
Fattan drew a smile as she stood in front of the mirror, hooking one button at a time her shirt button. His retirement was over and the time he should have spent in Bali with his wife was spent at home growling and thinking hard about his feelings. For nine days he looked like unemployed yet classy unemployed.
Wh why? Because even if he just sits pensive at home but his brain works hard like a scientist but it makes a difference. If scientists think of ways to develop things, then Fattan thinks of her feelings that she just realized.
After finishing hooking one by one his shirt. Fattan looked back at her reflection in the mirror and carved a smile back into the shirt she was wearing. That shirt was the shirt Sakia had prepared for her this morning. Fattan was delighted that his needs were being prepared by his wife. A woman who has been loved for a long time but has always been denied her presence.
"What Sabila did at home. Looks like I-" muttered Fattan and instantly shut up. His silence made a woman smile obliquely. Who else if not Sakia.
"If anxious stay there and meet his dead love. The distance between this house and Kak Sabila's house is only a few dozen meters" Sakia said. The woman had been standing at the door of the room and was only watching her husband.
Fattan swallowed his saliva. "That's not what I meant" explained Fattan.
"If that's okay, too. Just relax. Whatever you want to do, marriage is up to you" said Fadila smiling obliquely.
"Don't talk shit. I don't like it!!" snapped Fattan. He's very strange. She can say Sabila's name but she doesn't like it the most when Sakia corners her.
Sakia was silent but she was not afraid of her husband's clasping. Such a harsh voice he often heard. Not once but repeatedly. Surely it was in the past.
"It looks like he should be in ruqyah. Five times but emotions often overflow. It must be an evil genie lodged inside her body" Sakia's inner.
"Let's have breakfast" Fattan asked almost inaudibly. The man's emotions had faded.
Sakia followed her husband's footsteps from behind. She did not want to walk beside her husband or before him. Fattan's back is slightly wide with hair cut out like a Korean opa-opa hairstyle. Really, that guy is so handsome and so lovable.
At the dinner table, Sakia is quiet as is Fattan. Both were busy with breakfast. Sakia's phone ringer shocked Fattan until the man glanced at his wife who was about to answer the call.
"Assalamualaikum" Sakia said after pressing the green image.
"Vaalaikumsalam. Kia, I'm asking permission. Looks like I'll be late today. This morning I have a lecture schedule" explained Alif across the phone.
"Yes Lif is nothing. Later after your new college to the boutique" Sakia replies kindly.
"Alif again Alif again!" fattan's in his mind.
Sakia put her phone on the table and finished her breakfast again. While Fattan just kept quiet and did not touch her breakfast again. Her appetite disappeared when Alif's name was present in a morning conversation on the phone.
"What's up with Fattan. His gaze was like a blood thirsty zombie" inner Sakia.
After breakfast, Sakia drives her husband to the front of the house and not forgetting to kiss Fattan's hand before the man gets into the car. From a distance, Papa Aher looks at Sakia. Sakia who realized that rushed into the house to avoid the gaze of her Papa. Sakia has not yet met her father, her mother or Sabila. If it's true they miss Sakia it's certain they'll come to visit Sakia but the real thing isn't. Again their busyness makes Sakia feel isolated.
"We live facing home but until this moment you guys don't come to see me. You are always busy with your work" Sakia muttered as she set foot on the stairs leading to the second floor.
Arriving in the room, he reached for a small bag that only fit a wallet and mobile phone. The woman put her phone in the bag and did not forget to take the key. Then out of the room and down to the first floor. He had to go to the boutique because the sewing machine he bought would be delivered today. Sakia wants to make a robe and other clothes according to the design she makes. Even the woman designed the wedding dress she had dreamed of.
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Sakia parked her bike in front of the boutique next to Nurin and Nada's motorbike. He rushed inside the boutique to see his sewing machine.
"Assalamualaikum" Sakia said as she opened the door.
"Waalaikumsalam" replied Nurin and Nada together.
"Is the sewing machine here?" tanya Sakia approached Nada and Nurin who while writing the address on each item in the packing.
"Still on the way. The courier called" replied Nada.
"Sister Kia, what about our plan the other day?" nurin looked at Sakia.
"So my sister, baby. The place that will be rented later close to the campus so pretty good. Later, if we have bought all the new restaurant equipment we look for new employees" explained Sakia. Sakia, Nurin, Nada and Alif. The four of them planned to open a restaurant so that the women who did not have jobs could work with them. It must also be seen again the honesty of the women who register later.
...--...
The sun began to sink, the sky again orange night sign will soon greet. Sakia came home early from her husband. Even if there is no more love does not mean he ignores the tasks he can do. Like waiting for a husband to come home from work, take a briefcase owned by the husband and maybe help the husband take off his work clothes.
"Assalamualaikum" Fattan said a greeting after opening the door of the house.
"Waalaikumsalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh" Sakia replied to her husband and did not forget to kiss her husband's hand and then take her husband's briefcase.
"Sister, Kia has prepared warm water for Big Brother to take a bath" Sakia said. The warm water was for her but because her husband came home before Sakia took a bath then let her husband take a bath first.
Fattan smile. "Yes, Dek" replied Fattan and then went up to the second floor followed by his wife.
After taking a shower and getting ready, Fattan went down to the first floor after hearing the bell ringing. It was impossible for Fattan to ask Sakia to open the door because she was already inside the bathroom.
Cheque-plek... (Door is wide open)
"When you are, why?" fattan asked as she saw Sabila crying.
Sabila did not reply, the woman immediately hugged her sister's husband. The man he left behind or arguably the man he once loved. "I'm sorry" he said.
"If it's still love why run away? Do not sin in this house. Papa Aziz is a fine man so don't mess with his house with your improper deeds" Sakia loudly quipped Big Brother and her husband, Fattan, with a voice, the husband who he considered alim but still dared to embrace a woman who was not his muhrim.
"Sakia, it's not like you--"
"No need to find a defense. Hypocritical men deserve hypocritical women" Sakia said passed into the room.