
Deefa was already sitting face to face with her two in-laws, the woman continued to look down speechlessly at the scanning eyes of the parents of her husband who continued to look at her.
I don't know what kind of gaze Deefa was now getting, which was obvious since then she could hear a breath so heavy that it was peeping through her ears.
It's been almost 30 minutes they've done that, which Deefa really doesn't quite understand why all of a sudden her in-laws come to visit this afternoon, after yesterday got a call from Umi in east Java who asked him news.
"Raffan still comes home the other night, Deef?"
The silence stopped when her mother-in-law asked.
Deefa lifted her face to look at the mother-in-law who was staring in the shade at her, "no ma'am, some days Mas Raffan came home in the afternoon," he said with his hand squeezing the end of the veil dangling in his lap.
"really?" this time his father-in-law spoke up, as if he did not believe what Deefa said because he knew how his son was.
Deefa nodded though slowly but confidently because indeed what she said was true, for these few days since she no longer taught Raffan did come home in the afternoon, indeed, either because of the man's desire or just to keep an eye on him.
"Raffa's been a little bit better Well, but I'm confused why Kiyai Burhan asked us to come to the boarding school to talk about Raffan and Deefa's marriage," said the mother looked at her husband who was nodding approving her statement just now.
Hearing what her mother-in-law said just now made Deefa take turns staring at her two in-laws full of question marks.
To the pesantren? Kiyai Burhan asked them to go to the pesantren, while yesterday Umi did not say anything just asking if she was happy.
Deefa held her breath when she understood the meaning of the question from the wife of the owner of the boarding school yesterday.
The question certainly has its own meaning, there must be something they know.
Deefa's thinking still revolves around Burhan's request for them to come to eastern Java, when the sound of a car engine stops in front of a closed fence, then he also heard the sound of the fence being opened.
No need to see Deefa already knew that the one who came was her husband.
Her husband had been asked by her in-laws since.
Raffan noticed that the car parked in his garage made his car unable to enter, it was because the garage could only accommodate one car maybe if the motorbike could still enter.
"Father's car" he said.
"There's a car that means there's a person who crashed here" he continued while getting out of the car.
He stepped in with a quiet clatter even the sneakers that wrapped his feet like they did not make a sound when stomping on the floor.
Deefa moved from her seat to open the door.
"Tumben open my door, haven't you?!" a direct hit of insinuation made Deefa apologize.
"Sorry."
As a wife, of course, she sinned because she had silenced her husband, but how else even if someone who understands religion but in fact he is just an ordinary human who will be hurt if treated arbitrarily by a man who should give an example to him.
However, the 19-year-old unstable man is still a head of the family who is responsible for making happy and providing comfort for wives who even have their photos side by side in the marriage book.
"Heh? apologize for fear I'm gonna hook them up?" grunts Raffan even like a child threatened to complain his friend because it had infected him.
"Wa'alaikumsalam."
The voice from the father made Raffan scratch his nape, gosh he has not said hello.
"Assalamu'alaikum, Dad and mom have been a long time?" he said he was walking to his parents.
"Wa'alaikumsalam," Deefa said so slowly as the whisper.
"Nearly an hour" the mother replied as the child kissed the back of her hand.
"Sit you!" pinta his father firmly when Raffan just finished kissing hands.
"You also sat down Deefa." now speaking to her daughter-in-law but in a soft voice, it was very different when talking to her own child.
"What's really going on?" asked Raffan to see his father and mother alternately, obviously he caught something wrong now.
Seeing one by one the look on the faces of his parents who were suddenly in his house without telling him first that they were coming.
Although it is very natural for parents to visit their children, but it feels a little different because he will now live in a different house and it could be when they come he and his wife are not at home what it will not make them disappointed because of the empty house.
"Father who should have asked you Raffan," said the man whose white hair had already dominated.
Ah, it seems like the man thought too much until gray hair grew on his head.
Raffan frowned not understanding the words of the father.
"Why the hell is Mom?" now choose to ask her faithful mother sitting next to her husband.
But his mother shook her head, not answering and looked at him like she was looking for something she knew.
"You guys, especially you Raffan is actually living this household how?" ask the Father.
"Well what do you think? Raffan has lived what Raffan has to run as a husband, Raffan meets all the needs of Deefa," said Raffan.
"What needs? if just to eat Dad, I think Deefa can fulfill it yourself, you should remember a wife not only needs to eat, but also needs happiness that you should fulfill, he said, your wife's happiness is also your responsibility Raf, as long as you know!"
"What the heck, suddenly Dad so talk about happiness problems," snorted Raffan did not like.
"The night Kiyai Burhan called Dad, you know what he said to Dad?"
"Where does Raffan know, does he say the same to Dad," Raffan murmured with the question of the father, I don't know why he became this sensitive.
"Kiyai Burhan thinks that Deefa is unhappy" said Ustad Imran.
"Lo, what are they talking about?" hiss Raffan.
Of course she would accuse Deefa of complaining to them about her attitude all along, only the two of them knew about this household.
And it was Deefa who felt what she was like.
"Deefa didn't say anything Mas." Deefa's voice was soft because Raffan was now accusing her.
"Even though Deefa didn't say anything as parents a little bit they must have felt what Deefa felt," said her mother who had listened since.
"Lo ngadu, yes I will also discuss the behavior of Lo!" threaten Raffan still doesn't believe it.
"Deefa really did not say anything to Kiyai Burhan and also Umi Mas for Allah's sake," Deefa explained even to swear that Raffan believed.
"Bodo very! it doesn't matter to me!" ketus Raffan's.
"Oh yes Father and mother must be horrified Raffan, he nih." pointed Deefa, "each return home between Agam, every day even angry with Raffan to not reprimand Raffan for days, father and mother's son-in-law are not as good as they look" said Raffan, staring at Deefa.
"No need to cry!" jolt Raffan when found tears in both eyes Deefa had slid soaked his face.
"I'm sorry Deefa if Mas is not pleased with what Deefa did, Deefa has tried to refuse but can't because Agam insisted, I'm really sorry Deefa mommy same you guys for disappointing," lirih Deefa had no power to withstand the tightness she felt.
Hayati rushed to hug the daughter-in-law trying to calm her daughter-in-law who was even sobbing.
"O Allah Raffan!" Hayati certainly also felt what her daughter-in-law felt at this time.
Raffan gasped at his mother's slightly screaming voice.
"It's Deefa, already," said the in-law who had embraced her and let the big veil she was wearing wet with tears.
Ustad Imran closed his eyes and exhaled a heavy breath.
It seems that marrying his son is not the right choice, in fact his son is now even hurting the woman who became his wife.
The woman of his choice who he knew was good-natured turned out to also not be able to change the behavior of his son.
"Deefa," call ustad Imran.
With a hoarse voice Deefa replied.
"Take all your clothes, we will go to the boarding school right now, sorry that Dad and mom have made you married to Raffan" said Ustad Imran with guilt clearly implied from his eyes.
"Huh? what do you mean, Dad?" Raffan was a little unhappy with his father's request.
Asking Deefa to pack her clothes and then go to the pesantren, didn't she hear wrong?
"Kiyai Burhan asked us to go to the pesantren" said the father.
"Yes what? so what do Deefa have to do with her clothes?" tanya Raffan looked at the father with anxious gurgles that emanated.
"Quick Deefa." ustad Imran did not answer instead asked Deefa who was still not moving to immediately do what he had said.
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