Mahabbah Love Khalisa

103

Medical students dressed in sports are busy playing basketball on the court after the first class. Some students cheered on the sidelines cheering the team they supported. It was not a real match but just a game to fill free time on the sidelines of a dizzying task.

"Kafa, let's play!" Shouted one of the students while waving at Kafa who was standing on the sidelines while folding his hands in front of his chest. The scorching sun made Kafa reluctant to join them. Kafa prefers to exercise inside his apartment with gym equipment already provided.

"Males ah." Kafa Sahut.

"Fear of losing you?" Shouted Kafa's friend who came from Jakarta.

"Not wrong? I'm a high school basketball athlete I know." Kafa finally stepped into the field to cause cheers from his friends. Apparently that sentence was able to provoke Kafa to come into play.

"His expensive watch will break."

Kafa removed the smartwatch that had been coiled on his left wrist, he threw the small object into the grass.

"Wih so arrogant you smartwatch thrown carelessly that."

"Not arrogant, that clock will not be anything else I throw it on the grass is not a stone!" Kafa rolled up the sleeves of his sports shirt which again provoked the boisterousness of the students on the sidelines. "Yuk ah start."

Kafa dribbles the ball deftly and then throws the ball in the basket from quite a distance. The girls on the sidelines cheered when Kafa scored points.

"Cafa spirit!"

Kafa turned his attention towards the corner of the field hearing the voice, he saw Mahira jumping up and down while clapping and shouting her name. Mahira's appearance today is different from usual, for a moment Kafa is made amazed by Mahira.

"Kafa! how the hell are you!" Kafa's team-mates cheered in annoyance that Kafa was unfocused until their ball was captured by the enemy team.

"Focus Fa!" Kafa said to himself, he tried to refocus on his basketball game.

The sweat drips from Kafa's hair all the way to the temple after the game is over and won by his team. Kafa finished the game quickly and ran to the corner of the field.

Mahira looks graceful wearing a black robe and an abstract-patterned rectangular headscarf. Unknowingly Kafa did not blink looking at Mahira.

What the hell is Kafa, he's just wearing a robe, blinking right now!

You are so beautiful

It almost escaped Kafa's mouth if he didn't cover his mouth with his hands and look the other way. Wherever it matters is not Mahira.

Kafa stepped out of the field and sat on a bench that was in the corridor. Mahira caught up with Kafa, sitting about half a meter away from the guy.

"Well?" Ask Kafa cynically.

"I just want to give this, which at that time you will love Mbak Khalisa so I make it again." Mahira offered the same box of food as when he gave Kafa fried rice first. Mahira deliberately gave a long enough distance to eliminate Kafa's annoyance. But Kafa is still Kafa, he is always cynical even just by hearing the voice of Mahira.

Kafa only glanced at the box without accepting it, although he had hoped that Mahira would make some more fried rice for him.

"Try a mouthful, if you don't like it let me be abisin." Mahira opened the food box until the smell of fried rice stole Kafa's attention. "Want me a bribe?"

"Crazy you." Kafa snatched the box and devoured a mouthful of fried rice made by Mahira. The savory taste spreads on the tongue of Kafa plus the sweet taste of corn and the tenderness of an omelet.

"No boy?" Mahira smiled seeing Kafa's reaction after chewing the fried rice.

"It's a habit." Kafa devours a second feed, this time with a crispy chicken nugget but the meat inside is really soft. It doesn't feel like the usual Frozen nuggets Kafa eats when lazy cooking.

"But how do you keep bribing?" Mahira held back the laughter as Kafa did not stop devouring the fried rice.

"Laper playing basketball." Elak Kafa even though the fried rice was really delicious and he did not willing to give pause to his mouth to chew.

"Slow down, have a drink on the sprain." Mahira gives Kafa a bottle of mineral water.

Mahira sees Kafa's girlfriends looking at her and occasionally whispering. Mahira wondered what they were talking about.

"Why are you still here, just want to give this to you right?"

"Hm?" Mahira's eyebrows shot up, "yes."

"Yes, he's gone, the rice I've eaten."

Mahira puckered her mouth and then moved from there.

"Say thanks cake." His grunt.

"Thank you." Kafa Sahut.

Mahira turned around, he thought Kafa had not heard him.

"Why are you wearing that?" Kafa pointed at Mahira with a spoon from top to bottom.

"Why? good huh?" Mahira swirled around showing her gown, her smile widening as Kafa finally became aware of the change in her appearance.

"ugly." Short Kafa reply.

Mahira glared, she thought Kafa would praise her. "When you wear pants?"

"Sodder." Kafa looked down no longer to see Mahira.

"Keep I'll be beautiful when?" Mahira was made half-dead with Kafa's attitude.

"When you leave before me." Kafa looked up at Mahira with his pair of cold eyes. It was so cold that Mahira froze.

What a sadistic one guy!

Mahira stomped her feet away from there, "crazy Kafa, he can be gentle when talking to Khalisa and his parents but why so fierce when faced with me." He grumbled along the corridor to his class. Fortunately the campus was quiet because most students had come home so Mahira was free to nag without worrying anyone heard it.

Kafa stuffed Mahira's diner into the bag after finishing the contents until the toilet was not left.

"I am first!" Kafa cried to his friends who were still in the field. "You see what the hell?" He followed the eyes of his friends. "Another eruption?"

"Yes, I saw the news this morning BMKG rose to alert status."

"Udah ah, go back first." Kafa patted his friend on the shoulder and passed from there.

Kafa's car came out of the parking lot to the main gate. Kafa lowered the speed of his car when he saw Khalisa.

"Ci." Kafa lowered the window of the car reprimanding Khalisa who was walking towards the gate. "Cece on foot?"

"Yes, what's the red face?" Khalisa frowned looking at Kafa's dead red face.

Khalisa smiled, that means Kafa is developing from not being friends with anyone now can play basketball together.

"Let me antherin, Mas Azfan where?" Take Kafa.

"Mas Azfan has left for Surabaya this morning, in front there is Rindang kok, Cece sleeps in Rindang's apartment tonight."

"Yes let me anterin forward, Cece walk, the sun is hot again."

Khalisa chuckled, "just let Cece walk, let it be healthy." He rubbed his stomach.

Kafa's hand stretched out to rub Khalisa's stomach, "yes, be careful Ce."

"You too."

Kafa sees Khalisa once again through the rearview mirror making sure his Cece is safe before driving his car out of the campus area.

Khalisa hastened the pace of seeing Rindang's car in front of the gate. Khalisa will only stay one night in Rindang's apartment because Azfan is back tomorrow. Actually, Khalisa does not have his own problems at home because before marriage he was also alone in the apartment. But Azfan is not calm if he leaves Khalisa alone at home. He said security at home can not be equated with an apartment. Moreover, the shophouse on the left right they are uninhabited.

"Wait a long time?" Khalisa got into Rindang's car.

"No, just arrived." Rindang saw Khalisa wearing a seatbelt "direct home?"

"Yes." Yeah." Khalisa pulled out his phone in response to a message from Azfan. Azfan told me that he would start his studies soon.

"You often left Azfan gini is okay?" Rindang started running his car. "I mean, you look really cute with your husband especially now pregnant and Azfan is often invited out of town."

Rindang's question reminded Khalisa at the moment when Azfan was about to leave this morning. Khalisa refused to let go of his embrace of Azfan while crying like a child. Khalisa did not want to be away from Azfan even if only briefly. But Azfan also had an obligation to broadcast the verses of Allah through his qiroah. Allah has given Azfan a great voice so he cannot keep it to himself. That is what Khalisa always instilled in his own mind when he wanted to release Azfan out of the city.

"It's really hard for me but what else, I can't be selfish by holding Mas Azfan, who knows someone who touched his heart and wanted to change himself better after hearing the holy verse that Azfan chanted, we will never know because God has arranged everything."

"I salute you."

"It's Mas Azfan's duty too."

"The good news is I'm not alone anymore in the apartment, there you are." Rindang is excited because the night will not be quiet again even though tomorrow Khalisa already has to return to his home.

"I'm gonna change the insulin tank first." Rindang threw his college bag onto the sofa when he arrived at the apartment. "Please uninstall this dong."

"I'll wash my hands first." Khalisa rushed to the kitchen to wash his hands with soap.

"In the bedroom." Rindang kept all his medical devices in the room so it was better that he replaced the insulin tank there.

Leafy open the curtains and doors that connect with the balcony. This afternoon the sun shines brightly making Rindang reluctant to go to the balcony even though the view of Mount Merapi is quite beautiful without clouds covering it.

"The eruption continues." Rindang turned to realize the existence of Khalisa.

"So morning I saw thick smoke from Merapi, the people there were also evacuated." Khalisa removed the insulin hose needle attached to Rindang's stomach.

"Ko Levin said he was coming here."

"When?"

Shindang looked at the watch in his left hand, "just a minute later." The look of Rindang descended onto his own stomach. "Bad my belly yeah, a lot of black marks."

"Alhamdulillah now there is already this tool so you do not need to inject insulin back and forth, this functions the same as the pancreas right." Khalisa rubbed Rindang's right abdomen with a swab of alcohol before inserting a needle connected to the hose. "It hurts?"

"No, my stomach is calloused so it doesn't hurt anymore."

Khalisa's activity stopped when he felt a shock in the room.

"Eh, don't you feel?" Khalisa's holding on to the table.

"That feels so good." The shady immediately went out of the room. "Wrought!" He grabbed the veil on the sofa handle while shouting to call Khalisa to get out.

Khalisa panicked to follow Rindang. Residents of other apartments also scattered out because the shock was quite large. Usually the earthquake will not be so felt from the apartment building.

They crammed down through the elevator and the emergency stairs following the direction of the apartment staff.

The shivering shakes hold Khalisa's hand as the elevator descends to take them to the first floor. Considering that Khalisa is pregnant makes Rindang even more afraid.  He prayed that this elevator would still function properly in the midst of the shock.

People crowded in the lobby when they reached the first floor. The earthquake was still felt until Rindang and Khalisa came out of the apartment. They saw the buildings around had collapsed formless.

"Frightened!" Rindang hugged Khalisa still with a trembling body, he had never felt an earthquake this strong before.

"I am too." Khalisa sat Rindang in the chair because his knees were also shaking. Khalisa tried to calm down even though during the descent of the elevator he was not stopping to pray that God would protect them all. Khalisa's heart was racing as if to jump from his civilization. Fortunately the heart is made by God so it is not easily damaged so easily.

"You're safe, right?" Levin's voice distracts Rindang and Khalisa.

"Ko Levin, thank God we're all safe, Koko how?" Khalisa asked back.

"Me too, just now on the road." Levin checked his phone to find out about the recent earthquake. "We have to be careful because there will be aftershocks."

"Why are you missing?" Khalisa saw Rindang clutching his hand so firmly. The leaf looks like it's having trouble breathing.

"What's wrong?" Levin put his phone in and saw Rindang. "Sniffness, has he not been injected with insulin?"

"Astaghfirullah, just now I haven't finished changing the Rindang insulin tank, I just put a hose and connector on." Khalisa went on, he had to take Rindang's insulin tank up. "I'll take it first."

"Khalisa." Levin held Khalisa's arm. "What if there's an aftershock?" He read the latest information about the activity of Mount Merapi just now. The status of Mount Merapi is raised to a level of awareness and there will be many aftershocks.

"Ko, I have to take shady insulin."

"Danger Khalisa, you're pregnant, let me take it."

"Koko doesn't know the entry pin of Rindang's apartment, seelin Ko." Khalisa tried to remove Levin's grip on his arm.

Levin looked at Khalisa worried but Rindang's condition was not okay right now. If they do not handle it immediately then Rindang can not be saved.

Finally with a heavy heart Levin released Khalisa, he sat beside Rindang and removed the girl's veil carefully so that Rindang more freely breathe.

"I can get away?" Levin tried to talk to Rindang.

Rindang closed his eyes tightly, he had trouble breathing so he could not answer Levin's question. Levin said Rindang tried to remain calm as he had learned in the hospital while treating patients.

If this is the last day Rindang can see the earth, can hear the voices of the people who swarmed him or the last time holding Khalisa's hand then he is sincere. The merciful God has been so kind to the Shady by allowing him to breathe to this day. If this is the last day of the Leaf then he will not demand anything from Allah. Rindang will thank you because with this disease he can walk to reach the love of God even though his steps are limped. Shady can only pray that God holds him in peace.