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The Ustazah
The ex-wives


I came across this short story about a girl whom father betrayed her mother not once, but twice. And maybe there are lots more in future. Just thought of sharing it..
She never ever thought that this is happening, again. If someone asked her, have you ever expected this to happen, her answer will be a definite no. She asked God, why her? Why them? She kept asking, and asking and asking until she get weary and get no reply. This happened once before. She used to be a little young woman who sat on the staircase, peeking through, witnessing everything and listening to every single utterance. Understand nothing that was happening before. All she knows is, she cried, her mother cried, her father yelled, her brother was protecting her mother. The house was in a total confusion. All of a sudden, it became hushed. No other sounds but tears. You can hear the sound of woman crying and wiping away tears, and her mother stood up straight, pretending that nothing has ever happened to her and acts as if she is still the same strong woman she used to be. But her mother is really one strong lady, inside and out.
At night she cries her heart out, thinking that things might not be the same anymore after this. Never will it be the same. She’s thinking whether she can change it? Does she have the guts to do so to save what’s precious for her? She cries and keeps crying. The next morning she wakes up, she’ll be all fine. As if she’s forgotten all the despair and her tears she shed last night. She wonders, is she going to grow up like this? She wonders, will she be able to make it trough? Can she pull it off without a father? Can she hold strong for her mother? She can never answer those questions. Those are fate, she thought. She can never answer her own fate.
Her mother stays the same. Her mother shows no sign of regression or even sadness. She wonders how can her mother be this strong when she have had gone through it before, once. Was it because the past has made her tougher and more mature in handling the same matter now? Or was it because she’s a grown-up? Or was it God who gave her mother such an extremely great patience? She keeps on wondering. She knows now, that a woman holds a dignity in each of their soul. They carry it everywhere they go, in whatever they utter. And a woman shall not let there be scratch on their dignity. Not in any way it might be.
She swore she will never grow up to be like the two women who has put her mother is such a pain. Pain that is unbearable and can never be described with words. Never in her life. She swore. And she swore again and again, that she will stand up for her mother. She will make her mother’s pain and heartache repaid. She will ensure that whoever dares to ever hurt her mother again will have to go over her dead body. She will prove to the world that her mother is worth to be respected, not fooled. Not anymore.