I Can Be Happy Without You, Mom

Chapter 28 The Happening in Alif's House

"Alif, how come you're here again? Why bring a big bag, what is it?" ask mother.

Alif mutely, he continued to step his feet into his room on the second floor. Her father, sister and sister-in-law just looked on without commenting anything. His mother followed him in a hurry.

"Alif, wait," call his mother.

The woman drove away her son who was about to close the door. With a question mark, his mother also came in. Alif started crying, making her mother more suspicious.

"Say my son, what exactly happened? Why are you crying like this?"

His mother rubbed Alif's back so that the man was calmer, but his sadness was not able to pat him just like that. The sense of loss will be more real and the sooner it will be experienced. He was not willing, he could not imagine his life without his wife and children.

"Don't make your mother die of curiosity, you have to tell her everything immediately" said her mother again.

"It's all because of Mom, Rania already knows everything. He kicked me out and he's still going to sue for divorce. You've ruined my marriage, now you're satisfied"

Alif shouted to his mother, the woman did not understand what happened.

"What do you mean, I don't understand? Rania knows what? Don't confuse me,"

"Rania heard what we were talking about, she came here and heard everything. He knows about our lies, Nia can't just forgive. He was so angry and kicked me out,"

"What?"

Her mother was very surprised to hear her daughter-in-law already knew all their rot. But seconds later the woman calmed down.

"Well, if you get caught up with anything else, forget him. The woman thinks it's easy to take care of two kids without a husband, let's know the taste. You should not beg for love with her, many women out there want to be your wife, let me find her later" said her mother.

Alif did not believe his mother's words, so easily he spoke so without caring about his feelings. Although he had many shortcomings as a husband and father, but he loved his wife and children very much.

"Mom says what the hell, it's not easy to forget them. If only mom hadn't gotten too involved with my household problems, none of this would have happened" Alif snapped.

"So, don't talk to you, I'm your mother. Without me you would never have been born into this world. That woman is a lot, you can get that a thousand times more everything than Rania,"

"Enough Mom, I'll never understand. I don't want to be a thousand times better, I just want Rania and my two children. You better get out, just leave me alone,"

Alif came back crying like a woman who had just been cut off by her lover, sulking with the attitude of her mother who she thought never understood him.

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Next day.

When the sun had just peeked in the eastern horizon, the birds began to chirp with each other and even the sound of chicken crow was still heard, some people were seen coming to the house of the Alif family. They knocked on the door hard enough to wake the whole house.

Tok...

"Hurry and open the door" one woman shouted.

"Quick, open.." the others chimed in.

"Hey, what's this screaming at people's houses? Still early in the morning, who are you?" ask Alif's mother.

"Oh this is the mother of the actor, quickly tell your daughter and my husband out" said the veiled woman who shouted the loudest.

"Heh what do you mean, my daughter's a good child don't like to slander ya," replied Alif's mother.

"What's this Mom, how crowded is it?" ask Alif.

All the house users came out, the husband of Alif's sister was seen hiding behind his wife's back.

"That's the guy, let's beat it up" the veiled woman ordered.

"Come..."

"Akh.. sick, let me go," cried Nelly.

"Hey, you guys, let go of my daughter,"

Alif's mother tried to help her daughter, she pulled the hijab of someone among them until it was released. The mother was getting emotional, she turned around and retaliated against Alif's mother's attack.

"Second already, please let go of Nelly. He doesn't know anything, I'm wrong,"

Suddenly Nelly's husband makes a noise to help his wife.

"Based on you brengs*k man, already have a wife still looking for other women. Feel this,"

The woman was inflamed, she hit the man blindly. Seen Nelly's husband apologized many times, he only dodged but did not fight back when the woman beat him. The atmosphere became chaotic, the commotion invited the neighbors to arrive and watch their showdown.

"Everything stops!" shouted Alif with all his might.

Everyone was fixated, they immediately stopped the quarrel and stood in their respective strongholds.

"I don't know what this is really? If there is a problem please solve it well do not childish like this. You are adults, not ashamed of what a spectacle citizens," said Alif.

"Don't be a saint, she's already daring to snatch my husband. Like no other man alone, the husband of the man is embattled as well. Basic lady gat*l,"

The woman pointed at Nelly who was still grimacing in pain, with emotion. Everyone turned towards Nelly with a look of disbelief.

"Don't be reckless, my husband is a widower. He himself showed me the divorce papers, you don't slander me" Nelly defended herself.

"What a young man, we are still married. You're the one who's too naive, too trusting in a man's mouth,"

"Yes right, she's his martyr wife" said another.

"Tedy, try to explain all this" asked Alif's father.

The man immediately came forward, his face pias between holding back the shame and also the fear.

"I'm sorry Well, Mom, Nelly, Mas Alif.

"What's? How dare you deceive us yes" said Alif's mother.

"However you cheated on me, Mas" said Nelly.

The two hit Tedy, venting all their emotions. While Teddy's wife who did not have the heart of her husband was hit immediately injured them.

"That's enough, now choose. Choose me and your son, or this woman,"

The woman said firmly, asking her husband to decide. Teddy looked at Nelly and the woman in turn, he loved both of them so much that he could not decide.

"I love you both, I'm confused" Teddy said.

Neighbors yelled at him and insulted him as a selfish man. Alif's family was embarrassed and told them to finish everything inside the house. But Teddy's wife was not willing to enter.

"You'll lose me and your son if you stay here,"

The woman went off threatening Teddy.

"I'll catch up with him and finish everything, and I'll see you back" Tedy told Nelly.

"Yes..."

Nelly was heartbroken, for the umpteenth time she was left behind.