
"Lapo I muring muring, iku gugu my business right, ga ngurus, but nek bener dek ne dulur ku, akhh, utek ki bledos thinks my family keeps going" [Why should I be angry, it's all my business, I don't care, but if it's true he's my brother, akhh, it could blow my brain thinking about the family] Arie kept grumbling nonstop as long as this elevator went up.
Happiness is what someone should feel, when they find a family that has been separated for a long time, but when the family is not what we expect, what we should do, what we should do, Arie is more able to accept that he is only the child of parents who are unable to live it, or the result of a relationship that should not be done, but Arie must be faced with the fact that, if not, His own grandmother threw it away, just because he was descended from a woman who was not considered equal, was not it too diacal. Weren't we all equal before God, there is nothing that distinguishes us, and instead of every baby being holy, they cannot choose from the womb where they are born.
Ting..
the elevator door opened, Arie quickened her steps towards her apartment.
"hem.. sopo iku" [em.] Arie squinted her eyes, looking at a middle-aged woman sitting in the living room with Nuwa, as she entered the apartment.
"This is.. My lady******" Nuwa said, pointing at Arie, as Arie walked over to them.
"Sorry who?" tanya Arie was trying to stay friendly, though,
"I'm Li Wei Wang, the mother of your husband" the middle-aged woman said with a stupor.
"Ohhh. means you are my Mother-in-law." Arie smiled amiably, Arie grabbed the woman's hand about to kiss her hand.
"Don't call me Mother-in-Law, I wouldn't want to have a daughter-in-law like you" Li Wei brushed off Arie's hand, looking disgusted at her.
"Don't you yourself say, if you're the Mama of My Husband, you've indirectly acknowledged me as your daughter-in-law." Arie put on his sweetest smile. Li Wei clenched her teeth in annoyance, it turned out that Arie was not the simple girl she had imagined.
"You're so brave that you said that to Mama" Nuwa raised her hand to point it at Arie's cheek, but was soon caught by Arie.
"I'm not a weak woman, my dear sister." Arie tightened his grip on Nuwa's wrist, Nuwa grimaced in pain. Li Wei looked worried when she saw her son in pain.
"Hey what are you doing, quickly let go of her,"Li Wei pushed Arie's body until her body fell to the floor.
"What are you doing" the baritone's voice made the three women turn simultaneously towards the source of the voice.
"Alex, dear," Li Wei immediately hugged her son, but Alex did not return his embrace he just kept quiet.
"Ma .. what do you do" She's Alex Ma's wife." Alex releases his mother's embrace, then moves closer to Arie who is still on the floor.
"Are you okay." Alex crouches down in front of Arie, watches Arie from top to bottom repeatedly, then helps her stand up.
"I'm fine." said Arie wistfully, still lowered his head.
"Alex.why are you defending that cheap woman instead, look because of her, Nuwa's wrists are red like this," Li Wei pulled Nuwa's hand, thrusting her in front of Alex.
"look at what your wife did."
"I'm sorry I didn't mean it" said Arie.
"Mama listen, Arie didn't do it on purpose."
"Alex, you really dare to oppose Mama." Li wei glared, her eyes almost popping out so badly with Alex.
"Ma.. That's not what I mean, but I hope Mama can accept our marriage." Alex added, Arie hid behind Alex, Arie even casually, instead, stick out her tongue to her mother-in-law.
"Hey the village lady dared you mock me, you don't know manners." Li Wei stuck out her hand about to grab Arie's hair, but Alex swiftly interceded with them.
Nuwa did not stay silent she turned around the sofa pulling Arie's hand from behind, Arie resigned she let Nuwa push her body to fall, Nuwa began to pull her hair, Arie groaned in pain.
Plakkc.. Plaakkp..
Arie gets a slap on both cheeks.
"Aakh. sick." Arie held her cheek. Arie deliberately dramatizes the situation, a slap that Arie just like a caress on his cheek. Perhaps it was because of Nuwa's small body or indeed Nuwa had no energy.
"Based on the woman*****, because of you, Keke rejected me.. All because." Nuwa grabbed Arie's hair again, random shuffling. Arie did not deliberately retaliate or defend himself. He let what Nuwa wanted to do to him.
Alex releases his mother who had hugged him tightly, preventing him from helping Arie, Alex pulls Nuwa who has Arie locked up.
"Why Keke defends this damn woman," Nuwa's eyes were red and glassy, she did not expect the brother she loved so much to support another woman compared to her.
"Nuwa is enough, you've gone too far." Alex raised Arie's body to hold it ala bridel.
"I want you out of this house right now." Alex leaves them.
"Let's go," Li Wei pulled Nuwa's hand,
"But Ma. I want to stay here, same Keke" whined Nuwa.
"Didn't you see, your brother has been instigated by the ****** that, you won't get anything if you stay here, we go, we go, Mama's gonna think of something to get the girl out of Alex's life."
"Alright" Nuwa lethargicly followed her mother's steps out of the apartment.
While in the room, Alex sits Arie on the edge of the bed slowly.
"I'm fine, don't worry," Seeing Alex's guilty face, Arie tried to comfort her.
"It's okay, look at your current state, your hair's as good as a lion's, it's both of your cheeks, and this look at your arms why it's this way."
"Didn't you just see, how your sister joked with me, and why you even scolded me, you weirdo." Arie threw his face to the side. Alex rubbed his face rough.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect them to be like that" Alex sat himself down next to Arie.
"What's wrong, I can understand, besides what Mama said is true, I don't deserve to be your wife."
"Arie, i..." Alex does not continue to say, Alex got up from his seat, took a box of P3K from a drawer under the nightstand, he began to apply the drug to the scratches on Arie's arm. Arie smiled looking at Alex who was painstakingly treating his injuries.
Arie I don't like to see you like this, I don't like you putting yourself down. Alex is inwardly worried but his ego doesn't let him express it.
"Hold this might hurt a little," Arie nodded softly, for Arie the wound on her arm was not felt at all.
"Alex"
"Hem"
"May I ask."
"Sure." replied Alex briefly as he continued to slowly apply the medicine, as if Arie's skin could be destroyed if he pressed too much.
"Why did Nuwa say that you rejected her, what Nuwa really wanted to say." Alex paused his face, slowly he let out a long breath.
"Me and Nuwa are not siblings, Nuwa is Mama's son with her previous husband, and Mama married Daddy when I was 10."
"And your own mother, where is she?"
"Mommy died in an accident when I was 8 years old" Alex's face turned sad.
"Sorry," Arie stretched out her hand to hug Alex's waist, for a moment she enjoyed her husband's soothing masculine scent.
"Ehem"
"S
Uh.. sorry to eat, hehehe." Arie let go of her embrace.
"I'm going back to the office, don't wait for me, today I came home a little late"
"It's late in the afternoon, can't she accompany me at home." Arie said almost inaudibly.
"What did you say? "
"Ah...no, I didn't say anything, what about your Mama?"
"Tomorrow I'll talk to him."
"You rest." Arie only nodded slightly, noticing Alex's already invisible back behind the door. Arie threw his body on top of his soft case, with both hands wide open.
"One is empty, Mother-in-law." Arie smiled broadly at the sky of his room.
"I will not let history repeat itself, just in school I repeat the history of Indonesia, hehehehe."