365 Days Towards Halal

72# 309HMH (Cemetery)

The sky was blackened this morning. A small drizzle drenched the earth at 9am this morning. There was a crowd of people dressed all in black in a cemetery complex, surrounding a burrow that has a depth of almost 2 meters. A person who helped in Jonathan's funeral came down to the burrow, followed by Raka who looked bitter. Raka takes Jonathan to his final resting place.

Raka welcomed Jonathan's body which had just been removed from the coffin and placed facing the qibla on the wet ground in the burrow. Tears kept melting on Raka's cheeks. Especially when he put his son's stiff body on the ground.

After doing some procession procedures to bury the body, Raka also moved out of the burrow and looked at the body of Jonathan lying slanted down there. The ground began to hoard the body of his son in the sobs of the relatives and families who attended the funeral.

Max, who was secretly present at the funeral, could only stand under a shady tree and watch from a distance. Max looked at Lala who was crying as Jonathan's body began to be buried. Max wiped his tears. He loved Jonathan. It was his disappointment that made the man leave Lala and Jonathan. Now, there were only deep regrets in him. He left Jonathan behind when the boy and Lala were in desperate need of him. But regret is regret. Such great love for Jonathan made him not accept that the boy was not his flesh.

Max was already feeling suspicious as he watched Jonathan grow up with slightly oriental-looking eyes. But he tried to shake it all off. He loved Jonathan so much that Jonathan was sentenced to suffer from blood cancer, also called leukemia.

Max proposes himself to sacrifice for the safety of the boy he considers his only son. After doing a series of tests, he realized that his blood type was different from Jonathan. Luckily, his suspicions were unwarranted, as Jonathan's blood type was the same as Lala's.

When the doctor says his spinal cord doesn't match, Max still understands. Because not all the spinal cord can fit, even if it's the flesh's own blood.

One night, Max recalls a man who caught himself and Lala eating dinner at a restaurant a few years ago. He felt that the face of the man was very similar to Jonathan. Curiosity is what drives him to secretly perform DNA tests on Jonathan.

Sure enough, the results of the test do not match. That is, he is not the real father of Jonathan. Pilu blushed, you could say like that. Max angrily goes home and meets Lala. At that time Jonathan was still treated at home and routinely consumed drugs prescribed by doctors who handle his disease.

With uncontrollable emotions, Max opens the veil in front of Jonathan. Jonathan who is already at the age of 6 years already quite understand the languages spoken by Max who scolded Lala in front of him. Jonathan's condition deteriorated. From then on, Jonathan began receiving intensive care at the hospital.

Secretly, Max filed for divorce and they officially divorced one month after the veil was revealed. Jonathan who was very close to Max felt shaken. The night Max scolded Lala, until she lay for months in the hospital, not once did Max come to see her. Therefore, the presence of Raka became a solace for Jonathan who lost the figure of a father.

Unfortunately Jonathan has to return to the creator's arms. Without being prevented by any human. The boy's departure left a deep regret from many hearts. Especially Madam Amara who had forbidden Lala to get in touch with Raka. If he did not forbid it at that time, maybe he had spent 6 years with Jonathan.

Likewise with Raka who does not follow her heart when she suspects Jonathan is her biological child. He regretted not immediately taking action on his curiosity.

And Lala, he felt sorry for telling Raka the truth in the last seconds of Jonathan's life. For several months, he hesitated to tell Raka. Because he was afraid, Raka would deny it. Apparently not, Raka immediately admitted it and believed that Jonathan was his biological son.

Jonatan was indeed the flesh blood of Lala and Raka. After all, Lala only had one partner before being together with Max. When she finds herself pregnant, Lala hesitates if Max is the father of the child she is carrying. Because she is a woman who understands when the last time she menstruates and when the fertile period. He also felt only with Raka, he spent the night during his fertile period.

Because of the sharp mouth of Lady Amara that was so painful, Lala could betray Raka on that cursed night. He, frustrated, chooses to spend the night with Max.

As entangled with Max who also wanted the throne in his Papi Lala company, Max also admitted that he had spent the night with Lala that night to his Papi Lala.

Inevitably, Max is asked to take responsibility with Lala. At the time, Lala was not pregnant. Wedding plans have been discussed and inevitably, a heart that is frustrated and heartbroken because of the insults of the lady Amara received Max's proposal.

Marriage was so short. Just two months after the onset of her one-night love with max. Just one week after the wedding at the title, Lala realized she was not menstruating. He suspected that if he was pregnant, the suspicion was supported by physical and health changes he experienced.

Lala decided to buy a tool to test the pregnancy and look for her own year. Sure enough, Lala found herself pregnant. But who is the father of the baby he is carrying? The raka? Max's?

Because he is married to Max, then Lala decided not to take a headache about who the biological father of the fetus.

9 Months have passed, Lala also gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 4 kilo grams and 50 centimeters long. Max's happy face made Lala feel happy. Although the baby's face is not similar to Manado's bloody max.

Over time, Lala becomes increasingly suspicious and convinced that Jonathan is her flesh and blood with Raka. How not, Raka's face is clearly visible on Jonathan's face. But, for the sake of household wholeness, Lala continued to put those feelings aside. But after all that was proven, Lala also revealed his honesty to Max when he already knew, if Jonathan was the son of Raka.

That's what makes Max feel cheated and have the heart to leave Lala and Jonathan just like that. Now, that regret is buried with the body of the boy who was so pleasant.

One by one the men who led Jonathan to his final resting place dispersed. Only Raka, Lala and the nuclear family remained in front of the wet mound.

Raka rubbed Jonathan's headstone with immeasurable sadness. In his heart kept praying for Jonathan, his flesh and blood.

Lala glanced towards the direction where Max was standing under the shady tree. Realizing that Max was there, Lala approached the man. Max wants to leave and doesn't want to meet Lala. However, he was already caught by Lala who called his name.

"Max!"

Max's footsteps halted, he turned his head and looked at Lala from behind his dark glasses wet with rain specks.

Lala stopped her step 5 meters from where Max was standing.

"There's a last message from Jonathan for you" Lala said.

Max opened his sunglasses and looked at Lala closely.

"Jonathan said he loved you so much,"

Tears spilled on Max's cheek without being able to hold it again. The man simply turned his face away and rushed away from the cemetery complex.

Crushed, that's what Max felt. A sincere man loves a baby who is not his flesh and blood.

Max sped up and entered his parked car outside the cemetery. He was crying so much. Regretting why he was so foolish to express his ego than to spend his last moments with Jonathan.

Isn't that his son too? In the law of the land Jonathan is his biological son, because Jonathan was present when he was the husband of Lala. Why he left the boy, when he knew, leukemia was very difficult to heal. Max really felt stupid and regretted everything that had happened.

Raka departs from Jonathan's final resting place. He was held captive by Madam Amara who felt sinful by what happened by Raka and Jonathan. Madam Amara began to feel that something was wrong with her. If he loves Raka very much, he should not make his child become like a doll, or what he wants. Raka is an adult, parents should support every positive thing or what is the choice of his child.

Loving us does not make us selfish. Real love is understanding, accepting differences of opinion and matters of taste. Support what is best for each individual.

Madam Amara looked at Raka's lethargic face closely as they were already in the car. Then, he grabbed Raka's hand and clasped her tightly.

"I'm sorry, Mother.."

For the first time, the selfish mistress Amara, apologizes with Raka. So surprised, Raka returned the gaze of Madam Amara in disbelief.

"Mother is selfish, I've learned enough from this experience. It was about time that Mom changed. You're right, you're not a puppet. Forgive Mom for being so outrageous to love you, that I want everything that's best for you. In fact, Mom was wrong. Only you know what is best for you" said Madam Amara with a sincere heart and tears of regret that broke her cheek.

"I'm sorry Raka is also Mom..." Raka said as she hugged Madam Amara tightly.

Today, all hearts softened, all hearts began to realize their respective faults. All hearts are opened by the almighty, to return to his path. Doesn't man have to have an example, in order to take wisdom from everything that happens?

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Not everything bad will end badly, if you want to realize there is God's love behind what happened. - De'rini-