
"Aaahh.
"Do I have to keep working like this? Get only a little money, but the energy spent is not comparable to the money earned. What the fuck is this job?" Pandu complained while sighing that felt heavy.
Suddenly someone sat beside her and gave her a drink in a bottle.
"If our lives are not happy, don't blame the circumstances. The most important reason is not the circumstances we experience, but how we respond to them. The proof is that many poor people can live happily, because he responds to his poverty with effort and patience" Ustadz Fariz said, looking ahead and after he said it all, Ustadz Fariz turned his head towards the side where Pandu was sitting there.
Ustadz Fariz turned to Pandu to see how he reacted after listening to what he had said to Pandu. Not patronizing, just giving advice to Pandu so that he does not complain about his fate and his current life.
"You? Ah you can talk like that because you never experienced what I experienced. Try if we switch places, are you able to talk like that?" Pandu responded to Ustadz Fariz's remarks with a slight annoyance, but he took the bottle of drink Ustadz Fariz had thrust at him and drank it.
"Do you know me? Do you know what I've been through from childhood to now? Man has his own story, destiny and destiny. Everything is arranged by God, and we just need to be patient, try and get closer to Him so that we can get through it all," Ustadz Fariz responded to Pandu's words with a bitter smile.
"Did you come here just to lecture me? And this drink, you didn't poison him, did you?" Pandu asked a silly question to Ustadz Fariz.
"Hahahaha..do I look like that?" Ustadz Fariz responded to Pandu's question with his laughter like no burden.
"That's possible. Who knows," Pandu replied by looking forward because he did not want to see the face of his ex-wife's husband.
"I only intend to give drinks to people who are thirsty and complain about their fate" said Ustadz Fariz, smiling.
"Do you live here?" Ustadz Fariz asked Pandu.
"Yes," answered the short guide.
"Effort for your two children so that they are proud to have a father like you" Ustadz Fariz said as he stood to leave Pandu, who was still sitting there.
"How's Rhea doing? Is she okay?" Pandu stopped Ustadz Fariz from leaving with his question.
"Thank God he and the baby in his womb are fine. We are happy and we will always be happy" replied Ustadz Fariz with a smile turned towards Pandu who was also looking at him.
"What'sthis? You show me happiness? Second kid? Come to think of our child almost the same age as everything," said Pandu with a bitter smile.
"Pig!" the sound of Rhea's exclamation made Ustadz Fariz and Pandu turn towards her.
"Udah finished?" ustadz asked Fariz to Rhea who was walking closer to him.
Rhea did not know if there was a Pandu sitting not far from where Ustadz Fariz stood. Her eyes only looked at her husband and gave her sweet smile to him.
"Udah Bi, soon the store employees who deliver their goods to the house. He said to buy drinks for Mother Bi, where? Mother had been waiting from earlier," Rhea said as her footsteps walked toward Ustadz Fariz.
How does it feel like someone is hugging anyway? As if someone was watching me, Rhea said in her heart while in front of Ustadz Fariz.
"Astaghfirullah!" Rhea exclaimed and was shocked to see Pandu after she turned her head in a direction that made her feel like someone was watching her.
Damn, why is he so shocked? Do you think I'm a ghost? Pandu grumbled in his heart.
"Beauty, slow down the road" said Ustadz Fariz, releasing his arms to wrap his arms around Rhea's waist as usual as they walked together.
"Rhea, wait!" Pandu called out to stop Rhea, but Rhea did not turn her head and did not stop her footsteps, even she walked faster now.
Ustadz Fariz guarded Rhea's body as Rhea walked at her brisk pace. Ustadz Fariz knew his wife was angry right now.
He opened the door for his wife and helped her sit comfortably in the car.
"Darling, wait a minute I'll buy you a drink first" Ustadz Fariz said later.
"No need Bi, we just go home, yes" Rhea smiled as she said.
"Mother isn't mad, is Abi talking to her?" Ustadz Fariz asked Rhea.
"Mother is not angry Bi, it's just better we avoid it, because Mother does not want to happen bad things that will damage the happiness and tranquility of our family," Rhea explained to Ustadz Fariz in a soft voice as usual.
"Does Mother hate him?" Ustadz Fariz asked Rhea.
"Mother was disappointed in him, angry at him, but that was then, not anymore. And I do not hate it, because hating people also needs energy and mind Bi, mother does not want to think about useless things," replied Rhea while chuckling at the end of her speech.
"Mother is indeed a great wife and mother" said Ustadz Fariz as he grabbed Rhea's body and carried her into his arms.
Then he broke off a little hug and kissed his forehead after saying something to his wife,
"I love you my wife, my Zahra, kill me."
Rhea smiled shyly at the expression of love from her husband, then she said something to distract her husband who was looking at her shamed for his expression of love.
"Udah yuk Bi we go home, pity Izam if too long left, must be Izam nyariin."
"It is not only Izam who nyariin Mommy if left too long, your husband is also certainly aware that his habit is not visible," said Ustadz Fariz responding to the words of his wife.
"This pagoda can-can make Mother so... Aaah.had come home..," Rhea did not continue her words, she covered her face in shame to her husband.
Just a simple word, but it can make Rhea's heart become happy and comfortable to hear it.
Is this what you call love? batin Rhea glanced at her husband who was driving his car.
Pandu, who had been resting from his job as a pelvic porters in the market, now he returned to doing his job after seeing Rhea who went with her husband.
Pandu feels that he must become more successful as before in order to be more than Rhea's husband and not to be underestimated by Rhea.
"Ok, Andri Brahmin should be able to come back again and I'll make sure you don't underestimate me!" pandu encouraged himself.