Look At Me Once

Behind a Smile

Chequek.

Anisa was surprised when she opened the door to her room, and found her husband asleep in his room.

Anisa walked over towards the bed, "Mas, why are you here?"

Alwi did not respond, he still closed his eyes.

"Mas!" exclaim Anisa and shake her husband's leg.

Alwi opened his eyes and blinked them a few times confirming the figure standing beside him.

"Mas, ih ... asked even silence."

Alwi immediately sat down trying to gather his consciousness.

"Why are we sleeping in our room?" ask Anisa.

"Have you come home?" alwi asked ignoring his wife's question.

"Yes, just now, Mas. We did not stay and decided to continue the journey home" explained Anisa.

"What time is it?" Alwi yawns, Anisa reflexively covers her husband's mouth with her right hand.

"At 23:00 am. I haven't answered yet, why sleep here? Tonight was supposed to be, wasn't Mas sleeping in Lathifa's room?" anisa asked as she pulled her hand back.

"Ehm, I miss you, honey." Alwi tugged at Anisa's waist making her fall into her arms. "So I fell asleep, honey."

"Yes quickly woke up, moved to Lathifa's room there! Poor him, Mas. She must have not slept because she was waiting for you" Anisa persuaded.

"It's late, honey. He must have slept. I sleep here only," said Alwi put his head into his wife's hijab and buried his face into the niche of his wife's neck.

"Hmm, you're so fragrant, honey." Alwi inhaled the scent of his wife's body.

"Mas! Don't do this! Poor Lathifa is waiting for you, Mas." Anisa refused subtly.

"Let it go like this for a minute!" alwi did not want to be denied.

"But Mas-"

"You know, right. What is the law that a wife rejects her husband's wishes?".

Anisa forced to let her husband let go of his longing for her.

Anisa does not want to be an ungodly wife, but on the other hand she also does not want to hurt her honey.

"That's enough, Mas. hunt you immediately to Lathifa's room!." orders Anisa.

"In a moment, yes" refused Alwi.

"Mas, wake!" exclaim Anisa.

Alwi was forced to wake up from his sleep and kiss his wife's cheeks and ended up with a kiss on his forehead.

"Sorry, tonight I can't accompany your sleep. Wait two more days, yeah!"

"It's okay, Mom. It is your responsibility as a husband. It has to be fair to us." Anisa gave her sweet smile to her husband.

Cup.

Alwi again gave a kiss on Anisa's forehead, then he walked towards the bathroom to clean her body.

Alwi came out of the bathroom, and saw her clothes instead on the mattress that Anisa had prepared. He did not find his wife in the room.

'Maybe she was bathing in another room, ' Alwi thought.

Alwi walked down the stairs to Lathifa's room. Although he did not want to leave Anisa, but there were other obligations that he had to carry out.

Alwi stood at the door of Lathifa's room and knocked on the door.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

There was no answer, Alwi tried again.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

Still no answer, Alwi tried to turn the doorknob and 'chuck', it turned out that the door was not locked.

Alwi opened the door and walked into the room, he saw the girl occupant of the room was sitting at his study table, his gaze focused towards the laptop in front of him.

"Ck, got no ears anyway, did he?" grouse Alwi.

Alwi glanced at the clock hanging on the wall of the room showing 01:00 Alwi walking slowly closer to Lathifa wanting to see what the girl was working on so as not to hear the sound of knocking on the door from her.

Ten minutes Alwi stood behind Lathifa, observing the girl's activities. Occasionally, the girl yawns and covers her mouth with one of her hands.

Lathifa stood there sitting. "Huft, tired! Finally free after almost a week there is a bully. Fridge's husband!" lathifa said and turned her body.

Deg.

"Who do you call a refrigerator?" asked Alwi in a firm voice.

As Lathifa's body stiffened, she was surprised to be unaware of her husband's presence. Lathifa condemned his stupidity.

'Since when is the refrigerator here? Did he hear my words? Duh, fuck me,'

"Eh, i-tu I'm going to go to the kitchen to get a drink in the fridge," Lathifa lied.

"What?" Lathifa furrowed her brows in confusion.

"It's early morning, get some sleep!" alwi said, without permission he closed Lathifa's laptop.

Lathifa was eager to curse the man in front of her, carelessly playing close her laptop. Fortunately, he had saved all the files he was working on.

"What"

"Don't argue! Hurry up and get some wudu and get some sleep!" asserted Alwi without giving his young wife the opportunity to issue her argument.

Lathifa walked to the bathroom. She was very sleepy and chose to obey her husband's orders instead of having to argue with him.

When she came out of the bathroom, Lathifa saw her husband lying on his bed. "Ck, why is he sleeping in my place?" lathifa lirih.

"Why are you sleeping here?" asked Lathifa curious, why the refrigerator man aka her husband suddenly changed his mind and wanted to lie on his mattress.

"Anisa's home" replied Alwi flatly.

Lathifa walked towards the usual stop bed in her husband's seat when he slept in this room.

"What are you doing?" alwi asked without opening his eyes.

"Sleep!" lathifa answered briefly and laid her body.

"Who let you sleep in my place?" ask Alwi.

"You yourself slept in my bed without asking me permission first" Lathifa said.

"Who said this is your bed? Do you feel like you bought this bed?" alwi said in a mocking tone.

Lathifa opened her eyes, she stared fixedly at her husband across the street.

"What do you want?" ask Lathifa.

"My mother? Emh, what is it?" alwi pretended to think.

Lathifa felt angry at her husband. He got up and walked towards the sofa with a pillow and a blanket in his hand.

Lathifa dropped her body on the sofa, yet she closed her eyes, she was shocked by Alwi's voice.

"Wake up! What are you doing there?" exciting Alwi.

Lathifa remained silent not to serve her husband.

"Wake up!" alwi.

"What exactly do you want?" Lathifa raised her voice slightly.

"Wake up and sleep here!" alwi ordered while patting the empty spot next to him.

Lathifa rounded her eyes, she shuddered in horror at the thought that when she woke up in the morning her body would freeze from sleeping in one bed with the refrigerator man. Nearby Lathifa was afraid.

Lathifa shook her head, "no-no!"

"You know, sinning a wife defies her husband's orders and elevates her voice to her husband" said Alwi flatly.

Lathifa gulped her saliva, thinking of finding the right reason to refuse her husband's orders. But Lathifa did not find the right reason.

Drowsy, Lathifa walked up to her bed and laid her body beside her husband.

'Feel it! Who told you to equate me with a refrigerator.' Alwi smiled mockingly then closed his eyes.

Lathifa repeatedly changed her sleeping position looking for a comfortable position for her to sleep in. However, he still did not find the right position for him.

"Can you shut up? I'm tired of going to sleep! Don't be noisy!" alwi Reprimand.

Lathifa tilted her back to her husband and closed her eyes hoping to fall asleep soon.

"The sin of a wife sleeps by turning her back on her husband!" Alwi.

Lathifa who had just managed to close her eyes reopened them wide. He clenched both hands behind the blanket.

Without saying Lathifa turned her body and quickly closed her eyes without even looking at her husband's face.

Alwi is seen holding back laughter, like a child getting a new toy. He was happy because he managed to make his young wife feel annoyed by his actions.

Soon, the two fell asleep in their dreams. Unknowingly, Alwi pulled his young wife into his arms.

Elsewhere, after cleaning her body in the bathroom in the guest room, Anisa put on her face and performed evening prayers.

Then, Anisa continued by reading her mushaf solemnly. Without feeling the tears soaked his cheeks dripping about the sheet of mushaf in his hands.

With a trembling voice holding back the cries, Anisa continued her reading. It sounds so heartbreaking to anyone who hears it.

No one would have thought, that the prayer woman who memorized the Quran paraded beautiful, cheap smile it has a sad story in his household.

'Do you know what my race is? Every time holding back jealousy tried to resist with my smile, Anisa closed her mushaf and put it on the nightstand, she laid her body on the bed without letting go of her face.

'Ma Fi Qolbi Ghoirullah. there is no one in my heart but Allah, ' Anisa said in her heart before falling asleep in her sleep.

...Women can hide love for 40 years, but they cannot hide jealousy for a moment....

...(.(.Ali ibn Abi Talib)...