Behind Aisha's Veil

Oblral Promise

"I'm sorry I can't" Anita replied suddenly with a cynical smile.

"It's easy for you to dump me like this?" Anita walked over to Alvian.

"I know it's hard, not just for you but for me too" replied Alvian feeling guilty.

"Then? Why would you prefer him and leave me. Did you forget three months ago you were begging me not to leave you? But just now you're dumping me like I'm trash."

"Then you want to start a happy life with that woman, no matter how hurt I feel?"

Alvian did not reply, he knew that he had hurt Anita's feelings.

"You want me to let you go and let you live happily with your wife? Sorry Al. My heart is not that big." Anita smiled back cynically.

Alvian looked at Anita.

" After everything that happened, humiliated, hurt and hurt. You want me to just take you off like that?"

"Once again I say that my heart is not that big."

"I'll never let you go!" said Anita lantang.

"If you can't live with me. You can't be with another woman either. That woman is Aisha."

Anita looked at Alvian's face in anger and left the room.

Alvian sat down lunglai on the chair, washing his face rough.

***

Aisha pensively, after performing Isya prayers and teaching, Aisha sat daydreaming on the sofa while embracing the Qur'an on her chest.

Brother Zainab who also just finished teaching to see Aisha with surprise, looks to be approaching her sister but then heard the sound of knocking on the door.

Zainab, who had not yet worn the niqob, took it and wore it until a moment later, when Alvian went inside.

Aisha who kept daydreaming had yet to realize that Alvian had been standing behind her.

"I want to see the situation of Siti," said Alvian who immediately made Aisha surprised, she who had not been wearing her niqob looks panicked. Aisha stood up and continued to turn her back to her husband while continuing to look for his veil.

"Sister. Please find my niqob." Aisha panicked and turned her back to Alvian.

Zainab and Siti looked astonished, they frowned.

"Your niqob is in the bathroom, you must have forgotten after the ablution" said Zainab.

"Your husband is entering Dik. Not anyone," said Siti reminded her sister.

Aisha did not comment on her brother's words, she immediately walked towards the bathroom accompanied by the astonished looks of her two brothers.

While Alvian stood up seemed to be going awry. He then approached Siti and asked her how she was.

Before long Aisha came out, already complete with her veil.

Alvian saw Aisha.

"We'll be home soon. I'll be here at 8 to pick you up."

"No need. I'll stay here tonight" replied Aisha.

"You go home, brother. There is Zainab's sister who is waiting for her sister" said Siti.

"But brother..."

"Get Aisha by 8, she'll be home" Zainab told Alvian.

Alvian just nodded then left the room.

Siti and Zainab see Aisha. Aisha lowered her face as if she knew the meaning of the gazes of her two brothers.

Zainab approached Aisha, invited her to sit down and talk beside Siti's bed.

"Your husband has never even seen your face" said Zainab, staring closely at his sister's face.

Zainab and Siti looked at each other.

"What kind of household do you live in?" asked Zainab sadly.

Aisha lowered her face.

"Worse than you think" Aisha replied quietly.

"We're just two strangers living under one roof. Nothing more."

Zainab breathed. So too with Siti.

"Don't tell me if I still have to carry out my duties as a wife no matter how she treats me. How would I do that if my own husband had promised another woman that he would never touch me."

Zainab and Siti gasped. They then remembered the figure of the female doctor at that time.

Aisha smile.

"You don't think about it too much. I'm it's okay. My own brother didn't tell me I was strong and tough?" Aisha held her brother's hands.

"Until when will you survive?" tanya Siti held back her tears.

"Yes. You can't go on like this" Zainab said.

"So soon, sister," replied Aisha smiling. Actually she wanted to tell her two brothers about her divorce plan with Alvian, but was canceled because for her now is not the right time. Aisha knew that her divorce would be big news for their family, so she had to tell her whole family at the right time, not now when everyone is sad about what happened to Siti.

***

Alvian walked, as usual Aisha followed behind him taking a little distance, as if Alvian no longer cared about the stares of people and those who whispered.

Until he reached the basement of the hospital where his car was parked, Alvian seemed to open the car door for his wife.

Aisha gets into the car despite actually feeling surprised and uncomfortable with Alvian's treatment which she thinks is a little strange.

It's been half the way and Alvian still looks hesitant to say anything.

"I'm sorry" said Alvian.

Aisha did not respond.

"On this afternoon. Anita has been very late," continued Alvian again.

Aisha just nodded little without seeing her husband.

"Hmmm...I've cut ties with him" Alvian said hesitantly

"I've heard that sentence three times" said Aisha flatly, sighing.

"I mean. This time it's completely broken up."

"What did you pretend twice yesterday?" aisha asked still flat, actually feeling indifferent.

"No. I mean this time I'll never go back to her. Connect with him again. I promise you."

"Which two yesterday intend to reverse again?"

"Aisha I'm serious." Alvian pulled over and stopped the car.

Alvian looked at Aisha.

"I'm serious too" said Aisha staring back at her husband.

"A wise man knows who he has to trust. Isn't that what it is?" aisha asked, turning her face away.

"I can't be trusted?" alvian asked disappointed.

"True men will not easily make promises and give dreams. Chatting a promise is easy, keeping it is trust, being a hypocrite if you deny it."

"Will promise, here promise. Which one will you keep?"