
The night is not late. But Bayu and Karina have entered the room, following Maira and her two children, as well as Mr. Kusno and bu Kusno, who have also entered their respective rooms.
"Mas." Karina tilted her body, facing her husband.
"Hem?" Bayu go sloping, so that their positions face each other.
"We're pregnant, yuk!"
"Did?" Bayu widens the eyes. "Don't!"
"It's okay, Mom. Last check right, my Bcl-Abr level is almost 0.1 percent. I think it's safe if I stop the drugs and start a pregnancy program."
Bayu rose from his sleep. "No, Rin, I don't want us to take that risk. Just follow the doctor's instructions. Don't conclude it yourself!"
Karina got up. "Let's change doctors, Mas. I think I'm definitely allowed to get pregnant."
Bayu stared intently at his wife. His face looked stiff. "What's wrong with you, Rin? What is it that suddenly wants to get pregnant like that? Patience, what!"
Karina. "I feel sorry for you, Mas" he said softly.
"Pity? Do I seem to be feeling sorry for that, so you need to have mercy?"
Karina raised her face. There's a clear membrane in his eye. "When I saw you holding the baby, Maira, I felt that you longed for a child for us, Mas. It's not hard to let you wait too long."
Bayu snorting. Putting his face forward. "I didn't think you were that cute!"
"Mass?" Karina gasped in shock at Bayu's cold words.
"Listen, Rin, the child is always coveted for every couple. But you know, the existence of children is not everything. The child is God's prerogative. We can only follow His terms. Even if you haven't been given the chance, yes, don't insist like this!"
Karina looked down again. "I just want you to be happy, Mom."
Bayu turned to Karina. He lifted his wife's chin with both fingers. "My happiness is that you can recover from the illness, Rin. Not the other one. As for the child, we'll think about it after you recover."
Karina sniffled, hugging her husband's body. "I'm sorry, Mom."
Bayu did not answer. Carina's hair looks thin.
Love based on taste will be more deeply rooted than love based on mere lust.
***
"Sir, I want to get pregnant!" karina said that afternoon.
"Heh, don't macem-macem, ah. Your illness has not been declared cured!" hardik Maira's.
Karina pursed her lips. The woman fell asleep next to baby Hanin. His face looked up, staring at the ceiling.
"But I really want to, Ma'am!"
Maira lifts baby Hanin into a sling. "How was your husband?"
Karina's eyeballs are spinning. "Em .., no, ma'am!"
"Well, that!" Maira took Hanin and began to suckle him. "Patience first, Rin. Wait until your condition allows you to get pregnant. Because if forced, it will be dangerous for you and the fetus later. Anyway, whatever the doctor says!"
Karina did not answer. He got up from his sleep and looked at baby Hanin who was greedily sucking ASI from Maira. Eyes sparkling.
"Well, Mom, I want to have a baby like that!" Karina sulks. Both palms stuck to the cheeks, eyes flickering spoiled.
"Sa-bar!" Maira.
Karina's eyes looked up. His lips grinned mischievously. "Are you kubolongi, ko**nya mas Bayu?"
"Hush!" hardik Maira again. "Don't be weird, you, Rin!"
"Sarin!" Maira glares. His cheeks looked red. "Very well, if you're weird!"
Karina's laughter grew louder. Her tears came out holding back the amused look at the terrified expression on her brother's face. Then kissed baby Hanin who was busy breastfeeding, making the baby whine, feeling disturbed.
"Nurus ...!!!"
Once again Karina let out her laughter. She immediately went out of the room before her brother's anger turned into anger.
Maira shook her head. After putting baby Hanin to sleep, he reached the phone on the nightstand. A few moments later WhatsApp message he sent to Bayu who two days ago had returned to Jakarta first.
Take it easy, Karina insyaallah is safely under control. Thanks for reminding me.
The WhatsApp reply from Bayu was accompanied by a wide laughing emoticon and a raised thumb.
But I'm afraid she's really desperate to get pregnant, Om.
Won't do. He's still sane, really. I'm sure he's just teasing you.
Maira sighed. In his heart he prayed that what Bayu said was true.
***
Karina was deliberately left while in Jogja by Bayu. In addition to not being too tired from the round trip Jakarta-Jogja, Karina also still wants to be close to her new niece. His mother and father Maira are of course very happy he is in Jogja.
That afternoon Karina doused Bu Kusno's aglonema in front of the terrace. His forehead seemed to be frowning when he saw the white Fortuner passing in front of the house. This is the third time the car has gone back and forth in front of his father's house.
Who, huh?
The car passed, Karina shrugged, trying to not care. But when a while later the car was back passing in the opposite direction from before, Karina became really curious.
"Who the hell? I'm like an ironing, barreling is not clear!" skink.
"What, Rin?" ask Bu Kusno who just came out of the house.
"That's, you know, Mom, really, a car, back and forth in front of the house from earlier!"
"Let's go, yo! It's also called the road, there must be a lot of cars passing by."
"But cook pacing up to four times I count. Where if it passes right in front of our house the car becomes a bit slow again ...."
"Ah, never mind, not a lot of suudzon. Later narrow mind so thin dry body!"
Karina. He continued to water his mother's plants.
***
Meanwhile a few hours earlier, a man in a sky blue uniform appeared to be exhaling a long breath. His body was placed in a work chair. Both hands are folded behind the head. His eyes glared, staring at the ceiling of the room.
Several times he seemed to be sad. Like there was something heavy he was thinking. Then he re-enforced and grabbed the phone on the table. Open the screen and view the photo gallery.
The cheeked smile seemed to be spread when he saw the photos of a woman in hijab. It is clear that the photos of the woman were taken secretly.
"Maira," he whispered softly.
His heart is beating fast. A moment later his fingers stiffened. There was something in his heart that needed to be broken. He's nervous, he can't stand it.
The man immediately got up from his chair, grabbed the car keys at the table and went out. In the parking lot, he approached his white Fortuner car. A moment later, he had already sped through the city of Jogja, towards the suburban area.
(connect)
// Bcr-Abl is an abnormal protein that commands the spinal cord to produce abnormal white blood cancer cells (Kompas.com )
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