CAMELLIAS

episode 63

"I can do it myself. You'll be late for the office." Whine Camelia, because Jupiter is still doing homework, such as washing dishes after eating, or drying clothes. 

According to Camelia her husband was already too much, because she was still able to do all the housework herself, even though the content was six months old. 

"You will do a light work. All sports, right? Besides, my night's workouts are now reduced, because there's a twin in your belly," 

Reply Jupiter while wiping the dining table. 

Jupiter is very attentive to his wife, especially when the Doctor tells Camelia if she is pregnant with twins who will soon be born.

Camelia was good and very healthy, but seeing her growing belly, plus two small babies in her stomach made Jupiter feel sorry if she let Camelia do all her work. 

Often Jupiter offers to find a housekeeper, so Camelia's job becomes lighter. But Camelia still insisted on refusing, arguing she could still work on it herself. 

"I'm off to the office, baby." Jupiter kissed his wife's forehead after she changed clothes first. 

"Kids Good father, don't be naughty yes, kicked his mother's stomach don't be too tight, pity Mom."

Not to forget, he kissed Camelia's belly. 

"Don't forget if there's anything call me right away. Understood?" 

Camelia nodded with a smile.

The gratitude that is now always spoken every day. She feels like she is the luckiest woman in the world because she has a caring husband and loves her as much as Jupiter.

All his sacrifices have felt paid off with all the happiness he can now. He begged that immediately be blessed with a child, and not long after the wedding, they were given two and made Camelia unceasingly grateful. 

A lot has changed in his life after he got married. Camelia feels like a full-fledged wife, as Jupiter never lets Camelia work again. But Jupiter is not the husband who limits the wife's motion. Although not working, Jupiter allows him to go anywhere as long as he always asks for permission first. 

Sometimes Camelia gets bored, every day just inside the house. Sometimes he often invites Dea to accompany him shopping or sightseeing. Fortunately Dea was always willing to accompany him, even though he never invited Aksa when he met him. Whether what happened to the little boy, Aksa now hates Camelia so much, every time he met at the home of Jupiter's parents, Aksa always behaved less kindly to him. Although Camelia often brought her favorite gifts or food, Aksa still did not budge. He hates Camellia for no reason. 

Sometimes Camelia often sought information about Nadira secretly. But he still did not have the courage to meet his best friend. 

"Today check the content of the same Kak Dea aja yes?" Camelia contacts Jupiter and asks Permission to go to the Obstetrician with Dea. Camekia knew today Jupiter had to attend an important meeting, so she purposely did not remind her husband if today was a monthly check schedule. 

"Why not say from the morning?" Jupiter's moaning over there.

Camelia only smiles to hear her husband complaining and clucking in annoyance, but she doesn't want Jupiter's job to be neglected just for ushering her in monthly control. 

"Let me know, when I'm done checking up."

Still clearly heard the voice of her husband, grumbling annoyed Camelia made even more anxious to hear it. 

"Yes, but not for long." 

Jupiter finally relented, though he answered.

"Yes, promise not long. Love you.." 

Camelia immediately disconnected, and Dea did not come to pick her up for a long time.

"Are you ready?" Ask Dea.

"Already brother. Come on, I'll have an afternoon hunt." 

They then went together, checking Camelia's content with one of her obstetricians. 

Camelia never went to the Doctor alone, if her husband was busy she would ask Dea to accompany him. Dea is very good and attention to him, even Dea often take the time to visit Camelia or just buy some food for the health of the mother. 

Although her mother-in-law still has not received it, but Camelia never felt a lack of affection. Dea was watching him. And Camelia considers all the attention Dea gives her, in lieu of a mother-in-law's affection for her. 

"The condition of both babies is healthy, and today we can already see the gender very well. How, want to know the gender?" 

Camelia had deliberately planned her examination schedule today, along with her husband's important meeting schedule. She wanted to know the sex of the baby, unaccompanied by her husband, because her husband was very excited and often over-expressed, so Camelia chose to ask Dea to accompany him, because she wanted to know it calmly. 

"I'd like to know the gender, Don't." 

Camelia said, her heart rumbled as if she was going to meet someone she loved so much. 

Dea held Camelia's hand tightly while waiting for the results of the Doctor's examination.

"Well, congratulations, both babies are female. It'll be as pretty as her mother." The doctors showed me pictures that were hard to understand, and only their kind understood. 

Camelia and Dea stared at each other while smiling happily.

"They're both girls, I'm so happy. Finally Aksa has a sister. Kara, congratulations!" Dea said, while Camelia cried. 

Jupiter used to dream of having twins, and eventually they will soon have two daughters at once. 

After checking the contents, they chose to go home immediately because Jupiter did not stop contacting Camelia or Dea, and warned them to go home quickly. 

"He's so chatty!" Dea clucked in annoyance while staring at the screen of her phone. Jupiter contacted him for the umpteenth time, and only uttered the same command. Makes Dea upset.

"He's a real bitch. Why is she like a girl? Is she at home like that too?"

Camelia just shrugged her shoulders, though,

"Geez!" 

Armpit on the way to the parking lot, Camelia saw a figure she knew very well was sitting in a wheelchair accompanied by a man in a white suit, like a Doctor.  

"Sister, is that Nadira?" 

Dea glanced in the direction Camelia pointed at. 

"Looks yes. Let's go there," 

Dea pulled Camelia's hand and immediately turned two people who were sitting in one of the visitor's seats.

"Nadira?" 

Dea reassured after their distance was getting closer.

"Sir Dea? Kara?" 

Nadira seemed surprised by their meeting, especially when he saw Camelia who was already two-bodied.

"What are you doing? How are you guys doing?" 

Nadira tried to stand up from a wheelchair, helped by the man next to her. 

"Our news is good. You alone?" 

Kara asked back. Nadira was very thin and pale, much different when they last met.

"I'm good too, is this Jupiter's son?" 

Nadira held Camelia's stomach very carefully.

"Yes, this is our son." 

"I'm so happy, so glad you're finally together. May you always be happy." 

"Thank you Nad, I hope you're cured." 

Camelia's words were only in reply to a faint smile by Nadira. 

"I don't expect to get well, I just want to see you guys happy." Sincerely speaking.

Kara and Dea briefly become acquainted with Denis. 

"I'd really like to see how your son's face looks. Will it look like you, or Jupiter."

"Sure, you should see my son born and growing up." Nadira nodded with a big smile. 

During the trip Camelia was still thinking about Nadira's health condition. He looked increasingly ill, even his white skin was now turning pale.

"Is Nadira on medication?"  Camelia asked Dea, who was still focused on driving.

"Yes, he's undergoing chemotherapy, to prevent his cancer cells from spreading."

"Will he heal?" 

"Only a miracle can cure such a malignant disease." 

Camelia let out a weak sigh. Although she is not a doctor, but Camelia knows how malignant the disease suffered Nadira. He was concerned about Nadira's condition, but there was nothing he could do but give him encouragement and prayer. 

Camelia no longer asked, she was busy with her own thoughts. Dea glanced at Camelia at a glance from the tip of her eye,

"Do you believe in miracles?" Ask Dea, Suddenly.

"mm?"

"You have to believe, because you've experienced it." Dea smiled meaningfully, while Camelia was still confused by Dea's words. 

"You have been at your lowest point, when you feel your life is hopeless, and when constant problems test your patience, but in times of prayer and hope never break, that is where God's hands work. With all his power, he can turn things around, and see you now?" Obviously Dea.

Camelia finally realized and understood. God never sleeps, he always gives help at the right time. And when we are tested with trials that are so heavy, in the end God replaces it with a happiness that is matchless. Camelia felt that way.

"We can only try and pray for the best for Nadira, although in the end his fragile body is not strong enough to withstand the malignancy of the disease he suffered, but we must not despair. Because God must have helped her." 

"Yes, I'm sure Nadira will be fine."

"He must be able to go through a process in his life." Camelia agrees with Dea, because life is a process and learning. 

"Aish, long time Jupiter must wear a skirt. Is it because of the influence she will soon have two daughters, so she turns into a girl." Dea complains, as Jupiter is unceasingly contacting Dea. Camelia did not turn on her phone, knowing her husband would never stop contacting her. 

"Where are you going!" 

Camelia and Dea have been met with protests from Jupiter since they first entered the house. 

"Geez! What the hell you ate wrong! Why are you so chatty!" Dea doesn't want to lose, though,

"I told you, not for long. Kaliam can be up to an hour late. I'll have to call Doctor Melati, confirm your condition!"

Camelia chose to head to the daur, and looked for drinking water to moisten her dry throat. Meanwhile Jupiter and Dea are still discussing the problem of late return. Camelia could only sigh weakly, sometimes Jupiter's attention was too excessive. She knew her husband was very worried about her condition, but Camelia was not a child who should always be taken for twenty-four hours. Or always banned this and that.

"For a long time you were exactly like a woman! Is it because hirmon has a daughter, so you contracted chatter!" 

"What's? A female? Women what? Our daughter's a girl?"  Jupiter asked, asking for an explanation while styling Camelia.

Dea can only keep her mouth shut with her palms, she is so upset with Jupiter that she accidentally reveals her secret and Camelia.

Dea styled Camelia with a guilty look, she unintentionally uttered it. Because Dea had already leaked it, Camelia's intention to give him a surprise failed miserably. He let out a weak sigh, while reaching for something in the bag he was still holding.

Camelia took a sati photo of the USG on her husband.

"This is our son, both are female." Clearly Camelia, handed a piece of the photo directly taken by Jupiter to be observed. 

"really?" Jupiter was amazed by what he saw, though Camelia was not very familiar with the images, although there were clearly two small creatures there. 

"Yes, they're girls."

Jupiter immediately hugged Camelia, and kissed the top of her head, "I'm so happy,," 

"Me too" Camelia replied, hugging her husband tightly.

Dea could only watch her two younger siblings happily. How happy they are when they will welcome the presence of the baby, much different from his first self. Dea smiled wryly when she remembered how she had gone through her pregnancy. Although Alfaro often accompanied him to check the content, but Faro's face was not as happy as Jupiter's face. Sometimes Dea chose to check the condition of the baby alone, rather than she had to be accompanied by Fari, but her husband never showed her happy face.

To treat the happiness he never felt before, Dea deliberately devotes all her attention to Camelia, she does not want her sister-in-law to suffer the same fate as herself. 

"I forgot to say thank you. I was angry!" Gerrutu Dea while reaching for his bag that was on the chair.

"Thank you, my most beautiful brother." Rusty Jupiter.

"I'm home, right? My job is done." 

"Why come home, we can have dinner first brother," 

Camelia prevented Dea from quickly returning home.

"I have to pick up Aksa. Next time we'll eat together." Reject Dea.

"Thank you brother," 

Dea nodded then he went home. 

Camelia joined the husband who was first on the mattress while continuing to look at a piece of photo that Camelia gave earlier this afternoon. His smile never came off, as he continued to stare at the photos.

"Why are those smiles?" Camelia asked as she joined the blanket, and laid her head on Jupiter's chest. 

"They'll be as pretty as you." 

"Inget no, you used to say that having twins must be funny?" Jupiter tries to remember, and she immediately remembers, as she and Camelia look after Aksa and Elea. 

"I remember. It used to be a time when we were looking after Aksa and Elea, right?"

"Yes, and now your wish is granted." 

Jupiter kissed his wife's forehead, "Thank you, you've granted all my prayers." 

"It was not me who granted it, but your own prayer." Reply Camelia while hugging her husband's body.

"All my hopes have been fulfilled, only one more." 

"What?" Ask Jupiter.

"I'd love my mother-in-law to accept me as her daughter-in-law." 

Jupiter could feel Camelia's grief, though she had tried to convince her mother, but Mala's attitude has never changed to this day. Mala was still cold, and said harshly every time Jupiter and Camelia visited their home. 

"Mother must have accepted you soon, she could have ignored us, but she would never have been able to ignore our two daughters. Aksa for example." 

"Aksa? Why why?" Camelia was astonished, because she had never seen the slightest strange attitude of her mother-in-law to Aksa, but it turned out that there was something else unknown. 

"Actually the mother also did not approve of the marriage of Kak Dea and Alfaro, but brother Dea still insisted on wanting to marry. And eventually they got married, but their household did not last long, because they chose divorce. Maybe that's one of the reasons Mom disagrees when I marry the woman I love, she's afraid I'm like Dea's sister." Obviously Jupiter.

"What does this have to do with Aksa?"

"Even though she doesn't like Faro, she loves Aksa very much. So do not be discouraged, we prove that we will not be separated, like Brother Dea. We will always be together, until death do us part." Camelia smiled and briefly kissed Jupiter's lips. 

"Mother's heart will surely melt, she will not be strong enough to withstand the beauty of our two daughters. Trust me."

"I've always believed in you."