Patience of the Son-in-law
Chapter 13 - Home Village

"Who's that woman, Dek? Does Mama know him?" aisha asked as she looked at Faizan with serious eyes.

"Later to know. Why, Mother?" faizan asked while looking at Aisha's movements carefully.

"Eh, not Deck. Ma'am does not want because of Mas Handika's will, you become burdened. You don't need to get married with Ma'am because your future is your own and not someone else's. Marry the woman you love" Aisha said seriously.

"definitely Mbak. I will only marry the woman I love. Like I said. Except for him, I don't want anything else."

Finally the two chat was finished with the talk of Faizan's work in Batam. After a little argument, Aisha finally relented. He will return to Sleman as recommended by Faizan. But wait until a week ago the mourning period for the death of Handika.

Faizan has been in Jakarta for a week. For he will not leave his soul mate alone with his stepmother in the main house which for Faizan is like a golden cage for Aishanya.

And he can still handle office work owned by Ms. Jihan from Jakarta for a while. He had asked permission from his boss and Jihan's mother did not bother him because she understood that Faizan was grieving.

Every day Faizan helps Aisha do the housework and Mama Ida just rules as necessary as she never could because there is Faizan.

Mama Ida once told Aisha to cook some soup. But her mother-in-law deliberately put the carcass of a cockroach in her soup bowl and accused Aisha of deliberately doing evil to eliminate it in order to control the property of the Atmajaya family.

"Not Mah. Aisha couldn't have done that. I cooked clean. I also cleaned the kitchen before cooking. So there can be no cockroaches in your soup" Aisha replied in self-defense.

"Based on the son-in-law of the unlucky bearer are your many excuses! How could anyone here believe your bullshit!" mama Ida chuckled her waist in front of Aisha.

"I believe Aisha" said Faizan, who suddenly appeared in the dining room next to the kitchen.

The two men turned to Faizan who was looking seriously. Aisha could only lower her gaze other than herself to feel worried because every fight with her mother-in-law would always end with a punishment that made her exhausted and took away a lot of her thoughts as well.

Especially now there is Faizan, he does not want a dispute between Mama Ida with him to make the mother and child so quarrel. Although Faizan is not the biological child of Mama Ida, they are still mothers and children who still have blood ties.

As for him, it was only the outsiders who were better to give up. So patient and steadfast, Aisha faced her mother-in-law's bad temper.

The once sweet turned into a cruel mother-in-law figure. He only hopes that one day his mother-in-law can see that she is a daughter-in-law who is also worthy of respect and affection in the Atmajaya family.

Even the figure of a son-in-law who could be considered like his own biological child. He can only pray in his heart that his prayers can be realized in the future.

However, it was like "Milk water is returned with tubal water" so Aisha's sacrifice since the beginning only became a dust grain that was blown by the wind.

Never remembered or considered boro-boro is remembered to the heart by Mama Ida. As if not at all. It's so stifling as the saying "It's sweet as it's thrown away".

When a daughter-in-law is in her jaya-jaya has a lot of money or work that is qualified and proud then dearest even flattered her name in front of others.

However, if the daughter-in-law is not loyal to the in-laws because of declining economic conditions, it is thrown away like a useless item like a pest or parasite. And forget the good deeds in the past that the daughter-in-law has done to her.

Mama Ida was furious to see her stepson always defending Aisha. Finally he accidentally broke the bowl of soup containing cockroaches that had broken and left the dining room without saying anything. Just a dislike look he had on Faizan and Aisha.

Faizan had lived for decades with his stepmother so something like this was already nothing new to him. Faizan crouched on the floor to help clean the broken bowl with Aisha.

A week passed,

This morning Faizan drove Aisha home to Sleman by driving her own white Honda CRV which she bought with her savings since she was in college.

Faizan and Aisha say goodbye to Mama Ida but the owner only looks with a dislike gaze without speaking a word.

Nine hours drive from Jakarta to Sleman with a one-time stop at the rest area for lunch. Finally, the two arrive at the city where Aisha came from safely.

After an hour of rest in the bale-bale in front of Aisha's house, Faizan said goodbye to go home.

"I'm back, Ma'am. Call me if there's anything. Don't like to hide your own sadness. Make me your friend who can be spoken to whatever both likes and sorrows," Faizan said softly but seriously.

"There are many Decks. Be careful on the road," said Aisha and Faizan just nodded as he passed away leaving the Aisha residence to return to Jakarta and immediately leave for Batam.

"Put put him here, my God. Keep him for me until he becomes lawful to me" Faizan said in prayer.

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