First Love of Ustadz

Chapter 2 is getting further away

The day passed, and now Ustad Fariz was at the house of Mr. Adrian because he was asked by Mr. Adrian to fill the wedding event handled by Mr. Adrian's Wedding Organizer.

Ustad Fariz was at Mr. Adrian's house from morning, because the show was afternoon so Mr. Adrian asked Ustad Fariz to go to his house in the morning so that they could come together to the venue.

It just so happened that it was Sunday, so Rhea was at home from this morning. Ustad Fariz and Rhea got closer, they started chatting early in the morning and of course Rhea thought of Ustad Fariz as her own brother. Surprisingly he was never this familiar with a guy whose age was above him, even with friends his age he was just a few who were familiar.

After that day, Ustad Fariz often came with the reason to stop by because he was in the area. Sometimes it is also intended to play at home because it misses the cuisine of Bu Ratih who has been considered as his own mother.

And Bu Ratih had considered Ustad Fariz like his own son, so Ustad Fariz called Bu Ratih as Mother. That way Ustad Fariz became more familiar and close to the family of Mr. Adrian. No exception with Rhea, now they are not shy anymore joking even they often call by phone.

This week there was a lecture at Rhea's sister's house outside the city. Mom, Dad and Rendi left yesterday afternoon.

Rhea could not go with them because there happened to be an event that she had to attend at school. Because Ustad Fariz was also a performer at the lecture, so Rhea left with Ustad Fariz on his motorcycle. For hours they were riding motorcycles, it seems that the motorbike was deliberately run by Ustad Fariz casually so that they could chat for a long time while driving.

Arriving there, Rhea was flocked with many questions by the brothers of her mother. They ostensibly protect Rhea, but they indirectly disapprove of Rhea when it comes to Ustad Fariz..Rhea Middle School girl who is still innocent and innocent was surprised by the brothers of her mother who forbade her too close to Ustad Fariz.

She was listening to their conversation about Ustad Fariz's background and they told Dad and Mom that it seemed like Ustad Fariz liked Rhea, they did not approve of it because it was the background of Ustad Fariz who was an orphan and had nothing. Mom and Dad just kept quiet, because they didn't know the truth, whether Ustad Fariz really liked Rhea or just thought of her as a little sister.

The show ends at night, but Rhea does not return home with Ustad Fariz because she is with her parents.

A few days after the event, Ustad Fariz rarely went to Rhea's house. Only when Pak Adrian or Bu Ratih just told him to come then he will come, but after the business is finished he will go home, with busy reasons.

Unlike before, who often come to the house even though it is not told and there is always a long time, too, sometimes even if it was too late he would stay there and go home after dawn prayers in the mosque.

Rhea and her parents were astonished by the change in attitude of Ustad Fariz. Father and Mother had suspected that Ustad Fariz had heard their conversation with her siblings at a lecture at her brother's house at the time, but immediately repelled the thought because Rhea told his parents to think positively only.

"Well was it possible that Ustad Fariz heard our conversation with our brothers back then?" Mother asked Dad because she felt bad about the arrival of Ustad Fariz, whom she considered her son.

"Then' Mom? But it could also be, it seems like Ustad Fariz's attitude is different after coming home from there," Dad thought a little while drinking black coffee made by Mother.

"Rhea, Ustad Fariz has something to say to you?" now I ask Rhea who is eating a warm fried banana while watching cartoons all the time on the TV screen.

"What the hell is Mom? No talking about anything. I never even called again. Yes maybe it is true, Ustad Fariz is busy, many times he. We should be grateful now that Ustad Fariz has done so much," Rhea gave her positive thoughts so that Mom and Dad just nodded their heads, agreeing with Rhea's words.

For almost a month, Ustad Fariz had never been home. Mother could not help her worries, fearing that anything would happen to Ustad Fariz. I was afraid that Ustad Fariz would get sick and that no one would take care of him or help him.

In the midst of her worries, Mother called Ustad Fariz to ask her how she was doing and asked why she rarely came home now. And the same reason was accepted by Mother. Ustad Fariz reasoned that he was so busy he could not come home. Mother persuaded him to occasionally come to the house and cook his favorite food, but still rejected it very subtly, he said, but Ustad Fariz said if there was a loose time he would come to the house even though suddenly he would take his time.

Finally the answer was a relief to Mother's heart after several times Mother begged her to come and ask if Ustad Fariz did not feel kangen with Mother, she said, and the question was able to make Ustad Fariz waver and promised to come home if there is free time.

This month the study at the Nurul Iman Mosque, a mosque near Rhea's house, held a pilgrimage to the guardian's tomb. Without Dad, Mom and Rhea knowing, it turns out Ustad Fariz helped guide the congregation.

Ustad Fariz was invited by Ustad Yadi to help him guide pilgrims during the pilgrimage to the guardian's tomb. Ustad Fariz agreed without him knowing that they were among the pilgrimages were a study group from the mosque near Rhea's house.

By the time that day came, Ustad Fariz knew that they were going to be among the worshippers of the mosque, he could not refuse it anymore, because there was no reason to reject the invitation of Ustad Yadi, who was not a Muslim, while all the schedule of his activities has been deliberately empty for today and he also could not possibly refuse the request of Ustad Yadi who has been helping him and giving him a job.

During the pilgrimage, Ustad Fariz did not interact at all with Father, Mother or Rhea. It seems he avoided meeting. Even he did not greet them, his gaze directed in another direction if he knew there were figures of Father, Mother and Rhea.

But when their sight accidentally met, he just kept quiet and pretended to be busy with the others, and when Dad and Mom greeted him, he only smiled thinly and bitterly which Rhea said was a bitter smile full of wounds.

Rhea was more silent while on the pilgrimage, she felt empty, for some reason and she did not know that. What might it have to do with him feeling ignored and hurt by Ustad Fariz, when all this time they were very close, and why he felt there was a little sense of tightness, he said, restless and feeling pinched in his heart when he saw Ustad Fariz in the middle of the women worshipers who flirt according to Rhea.

Rhea felt like that, it was very angry but who he was, even he was a nobody for Ustad Fariz because it was true they had nothing to do.

Seeing Ustad Fariz surrounded by girls who laughed haha hihi even though Ustad Fariz just silently did not respond, but there was really pain in Rhea's heart. Actually her eyes were so hot, she wanted to feel like she was crying, but she didn't know why.

Ah... It may be that he was too swept away to listen to the prayers offered by Ustad Fariz earlier, he said, his prayer was so heartbreaking that Ustad Fariz and the worshippers cried and some even sobbed.

And somehow he always imagined the face of Ustad Fariz who smiled bitterly at him. Is it possible that he misses the figure of Ustad Fariz who is close to him? Was he jealous when he saw Ustad Fariz with another woman? Is it true that he is in love with Ustad Fariz who is already considered his brother?

If it is true that he fell in love with her, he felt inappropriate, because she was a girl who was poor in religious knowledge so it was impossible to be with a Ustad whose religious knowledge was so vast.

"Hufft. We just think of each other as brothers. And I can't dream of being with him because we're not worth it. I was so far below him and Ustad Fariz had to get a woman who was equal or better than me" Rhea took a deep breath to relieve the tightness in her chest.

For months Rhea had not met and called Ustad Fariz since the pilgrimage to the guardian's tomb. Now Rhea was getting preoccupied with the exam.

His thoughts about the shadow of Ustad Fariz could be dispelled when he was preoccupied with learning. He tried to study very hard for the exam this time, because it was a test for graduation and his new start to enter the High School level.

He does not want to disappoint his parents and he also wants to enter a favorite country High School.

The test had passed, and during that time Rhea had never met Ustad Fariz. It felt strange, but Rhea brushed off that feeling. Sometimes when he was doing nothing, the shadow of his days with Ustad Fariz flashed.

A smile adorned his lips, yet he was pensive again when he came to reality. The reality is that they are not that close now. Little change was capable of making Rhea's heart so hollow.

Huff....

Again he could only take a long breath. This was all he could do to ease the pain that he had no idea why. She was only a Middle School girl who was still innocent and innocent, a girl who knew nothing about the outside world except the matter of lessons.

He is a home-based child who never goes out of the house without his parents, and he only goes out at school and teaches at the mosque only. About love and love, he had no idea and had never felt it.

What might it feel like to Ustad Fariz is love? Or just the affection as a brother and sister, he did not know even though he had asked her many times.

Graduation day arrived, Rhea managed to finish her Junior High with a satisfactory grade. Now he focuses on the entrance test at the state High School which has been his target since long ago.

Days passed and now Rhea managed to enter her favorite country High School. So long was the process that he went through that he forgot about his turmoil because of Ustad Fariz. He had not heard from Ustad his idol for a long time.

Whether Rhea considered him an idol Ustad, perhaps since the pilgrimage to the guardian's tomb he seemed very calm to hear the chanting of the verse and he was recited by Ustad Fariz.

Until one day he heard

that Ustad Fariz would marry a woman from a neighboring village. Rhea heard it when Dad told Mom when they were in the living room after Dad came home from college with Ustad Yadi.

It felt like there was lightning coming. Rhea's world stopped. There's a feeling of emptiness, of loss and I don't know it's all happening so fast. Her chest was so tight that her tears fell on her cheeks. He immediately wiped the tears and returned to his room.

In the room he was silent even though his hand was holding a book and his eyes fell on the book. He realized when his phone rang, it turns out he got a message from his friend who asked for an answer from his schoolwork.

Finally he realized that he was wasting his time with his daydreams. Her blankets and her eyes closed hoping she could forget all those feelings when she woke up.

Do not forget his habit of listening to music before he sleeps to fall asleep because of the music. But for this time the music he listened to seemed to make his tears fall without crying, so in the lyrics of the song he listened as if describing the wounds in his heart.

For months Rhea tried to forget the pain in her heart, and during that time also Ustad Fariz never seen though in the study in the area.

Even she heard from Mom if I objected to Ustad Fariz's wedding. I do not agree Ustad Fariz married the woman because according to Ustad Fariz Mother could find a woman who was prettier and better than the woman.

And according to what I know if Ustad Fariz married her out of pity, she was also an orphan, the same as Ustad Fariz, but the difference is she still has an older sister.

It's true that the woman kept approaching Ustad Fariz, but I didn't expect that Ustad Fariz's heart could melt as well. Some say Ustad Fariz was framed because his parents who died yesterday told him to marry his son.

Now Rhea was just feeling pity and pain hearing the news about Fariz's wedding. It was true that the woman was far from what Rhea had imagined.

He used to imagine the figure of a woman who became the wife of Ustad Fariz is a woman who has high religious knowledge and a good woman, it turns out that eleven twelve with her.

When she was about to turn her body back into her room, it turned out that Mother had opened her voice again, "When Ustad Fariz had asked permission to approach Rhea but Dad refused, now Ustad Fariz can even have a woman like this, pity you Well."