Husband, If Your Father Is On Your Mother, Your Sins Are On Me

Chapter 1

"Re! After this you finish the dining table, continue to soak the laundry in the back well. Do not use washing machines, wasteful of electricity. After going to the stall bu Dadi, his notes have been put on the dining table. Buy everything I've recorded with your money first. After that cook and prepare breakfast for Ana and Lita. Don't forget everything is cleaned again, and don't forget to iron. Then cook it again for dinner. Mom wants to go for a while, the photo when you get home should all be done!"

My in-laws will always be the same every day.

***

Hi, my name is Rere. I just got married 3 months ago with mas Yandri. Before marriage we agreed to contract a tenement house near the Yandri mas office. However, just a day after marriage, Yandri changed his mind and brought me to his mother's house. The reason for that was because he was the firstborn and also the only son. I rejected her wishes and insisted on living apart from her parents. It's nothing, I'm principled as much as possible a married child shouldn't burden the parents. In addition, I want to organize our new life as husband and wife without any intervention from any party including the family.

Rejected from me, mas Yandri began to lecture at length about the duties of a son and the obligations of a wife. He thinks I'm obligated to obey all his commands because he's the one who takes full responsibility for me, life and death. Oh yes, do not forget also he reminded the sin of a wife who denied the husband. Not wanting to argue when our marriage was just a day old, I relented and followed her wishes.

***

"There is no maid here, so you help your mother take care of the house" said mas Yandri when we just moved to the house of in-laws.

I nodded my head and just laid my back on the bed I was sitting on when my in-laws suddenly came in.

He was sitting on the bed right next to Yandri, his eyes glancing at me.

"Re, dong dengin dong room. You're so lazy, you're going to sleep!"

I woke up and looked at my mother-in-law's face.

"For a while, ma'am, Rere hasn't rested. Pegel Rere's waist back and forth, bring dus."

The face of the mother-in-law who is jutek is getting jutek.

"You are yes, he knows there is an answer. Denger yes, you are here just hitchhiking, because you are someone else. Different from Yandri, so know yourself little'lah Re. And one more thing, all the words that come out of my mouth are orders, not pleasantries. So you have to follow my word."

He got up and left the room after slamming the door hard.

Mas Yandri who saw that immediately reprimanded me.

"Neng, you didn't teach your parents how to talk to older people? How can you argue with mom? Real mom, you should start cleaning up our stuff so we're done. If the cepet is finished, you can help the mother bereh-beres home. Inget neng, you're the daughter-in-law of this house, not the queen. So you should be able to put yourself."

"Geez, I'm not a gamau, but dong. Just had I nurunin dus-dus which is quite heavy because of mas even preoccupation with chatting with neighbors. Now, I'm taking a short break to get a long shot."

The look on Yandri's face changed, he seemed to be emotional.

"You are the neng, the real tajararin even continues to argue. Inget neng, mas is now your husband. Your heaven is the same, so mending you nurut if you do not want to be an ungodly wife continue to go to hell. All my words are for your good. And don't forget, you're hitching a ride here, because this isn't your home. You should know yourself!"

***

I had just entered the kitchen when I saw a pile of dirty clothes right next to the soaking basin. I can guess, it's a bunch of dirty clothes belonging to Ana and Lita, my sister-in-law. While holding back the upset, I took out another basin and soaked the extra dirty clothes.

'Blegug base! I was told to know many times still do not understand as well. How many more times must be said if the dirty clothes outside early in the morning so that they can all be reduced.' I said in my heart with a feeling of annoyance for mercy.

"Teh, where's breakfast yet? What did you think of from earlier? How do you become a person? You know Ana's in college at 10." The voice is in front of me with makeup that makes me careless.

'This kid wants to go to college or fashion show anyway? Very rich menor aunt girang, ' again I can only say in my heart.

Seeing me just silent, Ana made a sound again,

"Teh, I want a rich breakfast of Caucasians. You know what?" tanyakanya. I shook my head and remained silent.

"That's the bottom of the village. That's loh, that buffalo breakfast that doesn't use rice. Wear oat porridge with fruit."

For God's sake I wanted to attack and slam him to the floor, but I held back because I still remembered my mother's advice before moving here.

"Teh, mama nitip pesen one day to teteh ya. Don't laugh at emotions. Don't bar-bar at home. The Yandri mas family is now a teteh family too. Hold yourself, hold your emotions."

***

"Nih breakfast ala bule," I said as I put a bowl in front of Ana. The girl's eyes staring in disbelief made my stomach hurt from having to hold back a laugh.

"Yuuuuh, what the hell? Trash?!" hard snapped.

My emotions rose to the highest level hearing her snapping. And yes, as much as I can endure the heat of resentment that has filled my head.

"That's the buffet breakfast you asked for. Oat porridge same fruit. Because we do not have oatmeal so instead teteh make of Indomie which is compounded continue to be made porridge. Well, for the fruit, there is only kedondong, yes already use it. The point is not to use rice, right?"

A pair of eyes in front of me glared and within seconds threw a bowl filled with the results of my mahakaryak cuisine to the floor. Her voice was quite loud and unclogged my emotions. Unknowingly I hit the dining table to the ground. The dining table at home is actually not a dining table, but a folding table with all four legs in the middle - if you can not imagine, please just google-only. That's why, when I hit him on one side, the table fell.

The shocked expression was clearly visible on the face of the aunt-looking girl. Still unsatisfied, I picked up the broken bowl and went towards the kitchen.

"Obah breakfast fried aja sok-sokan want to eat ala bule! Scrawl!" I said ketus.