The Journey of Love Habibah..

Asking for custody

A few days after the application, Purnomo was forced to leave Habibah to return to the island of Sumatra where he was assigned. The one-month leave was very short for her, with a heavy heart she had to return with her beloved daughter because Nur also had to go back to school.

Nur cried in Habibah's arms, he was eager to stay with Habibah. But what power, he had to keep coming back to finish his lesson until the time of class. Habibah embraced him affectionately, trying to give understanding to Nur to be patient until the time they would be together.

" dear.. You have to go back to school, right? If you want to come back quickly and we're together again. You have to study really, right..? We can call every day, Aunty promises every morning to call Nur before going to school. And Auntie's gonna call the night before Nur goes to bed, how? Habit like?" Habibah tried to comfort the little girl in his arms. Nur just nodded slowly.

" Alright. Then don't cry anymore dong.. Beautiful is missing. We made a promise that we can still talk even if we are far apart, but we are still close to heart." Habibah stroked Nur's head very gently making Nur increasingly not want to take off his embrace.

Likewise with Purnomo, his happiness of only a few days must be temporarily stopped until the time agreed by both sides of the family. If their marriage will take place in the month of Shawwal. That means only three months of waiting. But let alone three months, in just a matter of days it feels very tormented because of longing. But he had to pretend to be strong in front of the princess just so that his son could be strong as well.

Long years ago I could hold back my longing, now that I can't do three months?

After the departure of Purnomo and Nur, Habibah felt a little loss. Which usually every morning there is Nur who always makes a scene, and every day he saw Purnomo dropping off and picking Nur up at his house, now it is no more. Habibah turned out to unconsciously miss things that turned out to be simple like that.

Habibah's calm turned out to be only a short time, just two weeks after the departure of Purnomo and Nur. Lina came back to Habibah who was making an order from her new customer. Lina came haughtily, Not even she came to say hello.

Dug..! dug's..! dug's..!

" Rabbit...! Hi Bibah..! Exit you..! It's habibah..!" Lina yelled to Habibah from the doorway of her house while banging on the door violently. His mother, who heard a scream from the front of his house, immediately came to him in a hurry.

" Hey crazy woman..! You come casually come to the house of people with a brash attitude like this, basic has no adab. What else do you want to come here? Still not enough to make a scene here? What else do you want huh..!?" his mother Habibah was really fed up with seeing Lina in her home.

" Where is Habibah..!? I want him to find me, not anyone else. I only deal with him, so don't bullshit me too much, because my business is only with him." Lina was still with her disrespectful attitude towards her mother Habibah.

" What's wrong ma? How much noise?" Habibah suddenly came to his mother, because he heard there was a commotion in front of the house that inevitably provoked his curiosity."

Lina..? What's up now?" habibah asked after she found out Lina's whereabouts at her house. And he understood why there was a commotion that was bothering him.

" Can't you talk well? After all this is my mother who is much older than you. If you can be polite, then I will also be more polite to you. And if this is the way you're as proud and teaching as this is to come to people's homes, then how can I behave properly with guests?" habibah's speech was spoken slowly and flatly, but it was enough to pierce the ears and hearts that heard it.

" You don't have to be so pretentious in front of me. I just want you to leave Zain's custody to us, let Zain come with me now." Lina spoke in a position still standing in front of the door of Habibah's house.

" lina's... Can't we just sit down and talk? Are you tired of standing like this? Moreover, you just came from far away. Let's sit down first, let's talk." Invite the habibah to Lina while pulling Lina's hand to enter and sit in her guest room. Lina brushed aside Habibah's hand, but she followed him to enter and sit in the living room. While his mother gave her eyes to Habibah, as a sign of her protest to Habibah. But Habibah just nodded his head slowly, because there was nothing better than to ask him to speak well.

" What do you really want from me? You have chosen your lives, and I have calmed down with mine. Then why are you ruining my life now?" Habibah asked without further ado.

" It's not us, but me. I want custody of the children of mas Qodir. So that he no longer has a reason to make him meet you. I hate you, I hate him because every day he remembers only you. I hate him because he always praises you. If the boy is with us, I don't think there's any reason for him to come see you. I just don't understand, what advantages do you have that make him change even after he decides to live with me? Right now, I just want you to give custody of the child to mas Qodir. After that, I'll never interrupt your life again." That hate was real in Lina's eyes.

" It seems that I have said this to Qodir, that he is not entitled to custody it at all. Maybe you know exactly why. So if you want to force that custody, you have to go through the applicable legal route. Because I'll never leave that custody to you. If you want, you can take him to court. If you can win it, then I will give up child custody willingly. But you also have to remember, mas Qodir has been absent from his obligation to provide for his son for three more years. Then I assure you one thing, if you take any legal route you will lose. Most likely mas Qodir will get the punishment for abandoning his son. You better think about it." Habibah answered him very calmly without emotion. He can really deal with it well.

" You...!"

" But remember these words, I never bother you. So you better not bother me too. About Mas Qodir changing his attitude towards you, it's his business and has nothing to do with me. Which means you can't take good care of your husband. If you take good care of her, she will not change for you and will not remember me. So you better introspect yourself, so he doesn't run from you." Habibah cut off the words of Lina who was preparing to rebuke him. All that Habibah said was indeed stern, until Lina could not answer the words of Habibah.

Lina got up from her seat with a reddened face from holding back anger and embarrassment. Intentions wanted to teach Habibah a lesson, but it turned out to be embarrassing themselves.

" It seems like you'd be happier if he keeps remembering you and comes to see you. You purposely did this to me because you wanted revenge on me right? You remember my words, that I will not forgive you if something happens to my household with mas Qodir." Lina still blames Habibah for what happened to her household. Habibah could only sigh deeply to pay attention to Lina's already unreasonable attitude. Finally Lina came home with a feeling of anger and shame.

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