
"And there's one more thing that Asha I want to ask you..." The barrel raised its tapered-looking chin.
"What if I suddenly change my mind a little?" laras' question was thrown in a low tone but made Asha stunned once again.
"Change mind? What do you mean, Laras?" Asha asked sharply, now that she was sitting upright, never had she felt like her feelings now, the strange feeling of tension was similar to the first time she faced Laras when Laras came on her wedding day in tears.
"What if I don't want to hand Zyan over to Ivory sir?"
Asha was silent, her mouth was muddled. He doesn't know if Laras's changing so fast.
All this time Asha tried to make emotional closeness from the time Laras was pregnant until she gave birth. Caring for Laras and his son, with hope, awakened a feeling of affection between him and the child in the birth of Laras, with hope, where in fact is the son of her husband who according to Asha is also her son after Laras separated from his marriage with Ivory.
It is not easy to make chemistry from anger to affection, from disappointment to love. Asha fought against her own ego through do'a-do'a and her submission to God for what happened to her so that one day Asha could be fair to the child of a one-night relationship between her husband and another woman that's.
And now, Laras said that if he changed his mind not to give up the child under his care, Asha was completely at a loss for words.
"I'm just asking, just curious..." Laras chuckled a glance at Asha.
"I don't know what your question means, Laras." Asha swallowed her own saliva.
"But if you don't trust your child in my upbringing, of course I don't blame you. Your son is your right, I just want to help relieve you, considering after this you will be divorced by the Ivory mas. It's not easy raising a child on my own, so I represent my husband trying to make amends in all ways including receiving custody of Zyan." Asha's words sounded straightforward.
Barrel was just silent, the situation between the two of them became so strange in some time.
"I used to think, it doesn't matter which child I was born with, because I didn't want it. But..." The barrel stroked her baby's reddened cheeks.
"But, when I first saw her face, when I heard her crying and the unusual feeling when I suckled her, I suddenly thought, how can I just let go. I fell in love with Zyan after I saw him." Laras smiled to himself looking at his baby who suddenly seemed to be crying in his sleep, delirious with funny.
Asha, who was still in her seat, took a deep breath.
"I don't blame your feelings. If you change your mind and want to take care of Zyan myself, I have no right to stop him. After the divorce with the Ivory mas you can take Zyan with you. Of course it would be a great sin if I tried to separate a child from its mother."
Laras lifted his face, as if a little in disbelief as to how calmly Asha said all those words to him. Sounds sincere and without burden.
Asha could catch a glimpse of that gaze as if expecting Asha a little hard on her to argue over Laras' statement.
"I don't think there's anything I need to talk about anymore, we both understand the position of each of us." Asha stood up from her seat, for a moment she stared at her honey face.
"I hope you don't blame me for anything that happens to you because I'm not guilty in the least of these things." Asha smiled faintly, the change in Baras' attitude made Asha seem different.
"Good night, Barrel." Asha turned her body, her legs trembling slightly for some reason.
"Mr Asha..." Baras called out in a soft voice.
Asha stopped her steps without turning around, waiting for what Laras wanted to say.
"Doesn't a mother have to fight for her child?"
Asha was stunned, the sword-like Baras question that made Asha completely silenced, the question was so ambiguous, because any answer from Asha would be able to stab herself.
"A mother is also a woman, be a mother do not forget yourself as a woman, fight if indeed you are entitled to the struggle, but do not thwart all means for a blind struggle." Asha stepped out of Laras' room without turning her head again.
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...***...
"Asha..why aren't you pregnant yet?" The question was like lightning in Asha's ears as she set up the dining table for dinner.
The question was asked by Daniah's mother-in-law.
"Why did my mom ask that? We haven't been married for a year, it's only natural that Asha isn't pregnant." Ivory emerged from behind Asha while briefly embracing his wife's waist.
"But it's been almost a year." Daniah's mother pulled out her chair, asha's father-in-law did not come down to dinner tonight because she had been brought to her room to eat.
"We're still enjoying our honeymoon period." between Ivory and glanced at Asha's bowed face.
"No honeymoon for a year. Yesterday afternoon I had a chat with Suryo's next door neighbor, his son just got married three months ago, has already started cravings that." Seloroh bu Daniah's.
"Yes, the method is also each of us, there are those in quick love there are also those in old love. Maybe we're in God's day to date long ago." Ivory pulled the chair next to her, gesturing for Asha to sit beside her.
"Darling, sitting here, I'm so hungry." Ivory said as he shifted the topic, he knew about Asha being sensitive lately.
The busyness of Ivory makes it sometimes have to overtime, this of course affects the time and stamina of Ivory.
Since the birth of the child Laras, Asha often seems to be careless, she seems to be getting impatient to have children too.
"Waaa...Gisel's hungry, sister Asha, what's cooking tonight?" Gisel appeared with his carefree face, wearing only a t-shirt and shorts.
"Your sister cooked your favorite chicken rica-rica pedes with a seafood capcay like that." Ivory answered quickly, feeling happy because the suddenly awkward situation was saved by the presence of his sister Gisel.
"Eh, the snake's tumben didn't eat?" Gisel asked while sitting on the chair next to his mother.
"Be a little polite, Gisel. No need to call your brother-in-law with a Snake!"
Everyone facing the table looked up at Ms. Daniah, the first time they heard her mother refer to Laras as sister-in-law to Gisel, and the first time she defended Laras.
"But, didn't you say she was a snake?" Gisel's protest did not accept the blow that his mother had pointed at him
"From today on, don't call it a snake anymore."
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