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At 4pm, Fauzi was transferred to the nursery, Afifa asked her mother and father-in-law to go home so they could rest.
But when they were preparing, a call was heard on Afifa's phone, she immediately picked it up when Nadia's number was there, then pressed the loudspeaker so that everyone could hear her talk.
Afifa was shocked when she heard the sound of Thalita crying across the street.
"Hallo... Whyhappy, Nad? Thalita why cry?", asked Afifa worriedly.
Waalaikum hail Anti, Thalita wants to see his father and meet Mother Fifa he said.
"Lo...? and then Sister Wulan?"
He has returned An, Thalita does not want to be invited by him, he even cried.
"Come home?"
Yes, someone called him, and hurried to leave because he was waiting at his house.
"Oh.ya already, you are here to take Thalita, ask Mang Ujang anther, use Uncle yes!"
Yes An, Assalamualaikum.
"Waalaikum salam.
After finding out that his grandson was going to the hospital, Fauzi's parents abandoned their intention to go home.
Half an hour later Nadia came with Thalita. After he saw the condition of his uncle and told him all the things that happened in his house, he went out of the room and joined his Grandpa and Grandma. While Thalita is still loyal in the lap of Afifa who sits on a chair beside the patient's bed.
The three of them chatted like a happy little family, sometimes a small laugh adorned their conversation when they heard the chatter of Thalita which continued to be teased by Fauzi and Afifa because of her crying, she said, until one question came out of the little boy's mouth. "Mother..., is Thalita really an illegitimate child?" he asked while looking into Afifa's eyes.
Afifa's heart paused for a moment to hear this innocent child's innocent question before her, his lips twisted and unable to speak. Afifa bit her lower lip and looked at her husband who turned out to be the same keget with her.
Fauzi corrected his sitting position, so that it was upright facing his wife and daughter. "Come, baby!" fauzi said as he patted the empty bed beside him.
Thalita came down from the lap of Afifa, and went up to the bed and sat down beside her father. Fauzi hugged her tightly from the side of her daughter. "Thalita is Dad's son, not an illegitimate child".
"But Grandpa said, Thalita's an illegitimate child?" he asked again, looking up at Fauzi in his arms.
Fauzi looked back at Afifa who was still silent before him, then took a deep breath of regretting everything the child had heard. "Listen to Daddy, baby!, Maybe Grandpa misspoke, Thalita is the son of Father and Mother, not an illegitimate child".
Thalita seemed to think for a moment, then spoke again, "But Father, my house tenants also said that, he said that Thalita was an illegitimate child because..."
"Ssssssst.., already..., don't listen to what people say", Fauzi kept his index finger in Thalita's tiny lips, making Thalita stop her speech. "What matters now is that Thalita knows that Thalita has a Father and Mother Fifa who love Thalita". Fauzi put a smile on his daughter and hugged her again, but Thalita was still confused and motionless.
"Then Mother Wulan?", asked Thalita again, still with her confused face. "Did you ever marry Mother Wulan?", he said innocently, making Fauzi and Afifa again not wrinkled and just look at each other. At the age of nine, at least Thalita has understood all the relationships between him, his mother, his father and Mother Afifaanya. But when he has not found the spot and the red thread that connects the four, his intelligent brain will continue to look for answers that have not been found.
Afifa took a deep breath, her heart felt pinched at the innocent words Thalita said, she was just a child victimized, she said, and it's not appropriate that he knows the dirty deeds of his parents' past.maybe this time it's not, but..., isn't the longer Thalita will grow up? of course, these questions will continue to arise from his mind when he does not find the answer.
Afifa raised her head to look at Thalita who seemed still full of questions, "Honey.., Dad was married to Mother Wulan", Out of nowhere Afifa's mind came so suddenly said it from her mouth, making Fauzi round his eyes sharply towards Afifa. But Afifa ignored her, she glanced at her husband at a glance then looked back at Thalita and commented a smile towards the child.
Afifa dropped Thalita from the bed, "Honey.., Mother wants to talk to Dad first, Thalita wait outside for a while with Kak Nadia yes!", said Afifa while holding Thalita's hand out of the room. Before long he came back to Fauzi who was still staring in wonder at him.
"Why did you lie to her?" ask Fauzi when Afifa gets in front of him.
"I just don't want to, she's thinking negatively about her parents" Afifa replied.
"But what's to say that I've married her mother?"
"Indeed what else can I say to eliminate the curiosity that will continue to be stored in his mind until he grows up? do I have to say that he was born for the innocence and sin of his parents?"
"But, does saying that, also eliminate all problems?"
"Then what about later? when she understood, and knew we were lying to her?"
"It would not be a lie, if now Kak Aji is willing to marry his mother", Afifa's words just made Fauzi round his eyes even more, staring intently and in disbelief at what was heard from the mouth of the woman he had loved so much and had lived for more than 2 years with him, building the household ark, and, passing each test that comes and turns on the basis of mutual trust and holy love both.
"What do you mean?" fauzi asked in a flat and resolute voice looking at his wife.
Afifa fell silent, then bowed to regulate every breath of tightness that came out into the cavity of his para.
"Are you thinking, asking me to marry Wulan?" Fauzi looked at Afifa's face, hoping that his wife would retract her words, but Afifa fell silent.
"Excuse me...!" Said a nurse who came to the treatment room, "with a patient on behalf of Mr Fauzi Rahman Ramadhan?" he asked while walking carrying the patient's personal data on the road board he carried.
Fauzi and Afifa turned towards the nurse, "Yes right, Sus!", Afifa replied with a nod.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, Mom! I am a nurse who will be in charge of caring for patients today" the nurse said as she scratched the bolpoint she was carrying on a paper denied by a roadboard.
Afifa nodded, her eyes fixed on the nurse's left breast sign that read Rima Amalia. Afifa noticed the nurse's movements that measured her husband's body temperature and blood pressure. After her work was done, the nurse bailed her out of the room, Afifa drove her to the door, when the door opened, Thalita called out to her.
"Mother...!"
"Hi dear.!", greet Afifa as she grabs Thalita's hand outstretched towards her.
"Daddy hasn't hurt in a long time?" ask Thalita.
"Thalita just pray, yes, let Daddy mop up", replied Afifa while commenting on a smile. "If Thalita is here, Thalita comes home with Mak Eyang, Pak Eyang and Kak Nadia yes", Afifa said.
Thalita seemed to be pouting, because she still wanted to be with him.
"Thalita dreaded Mother", Afifa leaned over the child's shoulder, "there are many sick people, it is not good if the children linger in the hospital, and there are many sick people, because of the durability of the body of a child your age is still vulnerable and easily exposed to disease," he explained at length. "Will Thalita get sick like Dad and the patients here?"
Thalita shook her head, "Yes Thalita has come home now, yes, yuk say goodbye to Dad!", Afifa held Thalita's hand closer to Fauzi. After Thalita and everyone else left, they left Afifa and Fauzi both at the hospital.
Time kept turning, for some reason, since Afifa said that Fauzi should marry Wulan, awkwardness between them, they spoke very little, he said, just a few words related to Fauzi's healing they talked about.
This time, only two days Afifa accompanied Fauzi in the hospital, but it felt so very long.there was no warmth between them, the two just quietly dissolve in each other's minds. Afifa did not want to continue her talk about her plan, she did not want it to affect her recovery process, let all she would talk back when her husband was completely healed later.
Likewise with Fauzi, at this time his head is still too heavy to think in that direction, he is afraid his brain will not think clearly and will only say something wrong, he said, which would destroy his home life and hurt the heart of the woman he loved.
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Assalamualaik...Readers...
What is going to happen to their house in the future?
Should Afifa accept the mother of her husband's daughter to be her honeymoon?
Or did she choose to step back from the hard-earned home life she had built with her husband?
Ah.., the difficult problems of life.
But even though it is difficult, Author still waits for Vote, like and comment yes...🙏
Thanks 🙏😘
By: Rahma Husnul