The Love That Remains

visiting mother

darwin was out of the dressing room, his hair was still a little wet while he was drying with a small towel in his hand, he approached the malika who was already on the bed leaning against the floor with his legs scattered under the blanket,his hands and eyes had been playing with cell phones since.

"what is it?".darwin's body clings to his wife's shoulder.

"honey, how can I find mom?"tukas malika, his eyes stared at darwin hoping.

"when?."

"does that mean it can?".

"i asked when? why do you answer me with more questions." Darwin flicked his nose malika softly, there was a sweet smile on his wife's lips.

"what about tomorrow?".

"can't, I have an important meeting tomorrow."

"but I can go alone".

at once Malika realized by her own kata2, Darwin was already looking at her cynically.

"do you want me to tie you up with a chain around your neck?."

"honey..".malika rubbed the cheeks of darwin with both palms, she tau darwin will be angry if the rules are denied, he said,although so far he only allows her out of the apartment if she is accompanied by her own husband, and darwin does not play2 with the rules.

"don't argue with me, I just want you to be good2 by my side, if you meet your stepbrother how?I don't want you to get hurt in the least." The hand was taken darwin, he then kissed the hand of malika who always seemed to smell like pear.

"alright, I'll wait for you." Malika chose not to argue, she hugged Darwin's body that made her warm.

"let's go see your mom the day after tomorrow, but I have to clean up some things at the office."

"would I come with your office again?".

"why?you want to come?".

"well, it feels like being alone will be a long time waiting for you here."

"in the office you'll be alone, you'll be bored."

"no, there will be a wulan, I like the wulan, she can be a cool chatter." malika sumringah recalls her chat with a wulan who not far gossiped about her own husband.

"you gossiped?."darwin poked his wife's chin, looking suspiciously at the smile that was rising on malika's lips.

"eh, no, we just chatted trivially about women." malika lied ignorant, Darwin moved his body increasingly close his body towards malika.

"tomorrow nana will come with you, chat with her first, she will answer all your questions."

"really, would he also answer if I asked about your puberty?".malika chuckled, Darwin brought his face closer to his wife's face.

"i don't have puberty, I'm puberty with you."

"ish. liar."malika hit darwin's chest slowly, then darwin's foot was overstretched malika's foot, as soon as he had positioned his wife's body under his body.

"let's play all night, who told you to always tease me with your weird kata22".

which part is weird?I was just discussing the word puberty, you were too sensitive and easily provoked. Malika covered her blushing face with a blanket, but Darwin pulled her blanket and kicked her to fall on the floor,he had landed his lips to the lips of malika who stuttered because it was not ready to be attacked so quickly, but the next thing that happened was the hand of darwin who played fingered mana2, tracing every curve of his wife's body gently and aggressively, but next thing happened was the hand of darwin who played groping mana2,make malika want to not like not to follow the rhythm of the game darwin who either until when will stop, and the night crawled up without them knowing midnight has been passed without rest.

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the day after the promised darwin finally arrived, from morning he was enthusiastic to go to see his mother soon, he brought some food that he made himself for his mother, he was enthusiastic,this morning darwin did not stop listening to malika babbling about her mother, what her mother was like, how her mother loved her so much and what cooking was often cooked by her mother so that it became her favorite.

"had he treated you well all this time?."darwin kissed the malika hand he had held since then and another hand held the wheel, they were on the way to his mother's house.

"sure, my mother was very kind to me."malika smiled, there was sadness in her eyes, considering the kindness of her mother who could not speak it can not be described by kata2, maybe only malika who understood the way her mother loved her.

"just make sure we don't meet your brother, I don't want to kill anyone in front of you."

"honey..".malika patted the back of her husband's hand, pacifying the hatred that radiated in the eyes of her beloved man2.

"i'll destroy whoever hurt you, I swear by anything, so don't stop me if I see him, just have him ready for his last message2."

darwin's car in the parking lot on the side of the road, because the house is in a narrow alley only one motorbike, after asking permission from someone who looks like a shop seller in front, after asking for permission, darwin gave 2 pieces of money 50 thousands to leave his car, he took a bag of food that had been brought by the malika and took his wife's hand down the narrow road to his mother's house malika. does he walk through a shabby alley every day like this?

think darwin, imagine his wife back and forth traveling in a narrow alley especially if he came home at night, ah.darwin upset himself thinking about it.

malika stopped her steps right in a simple house that has a small yard looks narrow because it stands a clothesline made of bamboo there, the eyes of the malika beranak river, because it stands on a clothesline,he saw the thin body of the mother who was drying wet clothes, his hair looked bleached on the front, the shabby clothes he was wearing described poverty that did not go away from his life,malika almost shed her tears if Darwin's hands did not resuscitate her, so her husband wiped the tears that almost dripped on his wife's cheeks.

"don't cry, you'll be ashamed later in front of me."darwin tried to make his wife smile."close to your mother." darwin pushed Malika's body slowly, and,slowly2 also Malika stepped over to her mother who was not aware there was someone who was looking at her sadly behind the sheet2 clothes that were hanging on the clothesline, the clothes were,then immediately the malika ventured to greet the mother who almost finished her drying activities.

"mother..".swallow but enough to make her mother hear that there was a voice she knew calling her mother, the woman pressed her head forward, looking behind the cloth hanging before her,his daughter was looking at him with teary eyes2, when his body stiffened, he hurried2 closer his body in front of his daughter malika who had not seen for some time.

"malika.!!!".call her mother with hand sign language that has been memorized and understood."where have you been".before there were 2 tears that almost fell in her mother's eyes,he kept his son breathing longs all this time.

"what is the mother of baik2?". Malika replied with the same sign language.

"good mother2, where have you been? arya says you went abroad, what's the matter? arya must have sold you, huh? I beg you to forgive me, that night madam helena came with your brother and mother begged2 to return you but mother is helpless because your brother said you left on your own accord,malika I'm sorry I couldn't help you that night." her mother's tears had hardened, she held malika's hand tightly, and malika replied with the same touch,wrinkle the mother and try to tell her that she is not what2 and baik2 only.

"mother, lika baik2 only."malika wiped her tears that also fell unstoppable again, her mother nodded, noticing lika's body that looks different, more beautiful, more beautiful,her face is now radiant even though tears do not cover the beauty of her child, lika clothes also look neat and clean, not shabby like when they live together, she said,there was relief in his mother's heart that she thought that her son had lived well all this time.

"go away, you don't go into the house, there's a sleeping arya, don't worry about the mother anymore, live well now, you'll always love you son, but if in front of your brother you can't do that, you can't do that,I hope you understand mother's position, go and don't come again, mom will be fine2 only, and one more, stop sending mom money, use it to live on your own,I've had enough with my income to sell fish in the market, don't send arya money again, it's time you live independently, mother please don't come again."

when the body of malika limp, said2 his mother is very sad, although it is true if she is not his biological daughter though, Malika hopes the mother will accept it and live happily with him, but she is still happy,though Malika really wants to free her mother from the entrapment of bang arya who has only asked 2 money for her mother, Malika also clearly can see the scars2 wounds on her mother's face, which is also clearly visible,he knew if he asked his mother would answer if he fell or hit something in the market tmpatnya sell fish, he said,malika is very aware of the behavior of bang arya which if under the influence of alcohol he will beat anyone who opposes it, but, his mother still defends her son, he does not want to lose arya despite often hurt by his son, but he does not want to lose arya,he will be sad if arya both in prison or injured, ever one time arya went to prison because of debt, mother died2an borrowed money to come here and there to pay off his debt, and pay off his debt,malika is very sad but also pitying her mother, but for wherever she does not want to force if indeed her mother's choice is to release malika and not bang arya, she said,because Malika knows her position is not the biological child of the mother.

darwin who had been silent a few steps behind his wife's malika, staring at the conversation of two women without the voice, honestly he did not understand sign language, he did not understand sign language,but seeing the increasingly sad face of malika he guessed2 the conversation was not a wearing talk, and in the end he stepped closer to his wife and embraced the malika touching his shoulder, malika looks a little surprised to forget that her husband has been behind her, the mother is also a little surprised to look at the man2 who now touches the malika without shame and fear, her eyes demand an explanation on the malika.

"hallo ma'am, I'm darwin, mother-in-law, I'm her husband lika."dukas darwin, she knew her mother malika just couldn't talk instead of not being able to hear so surely the mother could understand what she said,malika reintroduces darwin to her mother malika with hand sign language.

"can't your mother hear either?". asked Darwin at last

"no dear, sometimes I don't hear a little if it's too fast and sounds slow."

malika's mother reached for darwin's hand, making darwin stare at her focus.

"you're her husband?I beg you to treat him well, he has suffered a lot since he stayed with me, I beg you to take him as far as possible, protect him from anything, give him good food2, lest he starve again,jangn until he works hard for us, happy for him for the rest of his life, I beg you, he's already endured a lot of suffering that he doesn't deserve, malika already when he he's happy with the person he loves."

darwin turned to Malika who was fixated on looking at her mother, with tears of malika wiping her cheeks with her hands.

"what's up? what he said,why are you crying." Darwin was getting upset and panicked

"don't love, I'm telling you to leave immediately because I'm afraid I'm going home and she's happy that I'm married and she's asking you to take care of me."

"don't lie, why are you crying?".

"that's because I'm sad that mom put me in you."

"why sad?you want to be left behind - whatever else, no, now you're mine - so tell your mother that she or your cruel brother has no right to your body or anything to do with you,is he here now?". darwin's eyes look for2 in the corner2 of the house, he had clenched his hands when he saw the door of the house that closed, Malika a little panic,he was afraid bang arya woke up to hear the sound of darwin, rush2 he touched darwin's arm, grasping it tightly.

"honey, come on, arya bang is not there, let's just say goodbye to mom."

"why?we haven't even entered your house to drink."

danger if darwin to force entry, Malika must seduce him so that he and bang arya do not meet the face, can be a fog darwin di.

"don't love let's just go home, mother's love too, I beg you, if bang arya knows we're here, not me or you're gonna have her tantrums, but mother."malika has already pulled2 darwin arms,even so darwin did not move a little from his place.

"what?it was cruel what your brother was until 2 his mother also had a tantrum, it seems I really have to meet him to break his arms and legs."darwin getting angry, getting angry,the mother's face fluttered2 did not understand but he understood the situation would harm the malika later, just look at the face of the malika who had pias because of the panic.

"go lika, take your husband away, then arya wake up, mom doesn't want you to get hurt."the mother made malika look at her mother stuck with sadness,actually, Malika wants to let her brother wake up and get beaten up by darwin, but she knows her mother will be sad and hate him later, for that malika must give up, she must persuade darwin.

"honey, we go, and give the food to the mother."malika grabbed the tenteng bag in the hand of darwin since then, she handed her homemade food to her mother, she hinted that the mother would eat it, she hinted that she would eat it,afterwards the malika said goodbye and pulled the arm of Darwin who still held back his annoyance at his mother's gaze.

"i won't let you come here again."darwin, he held malika's hand tightly, ' he said,dragging him with wide strides with a hard leg stomp held back his annoyance.malika beside him who had a pias and sad face just lowered his head not daring to argue.

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epilog**

arya woke up from her sleep, she took a glass of water and walked to the front room to see her mother, but her steps stopped when she saw Malika standing there with her mother, from behind the glass window of her house, and she stopped,he also heard that the man2 who now embraces lika is her husband, she almost choked when she remembered who the man2 was, really.he is the grandson of the one2 master darius owner of several night pab in this city,and some large-scale business stock in the field of urban development architects, he benar2 did not expect the malika could meet people like the grandson of the sole heir, heiress,because a little more arya know how darwin prasetya in the world of night pab.