I HAD TO MARRY MY BEST FRIEND

CHAPTER 28

"Alena."

"Eh, Brother Fandi."

"Not home yet?"

"Not yet, Lena is waiting for an invitation." Say it with a grin.

Brother Fandi suddenly appeared sitting next to me I did not realize it, because he was busy daydreaming while thinking about why the om nyebelin has not arrived.

We were in a special place that was deliberately made around the main gate for students/i waiting for an invitation or just sitting around. The rain is now enough to subside just still drizzle invite quite swift.

I tried to send a message to the nyebelin om asking where he is, is it already on the way to campus to pick me up?

[ Assalamualaikum. Om where? How not to sit on campus ? Lena was waiting for me to know.] Send.

My message was sent to the contact om nyebelin through the application with the green logo. However, I see still a gray one.

'Is your number not active? But tumben.' Thought impinge.

"Where are you going to get the invitation yet?" Ask Brother Fandi by looking at me, why since I gave my wedding reception invitation card at that time my brother Fandi's gaze towards me seemed different from usual and it was very difficult to confirm.

"But don't know about Lena just tried WA again ask where have you been?" My light is what it is.

"Try calling Len directly so it's more clear about it already night ntar again the campus will be quieter and closed." I also tried Fandi's advice just now, because I've been waiting.

Not usually the nyebelin om is not on time like this and has even passed for hours like this. I press the contact om nyebelin through a voice call from the green logo application, but why not connect?

Then I checked my message was still snapped 1 gray like a few minutes ago. Before long I immediately switched to a regular phone call to the contact number of the uncle.

'The number you are going to is out of reach, you can voice message after the following funds.'

Tutt's...Tutt's...Tutt's...

I just turned off the voice of the operator who answered my phone call just now.

"Why isn't my contact active?" My cry in my heart.

"Where?" I shook my head when Brother Fandi asked.

"Why isn't the number active?" I nodded in response when Brother Fandi asked again.

We were silent for some time while I was still trying to call the contact number of the nyebelin om and still just as inactive.

"If you go home, what about Alena?" I cradled my gaze while thinking about Fandi's offer to me at this time.

Obviously I am confused to refuse the clear day and night even though it is only half 7 pm not yet very night anyway. But the campus is already deserted and close the nyebelin om also afraid it is no longer able to pick up so from earlier kok not appear strange too.

But , want to accept it I also feel bad because I already have the status of a wife. Want permission with the om nyebelin also can not at this time because the contact number is not active. Although it is clear that I and brother Fandi are only limited to a level sister and her bed is also just an ordinary friend.

"So calm down, brother facing straight and report to your commander Lena so that he does not misunderstand us. It's been a night the campus is deserted and will be closed soon." As if brother Fandi knew what I was thinking and I was worried, until he also wanted to give a solution from his words just now.

I also smiled as I nodded my head slowly as a sign that I agreed to Fandi's offer and idea.

"Then you take your brother's car there okay!" He said while pointing in the direction that Fandi would go.

Brother Fandi passed walking towards the parking lot of the student/i front car and I nodded my head again in response.

"Thank you, sister, I'm sorry Lena's been bothering you." My words are sincere and unkind to him, but how more than.

My race also I will be safer if it is delivered home this time by brother Fandi, out of the om nyebelin is always nyebelin deh. Maybe he didn't tell me let alone pick me up from college this time. Where the contact number is used in turn off everything.

Has the nyebelin om started to be bosen yes kind and attitude again towards me? Ahhrg..., how am I supposed to be like this?Feel not willing that if not cared by the om nyebelin.

"Udah don't say so Alena, sister never feel bothered by you anyway not you who asked for it. Play the big brother who volunteered to drive you home." Brother Fandi said by continuing to look straight at the road while driving his car.

Yes, we are now in the car and have started to walk slowly to go home to my house.

"Oya Alena aren't you hungry? It's also been almost 7 p.m., how about we stop by for a while just to fill the stomach first before heading to your house Len?" The words of Mr. Fandi are true I am hungry let alone the heavy rain from earlier pouring this city.

Even now it is still spatter outside and it keeps the air cool. You must know if the cold air and rain are still flushing outside even though it is tempting inviting, but quite heavy after heavy rain. Well surely the hunger will rumble not in our stomachs when situations like this.

Worms can even feel weak in there, but the sound can be so strong that it can be heard from behind our stomachs and clothes because of the effects of hunger. However, fortunately this time the worm in my stomach has not yet let out its voice. Just still a weak disco in there as a signal that he and I were getting hungry.

By being forced this time I will ask Brother Fandi to stop by to fill his stomach first before heading home. This is the first time I was forced to join brother Fandi's invitation after I got married.

Previously I had already eaten several times with brother Fandi or the invitation of Kak Fandi, if not eat in the campus cafeteria to the campus library that is all.

We also arrived at a cafe young people used to hang out and eat around the city of Jakarta. Without waiting for a long time for our order to arrive I also ate with greed because I was actually hungry, even I shamelessly ordered two menus or two meals at once plus a pack of white rice and two glasses of warm lemon tea plus one bottle of mineral water.

In addition to my friends, especially all the , Brother Fandi is also not surprised and knows about it. Because even in the campus cafeteria I sometimes want to order two servings of food and also two glasses of drink even added mineral water one bottle medium. However, the two portions I mean are not the same menu but different, which is often the same drink but two portions.

Alhamdulillah even so my stomach never looks distended so also my body remains stable weight alias not fat hehe.

"Your meal portions remain the same huh Alena hasn't changed hehe." Brother Fandi's kekehnya respond to my meal tonight.

"Hehe..Hungry brother." My grin and say while continuing my meal which is a little more will run aground.

Before long Fandi and I got out of the cafe, Fandi began to return the car.

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"Thank you Mr. Alvian for the solution and the help." Said Mr. Damar my new client, next week I will accompany him to court as his lawyer.

"Together Mr. Damar thank you for entrusting me as the father's legal representative later." My words are straightforward and sincere.

"Yes it also actually did not escape the recommendation of Mr. Wijaya who has informed me of the performance of your Alvian sir who always trust and firmly accompany your clients. It was also proven from how Mr. Wijaya told me about him who stumbled on a case of slander. Mr. Wijaya said Mr. Alvian who at that time as his companion and legal authority as well as possible had saved him from the slander." Light Mr. Damar to me.

"It's all by God's permission, sir, I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Because it's also my responsibility and my profession it should be." Say what it is.

"Ah sir Alvian this low hehe. Well then I say yes, Mr. Alvian until next week." He said as he would step towards the door to get out accompanied by me who would deliver him to the front door of this cafe.

I also replied with a fleeting nod after Mr. Damar began to come out of this cafe. Today I was in a cafe where this cafe is one of the culinary business that I run with some of my confidants a few years ago until now.

I stepped back into my room earlier.

Because the time has entered the bada maghrib then I immediately berwudhu to perform maghrib prayer.

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My iris also accidentally glanced at my phone that was on my desk when I was about to compile the files I just got from my new client. I just finished my 3 raka'at.

It turned out that without me realizing my phone had been extinguished from earlier, because it ran out of power and here I just realized that I had not picked up Alena. My eyes glanced at my right wrist that was circled by the watch, seeing what time it was.

"Astagfirullah turned out to be almost 7 p.m."

"Oh Allah how could I forget Alena's message." I said as I rubbed my face, feeling anxious and guilty.

Without thinking much more I immediately move this body out to the car park and drive my 4-wheeled engine to the campus where Alena studied.

Last time Alena sent a message informing me to pick her up, I was talking to my new client. Discuss the cases he faces and the ones I'll handle.

Well after the message I read at a glance I continued to discuss, because I thought it would not be long. However, it turns out I was wrong even though not too long after the discussion was over. But I accidentally forgot to pick up on time and forgot to tell.

At least I should have told Alena that she could go home first by taxi oline or better go home with Vera just to be safer. Really I was completely unintentional forgetfulness, maybe because I was too focused also discussing the problem of my client case who also suddenly came to see me at the cafe without confirmation first.

Is Alena still waiting for me on campus by herself and hasn't come home yet? I don't know either, though, my phone that goes out completely immediately cas with charging that is always available in the cabin of my car that I have designed specifically on someone who is an expert in his field from the beginning when I started I have a 4 wheeler.

I drove quite fast my 4-wheeled vehicle, although the drizzle still wet the slippery road due to heavy rain a few minutes ago. So that I can get to Alena's campus gate soon.

Arriving at the gate I saw the campus was quiet enough just a few who saw the traffic around the campus that seemed to be students as well.

I pulled over my vehicle and got out of the car through the drizzle which was actually still quite heavy, to see and ask Alena if necessary to the campus security. When I was really in front of the gate I really did not see Alena's whereabouts. Suddenly I heard someone ask me.

"Sorry, I'm looking for someone?"

"Ah yes, sir. I want to pick up my wife who is studying in this campus. It should have been from this afternoon I came to pick him up, but since there was a sudden affair I was not on time."

"The students have returned home this afternoon and there are no hours of evening lectures on this campus. Maybe my wife has come home from this afternoon." The light of this campus security that seemed from the beginning of my arrival he quite caught what I was thinking.

"Thank you sir, then I'll excuse myself for stepping down."

"Yes, you're both." Reply to the security kindly.

I also returned to the car with a small run because the drizzle is still comfortable wandering this city. When I was in the car again I tried to turn on my phone which had been extinguished, maybe now it is enough to charge even though only a few peaches because the charging is still not complete.

Without taking a long time when my phone has been lit in a few messages and most importantly I checked the message that was there was a new message coming in from Alena which was already a few hours ago he sent to my contact that reads.

[ Assalamualaikum. Om where? How not to sit on campus ? Lena was waiting for me to know.]

Yes Ampyun it turns out Alena waited long enough the message I just saw and read now. I immediately tried to call him pressing a voice call on his contact from the green logo application.

There was no answer I tried again until it went out on its own again, then I tried a regular phone call and it was not active. Maybe the phone went out because I was out of mind. But is Alena home now?

I was confused to ask my in-laws over the phone but I hesitated and felt like I was no longer a husband in picking up a wife. Well this is probably what has kept me unmarried so far, until finally I have been married because of misunderstanding and also encouragement from parents.

Otherwise I think I am still single, because I am not worthy to be a priest let alone a good priest to be able to share my work time with my wife or small family.

Inevitably I tried to call my mother-in-law's phone number whatever it was my responsibility. However, when I was about to press the contact number of my mother-in-law suddenly there was a phone call coming in from the contact number of my best friend named Reza.

I immediately raised the voice call from my friend Reza after a few seconds.

[ "Hello.. Assalamualaikum says. Yes Za ad__" ]

[ "____" ]

[ "Okay I'll be there right now." ]

Tutt's...

Tutt's...

Tutt's...

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