First Love of Ustadz

Chapter 8 The Widow

"Ustad... Is this really Ustad Fariz?" Rhea rubbed her eyes.

Ustad Fariz smiled sweetly looking at Rhea. He thrust his empty plate in front of Rhea.

"Don't you take this rice with my favorite rooster?"

"Huh? oh i-this... when did Ustad come?" Rhea stuttered against Ustad Fariz.

"Well, have you been used to talking in front of the camera?" Ustad Fariz received a plate filled with rice, chicken taliwang, and kale plecing.

"Now, since there's no income. Hehehe.. must find money to live and thank God it has found its way," Rhea ate the food as usual, the awkwardness has disappeared.

Ustad Fariz had eaten with great gourmet food, for a long time he had not tasted this cuisine, the same cuisine that Bu Ratih, Ibu Rhea had cooked.

"Taste you good, just like Mom's cooking," Ustad Fariz took the rice and side dishes again.

"Oiya dong, his son. Hehe.... Ustad starve what doyan?" Rhea let out her joke as usual.

"Doyan, it has been a long time to not get rid of this cuisine, kangen really," Ustad Fariz spoke while feeling the spiciness.

"Kangen is the same cuisine?" Rhea subconsciously teased Ustad Fariz like she used to while chuckling.

"The same person, too," Rhea fell silent from her small laughter.

Ustad Fariz hissed in the spiciness, he grabbed his empty glass of water he had drunk earlier. Rhea immediately filled the empty Ustad Fariz glass with water in the teapot.

"Thank you" Ustad Fariz sipped water from the glass.

Rhea went back to eating her food. He looked at Ustad Fariz as Ustad Fariz chuckled as he stared at his glass.

"Why Ustad? Ustad's healthy, right?" rhea said in a probing tone.

"We're like husband and wife eating both gini" Ustad Fariz still with a little laugh.

Rhea fell silent. He knew it was so happy to eat both of them like this. Especially if they can eat with their children.

But Rhea soon realized because it was just a delusion.

Ustad Fariz stopped laughing when she saw Rhea's face change. He knew that Rhea was sad, probably because she was talking about the husband and wife.

"Rhea are you sad? Sorry yes." Ustad Fariz looked down at Rhea.

"Father Ustad, just felt it couldn't have happened. Hehehe." Rhea laughed so Ustad Fariz wouldn't feel guilty.

"Rhea, do you want to be my Zahra?" asked Ustad Fariz unconsciously.

"Huh?" Rhea shifted her gaze from her plate to the face of Ustad Fariz.

"E... em... The book did you write?" ustad Fariz asked nervously.

Still staring at each other, Rhea nodded slowly with a smile.

"Great you, you haven't changed in the past. Then why use the name Zahra instead of Rhea? And that's Chanel YouTube, so why use the name Zahra?" Ustad Fariz stared fixedly at the face he had long missed.

Rhea just smiled without answering.

"Isn't that my nickname for you?" Ustad Fariz is now looking for answers to all his questions.

"It's still my name Ustad, Rheina Az Zahra," Rhea confirmed the spelling of her name.

"But the one who called Zahra was just me" Ustad Fariz once again took issue.

"Ustad, Ustad, how do you know the address here?" ask Rhea to investigate.

"From Mom and Dad. They also told me to take care of you" with ease Ustad Fariz answered Rhea's questions.

"Emmm... Ustad we chat there, let's get it cleaned up first," Rhea cleaned up the dirty dishes and glasses of the files they ate.

Ustad Fariz waited for Rhea in a very beautiful back garden overgrown with a variety of colorful flowers and several fruit trees, such as mango, rambutan, longan, starfruit and sapodilla. Very shady and calm there with the sound of water gurgling from the koi fish pond and there is also a catfish pond.

Ustad Fariz was so comfortable sitting there that he forgot a few minutes had passed but Rhea had not come to that place.

Ustad Fariz looked back because of the sound of footsteps. And sure enough, Rhea came up with some books, laptops and stationery. He put it in the gazebo that Ustad Fariz was sitting in.

Rhea opened the books and anointed them with her autograph. Then he gave the books to Ustad Fariz. There are three books given to Ustad Fariz, all of which are books from Rhea's writings that have been published. A total of four books with the first book given to Ustad Fariz.

Ustad Fariz looked at the books, then he turned his eyes to Rhea.

Rhea explained that they were all her books, and she gave them to Ustad Fariz to get Ustad Fariz to read them.

"Ustad, didn't Ustad come home? Maghrib soon, is Ustad not looking for Ustad's wife and son?" Rhea tried to get Ustad Fariz home because she did not want any slander if Ustad Fariz was in her house too long.

"Yes, this is coming home. And. I still have no children," Ustad Fariz smiled wryly, then she walked out the house followed by Rhea.

"Assalamu'alaikum" Ustad Fariz said a greeting while riding his motorcycle.

"Wa'alaikumusalam" answered Rhea.

Rhea stared sadly at the departure of Ustad Fariz, it felt empty, quiet, different from that when he was with Ustad Fariz.

Ustad Fariz saw from the rearview Rhea who was glum looking at his disappearance. It was very desirable that he was always with the woman, his first love whose name he could not get out of his heart.

At Pondok Pesantren Al-Mukmin, Ustad Fariz was reading books given from Rhea in his room. After the Isya prayer in the Masjid Pondok, Ustad Fariz returned to his room. All of Rhea's books she brought there so as not to be read by Mirna. Because he didn't want Mirna to ask all sorts of questions about the books.

Chequek...

Enter Ustad Jaki to Ustad Fariz's room. He immediately sat down without permission the chair in front of Ustad Fariz. Then he picked up one of the books that Rhea had given him earlier.

It just so happened that Rhea's first book she gave to Ustad Fariz when she met at the bookstore. Ustad Fariz was still focused on reading another Rhea book, and he ignored the Ustad Jaki that was already in front of him.

"Zahra's? It didn't seem like a stranger to the name," Ustad Jaki muttered loudly making Ustad Fariz take his eyes off the book and now looked towards Ustad Jaki.

"The book is he who writes, and it's about what's happened to him all along" Ustad Fariz nodded confirming his own words.

"Zahras... That zahra?" Ustad Jaki asked to find out the truth.

Ustad Fariz nodded and recounted his accidental meeting at the bookstore. And Ustad Fariz explains about Rhea's first book she wrote based on what she went through.

Ustad Jaki reads the book, she also sees Rhea's writing using her pen and signature for Ustad Fariz. Ustad Jaki becomes more convinced that the two of them really love each other and maybe they are the destined match.

"So, she's a widow now?" Ustad Jaki asked Ustad Fariz when he finished reading and closed the book.

Ustad Fariz nodded and went back to reading his book.

"Can dong now unite?" Ustad Jaki asked enthusiastically.

Ustad Fariz looked back at Ustad Jaki. He was confused as to what. His heart wants to answer yes, but he cannot be selfish because he already has a wife even though he has not been blessed with children from his marriage.

"Do you know the answer?" Ustad Jaki asked Ustad Fariz.