Hijab And Waiting

My in-laws

On the bus, Diana sat next to Hafiz. His neck is starting to hurt. Her stomach was also too nauseous. He tried to inhale the telon oil he brought. But the feeling of nausea is still felt. His head was already very dizzy. Hafiz watched his already uncomfortable wife.

"Sleep here baby" said Hafiz, patting his chest.

Diana placed her head on Hafiz's chest. Anita looked at them annoyed.

"Manja terribly, just got on a bus gini already drunk. How about if you get on a plane," said Anita ketus but not responded by Diana.

Hafiz hinted at Anita to keep her mouth shut. Diana began to close her eyes as Hafiz stroked her head covered in a pink veil. Then Hafiz also kissed his head while chanting the Prophet's prayer gently.

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At exactly 20:00, Hafiz and his wife arrived at the house of Mia, Hafiz's biological mother who had not lived with her since childhood. After the divorce with Hafiz's father, Hafiz's mother remarried and had 3 children, two women and one man. His father did not remarry until he died. Mia welcomed her son's arrival happily, because she had not seen her son for a long time. Actually Mia did not like Hafiz's marriage to Diana, because according to her Hafiz was too young. But he still showed an ordinary face in front of Hafiz.

"Assalamualaikum ma," said Hafiz while hugging his mother.

"Vaalaikumsalam. Mama misses you very much dear," said Mia to her son.

Diana and Anita take turns to greet Mia, looking Anita who is closer to Mia because Anita is Mia's nephew. Diana, who was still feeling nauseous, immediately rushed to the bathroom. Mia looked at Diana full of question marks.

"Is she pregnant?" mia asked Hafiz.

"This mom is there, just got married, the period immediately pregnant," said Hafiz with a smile.

How to get pregnant, touched not yet. Hafiz.

"Trus why vomit?" mia said again.

"It's not unusual to take the ma bus" replied Hafiz.

Shortly afterwards Hafiz and Diana performed congregational prayers. After that Diana was ready to rest first because her body was very unpleasant. Hafiz was in the living room to gather with his family. As Hafiz was just sitting in the middle room, there was a scream from Diana's room. Hafiz immediately entered the room to see Diana's condition.

"What's the matter, baby?" ask Hafiz to panic.

"That's a sister," pointed Diana at a small centipede-shaped object.

Hafiz approached the object. It turned out that only a centipede-shaped toy was placed on the mattress where Diana slept. Hafiz took it and tried to calm his wife. After Diana calmed down, she came out with the centipede toy.

"Whose is this?" ask Hafiz to his half-sister who is in the family room.

"The same toys are afraid," said Yana Hafiz's younger sister.

Oh yes, Hafiz has a younger half-brother named Yana, and a sister of 3. The two girls named Rina and Rani, they are twins and still sit in junior high school. And the other is a boy named Riko who is still in elementary school. Yana Hafiz's biological sister is famous for being very ignorant to anyone. Including this time, he pranked his own sister-in-law. It's all because Mama Mia always instills hatred in Yang to hate Diana as her one-on-one daughter-in-law in the house who according to Mia had already snatched her child from her.

"You know not, if your brother is sick due to a long trip, you are not concerned even do it. Just be careful if you do that again. Brother will punish you," said Hafiz firmly.

"Ish.what the heck big sister," said Yana as she passed away.

Hafiz sat down with Mama Mia. Hafiz started the conversation by asking her mother about the news. Then Anita joined them. It was that long conversation.

"Where's your wife?" tanya Mia pura did not know and was stale.

"Hafiz told me to rest ma, he's still not feeling well" said Hafiz.

"Hafiz's wife is so Tan, so spoiled," said Anita to corner Diana.

"So your words Nita!" said Hafiz slightly raised his tone.

"Son, how long have you known your wife?" ask Mia again to her son.

"two years ma," said Hafiz briefly.

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At exactly 04:00, Diana woke up to the sound of an alarm on her phone. He immediately got up to the bathroom and took the water. Then perform the sunnah prayer as he usually does. After that, he went to the kitchen. Looking at the food supplies in his in-laws' refrigerator, who knows if anyone can be processed for breakfast. When he opened the fridge, he saw it was full of fresh vegetables. It seemed like her in-laws had indeed provided all of that for their arrival. Diana looked at the container where to cook rice, rice that stayed a little. He cooked rice and water to drink.

Soon after the dawn adhan also reverberated. Diana immediately cleaned herself up and performed the dawn prayer. After that he returned to the kitchen to continue the work he usually did. She cooked for her husband and the extended family of her in-laws. Just then, Mia appeared from behind the middle door.

"Well, are you in my kitchen?" ask Mia ketus.

"Sorry ma, I'm cooking for breakfast" Diana replied.

"No need to bother. I'm not used to eating other people's cooking" added Mia again, looking disappointed in Diana's heart.

"Sorry ma" said Diana.

"What are you cooking? You know, Hafiz doesn't like this menu," said Mia raising her tone.

"I just cook what is available in the refrigerator ma," said Diana returned gently.

"Based on useless son-in-law, go there! Don't touch anything in my kitchen!" mia said as she pushed Diana out the door.

Diana was powerless to endure the pain in her heart over her in-laws' treatment. The tears were spilled unstoppably again. As he was about to enter the room, Hafiz was already standing at the door. He swiftly wiped away the tears that had soaked his cheek.

"Have woken up, sorry Ana didn't wake up sister to the mosque. Last night I slept late, Ana couldn't bear to wake my sister up" Diana told Hafiz.

"It's okay, baby. You why?" hafiz asked as she stroked Diana's cheek.

"What's wrong, sister," said Diana tried to cover up the incident that had just happened earlier.

"Yes, I took a shower" said Hafiz, leaving Diana to go to the bathroom.

Why isn't he telling me the truth? I even heard all of it. If not for fear of God, I might have scolded my own mother for her unkind treatment of you Ana. Hafiz.

In the kitchen, Hafiz saw his mother cleaning the dining table.

"Have you cooked?" hafiz said as she passed her mother.

"Oh actually mama never cooked this early, but because there you are. Well....It's okay." said Mia lying.

Hafiz shook his head as he passed.

Mama, it hasn't changed. It's still like old times. Hafiz.

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