GUS IDOL

Surprising news

"I love you too, Kang."

The words were still ringing in Azam's ears, only now they sounded so painful, unlike what used to sound like singing before going to bed, soothing.

Azam cursed himself, his fault for too long hanging the status between himself and Indri. Not without reason, but Azam himself was strengthening his heart before continuing to a more serious level. For Azam, marriage should be once in a lifetime.

Last month, Azam had been intending to tie up their relationship. But he was a little late, just about to express his intention Indri had given the news that he had been proposed the son of a Kyai, but not from his pesantren, but the son of Kyai from the Al-Falah pesantren, he said, the place where Azam studied for about ten years.

Indri also could not refuse because his parents had said "Yes" without asking him first.

Selfish indeed, but Indri could not resist because he was afraid of his father.

Indri's father is a hard man and the type of parent who does not want to be denied, all must obey his wishes. Including living in the pesantren, it was also the compulsion of Indri's father.

"Wrong by Kang, why have you been bedridden! What if it's like? I can't resist, I don't love that Gus either."

While crying, Indri expressed his frustration as the two of them spoke over the phone.

"Sorry, because I came late, but is this matchmaking not negotiable anymore? You also have the right to reject it right, because who will live the domestic life later it's you, not your parents."

Azam was still adamant in persuading Indri to step down in his betrothal.

"can't. Because if I refuse, my father threatens that he will no longer interfere in my life after this."

Azam could not do anything else, what else the man who 'captured' his lover was the son of Kyainya. If he is not revered by his teacher, then he must also be revered by his teacher's dzurriyah.

Regrets are regrets, everything is going as it should. Is not God the best of planners? Then will we protest as humans if we have a destiny that does not match our expectations? Allah is the One Who knows what is good and what is bad.

Good in the eyes of man is not necessarily good in the eyes of God, and vice versa.

At least that's what made Azam try to make peace with the situation.

"Bismillah Ikhlas." Azam tried to strengthen his heart.

*

Gus Fanani is the nephew of Kyai Yahya, who is none other than Kyainya Indri. At that time when Gus Fanani and family were visiting in the boarding school Roudlotul Jannah, Kyai Yahya boarding school, Gus Fanani who at that time went into the kitchen to take a glass to see a santri there, surely the santri is the ndalem servant, thought Gus Fanani.

"Sir, please bring a glass." Call Gus Fanani from the kitchen doorstep.

Santri who was none other than Indri, looked at the source of the voice, glancing at the source, then he walked up to the shelf to pick up the glass as Gus Fanani had requested and immediately gave it to the man standing in the doorway.

The tip of Gus Fanani's finger that accidentally touched Indri's fingers, reflex made Indri immediately remove the glass he held. Luckily the glass was already in his grasp Gus Fanani so it did not fall, only almost slumped.

This made Gus Fanani flinch, and immediately looked at the girl who almost dropped the glass in front of him. He was amazed at the obedience of the girl, seen from her reaction that accidentally their hands touched, it seems that Indri is the girl who really takes care of her marwah.

Gus Fanani fell in love at first sight.

***

"Sir, someone sent you an invitation, he said to you." Nyai Maryam's mother handed her a light blue combination of white invitation paper. Hilya received it with both hands.

"Thank you, Mom."

Hilya turned the paper to read the name. How surprised Hilya when she found the name of Indriana Citra Saraswati and the name of her groom look foreign to Hilya.

"What is Indri who used to spend time here with you Nduk?"

"Njeh," Hilya replied with a face that was still in shock.

"Alhamdulillah. But why is your expression like a shocked person confused so Nduk?" Said Nyai's mother astonished, instead of happy Hilya even like a confused person got a marriage invitation letter from his best friend.

"Ah, nothing kok Bu, shocked because Indri himself never told me if he had a candidate, uh. suddenly sent an invitation letter."

"Maybe want a surprise," said Nyai's mother before passing away leaving Hilya who was still standing looking at the invitation paper in her hand, she still could not believe what she saw.

"Mas Azam" he murmured softly.

Hilya immediately went to her room, she remembered her cell phone, in a hurry she immediately wanted to contact someone.

"I have to make sure first, who knows there is a mistake," inner Hilya riled.

There was a call link to the number that Hilya went to, hoping to worry that she was waiting for her phone to be picked up.

"Assalamu'alaikum." a woman's voice from across the phone.

"Wa'alaikumsallam! Indri..!! What is..!! Who sent this invitation to you?!" Cecar Hilya on Indri from across the phone.

"Yes" replied Indri lirih.

"How come you never told me that you married? Kirain you are the same Mas Azam.." Hilya said hanging, he himself hesitated to continue.

Shortly after that, there was a sound from across the phone.

"Indrii's? You cry?" Hilya asked somewhat worriedly.

"I was betrothed to Hil, I can not refuse," said Indri on the sidelines of his sobbing.

"Stupid?"

"Yes, and worse, the man who will marry me is Gus Mas Azam, Gus from the Al-Falah boarding school."

"Did?!" Hilya was surprised by what she heard. Hurriedly he reread the invitation paper that was still in his grasp. Hilya only realized that the groom was the son of Kyai Hambali, the nanny of the Al-Falah boarding school where her brother went into bed.

"Can't you?" Hilya said again not expecting. How can the world be this small. Of the many men in this world why should Gus Fanani who became the match of Indri, a man who has a close relationship with his brother, Azam. Yang Hilya knew that Azam had been quite close to Gus Fanani because Azam himself had been considered a child by the Father of Gus Fanani, Kyai Hambali.

"I don't know Hil, suddenly fooled by that." Tangis Indri is becoming.

"Did Mas Azam know this?" Ask Hilya carefully.

"Have..! I sent him an invitation. Let's just say it's his own fault why didn't he apply for me first. It's my turn to be proposed that the person wants to sleep!" Indri said somewhat annoyed. He rubbed rough tears that wet his cheeks.

Hilya snorted, hearing Indri's words, Hilya also felt disappointed with her own brother. Hilya had repeatedly reminded Azam to immediately propose to Indri, but Azam's answer was only later. And now, Indri already belongs to someone else. He could do nothing more to unite his brother and his best friend. Sorry for sure, but all that is no longer useful.

"Sorry Masku yes," Hilya said with a look of sadness.

"Hil, is it possible later when I have become a daughter-in-law in Al-Falah pesantre will often meet Mas Azam? If I did, I wouldn't be able to look like Hil." Indri's cry broke again imagining the thing he said earlier. How could he be able to if later he will often meet with people he loves while his own status has become the wife of others. Will Indri be able to hold back his feelings later?

"Where do I know Ndri, but it seems that there is a possibility," said Hilya chimed in, making Indri more sad.

Indri was stunned when he heard a knock on the door from outside his room, immediately he said goodbye to Hilya and disconnected the phone.

He wiped his face so that the traces of his tears would be seen again. Indri's father would not like it if he saw her crying because of this matchmaking.