CURTAINS OF THE PAST

CARDBOARD HOUSE

"Actually, what place is this, honey?" Iffah stopped his steps and also Toni steps holding his hand since coming out of Mushalla.

She couldn't bear to ask her husband.

A place he had never visited before.

"The settlements of the people who are only inhabited by the poor, dear. Which is far from decent reach and luck. A place where there is only suffering and poverty. But a place inhabited by airy-hearted people in it. Not knowing the grievances. All they know is peace." Toni answered the Iffah question without being able to eliminate the sense of marketing in the mind of Iffah.

Iffah scrunched her forehead, she still did not understand the purpose and purpose of her husband.

"You don't seem to understand, do you?" Toni held onto Iffah's cheek so gently.

"Is this our main destination?" Iffah ignored her husband's question.

"It's so thick." Toni is full of ambition.

"Don't you say, we go have fun?" Ask Iffah again. He really doesn't understand Toni's way of thinking.

"What's the most fun thing in your life?" Toni asked back while holding Iffah's fingers and taking her back to walk.

"When I feel, that my life is more useful to the lives of others." Iffah answered Toni's question without asking again.

"Reason?" Toni asked again even though she actually knew what answer Iffah gave her.

"Yes, because the effect can cause satisfaction in my heart." Iffah is starting to get caught up. "Actually this is all what the hell, honey?." Iffah was getting impatient with the real answer, from the question that plagued his mind earlier.

"Assalamu'alaikum.." Sapa Toni when entering the cardboard house environment there.

Iffah was increasingly astonished to find the situation. Because of the excitement of arguing with her husband, she did not realize that she was in the middle of the community there.

"Wa'alaikumussalam..." Sahut people there while approaching and shaking hands with Toni.

"Oh Allah, Den Toni huh? Has he not been visiting for a long time?" Said one of their mothers.

"Alhamdulillah Aden's... We accept... Thanks..." Her feet are so happy. "But by the way who is this beautiful woman, Den? Wife huh?" Ask Sukma's mother to tease Toni.

Iffah's face flushed instantly. Although she was still overwhelmed with curiosity, but she was so happy and moved to see her husband interact without awkward with the people there.

"Hehe, yes Ma'am. Thank God, this beautiful woman is my wife. His name is very good. Iffatul Fadillah's. Just call me Iffah." Toni was so proud of his wife that Iffah's face again more reddened made.

"Hallo Brother Iffaah..." Greet some children and teenagers there who gathered for the arrival of the two of them.

"Hallo is everything..." Iffah seemed so happy. Even so happy, Iffah's eyes seemed to look and teary because of it.

"Today the mothers are on the cook, no? I miss the delicious cuisine of mothers." Toni asked so familiarly.

"Alhamdulillah, I was cooking." Said one of the mothers there. "I also...". "I too" Sounded legitimate to reply afterwards from the mouths of the mothers who gathered there.

"Well, cook all these mothers." Toni looks happy.

"Yes, Den. Although Aden has not visited for a long time, but we always cook every weekend like this. Just in case, how know our hero is visiting." Suhut Sukma's mother looked so excited.

"Hehe... I became moved. We eat in the usual places. Children, help ya." Pinta Toni is friendly to children and teenagers there.

"Siiaap, Aden Tampaaan" They were almost at the same time, and rushed home to their cardboard houses after their mothers.

Toni walked with Iffah's hand to a large, shady tree. The place is clean and cool.

"We're gonna eat here with them, baby." Toni solves a question that has not yet been thrown from his wife's mouth.

"here?" Iffah pointed under her own feet.

" hu'um". Toni nodded. "They will always wait for my arrival. The first time I came here was about two weeks after I moved into my grandmother's house. If it's not here, I'll just lock myself up in the room." Toni's story seems to remember her hard times at that time.

He started smiling again. "You're right, honey. The nice thing is to see our gifts mean so much to them."