(Not) The Substitute

Eps 18 - Anger That Shouldn't

As usual, Arfan always wakes up when the morning prayer is reverberating. He rushed to the bathroom and took ablution, then performed dawn prayers alone because Elnaz was in a hitch. And his little brother was still asleep.

After the dawn prayer, Arfan again prepared warm water for Elnaz and when he returned to the room he did not find Elnaz in his room.

There was a splashing sound of water from the bathroom, Arfan leaned against the wall near the bathroom door, waiting for his sister who must have come out with a limp face.

And sure enough, Elnaz looked very limp and pale. But Arfan was not worried, he laughed amusedly.

"If you were a brother, Dek. Every day see the blood, what's more brother will be a surgeon, sew human skin, surgical meat surgery. Must've been exciting..."

"No need to tell me either, El knows what the task of a surgeon like Kak Arfan" replied Elnaz ketus who made Arfan increasingly chuckle.

And what makes Arfan happy, Elnaz again does not use my word you again.

"Yes cook you dizzy just because you see blood, it's in your body blood you know" seduced Arfan again.

"Tau ah.." grumbled Elnaz then he went back up to the bed, pulled the blanket and looked for a comfortable position. After seeing his own blood he really felt dizzy and like he was about to faint.

Arfan justifies Elnaz's blanket and rubs her head still in the hijab.

"Yes, rest. Still her stomach pain?" ask her and Elnaz nodded small.

"Later to take the medicine again, now you want to take a shower because you have to go to the hospital this morning. Want to play blood in the hospital" tease Arfan who makes Elnaz sniffed.

He himself wondered why he could phobia against blood even on his own blood, this was outrageous. His thinking.

.........

Ms. Isna went out to shop for a mobile vegetable maker who is currently crowded with mothers shopping there.

Mother mother was also gossiping ria no less exciting with gossip infotainment.

"Oh my goodness, I really thought Elsa could be with Arfan. Though his courtship has long been, that's his name Elsa keepin soul mate Elnaz"

"Yes, selfish yes"

"Kasian Elnaz yes, a victim"

"Bu Isna same Mr. Malik is indeed favoritism anyway. What is always in the future is Elsa, it has become an open secret that mah"

"How will the fate of Elnaz and Arfan be?"

"Miris too, fiancee of her same sister married her same sister"

"Salah Elsa herself, just for the sake of a photo shoot whose results are unclear. She is too ambitious to be a model. My son said so too"

"Yes, Arfan was sacrificed. Even his sister"

"But Arfan is very dear to Elnaz, already like their siblings"

"As a little sister, but what about as a wife? Arfan is his love for Elsa, don't let Elnaz just be an impingement"

"It felt impossible, Arfan was much more attentive to Elnaz than to Elsa. Remind them the same time they fell from Elsa and Elnaz motorcycles to the market. Yg Arfan worried it was Elnaz, even brought to the ER"

"Yes, too, when Elsa and Arfan were dating"

"Arfan same Elnaz is suitable yes actually even though his age is far adrift. But they're just as good people"

Bu Isna clenched her strong hand strongly hearing the warm gossip about her mere puppet princess. He wanted to hit his mother. But he expressed his intention, Ms. Isna turned around.

He went to Arfan's house and just walked in with a face that looked very angry.

"Elnaz.." he shouted as he walked in.

Pak Adi and Bu Yuni were very surprised to hear the cry of Bu Isna.

"What's up, Is?" bu Yuni asked her sister-in-law.

"Where's your son-in-law? Dare her she spread gossip about Elsa" her screams angrily.

"He's... She's in her room" Bu Yuni replied a little spooky with the anger of her sister-in-law.

Pak Adi and Bu Yuni also followed Bu Isna who stepped wide to Arfan's room. Miss Isna also immediately broke down the door of Arfan's room so that made even the resting Elnaz was very surprised.

He was still weak but tried to sit down.

"Mama... What's up?" ask Elnaz limp while holding his stomach that still feels pain.

And without answering Elnaz's question, Miss Isna immediately slapped Elnaz making Elnaz very surprised and he immediately held her cheek that felt very hot and painful, the tears flowed freely back on her cheeks.

"What a job you are, El... Once you slander your brother, you're ugly until he becomes a neighbor's talk"

Elnaz was still speechless from the shock, his lips quivering and tears continued to flow profusely without being able to bear it. His heart ached and sore, he stared at his biological mother's nilar.

"Why do you have it, El... Huh?" shouted Bu Isna while shaking the shoulder of Elnaz who still looked shocked "Your brother's brother, El. She lost her future husband and now she's the subject of people's talk"

The cry of Elnaz was getting broken, at this time all the pain and all the fear filled his heart when he saw the anger that should not be in the eyes of the mother.

"You two are the same as my son, but why are you different from your brother, huh? Why should you spread shame about him? He never talks about you to anyone"

"Gossip...what?" elnaz asked finally with a brick.

"What rumors are you saying? How did anyone know your brother went for a photo shoot? Only our family knows that, Elnaz. And no one talks about it but you, surely you're the one who spread it so that people no longer think you're taking your brother's fiancee, so that people may blame your brother and sympathize with you" cried his mother.

The cry of Elnaz grew, he remembered that he had told Andy about it and it was possible from there that the source of the gossip was. But Elnaz never wanted to attract anyone's sympathy.

"You have heart, El. Did you not have a heart until it made your brother's life more messy" his mother sizzled and he left Elnaz's room after pushing Elnaz's chest, as if he hated her so much.

Bu Yuni and Pak Adi who saw it actually felt unbearable to Elnaz, what else Elnaz got slapped again. But they did not have the courage to stand up for Elnaz.

Pak Adi and Bu Yuni also left from Elnaz's room, leaving Elnaz who was still crying a mouthful.

Elnaz's chest felt very tight, his head was dizzy and his vision began to blur. Elnaz grabs his cell phone on the nightstand, searches for Kak Arfan's contact and contacts him immediately.

The call was immediately answered and the cry of Elnaz again broke when he heard the soft voice of his sister.

"Sister Arfan... Hix... Hiks..kak" said Elnaz who seemed unable to sound "El afraid... Hiks, Brother Arfan..."