HALAL LOVER (Already Published )

Section 7

Aisyah was pensive, thinking about what happened this afternoon when she saw Azizah with Ghibran. His heart kept wondering.

"Did Azizah like Ghibran too? But it is impossible, even Zizah really dislikes him, but even if Azizah likes Ghibran it is okay I have to sincerely see my best friend happy. Lay down this heart, O Allah," said Aisha.

While Ghibran was preparing in his room, he saw himself being watched as he spoke to himself

"Tonight, I will meet the woman of my parents' choice. Well, even though this heart is only focused on Aisha but I have to throw away my feelings towards Aisyah. Because we may not be meant to be together, bismillah I am sincere O Allah."

Ghibran sighed, it turns out that umy Aminah heard Ghibran's words on the doorstep without Ghibran's knowledge.

Meanwhile Azizah was preparing to be ready in her room, she saw her face reflected while tidying up her veil.

"Oh my God, tonight I will meet my future husband whom I did not recognize before. Is this my destiny, O Allah?"

Umy fatimah went into the room and immediately approached Azizah, Azizah was surprised to see her umyya.

"Umy's son is beautiful, are you ready, son?"

Azizah turned her head while smiling and just fell silent.

"Umy didn't think son, you'd be getting married soon and leaving umy. If Aby still exists, Aby would also be very happy to see her son soon to be married." The eyes of Fatimah and Aisyah immediately swept the tears of Fatimah umy.

"Umy don't talk like that, Zizah won't go anywhere Zizah will always be here with umy." Azizah smiled, umy Fatimah also smiled and held Azizah's hand.

"One side umy happy because umy's child will soon be married, but on the other hand umy sad because ...."

Azizah immediately cut the words of Umy Fatimah while sweeping the tears of Umy Fatimah.

"Umy listen to Zizah, Zizah's not going anywhere. Zizah will stay here with umy." umy Fatimah smiled and left Azizah.

Meanwhile in another place, Aisyah pensively still remembered the incident earlier. His heart kept wondering and feeling curious.

"God, why should my friend and I love the same person? I must not be selfish, my friendship with Azizah has been established for a long time and even we are like brothers. Not because of one man, our friendship just crumbled. No, I have to throw away this feeling towards the Ghibran. O Allah, strengthen me" said Aisha. "But, has Azizah not been betrothed? Why should I feel so nervous? O Allah Aisha, why did you come to think of Ghibran when you did not know whether Ghibran also felt the same way with you" he added, a little relieved.

Aisyah sighed and suddenly her phone rang, it turned out Azizah called. Aisyah immediately answered Azizah's phone while sweeping her tears, Aisyah began to speak.

"[Assalamualaikum Zah, what's wrong Zah?]"

"[Waalaikumsalam Shah.]" Azizah's voice was heard far away.

"[Dad, tonight I and umy were invited to Haryo's place, and I will automatically meet the man. What do I do, Shah?]" ask Azizah, ask for advice.

"[You should calm down, don't be afraid. I'm sure that man must be the best for you. oiyaa I'm happy well.]"

"[Yeah, do'a I am. I wish I could get through this.]"

"[Aamiin.]" Aisyah smiled.

Ghibran is still in his room while looking at Aisyah's photo, he still keeps Aisyah's photo even though he can't have it. In the doorway, umi Aminah had noticed Ghibran earlier without Ghibran knowing because the position of Ghibran turned back to the door. The voice of Umy Aminah on the doorstep called out to Ghibran.

"Ghibran" call Aminah.

Hearing her umyad voice, Ghibran was startled and immediately hurriedly hid Aisyah's photo on a book that was on the table. Umy Aminah approached Ghibran, Ghibran turned his head and rose from his seat.

"Yes my."

"Umy son is very handsome." Aminah noticed Ghibran's appearance was neat, wearing a plain shirt in light blue combined with black cotton pants. It makes him look handsome.

Umy Aminah smiled at her son.

"Are you done, son?"

"I, why mi?? Has Joseph's family come?"

Umy Aminah smiled and invited Ghibran to sit down.

"Sit down, son."

Ghibran was astonished by his umyad attitude, he just complied with his umyad request. The ghibran sits on the edge of the bed beside his uminya.

"Alhamdulillah, it does not feel that now the son of umy has grown up and will soon become a husband. In fact, it feels like just yesterday you were still playing a bike and then fell and sometimes you cried and said 'I don't want to ride a bike anymore, the bike was naughty umi hit the bike' and now you're about to marry a woman."

Umy Aminah smiled while feeling sad and her eyes began to look glassy, Ghibran immediately hugged the umynya.

Meanwhile, Azizah was already in the car on the way to the Ghibran residence, Azizah continued to ponder and only fell silent.

Ghibran let go of his embrace and swept away his umy tears while saying, "Umy don't cry, isn't this happiness.why umy cry?"

Umy Aminah smiled as she pinched Ghibran's cheek.

"This tears of happiness dear. umy very happy, yasudah soon our guests will be until you get ready and then go down well."

Umy Aminah smiled and walked away from Ghibran. Ghibran also smiled to see the departure of his umy and then he returned pensive.

"Ghibran God, you can do it!!"

Ghibran smiled, then took back Aisyah's photo which he slipped between the sheets of paper in the book. He looked at his photo, so slowly and not a second did he escape his sight.

Azizah and her uminya also arrived at the place they were headed which was none other than the house of Mr. Haryo, which there was also the house of Ghibran and Azizahpun did not know at all. The car that Azizah was riding with uminya stopped right in front of a house that was so luxurious and they were immediately out of the car, they walked to the yard, they walked to the house, on the doorstep was already a middle-aged woman and a man who was not so old yet seemed to still be very gallant throwing a smile from a distance welcoming the arrival of his guests whom they had been waiting for ever since. Ghibran is not seen between the two of them, he is still in his room because he has not finished tidying up.

said Umi Aminah welcomed the Azizah family while throwing a smile.and they shook hands, not forgetting Azizah also greeted the two parents in front of her and Umi Aminah immediately invited them to enter her house.

"Let's go in, we've been waiting for your arrival here, come on."

They entered, and went straight to the dining table because it was his invitation to have dinner together. They sat in well-organized chairs there. Various dishes are already on the dining table is quite large there, so any kind of cuisine has filled the table.

The ghibran descended from the steps there, headed for the dining room table and immediately gave his greetings.

"Assalamualaik." While throwing a smile and immediately greet the Azizah Umi.

"Waalaikumsalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh." Umi Fatimah answered Ghibran's greeting, as well as Pak Haryo and Umi Aminah.

Azizah who had just bowed her head, heard a greeting she immediately answered him while pulling her face that had been bowed, and how surprised Azizah when she saw the young man in front of her was Ghibran. Yeah, he's Ghibran, a guy he thinks is the weirdest and most annoying guy on his campus.

"Waalaikum salam warah ...." Azizah was surprised and did not finish his greeting, Azizah was agape at seeing the young man before her was a Ghibran.so he rose from his seat so much so that Ghibran was no less surprised to see Azizah who was in front of him.

"You." They simultaneously said the word, while both of their parents only looked astonished at the sight of the two of them.

"Do you know each other, son?"

Asked a middle-aged man who was sitting at the very end, who was none other than Haryo Abi Ghibran sir.

Azizah and Ghibran while compact together turned towards pak haryo, but Azizah immediately bowed her face because she felt ashamed of her attitude earlier.

"Thank God, if you know each other. So it won't be too hard 'to establish your relationship later,"

Wir mei Aminah, smiling happily.

"Yes, Azizah is one campus and one class with Ghibran mi, bi but we are both not too close and not too familiar with each other" Ghibran explained to his parents.

"Yes mi, om, true aunt said by Ghibran. We are both in one campus but we are not too close" Azizah explained with a clumsy smile, because she did not expect the person she thought was strange and annoying to be her life companion later.

"No problem, maybe you are not so close and do not even know each other. But, God willing, sooner or later you will be so close. As close as pulse," said umi Fatimah with a smile they lipped. Pak Haryo and Umi Aminah also smile happily as well as Ghibran and Azizah who tried to smile but not as usual parents, as well, they began their dinner, which first read the do'a led by Ghibran.

After dinner, the parents chatted in the living room while Ghibran and Azizah were by the pool. They stood side by side but were a bit far apart staring straight up at the sky, enjoying the glittering view of the stars.

The hijab adopted by Azizah was slightly swayed by the gust of the night wind, a fairly cold air enveloping the bodies of two people.

"I didn't expect that the person I was going to marry was you" Azizah said, breaking the silence between them.

"What else am I." Still looking up at the sky.

"Why don't you refuse this match? Don't you love Aisha."

"Then, what can I do?"

"You are a man, you can refuse this match. You have the right to determine and find out who your companion will be."

"Lantas, why don't you refuse this match?" Looking at Azizah, Azizah simply bowed silently and stepped away from Ghibran.

"I am a woman, she is chosen not chosen. I can what? Anyway I'm doing this all just for my umy, I just want to make umy happy and again this is the last request from aby. I can only obey the wishes of my two parents, that's all" said Azizah lirih.

"I am the same, just like you. You're right I'm a man, I can define my own life partner but I just want to be a good and devoted child to both my parents. Is it wrong to behave like that?"

"Not wrong, but what to do at the expense of your own feelings?" Azizah stood behind Ghibran.

"Yes, for me the happiness of both my parents is more important than anything and anyone."

"Yes I know, then what about Ayesha? Don't you think about her feelings? Aisha loves you so much, I know that, she will definitely get hurt."

"You think I'm not hurt? You think my feelings aren't broken? When I found out that I was going to be betrothed to a woman, my heart shattered my hopes of being destroyed in order to be with Aisha. Hence, I decided not to tell Aisyah so that she wouldn't get hurt either."

"I know, it's hard for you but it's also hard for me" Azizah said as she looked back up, looking up at the stars in the distant sky.

"I never thought I would marry someone I didn't love at all. But, yasudah. Maybe this is my destiny" Ghibran said slowly.

"Don't you want to fight for your love?"

"Nothing to fight for!"

"Don't love need struggle and sacrifice. Do you really not want to fight for your love?"

"Yes, you are right. Love requires struggle and sacrifice, even now I can not fight for my love and you do not forget, if love also should not have. And maybe this is the form of the sacrifice of love, which is to let go and give love to the person we love."

Azizah was silent listening to Ghibran. It is very difficult for them, but everyone has their own destiny. Only sincerity must be instilled in the heart in order to receive it all. Now that silence was approaching them, not a word came out of their lips.

Meanwhile, their parents were watching them from a distance. Seen on their faces a very happy face to see his children were chatting.

"Looks like Ghibran and Azizah are getting close. Hopefully this is the best for our children" Umy Aminah said, looking at Ghibran and Azizah, smiling.

"Aamiin's." Umy Fatimah, agreed while commenting on the smile on her lips.

"If only Joseph were still here with us, he would be very happy to see our children have grown up and will get married soon" said Mr. Haryo sadly.

Ghibran and Azizah were silent to each other. Not a single word was uttered by them. They were busy with their own thoughts, Ghibran who thought about his injuries because he could not be with Aisyah and Azizah who thought about the fate of his love that he had to bury deeply against Fahmi.