
"Are you ready?" Bima asked as she gently rubbed Niken's shoulder.
Niken just smiled while breathing out.
"If I come with you to your town, I'm ready, ma'am." Sahut Niken lirih's.
Bima smiled, gently rubbing his wife's shoulder.
Niken leaned her head on Bima's shoulder. And she felt comfortable and safe at the side of the man beside her at this moment.
Niken is more silent and enjoys the view from the online taxi window booked by Bima.
Niken is actually preparing her heart when she meets her mother-in-law.
Taxis took them to a large house with a Yogyakarta custom with a spacious courtyard, looking beautiful.
"Well, Bima and Mbak Niken are here!" Shouted Seruni welcoming the arrival of his brother and sister-in-law.
Bima has two younger siblings who still live with her parents.
The god, the younger brother, was two years younger than Bima. Then, Seruni, the youngest who is just the first year of university.
Seruni greeted his two brothers, and helped bring some of the items brought by Niken and Bima.
"Sleeping?" Ask Bima.
"Mr to the office. God, I'm in the backyard, and I'm waiting for you to come!" Seruni said with her carefree voice.
"I can't wait to see Madam Niken again, you know!" Seruni Saying.
Niken frowned in surprise.
"Loh, why?"
"Let there be friends at home. Always been the victim of my Mas Mas's violence." Complain Seruni while a manyun.
"But you remain a beloved sister, Mas Bima, really! Yes, even if you have to make your Mas a cup of coffee, or buy a cigarette at Bude Mo's shop." Sahut Bima while pressing the nose of his sister.
Seruni directly hit Bima's arm while snorting in annoyance.
"Tuh, look, Ma'am. Not yet what I've been told." Seruni complained to Niken.
Niken smiled amusedly at the familiarity of Bima and Seruni.
"Mother in the backyard, huh, Ni?" Bima asked while putting the bag and goods he carried and Niken in his room first.
"He uh." Sahut Seruni while nodding.
"I went to the kitchen first. If you want a drink straight to the kitchen. Seruni put it on the kitchen table." Seruni Speaks to Niken.
"Thank you, yeah, Runi." Niken smiled as she patted his sister-in-law's shoulder.
The seruni passed into the kitchen.
Bima looked at Niken and looked at him fixedly.
"Come, let's go see mom." Bring Bima soft.
Niken nodded, and followed Bima's steps towards the backyard.
Bima grabbed Niken's fingers while standing on the back porch.
Niken took a deep breath, filling his lungs with more oxygen to make them calmer. Then she looked at Bima, her husband and nodded.
"Good afternoon, ma'am. It seems that the plant of Mother's collection is growing." Sapa Bima while approaching mother and kiss the back of the hand of Mother Mirna, her mother.
"You've come." Sahut Mirna while glancing at Niken who is behind Bima.
"Yes, Bima will temporarily stay at home first with Niken. Maybe about a month, until we get a contract for us." Bima Say.
Niken advanced, approached Mirna, grabbed the middle-aged woman's hand and kissed the back of her hand respectfully, but hurriedly, Mirna immediately pulled her hand, as Niken greeted by kissing the hand, as if not to linger touched by his daughter-in-law.
"Oh, so you're only temporarily in this house, because of your wife?" Ask Mirna with a ketus.
"Have you got a lot of money, and won't stay here?" Connect Mirna.
Bima and Niken looked at each other looking at the middle-aged woman.
"No. It's not like that, Mom. I mean Bima, it's not good that we hitchhiked here long ago, ma'am." Sahut Bima politely to his mother.
"Hmmm.... Is your salary big enough, huh? Do you not think about the future? Is it because your wife doesn't want to live here? Don't you think your son's fees are tomorrow? Oh. yes, I forgot, your wife is not pregnant!" Tukas Bu Mirna with a ketus while glancing at Niken's stomach.
Mirna's eyes looked like daggers ready to slash Niken's body at that time. Niken speechless. Bima and Niken have not been blessed with children in their marriage age of almost one year.
"No, Ma. Niken doesn't matter if it's here. And we never put off having a baby." Sahut Bima's.
"Yes, Mom. I don't mind staying anywhere. And we're trying to get momongan." Get Niken politely.
"But usually not for long. Don't don't he can't give birth."
"Mother? What the hell is that?" Bima asked with a tinge of emotion while looking intently at Bu Mirna.
"Are you married a long time ago? Can't your wife serve you well?" Cetus Bu Mirna, who re-ignited Bima's emotions.
"What does Mom mean?"
Miss Mirna did not answer her son's question. He returned with plants.
Niken patted Bima's shoulder to calm her husband.
"Already, Mas. Patience."
Niken pulled her husband's arm so as not to get emotional. Rama still stared at his mother in disbelief saying sensitive things about pregnancy.
Miss Mirna looked up and ignored her son and ex again.
The middle-aged woman, then continued to cut the yellowed leaves and weed the small grass in her ornamental plant pot.
"Mom, we'll excuse you to go inside first." Pamit Niken politely while pulling Bima's hand.
"He uh." Mirna without looking.
Bima sighed deeply, then looked at Niken with a sad look.
Niken was also very sad and hit with her in-laws saying she could not have children. But, he's trying hard. Because he had chosen a way of life like this.
Niken knew that her mother-in-law still could not accept her as a daughter-in-law. It makes Bima sad.
On the other hand, Niken is the woman he loves. Then one more, Mirna is her mother, the woman who has been pregnant and giving birth, and taking care of her until she grows up.
Mother Mirna glanced at them at a glance, as Bima and Niken turned their bodies inside the house.
"Look, you can last how long!" Sneaky smile on Mirna's lips.