The Third Party

44. Our In-laws

I chuckled at the words of Sister Rina. It's like it's the truth. Not only did our father-in-law have no shame, but he also had no heart.

I wonder how my mother-in-law is doing now. Whether after I got out of his life his hypertensive never relapsed again because as I remember, his hypertensive used to be flat if there were problems with me. Either real pain or just pretending. Whatever the problem is, I am the cause. Great right?

"Mother's life must be peaceful and happy because there is no I who always make him angry" I murmured.

"Who said?" Apparently Sister Rina heard my words.

"Now your mother-in-law gets sick more often. He often calls Eka to have Aaron accompany her. She complained about being alone at home. Lah? Own wrong. In the past every time you were sick you and Handi standby at home, accompanying and caring. It is fortunate to have a ghost as good as you, but even in vain. While that useless female parasite is actually proud." It must be Heni that Mbak Rina meant.

I remember taking care of my sick in-laws for a few days. I took care of her when her other children were unwilling. Sandy invited me to stay there. But what do I get? thank you just don't. My in-laws suspected that I had taken the money Hasan left me.

"If I were still his daughter-in-law, I wouldn't take care of him either. Especially now that Hasan is separated! Try not to be cruel to me first, I will love him like my own mother. No matter what Hasan's behavior, if from the beginning my mother was good to me I would definitely be good to him even though we were separated. But the mother herself planted the thorns, she wished she would grow what?"

"Didn't Sister Rina have any desire to visit? No pity then?"

"If I were to visit maybe sometime I would take the time to see him." Lina's mother stopped talking for a moment.

"Hasan used to be free to take my money to give it to his mother or his sister. Now, if Hasan asks for money to take his mother to the doctor, I won't love him. It was her mother, not my mother. All this time I've been supporting her and her mother. If he wants money, please work! I'm not the cow."

I silently listened to Madam Rina let out everything she felt and she was quiet all along. Maybe it was his purpose here for that, looking for people who would listen to his story.

Sometimes we both laugh because we remember our fate which is almost the same. The difference is that Ms. Rina managed to become a successful person who then melted my heart in-laws, while I was in depak before I could prove anything.

"But at last I was being very nice to you. At least you've felt the affection of in-laws," my lead. "Will me? Until I leave, he's still looking at me hatefully."

"What love? You're being nice to me because I have money. Try I'm still poor, Hasan must have been told to divorce me and find a new wife!"

"Like me," I murmured softly. I don't know how many times my father-in-law told Handi to divorce me. It hurt so much when I first heard my mother say that, but I got used to it for a long time, so often.

Even though I've started a new life, still those memories can't be lost from my memory. If good memories might be enough to comfort me, but these are bad memories, all my mother-in-law's bad attitude towards me. I have tried many times to forgive and forget but it is not that easy as ferguso!

Seeing Sister Rina who was so vengeful to them (mother-in-law, sister-in-law and her ex-husband) it seemed natural that I also held the same grudge. Even if my grudge is greater than Rina's vengeance, it seems natural. It's not that I justify this grudge, but heartache is not that easy to heal.

Long enough for me and Ms. Rina to talk until it doesn't feel like it's time for my house to close. I remembered the unsold packaged rice and hurriedly put it in the cardboard.

"Didn't Mas Hasan now live in the mother's house?" I just remembered this. What I heard from Madam Eka, Hasan now lives with her mother while Heni and her husband live in my house. Why do you complain at home alone?

"I don't know, maybe Hasan was busy outside the house with his girlfriend. After all, a man like him would care for the sick." There is bitterness in the words of Sister Rina. I seem to have made him sad for talking about Hasan.

"What is an order?" Rina's mother switched the conversation.

"No," I replied as I continued to put the packaged rice one by one into the cardboard. "Lately, the factory employees who buy food in my stall are not as much as yesterday, so many are not sold. Usually less."

"There were new stalls opening behind the factory, so some started buying lunch there. It is likely that other stalls will also open soon," I replied in despair. If there are a few more stalls open, surely my income will decrease dramatically.

Ms. Rina has made entrepreneurs for a long time, she must know about trade competition like this.

"Then you have to start looking for other markets."

"meaning?"

Then Ms. Rina told me how. I have to find a new market, or open the catering is still one field with food stalls. There was a lot of input I got from him. I just got some guidance from a mentor. The way Ms. Rina thinks makes me understand why she can become the successful entrepreneur she is today.

"Okay, I'll try."

"Yes, the important thing is not to give up! Then now the rice wants to be applied?" Sister Rina pointed at the rice wrap I had put in the cardboard.

"Don't know Ma'am, I usually throw it away."

"It's still worth eating? I mean not stale yet, right?"

"Of course Ma'am, I just wrapped it up this afternoon."

"Then I buy everything. Let me share it with my employees."

"Siris is serious?"

"Then it doesn't have to be bought. Just bring it all in, let's just give it up."

"No, no! I'll pay for it. How muchisit?"

"No need to Ma'am ... I mean it."

Rina continued to force. He took out a few pieces of red money and gave them to me. "Receive this!"

"But I want to give up the rice."

"Yes, this money I gave to Damar. Then let's just say I helped you hand out that packaged rice as alms for my employees. Fair right?"

"But this is too much." I still feel bad for Ms. Rina.

"It's okay. Take it!"