Bridal Flowers
Season II: Part 16
"Oh my God, there is something I want to tell you." A cool but soothing evening breeze enveloped the girl's body which was still perfectly wrapped by the soothing white face.
Although it was cold, the girl did not complain at all because seeping in His majesty was the thing that filled her mind the most at the moment. Composed in His love, feeling tired, tired, angry, happy, and disappointed as if drawn out for him to tell the Creator. It is like releasing the weight of the heart and asking for calmness for his soul.
"I am in love, O God," He began to tell stories, unknowingly causing ripples in his eyes.
"The "extraordinarily sweet and warm feeling you created is now entering my heart. Makes my day much more colorful than the days before and I admit, God, it feels so beautiful." Smiling faintly, that beautiful feeling once again flashed in his memory, let alone when recalling the day that love had grown. His heart is so pounding.
"However, it turns out that the love I feel will bring hurt to Sapphira, O Allah. The man I love is in fact also the one Safira loves. Maybe they both have liked each other for a long time and I think this feeling will only hurt them." Not felt, a warm liquid full of sadness that flows quietly on the cheeks and remember You, O God. I'm sure the plan you prepared me for was much more beautiful than I imagined. Rabbana A'tina fiddunia khasanah wa'qina azabannar, Aamiin aamiin Allahumma aamin o Allah." With a self-surrender heart Mira then cupped her two faces to wipe her already very wet face. For a moment he remained in that position to calm his burning feelings of sadness.
A few minutes later, Mira lowered her hands. Glancing at the clock, the time has shown 2 o'clock more and soon there will be a call to wake up from a deep sleep.
Not wanting to sleep again, Mira chose to spend her time staring quietly at the beautiful face of Sapphira who was sound asleep. Safira, this amazingly nice yet rather cold beautiful girl is one of Mira's best friends. Being stubborn and having a firm and critical side is the dominant side of Sapphira. But as strong as Sapphira, Mira knew very well if the human heart is very fragile and vulnerable to injury. Sapphira was no exception, although she was strong physically and mentally away from Annisa, but it could not be denied if the hearts of Safira and Annisa were equally fragile. Safira may even be more fragile because he still does not know what a broken heart is.
Of course Mira did not want to see him hurt let alone the person who broke her heart was herself, ah, thinking about it made Mira almost crazy. But fortunately Mira is not as selfish as Saqila who easily hurts those closest to her, rather than hurting Safira for her own feelings she prefers to budge and secretly tries to forget what she feels.
Love can be sought at any time but for friends, it is the most difficult treasure. After all, Mira is convinced that her love has not yet emerged and therefore she prefers to wait a little longer.
He was sure, as long as God would bring him.
Sighing, Mira then pulled her drawer carefully in fear of waking up Sapphira's deep sleep. It was not until one minute that Mira had found the object she was looking for and easily retrieved it complete with her stationery.
Hiding herself as comfortably as possible, this time her gaze fell on the night sky displaying a portion of the moon's side displaying a bright light. It was a very beautiful night, Mira thought in relief and began to move her right hand to write her heart.
"Mira...this is what time?" Surprised, Mira immediately closed the book and as naturally as possible she put the book back into the drawer.
"Ah, 2 more minutes in half 3." Mira replied quickly after seeing time soon enter half 3.
Hearing Mira's reply, Safira is unaware of the oddity. He also woke up from his sleep and decided to immediately pack the preparation of tahajud prayer because the prayer time was advanced because of sahur.
"Did you not sleep last night?" Safira asked guess, the article last night Mira also did the same behavior. He did not sleep and stay up until the time of dawn.
It seems Mira is having a lot of thoughts.
"No, I went to bed and suddenly woke up around 1. Because it is difficult to sleep again I pray tahajud first rather than no work." Because he had prayed tahajud first so he could not do tahajud prayer together with others.
Safira does not know why but these few days he has found Mira's spirit is decreasing. It was as if there was a heavy burden holding him back from becoming the usual Mira.
"Mira, if you have a problem don't hesitate to tell me." Safira said sincerely. Fellow friends, he wants his loved ones to remain cheerful and not moody. Safira hopes that their bond is not just a bond so it makes Mira more open.
"Come on, you're thinking too much because I have absolutely no problem. If there is then your own how my nature is, I will come to you crying and complaining about my problems." Mira joked, trying to dispel Safira's true guesses against her. How else, this is because the problems he faced concerning Sapphira and Aldo. So, to maintain their friendship Mira must be willing to hold her own while trying to secretly forget her feelings.
Hey, actually this feels really painful for Mira.
How not to hurt, this was the first time he fell in love and along with that, this was the first time he was heartbroken.
"You're right, I forgot you were Mira." What Mira said was also true according to Sapphira. Because as far as Safira knows when Mira faces a problem the first person he will tell is Safira and Nanda, Hem who else.
"Are you ready?" Asked Mira after folding her face neatly.
Safira nodded in satisfaction, "Already, let's go straight to the mosque." Take Sapphira while carrying her luggage into the arms. Tonight was very cold so it was only natural that he hugged her in a possessive style.
Mira did not say anything and responded by directly walking out. After locking the door of the room, they then simultaneously walked to the mosque of the boarding school. No matter how cold the night is, it just keeps them fresh.
Well, the luckiest is the pesantren cottage is very good at facilitating the road inside the cottage with lighting lights. If it is like this then there is no sinister impression that they encountered while passing the road.
"I heard Nanda and Dimas are coming home soon." After a long silence, Safira finally started their conversation. Safira remembered that some time ago Nanda had told him she would soon return to Indonesia.
"Yes, Nanda will be home soon. But even though Nanda's coming home will stay with her husband and not come back to live here, so I'm not too enthusiastic." Since Nanda was already married then it would be difficult for them to gather together like before. Therefore Mira was not too excited when she heard it.
"Isn't that natural? You should be happy because Nanda lives with her husband. If he comes back here again then it's as if Dimas doesn't care about Nanda." This answer seemed to be a reminder to Mira about the dispute between Annisa and Dimas first. Of course what Sapphira said was true, if Nanda was left behind Dimas then the one who would be the most injured would be all of them.
"Hem, you're right they should have stayed together, only I still haven't accepted Nanda's departure because I'm sure you'll be there soon." Shawwal, it will not be long come and Mira is sure if if Safira will soon pursue her love.
"Ah.don't think too much. Although I'll catch up with Nanda later, but we'll both try to visit you here. Well, instead of worrying about us you should immediately find your soul mate because over time being single is not good." Kekeh Sapphira was happy, impatiently waiting for his turn to arrive.
Mira smiled gently, shaking her head in a sign of not wanting to think too much. If it has come, then Mira really wants to speed up Shawwal to arrive so that Safira soon married and left with Aldo. Because if that happens, Mira believes her motivation to forget Aldo will run smoothly.
"Alright, I think we should split up here while you go to the mosque." Mira stops her steps which Safira follows.
"Are you going straight to the soup kitchen?" Tanya Safira actually already knows, where might Mira to the mosque because she has done the tahajud prayer first.
"Yes, I will go directly to the soup kitchen to help others prepare the meal. Go, solemn prayer so that Allah may bless all the good things that we shall do today."
"Well, why do you sound wise tonight?" Sapphira's ejek was immediately greeted by a small laugh by Mira.
"That's because I live with you." The answer was back to ridicule.
"All right, I'm going." Saying greetings, the two of them then parted ways and walked towards their respective destinations. Safira with the aim of going to the mosque while Mira with the aim of going to the soup kitchen.
The atmosphere was quite crowded because of the students who were rushing to the mosque. As for those who are not involved in helping the public kitchen prepare food and of course there are very rarely men.
Because men are not idle and they are also very stingy to sacrifice the golden time of their tahajud prayer, therefore the ones who take care of everything when sahur are women.
"Mira, please spread all these small packages to each table." A familiar woman asked Mira for help politely.
"All right!" Mira's spirit while taking over all the checkered mini packs into her arms.
"Eh, Mas Aldo also wants to help?"
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Mira's hand movements suddenly became stiff. Trying to manage her heartbeat as normal as possible, Mira then brought the entire mini pack of boxes to the tables to be distributed.
At first Mira did not listen to any sounds until the sound of heavy but subtle steps followed her steps.
Dugs
Dugs
Dugs
His heart was getting out of control and his blood seemed to become hot, flowing frantically throughout his body. At first he thought it was cold tonight but when he felt the flow of hot blood, Mira suddenly turned her complaint into a very hot one!
He was sultry but strangely it did not bother him at all!
"So your name is Mira?" Asked the calming heavy voice behind her, Mira was so scared to take her eyes off!
Mira thought to protect her motivation she would not chim in on Aldo, but the behavior might not be so good that she decided to answer him on the condition that it was only a little!
"Hem, my name is Mira." Mira replied short and very nervous.
Mira is very scared and a little... happy?
Then, the atmosphere became quiet between them. Work silently and with a tacit understanding.
Mira spreads the package and Aldo quickly fills the small package with 6 seeds of ajwa dates.
"Are you a graduate of this boarding school?" Aldo asked curiously, in fact he could have found out this truth because he was now also a staff at the boarding school. But strangely enough, Aldo thought it might be a lot of fun to come out of Mira's mouth.
Mira was puzzled, "Actually I don't know because basically I suddenly moved here with a sudden and lucky cottage party immediately accepted me without having to go through complicated requirements." Yes, Mira entered here suddenly and was immediately accepted by Mr. Kyai.
Indeed, in age at that time maybe he should have been XII High School and the cottage party also directly gave him a lesson that was at the level of class XII High School. So Mira actually does not know and is confused whether she graduates the cottage or just hitchhiking the exam here?
Delighted by the long words that Mira made, Aldo did not want to let this opportunity escape from him and quickly asked back his curiosity.
"What was that 2 or 3 years ago?" Aldo asked more curiously.
Mira's hand movements did not stop even though her head was thinking out loud, "Maybe it should have been almost 4 years ago." Mira answered in her small voice. For some reason Mira suddenly thought that this was her disgrace, she was poorly educated but wanted a highly educated man. Once again Mira realized that Sapphira was indeed worth Aldo.
"Ah, back then Aldi and I had just graduated here and decided to part ways with each other's careers." Aldo smiled his smile, embarrassed by his own question. If Mira answered 3 years ago doesn't that mean Aldo won't know anything about Mira's whereabouts?
Hem, it would make sense if he asked within the past 4 years.
"O-oh, so ustad also graduates here with ustad Aldi?" Nervous Mira. Mira never knew it was the year these great people graduated. If he had known, maybe the current story would have been different.
Hmm.who knows.
"Don't call me ustad, Mira. I'm not here as a faculty member but as a library staff." Aldo politely explained his position here. He did not come here to teach like Aldi, but he came here as a library staff. He liked books and books of authentic learning so that he liked the library more than other places.
"Then, what should I call?" If not ustad, then what other name Mira uses to call him?
"Just call me 'Mas Aldo' or something." Aldo replied calmly, as if there were no effects whatsoever pumping his heart. Obviously, when saying this there is shame but because this is a valuable opportunity then Aldo will not throw it away in vain.
Aldo's Mas?
Again the overflowing feeling of heat filled him, even his cheeks that had been hot was becoming clearer. Mira did not know how her face was at the moment, it must have been very red and embarrassing!
"Mas Aldo," Call Mira shy.
"Why would Mas Aldo prefer to be a library staff? I heard from many people that Mas Aldo and Ustad Aldi are not much different about education. So why are you acting separately?" People last night mentioned that the twin handsome man had a very good knowledge in terms of education. Do not ask about achievements because the proof is that they are both among the best Cairo graduates from Indonesia, so it is not questionable.
They then moved to another row of tables.
"You're right, Mira, we both act the same. However, in choosing the way of life in the future we are not the same. Aldi and I both love books so it's no wonder Aldi chose to teach because he wanted to share with many people about his knowledge and learning outcomes. It's different from me, liking doesn't mean I want to be a teacher. Not because I don't want to share but this is because I feel that my science is still shallow and it takes a lot more time to learn. One day, if I am satisfied, I will follow in Aldi's footsteps to become a teacher. In addition, I also have aspirations to set up my own library, giving opportunities for many people to understand and read what books I have learned. Mira, do you understand now?" Aldo asked with a soft voice. Somehow every time Mira heard it there would be another hope growing. It's like Mira mowing one grass but at the same time the other grass also grows.
Fear, afraid if his feelings get bigger.
"Do you like Aldi?"
"Ah..no.it is impossible, I asked so because at first it was just curious." Shrinking her head, Mira was really confused how to behave near Aldo!
Why is it this complicated?
"Ahahaha.don't panic anyway I was just kidding." Aldo laughed lightly, but although laughing his eyes reflected different things. Fortunately, no one paid too much attention to him because Aldo was also wearing glasses so it was not very obvious.
"Oh..." For a moment, Mira did not know what to say. He never dreamed of being this close to Aldo could even hear his laughter Mira was so afraid to think about it.
Although well, he did not want a hypocrite to expect it a little.
After cleaning the desks of santriwati, they also moved towards the food booth santri (men). There a part of his table is neatly arranged with food for sahur today. Since the problem of staple food has been settled, the other group then moves towards the santriwati booth to immediately start the division of staple food.
"To be honest, as long as I help with sahur preparations there is rarely a male party that comes to help. Even if there is, it happens when they have already performed the tahajud prayer so as not to miss the habit. So, did Mas Aldo also first perform tahajud prayers before coming here?" Because the experience obtained is also like that so Mira guesses whether Aldo has also performed tahajud prayer before coming here?
"I haven't prayed tahajud." Aldo replied, he did not hide it from Mira at all.
Surprised, Mira is not sure if Aldo is like that. "Then, why didn't Mas Aldo come to the mosque?" Aldo should join with others to perform congregational mosque prayers.
"I do not go because it is useless, legal tahajud prayer is done if we first sleep before. I can't sleep and can't also do tahajud prayers therefore rather than trying to sleep harder I came here intending to help you." This is the truth if Aldo can't sleep. As hard as he tried to sleep he could not, so because it would be in vain Aldo would rather take his time to help the food stand after finishing his sentence.
Mira finally understood why Aldo was here. As Aldo said he could not sleep and also could not perform tahajud prayer, so to fill the void on the sidelines waiting for the cottage child back he chose to help the kitchen staff.
Hem, he really is a dream husband.
Thinking about her husband, Mira suddenly remembered the beautiful figure of Safira who rarely smiled. If you think about Safira and Aldo is compatible, the husband who easily smiles and the wife who is a little indifferent. Ah, Mira can't imagine it...Hem, can't imagine how sick he is tomorrow.
"Mas Aldo," Call Mira to confirm his heart, for God has given him a test, and he will unequivocally pass this test. This is proof that Mira meant her prayers.
"Yes?"
"Do you remember Sapphira?" Tanya Mira.
"Remember, Sapphira is the girl I met two years ago in the bamboo hut." His memory returned two years ago when he first met Sapphira. After that he heard a lot about Annisa, Saqila and Sapphira from Gio.
Mira lowered her head, smiling faintly she resumed her topic. "According to Mas Aldo, was Sapphira a good girl?" Anyone knows if Sapphira is a good girl.
Aldo was completely unaware of Mira's mood swings and casually voiced his opinion, "I think Safira is a great girl, I heard a lot about her from Gus Gio. Moreover, the problem that occurred some time ago, Gus Gio also explained how important the role of Safira in it. Honestly, I was amazed by his non-playful achievements." Safira is an accomplished girl and it's not just empty words. The proof is that Gio and the others acknowledge it and therefore Aldo does not hesitate to give his appreciation to Sapphira.
"Mas Aldo is right, he's so great." Staring around the table they had passed, there was already nothing more to do.
"Do you know that Sapphira has been fascinated by Mas Aldo for the past two years?" Mira asked as she turned her gaze to look at Aldo who had just finished arranging the last ajwa date.
Aldo's not sure, "Are you?"
Mira nodded confidently and did not hesitate at all with her belief, "Yes, she wants to get to know Mas Aldo more closely." Mira explained briefly but the meaning in it should Aldo understand.
Aldo felt that there was something strange about Mira saying, "Well, since you guys have met so it's good to talk for a while." Disconnect Mira without waiting for a response from Aldo. Mira then waved her hand towards the back of Aldi who happened to have Safira there. Perhaps Safira had just come and still had not paid too much attention to the person beside Mira.
Therefore Sapphira unhesitatingly approached Mira and after a few steps she was stunned.
Mira smiles at him while giving the code there is Aldo nearby. Then, after seeing Sapphira unhesitatingly coming at the two of them, Mira subtly bid her farewell with her sweet smile. Intending to tease Sapphira, whose face has now begun to turn red.
Before leaving, Mira seemed to signal 'please-meet-your husband!' and it ends with a smile of ridicule.
Carrying his steps leaving Aldo and Sapphira alone, suddenly the seductive smile that had been lying on his lips now began to dim replaced with a thin smile that spooned. Both of his eyes were staring at meu at the rest of the mini box that was still in his arms. Mira was not even bothered with her slowly blurry vision, this was as if her mind was out of place.
"It does hurt, but how else can love not be forced." Removing the warm liquid pooling within her eyes, Mira then fixed her facial expression as cheerfully as possible. Sighing deeply, Mira put on her usual smile and excitedly dashed into the common kitchen.
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