
"Mas has returned?", Aisyah's reprimand once saw Hafiz walking into the official house they occupied during Hafiz's duty as Manager at Mall Senopati in Jakarta.
"Where is Umi with Abi?Did they sleep?", just put down her briefcase after reaching the room they were in and started to take off her work clothes that Aisyah helped with as usual.
"Perhaps not, they were out for the road together and then after returning they went straight into the room", explained Aisyah..
"They are getting more affectionate when they are not young anymore", said Hafiz who was embraced by Aisyah by helping the man remove the socks he wore.
"I also wish we were like that later when they were their age", Hafiz's chirps made Aisyah look up from her crouching position with a gentle smile at the man who became her husband.
"Aren't we always like that all along and I think it's gonna last until we're as old as them".
"Come" Hafiz complained, exhaling loudly enough to make Aisyah look down at the expression of the man who has been building a household with her for almost 10 years. Although their marriage was started from an arranged marriage because their status was considered equal by both of their parents at that time, but as time went on she managed to love her husband sincerely until a few days ago when someone from her time arrived appeared again which made her recall the memories of the past with that man who had to run aground because of obstructed blessing and pain that he had felt because of separation forced them to reappear as household problems that late approached him and Hafiz.
It has been since the last 1 year since their last failed baby tube program both parents Hafiz advised them both to stop doing business with medical road because it has been years the effort is not it paid off and began to advise Hafiz to remarry just as Abi did the man once who they thought was more effective.
Hafiz's parents are very hopeful for the presence of children in their household who they think have been very long and the age of both parents-in-law who are getting older and Aisyah's growing age makes them start vociferous talking about it with Hafiz who had agreed to listen to him to keep trying and be patient because God had not given them a baby as expected of all married couples.
For a year, her parents-in-law asked Hafiz to find another wife in the hope that it could make them immediately get a grandchild even though not from Aisyah and do not need to divorce from Aisyah.
Thinking about it, he made his heart as a woman and wife hurt, then how could he agree to his in-laws' advice, especially their goal was for Hafiz to have legitimate children that he could not give now.
Marrying again may not be forbidden in her religion but as a wife, of course, she can never take it for granted even though their relationship started with an arranged marriage.
Aisyah gulped her saliva that felt sluggish in her throat when she remembered him for holding tightness in her chest thinking about it but still trying to be ordinary both in front of her in-laws and in front of Hafiz all along.
"Would you take a shower or have dinner now?",bargaining with the voice as normal as possible even though he actually felt very sad now because it was noon when there was no more Hafiz his two in-laws looked at it in front of him brightly.
"I'll take a shower for a while and then come down for dinner you just get my clothes ready" Hafiz replied by standing up from his seat on the sofa of the room and walking towards the bathroom.
"No need.I want to take a quick shower and then come down to eat and chat with Umi with Abi",reply Hafiz from the bathroom that makes Aisyah's heart more painful because felt Hafiz's late attitude is like deliberately avoiding him more precisely since he was transferred to Jakarta his attitude seemed to change with trying to reject the intention of Aisyah who wants to keep the harmony of their household, What is it? the question began to cross his mind, whether his husband had begun to agree with the intention of his two in-laws to marry again.
Thinking of all those things her heart felt so sick as if all her efforts to become a good wife in the man's family were in vain because she could not give them grandchildren.
"Where's my shirt?".
Hafiz's question made Aisyah aware of her daydream just now and hurried to walk to the closet to get the man's clothes.
"This is mas" he said by giving Hafiz the clothes the man received by directly wearing it without asking for help from him as usual.
"Let's go down", Hafiz said by walking out of the room to the dining room which turned out there were both parents sitting down to eat with them.
"night Umi Abi", the",hafiz's greeting, which was answered by those who followed Aisha, also greeted her parents-in-law and took food for Hafiz as was customary in her husband's extended family when a wife had to serve one the husband is in every way because the husband is the leader in the household.
They eat in silence even the sound of a spoon if they can not be heard as a custom of the big family Hafiz which remains applied until now.
Only after the food is served are everyone finished can they talk to other family members who are at the dinner table.
"How is Fiz here at home?", asked Abinya the stale base of which Hafiz was a proud.
"Yes.although not much different from in Surabaya actually Bi but Hafiz taste Hafiz likes to work in the place of Hafiz now", he replied by sipping water.
"Then..Do you still want to continue to do the baby tube program again which actually according to Abi the same Umi was in vain and also just waste money tired you make".
Aisyah was silent with her tail glancing at Hafiz whose expression still looked calm unlike before whenever her parents said that what they had been doing all this time was in vain Hafiz would definitely be angry but this time it looks not.
'Actually what has happened to her husband now why does he look different since moving to Jakarta?', Batin Aisyah was astonished and also anxious.