
Ms. Darmi handed Zaya a paper handbag. "Here, there's a break from your husband."
Then the top of his youngest child's head was taken before he resumed activities.
In fact, in the Zaya family, there has never been a romantic kind of greeting or gift when one of its members has a birthday.
Actually, Zaya did not expect much of Afriz so that the man remembered the moment of his age.
However, the gift given by her husband is proof that the man still cares for her. Inevitably, create a sense of haru for this small attention.
Not excessive if the novelty immediately invites happy tears that slowly wet Zaya's face. The aggravation of Afriz was gone. There, now she even misses and wants to immediately hug her husband as much as possible.
Shortly after coming to his senses, Zaya remembered something. His phone has not been touched since yesterday he sent the last message. So now she immediately searched for the object to contact her husband.
In the end Zaya only had to bite her lower lip. He panicked a little because he had to accept the fact that his mobile phone was not in the right place.
Whether left at home or fell while on the way, he did not know.
...***...
Nida has been on the porch for more than five minutes.
Several times he knocked on the door, said his greetings, and called the residents of the house. But once he had not received a reply.
"Mbak Nida find Mas Afriz, huh?"
Hearing the question from behind, Nida immediately turned her head.
Now, the clinking of four gold bracelets combined with the flickering of a diamond ring that was exposed to the morning sun, became a blend of tones and sights that attracted the attention of Nida.
"Don't forget about me, right? It's me, Miss Lively, Vita's aunt who used to date Mas Afriz."
"Eh, yeah remember, I did. I still see you often." Nida is still amazed by the jewelry that adorns the neck and hands of Ms. Lively.
The feeling, once the appearance of the woman in front of him is not as excessive now. Or maybe, he's the one who doesn't pay much attention, I don't know.
"Mbak Nida is looking for Mas Afriz, right? Too bad, the whole house is gone."
Despite knowing that her sister was leaving, Nida still put on a shocked face. "Where to?"
Hearing the explanation from her sister's neighbor, Nida nodded. However, this shoulder-haired woman was a little disappointed because she could not meet Zaya.
"I don't want to expose the disgrace of people's households, you know, Ma'am. But if I look around, the relationship between the two of them is not good."
Despite guessing so, Nida kept asking, "Evenly Mother knows where?" just to get a more detailed explanation.
He, unconsciously has given the flexibility for Agile Ma'am to provide information whose accuracy is not necessarily tested.
"Look, Ma'am. A few days ago before Ms. Zaya went to her parents' house, I was asked by Mas Afriz to look after his wife who was having a fever."
Miss Nimble forward, then sit on the porch bench. Start the action in giving convincing testimony.
"But for no apparent reason, his wife Mas Afriz never liked me. So as soon as Mas Afriz went into the studio to pick up his lagging hape, he got angry, unwilling to talk to me. So, yes, I just go home. Ma'am Nida knows what it's like to have good intentions but not be appreciated by others, right? That's how I felt at the time."
Nida nodded. Feeling sore because carrying his child, of course he needs to sit. Adjacent to his interlocutor. "The reason Zaya could be angry is because of what?"
"He was like that, Ma'am. I like to be angry for no apparent reason. Is it like that, ideally a good wife? The one who should be angry is Mas Afriz. But Mas Afriz was very patient to face the attitude of a wife who is still childish. He was also willing to slam bones, just for the sake of the wife who at home never say anything, who there is just lazy and just excited if a walk or meet his father Faiz."
Nida was staring at the red lip that belonged to Ms. Lively. But the testimony of the woman managed to surprise him. "Are they still meeting?"
Miss Lively just nodded. "Yes. The more they come here, the more often they meet. Maybe because Mas Afriz is rarely at home too, so they feel more free to meet."
Then the wrinkled face faced towards Nida. His expression was so sorry for what he was going to say next.
"Bak knows for himself, right? In the past, Mbak Zaya has had a relationship with the man to have children. Now, their meetings are getting more frequent. I'm not so sure that Mas Afriz is the biological father of the baby that Zaya's mother was born with. I feel sorry for Mas Afriz. Already willing to sacrifice to become a filial child to parents by receiving an arranged marriage, it turns out his wife even brings disaster in her own household."
As for Nida, still pondering the long words from Bu Lively. All the stories he heard made sense.
Madam Lively continued the conversation. This time his voice was more confident. "Mas Afriz needed a much better companion than his current wife. Must be more beautiful, know more manners when dealing with older people, and more able to balance his career and education Mas Afriz. Because Mas Afriz had a naked-faced wife and all parts of her body were covered, but her genitals were spread everywhere and certainly not just in front of her own husband. What is there to defend as well? His wife was just a high school graduate, and had no career."
If that's the case, like it doesn't like it, Afriz and Zaya's marriage really has to end. That belief is currently the best solution version of Nida.
It's much better than Afriz getting bothered and suffering from still maintaining a household with a selfless woman like Zaya.
...***...