
Early warm day. Merr this morning cooked a dish for breakfast. While A'a got the allotment to bathe Yahya. Because he was almost a year old, of course the young father was not in trouble. Only difference, bathing with Abi will be longer.
Back in the kitchen, it had been almost half an hour that her husband had not come down. Merr tasted a little, making sure the taste of the dish was right after turning off the stove before moving the pot made of heat-resistant glass to the table.
"Definitely not bathed yet... A'a habit." She took off her hot gloves and walked up the stairs to get to her husband in the room.
In the room, Merr found her husband wearing clothes for their son. A warm smile was shown to him.
"Eh, Umm Yahya–" Bilal said hello after finishing pairing the pants for the baby. Merr herself sighed.
"Why wear those pants, A'? There is a partner..."
"So, did A'a put his pants on? forgot to wear Diapers. Well fitting want in pairs even pee first profit still on the mattress."
"Geez, this is the last of you. Shower from what time, why did it just finish?" Merr carried her son who looked like a herd.
"Since he did not want to stop playing," he replied reasoned. Merr only glanced at the glance where she saw the bright smile it showed for her. "What's the cook today?" He asked, intentionally diverting.
"Sop meatballs love noodle soun."
"Wah. A'a's favorite. How's the patch?"
"I made it too" he answered.
"Yes! Breakfast yuk." Invite enthusiastic.
"Mother Yahya!" His call to the tall man who was ready to leave the room. Bilal turned back. "Remember ya? eat sambal not much."
Bilal. "Ordinary portion, just calm down."
"Promise...?"
"Promise, Yank! add in a little."
"Hmmm, yes it's there."
Bilal smiled happily. "Aren't you coming down?"
"A'a get off first. I'm gonna change my clothes first, it's a dry one."
"Not help?"
Merr. "What? Don't fuck around..."
"O Allah. su'udzon nih, that means help hold Yahya. You think he helped the others for sure?" Ledeknya while avoiding the blow of Maryam while laughing. "Nor, yank..."
"Jude keep on."
"Don't kid joke than a lot of fengs?"
Merr bobbing heads. It's up to you A'a. With you make me young, the innate wants to continue to love.
"Would you hold this, Yahya?"
For a moment trying to muffle the laughter. He kissed his son's cheek before handing over Yahya to his Abinya.
"Kok is still here? I want to replace–"
"Oh yes. kirain wants to be in the city. Hehehe.. joked Yank!" Bilal hurriedly walked out after getting an affectionate pinch on his waist.
"Basic husband...!" Merr shook her head, with her lips still on her back.
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In the dining room...
The dining table is full of tranquility. Merr focused on feeding her son. Bilal ate his morning meal. Because usually they will alternate as long as there is no housekeeper mother. Because it has been two days that helped Maryam in the middle of the vacation home to Indramayu.
"Bu Ning is back this afternoon, right?" ask Bilal. Merr nodded his head saying yes, "thankfully tomorrow will A'a road to Ponorogo."
"What time is it?"
"morning yank, it's dawn as usual."
"Ooo..."
"Mom Ning tell you not, what's up?"
"Say the train A'..."
"Yes," answered Maryam again still focused on feeding the child. "Oh yeah, Debby's and Rumi's gonna be here by noon."
"Well, what time is it?"
"No idea, around ba'da Dzuhur like that."
"Alright. A'a was going to Kang Beben's place. I postpone the night," he said, holding a glass of water he wanted to drink. Maryam herself nodded back.
***
At 01:38...
The car Rumi was driving had arrived. Habib Bilal immediately greeted, opening the gate in front.
"Assalamualaikum, Habib–" Rumi greeted cheerfully before bringing his car more inside.
"Walaikumsalam warahmatullah," he replied still in a position holding the fence of the house. After Rumi and Debby came out, she approached giving a warm hug to Rumi. "MashaAllah tabarakallah..."
"Health, Om Habib?" Ledek Rumi who responded with a crisp laugh Habib Bilal.
"Alhamdulillah, healthy nephew!" the answer is to laugh at all who are there. Simultaneously Merr came out to welcome Debby and Alzah who immediately ran inside. Then invite them all to come in too.
Inside the middle room. They gathered, talked here and there about things like work and so on.
Bilal's vision was fixed on a six-year-old child who was busy playing Lego that he brought himself from home.
"Alzah, yesterday ran out of Opah's house, huh?" tanya Bilal is full of gentleness.
"Yay–" he replied.
"Why is that there?"
"Main the same Brother Andreas." he replied again while fiddling with his toys. Bilal mutters when Merr tells him that Andreas is the son of his brother Debby. To be honest he himself is a bit less memorized the names of small children who can be considered as his grandchildren as well. Because he rarely gathers with family in Bandung. Besides being busy because of work, he himself is actually not comfortable with the usual clothes in the Merr family wear. Understand, he could at least see a woman's aura.
"Umma– Umma..." Alzah tugged at his mother's hand which was close to him. Debby. "mma? Why would Andrew's brother pray like Alzah?"
"Kan Alzah knows, Brother Andreas with Alzah is different."
"Sister Andreas is like opah? Different too?"
"Yes, baby."
The boy seemed to be thinking. "Umma said, Opah is Abinya Umma, right?"
"Yes..."
"Why is Umma different? What if Alzah were as big as Abi would change too?"
"Emmm?" Debby turned to her husband, sometimes confused to answer his son's critical questions.
"Your Nak– will be the same as this, just like Abi too," replied Rumi.
"Wear peci, pray in the mosque?" Plain asking.
"Yes..."
"Why not go to the mosque? He said Opah was Abinya Umma. To the mosque?"
Bilal who heard that laughed. But secretly make it a PR for him later if the question arises from Yahya's lips.
"Later you will understand, when it is big," replied Rumi closed all the questions of the child. Alzah nodded, though he was still curious and would continue to ask repeated questions.
"He likes that, ask me things that sometimes make me difficult to answer especially if there is more than a week."
"That's what PR is for us as parents, giving our children the best possible understanding of the lacum in the law of waliyadin, when it is near a different creed," replied Bilal.
"Yes, Om."
"By the way, have you guys had lunch?"
"It was home" replied Debby.
"Cong you eat anyway? if you want to play should not be in the stomach," said Bilal made everyone there chuckle slowly.
"the next time, Deck. We'll have to come here on an empty stomach." Rumi chimed in while laughing.