Dusk Sky
Opening Minds

It turns out that sincere taste brings significant relief. That night Dusk could even sleep longer than the previous days.

When you wake up in the morning, Dusk experiences severe morning sickness.

The food that does not enter the stomach when eating dinner, again removed with a thick yellow liquid ending painful. Make the husband worried because only this time saw such a young pregnant person. Given the previous pregnancy does not experience nausea, vomiting even dizziness like most pregnant women in general.

Fortunately his condition improved during the day, he could even go to campus to complete the completeness of the thesis session that had been scheduled.

Dusk is more attentive and careful. Start treating the fetus in its womb properly. No more ignoring and assuming it doesn't exist.

No more tears to cry about her pregnancy. Although not as enthusiastic as when she was pregnant with baby Anna, but the affection she felt for her second child-to-be began to grow the seeds of happiness that some moments before she did not feel.

When he opened the apartment door in the afternoon after returning from campus, his eyes glazed over. He immediately ran to hug the person who greeted him with a warm smile. She also hugged him warmly.

A hug that never changed since she was a child until she grew up and became a mother of two. A mother's embrace of love that no one will ever match how it feels.

Some days he deliberately ignored calls from his family in Jakarta. For reasons not wanting to make them worry when they hear her cry. Because he was sure he would not be able to hold back his tears once he opened his voice.

Just look at it this time. Just looking at them her tears had been shed. Maybe he's not an adult yet. Evident from how he immediately cried as much as now.

Reminds him of when he was a kid. If anyone was naughty to him, he was only able to look down in fear. But once at home, he will cry loudly in the arms of his father or mother. It doesn't matter if the wound doesn't hurt anymore.

There was no sound but the sound of the twilight cry. Everyone understood the girl needed to express her feelings in order to feel more relieved.

Only when the girl's cries subsided did they exchange news. Also Dusk told him the thing that he was sure, her husband had told them in detail. The reason for their arrival this time.

"A mother will never run out of ways to give fair affection to her loving children." Tiara began to wipe away her daughter's tears with the handkerchief her husband gave her.

"Ta-pi A-Anna ma-sih ke-cil ba-nget, mah." she said with a mouthful of the rest of the crying.

"Why don't you ask your brothers how they grew up? do they lack the affection of the same mother because they grew up at the same time?"

Dusk stunned, just realized it.

"The early life after Farri's brother and Vindra's brother were born is not easy for mama. Mama had to go back and forth to the hospital for Vindra's brother who was in the NICU room at the time." this story is not the first time Tiara told the princess. But it seemed that he needed to tell her again to remind his daughter who was feeling insecure.

"Mama can not be full nemenin brother Farri or brother Vindra. Because they're not in the same place."

Dusk lowered his head and squeezed the cloth pants on the thigh.

"Even when Vindra's brother is allowed to go home, the mother remains, right should give love and fair attention to both?"

"But mama nemenin's brother from birth. Dusk, from birth to six-month-old Anna, was busy in college. What's later if his sister was born." murmured twilight still not confident.

"You want to graduate, baby. Mama was also back in college again when my brother began to be left behind. Even her college mama was a long time ago. Ninggalin your two brothers for education."

"Do not give her affection. But you doubled. You keep giving Anna as much love as you can, and you give your second child just as much love." Alvaro added. "Papa never shared your affection for you, brother Farri and brother Vindra are also mama. But papa's affection grows bigger and more times the number of people you love."

Aaah her father's words had always been able to directly pierce through her heart and mind.

"You don't have to be a mom, your wife is a great student at the same time, ayy." Baskara who sat next to his father-in-law and opposite the wife who was flanked by his mother and mother-in-law also spoke up.

"meaning?"

"You just have to be dusk. Be yourself. Do what you want, without having to be burdened with your own thoughts that consider being a mother must be this way. So the wife has to be like this. And you have to be like this to be successful."

Dusk shakes her head yet to understand her husband's intentions. Because it was not like that he should have acted.

"Now I ask. Who do you need appreciation from when you can be a good wife and mother? from mama, papa?"

Dusk nodded in response.

"The expression of the same father. Let them have a daughter-in-law like you?"

The twilight came back.

"Or from Oma and the people out there let you not be blasphemed for not taking care of the husband's child?"

The twilight still shook.

"Continue needing appreciation from whom? what's the point of you saying that?"

"I just want to be a good mother and wife to you as well as our children. Let's make you happy."

"And I'm pretty happy, baby... Even though you do not eat breakfast every day or dinner. Even though you don't have time to take care of Anna because she is busy in college. I'm staying happy. Because I am happy not from the food you serve. Not because of the clothes you prepared too." Baskara shook her head to further assert that that was not what she needed. Because it could have been done by a housekeeper if he wanted to.

"Many reasons make me happy living with you, ayy. Even trivial things like seeing your face while sleeping have brought peace in my heart. Bring happiness that I can't get from others."

"So you don't need to be perfect. Because no human is perfect."

Tears of Dusk are back. She was touched by what her husband said. It made her powerless to embrace her husband's body.

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