CURTAINS OF THE PAST

RECOUNT

"Ghaliii..." Iffah came calling for his sister's name. He kept running around into Ghali's room which happened to be unlocked.

Ghali, who was lying down and fiddling with his cell phone, got up when the door of his room was opened violently by Iffah.

"Sister... Just surprised..." Woe to him without seeing the situation on the look on Iffah's face.

Iffah continued to approach Ghali and pulled his sister's arm to stand facing him.

"Sir Iffah, what's wrong?" Ghali. She realized her brother was not okay at the time.

"Tell me honestly, brother, where's Mom?" Press Iffah in a flat voice.

"C.. m... I, I, Mommy... Mum..." Ghali nervous. Something sudden and unexpected, Iffah asked her whereabouts after a long time.

"Ghaliii..." Iffah began to raise her tone. His face began to look fierce and fiery. He looked so impatient waiting for an answer from Ghali.

"I-mom, Ghali doesn't know..." Ghali replied quickly.

"You don't have to lie to your sister." Iffah did not believe Ghali's answer.

"Ghali really doesn't know sister." Ghali Sentak.

"Then why didn't you tell me what really happened at that time?" Iffah is getting hotter. His eyes began to reveal a clear liquid back after it had just dried.

"Isn't it better if you don't know all that? That's a bad brother's past, brother. And you don't have to remember him anymore. Now you have it all." Ghali said no less fierce.

"That's not true Ghali. It's wrong, you're hiding your own mother's crimes." Iffah said, he looked shivering. His reddened eyes revealed disappointment towards Ghali's silence.

"He's a wicked woman, and Ghali is the daughter of that wicked woman, brother." Ketus Ghali's. A regret was evident on the look on his face.

He wants to hate, but he cannot hate.

Iffah was silent at Ghali's words. Undeniably, he himself would not be able to do anything at that time.

"Ghali loves his brother, but that doesn't mean Ghali can see Ghali's mother go to jail, brother. So Ghali let mom go. But Ghali doesn't want to look for him anymore either." Ghali dropped himself in front of Iffah. He grabbed Iffah's right hand as if kneeling at her brother's feet.

"Didn't my sister say she was also my sister's mother, even though I never showed my love to my sister even once, except at my side." Ghali sobbed and did not dare to look at Iffah's face.

Iffah grabbed Ghali's shoulder, and then lifted her slowly.

"Now, tell sister what she has done to Arjuna." Pinta Iffah.

Although not ready, he still stubbornly wants to hear the true story of Ghali.

"Ghali's sorry, brother, Ghali..."

"Ghalis... Brother please." Cut the Iffah fast. He knows, not just himself. But for Ghali it was hard to tell him all that.

Ghali took a sitting position on the edge of his bed, his mind going back to the time before Iffah and Arjuna had an accident at that time. Many times he blinked his eyes, so that the clear liquid that pooled in his eye fertilizer did not spill.

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"Ridaaaa..."

A middle-aged woman was so shocked when her name called someone so loudly.

"What have you done, huh? This time you really have gone too far. Not enough all this time you've been troubling your stepson?" Maki an old woman to him.

"What's going on, Grandma?" Suddenly Ghali came to them who sounded noisily from behind the modest house owned by Iffah's father.

"Your mother had mixed sleeping pills on the food that Arjuna had eaten before leaving, Grandma was worried that something might happen to your sister and her current husband, Ghali." Said the old woman he called Grandma.

"Mother...." Ghali clasped his mother's hand. "Is that true, Mom?." Ghali stared fiercely at Rida, his own biological mother.

Rida looked nervous, she jerked her hand in Ghali's grip as hard as she could to escape. He immediately ran away and fled from there.

Before Ghali wanted to chase after his mother, he tried to call Iffah's number.

Tut's... Tut's... Tut's...

"Assalamu'alaikum Ghali's..." Sapa Iffah's.

"Wa'alaikumussalam, where is Iffah?" ~ Tanya Ghali with riled up.

"Sister now... (Arjuna, what's wrong with you? Arjuna's... You sleepy? Stop car... Arjun... Arjun... Arjuna awaaaasss)" Ghali heard Iffah's screams before the accident.

"Sir Iffah, hello brother... Brother Iffah, everything's fine, isn't it, sister? Iffaaah..." Ghali called his brother many times, but there was no answer at all even though the phone had not been disconnected at the time.

Ghali is panicking. So panicked, Ghali to tears sobbing at that time, his mind imagined something bad happened to his brother and sister-in-law.

Ghali had contacted Iffah before the accident. But, honey, he was a little late.

"What happened to Ghali?" Ask grandma to panic.

"Ghali doesn't know, Grandma." Ghali was stunned, bad thoughts haunting him at the time.

The possibility of her brother being wretched was huge, as she heard herself the screams of Iffah the last time.

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