I Can Be Happy Without You, Mom

Chapter 105 Pay Your Debt

A week later.

Laila decided to give her husband a chance once again. By the sacred promise they have made in front of the ruler. He decided to accept it after thinking for a few days. He realized that Alif did not obey himself to move at that time to maintain his pregnancy, even though the opposite happened.

They start a new chapter in their lives. Akila's presence in their midst successfully treated the loss and sadness of both.

"Dad, come on, I'll be late for school" Akila said.

"Yes Akila, be patient, yes" Alif accelerated the speed of his motorbike.

It wasn't long before they arrived at Akila's school.

"Did mom give you some pocket money?" ask Alif.

"Well, I'm going in first yeah,"

Laila kissed Alif's hand, then rushed into the school.

"Alisa and Bintang are well cared for by Mr. Rangga, I will also do the same to Akila," Alif said before leaving the school of his stepdaughter.

This is a routine he has been doing for a few days. If he's off or in for the night, then he'll drop off and pick up Akila at school. She was 6 years old, so the girl had already started to enter Kindergarten.

"Mas, let's have breakfast first. I've made you your favorite dish" said Laila.

"Thank you very much, my dear wife," Alif ate his wife's cooking voraciously.

Their lives look harmonious. Without them knowing the trials will befall their lives soon.

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"Rangga, I want to talk to you" Anto said.

"Seriously, just talk when," seloroh Rangga.

"Let's go, I'm being serious about this,"

Anto put on a serious face.

"Gosh, yeah, yeah. Please speak Mr. Anto,"

Rangga sat right in front of his friend and acted formally while holding back a laugh.

"It seems like I'm starting to like him" Anto said.

"Him? She who?" Rangga looked confused, he did not understand what Anto meant.

"But promise you don't laugh, and don't make fun of me huh,"

"Friends fall in love when yes I will make fun, I'm just glad duren (cool widower) finally can have a partner," Rangga patted Anto on the shoulder.

"I'm starting to like Michelle" Anto said at the end.

"What?"

Rangga was surprised, for a moment time seemed to stop spinning.

"Are you serious? How could you not know and have only met a few times?" ask Rangga confused.

"I've been quietly visiting her in a mental hospital, and that feeling just grew. I was so sorry for her unrequited love for you that she was so depressed,"

Anto explained plainly, while Rangga was flabbergasted in disbelief. Instead of wanting to insult Michelle or how, it was just that she felt Anto deserved a better woman than her. Fear will be a lot of opposition if they force united, especially from Anto's side who incidentally his family from the ranks of the army who are the majority of honorable people.

"What makes you like it? Don't you just feel sorry for getting carried away?" rangga asked still unsure.

"It doesn't seem like it, but I don't know. We'll see" Anto replied.

They continued chatting until Rangga finally had to leave because there was a meeting with an important client.

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"Mom, don't forget to make me a little sister. Mom and dad promised us to give you a little brother and sister" Alisa said when she returned home from school.

"Honey, Naya was still a baby when Alisa had wanted to ask for another sister. Pity later her sister is not taken care of to the maximum" explained Rania.

Alisa understood but her face looked sad.

Alisa looked at her mother, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"That's Mom... My schoolmate came home to pick up her mother and sister. They look very familiar, what they wear is the same so it looks compact" replied Alisa.

"Hairclips, bags, shoes and others are the same, too" he added.

Rania smiled at her daughter's words. The reason according to him is very tickling but very deep in its meaning.

"Even if you have another sister, it is impossible to dance immediately. Alisa just pray yes, inshaallah mom wants to have a baby sister but wait for sister Naya a bit big first yes,"

Rania rubbed her daughter's head affectionately. Alisa smiled at her mother's words.

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In the afternoon.

Because Alif goes to work nights so he can spend time with his little family. They watch tv in the family room. Sometimes there was laughter from them.

"Well, when are we going out with Alisa and the Stars?" ask Akila.

"Let's go baby, we have to match the time with them. I promise I will invite you all to play in the time zone," replied Alif.

"Horay... Akila's happy to have many of her brothers now,"

Akila was sitting among her parents, she was very happy to hear her father's answer.

"Assalamualaikum," someone greeted.

"Waalaikum greetings" the two went to greet their guests.

Laila was surprised, she was still angry at her mother-in-law. Reluctant to feel sorry for her, so she just kept quiet when her husband greeted her mother.

"Mother didn't say she wanted to come here, Alif could pick her up. Let's go in,"

Alif was still polite to him even though he had disappointed him repeatedly. The woman did not immediately sit but went around looking at the entire room.

"You really feel at home living here, it's a small house, the furniture is perfunctory," said Bu Nani cynically.

"I'm comfortable that Mom lives here. There are those who always make happy" replied Alif.

His mother uncovers a saji hood at the dinner table, then smiles wryly.

"Do you eat this every day? Where's your money, Lif?"

Bu Nani looks very haughty and arrogant. If Laila doesn't remember the woman is her in-laws already want her to slap her mouth.

"If you come here just to insult us, you'd better just go" Laila pushed away without further ado.

"It's brave of you now," ma'am Nani glared at him.

"Why should I be afraid? If I have the heart, I can report my mother to the police on charges of deliberately killing my baby,"

Laila stared intently at her in-laws.

"Compense! I'm just here to have you pay off your debt" cried Ms. Nani.

"What debt, Mom?"

Alif felt confused because he felt he did not owe his mother.

"You forgot about my husband's wedding yesterday that cost me money. Then for your wife's surgery yesterday. You have to pay a total of 10 million rupiahs,"

Bu Nani raised her hand.

Laila and Alif looked at each other. They don't believe what they hear.

"God, Mom, I willingly gave her because I didn't have that kind of money. Why do you take it as a debt,"

Alif did not think it turned out his mother's eyes duitan.

"Just boy. You've already chosen this woman over your family, so you'll have to pay her right away. Remember that!"

Bu Nani breezed away, leaving those still stunned.