My Beloved Partner
127

"Oma?" Ask the foreign woman to Celine and Darren.

Darren confessed. "Yes, this is our grandchild." The woman became unpleasant and left.

"It seems we can still consider having one more mom," Darren teased his wife.

"Daddy don't be joking, mommy's getting old soon after menopause."

"It's precisely mom, take advantage of the time before menopause," added Celine's husband.

Celine shook her head at the unclear ramblings of her husband. "Oh yeah dad, we're going to add a new family member" Celine told Darren.

"Mommy pregnant?" Her husband's question made Celine upset.

"Not mommy, but Raina," he said.

"really? Does Julian know?"

"Not yet, Raina will only check with the obstetrician today, she wants to confirm the truth first but she says it's too late in the last few weeks."

"I hope he brings us good news. Sovia wants to be a sister, right?" Darren pinched his granddaughter's cheek.

Sovia pinched Darren back to make her opa and oma laugh. "Eat him do not teach the child who is not real," ledek Celine.

...***...

At the clinic Raina is being examined by a doctor. "How, Doc?" Raina asked who was curious about the result.

"Congratulations, Mom. You are positive about the estimated age of the womb is eight weeks," replied the obstetrician.

Raina gave thanks when she heard the doctor's answer. "Thank you very much, Doc" he said happily.

After the doctor prescribed the vitamins that Raina had to take back home to her in-laws. She smiled as she looked back at the piece of paper containing the results of her pregnancy test.

Thank God I give you the confidence to get pregnant again, you are healthy in the stomach," he murmured while stroking his flat stomach.

"Where are we going, Mom?" Ask the driver.

"To my mother-in-law's house yes, sir," Raina replied. The driver also understood.

...***...

"We go home, baby," Celine asked her granddaughter. He also took Sovia.

"Let's have a sling." Darren takes over Sovia from his wife's arms.

"Lho daddy didn't go back to the office?" Ask Celine.

"Back, daddy just drove you to the parking lot. Daddy's kasian if you see mommy's carrying a heavy-weight."

"Ihk daddy mah mentang-tang mommy is old," Celine felt offended.

Although Darren is the type of man who always acts cold with people he meets, but he is always warm to his family. Not infrequently he often joked with his children even though they were not young anymore. Especially with his wife, of course he will always be romantic like other young couples.*

*The story of Darren and Celine can be read in my second novel Mr. Palyboys. It tells the story of Darren who is willing to become a playboy to find the woman he means. A few years later they met after Celine returned to Indonesia.

...***...

Raina got to her in-laws' house first. Shortly after, he heard a car stop in front of the house. The beautiful woman in the hijab approached him.

"Where have you been?" Raina asked her mother-in-law and daughter after they opened the car.

"Resuming dong mommy's walk," Celine replied, mimicking her grandson's style of speech.

"Sovia bought what is it?" She asked again when she saw her daughter carrying a toy in her hand.

"Ainan," Sovia answered in a less clear language.

"Thank you, oma!" Raina's orders to the ball.

"Maacih oma" said Sovia.

"Together my dear," replied Celine.

"Well in first!" take Celine to both.

"How did it go, son?" Celine could not wait for a response from Raina.

"Positive, Mom. I'm eight weeks pregnant." The answer is definitely to make Celine happy.

"Congratulations, son. Congratulations, you'll be a big sister later." Celine pinched Sovia's puffed cheeks. Sovia replies to her grandmother's pinch which leaves Raina and Celine chuckling.

"Don't do it, dear" Raina said.

"No papa son. A child as small as Sovia is indeed a fasenya imitate." Mom Celine told me.

"Have you had lunch?" Ask mom Celine to her daughter-in-law.

"Yet mom, mommy has prepared food for you first."

"No mom, I just eat at home" Raina subtly refused.

Raina and her son came home. Arriving at home, Raina found her husband's car parked in front of the house.

"Lho Mas Julian is home?" Raina asked her husband who was sleeping haphazardly on the living room sofa.

Julian's up. His face looks pale. "Sickness?" Raina touched her husband's forehead. Julian nodded.

"I call the doctor yes," Julian nodded weakly. Raina took her cell phone and called the doctor.

Half an hour later their family doctor came to check on Julian. Julian made his complaint to the doctor. The doctor is suspicious.