I Can Be Happy Without You, Mom

Chapter 20 Changes in Attitude

"What does Mom mean? I wasn't even with him when he was in an accident?" rania doesn't like it.

"Yes Mom, did you forget what I said. If I'm just here to make a fuss, it's better to go home. Do you want my condition to get worse?"

Alif said firmly to the point of grimacing in pain from expending too much energy. His mother fell silent, however, and he did not want anything bad to happen to his son.

"Mas, I have to go home first because I have to deliver the order. Later in the afternoon I will come here again and stay overnight, here there will be a mother who accompanies" said Rania.

"Well, will you bring the kids?" ask Alif.

"You're here with grandma and dad, yeah," added his grandmother.

"I'm with mom, too,"

Alisa hugged her mother as if afraid of being separated. Rania also did not want to force her two children to stay, because all this time they had never been close to both.

After saying goodbye to her husband and mother-in-law Rania soon passed, she headed straight home to pick up the goods. Seeing that his two children were tired, he decided to put them to bed first before sending the order.

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Meanwhile in the hospital.

"Mom, please don't fight with Rania anymore. I love her so much and still want to be with her, pity my granddaughter if we ever get divorced. Please press Mom's ego, for the sake of this mother's son's happiness. I don't know what I can do if I lose my wife" Alif said seriously.

His mother sighed violently, this was a very heavy request for him. She had hated her son-in-law from the beginning knowing that Rania came from a poor family, only because Alif loved her so much that he accepted her.

His resentment became more and more when the relationship he and his son increasingly tenuous, Alif was too busy with his small family so rarely visit his mother. He did not like if his son was proud of his wife who graduated from college and worked in an office with a large income at that time, he continued to incite his son to hate his own wife. Although the plan was not fully successful, he was happy because finally Alif always defended himself even though his actions were wrong. But it seems that now that he has to relinquish, he does not want his son to carry out his threat.

"Alright, son, for your sake I'm willing to give up. Now eat first yes, let mother bribe," said his mother.

"Well so dong Bu, if the mother is good with our daughter-in-law will be good at seeing it. Hopefully Rania will still want to reverse her decision to divorce" said her father.

"I hope so too, I don't want to part with him" Alif replied.

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In the afternoon.

After all finished bathing and praying ashar, Rania immediately prepared the items to be brought. She decides tomorrow Alisa's school holiday permit, because it's a pity if she has to go home again considering her father's place in care is quite far. He brought provisions to be more efficient, not forgetting he bought snacks for his son.

"Mom, are Mom and Dad going to go back to what they used to be? Not fighting and romantic like a couple in the soap opera?"

Rania smiled, her mind laughed at Alisa's question which she thought was a little funny because it was thrown from an elementary school child. He did not want to give false hope to his daughter, but he also did not want to hurt the little girl. He must prepare the appropriate answers, must find the right words.

"Know my son, no couple wants to part, all want to live in harmony. But sometimes we cannot deny the destiny that God has laid out for our lives. I only ask God to wake your father and grandmother if we have a destiny to be together. But if you don't match up with your dad, we all have to accept it,"

Alisa listened to her mother's explanation carefully, her mother's explanation can be digested well even though she was a child. The harshness of the life they have been living makes it more mature, his mind is not like his peers who just like to play. Alisa prefers to help her mother's work such as helping with homework or accompanying and keeping her sister playing.

Alisa hugged Rania very tightly, sadness seemed from her clear eyes. Rania reciprocated her embrace with deep sadness, how complicated the destiny God laid out for her life was.

"Mom will fight so that you can stay with mom, don't be sad again ya,"

Rania wiped away the teardrops that had soaked her daughter's cheeks, she kissed the girl's cheeks guiltily. She felt so guilty about having her two children live in separate families at an early age.

After the atmosphere stabilized again, Rania rushed to the hospital. She hoped that her mother-in-law would not make a fuss again when she met him. Slowly she stepped in the hospital hallway, her feelings getting worse when she arrived in front of her husband's room.

"Assalamualaikum" said Rania and Alisa.

"Eh you guys have come, let's sit here,"

They were surprised not to play with the change in attitude of his mother Alif, it could also turn out that he said so kindly. Alisa glanced at her mother, Rania replied with a smile.

"You have eaten yet, this mother had time to cook a lot. Eat it if you want,"

Again her mother-in-law did not behave as usual, but this morning she still insulted her. There's no way he's changed this fast, something must've happened to him.

"No need ma'am, we all ate. This is also our provision," declined Rania politely.

"Oh yeah, if you're tired of just resting on an empty bed,"

"So the kids were sleeping, they wanted to see their father,"

"Maybe you're tired, you were just about to send an order,"

"Ah no ma'am, I'm used to it,"

Alif was very happy with the change in attitude of his mother, it turned out that the threat was successful. He hopes the relationship between his mother and wife soon improves so that Rania cancels for divorce.

"Nia, let's get Alif. We're going home, tomorrow we're going to be here again" his father-in-law asked.

"Yes Well, don't worry, I will take care of Mas Alif," replied Rania.

"Oh yeah Well, this morning I had made quite a lot of brownies. If you want to be able to bring some, Mas Alif can't spend it,"

"By my son, thank you, yes,"

Rania gives a cake for her father-in-law to bring home, while her mother-in-law just keeps quiet. The change was very obvious if forced. I don't know what made him pretend that.

After they say goodbye, Rania also comes out to give her in-laws a motorbike key that was left behind. He was trying to chase them both.

"If it wasn't for Alif threatening suicide, I wouldn't be sweet with that woman. I'd throw up if I saw him,"

'It turns out this is the cause of her attitude change' Rania's inner self.