ENTANGLED IN MARRIAGE

Chapter 19

"Mera, baby. Mama grab some food at home, Dad. You take care of your sister, ok?!" a woman named Anna was talking to her five-year-old daughter. They are currently in a park near the house.

"Ok, mah," he replied in a tone that sounded so adorable.

After picking up a few pieces of chocolate bread in her hand, Anna immediately returned to the park where her two daughters were playing. It is also not good to leave children who are still early age too long, although the distance of the house and garden is not so far away.

When Anna returned, she did not find her two daughters there. Feelings of anxiety began to appear, especially not far from where the establishment there are some residents who are in a group. Anna decided to find out what made them such a group. They also asked if they had seen their two daughters.

"Excuse me! What's up, dad? How do you collect here?" several people turned their bodies hearing Anna's question, and one person among them represented answering.

"Here, mom. Two girls were hit and run victims. Fortunately they were rushed to the hospital by a good person who happened to pass by here," hearing one of the residents' explanations made Anna even more panicked, because her two daughters are currently absent. Unknowingly, he dropped the food box in his hand.

"What hospital did you take to, sir?"

"Hospital Puja Medika," Anna's feeling grew increasingly unsettled, her body began to soften. He was afraid that the hit-and-run victim was his two daughters.

In the midst of his panic, his eyes caught a girl sitting under a tree. Anna approached the boy immediately.

"Mera.." he called out softly, making the crying girl by burying her head on both knees look up.

"Mamaaaa.." Amera rushed into Anna's arms, but the woman did not return her daughter's arms. He quickly took off Amera's embrace, and crouched down equalizing their standing.

"Mera, why are you crying? Where is your sister? Mama answered mama! Where's your sister?" asked mama Anna impatiently waiting for Amera's answer, she slightly shook the child's shoulder to answer the question immediately.

"Ade.. Hix.. Hix.. Ade.." replied Amera nervously as she sobbed.

"Why, Mera? What's up?"

"Ade got hit by a car, mah," Anna's eyes were perfectly rounded, as if not believing the answer her daughter said.

"What's? Getting hit? Why can you, Mera? Mama told you to take care of your sister. You are taking care of your sister, no becus, yes! From now on, stop calling me 'Mama'. I'm not your mother. Understood?!" Anna pushed hard on Amera's body until she fell to the ground. Then he left the boy to the hospital said the resident to ensure the condition of his daughter.

"Mama.. Sorry Mera, mah... Mama..." all Amera can do now is cry, especially the mama who she considers as her birth mother was just saying that she is not her biological mother.

"Well, wakeup! Mama" Abdi patted his wife's sweaty cheeks as she muttered her daughter's name.

"Wake, mah!" the middle-aged woman opened her eyes and found her husband staring anxiously at her. In the embrace of her husband's large body tightly, inhaling a lot of oxygen as soon as his breath was wheezing. Relieves fear while eliminating the roar of breath hunting due to nightmares that are now coming back. After meeting the girl who hit him in the Amera wedding toilet this afternoon.

Mr. Abdi gently stroked his wife's hair which was right in the curve of her neck. Trying to calm him from his nightmare just now.

"Mama why, mah? Mama's having a nightmare?" seeing his wife still looks frightened, Mr. Abdi again calmed her down.

"Drink first, mah. Let me be calmer!" mama Anna said she drank almost half of it. After seeing his wife more calm, Papa Abdi again asked the same thing.

"The same story, mah. What nightmare mom? You see, mama has never been like this," he looked at his wife closely, there was a feeling of worry that appeared in both of his eyes.

"I dream about the accident that befell our daughter that day, pah. I'm really scared."

"Sttts.. Mom calm down, dad! We pray that our daughter may she be calm and happy in heaven" said Mr. Abdi the husband.

"Yes, pah. But now I feel something strange yes, pah," said mama Anna creating a frown on her husband's forehead.

"The doctor said that our daughter's face and body were destroyed until he declared that our daughter could not be saved. But why are we not allowed to see our daughter's body at all. I think there is something strange, pah," at once Papa Abdi was stunned, but he tried not to be prejudiced.

"You're right, mah. But he might have had a good intention. He does not want to make our hearts even more broken when he sees the state of our daughter," Anna's mother exhaled, it was like he was telling the story of the incident earlier this afternoon in front of the toilet door that he saw a face that looked a lot like his daughter. But he felt that this was not the right time. Next time he will definitely tell about this, after he finds out who the girl who owns the face is.

"We better get some more sleep, yuk! You have to rest a lot."

"Yes, pah" he answered.

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"Today I'm sure what he is, Dad?" Amera was standing near the kitchen pantry. After the completion of the morning prayer, she intended to cook for her husband breakfast as she thought last night that from today she would try to become a wife.

"Am I cooking fried rice, huh?" he said again after a while of thought.

"Fried rice only times, huh? Let's be simple," he said again. After that Amera prepared some ingredients and some spices. But he does not know where the place of spices and so forth. Finally, he decided to look around the pantry.

Al just opened his eyes from his sleep. As soon as his eyes opened, he was like a person who had just lost something.

"Where, him?" ask her when she didn't find Amera there.

"Didn't he leave?" quickly the man came down from his sleep to look for Amera's presence.

Neni, the housekeeper who has a cheerful face is now singing the tone of her favorite song. While walking towards the kitchen to restart his routine activities. Suddenly, his eyes were made perfectly rounded when he saw a female figure opening kitchen pantry drawers. Neni pulled her body to hide behind the wall while paying attention to what the woman was going to do.

"Mother Ressa, Ms. Disa, is not in this house. Now there's only Neni in this house. Who does that continue to be? If kuntilanak is not possible, short hair is not as broad as his back. What can't-don't be a thief, Dad?" neni's feelings turned fearful that the woman he saw was really a thief.

Neni's two eyeballs caught a broom not far from where it currently stands. Ideas and some ways to get rid of the woman began to appear in his head. He took the broom and then walked back towards the target. Once the distance was close, Neni slowly lay down the broom handle in her hand. And...

"Why what?" the question came from someone who caught the broom handle from behind Neni. As soon as Neni turned her body, there was Al standing before her. The woman who was none other than Amera also turned her body once there was someone else in the kitchen besides her.

"Ma-mas Al, anu mas. This-" Neni looks nervous.

"What's up?" amera asked astonished to see Al and the woman he did not know was in a storm. From the clothes Neni was wearing, Amera could guess that she seemed to be the servant in this house.

Instead of giving an answer, the man gave the same question to Amera. "You too, what's going on here?"

"Here I want you fried rice masakin, mas. But I don't know where the spices are. That's why I'm looking," Al was silent at the call Amera gave to him. This is the first time Amera has called it 'Mas'. Maybe Amera just appreciates that she is already her husband.

"No need! I had a meeting this morning and I rushed to the office," without waiting for Amera to say again, Al had already covered the trip from there. Amera could only exhale seeing how her husband's true nature was.

And now, there's only Amera and Neni there. Neni still looks confused by the conversation of the employer as well as the woman who is in front of him at this time. Is this woman Al? That's what Neni's mind is all about.

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