Love Shielded Risue

a promise

Mentari is back. The moon replaced it to give a bright light in the sky.

Amidst the warmth between Akhri and Merr who were watching television together, there was the sound of knocking outside.

"Let's just brother..."

"Yes bang," obey. While putting on the hijab, cover the head up to the chest.

Out... Ummi stood up with an invisible expression alright.

"immis? comein, Mi..." Akhri asks his mother to come in.

Maryam who knew Umm Salma came directly to the outside. Shake Ummi's hand and kiss him.

Ummi's gaze looked unfriendly, it seemed that his mood was indeed not good. Akhri gave a code to make a drink, Merr who responded immediately said goodbye to the back.

"Sit's up, yuk." Akhri grabbed the mother's shoulder. He sat on the living room sofa.

Women who are more than half a century old are shedding tears.

"Ummi, why?" Gently rub the corner of his eye.

"It's okay .. It's just, your Abah just gave me the news. Her son in Bandung is pregnant again."

Akhri fell silent, not because he was insensitive. But the thing that was discussed the two of them the other day, made Akhri try hard not to remember let alone tell Maryam.

"you know what always bothered Ummi's mind, right? Only Ummi loh who has not given grandchildren to Abah!" Ummi deliberately raised his voice.

Make the child stick his index finger to the lips. "Ummi, let's talk outside of yuk."

Ummi sighed, already wanting him to speak directly to Maryam in fact. About his anxiety, but Akhri always asked him not to discuss the matter of the child in front of Maryam.

"Yep, Ummi."

"No need, Ummi wants to go home. You don't know Ummi's feelings either."

Maryam who was about to come out immediately stopped her steps. Because it seems like their language is quite privacy.

"Akhri understood, and understood Ummi very well."

"Then why haven't you checked your condition to the doctor?"

The doctor? Check what Ummi means? (Mar)

"Yes, Akhri will try to negotiate first. It's not easy Ummi."

"Not easy what? Three more years into your marriage."

Yes Allah.. apparently the problem is. –Maryam lowered his head, he himself realized and worried about his condition.

"Effort to check your condition in the hospital. To know, and to be able to get a solution."

"Yes Ummi. Akhri will try to talk, yes. We don't talk about this here. Ummi should have just called to let Akhri come to Ummi's house." Akhri spoke very slowly. Trying to muffle the mother's slightly high-pitched voice.

Umm Salma was silent, she sighed. It feels so crowded. Several meetings with the Nyai Bu, who asked about grandchildren, grandchildren and grandchildren. Not to mention hearing her two honeys had already given grandchildren to her husband, making her feel even more sultry.

After the situation was a little quiet, Maryam just dared to come out. Serving drinks for her mother-in-law.

"Drink first Ummi."

Umm Salma looked at Merr's hand which did look thin.

"You look thinner?"

Maryam smiling. "What's the matter, Ummi?"

"Eat a lot. Don't choose too much."

"Merr is a lot. Today alone has a lot of snacks with Brother earlier," he replied cheerfully.

"Tomorrow you're not busy, are you?" Ask Ummi while reaching for a cup filled with warm tea. Maryam shook her head slowly. "Then follow Ummi to the obstetrician, huh?"

"You, huh?" Ummi who did not want to lose held the hand of a woman in front of him. "Just check, so you can know what solutions you have to do in order to get pregnant quickly."

Mary was shocked, but she tried to smile. Then nod.

Call Ummi is not wrong really .. just check my fertility, it's okay.

"Yes Ummi, Maryam would. Check with the doctor."

"Just like Brother. We check our condition together. Next week, yeah. Wait for you to come home from Progo kulon."

Mary nodded again. It looks like Ummi breathed a sigh of relief until the atmosphere returned to liquid. They chatted lightly for a while before Ummi came home.

Akhri and Maryam drove Ummi to the front of the fence of their house, looking at the Ummi motorbike which was getting away.

"Sir, do you really want to see a doctor?"

Maryam. He nodded. "Yes, let it be clear. Any time we could try a baby tube, Bang?"

Akhri. But his face turned worried.

"What's the matter?"

"No papa .. just?"

"What?"

"No papa, honey. Let's just go in yuk." Akhri began to step with Maryam's hand into their house.

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Inside the room, the man stared fixedly at Merr's face which was closing his eyes.

Sleep on your side, with your hands supporting your head.

Maryam opened her eyes, the netra elf looked at the face of the husband who was full of silence.

"What's the matter, anyway?"

"Hmm?" Akhri rubbed his cheek. "No papa, you're thinking."

"What?"

"If you have a problem, what? We do not need to check fertility. It's better not to know our condition than to be a burden of the mind, sister."

Hearing that Maryam herself was the one who became worried. It doesn't matter if her husband has fertility problems, but if apparently she is alone, how?

"No need, huh? Later Abang tried to talk again with Ummi to be more patient. Our marriage only takes three years, there's still plenty of time."

"Don't, Bang. Merr wants us to keep checking with the doctor."

"But?"

"Bang, don't be afraid. For our good, would you check fertility?" Maryam tried to appease her husband, persuading him to be willing to see a doctor. Although Akhri's gaze was impressed, he refused it. "Let's be sure ... How about we promise each other?"

"Promise?"

Maryam nodded with a smile. Grabbing Akhri's flexed arm. Make it a cushion and then hug the waist circumference.

"We promise each other, whatever the result we will accept our shortcomings. Thank goodness, there are no problems with our fertility. It's just being delayed."

"MashaAllah..."

"Promise, huh? Just the two, even without children."

"Yes, Brother." Akhri kissed Maryam's forehead gently, then looked at Maryam's not-so-slim eyes. "We'll stay both. With, or without children. Because my brother loves you. Won't be able to grudge you." Kissed the wife's sweet lips for a while, then on the loose and rubbed it with the thumb.

"Maryam too, loves you very much. Nor would I be willing if in the duakan," Maryam tightened her embrace while looking into the eyes of the husband.

"MashaAllah .. my sickly wife," seduced the husband. The two then laughed a little, then continued the sweet chat on the same pillow. Until they start to sleep and fall asleep.