
Khalisa sat pensively on the balcony of the room, he sighed several times while rubbing his stomach that was painful because of the moon. Since this morning Khalisa had to lie in bed because his stomach was cramping. Nadira took care of Azka half today. After the cramps in Khalisa's stomach slightly subsided finally he was able to sit on the balcony in front of his room.
Faintly Khalisa heard Azka's crying voice slowly getting clearer, he got up from the chair stepping into the room.
"Why Mother?" Khalisa saw Nadira in front of the room door, Azka seemed to cry strongly in Nadira's arms.
"Like Azka kangen the same Umma, he does not want me to carry Ma'am." Nadira rubbed Azka's hair wet from sweat due to crying long enough.
"It's the same Umma." Khalisa took over Azka from Nadira's arms. "Mother Nadira is staying."
"Mbak Khalisa still has stomach pains."
"It's okay, it's okay." Khalisa stuck Azka's chin to his shoulder, "sorry Umma yes, this whole day Umma is not carrying you."
Nadira left Khalisa's room to finish another job because since this morning he had to accompany Azka.
Azka slowly calmed down in her Umma deck. Khalisa took Azka to the balcony. Khalisa's eyes were closed along with his tears that melted. Khalisa has been holding back his tears ever since Daniel reported that Alindra Beauty was sued by Elena a few days ago. Finally now Khalisa can spill his tears while hugging Azka.
"About what Umma could face both the thesis trial and the Alindra Beauty trial later?" Khalisa murmured to ask Azka who of course could not answer.
Khalisa has a big responsibility to Alindra Beauty, it's only the beginning but he has made a big problem. Khalisa felt he had been careful in making the cream but it turned out that all this was not as easy as he thought.
Sometimes Khalisa wants to give up but he has no choice. Inevitably Khalisa must continue his power business. Khalisa can't live.
"Thank you that Azka was already present in Umma's life so Umma could be much stronger." Khalisa rubbed the back of Azka who had fallen asleep. It must have been that Azka was fussy just now because she was sleepy. "So the mother turned out not to be as easy as Umma thought but Umma remained happy because there was you."
If when not married before Khalisa can sleep all day when the month comes, now he must still be able to wake up and hold the child. But Khalisa did not want to complain, he knew there were many people out there who were much more tired and miserable than him.
The sound of a knock on the door distracts Khalisa, a moment later the door opens and Kafa emerges from it.
"Ce, I'm on the phone, but Cece doesn't pick up." Kafa walked over to Khalisa.
"Cece doesn't cry under the pillow."
"Azka's sleeping?" Kafa peeked at Azka from behind Khalisa's shoulder.
"She just slept, Cece apologized for not being able to participate in your wedding."
"It is precisely I who apologize for coming here, I should be beside Ce Khalisa because now it must be Cece again trouble." Kafa sat in one of the chairs on the balcony.
"You don't have to worry, just focus on the UAS and your wedding preparations."
"I can help, Cece says so."
"Later if you need help, Cece will say."
Kafa nodded, he could not let Khalisa bear it all by himself. From birth they have been given great responsibility. Sometimes Kafa wants to be born in a simple family like Mahira but he believes God has given himself a strong shoulder to bear all this.
"Mas Azfan doesn't exist?" Kafa had not seen Azka since he arrived.
"It's in the store."
"Mas Azfan is still going to the store? Idris and Geza."
"What makes calligraphy is Mas Azfan."
Although Azfan had taught Geza how to make calligraphy, he still regularly went to the store to make orders. Sometimes Azfan also had to make calligraphy outside as on the ceiling of the An-Nur mosque.
"Say Mas Azfan wants to talk seriously with me but I'm waiting for him not to come."
Khalisa just remembered that Azfan wanted to give a little lesson about marriage but because Azfan was busy did not have time to go to Kafa's apartment. Now that Kafa is here, he cannot meet Azfan either.
"Later Deh Cece said to Mas Azfan."
"Cece why is pale on his face? Ce Khalisa's sick?" Kafa only realized that Khalisa's face was pale.
"No." Khalisa shook his head, this was because stomach cramps made his face pale.
"I'm a foodie?"
"No, no need." Khalisa took a seat after feeling Azka had fallen asleep more soundly. "Cece ask for help to send flowers to Mahira may not, the vase here is already on empty all."
"Bloom dealer to Mahira?"
"Yes, the Tanteya sell flowers right?"
"I don't have Mahira's number."
Khalisa turned to see Kafa did not believe, they soon wanted to get married but did not have any contact.
"How long have you been communicating?"
"Well, Cece is proud of you." Khalisa wanted to pat Kafa on the shoulder but he was still holding Azka.
"It's a habit of Ce." Kafa flicked his hand trying to put on a flat look even though he was holding back a smile praised like that by Khalisa. "Oh yes, what do you think Cece if I use one of the tenants in Alindra Mall for the sale of Mahira's bakpia."
"You find out first if there's still an empty tenant in there."
"Yes, Cece agrees?"
"Cece agreed because their bakpia was delicious, it's a pity that the place of sale next to the house later in Alindra Mall would be more in demand again."
Kafa mangosteen with a big smile, he is happy if he can help the Mahira family business because he believes the business has great potential to grow.
"Cece moved Azka to the box first." Khalisa moves to move Azka to his box.
When he was about to return to the balcony, Khalisa heard the knocking of the door several times. Khalisa hurried to open the door so that the knock would not wake Azka up.
"You have to see this." Huma barged into the room with a frenzy.
Khalisa immediately closed Huma's mouth with his hand and glanced at Azka who was sleeping. Seeing that Huma instantly controlled himself and lowered his voice.
"What a hell is so bad." Khalisa dragged Huma to the balcony.
"Is Kafa here too?" Huma sat in one of the empty seats as well as Khalisa.
"You haven't answered my question, Humaira." Khalisa looked at Huma upset because he did not immediately tell what had made his best friend excited.
"Alindra Beauty's Instagram account was attacked by netizens, they said that your product is not safe and dangerous."
Kafa turns his back on his surprise, he deliberately hides this from Khalisa but Huma tells him. Kafa kicks Huma's leg even though he knows it's too late.
"Look at it." Khalisa came to see Huma's phone screen.
"Ngapain see it like it's all, it's not important." Kafa covered Huma's phone screen.
"What the hell is Kafa!" Huma put away Kafa's hand letting Khalisa see the comments on Alindra Beauty's anti-strechmark cream photo.
Khalisa took over Huma's phone, his thumb continuing to scroll through those comments.
Boycott Alindra Beauty!
Stop the production of the poisonous cream!
Not expecting a famous brand like Alindra Beauty can be teledor make products.
Denger-denger, the cream made Khalisa his eldest son Daniel. Have not graduated from pharmacy college already making products.
Khalisa's eyes heat up like pricked needles preparing to release the water. Khalisa did not expect that the news about Elena's guidance so quickly spread. Because Khalisa does not have social media, he never knew about this.
"Khalisa, so you also have to have social media to be able to reply to the comment, you can explain to them if all this is not true." Huma took his phone back.
Khalisa budged, he did not know what kind of sentence to issue after reading the scathing comments of people. Now Khalisa knows how people judge him.
Nadira came with three glasses of warm tea for Khalisa, Huma and Kafa as well as one jar of salak chips. Kitchen cabinets are always filled with snacks given by pilgrims so Khalisa rarely buy his own snacks for fear of their food piling up in the closet until expiration.
"Favor Ma'am." Huma said before Nadira left.
"Cece don't think too much of it." Kafa showed his phone to Khalisa, he has kept a screenshot of netizens' positive comments about Khalisa's cream products. "Cece look, there are still many good comments and like the cream, reviews on e-commerce and Google are also good."
Khalisa glanced at Kafa's phone, he had failed to make his first product and tarnished the good name of Alindra Beauty even they voiced to boycott Alindra Beauty products. Of course this will have a bad impact not only Alindra Beauty but also Alindra Corp.
"Do you think we should pull the product again and stop production?" Khalisa looked at Kafa.
"That's something that we can't sell, Cece knows the cost of production is billions of rupiah and we want to pull that? Ce Khalisa's still sane, right?" Kafa pulled his phone back.
Huma swallowed his salivary, he should not have been present in the midst of the Khalisa and Kafa debates. But it seems that the arrival of Huma made the two brothers argue. Does Huma have to go home now? he feared that Kafa, who looked like a lion, would devour him. Huma wondered why Mahira wanted to marry the fierce Kafa.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know the problem was that serious." Huma muttered slowly.
"You know wrong, it's still here." Gerrutu Kafa's.
"It's okay, I'm just grateful to you for pointing this out." Timpal Khalisa touching the back of Huma's hand. "Even if you're not here, they're going to make comments like that, right? so it's not your fault at all." His words calmed Huma.
"Ce Khalisa need not be afraid, the amount of bergamot in the product is in accordance with the dose even we have tested it to people who are allergic to bergamot but everything is safe."
"Cece knows but the evidence is Elena's condition is now paying close attention."
"But Cece has already paid the hospital fee, right, even if this case is brought to court, Alindra Beauty will win."
Huma opened the jar on the table and picked up one salak chip. Huma did not want to interfere because he did not understand anything so he better keep quiet.