I Can Be Happy Without You, Mom

Chapter 13 The End of Everything

"Dad, already. Why did you slap Mom, is it Mom's fault?" alisa asked as she ran to embrace Rania.

"Alisa you are a child, you will never understand the affairs of adults. Just go play, accompany your sister," Alif ordered.

"I was a kid, but I could tell the difference between good and bad. Mom and Dad always make me cry, what's wrong with you? Why do you always hurt her heart? Didn't you think about mom's feelings?"

With tears in his eyes implying hatred, he lashed out at his father with questions. His heart ached to see his mother not only in the snaps but even in the beatings, all this time as heavy as his mistake as a child his mother never light hands. This incident that happened before his eyes really affected the mental and psychic of the little girl.

"Alisa listen to me, let's go! Don't let dad..."

"What father? Dad's gonna hit me too, isn't he? Just hit it Well, I'm not scared. After that hit my sister too, so that my father is satisfied. Just leave us alone and never come back,"

Time seemed to freeze, the two adults were so shocked to hear Alisa's loud and bold words. I don't know what the girl felt that she dared to do that. Maybe all this time he just harbored his own pain every single mother in dzolimi, and is now a time bomb that goes off at the right time.

"Enough! It's better to take care of our divorce, I don't want to be with you anymore" said Rania, who wiped her tears.

"Why is there any problem you ask for a divorce? Instead of realizing, you argue. I don't like you making my mother cry" this time Alif lowered his intonation.

"Yes, that's always what you say. You're always angry when it comes to your mother, even if it's not my fault you'll still blame me. For you your mother is precious while your wife is just trash. To you your mother is everything whereas my self is useless. What I do is always wrong in your eyes, I am poor, I am unemployed, I do not take care of myself, all I am wrong. Therefore, if I am no longer good in your eyes and just be a burden on you, let me go. Divorce me as soon as possible so that your mother can find my replacement as she expects,"

With a heart as slashed as it was, he kept saying sentence after sentence that pierced his own heart. Just now she was thinking positively with her husband's change but instantly turned into a catastrophe.

"What did my mother do that you yelled at her and kicked her out? He just wanted to visit and see his granddaughter, is that wrong in your opinion?"

Oh it turns out that her mother-in-law is good at tongue-licking, it's appropriate that her husband is angry because it turns out his mother lied. But he was already disappointed in Alif, not asking well he just believed in the words of his mother and blamed himself. This time his heart was already completely sick, there was no longer any desire to defend himself.

"Your slap I'll remember for a lifetime, I won't explain anything else. All I said was a bitch to you, and all your mother said was pearls. You don't have to pay the rent anymore, let me pay. But after that don't you ever come back here, bring all your stuff and stay with your mom,"

With a unanimous determination Rania has decided, she does not want to re-knit asa with Alif. He had enough self-esteem to beg for love in the man and fell many times for the same problem.

"Mom, I want to be here with Mom. I don't want to go with bad dad, bad dad and grandma,"

"Alisa, Father and grandmother are not evil. We love you guys" said Alif.

"Lies, my father and grandmother always scolded my mother who had given birth to me and the Stars. Bad dad and grandma!" his yell.

"Grandmother had suddenly come and scolded mother, she even wanted to take a lot of mother's merchandise, even though mother had worked hard for it all in order to help father. Then now you come also angry at mom, even dad hit my mom. I don't want to have a father like a father" Alisa added.

Alif immediately turned to look at Rania, but the woman threw away her face. Her tongue was too weak to deny, because right or wrong her husband would still side with his mother. It turned out that Alisa said it straightforwardly, even though she was a child.

"What does Alisa say, Nia?" ask Alif.

Rania shifted her eyes, she was already disappointed. He had completely lost his taste for the man. The love, the respect, all had been lost with the harshness of the slap that the man gave his cheek and heart.

"Nia, I'm asking you. Is it true what Alisa said just now?" Alif asked again.

"When it is true why and if it is wrong why? I'm tired,"

Rania gets up while clutching her two children into the room, but her steps are stopped because Alif prevents her. He looked at the man with a displeased look, he was already tired of all the happenings today.

"You haven't answered my question, Nia. This problem must be resolved soon," said Alif.

"Just ask your mother, hopefully she still has the heart to answer according to the facts" replied Rania.

"And one more thing, our problem is done here. I've been unable to continue with you, you always put your mother together and never care about my feelings, even you always justify his behavior that is clearly wrong. All this time I always gave up, always respecting him because he was the one who gave birth to you even though he always insulted me. But all you care about is his feelings, you keep quiet even if I get trampled on and humiliated in public. I want us to get a divorce" Rania added.

The woman encouraged her husband to go into the room. He immediately lay in the middle of his son. He stroked his second hair gently, occasionally he kissed the forehead of his two children.

Rania tried to stay strong and smiled in front of the two even though her heart was broken. His heart wept wailing, imagining his struggle for 11 years would soon run aground. The ark that they built with the sea of love was unable to survive because of the constant storm. Dear indeed, but who would want to live in the shadow of the selfishness of her husband and mother-in-law?