A SPECK OF LIGHT (Handle of Good-Loving Love)
4. Talaqs

As always. Every New Sunday invites his wife and two children to visit his parents' house.

What always makes him upset is, his wife is more silent if she is spoken to by her mother. Not polite, he thought.

Every piece of advice his mother said was true. All on expensive, should be frugal.

"Where are your in-laws, Bari? are you asking for money with you?"

"Nothing, Mom."

"Here, ask your wife the most so that whatever money you love is always running out."

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Actually, it was not intended to be silent when his mother-in-law advised him.

Admonished?

More precisely accusing her of being a lazy and wasteful wife. Not taking care of husband and child.

So all this time what did he do?

A foya-foya?

Shopping this and that?

Deserting her husband and her two children?

So who's cooking, cleaning the house, washing clothes, drying, plucking lawns and lawn brooms?

It was very anxious to interrupt the conversation of her mother-in-law, but she did not want the mouth of rice and was snapped by her husband.

A foot stepped into the kitchen, but had to stop because her husband and mother-in-law were talking about her father?

This can't be allowed.

"ENOUGH." jolt her.

"What do you mean Zilla?" jakak Bari is no less powerful.

"Enough, too often you think I'm bad. What do you mean to say that my dad asked for money, huh?" A flash of anger was clearly visible on Adzilla's face.

"Down your voice Adzilla."

"SILENCE."

"Seven years I've been quiet, and now it's time I talk to you. Everything I did to you and your family was never considered. Who do you dare to yell at me, and what did I hear just now? you're accusing my father of asking me for money?" Adzilla looked at the two people in front of her still with an angry look.

"You're Bari Kesuma. Stingy and calculating man, it's worth a lot of people asking why I want to be with you. It turns out that this is his answer. And mother, it should be as a mother that educated her son to love his wife instead of talking non-talk."

Adzilla continued to release his heart in a loud voice until the residents were already on the porch of his mother-in-law's house.

Already trying to hold back the crying but still the tears have been creek.

"Mom, you should think how to be me in the daily ration, never in love, never want to take part in the care of children and the house. But why is it that you're blind to look at me."

"You're still Adzilla." jolted Bari again.

Adzilla looked up at her husband. "I told you, you're the one who's silent and right now is when I'm talking."

"I swear, you won't be happy and God will repay you for everything."

PLAQUES

One slap landed on Adzilla's smooth cheek. Perih, his heart was getting sore because for the first time there were people who did violence to him.

He looked at the hand that had slapped him earlier and then turned to look at Bari. "Thank you, bang. All this time, I've been waiting for this time. Me and the kids are going home."

"Go, from today you're no longer my wife. And we'll see, what you would be like if there wasn't me."

Like a bolt of lightning in broad daylight. He did wait for a day of freedom from his family and husband who never appreciated him but this happened and so hurt his chest.

The fall of her talaq speech, then now she bears the status of a widow with two children. With tears, he took his two children out of his house.

Unheeded by the look of pity of the neighbors for him.

"Ma, why are we walking?" ask Satria who is beginning to understand.

After traveling far enough, they had finally reached the highway. He doesn't know what to go home with.

"Om, hern." exclaimed Sania seeing someone across the street enjoying a young coconut ice.

"Sania, don't call me ah. Oh, he's drinking that."

"Aus, ma."

Adzilla swallows the salivary hearing her son say thirsty. While he only pocketed five thousand rupiah money only.

Sania pulled him to cross the street let alone the man waving towards them.

His heart was filled to see Sania directly sitting on the lap of the man as if he had known for a long time. Even though his daughter was a difficult child to approach.

"Sit here, brother. Don't just stand. Here brother too." said the man saw he and Satria still standing after ordering one glass of young coconut ice.

He and Satria sat facing the man.

"Well, just a glass?" tanyanya looked at him.

"I don't want to, it's just for Satria and Sania, share."

But he was flabbergasted that the man ordered two more glasses of young coconut ice.

And look at the youngest. He cursed because he always taught Sania to be honest if asked someone. So now what should he be? angry or not?

"Yes, that was mama angis belantem papa hit mama. Eengh." Sania demonstrates the way Bari slaps Adzilla's cheek.

"So where's Sania's sister going?"

"The tate house."

"Road?"

Sania nodded.

"So, how about going to Grandpa's house?"

"Don't." cried Adzilla.

"No rejection, beautiful sister."

Adzilla just resigned. They spend their own young coconut time. Sania herself finished the young coconut ice with the help of soldiers who painstakingly fed the little boy.

"Be a great woman. Not because you are beautiful and kayaking, but a woman who is able to solve all problems. Also able to paint strength at a time when you feel so weak" said Soldier.

The remark made him flinch and stare at the Soldier long enough. Eyes feel hot immediately he turned his gaze in the other direction. He was only able to nod, although his face was now dim, the wound was not faded.

"Thank you." said Adzilla. Either thank you for the greeting or this young coconut ice.

Soldier nodded. "Where do I take you, brother?"

"May I come with you?"tanya Adzilla made Soldier aghast.

"No, brother. Sister again there's the same problem with sister's husband."

Adzilla is looking down sharply. "I'm on talak."

Soldiers back to jerk. "Go home to your parents' house. Tell me everything and it's done."

Adzilla was only able to nod. After Soldier paid for the young coconut ice, he escorted Adzilla and her two children.

Again Adzilla was only able to stand still to see the interaction of his two children so close to Soldiers. Bari never treated her two children like this.

Be ill.

Bemoan.

From now on, he must think about how he is going. The future of his two children is at stake right now.

❤️

TB