That Storm Must've Passed

The flashback 2

It wasn't easy for me to start my new life in a place that was completely foreign to me, both culturally and linguistically. It's just because since childhood I have been accustomed to moving from one city to another because of the work of the late papa who had to do so. So I've been experiencing new things a lot.

But different this time I have to face alone only with my son. I have to be really strong. Oh God, can I?

Not everything is as I imagined it to be. I'm not allowed to work by my new husband. All this time I have been used to struggling with teaching activities, but this time all I do is shopping, cooking, washing, cleaning the house and sitting sweetly beside my husband while watching television. You can imagine how monotonous my life is!

Even for my daily needs, I really had to hang on to her. I was also required to record our expenses in a notebook that he always checked every time I finished spending money from him.

In a few months I can still tolerate it, but after a long time I became saturated and feel unable to stand it anymore. As if he had no confidence in me. Maybe he thought I spent it in vain for my son.

In the beginning I wished he could love my son as much as he loved his own. But after a long time, I felt something strange. He never let me linger around joking with my son.

Whenever I chatted with my son, he always called me to sit next to him while watching television. I've only been living with him for three years, I can hardly stand it. His love of watching the news bored me. I feel like my life is losing color. Two days I might still be able to follow his will. But over time I always reasoned that my head hurt every time he took me to watch the news with him.

His habits that I consider perfectionist, such as putting anything down should be in order, getting back into place, make me really tormented. Good, but sometimes it bothers me, as if he can't tolerate the slightest mistake.

"Putting slippers or neat shoes, like this" my husband confirmed the position of my sandals when I entered the house. I just looked at him while sighing.

"That's it again." I complained in my heart.

"This time it's almost an hour brother's gone, where have you been?" it was as if interrogating me.

"none. The road just got a little jammed. There's a demo in front of the mayor's office." I said flatly. I glanced slightly at his face that seemed to be in disbelief at my answer.

"Why couldn't you call?" ask again.

"Yes, it was out of battery forgot to charge last night" I said.

I lie. I actually stopped by a new friend's house. It was deliberately turned off hp so that my husband could not call, because I know very well, a little late at home surely he would call me up to dozens of times.

I don't know why he's acting so possessively. Is it because he loves me or something else.

But as far as I was with her, she never mentioned her promise that was ever made at the beginning of our marriage.

At that time I knew my husband had no money to find another contract. It seems that the financial condition has not been so good lately. He was planning to move me out of town.

"Sir, we just move out of town. We just sell heavy things that we can't carry, like a sofa, a closet or a bed" he said, holding my hand.

I just fell silent and thought, what about my son? I'm not sure my son would approve of this.

"Is there no other way?" my many.

"Sorry, for a while there hasn't been."

My brain was spinning hard, and a plan came to my heart.

I left my husband and immediately headed to my son's room and told him what my husband had just said.

"Son, you want to take us out of town, what do you think?" ask me carefully

My son looked at me with a protesting look.

"I don't want ma. If you want to come with me, come with me."

"Well, my son, my mother disagreed. Mama will try to find a job secretly." I said.

"I mean mama?"

"Yes, said Nia, the child next door to our house, there is a vacancy for teachers at her school. Mama's gonna try to ask for certainty."

"How is Ma?"

"Mama will take Nia to her principal's house to make sure of this. If it is true, all mama will ask the official house that is behind Nia's school if there is an empty one that we can occupy. If there is, ma'am will also beg us to be able to occupy after surely mama accepted to teach there. Please pray for your mom, son?"

"If it is so, Didi pray ma, may there be a way" said Didi my only son.