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"Sir, don't just talk!" Bayu jerks. That sentence he had heard since the last time they had a fight at the contract. However, it seemed like Aisyah's heart had frozen. He remained clumsy on his stance.

"I don't carelessly talk, Mas. I dared to say that after what you did to me. All this time I've been quiet hearing your father's slurs. In fact, even until I was insulted I was still silent. You know, Mom, how do I feel? Be ill. So hurt. And it hurts more when my own husband, the one who was supposed to protect me, just keeps quiet about hearing the insults."

Aisha spilled everything she had been craving all this time. No more tears flowing. Aisyah was already ignorant of the pain she had been receiving all this time.

"Sir, is Zahra's food ready? Here, you know, Zahra's fussy. It looks like he's hungry." Agung tried to divert their quarrel.

Agung knows, his son-in-law must be tired. He just wants Bayu to rest for a while, so when they talk later there will be no emotions that make them make the wrong decision.

"Yes, Sir. It's over, really," replied Aisyah. He immediately left Bayu in the kitchen.

"We have breakfast, son. You must not have eaten." Agung touching Bayu's shoulder.

"Eh, yes, sir. Bayu had breakfast on the street." Bayu had to lie. She felt bad about having breakfast at her in-laws' house. Moreover, Aisyah does not allow for breakfast. Although behind his words, Bayu's stomach has been rumbling since the trip.

"Then accompany your father to eat. Like you're here, you want to eat with your son-in-law."

Inevitably Bayu followed his in-laws' steps towards the dining table. He immediately took rice and vegetables after Agung. They just shut up. Bayu so enjoy the cuisine of his wife that the last few days he never got.

Agung who saw Bayu eating voraciously just smiled. Perhaps his lips could say no, but his heart and attitude could never lie to the middle-aged man.

Meanwhile, Aisyah who was feeding Zahra in the living room did not care in the least about Bayu. The distance of the living room with the dining room was not far, so Bayu could freely glance at Aisyah.

His heart ached when he remembered Aisyah's request for a divorce. Bayu could not imagine what life would be like without Aisha and Zahra.

"Disappear it bad, Yu? You notice from earlier just being turned around. Are you not feeling well anymore?" The Great Question surprised Bayu.

"No, Sir. Been in good health." Bayu immediately continued his very late breakfast.

It was getting late, but Aisha did not give Bayu a chance to speak. The woman preoccupied herself with homework. She ironed Zahra's clothes when her little daughter played with her father.

"If you had behaved like this before, maybe I wouldn't have been this determined, Mas" he said in his heart.

Aisyah's decision is unanimous. He didn't want to feel the pain any longer. She needs to be happy, because she is just a fragile woman. Despite all that he covered with silence all this time.

"Sir, you don't want to give your husband a chance?" The voice of Agung who was already standing not far from Aisyah, made the woman jump in shock.

"Father of Agagetin Aish aja," he grumbled.

"So from earlier I noticed, you daydreamed looking at your husband continuously," replied Agung.

"No, Sir. Aish doesn't want to hurt anymore. The problem of Bayu's parents, Aish can still accept, sir. But if there's another woman, Aish won't take any chances. It's better for Aish to go from Bayu's life than to be heartbroken to see them."

Agung had run out of words to persuade his eldest daughter. Actually he did not have the heart, how would the fate of his grandson later if Aisyah and Bayu divorced?

"Dek, it looks like Zahra is sleepy. Sana dironin. Let the mas iron Zahra clothes," said Bayu.

"Sir, you go to the house of RT sir first, yes. Said there was something I wanted to talk to you about."

"Yes, sir," replied Ayesha. Staring at the departure of Agung until his shadow disappeared behind the door.

Actually Aisyah was sad to see her father. Because at the age that is no longer young, Aisyah can not make her happy. Aisyah even added to the burden of Agung's mind with her household problems.

"I'm sorry Aish, sir," he said.

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Zahra was already asleep when Bayu went into the room. He saw, Aisyah also fell asleep next to her little daughter. It was very desirable for him to wake up Aisyah to talk about their problems. But Bayu did not have the courage to approach him. Bayu just sat in the corner of the room. Placed plastic mats are often used as a playground for Zahra.

For a long time, Bayu helped lay his body there. The breeze that blew from the window of the room seemed to lull his tired soul.

Not long Bayu slept. Maybe about 30 minutes. He woke up and found that Ayesha was no longer in the bed. As for Zahra, her little daughter was still deep in her beautiful dreams.

Bayu out looking for the figure of his wife. The woman was washing dirty dishes in the kitchen. Slowly Bayu approached the woman.

"Grandfather, come home later in the afternoon, yeah!" pinta Bayu.

"I mean, which house? Now Aish's house is here, Mas," Aish replied without turning her eyes to the dishes inside the sink.

"Go back to our contract, yes, Deck," pinta Bayu again.

"Go back to the contract to see the Bayu mas pay more attention to the woman? Sorry, Mas. Aish can't," Aisyah said.

"Please, Deck. Don't torture me like this."

"Torture? Didn't I feel like I had tortured Aish more cruelly than I currently feel?" Aish smiled cynically.

"Mas can't live without you. Please, come back to our contract." Bayu was desperate to persuade Aisyah.

For Bayu, the woman before him has now changed. He was not the Aisha he knew before. Aisha always obeyed everything that Bayu asked for.

"Mas don't bother if Mas's goal here is just to persuade Aish to come back. Mas wrong. I should have come to that woman. She needs Mas more than Aish and Zahra." A moment Aisha sighed. He tries to stifle emotions.

"God willing, Aish and Zahra can live alone. There's still a Father for Aish to lean on. Aish is sure, I will not hurt Aish's feelings, like Bayu mas who has incised a wound in Aish's heart." 

Bayu just kept quiet, the man could not reply to Aisyah's words. The regret had already hit his heart too hard, and was too painful. Until now, all Bayu felt was tightness in his chest.

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