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

Episode 25's

The noise and the sound that kept sounding stagnant filled my sense of hearing. I wanted to open my eyes but somehow the drowsiness kept attacking.

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My eyes blinked a few times to ward off glare and piercing pain. Faintly visible light bulbs attached to the ceiling. My body ached and stiffened as I tried to move it.

"Teh...," between conscious and not I heard the voice of mama.

Something warm touched my hand, giving me a grasping reflex. Slowly, I could open my eyes little by little.

"Alhamdulillah...."

I stared in disbelief. My mom is here.

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The thing I thought dreams were real. My mother was standing right next to the bed where I was lying. Slowly, I began to recognize the surroundings. Mama, Mama, Mas Yandri and Bu Indah are in this room.

Mas Yandri hugged and stroked my hair. The words of Hamdalah came out of his lips many times. Mama, Mama and Ms Indah looked at me with hardened tears.

"Again at the reunion?" it was the first sentence that came out of my lips before I fell asleep. Again.

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My body feels a lot lighter today. When I opened my eyes, the first thing I noticed was my stomach that was flat. Trying to calm down but it turns out that hysterical screeches are coming out of my lips.

"What's my stomach?!"

Mas Yandri and Mother came to me immediately.

"Calm Neng, it's nothing. Neng don't think weird just yet. All safe...." Mas Yandri said to me.

"Neng fell down, slipped," I reported to him.

"Yes, I already know, so Neng is now in the hospital. But calm. Neng is not why. Our baby is healthy too." Mas Yandri's eyes glazed over.

Mas Yandri's words suddenly moved me and said Hamdalah.

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"I was shocked to death when suddenly Bu Rere fell and fainted. I hurried out to get help. Unfortunately, because it's still not time to go home from work, there are many fathers who don't exist."

"That time luckily there were mothers gathered at the Bu Indah stall. We all immediately moved to take Mrs Rere to the hospital because the bleeding did not stop.

Ms. Mumun is keen on driving and Ms. Jejen sitting next to her is screaming along the road for other vehicles to pull over and give way."

I turned to look at Bu Mumun and Bu Jejen while smiling.

"Me and Ms. Lovely hold Ms. Rere. Our clothes were wet with blood. Arrive at the hospital. Ms. Mumun and Ms. Jejen again screamed like a trance. Ask that Miss Rere be dealt with quickly." RT closed the story with a smile.

I wept. Crying very hard and sniffling. When away from husband and family, in fact it is the closest people who first intervene.

"Thank you very much Ms. RT, Ms. Mumun, Ms. Jejen, Ms. Indah. Thank you very much for your help. Thank you to all the mothers, for their prayers. May Allah repay your kindness a thousand times."

The words of Amiin simultaneously came out of the mouths of my neighbors who also turned out to shed tears.

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My eyes warmed when I first saw my baby sleeping in the incubator.

"Assalamualaikum hotshot. What again? How do you sleep anyway? Nangis dong, mama wants to cry you cry."

Without realizing it, I was crying.

"Son, thank you so much for accompanying me all this time. Thank you so much for fighting together. Thank you for being born. And thank you for holding on too. Hurry strong, son, get healthy quickly, so we can quickly go back home. Same Papa, Grandma and Oma."

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I have been in the hospital for a week. I saw him every day after he was admitted from the hospital. The nurse told me that my baby's weight had increased even though it wasn't within normal limits. I can also give breast milk even though I can't directly.

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My main routine every day is to go back and forth to the hospital. Sometimes before leaving for work, Mas Yandri also stopped by to see our son.

Good news we received today. Our baby was able to go home and was declared healthy without any interference.

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"Oh Allah thank you very much. Thank you so much for the life that you give. Thank you so much for all the tests. Thank you so much for all the best of the people around us. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to be parents. And thank you so much for all your blessings for our family."

I accidentally woke up and heard Mas Yandri crying while praying in the third of the night. Following the tears, my head involuntarily turned to the tiny figure sleeping right next to me.