Behind the Veil (Aisha)

Dinner

Desi gasp. Her face flushed.

"Did a aunt ever hear a good piece of advice. Take enough fortune, for greed will deceive us in darkness." Aisha smile.

"No need to interfere, this is my business and my daughter's." Desi will continue his steps.

"Sorry aunt. Likewise with Auntie who also should not interfere in the household affairs of Aunt's daughter." said Aisha again.

Desi just glanced sharply then left the room.

Now only Aisha and Anita live there.

Anita seemed powerless to hold her shame on Aisha. He approached his desk and looked down and cried there.

Aisha immediately approached her best friend, she patted Anita gently on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry my mother, she's been so outrageous."

"It's okay. No need to apologize."

Anita raised her head. Removing her tears.

Aisha sat in the front seat of Anita.

"I'm so ashamed of you. My mother is very different from your mother. All he had in mind were treasures and positions." Anita held back her tears.

Aisha smile.

"There's nothing wrong with your mother. All mothers want to see their children happy, it's natural, it's just that the standard of happiness for your mother is treasure. Your duty as a child is to tell him, to set him straight. So counsel your mother without hunting her, warn her without hurting her."

Anita saw Aisha's face.

"I'm not sure I can change my mother's perspective."

"could. I'm sure I can. You and your husband can definitely change his mindset."

"His husband? Should I tell my husband this?"

"of course. One of the keys to success in a household is being open to each other. Don't keep anything from your husband. Especially this is about him, right?"

Anita nodded.

***

Early in the morning Lela chose to wash her husband's clothes first instead of cooking and doing other homework, because today is Saturday and her husband is off work, Lela thought that the husband would wake up a little during the day.

Lela washes and hangs clothes in the laundry room behind the kitchen, while enjoying the view and the morning air that still feels fresh, fresh, she seemed eager to wash her husband's clothes and make sure that the clothes she washed were clean. After a long time in the room, the thirsty Lela decided to go to the kitchen and get a drink.

He walked into the kitchen without seeing the surroundings, immediately took some water and drank it.

Afterwards, remembering her husband's socks to be washed, she walked to a shoe rack near the entrance, but immediately he was shocked to see Zayn who was doing push-ups in front of the television.

Zayn who was also shocked immediately stood up and misbehaved, how not, he was exercising with bare chest, just wearing training pants only.

Lela still in shock turned her back to her husband.

"sorry. I didn't know you were exercising here." Lela's nervous.

"It's okay. I also think you're still in your room."

Both are wrong.

Zayn couldn't get into his room, because his room was right in front of his wife.

"I was washing clothes in the back" said Lela softly.

"I'm also working out here" Zayn said slowly.

"Why do you wash your clothes so early?" zayn asked suddenly in surprise.

"Why does sport not wear clothes?" instead of answering Lela asked back.

Zayn directly felt his sixpack stomach.

"We men are like this, exercising is sometimes more comfortable without wearing clothes."

"We women are also so, washing clothes early in the morning because there are still many other homework to be completed."

Zayn smiled at his wife's reply. Both of them were silent for a moment.

"Are you girls going to be wrong to see her husband not wearing clothes?"

"No," she answered trying to calm down while taking a deep breath looking at the husband with his sixpack belly and his shiny muscular hands in sweat.

"If we were men it would be wrong to see his wife without a hijab for the first time."

Lela gasped. He immediately held his head.

Lela widened her eyes to realize that she did not wear a hijab from now on. With her face red, Lela grew even more misbehaved.

Zayn smiled comically at the shocked and embarrassed reaction of his wife who he thought was very funny and adorable.

Lela was made even more fierce when suddenly her husband now walked up to her.

Getting closer, making Lela's heart beat fast, especially now the stomach field of the husband is more clearly visible to her

Lela closed her eyes, no longer able to see her.

Zayn smiled at the fear of his wife.

"It's so pretty" said Zayn slowly as he passed by his wife to get into his room.

Lela opened her eyes. She saw her husband enter the room behind her.

He held onto his chest, feeling that his heart was still beating violently.

***

Nightfall.

"Family dinner?" anita asked in shock when her husband who came to pick her up told her that they would go straight to her parents' house because the two were invited to a dinner together.

"Yes dear. Your mother just called me said they're all waiting for us."

"It's okay we go straight there, you don't have to change clothes first?"

Anita nodded.

Along the way Anita was more silent, rethinking the words of her mother this morning so that she persuaded her husband to accept a job offer from his father.

Anita glanced at her husband. Remember the words of Aisha who told her to tell Zaidan everything. She thought that if what Aisha said was true, her husband should know what her mother and father really wanted.

"I want to say something" Anita said, seeing her husband.

"Yes dear. Say," Zaidan replied, stopping his car.

Anita shocked. Without realizing it, they had reached the home of both parents.

"Yes dear. What do you want to say?" zaidan asked as he looked at his wife's face.

"No. Come home from here."

"All right."

The two got out of the car, walked into the house where everyone had been waiting for them.

Throughout the meal.

Anita and her husband were more silent listening to everyone in front of them.

The father and his two sons are busy talking about their jobs and companies.

They continue to boast of the achievements that have been achieved in the companies they lead so that they get multiple profits.

Zaidan only listened with an occasional smile because he was happy with the success of his brothers-in-law.

While the women, namely Desi and her two daughters-in-law are also no less busy talking about a discussion that is no less exciting according to them, clothes and branded bags, as well as expensive and luxurious jewelry.

They continue to boast of any luxury items they have had and they buy, moreover, the two sons-in-law Desi did not seem to want to lose competitiveness with each other, both are competing to boast of their luxury goods.

Anita was silent with her face that looked annoyed, she glanced at her three young nieces who seemed to wryly do not understand what an adult was talking about.

"Nits. Why just shut up." Anton's wife Lira rebukes Anita who does not come to chat with them.

"Yes. Though you used to be the most enthusiastic when talking about the problem of bags and branded clothes." Melly also voiced.

Anita smiled looking at her two sisters-in-law.

"Why can't I stop shopping for expensive bags, expensive shoes and clothes, and luxury goods?"

"The answer is because I used to think less about the shroud."