The Woman Behind The Scenes

Chapter 12 - The Unexpected

"This is the legs. Do you know what is the gender of the baby?" while running a 4D Ultrasound in Dara's abdomen, the obstetrician asked if they knew her gender. 

Tomi seemed overwhelmed by excitement staring at the LCD screen showing their baby in the womb. That afternoon, the baby was yawning and rubbing his face with both hands. 

"It's a girl based on last Ultrasound ..." Dara answered the doctor's question while watching the screen now highlighting her baby's stomach. 

Then ... The surprise! 

The three were simultaneously shocked when the baby's thigh opened. 

"Male!" Tomi. Her genitals are clearly visible on the screen. The baby covered her face as if holding back laughter seeing her parents who were convinced weeks ago that she was a baby girl. 

2D and 4D are very different. The results of 4D is already round to show the baby is a baby boy. 

Dara chuckles at the shocking fact, because they have finished shopping for baby needs, and choose a baby girl clothing design. 

Tomi brought herself closer to the screen, making sure what was there was real. Sure enough, the baby who has been touted as Cony, was not a baby boy. 

Happiness came from the faces of both. For Dara, he did not question the sex of his son. Tomi does, but for her the responsibility of raising a daughter is far greater than that of a man. But ... Most importantly, the baby is in good health. He moved so agilely swirling position inside his mother's stomach. In a few weeks, they will meet soon ...

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Dara lay on her couch, looking at the photo of the USG 4D results. As soon as she grows up, she will have a baby boy.

Brak!

He was shocked by the sound of something falling in the room. Dara rushed to her room looking at what she was doing.

Tomi was busy tidying something up in her backpack, and the sound of it falling was a bag filled with various chocolates, and snacks.

“For what is this, Bi?” he asked when he saw Tomi's passport which was already beside the backpack on the bed.

“I will leave for Indonesia tomorrow ..” that answer is thrown away like there is no burden for Tomi.

“Indonesia? Where to?” Dara did not hesitate to show a tone of annoyance in her question. How could her husband make a plan without telling her.

“I have to visit Farah and the children, after that go to my mother's house.”

“Why rush? I ‘kan soon give birth?!” really this time Dara was upset and inexhaustible with her husband.

Tears began to pool, and he continued to curse in his heart. Could it be that these few days Tomi was deliberately kind to him for going away?

“This is not a hurry. I have long bought the ticket.” relax once Tomi answered his wife who was upset half to death.

“You knew from the beginning when I gave birth, why you planned this. I'm pregnant, so why can you go away at will.” Dara could no longer hold back her anger. If she could, she would have landed a fist on her husband's face. Her chest felt tight, burning, imagining her husband being so heartless.

“Farah is also my wife. I still have to visit him.” Again, the man answered.

“How about me here? Did you never take into account my feelings?”

“I came home before you gave birth ..” that answer still does not make Dara's heart satisfied.

“Terden! You always decide anything by yourself. I've been very difficult to move, I have to go to work, do you not think until there? Whatisthis? Immediate vacation?” dara's anger is becoming more and more. He was eager to scream out his anger and jealousy. Isn't this time of birth very important?

Tomi looked ordinary and kept tidying up the innards. The man looked coldly responding to Dara's words.

 

Dara left her husband. He sat down on the sofa and cried like he had just lost something precious. His heart kept wondering how could he enter a life that ended up complicated like this? Could he have made a big mistake? Maybe her mother has spilled something bad on her?

 

Tomi looks out at the pregnant woman. His face was ordinary ... Without guilt makes Dara feel a very severe frustration.

“I'll be home later ... I was only there nine days. Oh yes, the money that has been liquid for your birth, I used it first for supplies in Indonesia.”

Dara was surprised to hear that. This man ... What's in his head?

“Then how will I give birth? How?” dara's emotions grew, and her tears stopped flowing.

“I have to bring money there. I'm taking my son on vacation. Later we can find a hospital with a much lower cost of labor. Your hospital of choice is too high. It is not a pity to spend so much money for such a short process.” crazy ... This man dared to say all that without thinking. Dara was stupefied, not believing what she had just heard. All this ... Pregnancy until his delivery later, he had planned since far away, and the money he had collected for a long time.

“What? Be brief? Do you think this is a joke? You think I'm putting all this money up for a vacation? Huh?!” Dara shouted at the man and clenched her hands, seemingly eager to punch him in the face.

“Tenang ... No need to scream. I-i know. You will still give birth to ‘kok. This is just changing hospitals only, not aborting childbirth.” Still without thought, and feeling, Tomi casually broke all of Dara's anger.

Dara felt a tightness that was so torturous. This is called being destroyed. She had been destroyed several times by her husband ... However, when the pregnancy, and all of her delivery plans are trivialized by Tomi, she feels an unspeakable, and unexpressed destruction. In fact, the crying may not be enough to state how hurt the heart was then.

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The sky is still very dark. It was only three in the morning, but Dara was awake. Since her conversation with Tomi yesterday, she felt like she could no longer think. He was more pensive after that, and did not go to sleep well at all. Usually he would wake up and eat some snacks, but that night, he did nothing at all.

Pensive, and thinking about all this, makes Dara occasionally forget who she is, what she is doing here ... Is this what it's called, crazy?

All of this came like a tangle, and he could tell no one. Tomi really doesn't like it if something happens in their household, told to someone else ... Whoever it is.

For hours, the woman sat on the sofa, tearless, without anger, only pensive with an empty face even though her heart was being torn apart.

At nine in the morning, her husband was standing in front of her with a backpack already on his back, and a bag of tentengs.

“I go ... I'm staying you three thousand pesso. Wear it until I return,” he said casually. 3000 pesso is not a big nominal, it is just enough to eat a drink, not for other impromptu purposes. It seems that his brain is no longer here.

Dara did not say a word. He sat there until the man left him.

In those days, he could see clearly, Farah posted various photos with Tomi. They go on vacation to a luxury beach resort, and order some fancy food. Not only that, it seems they are like honeymooners, because Tomi did not tell Dara at all, and did not ask her news.

‘Four days only ... Be strong you’ thought he strengthened his already deeply broken heart. Tomi will be with Farah for four days, and the other five days will be spent at her mother's house.

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On the sixth day of her departure to Indonesia, Dara still has not received news from Tomi. But he knew that day Tomi would have been at his mother's house.

Drrt! His phone vibrated because of an incoming message.

Tom: [I'm at my mom's. ]

Dara's not getting better. An enormous anger continued to cling to her heart, and she felt her husband had gone too far.

Dara: [How is the honeymoon? ]

Tom: [Honeymoon? There's no honeymoon, Ra. We're with the kids. ]

Dara: [Aren't you guys going to a fancy place? All this time, you've never taken me to a place like that. Even after we got married, there was no honeymoon at all. ]

Tomi: [Sorry, maybe I forgot. Oh yeah, I'm gonna spend some time here looking for some baby gear that doesn't exist yet. ]

Dara knew once, this talk was Tomi's trick to vent her anger. He did not reply to that message. Didn't agree ... Nor reject it.

For days, she kept her husband quiet. In addition to her unflagging anger, Dara also experienced digestive problems in the three days before her husband's return. He continued to spit out whatever came in his stomach, sitting limp in the apartment alone. But ... More ... She became an actress with a cheerful smile when it was time to work in the office. Hiding and holding a hurt feeling is not an easy thing, but Dara does it all well.

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Dong Ding! The bell rang that afternoon.

Expressionless and stale, Dara opened the door. He already knows who is coming. Tomie ...

When the door was opened, her husband stood up with a big smile and hugged her. Dara felt disgusted. This man has just been with another woman ... The feeling continued to appear a few hours after Tomi came.

A good wife ... That's Dara. With that wound in her heart she kept making her husband dinner, and a cup of coffee.

“It. I'm not open yet, but these are baby items. My mom bought it.” Said Tomi while thrusting a package.

Dara sat on the floor opening the parcel. This was something her in-laws had bought her, and she hoped that from here on their relationship could get better.

“Only this?” dara's eyes couldn't believe seeing what was in front of her. Some cloth diapers with very low quality, thin, and will be torn after several times in washing. Some baby clothes of the same quality, and a bottle of telon oil.

“What is it?” Tomi asked his wife who had started to show annoyance on her facial expression.

“I've bought clothes for my son, and much better than this. I don't know what your mother meant, but this doesn't match your words. Didn't you say you went for baby shopping? This it? These thin fabrics?” with that vexation, Dara became bold in starting an argument with her husband. To him, it was like he was being humiliated. Obviously what her husband brought was a diaper that cost only five thousand rupiahs in Indonesia.

In the nine days of her disappearance, Tomi only brought home the groceries from her mother, and some snacks for her. Oh yea! Also hotel bills, and restaurants, and photos of his holidays.

While her husband was sleeping, Dara opened her cell phone. Fatigue on the way makes Tomi sleep soundly. Dara was very free to dismantle the contents of the phone. He finds some friendly photos of Tomi and Farah, as well as their children. Not only that, a strange photo stole his attention. Some of the men sitting on the floor, with a lighter, a bottle with a straw, appeared to have been modified.

Dara tried to remember where she had seen such a bottle. Uh! Yep! In the criminal news when police arrested the sabu-sabu user. At her marriage, she knew that Tomi and her sisters were struggling in a vicious cycle. They are addicts of all kinds of drugs. This time, he took his vacation to taste the illicit goods with some friends.

Shocked, but not surprised, Dara closed the gallery. She opened her husband's chat history with Farah with a pounding heart.

Farah: [So when are you going here again, baby? ]

Tomi: [ Soon. After Dara gave birth, I went there. ]

Feral: [I Love You. Am I still number one? ]

Tomi: [ Yes. You are number one. ]

Farah: [But you never again make my photo appear on my profile. Does anyone there know you got me here? ]

Tomi: [For work reasons, I can't reveal that. But ... Okay. I changed my profile picture. ]

Dara's heart is pounding fast. He immediately opened the profile view Tomi. Photo of Farah over there. He immediately replaced it with a trembling hand holding back his anger and tears at night that late. The anger kept him awake until he finished reading Tomi and Farah's chat history.

Farah: [I want to go shopping for new clothes. I'm asking for something extra, baby. Dara gave birth where later. Must be in a fancy place? ]

Tom: [I will send it. Not too. I have chosen a hospital for him. Not as fancy as where you operated first. ]

Damnit damnit! This time Dara felt the contents of the chat was overdue. He felt Tomi was starting to be unfair to him. He worked dozens of hours every day and could never be allowed to buy clothes, and things he wanted. This time, according to the chat, Tomi will also change the choice of the hospital for Dara's delivery.

Dara felt tightness in her chest, but again all the stress in her brain that made her awake, sitting pensive as if forgetting who she was. He had decided not to fuss about it with Tomi in the morning.

However ... He left a message for Farah. A message welcoming the war triggered indirectly by Farah.

Dara: [I love you? Not answered, is it? Are you sure she loves you? If he loves you, he can't chase me until he stays here. You might think it's worked out to hurt me with four days he's been with you there. No! Just ordinary. It's just a formality. Don't interfere too much with my business, especially about my labor. Want a fancy hospital, or a simple one, I pay with my hard work. ]

He could see two green ticks. The message was read by Farah. That night he sat mentally preparing, if Tomi would come to him in the morning.

It was not Tomi who came to us that morning, but a message from Farah.

Farah: [Whatever it is, never disturb my children's rations. ]

That message was something that Farah kept echoing. Dara smiled and laughed cynically.

‘This woman. He really isn't my sign.’ he thought.