Fazila Tipan From Heaven

The Candid Love

"Are you sad? Tell me, what makes our playboy sad?" I mocked my silly friend while chuckling, outside he looks strong, he is really very crybaby.

"What can I say? I can only say this place is very beautiful, especially the girl." Say someone who is most familiar with me there.

"Dokter handsome! The humourist! Rich! easy-going! It's all on you, please don't use it again to hook an innocent woman. If karma returns you'll cry for yourself without anything you can do." I said softly then sighed harshly.

"Come Alan. It seems like right now what you're saying is really happening to me. I myself can't remember how many women I've dated, among the women I've met no one can make me this sad." Said someone over there again.

I can only smile softly at the words of my best friend, it seems that he has now learned an important lesson that he will never forget in his entire life.

"Araf, did Aunt Linda meet you?"

"Don't ask it Alan! I don't want to remember."

"All right, I'm not gonna do that again. Tell me, what other stupid girl would you like to approach? I can smell your despair." I said while pretending to guess. My pretentious attitude began to crumble again, and I felt ridiculous about it.

Usually I'm not like this, every time I talk to Araf, I open up to him, maybe because we both come from the same family background and have the same problems, Araf's a Playboy guy while I'm a loyal guy to one partner.

"He's not stupid Alan, I'm the stupid one!" Reply Araf with a sad tone.

"Moss you?"

"Miss me, that woman is not interested in me. Worse, he is married and has a seven-year-old daughter. I'm really stupid, so stupid I can't figure out if she's still a girl or married." Araf replied in despair.

"Haha... A-p-a is that right? It's really funny." Really, I chuckled while enduring the pain in my stomach, I never expected to hear a joke from Araf in his first week of living in Malang.

I wonder, what kind of woman could steal Araf's attention? Is she really that beautiful that can make Playboy class Araf fall in love?

People say that love comes from the eyes and then comes down to the heart. And I think this time Araf felt something different. Hearing his tone, it seemed like his love came from the heart then kemata. Whatever it is as long as it's good I will definitely support it.

Be married? Got kids? That's a huge exaggeration. I think Araf is confused right now.

"Laugh...! If you meet him, I'm sure you'll be as limp as I feel. She is not only beautiful, she is also very simple. I wonder which man got that precious pearl?" Reply Araf silenced my mouth with a slightly exaggerated defense.

"Well... I understand your max! You know, before I fell in love with that woman, I loved her son first. That kid is so sweet! She was as beautiful as her mother, which amazed me at her, she was able to educate her child well. At the age of his daughter who had just stepped on Seven Years, the sweet child had already memorized the Thirty Juz of the Quran." Araf said with excitement.

The cesss!

I felt different, hearing Araf's words made me very happy. What makes me happy? I don't even know them and I don't have the slightest connection with me. Somehow I felt so sad, like my soulmate was somewhere else, and I missed her so much.

Ooh no! I shed tears? Why did this happen? Slowly I wiped it with the back of my hand, took a deep breath and then gently exhaled it rough, I hope Araf will not know that I am sad, as well as happy with the story he shared.

"What are you gonna do next?"

"Of course I'll forget it. As bad as I am, nothing in my dictionary says snatch someone's wife. Iihh.. Just imagine that I have goosebumps." Araf said confidently.

"Did that woman know you liked her?"

"Of course not, Alan. We haven't even gotten acquainted. I only know her name is Fatimah Az Zahra." Reply Araf while improving his sitting position.

"Fatimah Az Zahra? I'm sure she's an amazing woman, and her husband must be an amazing person for being able to educate their children to be memorizers of the Qur'an at a young age." I say with great respect to the family Araf told me about.

"My story's over, and what about your relationship with Seren?"

Hmmm! I sighed at Araf's question, I can't say I hate that woman so much, because deep down I still have love for her. I'm just trying to be strong, I'm not going to have that bond that I've broken with all my might.

"I decided to end our relationship. I thought, she won't be able to live her long life with me. And more importantly than anything, he's got a much better performance than me." Say it slowly.

Me and Araf, we were both silent. The friendship we had turned out to have a love story that both ended horribly. Araf was luckier than me, the woman he loved did not know about his feelings, it was very easy to end such feelings in silence. In contrast to my case, being betrayed by a woman I loved was painful, and this pain has now become my best friend. I hope this pain will not come to Araf. We both got so absorbed in our feelings.

Meanwhile, the night is getting bigger. Outside there are no stars, it looks like it will rain tonight. Just like the darkness tonight, so do our hearts.

Our love is indeed foundered, can only hope that bright light will come to our lives so that there is no more darkness in it.

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