
Maysa followed Ainun to the toilet.
"Why are you standing here, Ainun said, we've been waiting for you" said Maysa, who surprised Ainun there.
"I-iya sorry brother," said Ainun nervously. Ainun had to follow her brother to the table earlier.
Arriving there, Ainun just looked down trying to cover her face with her hijab.
Hilman looked at Ainun who was avoiding his sight.
"Ehem..Ainun, I know this friend of mine is Hilman" Farhan said.
Ainun was forced to raise his face and force a smile.
"Yes brother, good night, Mr. Hilman," said Ainun who smiled stiffly. He was forced to say hello to Hilman because it was already introduced Farhan.
"Ainun, you're here too" Hilman said as if he didn't know that Ainun was Maysa's sister. But he already knows everything.
"Yes sir, sorry sir, I just found out that Mr. Hilman is a friend of my sister-in-law," Ainun said.
"Kok happens to be yes, it turns out that Hilman and Ainun are already familiar," said Maysa smiling kindly.
Food orders are coming, too,
"Look please eat," said Farhan.
During the meal Ainun did not dare to stare at Hilman, he still remembered the incident earlier this afternoon where he doused Hilman with vegetable washing water.
"Kok I just knew that Mr. Hilman's friend Kak Farhan, well.mau in taro where my face is, I've tried to avoid Mr. Hilman but still still met," inner Ainun.
"Ainun, when are you getting married?" farhan asked surprised Ainun.
"Wedding? I haven't thought of it yet, sis," Ainun replied nervously.
"No candidate yet or what?" ask Maysa.
Hearing that Ainun's expression instantly changed, he recalled the words of the mother earlier this morning who told him to marry an old, established man.
"I'm not ready for marriage yet" Ainun said softly.
"If someone is asking you now what? will you accept?" ask Farhan.
"I don't know either" Ainun replied softly.
Hilman glanced at the lyrics towards Ainun.
"From me, I think I want to propose to you right now, but the problem is that I haven't given permission to my parents" said Hilman.
After eating Ainun immediately rushed home, worried about meeting Hilman again.
***
At home, at home,
Ainun had just arrived, mother welcomed him.
"Just home!" ask mother.
"Yes Ma'am, I've met Maysa's sister, she said tomorrow she wants to come here, wants to see mom," Ainun said staring at the mother who was sitting on the sofa.
"Oh that way, yes you have changed clothes there, after that I want to talk to you," said Mother.
Ainun rushed to his room to change his clothes.
"About what mom wants to talk about," inner Ainun asked in his heart.
Ainun turned back to face his mother.
"Mom has chosen some good products for you, you can choose which one you like" she told Ainun.
"What mother mean? who's the guarantee for Ma'am? who wants to get married?" ask Ainun who was still confused.
"You're Ainun, you're going to marry Mr. Parto, so that your life is guaranteed, let's not bother working for a feein mom," explained the mother staring intently at Ainun.
Ainun's eyes were glazed with glass.
"Mom, I never said that if I agreed to marry that man, why did you make such a one-sided decision?" said Ainun slowly but sharply.
"You still think I'm your mother, don't you? so don't argue Ainun, I raised you for so long, after growing up you fought back!" mother looked at Ainun.
Ainun sighed deeply.
"Mom, I know I'm not a mother's biological child, but this is not how Mom, is this as hateful as my mother, all things in life I have to be a erratic mother, ma'am, whether there is any mother's pity in the slightest with me, Mom I beg you please understand me For this time only, do not force the will of mother, do not follow the mother's ego, I also need to be happy Mom," obviously Ainun as her tears trickled.
"Just because I care about you, so I'm hard-earned to match you with Mr. Parto so that your life is guaranteed" said Mother.
"Belcome to be tormented by mother's intentions, a man as hard as Mr. Parto might just torture me every day Mom, that's what you expect! if the reason is money, then I will work as hard as I can to give mom as much money as you want" Ainun explained.
"You and your mother are the same, both stubborn, both female objectors," the mother snapped spontaneously bringing up Ainun's late mother.
"If you hate me, why don't you kill me, let me be satisfied!" said Ainun slowly but sharply.
"So speak of you Ainun, I am not that cruel, I still have the heart to raise you, if not for my generosity maybe you will just be a child on the roadside," firmly Mother without thinking about Ainun's feelings.
Ainun's tears grew even more intense, as if he could no longer talk to his mother.
"You should thank me, mother" continued.
"Yes ma'am thank you for raising me, but please stop trying to convince me that you really hate me, with everything you've done so far, it even more shows that you hold a grudge, but you hold a grudge, Ma'am all this time I was silent does not mean I am not sick, I am sick, ma'am, it hurts to see the injustice of mother every day," Ainun said with tears.
Mom smiled cynically,
"Still have time for you to talk about justice, try to think first, with your status in this house, do you deserve justice! the fairest thing for you is to be self-conscious, self-aware of your position in this house" she wrote sharply.
"When I love you, but this is what you do" said Ainun whose heart was disappointed. Ainun moved away to his room locking himself up.
He's leaning behind the door.
"O Allah, what a blessing is this, after all the patience I have planted, whether I can still endure, I do not mean to complain, but why happiness never stands with me," the endless inner Ainun cried.
***
The next day, the,
Ainun walked while looking for angkot on the road. Suddenly the man named Mr. Parto rebuked him.
"Anisah Ainun!" call that guy.
Ainun looked back.
"I finally met you too, I can't wait for our wedding day" said Mr. Parto.
"My brother never said I wanted to marry my father" Ainun said.
"Do not call mr. Dong, call me Abang, or Mas can also," said Pak Parto.
Ainun remained indifferent not responding to the man.
"Let me take you to work" asked Mr. Parto.
"No need, no need to bother sir," Ainun refused.
"No pa pa, don't bother, come on!" firmly Mr. Parto and withdraw Ainun's hand.
Ainun spontaneously wanted to take his hand off but Mr. Parto did not take it off.
Suddenly the man in the black suit came to take off Mr. Parto's hand from Ainun.