel? going back and forth overseas just to gamble?!!!" Barra breathed out a rough breath. It felt like he had run out of words to express his frustration to his mother.

Her mother seemed to want to answer Barra's words, but she paused.

"If indeed the debt of the mother is not as much as written on the paper as I said earlier,!!!!!! maybe we can sell daddy's relics, and the rest I'll work on. But if mom's debt is that much, I don't know where else to go."

"Please Barra's mother, I don't want to go to jail."

"I'll rest for a while, I can get ready first. After that we go there."

"All right" answered his mother.

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Barra entered the house with a face that looked riled up. Since then in the car in the mess. She wanted to curse her mother but she could stand it.

"Now you are satisfied? You ruined my life, my hard work!"

His mother could only fall.

"Mom heard it for yourself? The amount listed on this paper is the amount of the mother's debt and the interest! Mother Flower ... flowers!!! shouted Barra. "Mommy borrowed money to the loan shark?!!! Didn't you think before?!!" Barra was still screaming. Her mother is really scared right now. Barra had never looked this angry before, let alone yelling at him so many times.

"I didn't know the flowers would be that much. Forgive Mother Barra ... " His mother began to cry.

"This is my home, mother, my hard work! My car, savings, deposits and other things all I had to sell to pay off my mother's debt! I haven't even redeemed Rania's car from Miss Sandy!!!"

"They're not messing around with their threats Mom, they can act as they please!! Now you know what you're dealing with?!!"

"Mom doesn't want to be in Barra's prison, please Mommy ... I'm sorry ... Now I know you're wrong." Tears have flooded her mother's cheeks.

"It's not to scare the mother, but if we can't pay it off, maybe after mom gets out of jail we've become homeless because we don't have a house and all our possessions we've sold, and then you can pay half of your debt."

"Mom will try to ask Deni what you've given him." Barra did not speak of her mother.