ALINEA LOVE

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Seeing his brother leave under such circumstances infuriated Sky. He approached Almeer, pulled up Almeer's shirt collar and pushed his body against the wall of his fence.

"What did you do to him!?" Sky tried to contain his anger.

"Deliver! I don't want to make a fuss." Almeer said with a cold face and the look of his sharp eyes.

"You've made a scene here!" Flinched Sky, he pushed back Almeer's body against the wall and took off the rough grip of his hand on Almeer's collar.

Almeer tidied up his shirt, "We're talking there." Almeer pointed to a small garden near where they lived.

They both went to a park no wider than Almeer's yard. There were some long benches and toys for the kids. Sky and Almeer sat on one of the benches, not too close, they gave each other distance.

"What did you do to him?" Sky doesn't want to waste time.

"Both of your brothers like me."

Sky quickly looked at Almeer. Crazy one! Love is asking for my dress, the unbelieving Inner Sky.

"Mina sent me a CV of invitation to ta'aruf and a few days ago I gave her an answer."

"I know you must have rejected it and I know who you like." Guess Sky, his cold face was staring at Almeer.

Almeer. "And earlier, Sora saw Mina's CV ta'aruf. He must have been very hurt, his tears were falling very much. His heart must have hurt.." He stared blankly ahead, all he had in mind was the face of Sora who was crying.

"Then what made you reject Sora?"

"You know better the reason than anyone there." replied Almeer.

Sky snorted in annoyance, "You threw away your feelings for that reason of yours?"

"Yes" replied Almeer very confidently.

"Huh! So awkward!"

"I don't want to ruin the relationship between brother and sister."

Sky fell silent unable to respond to Almeer's statement. He realized, it's not just about taste but also family.

***

"Ikhlasin only if Almeer does not want to. In shaa Allah there are still many good men out there, surely Allah is ready for you. Especially now that you are getting closer to God, surely you will get a husband who is also close to God, son. Don't worry...,"

"But Almeer is different, Ma. He's different, just different...,"

"There will be better than him, honey. Slow down, yeah."

"Well, you don't support me with Almeer anymore?"

"Not so, Mama just doesn't want you to linger in grief anymore, honey."

In her tears Sora recalled the conversation with her mother on the phone yesterday the day after tomorrow. It was a little strange when her mother no longer supported her. And now he knows why his mother suddenly changed her mind.

Sora takes his car just circling the city of Jogja, he does not know where to go. Even he himself did not know where he was.

The sky was getting dark, the sound of adhan maghrib echoed throughout the city. Sora began to be confused about where to calm down. He stopped his car in one of the mosque's courtyards on the outskirts of Jogja. Not for worship, for it is not yet holy. He just doesn't want to walk without direction anymore and make it further away from home.

Sora turns on the lights in the car, looking for his phone but does not meet. And he just realized if he went to just bring himself and the vehicle. There was no phone or wallet he had.

"Oh my God, I want to call my mom. Who do I have to talk to? my chest hurts, it's tight, '" he hugged the wheel of the car and leaned his head there.

Long Sora was in the car until adzan isya' was reverberating. Sora was still trying to understand the circumstances and situation he was going through. He doesn't know why his love story always ends badly. Last time he was betrayed by his own best friend, and this time he liked the same man as his sister.

Sora straightened his body, he remembered something. Almeer rejects Mina, which means she has no feelings for Mina, Sora's inner self.

But he immediately rejected his own conclusion. There's no way he's competing with his own sister, given Almeer's younger brother's first love.

"Oh God..." Brother again.

Sora took a deep breath and took it out slowly, he did it a few times to calm down then went out of the car.

The fresh air was enough to help calm his chaotic mind a little. The woman, who was wearing a robe and a light brown headscarf, was sitting on a wooden bench near the terrace of the mosque.

"No Prayer, Ma'am?" ask a mother who just came out of the ablution.

"May's period, Mom." Answer Sora

"Oooh, yeah. Excuse me first." The mother continued her steps into the mosque.

The sky of Jogja city was getting darker, Sora had already started to fret about himself. He himself did not know where he was, and how he could go home.

Moments later the mosque started to come out one by one. He found the mother who greeted him out of the mosque and sat down next to Sora.

"Sit's a ride, Ma'am." Her speech.

"Yes, Mom. Please." Sora slid her butt slightly to split the seat.

"Who are you waiting for?" The mother opened the conversation.

"Wait for nobody, Mom. I'm just taking a break." Sora replied, "Whose mother is waiting for you?"

"Wait for my son who is learning to read the Qur'an." The mother pointed inside the mosque, Sora stared inside the mosque for a moment.

"Ooh, it's all grown up, Mom."

"Yes, it's never too late to learn. Thank God my son can be guided, want deket same creator. He has a desire to be able to enter one of the State universities in Jakarta, Ma'am. I was very pleased that he became diligent in prayer...,"

Sora nodded. "Alhamdullillah, Mom. I also just hijrah, just closed the aurat, just felt the same God these few weeks. Because the guy I love really loves his creator.hehe." Sora blushed in embarrassment. "But now everything is in vain... "

"Looooh, there is nothing in vain in emigrating, Ma'am. Nothing...,"

Sora looked at the middle-aged woman sitting beside him.

"Indeed, if you don't get a guy that Mbak likes, Mbak will open the hijab?"

Sora shook his head quickly, "No, ma'am."

"That's, Ma'am. Nothing is in vain. God is turning hearts. Everyone has their own story about the hijrah, with the passage of time, the success or failure of our original intention to emigrate, God will bring our special heart intention to emigrate because of Him. Maybe you don't get the desire, Ma'am. But, Ma'am is now getting better personal than ever. Blessings, Mother."

Sora fell silent, he confirmed all the words of the mother. He felt a little relieved after hearing the advice.

"He's never been seen here, just moved in here, huh?"

Sora smiled shyly, "Actually I'm lost, Mom."

"Well, how can you? it's been lost."

"I'm from Jakarta, Mom. I haven't lived in Jogja for two months. If everywhere there is sending, but because I am again emotional so I go out alone. Call people home but don't take the phone."

"Looh, be careful if you are emotional instead bring your own vehicle. The dangers..." The mother pulled out her phone, "Connect your family first. Must be worried."

Sora shook his head, "Can, Mom?" ask Sora.

"Yes, Please."

Sora picked up the phone and pressed a few numbers on the phone screen. Connecting tone start connecting

"Agaaaa..."

***

The night is getting late, the situation in the cafe has begun to quiet because the cafe closing hours stay a while longer. And Almeer was still faithfully standing on the porch of his house. He stepped here and there with a troubled and worried face. Highlight his eyes did not stop stalking Sora's house, hoping that the woman who left crying would return soon.

"It's still here, Al?"

Hiko's question is how many times he asked his son. He was sitting on a rattan chair on the porch of his house.

"Wait for her sister, what's her sister?" ask Hiko.

Almeer had no intention of answering his papa's questions.

"Meera told me about the incident this afternoon, Al."

Almeer turned to look at his father.

"Don't make it complicated, so guys have to be firm. If you like, say you like, if you don't like, say you don't like. How you want it, follow it. Love problems he thinks use the heart, not the brain, Al."

"It's not that easy, Pa. Al got a lot of considerations—"

"Why? because they're brother sisters?"

Almeer. "Sora misunderstood, she thought Al rejected her for liking Mina."

Almeer gave no answer, he sat in a rattan chair beside Hiko.

"Father can't read your heart and mind, Al. But if you don't want any misunderstandings. Explain to them your reasons, be honest with your feelings. Want later you at least one or both or none of it is your business. What matters is that you're honest first...,"

"Yes, Al. Don't get caught up in your own feelings." Ruby just joined in.

"I don't want to let them down on each other let alone fight, Ma."

"Sholat first, dear." Ruby rubbed Almeer's back, "Begging for a clue, who's the best among those who deserve to be your wife."

"Already, Ma. And I've decided not to choose both, Ma." Almeer.

Hiko and Ruby looked at each other, trying to guess where their son's mind was headed.

"If you don't choose both, then why are you here confused, worried, wara wiri not clear like this?"

Almeer fell silent again, but he stood up when he found a car stopped in front of Sora's house.

"Pa, Mama. I'm out of the shit." He then ran to Sora's house.

His steps slowed down when he found Aga coming out of the car. He didn't find Sora there, just a tall, cold-faced man.

The two of them just kept quiet and stared at each other.

"Why this time I want to give you my punch." Aga.

"Is he okay?" ask Almeer.

"Your pleasantries are very old." Aga then walked away from Almeer.

"Tell me where she is."

Aga ignored Almeer's question and continued to step inside Sora's house.

Almeer only let out a long sigh, shuffling her hair showing how frustrated she was thinking about Sora's state.

***

The dark sky slowly faded away as the sun began to prepare for its entry. The orange color in the eastern sky contrasts sharply with the dark color on the western side. The chirping of the birds began to sound as the opening chants of the day.

"Mas Al's? Still here?"

Meera, who found her brother sitting in the lounge on the second floor of her house, was still watching over Sora's house.

"Meera thought she finished morning prayers and went to bed, Mas. Don't know if it's still here."

"Mas can't sleep yet, Deck." Answer Almeer.

"Oh Allah, Mas Al. Is that worried about Sora?"

Almeer nodded, "How is Mas worried, Meera. I hurt him, he left with a wounded heart."

Ameera could only see her restless brother.

"Mas Nemuin Sky first yes, Meera."

Almeer immediately ran when he saw Sky coming out of the fence. He hurried down the stairs and went to Sky.

"Look!" Call Almeer, stop the man from getting in the car.

Almeer adjusted his breath when he arrived in front of Sky, running like that was enough to make his breath beheaded.

"How's Sora doing?" ask Almeer.

Sky folded his arms around his chest and leaned his back against the door of the car that was still closed.

"Has he gone home?" Almeer looked around the Sora family car park, but there were no cars used by Sora there.

"He didn't come home, he slept in Aga's house." Answer Sky.

Almeer was slightly dumbfounded at Sky's sentence.

"Back here is a change of clothes and needs." Sky tapped on the window of the car behind him, then gave Almeer his car keys. "You can take that to him."

"Send me the address, you still have my number, right?"

Sky nodded, then he left and Almeer went straight into Sky's car. After receiving an address from Sky, Almeer drove his car to Aga's house.

A luxurious housing in the city of Jogjakarta became Almeer's destination. Even at the entrance the guest checking entered was very strict, but Almeer passed through it easily. A security guard also indicated the direction of Almeer's destination address.

The man stopped his vehicle in front of the house which stood luxurious and magnificent with iron fenced with unique carvings . He looked back at his house number, really making sure it was Aga's house.

Almeer got out of the car and approached the small building that became the security guard room.

"Can you help me, Mom?" ask the security guard who is still relatively young.

"I have a need with Sora, to take her clothes." Almeer showed me the bag he was carrying.

"Oooh, Non Sora... Monggo, please come in. Mas." The security guard opened the gate not too wide. "That's, Non Sora's another big master cat toy."

Almeer could see the woman he had feared so much was squatting behind him, her hands busy tickling the belly of the purebred cat in front of him.

"Non Sora, there's a guy who cants his clothes, Non."

"Taroh the chair there..." Pinta Sora without diverting her back.

"Taroh here, Mas." Pinta Security.

Almeer placed the bag he was carrying on the chair. But he didn't leave immediately.

"I know the young master has plans here, but why are you even here?"

Aga's voice shocked Sora, he glanced at Aga and then looked back to find out who Aga was talking to.

"Falme!!" Sora screeched to make him sit on the floor.

"Sky asked me to take this to his brother. And there's something I need to explain to her."

Suddenly one hand Aga had moved around Almeer's neck, pushing the man's body into a large pillar on the porch of his house.

"Relin!!!" Shouted Sora, he stood up and pulled Aga's hand to release Almeer. "Ga! Don't be crazy!" Shouted Sora in panic.

"I've been trying to hold him off all night, but you still insist on coming to him now." Aga ignored Sora's panic.

"I have nothing to do with you, I just want to talk to Sora!" Almeer tried to speak even though he felt difficult.

"Dragon! Lepassin! You want to kill him!?" Sora tried to pull Aga's hand from Almeer's neck.

"Yes! I can kill anyone who hurts you, Sora!!" Sentak Aga's.

BUGS!!

Almeer punched Aga in the stomach with his knees as strong as possible until the man was shaken back.

"So your mouth!! How dare you yell at him!!" Almeer could not accept Aga had yelled at Sora.

"Curtain!! Could be you—"

"ALWAYS, STOP!!" Shouted Sora, he held out the fist of Aga who had taken a swing to hit Almeer.

"Please, Stop. Don't be like this.." Pinta Sora.

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