The Woman Behind The Scenes

Chapter 17 - Good or Bad News?

Shaded water. A few months after the rehabilitation was completed, the Dara household became very calm. It may be true, people say, at the beginning of a marriage, quarrel after quarrel will arise to test.

Be patient in big pressures, not small ones. For two months, Tomi was in a rehabilitation group, a kind of group where addicts were brainwashed again to avoid being interested in drugs. In those two months, Dara showed her advantages. Supporting the household finances, and although with a heavy heart of his income must be shared with his first wife, Dara still do it. His image went up to class. She was no longer a young wife as trivial in Tomi's eyes.

Lovingly, she patiently took care of her husband during the rehabilitation period, and in at least two months there was no sound of tantrums, screams, and broken voices from inside the apartment. This affects the growth of Kio. Before his father was caught on a drug test, Kio spent more time with his nanny, and his mother. But now, the man he would call father one day when he could talk, fully took the time for him.

Tomi is indeed an interesting figure in the association. In his rehabilitation period, he was not just abandoned by his office friends. They still often travel to his apartment unit to copy together, and sometimes have lunch. They also spent several nights drinking together. Difference ... This time Dara was really considered. Tomi will have his wife sit next to him, and show a kind attitude towards his wife.

On her last day of rehabilitation, Tomi was so satisfied with the certificate she held. A few days before receiving the certificate, the results of the urine test have shown negative results. A rare thing, he took his wife to go with their baby to dinner together at a restaurant. The dinner was a peaceful moment; not as usual,

Tom asked more questions and listened to his wife. He also asked Dara's mother several times, and her sisters. Progress in household relations.

Tomi smiled looking at the rehabilitation certificate in her hand. He rushed to take a picture of the certificate and sent it to his manager.

“Come home! Where do you want to eat?” he nodded at Dara who was standing holding Kio.

“Hah? Come onl. I'm not feeling well. Maybe I'll eat at home. It's okay to eat outside. I was with Kio at home,” dark circles under Dara's eyes did indeed straightforwardly show he was in an unhealthy condition.

Tomi takes Kio from Dara's hand. When his hands touched Dara's skin, the hot temperature could be clearly felt.

“I with Kio. You can go home rest. I'm taking it, yeah ... After that, Kio and I went out to buy food. We eat together,” said Tomi and greeted with a nod from his wife. Putting your body in bed and not carrying a baby is what Dara needs right now. The woman had a hard time in the last weeks, when her baby entered the stage of eating solid food.

Tomi is completely different. He looks so fatherly, holds his baby, and invites the baby who can't talk was chatting on the way home. Kio seemed so comfortable with him. Many people say, babies can feel the softness of someone's heart, and only comfortable with people who are soft-hearted. At this time the wolf was turning into an ox, so the baby was comfortable lingering on him.

Sometimes he turned his gaze toward his wife. The woman did not sleep all night, so she fell asleep in the taxi. Tomi clasped his wife's limp hand. In that left hand, he could see the incision scars from the rest of their fights back then. Tomi rubbed the scar softly, then took a deep breath and exhaled it back.

“Sayang. We've arrived,” he woke his wife who was somewhere in the dream world next door.

Dara straightened her body, and opened her eyes. She went down first, because her husband would continue the journey with Kio to go to a shopping center not far from them.

He rushed to the elevator, and entered his apartment unit. The fragrance of the pine-scented pellet fluid can be clearly smelled when the door is opened. Dara took off her shoes, and like a wet cat, she shuddered on the bed, then covered her whole body with a blanket.

Her head felt so heavy, and she was half asleep until her husband came home with Kio. Tomi placed a few shopping bags on the table, then hurriedly laid Kio who had fallen asleep in a sling.

Dara's headed for their dining table. This was the first time she had seen her husband shopping that much for both of them to consume.

“Come to eat. I bought your favorite food. Katsu and curry sauce, right? Oh and this is also your favorite tiramissu milkshake, complete with topping his” while issuing his shopping results, Tomi explained one by one to Dara.

“It's a lot, Bi.”

“Many? Make a wife, really. Hehe. You have been busy with Kio. You can rarely eat quietly like a gini, right?” a surprise was implied in the sentence Tomi spoke. So all this time ... he knew .. and noticed how his wife's condition.

Tomi smiled seeing his wife greedily spend everything he brought. The woman looked like an elementary school boy who was devouring her provisions.

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“Pa ... Pa....” The adorable voice of Kio one day sounded so loud inside the apartment. At the age of about to enter two years, he has not spoken too much. Of course, this was not a good thing according to his mother, but they did not rush to seek expert help for Kio. The toddler has been having trouble eating since the age of nine months. She has been changing nannies, and she is currently with a new nanny who has survived long enough. Cecilia ... What a pretty name. The babysitter was a single mother with five children. He desperately went to the city looking for a job with minimal capital, and was lucky to meet Dara before his pocket money was completely exhausted.

Cecil was so patient in taking care of Kio. Since he existed, Dara can be more calm when in the office. He no longer needed to worry about Kio. The baby looked so close to Cecil. Sometimes he will sleep with Cecil until the morning, and this is an advantage for Dara to be able to sleep soundly at night.

“Eh! Papa's smart kid. Sweetheart! Dara!” Tomi was so amazed to hear Kio call ‘papa’. He was eager for Dara to also witness the moment. Dara hurriedly approached her husband.

“Come say again. Pa pa” Tomi told Kio to do his talk show once again.

Tom hugged his son happily. He hugged Dara with his son.

“It's so rare. I've never seen a child grow up on my own. This is really my first experience,” he said as he looked at his son.

Tomi has three children. But he told me that he had never stayed on one roof with Farah in a long time, so he did not know how the stage of growth and development of his own son. All he knew was to meet their economic needs.

“You didn't call the kids? Farah?” Dara asked as she tidied up Kio's toys strewn on the floor.

“Neg. Just later. But Farah there said via SMS, there is a fee that he wants to exit quite large in this month.”

“Big? How much, Bi?” ask Dara curiously. Such a topic was no stranger to him.

“Five million. For Raffi school registration,” replied Tomi while massaging her forehead.

“Raffi instead of TK? TK where it is. It was quite big,” without a doubt, Dara asked Tomi this.

“TK regular. Not a big TK. But it's the registration, baby. It's nothing, right?”

“Oh. Ok. It's nothin. Can make school,” said Dara hide her curiosity.

The crane! The crane!

Tomi's phone rings. A video call. Guess what! That's mommy.

Dara still has not communicated with her in-laws. All this time, he never entered a video chat. Only Tomi and Kio used to talk.

“Hai Tom's. It's mama again packing. What do you want to bring?” that happy-sounding voice, was clearly heard by Dara.

Wait .... What was brought? It means ... Dara quickly tries to digest her in-laws conversation with Tomi. The conversation was very clear. Not wrong anymore. Her in-laws will definitely be visiting soon.

Stay ... Dara patiently waited until the conversation ended, so that she could ask her husband freely.

“Mama you want to come here?” he asked without hesitation as soon as Tomi ended the video call conversation.

“Oh yes! Sorry I forgot your love. Yesterday I used my savings at your ATM. I bought tickets for Mama, and Tami. They want to come here. My mom is bored she said, want to go for a walk,” her answer is complete while fiddling with the phone.

“That's my savings for my mama. You will know for yourself that my mama has long wanted me to take her here,” Dara can not hide the disappointment to her husband's spontaneous action. Tomi clearly knows, Dara has prepared funds for the arrival of Dara's mother.

“I know. Maybe next time. Your mother must take care of the passport first, and others. If it's my mom, the paperwork's complete. Anyway, so you can meet with the in-laws. Aye right?” reply Tomi relax.

Dara's heart was mixed. She did not know whether she should be nervous about her in-laws, or sad that her savings for her mother had been used by her husband. Her presence in-laws is sudden. With some of her in-laws' treatment of her, Dara certainly needed time to mentally prepare. She is not a cowardly woman who is easily subdued with hardship. Instead he was afraid that he could not be kind because he kept remembering some of his in-laws' scorn some time ago.

Her husband's sister did the same thing. At least two or three times, he had rebuked Dara through a short message, and sneered at her through her older brother.

The arrival was certainly not something Dara expected in the near future. Some time ago he had instructed his mother to take care of travel documents in order to visit him in the Philippines .. and.

“Please tell Cecil to clean the room later, yes. My mom and Tami will sleep there,”

“Iya,” answered Dara briefly and rushed over to Kio's nanny.

Cecil and Dara were so close. The two are very focused on Kio, and always communicate about what is happening in the apartment while Dara is working. Cecil also recounted several times his past life, in which he was mistreated by his husband's family. She asked several times about Dara's relationship with her husband's family. From Dara's answer, Cecil was able to draw the conclusion that his employer was getting the same treatment as him. She could see an uncomfortable gesture at Dara when she was asked to clean the room to welcome her in-laws. Cecil was a good woman. She was a little younger than Dara's mother. When they cooked together, she shared many stories with her employer, and encouraged her to remain patient in the face of her husband's ups and downs. Hearing they would come from Dara, Cecil took the initiative to give some tips to his employer. He who is more experienced in this matter, argues that it is not too important to be able to take heart. Trying to take heart, and put aside the comfort of one's own heart, is not a good thing. Dara can act ordinary, like a normal day. After all, it has to work, and requires concentration in the office every day.