CHARM GIRL ALIM
14. Baffled
"Now you can be relieved to have met your daughter again, but can you explain the complexity of the matter to her?" Ask Mr. Arkana.
Duaarr...
"Oh Allah, I did not think what I should say to him. How could she have come with Rendra for her honeymoon but instead heard this strange story while she was pregnant young.
But, he had already heard the true story between him and Rendra swapped in infancy." Said Mrs Widya.
"Remember baby!" Not exchanged but deliberately exchanged, you should be able to distinguish it." Mr. Arkana said his wife's words.
"Sorry baby!"
Mariam heard clearly what her mother and stepfather were talking about. But he was reluctant to open his eyes, let alone respond to his mother's words.
Her heart ached to know the truth between her and her husband, a sister-in-law.
"We'd better get out, baby, let Mariam sleep." Mr. Arkana took his wife to their room.
After her parents left her room, Mariam buried her face in a pillow. She shed her tears that had stuck in her eyelids.
It feels very difficult to accept this fact in the midst of her pregnant child Rendra.
"O Allah, when I am equal to you, asking for guidance on who my soul mate is, I am shown by you my soul mate is bang Rendra. Was I wrong to conclude my dream up to three times he always came to me.
My heart is leaning more towards him even though I knew at first he was a breng***k man who was far from Your religion.
"O Allah, I cannot complete this test unless You guide me." Pinta Mariam in her prayer.
"Come, Ummi, if only you had not died maybe, I would have asked you directly, had ummi ever suckled me during my infancy?" ...hiks.
What about the fate of my marriage ummi?" Now bang Rendra is returning to Jakarta with my father, my real father. While my real mother was with me at her house." Mariam monologue.
At the hotel, Rendra felt very shocked, embarrassed, angry and very sad.
The woman he married, whom he chose to be his wife, to lead him down the right path, was toyed with by fate because of the greed of an old grandmother who had loved him so much.
He was deeply ashamed of Mariam, who lived a simple life, being removed from his biological parents simply because she was born a woman.
"What does the inheritance of wealth mean, if happiness has been taken from you since you were present in this world Mariam.
I took your place, even I refused my own father who was surviving at that time to wait for help from me as a doctor.
But, what am I doing?" I thought instead of my pleasure when I looked at the beautiful face of Mariam who would do anything as long as she could heal her father.
But Mariam maintained her faith and honor in fear of the punishment of her Lord.
While my father died in vain because I ignored him for too long. I'm sorry dad.
It's worth it, my heart felt so much pain watching you die that night. I feel like there's a bond between the two of us, but I don't know what our relationship is.
"Mariam, are we not going to see each other again?" But I'm also ashamed to meet you. I took all yours.
Your parents, their affection, home, some hospital that almost every major city in the country has. While you are a child farmer tea and vegetable fields in your village. I also used to harass you, but in the end I fell in love with you Mariam." Rendra monologues in her hotel room.
The sound of his room bell rang, Rendra got up with a shuddering step to see who was coming.
He opened the door to his room and it was his father, Mr. Rendra.
"Rendra, I've booked a plane ticket for us to go home together to Jakarta. Now get ready for three hours on our plane to go." Said Mr. Hendra.
"Master is not my father and master is the real father of Mariam." Said Rendra making Mr. Hendra jerked.
"Maybe biologically, I'm not your real father, but legally, you're still my son Rendra." Said sir Hendra wisely.
"Are we not seeing Mariam again?" Does my marriage have to be annulled immediately for the sake of law?" It hurts so much, dad. I have to know the truth that Mariam and I are sisters." Rendra's crying broke again.
"Islamic law has arranged everything well and correctly and we must follow because it is a form of our piety to Allah. I was suspicious when I saw Mariam's face, which was exactly like Widya's.
What I regret, when I asked Widya to be present in your marriage, Widya refused without giving me a chance to explain about Mariam.
But, now that fate has already become mush, we can what Rendra. I hope you can forget Mariam and try to find another woman to replace your daughter in your heart." Said Mr. Hendra with a heavy heart.
Mr. Hendra could not bear to see his adopted son slumped in the face of this harsh reality. But as a Muslim, he had to resuscitate Rendra for their mistakes even though they did not know at first.
"Hopefully many other families out there, don't experience the way I've been." Said Rendra while wiping her tears.
"That's why family introductions are important when asking. Inquiring seedlings, bebets and weights are also very important to avoid any wrong actions.
Maybe your case with Mariam is a sister, but what about other couples who are always faced with the fact they are siblings, sometimes a thousand and a piece. And it hurts so much." Timpal, mr. Rendra.
"Dad, if our marriage is annulled, should my son also be aborted?" Ask Rendra later.
Mr. Hendra took a deep breath, then answered Rendra's difficult question as well.
"The child is a gift of God, let him grow up to be born into this world. Our job is to raise and care for Rendra. Sufficient is Allah who determines our lives of sin and does not care for the child of a married couple because they do not know the origin." Said Mr. Rendra.
"Okay dad, wait for me in ten minutes, I'll see you soon. But can I talk to Mariam or Widya's mom?" I just want to say goodbye to them." Rendra.
"Do what your heart thinks is good, son, but don't call him repeatedly, if they don't want to talk to you." Mr. Hendra reminded his son.
"Good dad!" Rendra pressed Widya's mom's contact number first before she spoke to Mariam.
"Hallo, assalamualaikum mom!"
"Waalaikumuslam, Rendra!"
