A Hijab for Me

eps.14 like a prisoner

The night was excruciating, I couldn't sleep a bit. I could only curl my body while crying. I kept a great distance from Ahmad while still with him, but now, I'm even rooming with a foreign man in an environment that I don't know what his name is.

I had just tried to close my eyes, but I remembered, this is still the holy month of Ramadan. I almost forgot about it. Suddenly I felt like I was losing the peace and warmth I had.

I looked at the clock on the wall of the room, and the time had already indicated the time of dawn. I got up from my place and looked around.

"I'm stupid, I don't even know where the kitchen is." I thought.

So I only drank a glass of water provided from the first moment I entered this room.

I decided not to go to bed because it was dawn soon. But sure enough, I don't even know if there's a mukena here or not. And again, I don't dare to wander around just to find water for ablution. So I do not use mucenae and perayamum or can be called purifying myself with dust.

In the morning, I just sat on the floor. And suddenly the man in my bed woke up. But he looks weird.

"Hey who are you, intruder?" The man looked surprised to see me.

"Emmm... What do you mean?, my brother Farhan was brought here yesterday." I was obviously with him.

"God... I just remember now." The man muttered alone.

Then he got up from the bed and was about to get out of the room, but I stood up and asked...

"Excuse me... Where's the bathroom?" I said out loud.

The man turned around with his eyes still slightly closed while pointing in a direction, then he left and closed the door.

"Wahh... What paan him, is he really a guy yesterday who likes to be angry, but today it seems.., what because it is still sleepy yes, or maybe he has a double personality." Mumbles.

I paced around for a few minutes looking for the bathroom he showed me, I couldn't find a place, but I found a strange room.

I entered the room and was surprised. The room was filled with weapons, both modern and traditional weapons.

Seeing that I could only swallow my saliva while being frightened. I walked back and I was going to get out of the room. But one of the people there saw me and called me.

I was shocked and ran out of the house. But what power, too many people in his house. I was caught and kept rebelling and begging to be released.

"What is this storm?" Again the man came down the stairs in neat clothes.

"He's trying to escape the boss." Say one of the men there.

Clangs... The sound of an iron door opening.

I was forced to enter the room.

"Please let me go, I promise I won't mess around again." I begged the man who was often called the boss.

"Don't let him out until I've ordered him out." Said the man to his men.

"No... Please let me go." I screamed while crying. But their power ignores my plea.

Again, my situation looks sad. I sat on the floor with a mat.

"Maybe it's true he's a multiple personality." Mumbles

Suddenly my phone rings.

"Oh yeah cell phone, why can I forget?" I asked myself. I was so happy to hear someone call me so I answered the call.

"Assalamu'alaikum Ut, how are you?" Tenyata Mia who called, but since when did Mia start the phone conversation with greetings.

"Wa'alaikumsalam Mi, Mi help me Mi, help gu..." My words were cut off by Mia

"Stttt... You shut up Ut, I want to confide, you know the Rendi, he's his son manisss really, yesterday I went to the market alone because Rani again to his house. Well my bike is leaking, fortunately there is Rendi, he's my screwdriver while carrying my broken bike, he's pretentious, we fell into dong ditch, dong dung, but instead of being angry ehh he even ngetawain me. I swear I am very happy. Ohh yeah btw you want to ask for help what Ut?" Mia asked me after a long story.

"Ohh... If Ahmad mah I also know, he's fine, just relax...., you yourself how to follow your brother, exciting not there?" ask Mia.

"Se... Excited kok Mi, I get a lot of new acquaintances, people are diverse and also good all, I will also enter the University that I wanted from the first Mi. Yaudah Mi, healthy always yes!" I replied to Mia by continuing to hold back my tears.

"Gee... I'm so ngiri same you deh Ut, when I go there, and you're also healthy always Ut, Assalamu'alaikum."

"Wa'alaikumsalam." I hung up the phone.

"Sorry Mi I lied, and I hope you won't come here Mi." I'm talking to myself.

2 Hours later...

Someone came over with a plate of rice for me. "It's eat!" his orders to me

"Sorry I'm fasting, I can't eat now, can you bring me the food later?" I asked him.

"Oohhh, bothered very much, yes just eat this food later when you can already eat." He refused my request.

That guy's leaving but I'm preventing him for a minute. "Wait..., where's the guy you call the boss?" I asked again.

"He's not around, he's on business, maybe he'll be home tomorrow afternoon." Answer again.

"Then what about my college, he said I'm going to college today?" I just kept asking him until it might make him a little angry.

"Hmmm... The boss told me that you don't have to go in today, there's a problem so your lecture will be postponed. Hmmm." He answered with a slightly annoyed expression.

"Yes thank you." I answered and then he left.

Looking at this guy, I'm not afraid, I don't think he looks a little silly. And he seemed to want to get angry earlier, but why should he hold it, if he was a bad person would usually immediately reveal it without further ado.

Ahmad POVs

I went to see Mia

"Mia´s... Did you call Tari?" I asked Mia.

"Already, he said he was fine even he was going to enter the University he dreamed of from long ago."

"Thank God, then did he not ask about me?" I asked again.

"Emmm... Actually he asked you about it". Answer Mia

"That's doang???" I was a little disappointed because I deviated from my estimate.

"Sorii yes, I actually mostly confided to Tari, so she might have been lazy to ask the others." Mia Say.

"It's really bad, even though I told you to call Tari, I'd be back first." I went to Mia.

Utari POVs

I still sat there mourning fate while waiting for the adzan magrib. But I started to suspect, it should have been past the magrib clock, so I looked for the clock, I saw the clock that was a little bit away from my room, and sure enough, it was already very late, I immediately canceled my satisfaction with a glass of water.

I pray magrib and will eat my food. I had just eaten one mouthful, I spit it out again, the rice was slimy and smelly. Maybe because this food has been exposed to room temperature for too long.

I didn't eat anything that day, so I just sat down and laid down my body which felt very weak. Before long, I was coming to pray and lay down.

I fell asleep for a while, but suddenly I felt my stomach hurt, I kept holding it with all my might. I know this might be the effect of Magh's pain. But this time it seems to be out of bounds.

I moaned in pain and for a long time everything looked dark.