Chapter 1: Burning Fire
The woman kept wailing, begging her husband not to go out with another woman——her husband's affair——and to raise their baby together. However, the man even cursed his wife harshly.
"Look, Yosi! Your son is still young, he is only seven years old. How dare you leave him for another woman."
"I have never loved you, Maurasika. This child was also not born of my will, I told you to just abort your pregnancy, you don't want it! It's your own fault. You take care of him! I can't take it anymore!"
Her heart hurt even more because it turned out that her husband really didn't love her and their son, even just human affection. Come to think of it, it should be him who couldn't stand it, not Yosi.
"Now, my father and mother are gone, I have nothing more to protect her feelings with this separation."
"Me! Me and our child!" Maurasika raised her voice.
"I do not care!" Yosi no less shouted loudly.
"Do you think, I loved you when I married you? You know Hilal and I were in a relationship at that time, almost married if your mother didn't ask my parents to marry off her son!"
A slap landed on Maurasika's cheek by her husband. The man is temperamental and easy-going. He hated Hilal his whole life. Hilal once made his sister crazy, to the point of committing suicide because Hilal chose Maurasika as a lover. With a cunning way, Yosi snatched Hilal's lover, married her and tortured the woman's heart. Meanwhile Hilal went away to treat the deepest heartbreak.
He thought, by destroying Maurasika's life, he could take revenge. Little did he know, he was the one who was devastated because he couldn't love Maurasika well. He often beats his wife. The abuse started when Maurasika's parents died in their fifth year of marriage. However, Maurasika is not a woman who is silent when oppressed, even if it is her husband.
"Enough! You are not human! Your heart is dead, you are even worse than a mindless beast. I will wait for you in court!" Maurasika threatens.
"If you hadn't acted earlier, your cheeks wouldn't have been a victim, My Future Ex-wife."
"Not only dealing with divorce, but also molestation!"
Yosi smirked, smiling disdainfully. Muttering the obvious "stupid" word. Then, he spat on the woman who gave birth to her son. Their son who is now witnessing the scene of his parents, which is considered to have broken hearts into pieces.
The child, named Arjuna Ronivanendra, was named by Maurasika. The little boy approached his mother when Yosi had left the house. Events like this he always witnessed in front of his eyes. To defend his mother, he did not have the balls.
"Arjun, get mama a drink, okay?" Maurasika said softly as she smiled at her son. As if to indicate that he was fine.
Arjuna complied. On the way to get water for his mother to drink, Arjuna's tears fell, streaming down his chubby cheeks. His heart could not accept the cruel treatment of his father. In the boy's heart a fire was lit. The fire of hatred, vengeance and a determination. Fire, still fire, is the basic ingredient of Satan's creation.
When giving a drink to his mother, Arjuna noticed the look in his mother's eyes. The little boy could feel how painful it was to be a wife of that human. How painful it is to be a mother to Arjuna.
Finished the mother gulped down the drink until the toilet, Arjuna hugged his mother.
"Mom, when he grows up, Arjun will be a good husband and a proud father for Arjun's family."
Maurasika's eyes instantly watered. She knew very well, that her son's mentality was trying to heal himself from the struggle over the trauma that his father had cruelly scratched.
Maurasika nodded, her arms tightened on the petite body.
"Without a promise, Mama would know, before becoming a good husband and father, Arjun is Mama's son who will always be filial."
Maurasika could no longer hide her tears. She didn't even have anything to hide. Sobs and sobs on the small shoulder of the seven-year-old boy she loves in her life.
"The only one I have never regretted from this suffering is Arjun. Arjun is my reason for everything in my life."
The child, following his mother, is now crying in the narrow and delinquent rented house.
It was a long night for both mother and daughter. No one could sleep thinking about how tormented they were.
Having the head of the household, but not being given a living, is also not reprimanded. Yosi seemed disgusted with them.
"I'm sorry mom, Son."
Maurasika stroked the head of Arjuna who pretended to sleep on her lap.
Arjuna wondered why his mother apologized. He doesn't know about adult problems. But, he understands the problems of his mother and father. More precisely, nature is forced to understand. This made him unable to be as cheerful as his friends. His mind grew, thinking how to make his beloved mother wipe away tears every night.
Thinking about how to help his mother in the economy and how to relieve the pain his mother was suffering. Unbeknownst to the little boy, he actually needed it.
Arjuna needed to wipe away his tears every now and then, needed to get rid of the pain that made him forget how to smile. Arjuna needed to forgive himself for feeling that he was the cause of his mother's suffering, plus he couldn't just defend his mother in front of the man he had announced in his life as his greatest enemy. Like the enmity of Azazil Iblis to Adam and his descendants. Such an enemy.
Once he caught his mother mentioning Hilal's name the other day. The name his father also mentioned earlier.
HILAL. From now on, he planted that name, for his mother's happiness. Maybe this Hilal can help his mother to face his father in court or whatever.
Once one day, when he often caught his mother mentioning Hilal's name in the silence, he asked Maurasika about Hilal. Of course it made Maurasika confused. Embarrassed to tell about Hilal, a good man who loves her. The man she was forced to betray for the sake of her devotion to her parents. Hilal, who still loves him. Hilal, now without him knowing, was waiting for him.
"Uncle Hilal is mama's best friend."
"Where is he now, Mom?"
Maurasika looked into her son's eyes. Maurasika's eyes flashed. Indicates the beautiful woman does not know.
"Send a letter."
Maurasika smiled. She never wrote to her ex-lover. She sent a letter to the address of Hilal's parents. However, there was no reply. Her only intention was to ask for help to find a job to pay for her only child.
So that Arjuna can go to high school, so that Arjuna can get treatment, for the healing of his heart. Trauma. Her son needs a psychiatrist to help him out of his slump. The cost of education and psychiatry is not cheap. She threw away her shame and prestige for the sake of the baby.
However, it seems that Hilal no longer cares. Or their families disappointed, heartbroken by Maurasika's betrayal. Promising to get married, but instead side by side on the aisle with another man.
To be continued....
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