Akad Shackle

Family Meetings (1)

Rahma's car driven by Tama has been parked in the parking lot of one of the luxury restaurants in Jakarta. Tama exhaled rough, since hearing if it turns out Rahma also approached him making Tama feel restless. His heart was not calm, during the trip the two of them were even more silent.

"Thank you sir" Rahma opened the seatbelt and prepared to get out of the car, intending to hold Athaya to sleep in the back seat.

"Wait" Tama's reflexes hold down Rahma's arm that will open the car door.

"Sir" Rahma was jolted because their current distance was so close. Tama realizes Rahma's surprise but she doesn't seem to care.

"I beg you, don't falter" said Tama with emphasis, making Rahma scrunch her forehead,

"I mean Father?" ask Rahma, please,

"Don't turn away from me, don't accept the man no matter what" Tama replied revealing something that had stuck in her heart since.

Rahma smiled, now she understood that Tama was really anxious to think about her meeting with the family of her late friend.

"According to Father, will I be that easy to waver?" Rahma asked back, she felt Tama still doubted her decision.

"I'm just scared" Tama replied honestly, she didn't want the same thing a few years ago to happen again.

"Then convince your heart whether you believe in me or not." Rahma's question suddenly made Tama round her eyes, she felt a little flicked with the sentence Rahma had just thrown.

"I mean..."

"You should have been convinced with your heart and mind when asking me to be a perfecter of half the father's religion. Because when the belief is stuck in the heart, the trust will grow by itself. Convinced that I was the right choice, and when the paddles came together that trust should have grown. That the commitment we make is not a joke" Rahma spoke at length, he just wanted to make it clear that what has become his decision is a big thing in his life. Been considered and ready to do it.

"I'm sorry, I love you too much and I'm afraid of losing you again" Tama's suddenly sad gaze, she felt guilty because her fear made Rahma feel if she doubted Rahma.

"Already sir, we've grown up to take responsibility for what we've decided. Thanks again for driving us"

Rahma got out of her car along with the sound of the phone in her bag, and at the same time Tama's phone rang. They looked at each other with looks as if they were reassuring.

"Assalamu'alaikum" said Rahma as she received her phone call,

"...."

"Yes, it's already in the parking lot"

"...."

"Yes, Athaya's sleeping"

"...."

"All right, wait a minute."

While Tama....

"Assalamu'alaikum"

"...."

"Yes, I'm near Pa's location"

"...."

"Fajar will pick me up, I'll shareloc"

"...."

"Yes, soon!"

Tama's conversation ended, he decided to go to the designated place to meet Dawn. Trustees who manage the family foundation in Jakarta as well as being the closest person to Tama who will take care of everything if Tama is in Jakarta.

A room that is quite spacious has been booked for a special family meeting tonight. Budi has brought all his family members to attend. Maya and her small family have not even been allowed to return to Yogya after learning of the meeting. As a friend of his late parents, he had great respect for his guest.

Doing good by extending friendship to friends of the deceased is one form of his service to both parents who have long left him.

Budi began to fret because the most important person in this meeting did not come even though he had asked his wife to warn Rahma so as not to forget to come to the meeting tonight.

"Assalamu'alaikum" said the greeting of Rahma who entered the room suddenly distracts everyone who was already in the room.

Behind him was Joseph who followed, he went to the sofa in the room to lay Athaya who was still asleep in her cradle.

The room that is booked for tonight's meeting is a special room for family meetings complete with facilities that will provide comfort for children. I chose this place because it was very comfortable.

"Wa'alaikumsalam" and everyone answered Rahma's greeting.

Rahma smiled kindly at everyone. He greeted one by one his family members and last ended up in a guest who was currently present.

"Sir, how are you?" asked Rahma to Pak Hakim, at the event the foundation was Rahma could only see it from afar when Pak Hakim as the owner of the foundation gave a speech.

"Alhamdulillah good Father" answered the Judge received Rahma's hand and rubbed the head of his friend's daughter wrapped in hijab.

"I'm sorry I was late, sir, was attending Athaya's event at her school" Rahma explained the reason for her delay in coming to the meeting.

"So you went to the foundation?" asked the enthusiastic Judge, confirming the news he had just received from the Rahma brothers, he said,

"Yes sir, I only saw you when giving a speech on stage" Rahma chuckled as she said that,

"Lho.why don't you rebuke me. Sorry if I didn't know you were coming. I'm so proud of your son's performance, he's so talented. Why didn't you tell me you sent your son there?"

The Judge praised Athaya sincerely, and rebuked Rahma who never said her son attended school there. Though they had met several times while following ta'lim in the mosque Baitur Rahmah.

He only knew for sure after talking with Rahma's family members if Rahma's delay came because she was still in her son's school, precisely in the foundation owned by Mr. Hakim.

He did not expect if the child who was this afternoon looking stunning on the penggung is the son of Rahma. During this time Mr. Hakim did not know if Rahma sent his son there because he only visited occasionally to the foundation, it was also more concerned with the affairs of the foundation management.

"Thank God, thank you sir for the compliment. Athaya wants to go to school there. You came with mom? mother where?" Rahma shifted the conversation, since she entered the room she only saw the guest Judge who was present. Previously he had not known his wife Pak Hakim, because when he met in Garut first when his father died he was not too focused on people who came.

"Mother was there, she had received a call from her son" joked the Judge, who said her son was accompanied by the laughter of all who heard him.

Nearly twenty minutes passed, and the food was already there. His wife, Mr. Judge, had not returned, but he had said he would take a call from his son who had not yet arrived.

"Sorry, you've been hungry for a long time" the Judge's wife re-entered the room with an apology for being away for too long.

"Mother...." Rahma suddenly stood up when she saw the middle-aged female figure but looked still beautiful and fit to enter the room where they gathered.

"Huh....mbak Rahma?" exclaimed the woman was no less surprised to see the whereabouts of Rahma.

"Do you know each other?" tanta Pak Hakim and Budi compact, and answered a nod by the two of them who immediately approached each other and shook hands and cheekika cipiki each other.

"Of course Pa, this is Rahma's mom. Papa's favorite cake shop owner who likes to buy mama" replied Mr. Judge's wife first,

"I mean mama she's the one...." Mr. Judge did not continue his remarks because his wife immediately nodded her head with a fluffy smile adorning his face.

"Wah.wah..wah..turns out the world is narrow yes" said Mr. Hakim later, he who had stood when he saw his wife and Rahma turned out to know each other again sitting in his chair.

In contrast to Mr. Hakim and his wife who smiled happily, Budi, his wife and sisters actually looked at them confused. They don't know what's really going on.

"Hahaha...you must be confused why we are so happy?" finally, the Judge spoke to unravel the confusion on the faces of his best friend's children.

"My wife and I had an argument about this matchmaking plan. He said that he had found the right woman for our son and my wife was very fascinated with that woman. But I refused, this time our son had to follow my direction. Previously my wife had betrothed our son to a woman who turned out not to be his match" Mr. Judge sighed pausing his words,

"It was unexpected that we were arguing over the same woman, haha.." the judge concluded with a laugh that showed that he was very happy.

"I mean Father?" Rahma begins to string together the pieces of the incident she experienced, which Rahma knows if the mother who is currently sitting next to her is her mother Tama. He learned that when he first met Tama who came to pick up his mother who was his subscription buyer.

"I forgive Mbak Rahma's mother. Mom had thought to match you with Mom's son, didn't you guys previously have trouble getting to know each other? and the mother was happy to turn out that the woman referred to by papa was the same woman as the mother's expectations, namely mbak Rahma" Mother Judge began to unravel the tangled threads that swirled around the head of the Rahma family, including Rahma.

Bu Hakim also told of his meeting with Rahma and his intention to match his son Pratama Ardhan Hakim with Rahma. Everyone understood and was grateful for this unexpected event.

"Aa leave everything to you Dek" Budi began to give room to Rahma to decide. During listening to the story of Mr. Hakim and Mr. Hakim Rahma just kept silent with his confused face and all of it was caught by Netra Budi who always pay attention to the slightest thing his sister did.

" I....." Rahma was confused where to start.