The Third Party

14. Back Sane

Handi came out to welcome Mas Harun and Mbak Eka. While I'm in the room I don't know what to do. Do I have to go out and greet them? Or do I stay in the room just like Handi said? I just watched them through the window.

I don't really know Ma'am Eka and Mas Harun. Although I have been married to Handi for a year, I do not know the older brother of Handi, especially Mas Hasan and Mbak Rina. All I know is they're all very good unlike my in-laws.

I realized, all this time only Handi and Heni were watching his mother. The two older sisters rarely visit or ask about their mother.

"Mother how's Han? Last night Heni told me that mom fell?" ask Mas Harun.

"It looks fine Mas, but complains of back or back pain. I asked her to go to the hospital but she didn't want to. It's best that Mas Aaron and Mbak Eka see for themselves inside."

Then the three of them went into the house. I kept watching from my bedroom window.

Moments later I heard my in-law's voice wailing while recounting what happened last night. It sounds so bad, like I've been doing heavy persecution to him.

"See what his wife has done to me? He pushed me until I fell! What was I wrong until she could do something like that?" And the drama begins.

"Yes Ma'am, Heni has told me," replied Mas Harun.

"But mom's okay, right? Is there any injury? Can you walk?" ask Mama Eka.

"Could, but my waist hurts so much. Last night I couldn't sleep, just ask Heni. He was the one who accompanied me and took a peek at my waist last night."

As I remember last night my in-laws complained of his sore back, now changing his sore waist. Later if Mas Hasan comes to know what else is sick.

"Yes already. How about we take mom to the hospital now, Mas?" It seems like Mbak Eka is asking for Mas Harun's opinion. "If there is an injury and must be operated on so that it can be done immediately before it is too late."

"I'm up to mom. If you feel that something is sick, we should leave now. How's mom? Does it still hurt?"

"Do I have to have surgery?" Suddenly my in-laws lost their voice, which was loud now soft but still heard until my room.

"Yes, if it turns out that the mother has serious injuries, it may have to be operated on" replied Mbak Eka.

"Now it feels better, not as painful as last night. Maybe you don't need to be taken to the hospital."

"Try mother's way, let us be sure that mother's really okay."

I felt very anxious to get out of the room and see firsthand how my in-laws' expressions were. I have to admit, Ma'am Eka is the best.

"No, the important thing is that you can walk. I also went to the bathroom by myself. Don't go to the hospital, I'm fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, but .. "my in-laws hang the lines.

"But what's Ma'am?"

"But I have to buy medicine at the pharmacy."

"What medicine? Let me buy it now," asked Mas Aaron again.

"Mother doesn't know the name of the medicine, Heni knows. Let him buy it later. You just give me the money."

I laughed in my room. Drama so far the ending just want money. It's only fitting that last night my in-laws refused Handi's invitation to check into the hospital, apparently this is the reason.

"Yes, I'll give Heni some money."

"Take me out, Heni's out." I am getting more and more amused to hear it. About money, even Heni his own son-in-law I do not believe.

"Yes if mom is okay. I want to see her son Handi now. Emma where's Han?"

"There's in Ma'am's room" replied Handi.

It feels so good. I was worried that Ma'am Eka and Mas Harun would come to blame me. I did push that door, and that's exactly what made my in-laws fall. But I did it because I had a reason.

I thought they came to judge me.

But it turns out they're not like that. Even I salute Ma'am Eka very much. She was really smart, knowing how to deal with mother-in-law in a subtle but targeted way. I have to learn from him.

It didn't take me a minute to hear my door knock.

"Emm, can I come in?" That's Mama Eka's voice.

"Just go in, ma'am" I replied. I happen to be making milk for Damar. Slowly the door opened and Ma'am Eka entered.

"How are you? How's the little whiz?" greet Mbak Eka friendly. Then he walked up to the Damar I laid on the bed. The last time I met Ma'am Eka was when I gave birth in the hospital.

Before Handi introduced me to him, I imagined that Ma'am Eka was a proud figure and a judge. In my mind, the image of a rich person is always like that. Moreover, the family of Mbak Eka is quite famous in this city. I'm so insecure, afraid he'll consider me trash like my in-laws. But it turns out I was wrong. Ma'am Eka is very friendly and amazingly good.

"Aren't you given ASI?" ask Mama Eka. Maybe he saw a formula box in the room.

"Last night all of a sudden my ASI stopped coming out. I don't know why it suddenly stopped. So while Damar was formula-fed, until my ASI went back to full-time."

"Can that be?"

"I don't know either. Though usually my ASI smoothly no problem."

"Have you been feeling stressed lately?" I don't know why Ma'am Eka asked that.

"Stress???" I don't know why Ma'am Eka asked that.

"Maybe it's possible Mama." Sandy suddenly went into the room. "She's her mood up and down is unclear. For a moment he was soft. a little angry, a moment later cry. I was confused to face it. Sometimes it's almost like crazy" explained Handi. Looks like Handi is pretty close to Mba Eka.

"Am I that bad, huh Han?"

"Yes, you're sane like this. But if Friday is like last night, huh ... already like a possessed person!"

I laughed at Handi's words, now it sounds funny. Just try it last night he said like that, he must be out of my rage.

What Handi said was true, I felt it myself.

"Can't it be like that Emma?"

"Don't know Ma'am. Maybe because I have my son next to me. I feel calm, I can think clearly and normally. Yesterday I felt like a madman, like Handi said."

"Where is your son?!"