Denisa Rosaline

Because of Ngidam

Another Eagle, another Aline. He did not realize at all that he had damaged someone's mood. Aline continued her steps towards her tiny contract.

The day is getting dusk as Aline leaves for Abah's restaurant and cafe. He's permission to be late today for fixing the water machine in his rented. The fierce sun slowly fades replaced the beautiful orange twilight. The sky is dimming, indicating that soon the ruler of the night will soon be present. Restaurants are always crowded in the hours after the office like this. Aline and her colleagues have always been overwhelmed at serving visitors.

After the Maghrib prayers, Aline, Hana and the employees return to their respective positions.

Yes, Abah always closes his restaurant and cafe when the adzan roars. Not closing in the true sense, but rather to rest the employees for congregational prayers, but the visitors can still enjoy their dishes. In the first session, Abah will greet employees and visitors who want to worship at his restaurant, in the next session another male employee or visitor who will become a priest. The visitors who were eating were left alone. Not one or two visitors never run away while they are performing worship. But Abah always instills in him and his employees that whatever happens when they all face the dignity of fulfilling the call of prayer with the permission of Allah. God will replace everything. And Allah Almighty Allah replaced it with a favors that are many times over, that is, visitors who are inexhaustible. Sometimes this reminds Aline of the taxi driver he was riding to the port the other day. Patience and gratitude. That is the key to all the serenity and pleasure of the soul.

Tonight, Aline went down to a very crowded restaurant. Sometimes he helps in the kitchen, sometimes he goes back and forth to take notes and deliver his customer orders. As of right now, Aline is dropping off a guest order at table 21.

"Mister Aline!", call Tama, a male servant, waving his hand, asking that he approach immediately.

"What's up, Tam?"

"Sir, the customer at table 39 wants to serve Mbak Aline" he half whispered.

Aline looked at table 39. I saw a couple there. The wife seemed to be in the middle of an old pregnancy facing them, and the husband turned his back on them.

Aline nodded to her partner, Tama, then walked up to the 39th table.

"Good night, Mother and Father. Can I help you?" Straight Aline looked at the pair of visitors. Then the man who had lowered his head to play his gadget raised his face to face Aline.

"Sorry, Ma'am ... Aline," he said he saw the nametag Aline was wearing. "We want to order but my wife wants you to cook it" the man explained.

"I'm sorry, Ma'am. It's debay's will," added the wife.

"Eh .. iii .. yes. No problem, Mom. What do you want to order?" aline asked stammered from nervousness. The reason, the man is Niko Wirawan, the man who will be betrothed to him first. The marriage that led her to be expelled by her Papa, and banished from the Tiocandra family. And this woman, is pregnant. That means, by the time the matchmaking happened, this woman was already pregnant with this boy? Should it be at that time, the couple was already married? Then how could Om Riko want to match his eldest son with himself. And that makes Aline wonder, does Om Riko already know this? If so, why still impose the matchmaking plan? Does the papa know this? If so, why not just cancel the plan? Why didn't papi look for him? Did papi know before? Aline's mind raged, asking too many questions in his mind that he had not been able to answer. Aline took a deep breath, scooped up as much oxygen as she could, then threw it away slowly. It's still in working hours. He must be professional and do his job well. His disappointment and his dealings with the man. He promised to find out the truth later.

Aline recorded the pregnant woman's order. He only asked for 2 cooked ceplok eggs to form a picture of 'heart' with the addition of extra spicy sambal sauce and a glass of soursop juice. The one who makes and serves must be Aline. It's not in the menu book!

After recording the order, Aline headed to the kitchen to make the bumil order. When finished, Aline delivered and served at the table number 39. Before retreating, Aline took the time to ask how many months of her womb. And the woman replied that she had entered the ninth month and was waiting for the day. Then the woman asked Aline to stroke her stomach 3 times. After getting what she wanted, the woman prepared to eat a meal. After praying that the delivery of the woman would be smooth, Aline also said goodbye to serve other guests until the restaurant closed.

Arriving at the rented, Aline immediately took a shower and changed clothes. Today is really exhausting for his soul and body. The shadow of Niko and his wife was always disturbing Aline's thoughts from earlier. Soon he took ablution and the Qur'an. At this moment Aline's feelings were mixed. All sorts of feelings raged on his chest, making the tightness as if squeezed. The extreme disappointment made her tears fall. Is that how you hate him? Why not go look for him? Why did only his two brothers struggle to find him? Aline was angry, I don't know who. Soon he took a stand and began chanting the holy verses of the word of Allah SWT.

Finished the tadarus, Aline's feelings had calmed down again. He lost his laptop on the nightstand, and he began surfing in cyberspace. His eyes were keen on reading every article about Niko Wirawan. Sure enough, Aline's assessment of the man wasn't wrong. Aline did not know Niko directly, but through the stories of some of his college friends who had dated the young businessman. That guy's track record with women is really bad. Aline thanked him for refusing the match.

What he had in mind at this moment was the feeling of his parents when they learned the fact that their future son-in-law had a wife? What about grandpa's will? Does such a will have to be fulfilled? Is not the soul mate, death, and sustenance arranged before we are born? What happens if you continue to force marriage between the two families? Yes, papi could let his favorite daughter become Niko's second wife for the sake of a will? However, Aline did not blame her papi. For him, as a dutiful child, of course his papi just try to run the will of grandfather. Even if you have to force. That's what disappointed Aline to date.

Aline completed his search for the eldest son of the Wirawan family. Closed cases!