
When the adzan maghrib reverberated, I came out of the room carrying with me my son. I found Mas Galih sitting in the kitchen with one hand propping up his chin.he just kept looking at me and Abi with a sad look. I just passed through it without reprimanding him.
I remember his words that were about to throw me in prison making this heart throb like it was being sliced with a dagger.
I went back in after taking all Abi's needs, without even looking at her.
"Run mas wants to talk." said Mas Galih slowly while holding my arm.
"Let's go, after dinner. I also want to talk to Mas about our deal this afternoon, Mas certainly did not forget about it right?"
I did not look at Mas Galih's face at all when talking to him. "Oh yeah, don't forget to tell your mother and sister too, huh?afraid that they forgot the threat you gave me earlier with them." I took off Mas Galih's slow hand which further tightened the grip on my arm, then passed back into the room.
I did not pay any heed to the pounding or shouting created by Mas Galih at the door.I let him do that until he was tired himself and he stopped by himself.
When dinner came, Rena called me to have breakfast with them. Of course I refused because I didn't want to see those hypocritical faces.
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We had all gathered in the living room, including Shila was not left behind. From the moment I arrived there, Mas Galih immediately knelt before me and continued to apologize to me. my heart was already in pain, considering all his inappropriate words for a husband to declare it to his wife, but with the heart, my heart ached, Mas Galih stated all that to me without thinking about my feelings.
"Wake up Mas, Do not think with you to do this my heart will melt," I looked down at Mas Galih .
"There's no more door sorry for you. Just imagine Mas If you were in my position, the words that wanted to throw me into prison said from my mouth, what about your feelings? sick or not?
So no need to talk anymore, we just get to the point at my request this afternoon, and Mas has agreed to it." I breathed as much oxygen as possible to fill my cavity and then I exhaled slowly.
"Right me now!" I said to Mas Galih without expression.
Everyone in the room gasped at my words.
"Please rethink what you said earlier, son, Kasian Abi is still very small.he still needs his father's love" said the mother-in-law turned soft.
"Mas Galih said to your mother, was she a concussion or forgot her memory? did I not mishear , just that your mother softened her voice at me," I did not directly say to mother but through Mas Galih.Mother mas Galih directly bowed his head,I think he was so embarrassed when I didn't respond word for word.
"Mas I don't want to say my word a second time, "do it now".what was our agreement this afternoon.all of you are here, you are here, assuming that what I said about your mother's actions or behavior was, slander.if your mother didn't pass out, then I've been taken to the police station, he said,cause Galih mas can't wait to want me to quickly snatch there."Unknowingly tears flowed from my eyes.
"Bak don't be selfish dong. if we follow our agreement this afternoon, then obviously we get out of the house mbak Runi. continue we want to live where? while Mbak knows for himself, our only house has been sold by my mother to meet my tuition and also our daily needs before we live here" Rena concluded to me.
"I don't care, who are you? as your mother once told Galih, I was just an outsider and was married by your sister to enjoy or spend all your sister's salary. I think besides shila you'll still remember what your mother said."
"Runi, please, forget our agreement this afternoon, Let's just say nothing happened in this family" said Mas Galih lightly.
I laughed out loud at the words expressed by Mas Galih.
"Have you forgotten your threat? and with all your heart you tell me to forget everything that happened this afternoon.don't be a loser man, a man who just wants to hide under your mother's armpits, prove that you are a gentleman, not a soft man aka hick." I said heartlessly.
"I'm sorry to all of us in this room, sorry that I cut you off. But I'm very confused by what happened, I don't know what the root of the problem is, because from earlier that was discussed only about the deal that you made last afternoon. What kind of deal, anyway? Please explain so that I also understand the root of the problem." said Sgila calm down and looked at us one by one.
"Who among the three of you would like to explain? Or I'll explain." I asked these three hypocrites.among them, not a single person who spoke made me very angry. I had to explain the chronology to Shila myself.
"I think Mas Galih, Aunt Rossa, and Rena have gone too far. I better get out now from the house mbak Runi, because I do not want to bear the shame, due to aunt Rosa who was pregnant out of wedlock, because, moreover, we don't know who the man who impregnated Auntie." shila got up from the sofa and walked into the room that had been occupied by herself and the mother-in-law who soon became a former mother-in-law.
"Shila take care of you yes, if it wasn't for my mother, you didn't get to this town and get the good job you are now." Rena yelled in disbelief as shila did not stand up for them at all.
"Yes! and I'm very grateful to aunt Rossa, because thanks to auntie, I was able to be in this town and get a good job like you just said, I was, but I'm also ashamed of my brother Runi who has taken us to his house, but with no self-knowledge, we treat him as if we had a house, not mbak Runi who slandered aunt Rossa but aunt Rosa herself who slandered Mbak Runi, for fear of his bad guise being exposed, aunty used a thousand and one ways to trick us all here,as if Runi was at fault.And about the certificate of the house, which was the trigger of the first problem, it is true that Aunt Rossa intended to steal it, I myself heard aunty call someone about buying and selling a house at a low price.." sila's speech silenced the mouth lemes Rena. mother-in-law and Mas Galih also look tense. Mas Galih's jaw stiffened both hands clenched with anger.In contrast to the mother-in-law, she looked down embarrassed, she was embarrassed, For now his own nephew heartlessly humiliates him before me and his two sons.
"now everyone has explained Mas, so what are you waiting for, my talak right now and pack all your things, tonight you also have to get out of my house." mas Galih's face that was full of anger is now back dim replaced with regret that is very deep.
"It's all because of mom, if you don't keep instigating me, then my household will be fine." mother-in-law sobbed little, her beloved son who had never raised a voice for her, all this time, this time he snapped it in front of his own daughter-in-law,
"I don't want you guys to beat each other here. All I want is for Mas Galih to divorce me right now!" I shouted out loud, my voice blaring all over the room.