Talak After Shah

The Hidden Story

The sound of takbiran from mosques and mushalla tonight is so shahdu. I who was busy stirring the pudding on the stove consciously followed the chant.

Naura was busy chopping up the vegetables I put down. I sighed deeply as I looked at it, having been prevented many times but still doing it. Be a vegetable that should be good and even turn out not desirable.

My husband sat in front of the back door of the house smoking his cigarette, and of course with his cell phone in his hand. Our back door was opened so that the air from the rice fields behind the house could enter. While Mikail and Adam play cars, it is still in the kitchen.

"Mother, yesterday I met my daddy's girl" Mikail spoke without turning her attention to the cars she was running.

Deg!!!

I spontaneously stopped stirring the boiling pudding. I looked at my second child. Stared at.

Then I turned to my husband who didn't seem to hear our son.

"What brother?" reload me

"I met daddy's girl" he repeated without looking at me who had an angry face.

I looked at my husband. I looked at him, who was also looking at me.

"Ah, this brother don't be weird" replied my husband

"Keep brother?" chase me

"Already bun, the talk of children should not be heard"

Naura turned to her father.

"Dad's got a girl?" tannya

Andi quietly got a question from her son. I was still in my place staring at him too.

"Ah this brother said strange yuk, don't be heard"

"The little boy is honest, the age of a new brother is four, so he can't lie yet" I interrupted by suppressing emotions so as not to be seen by my children.

"When brother?" ask me again

Andi began to fidget, his sitting began to be unsettled. Many times he exhaled cigarette smoke violently.

"When I went with Dad for a walk"

I felt tired of my feet hearing my son's answer. I'm sure Mikail didn't lie, which is why maybe a kid as small as that could lie. I'm sure he's honest.

"Beautiful, no?" ayuk asked

"Ehmm, don't know" he replied

I moved towards him after previously turning off the stove. Holding him and start interrogating him.

"So don't lie" I asked slowly

"Loose mother, lie to sin" he answered without burden.

Nyuuutttt suddenly felt something hurt inside my chest.

"Don't know the name of daddy's girl?

He shook his head.

"Where's the sister's dad going?"

That means it happened a week ago. Andi did take sister for a walk, and it was true when she came home she brought so many clothes for us.

"Kok brother knows that it's daddy's girl?" ask me again

"He talked to my sister"

My eyes were staring at Andi.

"The girl packs a pink shirt, goes home to a lot of lights. That said the mother green light for the road, red for the stop and yellow carefully"

Back my chest is tight.

"Daddy's girl bought clothes too, sister?"

He nodded his head. I'm a beard, while Andi's getting restless.

"Dad girl, don't you have money too?" si ayuk also followed.

"Yes, when the girl got out of my dad's car for money"

"Son't you talk to daddy's girl?"

"Not just a smile, while talking cie cie dad, dad there is a girl"

Boy, you're so relaxed, no burden. I hear it is the one who is sick, I said in my heart.

"Here, go to sleep" asked the children, leading them into the room.

I left my husband alone behind who was still busy with his confusion.

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"Yes..."

I kept quiet, I kept turning my back to my husband.

"There's no way bun I'm betraying you again"

I covered my ears with a pillow, I ignored every word he said.

With resignation finally Andi put his body next to his youngest child. His mind grew increasingly chaotic imagining his wife's disappointment and anger. It could be that tomorrow's moment of forgiveness turns into a moment of anger.

The clock had shown at one in the morning, but Andi still could not squint his eyes. The regular breathing sound of his wife is enough to indicate if he is already sound. Slowly Andi got out of his bed, walking around the bed towards his slumbering wife.

The face of his sleeping wife. True said people, if you want to see how far our love and care for a partner, look when he fell asleep. His tired face will be drawn there. From there we can see the struggle.

Andi's heart rippled when he saw that deep face. You can imagine how beautiful days with three young children, school routine, home, children, husband. Turn around like that every day.

He slowly bought his wife's hair. Various thoughts flashed in his chaotic heart.

I opened my eyes when I felt movement above my head. Immediately I took that hand and pulled it out of my head as soon as I knew it was my husband's.

"Yes...,"

"I'm sleepy, don't bother" I replied as I turned back to her.

Again Andi sighed deeply and returned to his bed and tried to close his eyes.

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