Between Maghrib and Isya
Miss Him
“Alhamdulillah finally reached also”, saut me when the car stops right in front of the green house owned by oma
“tante Mira ayuk enter first”, ask me to tanre Mira
“iya dear, but we can not be long yes, already afternoon dear, you also want to rest kan”, saut aunt Mira
“oh so, yaudah de aunt”
I helped Zay to bring down the goods in the trunk of his car.
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“Nara, how come the clock is not awake yet? In pesantren gini also yes?”, say my mama
“Nara was out of bed at dawn again ma, Nara want to enjoy a slumber first during holiday”, replied me with eyes still closed
“hemm. If the time mama put in refrigerator”
Listen to the name of my eye smoothies instantly open and I go straight to the bathroom to clean clean, “smoothies? Ok Nara wake up now”.
“as long as Nara stays at the cottage, mama lives here? What is our home?”, ask me when I am at the dinner table
“iya dear, our home mama contrakin. And Alhamdulillh already there are ngontrak”, replied mama
“oh gitu”
“ma, Nara will go to father's grave yes ma, mama want to come?”
“Iya darling, mom wants to come with”
After finishing breakfast, and helping mama clean up the house, my mother and I went to my father's grave.
“Assalamu’alaikum dad. Nara's father is coming. I don't miss Nara?”, I said when I was next to my father's grave
“we read yasin first yes dear then prayer, then later you can confide in father”, pinta mama
I and my mother opened the book that we had brought from home and read it with great solemnity.
“ni you sow flowers and water”, pinta my mama after we read surah yasin and prayer
“wahh father's grave already beautiful”
“Dad, Nara kangen very same dad. This is Nara's first leaflet without a father. Nara always didain dad. Oh yeah well, Nara won the poetry reading competition in the pesantren. Nara is now at home in pesantren well. Thank you, because I told Nara to go to the boarding school. Nara at the boarding school has many friends, I don't have to worry about Nara. Nara promised Nara that she would make you proud. Nara will find out that Nara can be someone who makes her mom and dad proud. Nara will take care of my mom. Dad was happy there”, confided me
“mama..”, I directly hug mom
“father was calm and happy there. Uda yuk”
“ayah, Nara back first yes.. Assalamu’alaikum”.
This afternoon I sat on the front page of the house. Enjoy the afternoon air while hearing the sound of njai from the mosque next door. I closed my eyes, enjoying every chant of the holy verse of the Qur’an that sounded in my ears. And instantly I imagined with A’a Fachri. “Astaghfirullah. Kok can be kayang A’a Fahcri sih”, when I realized
“Nara ayuk in, dah adzan maghrib tuh”, pinta my mama
“iya ma, this also want to enter kok”
Allahu Akbar
I pray maghrib. As usual, after the Maghrib prayer I read the Qur’an. About 2 pages that have been read, I also closed the scripture. “ya Allah why imagine with the voice and face A’a Fachri sih”, murmured me slowly
“kangen chanting sacred verse from the voice of A’a Fachri. The time between Maghrib and Isya who missed hemmm”, my mummy again
“ihh what the hell I am, realized Nara realized.ok so kangen A’a Fachri sih”, while patting my face slowly.
After the Maghrib prayer and teaching, I went out to the room for dinner.
“Nara, tomorrow mama yok to the market to buy cake ingredients, mama want to make cake. Mama yesterday did not have time to make a lot of cakes no one helped dear. You see the day after mama's friends want to come here, so all of you shop tomorrow for cooking ingredients as well. Can you love?”, ask my mama
“can kok ma, to which market ma?”
“to the market next to the mall, at the intersection of four there dear”
“oh. Nara can't go to the mall? Nara wants to drink ice ma hehehe, all ngadem also heheh. Nara did not enter mall” for a long time
“by darling. Tomorrow we leave in the morning ya”
“ok ma”
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