CURTAINS OF THE PAST

LOVE BEHIND THE DRIZZLE

“Assalamu’alaikum.” Toni opens her room door slowly.

At that time, he met Iffah was fluttering on the bed while playing his cellphone with a face that was still sheathed in his body.

“Wa’alaikumussalam.. You are back?” Iffah immediately got up and kissed the back of her husband's hand that had just finished praying isya berjama’ah, at the mosque near their home with Ghali and Bobi.

“Yeah, what's out of the rain? How come you're wet like this?” Iffah gently rubbed Toni's slightly wet forehead there.

“Just drizzle..” Toni smiled looking at the face of Iffah who was so close to her at that time.

“Germidis is this whole? Wudhu’ gih, later you have a headache. Let me prepare pajamas for you.” Iffah orders while pushing Toni's back slowly.

“Ok gorgeousku...” Toni obediently. Iffah seemed to smile when she heard Toni's call for her, though it wasn't the first time Toni had called herself that.

Not long after, Toni returned from the dressing room with the pajama stellan Iffah had prepared for her earlier.

“Do you want me to get you something?” Iffah asked as she approached Toni who was about to sit on the sofa in the room.

“No need, my stomach is still bubbly.” Rejected while pulling the arm of Iffah, until his wife fell into his lap.

“Ih, what are you doing?” The Iffah rebelled a little, but Toni firmly held Iffah's body. Toni put her arms around Iffah's stomach, and rested her head on her back.

“You know?” The scales of Toni lirih.

“Hmm?” Iffah turned her body so freely that she hugged Toni's head.

“Outside there is lightning snatching each other with thunder. But the rain is just a little.” Sluggishly.

“Then?” Iffah did not understand at all the meaning of her husband's words.

My heart continues to miss you even though you are by my side right now. The longing that was so deceitful, kept growing and never knew when it would stop hurting my heart.

And lightning, scares me. He hears the rumbling and drops the rain.

In my mind, he just noisily beat the thump that was inside my chest.

I don't know since when I started hating the rain, I was afraid he'd take you away from me.

“Antoni..” Iffah disperse Toni's daydreams.

“Eh, Hmm.” Toni gasped at the voice of her beloved wife.

“Then why if it rains?” Iffah asked increasingly curious and stared intently at Toni's eyes.

“I want to keep hugging you, holding you and being with you.” Pintanya.

“Hmm this man.” Ketus Iffah tightened his hold.

“You are beautiful, very beautiful wearing a hijab like this.” Toni releases her arms from Iffah. He squinted at Iffah's slightly filled cheeks with both palms. “But... May I see something I have never seen before from you?” Toni ink with a racing heart at that time.

Iffah stared intently at Toni's eyes that were so sincere in loving her, she let Toninya open one by one pentul that pinned her headscarf. Slowly, he pulled out the veil of Iffah and put it on the table

the sofa they sat on.

Toni drops Iffah's hair curled up on her head.

“Masyaa allah..” Desir Toni found the beauty of his wife It. His eyes did not stop staring at the beautiful face of the woman he had.

Clear circles fall from the rounded eyelids of Iffah. She was so moved by the way Toni didn't force her. Toni lifts Iffah's body and takes him to bed.

Toni kissed Iffah's forehead gently, and wiped the Iffah tears that just flowed away.

Their chests rippled like the roar of the waves, so strong and made them surrender to their obligations.

They love each other. Accept each other's all the difficulties that exist in their respective partners. The ruins of the Iffah's defense collapsed, favoring the world they felt that night.

They share love, exchange love, and understand each other for the one thing they know.

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“What hurts?” Tanya Toni, who was still clutching Iffah's body in her arms and covered in a thick blanket over their bed.

“Slightly..” Whisper Iffah with flushed cheeks.

“Are you ashamed?” Ask Tony again with a smile. Although he was also embarrassed, but he covered it by asking his wife.

“Slightly..” Iffah again whispered, and then hid her tomato-red face into Toni's field chest.

Toni grinned at Iffah's playful behavior, and ruffled Iffah's hair that was still long on her arm. Many times he kissed her head.

Without Iffah knowing, clear circles flow from the edges of Toni's eyes. Her memory returns when she forcibly takes the virginity of Kamelia, who is her own best friend. And this saai has become his cousin's wife.

Toni even had a child because of it. And this is Milka Khumairah.

Toni further strengthens her embrace for Iffah so that her heart can be calmer and soon forget her vile past.

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