WHEN THE HEART MUST SHARE

chapter 13

Aby hasn't been home for a week.

his face looks tired because of the burden he bears, also because his sleep is irregular.

Imran is very concerned about his situation.

"Wouldn't Anisa change her decision?"

"I don't deserve to ask that, I'm very familiar with his current condition" Aby replied slowly.

"Then, leave Jelita. that's the only way to restore the integrity of your family." suggested Imran.

Aby shakes.

"I'll repeat the same mistake of hurting another woman's heart."

Imran did not understand the way his friend's mind was suffering, but he also did not want to let go of the source of his suffering.

"I have promised in the name of God that I will keep the bond of marriage.

With Anisa and Jelita. That's no joke, Im. What I'm going through right now is a consequence of my own actions." explained Aby.

"So what will you get? You lost Anisa, but you didn't take Jelita completely?"

Aby is silent, he cannot explain to Imran that he married Jelita not because of his lust as a man. Wanting only to give Zahra a full family, Zahra must grow up lovingly with complete parents. He did not want the poor baby like himself who had to grow up without a father figure. Aby decides to forget her father when she witnesses how her mother is tortured every day by her father.

therefore he did not want to see another Aby Aby again.

"Then, you'll just have to wait for a miracle for Anisa to forgive you."

"That's my hope, I don't want my son to grow up without a father figure beside him. But to ask Anisa to forgive me, it felt so selfish."

"Then, meet your in-laws, who knows if he's the way out of your problem." suggested Imran who was nodding back by Aby.

At home, Anisa is confused. Al has a high fever and always calls his father.

"Do I have to tell Mas Aby?" anisa's mind churned.

But eventually he realizes Al misses his father. No matter how hurt he was to remember Aby, Al was still his son. He felt he had no right to hinder the relationship between father and son.

(Mas, Al has a fever and always calls you)

That's the only message Anisa has.

Aby who received the message immediately slid to Anisa's place.

With a worried and longing face that filled his chest, Aby could not wait to meet Al.

"Assalamualaikum." he said trying to arrange his heartbeat.

Anisa opened the door.

"Greetings" answered Anisa coldly.

"Al how? Can I come in and see it?"

Anisa nodded and let Aby into Al's room.

Aby hugged Al while closing her eyes.

"Dad, why did it come so long?" al said with his other eye.

"I'm sorry, Dad.. Now that I'm here, we can play as much. Aby hugged Al again with a heart.

Anisa who was secretly watching the scene ran to her room and sobbed.

He still imagined Al's lethargic face with his dry lips.

"Mother, why don't you come home too? Dad's job is far away, huh?"

Which unsliched mother's heart gets the question from her baby.

Anisa let the father and son play and joke around.

"Al's been taking medicine, come?"

"Al's healed, yeah." the boy fumbled his own forehead.

"Mother, mother.. Al was no longer hot" he cried cheerfully.

Very surprisingly, Al who has a high fever can drop the heat drastically.

perhaps because the presence of his father was influential as well.

Aby looked at Anisa. As if asking permission to stay longer.

Anisa gave a long sigh.

"Die the same way you wanted to."

It was almost evening when Al fell asleep because of exhaustion.

Aby walked out slowly.

He saw Anisa sitting quietly in a chair.

"Mas go first.. Al's asleep." said Aby awkwardly.

Anisa just kept silent.

Actually he was very homesick with the carefree laughter of his wife, misses with the nagging of his oil.

Aby is back in the torment of guilt.

He said hello and stepped out.

"You can meet Al at any time, but you have to know me."

Aby stopped her steps and faced Anisa.

"Thank you, Nisa.." she said happily.

Anisa did not turn her head in the slightest.it was only after Abi passed the door. He looked at the back of the man who had been with him eight years, all the sorrow and joy they had ever passed together.

There was pity in Anisa's heart when she saw Aby's back.

"You look thin and unkempt, Mom...!" his sigh while sighing long.

Since then, whenever there is an opportunity, Aby always visits Al. both at school and at home. With Anisa's permission.

Aby also visited her father-in-law.kyai Romli did not corner Aby at all.

He even forbade leaving Jelita as Imran suggested to him.

"It is certain that Anisa's heart will melt. She's a strong, smooth-hearted woman. You're patiently waiting for that moment." her in-laws' advice made Aby's hopes appear again.

As time goes by. Anisa felt calmer. He could think more clearly.

Especially when he saw the joy of his son when he met his father.

"Sick indeed, but for Al's sake, it seems I have to be willing to sacrifice feelings." he said himself.at that time he was accompanying Al to play in a park that happened to be next to the hospital.

His eyes accidentally caught the figure of Aby who was holding a baby.

The baby continued to cry, Aby and Jelita could not silence him.

They look desperate.

At the same time Aby looked at him.

Aby looks wrong because of Anisa's whereabouts there.

Al who saw Aby immediately rushed towards him, Anisa did not have time to forbid it.

"Dad...!"

"Al play here?" Aby grabs Al and holds him.

As for Zahra's baby, he left it to Jelita.

"Who's the baby's grandpa, Dad? And who's that Aunt?" per, ask plain Al made Aby, Anisa and Jelita speechless.

Zahra was still crying in Jelita's lap.

Without saying anything, Anisa took the baby and silenced him.

Very strange, in Anisa's embrace, the baby fell silent and slept soundly.

Anisa gave it to Jelita again,

"Thank you, Miss Anisa. Me, me..."

"You give me thanks, and you take so much from us, just keep that thanks. Who knows if it will be useful someday.!" cut Anisa fast. Aby and Jelita were silent.

"Come, Al we're home, it's late afternoon..!"

"But mother..." Al looked at his father.

"Al go home first, tomorrow we play again. I'll bring you a good drawing tool for Al." Aby promised crouching in front of her son.

The boy complied.

But after a few steps, he turned his head again towards his father.

"Why don't you just go home with us?" tanyanya polo's.

Aby looked at Anisa's face which looked stiff.

"There are things that sometimes Al is not ready to know, because Al has to wait for that moment, later will also understand." Anisa persuaded her son.

Al obeyed the order of his mother.

Aby looked at the two people she loved so much in her life.

"Mas, I'm sorry for the situation you're in right now." Jelita's voice startled her.

"Here you go, let me drive you home."

Along the way, Aby was silent

Jelita who sat beside him did not dare to reprimand him.

Arriving at Jelita's house, Aby begs to go straight to the office.

"Mas, you'd better sleep here tonight. I understand the situation. I promise I won't bother you or do what you don't like." Jelita's eyes looked clear.

Aby couldn't resist. Finally for the first time, Aby stayed at Jelita's place.

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