Behind the Veil (Aisha)

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Lela says goodbye to her whole family.

"Are you sure, brother?" Ahmad seemed heavy to allow Lela to return to the city after knowing from Zayn who told him earlier about Ammar and his freedom from prison.

Lela nodded.

Ummi who also felt the same way as Ahmad, even harder to release his daughter to return with her husband, but she could not forbid because Lela herself insisted on following her husband even though Zayn did not force, she gave everything to the wife.

"Be careful when you're there, son." Ummi hugged his daughter tightly.

"Yes Ummi. Ummi don't have to worry." Lela smiled.

Ummi let go of his embrace, looking at his daughter's face fixedly.

"How Ummi wasn't worried, son." Ummi's eyes glazed over.

Lela hugged her mother again.

"Ummy. Has Ummi ever thought how I could have survived this far with the injuries and pain I have experienced? Can it survive even when I choose to keep everything to myself? All because I have God. I have God where I tell long stories. I have a God who understands my life inside and out. I have a God Almighty over all things. So all this time I've never been alone. There is a God who is always watching. God is always with me. God always accompanied me. Allah SWT who I am sure will never leave me," replied Lela in the arms of her mother.

"Thank God, son. God will always be with us if we don't leave him. Keep surrendering to Him."

Lela nodded.

Ummi then sees Zayn. Not much to say Ummi just directly hugged his daughter-in-law.

"Thank you, son. May Allah repay you for all your kindness."

"I didn't do anything Ummi."

Ummi shook his head.

"Much have you done for Ummi's daughter."

***

On travel.

"So right if my ex-husband is free?" Lela ventured to ask her husband about Ammar.

Zayn hesitantly nodded as he glanced at his wife at a glance.

Lela took a long breath. He's down. Mournfully. Disillusioned. A one-year prison sentence for what her ex-husband has done to her is certainly not worth it. After what he did to her, now Ammar can waltz freely again, while he still remains tormented by the trauma he left, until now and somehow until when.

Zayn certainly understood his wife's feelings, as Lela's victim was of course disappointed not to get the justice she deserved.

"I don't want to scare you. But I still have to say it. So that you can be on guard. Your ex-husband will definitely try to keep bothering you." Zayn spoke carefully.

Lela nodded immediately.

"I knew. He won't let me live quietly. I know his vindictive character very well."

"Then I hope you're prepared for whatever he'll do."

Lela was silent while looking down.

***

Arriving at the apartment.

The arrival of Lela is welcomed with pleasure by Aisha and Anita. Aisha had even come from earlier on purpose to welcome her brother.

"How's brother doing now?" tanya Aisha was happy to invite her sister to sit on the sofa.

"good. Thank goodness."

"Thank God." Aisha looked very happy to see her brother's condition had healed.

"sorry. Yesterday made you worry." Lela sees Anita and Aisha alternating.

"That's okay," the two replied in unison with a smile.

"The important thing is that you're okay now." Anita holds Lela's hand.

"Yes. Thank God I'm okay now. And hopefully until the next."

"Aamiin's."

While his wife was chatting with Anita and Aisha, Zayn also appeared to be talking seriously with Alvian. The two are talking about Ammar and predicting what possibilities Ammar can do to annoy Lela again.

"Should I come to see him?" ask Zayn to see Alvian.

Zayn. What Alvian said was true, the possibility of Ammar coming to see him was huge.

"Then I can't wait for him." Zayn.

"Yes. Let him see you. But don't go see your wife."

"of course. They don't meet." Zayn could not imagine what if Ammar managed to meet his wife. Lela had become so frightened that she hallucinated when she heard her voice, she could not imagine it until Ammar appeared in front of Lela.

"From your psychologist friend, Ammar must have learned about Lela's unstable mental health condition, it must have been used as a weapon by her to continue to disturb your wife."

"Yes. I think that too. This time not with his hands or feet he would hurt my wife, but surely by attacking her fragile mental and psychic."

While the two continued to chat, Zayn was shocked by the news he had obtained through a short message from one of his friends who told him that Meisya had been robbed of the workers. The news is also being discussed in the group of friends of his office.

Zayn was shocked. Especially when he saw a photo that shows Meisya's condition is quite severe.

Zayn immediately pondered. He was hesighfar thinking if it was possible that what happened to his friend Meisya was in retaliation for his actions to his wife Lela.

***

"How is he doing?" Diah who had just come in haste and whose face was very worried to see her sister.

Meisya's mother who was crying immediately hugged her brother. He said nothing, just kept crying in Diah's arms.

Diah tried to calm him down. After his sister seemed to have calmed down, he again asked while inviting her to sit on a chair.

"It's pretty bad." Dwi, her sister tried to hold back her crying.

"Those people are heartless. Why they had to gang up on my son who wasn't wrong." Dwi came back crying sadly.

Diah kept trying to calm him down.

"Is he now visible?"

Dwi nodded.

"I came out because I couldn't bear to see the situation" said Dwi sobbing.

Diah stroked his sister's back. He understood his feelings, which mother was not sad to see the state of her beloved daughter like that.

"alright. I'm going in first."

Dwi nodded.

Arriving inside, Diah was shocked to see his nephew who was seriously injured, some parts of his body in a bandage with his face that was not because of swollen bruises.

Seeing the arrival of his aunt Meisya immediately cried.

"Tante," he said many times sobbing.

"It's okay, baby, be patient." Diah hugged him.

Diah continues to encourage the nephew to recover as soon as possible.

"Aunties. Is this the karma that Lela's family meant yesterday?"

Diah. He immediately released his embrace and looked at Meisya's face.

"Is this in return for what I did to his wife Zayn?"

Diah can't speak.

"Well, is it aunty?"

"Calm yourself. Don't think shit."

"My answer is Aunt. Is this my reply?" Meisya screamed and cried hysterically.

Diah was surprised of course. Likewise with Dwi his sister to make him go straight into the room.

Meisya cried while continuing to scream incoherently. Diah immediately took the initiative to call the doctor because of his condition that was out of control.

Seeing the state of his daughter like that certainly makes Dwi even more sad. Especially when some nurses and doctors came, Meisya even more screaming in fear.

"Don't beat me again, my gosh!"

Everyone looks at each other.

Diah as an expert in analyzing the psychology of a person can immediately conclude if Meisya experienced deep trauma due to the shaking.