A Sheet of Niqab For Inayah
Starting a New Sheet
The morning has revealed its light, all activities have passed in the house, ranging from ART to security who guard the front post. Mocha dress with a blend of black shoes has beautifully decorated the body of Inayah, long curls that dangle finely on her beautiful head. Inayah silently daydreamed in front of the mirror located near her dresser, looking at her reflection in the mirror.
"I don't even know where to go, not even the destination address I have. Somehow my life will be in the future, living alone in the outside world without the people I know. Are you sure I'll get my house and build a foundation under it? Is it possible that my dream of reuniting my father could be realized after this departure that I have decided?" All sorts of questions were struggling in Inayah's headspace, all the restlessness and a little fear mixed in her mind.
"I can! I can." Inayah started carrying a jumbo suitcase filled with her belongings, her soul spirit slowly grew in her life.
Inayah walked down the steps one by one, with a blue jacket that she rested on her right shoulder. Inayah looked at the whole house, from the top to the bottom floor, the house where many bitter lessons and memories she had encountered.
"Hope I don't find another house like you. Magnificent nan frown, broad, beautiful and beautiful, but there was never a spark of love in it. I didn't promise to be back here, but I'll always remember anything about you." Inayah smiled widely, she again continued her footsteps that soon arrived at the doorway.
"Shouldn't go, Nay? That's your decision so it can't be changed. Is there no time for you to think things over?" Suddenly a voice greeted me from behind. Inayah turned her gaze, seeing Bu Fira who had been standing on the right side of the stairs, she looked at him with sparkling eyes, as there was a little regret in Ms. Fira.
Inayah lowered her suitcase slowly, she approached Fira's mother and gently grasped her fingers.
"As you said yesterday, the right to religion is a choice, and everyone is entitled to their own choices. Being an atheist girl was not Naya ma's choice, and now I will make my own choice. My departure was not to leave you, but Naya wanted to feel loved and loved the choice Naya made, Naya wanted to deepen whatever Naya's choice would be." Whether the wind of tranquility blows from nowhere, Inayah's words are so full of tenderness, as Ikhlas has said hello, their problems have been like lost just like that.
"Go, if that's your choice. Hang on if you find happiness there, also go home if you hold back your longing for us. Now, you let go, like a pigeon flying far away. Look for a firm branch to stop by, fly high, look for beauties that you can make a source of happiness." Said Mr. Dany who immediately split the chatter of his wife and daughter.
Mr. Dany ran up to his daughter, he hugged her little girl's body very tightly. Inayah cried violently in her papa's embrace, tears continued to pour out relentlessly, the chest that was getting crowded held back the number of cries. The first beautiful moment he felt in his lifetime, feeling the warmth of being hugged by a father just like the people out there.
"Please promise us that you'll be fine there. If indeed there will never be a little longing for us, at least you do not forget the existence of papa mama here. Call papa if your money runs out, always involve papa in your distress, yes. No need to think too much about what will happen with your mom in the future, we stand on a road that has been set, just follow the storyline of life." Mr. Dany was not able to hold back his tears, he continued to cry while continuing to stroke Inayah's head.
Inayah and Mr. Dany began to release their hugs at each other, rubbing against the tears that were gushing on their faces.
"Naya pamit ya, pa ma, forget all what has happened maybe a little make our lives calmer, now we forget together huh? All the painful things we've ever met." A sweet smile began to radiate from the two sides of Inayah's lips.
Not long wait, finally a blue taxi car came and stopped right in front of the existence of Inayah who was standing with his mother papa. After all the goods were successfully put in the trunk, Inayah immediately entered the car which was filled with only one person, the taxi driver himself.
The wave of hands began to greet from the outside of the car glass, blank stares emanated from the faces of Mr. Dany and Bu Fira, all their regrets seemed to have been useless that day. The car started to go, the wave of hands and the smile began to disappear from Inayah's sight. Now there was only him and the driver in the taxi.
"Where is this going, mba?" The taxi driver started to say hello with his question.
Inayah was silent, what answer he would give, he himself did not know. Soon, his brain began to think, looking for a place to support him to get a house in it. However, his mind never found an answer, confusion still plagued his mind.
"E-eee, go to the bus terminal." Only a few sentences that he can say, maybe later he will think back to where he should go.
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After a long journey, the blue taxi that Inayah was riding had parked in front of the bus terminal located in the big city part of Jakarta. Inayah got down, then started carrying her belongings towards the ticket purchase.
"Where is the bus ticket?" Greet one of the employees who worked at the terminal.
"Where are you. I'm a nomad who wants to start living out of town, so to any city can, mas." Inayah gave her answer to the employee.
"Good! This is the ticket with seat number 09, please transfer his belongings to the bus located at the end next to the public toilet, departure at around 2 pm, 1 Hour before departure all must be on the bus." Obviously the bus employee gave directions while handing out a ticket that Inayah had paid for about five minutes ago.
