Bitter Tongue In-Law
32. Equally Painful

Ms. Ningsih lambasted Arga with questions as soon as she got home. He seemed to not care about the look on his son's face that did not look okay. Seeing Arga who was silent when asked, the eyes of Bu Ningsih circulated down and pulled the envelope sheet in the child's right hand just the wayangnya.

The smile of the sumringah instantly expands perfectly when he sees Nuna's signature. He was happy and relieved that finally what he wanted was realized today.

"Ah finally. You are free too." Bu Ningsih turned to his son who was still staring. "Why are you like his face?" tanyanya.

"Mom once told me that the child Nuna conceived was not my child just because I had seen Nuna at the Puskesmas as a man and now what is Mom?" Arga thrust out the paper he got from Bian.

Bu Ningsih took the paper in a bit of nervousness. Not because of the results, but what reason he would throw at Arga about the lies he created. Not seeing the contents alone he could guess what was inside.

"Why am I sober now? Mom didn't like Nuna in the first place, but why did it have to be like this, Mom? So all this time what you said to me was just an essay? Nuna has been zolimized all this time? Why Ma'am? Why did you go so far?"

The destruction of Arga's life and heart suddenly made him unable to raise his voice. He wanted to be angry, but he had no energy to do so.

"Argha. Mom saw that they were so friendly, how did you not think they had a relationship? After that they also still meet, you see for yourself, right when they hold hands on the men's shop. How do you not think they have a relationship?"

Yes, if we go back to the moment a few months ago, the moment where Bu Ningsih followed Nuna who met Bian in the tavern and begged him to help straighten out the misunderstanding that occurred. And, yes, Nuna did delete all the photos that could cause war, but she did not realize if one of the photos had been sent to Arga. That was why the man instantly dealt a blow when he came home to earn a living.

Arga recalled that moment, her memory was still clear where Nuna consciously gripped Bian's hand with a pleading gaze. That picture is still stuck in his head.

Feeling tired and not knowing what to do, Arga entered the room and rested his body. I don't know, it just broke his heart knowing this reality. Regretting and making things go back to the way they were before felt impossible.

Since that day, Arga and Nuna have been both heavily involved in their days. Arga who is busy with regrets and helplessness makes it like he is not eager to live life. How not? The baby she met a few days ago turned out to be her biological child, what else could she do besides regret. Meet Nuna again and apologize? It felt so ill-fitting considering he had just a few days ago bragged about sticking to his beliefs. Not to mention he also had a seed in the womb of another woman.

The taste is almost the same as Arga, the new mother becomes more often daydreaming and aloof. Not lust doing anything and just spend time with silence and deep heartache that he feels.

"Nuna, stop. You don't keep going like this. You don't pity Cashel. He must have felt your sadness too, he fussed constantly. Poor him, Nuna. Dad later in the afternoon also came, if you think a lot of people are thinking. Your life is not finished here. You should focus on Cashel. Did he have a father when you wanted to ignore him? He's the victim if you're like this."

"Why is my fate like this, Mom? I have failed at everything. I really wanted to maintain our relationship, even though I was very hearted and Arga's attitude hurt me greatly in any way, I wanted to come back. I've broken your trust with me being pregnant before I got married, I've failed to keep what I was supposed to look after, and now, I've also failed to maintain my household. Then what else can I do, Mom?" Nuna couldn't stand it and cried.

It seems that this incident really seized the psychic health of Nuna. Plus she had just given birth, her hormones must have changed and her feelings were also much more sensitive.

"Who did you say failed? You're a great woman. Everyone has sins, everyone has a bad past. Everyone has a way to sin. You only want to make this a lesson or want to drown there. If you feel like you have failed in the past. For the future, you have to get better. What has happened does not need to be overcome let alone you enjoy like this. You live for the future, not for the past. I know you must be hurt, sad, and broken. But can you change things like this? Make your destruction a moment for revenge in your past. You feel like your past is ruined, right? Prove that in the future you are much better. That's a good revenge. Don't make Arga and his mother laugh with this destruction of yours. I don't want my son to sacrifice everything to cry for a man like that."

Nuna wiped away the tears she had just shed. It is true said his mother, he did not deny that what his mother said is the truth. But isn't something easy to say not necessarily easy to do? That's what Nuna had in mind. Though content to realize that what his mother said was not easy, he will try to rise from this fall. He was very confident that he could get through this, considering that he had been living with full struggle.

"Yes, I'll be strong for Cashel. I will prove that this destruction makes me so much better. I'll forget what happened. Thank you for always being a reminder to me, ma'am."