Bitter Tongue In-Law
18. New Reality

"What about Nuna's work?" Bianca had just sat down at the dinner table and had been treated to a question about Nuna.

"What's really going on, Mom? Why is Nuna looking for a job? She told you something about the same?"

"He didn't tell anything to me. Actually, he asked, but he didn't want to be honest. You see for yourself what the condition is, people who have just seen it the first time also understand he is not okay. Last time I wanted to go back to the store, Mas returned to the Puskesmas...." Flowing was the story of Bian who had heard Nuna chat with her fetus.

The two brothers rarely get along, but the openness between them cannot be doubted. If there really is something to be told, then they do not hesitate to tell a story. Wanna how? Bian only has Bianca, and vice versa. If they don't look after each other or understand, who will do that to them. Such was the thought of the two who suddenly became orphans due to the sudden and almost simultaneous departure of both parents.

"Pity Nuna. He was young, but had to bear this heavy burden. Actually I have a job I want. Keep the library has a temen. Actually I want to take this job, but since Nuna needs more, it's done for her."

Bian was ready to open his mouth to nag his sister, but he had not had time to make a sound, his sister had reproached.

"Mas, I I want to find a job to also fill the empty time. After all, Mas is too excessive because it does not allow me anything, while I also have personal needs that are not small. I also want to have activities that make money."

"Guild college until it's over, just got a job!"

"How can Mas tell if there is work that fits him? Kan Mas is not told that he needs a job."

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Nuna eats the fruit of Bian by daydreaming. He is in confusion, on the one hand he needs a job, but on the other hand he does not know where to look other than to ask Bian for help to return to work in his shop.

On the one hand if he returned to work with Bian, he was worried that all this would worsen the situation and harm Bian.

"Did I ask for help finding another job? What if he's wondering why I'm back at work? What am I gonna answer?"

Nuna chews still by thinking about the possibility that happened if she asked Bian for help to find work. He can not long decide let alone delay, time that continues to pass requires him to think quickly.

After a night of thought, Nuna finally decided to go to Bian's shop this morning. She is completely separated by her own husband must struggle to survive and prove to Arga that the child she bears is her child.

Bian had just opened a tavern when Nuna got there.

"What brings you here so early in the morning?"

"I want to ask for help one last time. I want to work, but with my condition it is not easy for me to find a job anywhere. I didn't ask for a job at your store. I'm afraid that if I do that the situation will get worse and the misunderstanding will widen."

"Why do you still want to work?Why do you always forget the midwife's advice that you shouldn't be too tired?" Bian deliberately asked to test the woman's honesty.

"I just want to spend some time outside the house. I don't want to be constantly at home with a mother-in-law who constantly wants a separation from her child."

Self-worth? Which self-esteem again? Nuna felt she had lost her pride for a long time since she first slept with Arga before marriage. Coupled with growing a fetus in his womb before marriage, it makes Nuna already really have no self-esteem.

"My worth is long gone." Nuna muttered very slowly.

"What did you say?"

"Huh? No. gabe. I didn't say anything. I'll wait a few more months to meet this boy. I'm gonna do a live DNA test so she can believe it's her son. I'm sure he'll come back like he used to. He just lost his way and misdirected."

Finally Bian gave a job that had been recommended by his sister. He thought that with this help, his relationship with Nuna would be a good friend. But what happened was just the opposite. Nuna just disappeared. No news, never to the store and always avoid when several times Bian or Bianca visit the library. Bian only knows Nuna's news from Bianca's friends who often provide information about their employees.

"Gue had asked why he did not want to meet you or your brother. He said he was ashamed to see you. You guys are good, she does not want to see again because she can be a threat from her husband if until her husband finds Nuna meet again with your brother, she does not hesitate to do evil things. He said, Nuna's neighbors once knew Nuna came to your brother's shop early in the morning. And after that their families become the subject of conversation."

That was the last word from Bianca's friend. All that he explained through Bianca and explained back to Bian.

And the days without Nuna, it did not seem to have been running for six months. There has been no day without thinking about Nuna since she worked in the library of Bianca's friend. Bian often thinks of things he shouldn't have thought of. This is not his responsibility and why does he always think about Nuna with all her needs?

"Mas, want rice with two servings of chicken gule, yes. Drink one sweet orange ice and one aloe vera ice."

Bian immediately prepared the order thinking hard. No, it was no longer Nuna that he thought of. But the woman who just ordered food to him.

Why does she look like a stranger. Where have I met you?

Bian's memory still did not return until the food and drink he ordered managed to serve on the woman's table.

"You sure you want to marry Arga?" The woman who came along with Lia asked after their order was held on the table.

"Why not? My relationship with Arga is very close. This is what I dreamed. Why should I back off? I have survived and fought so far, soon Nuna will give birth. So I'm sure and sure I'll marry Arga."

The nuna? Ah I remember now, she's the one I've seen in the supermarket and bought ... what the hell is this? What does he mean he's talking like that?

"What if Arga's wife's child is his?"

"Yes that's Arga's son. Ms. Ningsih told me everything. He initially lied to me, vilifying Nuna in front of me so I would approach Arga, but gradually Bu Ning was honest with me, if the child that Nuna conceived it could actually be the son of Arga. From the beginning of the marriage he did not agree that Arga married Nuna. She was forced to approve the marriage because Nuna was pregnant first. Therefore Arga was kekeh for marriage with Nuna and could not be contested. I know what I need to do for the DNA test. However, Nuna is not necessarily able to test DNA. Is a million-two million DNA test enough?"

What, so...?