
Arya was not desperate. He continued to pursue Zahrana while calling out the woman's name. Suddenly someone held his arm.
"What the fuck..." Just now he was about to rebuke the one who was holding him back, but his speech stopped when his eyes found that the man was Hidayat.
"His life?" His swish seemed resigned to let Zahrana get away from his sight.
"We need to talk for a minute, Bang Arya..." Hidayat said as he pulled Arya's arm to where Arya had originally sat with Zahrana.
Arya according. He quite understood the meaning of Hidayat's gaze at that time towards him.
"What is this, Bang?" Ask Hidayat without further ado. He knew enough about what he had heard from a distance.
"You don't understand, Yat. Brother loves your sister very much. I promise you, you will not let him lack anything. My brother will be happy for him... What is important to you is that you help your brother convince your brother that you really love him... And brother will also make you and all your family happy..." Arya said so confident and looks greedy. He feels his closeness to Hidayat, making Hidayat will give him the green light to approach him with Zahrana.
"Bang Arya did not hear, brother Zahra only loved her husband... She doesn't need anything, and she's not a woman who easily exchanges her love for anything, including the material you promised." Hidayat's assertiveness was not in line with what Arya expected.
"Whoa... You don't understand how pain is... And you are willing to feel any pain, as long as your brother can accept you... Please, understand your brother... Brother please... Brother will give you everything you want to repay later..." Arya said she still insisted on Hidayat's help to unite herself with Zahrana.
Hidayat shook his head because he did not understand the way Arya's mind was so stubborn. He rubbed his face rough. There was helplessness on his face.
"Many things we don't know about Zahra, Bang... And the one that no one else should know is his past story..." Hidayat said it sounded heavy-hearted. He hesitated to tell it, according to the promise he had made to Zahrana.
"Past time? What happened to Zahrana's past, Yat?" Arya asked who started to be lured to listen to Hidayat.
"The story in the novel that Brother Zahra wrote and filmed it is the true story of Zahra's own brother, Bang..." Hidayat.
"What?" Arya.
"Yes, Bang... Brother Zahra is trapped in a forbidden love with a man who is at odds with her. All the pure story of brother Zahra..." Hidayat clearly resignedly.
"You don't make it up, Yat..." Ketus Arya doesn't believe it.
"That's the truth, Bang... And try to think, how was the pain of Zahra when Brother asked Zahra if he did not understand the pain that you are experiencing at this time?" Press Hidayat.
"Sister Zahra loved bang Ajis because of God... For Zahra believed that God would give him the best. And all that happiness he only found in the self of Ajis is not perfect, who does not have many treasures like Brother. Bang Ajis was able to treat Zahra's wounds, although bang Ajis himself did not know that the woman he was married to at the time was injured. Without a bang Ajis realizing, he had made Brother Zahra able to obliterate his past so painful." Hidayat began to soften back.
Arya remained silent. He recalled Zahrana saying some time ago, that Habibah in his novel had been happy.
"If you want to know more, just tell Hidayat when the time you can to travel to our village. Will Hidayat tell something else to Brother."
"Today?" Tawar Arya looked enthusiastic.
"Sorry, Bang... For today Hidayat cannot... Hidayat's got important business..." Reject Hidayat firmly.
"God willing... If it is the way of the Day after tomorrow, Hidayat will tell Abang directly..." Answer Hidayat with certainty.
"Alright, Yat... But that doesn't mean you'll stop praying to God for your brother, because your brother says, God will grant the prayers of all his servants..." Tukas Arya.
"Come, Bang Arya... But don't be disappointed if God doesn't grant it. Believe, Bang... Allah is All-Good, so that not Zahra, there will be an angel of the other world whom He will give to you..." Say Hidayat wisely.
"Remember again... Today Hidayat lives, because Hidayat really has important needs..." Continue Hidayat again.
"Again with you, Yat?" Arya asked herself.
"No need, Bang... Thanks for the offer. Hidayat pamit, Assalamu'alaikum..." Said Hidayat while getting up.
"Wa'alaikum hail... Careful, Yat..."
Hidayat nodded, then stepped away leaving Arya alone there.
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On the way home, Zahrana was incessantly crying. Arya's remarks about him have made the man feel comfortable, keeping him in mind.
Oh Allah... How sinful the servant has been all this time. The servant does not realize that the servant has betrayed the servant's own husband. Forgive the servant of Allah...
Zahrana continued to pray in her heart, regretting what had happened between her and Arya Irawan during that time.
Arriving in front of the fence of her house, her eyes dimly see the motor matic owned by her husband has parked in the yard.
Is there a bang Ajis?~ Mumbles. His feelings suddenly hunted down, disturbing his heart and mind.
He walked slowly, hesitatingly entering his house. His feelings suddenly turned fearful, especially every word Arya who revealed his heart while in the cafe made him filled with a huge guilt, which was very big, although she herself assumed that her husband knew nothing about it. But he still felt guilty about it.
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