
"Alif don't be on the edge of the trench, you'll fall."
Said the handsome man who was now inviting to play on the edge of the rice field.
"Alif likes it here, Om."
"Yes, but be careful. Come here, your feet are dirty with mud. We go home, your mother will be angry if she plays in the rice field later."
"But we'll play here again, Om."
The handsome man who now plays with Alif is Rama. They were familiar by now, but Diana still gave some distance. Because he also does not want to get gossip from neighbors.
"Aliff why are his legs so dirty, son?"
"So Alif I played in the rice field na, sorry."
"Yes nothing. Let's take a shower."
Alif who is obedient also does not dispute the words of his mother.
"I'm sorry to go home."
"Yes, thank you so much for playing with Alif."
Diana was more polite, especially knowing that Rama was older than him. At least through the call it was already a polite act for him.
...***...
A week passed quickly, the days that Diana lived back were heavy. He is not hypocritical, even he misses Bagas very much. Especially when she is pregnant, it feels like sleeping wanted in the arms of her husband. But the disappointment still gave a high wall for her to meet her husband.
You're not even trying to find me. Are you really happy with that woman. If so I try to make peace with my heart, to always be sincere.
"Mother."
Alif's voice broke his daydream.
"Dear, what's wrong?"
"Mother than that someone knocked on the door, mother why not open the door?"
I was so shocked that I didn't hear at all.
"Dear, let's open it."
"Yes, briefly. Who yeah?"
Chequek.. The door sounds open.
"Mother..."
Diana was stunned, she was like a dream with the arrival of her Mother-in-law. Where can you know I'm here, and this is a dream or not, she thought.
"Ma."
Her eyes are already glazed.
"Na, are you all right here, son?"
Diana did not answer. He immediately slid into his mother's arms. His sobs could not be withstood, nor could Ramini's mother.
Ramini's mother took off her embrace, and inched to prostrate. Diana held him down hard.
"Mom don't do it, Ana beg Mom."
"I'm sorry for all the Bagas na's treatment."
"Already Mom. Let's go inside talk inside. Own mother?"
"Mother same Eva. He just stopped by his old friend's house."
Diana walked into the kitchen, made tea for her in-laws. And bring some snacks.
Now they are sitting in the house. Mother continued to stare at Diana with sadness, it felt so good with this daughter-in-law. She felt everything Diana felt.
"Mom, can Ana sleep on mom's lap?"
Her in-laws nodded and made room for her.
"Na, I know it's sick. Bagas bad guy. You can leave him. Even if there's a guy who's much better than him you can continue your life with other people."
He said as he continued to brush his daughter-in-law's hair.
"That is life, nothing is perfect. If her in-laws receive their daughter-in-law well, sometimes the child is the one who succeeds. There is a good husband, but his wife is acting up. There are also husbands and wives whose lives are harmonious and peaceful, but sometimes it is the in-laws who damage and interfere in the household affairs of their children.
The story in the soap opera is true and real there is na. Everything is arranged by God. The household must have had trials. But it all comes back to you. Strong or not you."
Diana silently listened.
"Mother was also made like this by her father Bagas. But I'm trying to be patient, I know it's a household test. But I got through it. Even Bagas' father also had children from other women, just like him. What's worse is that mom's own neighbor used to be here."
Diana knew it, but she only heard it from Eva. So do not know if his parents-in-law to have children from others.
"Eating mother prefers to move from this village. To start a new life after your father-in-law died." He shed his tears again, remembering the events of a few years ago.
"Is that woman still here, ma'am?"
"Two years after my mother moved to the city, I heard the news that she was dead."
Diana hugged her in-laws tightly. It is very comfortable to complain to parents, even if only limited to in-laws. But he felt lucky to have in-laws who could understand his position and circumstances now.
"Mom swore na, never mother even intended to repay the heartache of mother at that time to your father-in-law. But why, why do mothers' children even hurt the heart of women, women they love."
"Mother." Diana sobbing.
"Mother willing na, if you have to be happy with others mother willing. Let this be a lesson to him."
"Mom, Diana never thought of it."
"Be a strong woman, son, God willing, heaven is our place to forgive men who lie to us."
"Mother but Diana begs, for now Diana has not wanted to meet Bagas. Don't tell her Diana's here, ma'am."
"Yes, I understand."
They fell silent with their own thoughts. Eva's voice shouted shortly.
"Mother is you."
Alif said passionately.
Eva saw Diana and her mother who were still giving up longing like a child and a biological mother felt overwhelmed. He hugged both of them, and what? She was crying too.
"Va, you're fine."
"Enty, Alif kangen." Jump into Eva.
"Udah. Yesterday Alif went for a walk with his father, Alif took his father to grandma's house, but I don't want to."
Those who were there immediately turned their heads. Moreover, Diana was surprised not to play, because if Alif said never to lie.
Eva looked at Diana with many questions, but Diana only shook her head.
"Aliff when are you going out with me, son?"
Diana asked softly.
"Yesterday Alif joined the pack."
Why Anton and Mita don't tell me. Don't let them know I'm here. His inner.
"Where are you going with Alif?"
Alif also told me cheerfully, where and what he did when he went with his father.
"Mom we eat, Diana is cooking."
Her in-laws agreed. And tonight they'll stay here too. It felt tired to go here not yet lost, so decided to stay the night.
...***...
The next day, they sat on the terrace and talked warmly. A little forget about the problem that made them all be in this place.
"Mom, Diana forgot to tell me."
"What is na?"
"Diana is pregnant at this time, ma'am."
Diana uttered in a sad tone, it should be a happy moment but a state that forces the heart to always be strong.
"really? O Allah, behind your troubles God still provides sustenance."
"Bakal dapet ponakan again." Eva Saying.
Diana smiled. When Diana was about to make another sound they turned their heads in unison because someone had come.
"Assalamualaikum, good afternoon." Rama said politely.
"Moskalamic. Bang please sit."
Mother's face paled, looking at Rama with dislike. Mother stood up and went inside, without saying goodbye to those who were there.
Diana was astonished, but at this moment she was reluctant to ask. Maybe I have some business, he thought.
"It's Eva, right? Brother Bagas?"
Eva smile.
"Yes bang."
"So Diana this is your family huh va?"
"Yes bang." Eva does not like to be asked with Rama. It seemed that he was not happy to see the presence of Rama.
"Son Eva come in first, yes, you have a conversation here."
He went into the house after his mother.
"Eva that's your cousin huh na?"
"Not bang."
"Then?"
"He's my brother-in-law." Diana.
Rama was shocked to round his eyes.
"So, so you're Andre's wife or Bagas's?"
"I'm the wife of Bagas bang."
While smiling wryly.
"Oh. Diana I said go home first yes, I guess no family of yours came, I became disinclined. I'll excuse you."
He said and left the house.
Why is everyone on the weird?
Diana walked into the house. And found Eva also her mother-in-law was watching tv. However their gazes upon seeing Diana coming became strange, like intimidating gazes.
"Mother why? Sorry Mom, she's just a neighbor, Diana's not too close either. Diana still valued Diana's status as Bagas' legitimate wife."
Eva chose to pretend she did not know and only saw the television that she changed over and over again.
"Yes na, I understand. Sit down, maybe there's something you should know."
Diana complied and sat down beside her in-laws.
Finally Eva relented to go take Alif out of the house, it felt to pretend not to know it was free, he would also still hear it. Things that make him sick and lazy to listen again.
"Na, you better stay away from that guy. With the reason of being friends it also feels inappropriate, if other men who incidentally much better than Bagas mother can still be sincere, as long as not him."
"meaning Ma? Diana didn't understand mother's direction."
"He was the son of a woman who hurt her mother a few years ago. And he's also the son of your father-in-law's affair."
"You can't be." Diana was shocked to hear this.
Then if this is true, aren't he and Bagas sisters? Then why is his reaction normal when he meets Eva?
"Did he know Mom?"
"So, I don't know for sure about that. Parents tell or not the mother does not know, the most important thing is that the children of the mother all know, and must know. Not to imitate the nature of his father, but it turns out the mother was wrong. They're repeating all his father's bad treatment."
"Mom, sorry. Because Diana's mom so repeats and opens up old mom."
"You're not wrong, you're just a victim."
Her mother-in-law paused her sentence for a moment.
"Na remembered mother's message. Survive if you are still able and confident, do not survive just because of coercion. Because whatever is done with forced ends will not be good."
"Thank you Mom, I always understood Diana."
He also gave her a warm hug.
Seriate..