Believe me, I'm Still Sacred

Chapter 53. Tug-of-war

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Seeing Zahwa's body limp to drop his sling bag, Rey immediately moved from her seat. But Selina immediately sat her brother back on the sofa, next to a woman named Cleo.

Nilam, Bram and Selina introduce Cleo to Zahwa, the woman Rey brought in for the first time and recognized as his future wife.

"So you. Rey's beloved sister? I know Cleo, but you can call me brother-in-law from now on." Cleo extended her hand to Zahwa and the girl returned her helping hand.

"I'm Zahwa, greetings brother-in-law." Zahwa emphasized the word brother-in-law when he met Cleo, a smile was forced on his lips.

He said Rey's brother loved me, but he brought another girl home. He's obviously not serious about me. Zahwa.

Rey and Selina notice the look on Zahwa's face as she confronts Cleo. Selina smiles but Rey looks worried fearing Zahwa is angry. Selina again reminds Rey to be patient, because this can encourage Zahwa to realize her feelings.

After the brief introduction, Rey immediately said goodbye to everyone to go and take Cleo home. While Zahwa goes to Selina's room, they plan to watch a drama together and spend the Zahwa holiday. After cleaning herself in the bathroom and doing prayers, Zahwa saw Selina was turning on her laptop while choosing the Korean drama they would watch there.

"His brother finished?" selina asked, turning to Zahwa, who was sitting next to her head without her hijab because the door was also locked. So Zahwa is free to wear her hijab or not, even if someone wants to go into that room, Zahwa can wear her hijab again.

"Yes Sel, have you prayed yet?"

"Sister before my brother came home. Oh, brother, what movie do you want to see?"

"Hem..I want to see another 49 days movie." Zahwa's choice fell on a sad-themed Korean drama. Where the main character Shin Ji Hyun fell into a coma and became a wandering soul, he could come back to life if he managed to collect 3 tears from people who sincerely love him. The struggle to find 3 tears made the audience cry and touched.

"Well? Tumben kok the onion! Usually a romantic comedy?"

"For the sake of it."

Actually Zahwa's mood is not good because of the incident with Zainab and Raihan in the hospital, plus Rey who brought his future wife home. The always cheerful girl can now be moody too.

Hem, I think Zahwa's brother is jealous. Good, this pull-out method plan worked.

"Well, I'm the movie's daughter, how many episodes did you watch?"

"Episode 5, I want a marathon from there." replied Zahwa with a faint smile. He put his body on the headboard of the bed.

Her eyes were watching the movie with Selina, but her heart and mind were everywhere. Not to mention the pain in his cheek is still felt because of the slap Zainab.

"Eh...sister, why is sister's cheek bruised? Brother why brother?" tanya Selina who just ngeh with the state of Zahwa's right cheek that is red and looks bruised on her smooth white skin.

"O-oh.this is okay."

I don't think Zainab's slap will ever imprint.

"That's like being slapped? Brother, tell me who dares to hit brother!"

Just like Rey, Selina loves Zahwa. She was ready to defend Zahwa if anything happened to her brother.

"There are no cells, we're watching!" Zahwa tried to shift the conversation in another direction. Then he started talking about Rey. "Oh yes Sel, how long did Rey know brother Cleo? All of a sudden he's bringing his future wife home."

Selina smiled in a knot because this was the question she had been waiting for, and she was very fond of Zahwa's current reaction. Hinted there was indeed something in Zahwa's heart for Reyndra.

"Well, if that's not what I know, brother asked Rey.kakak would be closer to Rey than I was his own brother, hehe." Selina chuckled innocently, with a tail of eyes that looked at the look on Zahwa's face at the moment.

"Not really."

"Sister likes it."

Green light for Rey.

Actually Zahwa was curious about the figure of Cleo, how could her brother who never brought women into the house, now suddenly he announced about his future wife after a few days ago he kissed Zahwa and told her love. Zahwa felt played by Rey, honestly he was disappointed and hurt.

Zahwa eventually fell asleep on the headboard of Selina's king-sized bed with a pink theme Selina's favorite. "Yes.kak Zahwa sleeps," said Selina then turn off her laptop and rush to sleep as well. The clock shows at 2 am.

But he saw the water in the bottle empty and he went out of his room to fill the water, leaving Zahwa who was asleep sitting on the bed. Selina also brought water for Zahwa downstairs because the water supply on the 2nd floor was empty.

Selina's bedroom door opened, revealing the figure of a sleeping Zahwa with a head without a hijab and a thin nightgown. It just so happened that Rey woke up and intended to pray tahajud in a small mosque in the big house. But his attention was stolen on the figure of a beautiful angel who was sleeping soundly with long brown hair and very beautiful.

An angel who never bored him to always love him, can never make a Reyndra turn away from 14 years ago even today.

Her footsteps walked towards Selina's room with that open door. She sat down beside the sleeping Zahwa, revealing a plain face without makeup. A face that always looked pretty in Reyndra's eyes. His hand stretched out to gently caress Zahwa's cheek, but he realized that Zahwa's cheek was bruised.

"What's going on? Why cheeks? Like a slapped scar." Rey watched the wound on Zahwa's cheek closely. Then he took the ointment in Selina's medicine nightstand. Rey applied the ointment to Zahwa's injured cheek slowly.

"Eh. I'm not in-"

"Shhhh...." Rey immediately asked her sister to be quiet, as soon as her sister would speak. Selina silenced her mouth, and she placed a bottle of water on the nightstand. "Why can Zahwa's cheek hurt like this, Cell?" Rey asks rhetorically and possessively, not to be asked again how possessive it is. Seeing Zahwa scratched just a little he was not happy.

"Sorry sister, Selina doesn't know.kak Zahwa doesn't tell me, but it's like a slap deh." Selina whispered to Rey.

Rey was silent for a moment, then she laid Zahwa carefully to make the girl comfortable in her sleeping position. Zahwa was still slumbering, he didn't even notice anyone touching his body. Finally Rey enveloped Zahwa's body with a warm blanket, stared at the girl lovingly and then also frowned.

Selina gulped roughly at the sight of the unfamiliar sight to her. After all, the two people are her brother, living together from childhood like sister and now even love each other. In her heart, will all the family accept Zahwa and Rey's relationship as Selina and Zayn accept?

"You take care of Zahwa, yes, when you wake up, the neck will hurt. You immediately gave her a warm cream for her neck.oh yeah, then how did she have any questions about Cleo?"

I didn't know Rey's sister would be this chatty about Zahwa's business. Very bucin brother Rey until he lukain his own hands to meet brother Zahwa.

"Many brothers! Like brother Zahwa jealous, brother continue aja deket-deket brother Cleo.. and brother do not love the same excessive attention of brother Zahwa, this is the name of the trick tugil ulur kak, I'm sure soon Brother Zahwa will explode, BOM! And when that happens, you can be together." Selina was sure of the plan.

"Aamiin hope this idea of yours works out. Thanks a lot you have helped brother, your pocket money, brother added.but you can not skip again ya."

"Yes, my brother, I skipped the Sky band concert." The girl chuckled.

"Okay, you go out first to pray tahajud" said Rey then walked away from there to pray tahajud, praying in a third of the night so that she and Zahwa were soon united in a halal bond.

After praying tahajud, Rey returned to her room and called someone in the middle of the night. "I want you to get the cctv footage in the hospital!" he said before the man answered Rey.

I'll teach you a lesson about the man who hit you, Zahwa.

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Meanwhile, at Raihan's house, Zainab and Raihan are both awakened to perform tahajud prayers as well. The two did not say hello after last night's fight. Raihan does not like the attitude of Zainab who plays hands on Zahwa.

"Tomorrow you must apologize to Zahwa," Raihan began talking to Zainab.

"Why should I apologize to a woman who would flirt with my husband?" Zainab looked at her husband sharply.

"Zaynab! Don't make me angry again, I just want you to apologize? I've also made it clear to you that if I'm the one who deletin Zahwa, he never seduced me." he said.

"You don't have to defend him!" zainab.

"I don't defend him, you know myself I'm still in love with him.Do not blame him for my feelings, you just blame me. Ah or you want to be-"

"Stop MAS! Don't ever say that!"

Zainab and Raihan's quarrel became more and more because of Zainab's jealousy towards Zahwa who still occupies a special position in Raihan's heart. Now Zainab is showing her true nature. That meek attitude was burned by the flames of jealousy.

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