
Heavy rain drenched the earth in the middle of the dry season, no lightning just a splash of water that fell from the sky and so dark tonight.
August is the peak of the dry season, for some reason the rain suddenly fell very fast which is visible on the windowpanes of a simple house located not far from the edge of the city.
Two middle-aged women were chatting while enjoying a warm tea and a plate of fried bananas.
The sound of the door opening, Aini's mother and a woman of her age also turned to the figure of the girl who entered the wetness.
"Humaha"
"Oh sorry ma'am, I don't think there are any guests"
"Darling why force you to go home when it's still raining?"
Aini's mother immediately brought a towel for the girl.
Soon the woman who was still wearing the jacket wiped her body with a towel given by Ms. Aini.
"Here, is she your daughter?"
"Yes, this is my girl named Aisyah Humairah"
"Good night aunt, sorry if I'm not polite" Humairah said as she greeted her mother's friend.
"Oh baby you're prettier than I thought, what will auntie call you?"
"Mother called me Humairah bi, father called me Aisyah, then my college friend called me Mairah only and auntie could call me one of the ones I mentioned," replied the girl with a friendly smile.
The woman looked sparkling to see Aisyah Humairah even though the girl was drenched, especially received a hand welcome from the beautiful girl in black hijab with a dimmed face.
Aisyah Humairah, who will be 20 years old at the beginning of September, has an oval face, a sharp nose and has dimples, clear brown eyes and has ant-tiled eyebrows.
Despite not having the height of a model, but Humairah is quite perfect as a woman who is slim and petite.
Aini's mother laughed softly.
"Let's go, dry your body after getting dressed up come over here Aunt Rika wants to chat with us"
The girl nodded then immediately passed towards her room.
"Here, I like it so much with just a first glance, come on, friend.we can make our jokes real when young first, I really hope you want to give Aisyah as my daughter-in-law"
Said the woman named Rika while holding the hand of Aini's mother.
"We ask the host directly, I don't want to force him, Humairah has her own choice Rika, I don't want to sacrifice her dreams just because of an arranged marriage that she doesn't necessarily want, ' she said, not necessarily your son's going to want it anyway"
Aunt Rika looked gloomy to hear it, she really hoped that the girl named Aisyah Humairah would become her daughter-in-law.
"My son's a submissive boy, I don't want him to misstep. You know, Aini, I don't want my son to marry that woman, I don't approve...."
"Isn't Alif going to have a wedding later, what if he doesn't want to receive Humairah? my daughter's gonna get hurt"
"I assure you, your daughter is beautiful and kind like that where there is a man who rejects her Aini, after all reflecting on our marriage first, we are betrothed but lasting until we are old like now"
Aunt Rika seemed to insist, she continued to persuade her old friend to betroth their child.
"I will talk first with mas Ihsan and Humairah of course"
Rika nodded in agreement, their eyes simultaneously looking towards Humairah who walked over with her pajama stelan and the home instant hijab.
Humairah smiled then approached her mother who had reached out to her.
"Here, I'm really in love with your daughter... I hope this plan goes well, there is nothing happier for me than this match, I really want Aisyah to be my daughter-in-law"
Humairah was quite surprised and confused by the statement of aunt Rika who he had just heard clearly.
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Humairah Pensive, he only played his pen since earlier in front of a laptop that was lit.
I don't know what the girl thinks, until two friends intend to give her a surprise in the form of ice cubes that they remove from boba drinks in the hands of one of them.
One of Humairah's female friends put the small ice cubes into Humairah's white shirt by revealing the hijab slightly upwards.
"Aishhh Lola"
Humairah closed her eyes feeling a piercing ice-cold chill in between her clothes at this moment, her eyes glancing at the two amused chuckling friends beside her.
"Are you guys out of work, what if my shirt gets wet"
Rutuk Humairah was annoyed at the two people closest to him since the beginning of college.
"I'm sorry, baby, don't get angry when you get old. Come on, I'm just wondering why you've been so moody ever since"
"Are you in trouble?" ask a friend who is a man.
Humairah.
"This is not usually, you don't even have any problems in your life during this time Mairah, your life is smooth as a toll road"
A girl named Lola is connecting.
"Your life is perfect, your loving parents you're an only child, your lover is handsome and smart, the chairman of BEM again, your life is simple away from trouble, don't tell me you're still lamenting your cat who died last month, you know, you're still, come on Mairah it's just a cat, I'm tired of hearing that"
Lola spoke fluently as if she could guess the problem her friend was facing.
"Why you've always been Lola's fortune teller, my problems are so hard right now"
"News or not? I'm going back to Desy's mother's room, don't let the fat woman get angry again like yesterday, anyway I'm surprised we're apprentices but not their manners nor is it"
It was the turn of a man named Aji who cursed their situation now.
"Patience baby, we've only been here for a week and we've been out of this place for too long, anyway I hope that if I graduate later I can work in this office, I like it here"
"Yes because you're busy spreading charms," Aji's annoyed.
Lola and Aji are two friends of Humairah in her class since the beginning of college, their friendship is sincere and support each other.
They argue that makes Humairah upset.
"You always ignore me if you have a topic that makes you like Tom and Jerry. I'm just content to be your audience arguing there's no end to this"
"You can tell me now," Lola pushed Humairah's body slowly to sit back in her chair.
"I'll be betrothed"
"What?"
Lola and Aji were both surprised.
"Don't joke, where there's matchmaking today," Aji said, refuting and laughing.
"I'm serious"
"Wait.. wait... Did you say you were betrothed?"
Mairah nodded innocently.
"Who?"
"I don't know, yesterday my mother's old friend visited me somehow until the aunt and my parents intended to match her children"
"Then you agreed?" Aji who listened since then also spoke.
"How can I refuse, I don't want to disappoint them"
"Well, what about Rasya?"
"I don't know if I'm upset right now, you're not helping"
"Hallo... What can we do for you? talk to your parents if you want to reject their plans? who are we, baby? just a snot kid like a dust grain"
Lola pinched her best friend's cheek in a fit of anxiety.
"Anyone knows your candidate is smarter than Rasya, richer than Rasya and certainly not a college student like us"
Aji responded casually.
"I agree with you baby, you are mature enough to respond to this kind of problem, are you also going to leave me for the woman your parents will betrothed? can you do that to me?"
Lola stared intently at her lover.
"I'm wrong to say again, okay I'm sorry"
Continue Aji again who is lazy to argue because of this.
"I'm really upset"
Humairah laid his head on the table.
Not long after, another friend called them.
"Have you forgotten what time it is? only you who have not gathered in room A, soon the CEO comes, do not make our group value to zero because it is not disciplined"
With a lazy and careless step Mairah and her two best friends follow their friends to room A.
"You go in first, I want to pee"
Lola and Aji nodded in understanding. Humairah walked with his mind that went somewhere to the toilet.
Coming out of the toilet Humairah was relieved, he developed a smile then stepped into the sink to improve his appearance, but just coming out he saw a man also coming out of the toilet next to him.
"Aaahhh who are you? why did you go into the ladies' room? oh did you peek at me pee?" Mairah panicked, without thinking long he took the trash can beside him and then beat the man mercilessly until the contents of the garbage can were also scattered there.
"What's? Hey miss what are you doing?" The well-dressed man dodged when Mairah hit him with a garbage can.
"Based on a pervert, you purposely came in here to peek at women peeing, right? huh I won't let you live, I'll report you to the police, I feel harassed like this"
"Please... Please..."
Humairah continued to babble shouting, he became unfocused with whom he was facing now, the man caught this girl's hand in order to stop hitting her.
"Stop!"
Humairah was surprised to hear the man snapping at him.
"Are you aware of what you've done madam? I think you're wrong, don't just accuse. Look at this all right!"
The man pulled Humairah's hand towards the toilet door for the girl to read clearly the writing there.
Humairah fell silent after her eyes read clearly that it was a men's toilet.
"Do you see what you've done? my clothes are dirty"
"Oh I'm sorry sir, once again sorry"
Just an apology that the girl could say, she became embarrassed herself had been mistaken especially she was so careless to just hit the foreign man in front of her.
Humairah was scared.
"Go, because you're a woman of course I can't repay you"
"Sorry....."
"Don't keep apologizing, I told you to leave before my mind changed!"
"Okay, but what about this?" ask Humairah about the garbage cans scattered with their contents.
"Are you cleaning service?" ask the man to turn around.
Humairah shook his head quickly, "No, I'm an intern at this office"
"really? good thing I'm still an intern if you're an employee I'll fire for not being thorough and already harming others"
Said the man while leaving Humairah standing there.
"What's? fired? whatdoes thatmean? haaahh? or maybe he's the boss of this office? O God, what have I done, I die.. What if he revokes my apprentice permit here? or he'll report my actions to the supervising lecturer, this is really a bad sign, why the wrong toilet"
Humairah spoke to himself while cleaning the trash cans and their contents.
The handsome man named Alif Zayyan Pratama 30 years old has a high stature, athletic body and a handsome face like a professional model, a, a CEO of PT Jaya Pratama company where Humairah interns at the moment.