Mahabbah Love Khalisa

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Khalisa gave the receptionist in the lobby when he and Azfan arrived at the Kafa apartment building. They took the elevator to Kafa's apartment unit in a hurry. Khalisa asked Kafa to stay calm but instead he panicked himself. Even Khalisa felt that the elevator was moving very slowly.

"Umma is also calm do not panic later Mahira follow panic." Azfan warned that he had been clasping Khalisa's hands in a cold sweat since they left home.

"I'm freaking out because Mahira said her HPL is still next month."

"Doctors only estimate that while everything is still God's decisive, I'm sure Mahira and the baby will be fine."

Khalisa stepped out first, he pressed the password on the door and opened it. Khalisa asked Azfan to wait a while before entering because maybe now Mahira is not veiled.

"Where's Mahira?" Khalisa asked Kafa who was pacing in front of the entrance, he almost hit Kafa.

"In the bathroom, from 15 minutes ago not out-going Ce, we take it to the hospital right now."

"You calm down, Cece look at Mahira's situation first." Khalisa saw Azfan who was beside the entrance, "in Bi."

Azfan followed Khalisa in. Seeing Kafa's current expression reminded Azfan of him when Khalisa was about to give birth first. Although everyone asked him to calm down, as a husband and prospective father, of course they could not calm down when he saw the wife struggling to give birth.

Khalisa stepped into Kafa's room to see Mahira's state. Azfan asked Kafa to sit on the sofa.

"Mas, I can't calm down to see Mahira in such pain."

"Mas knows but we don't rush Mahira to the hospital, if the opening is still a long time the doctor will definitely ask us to go home, pity also if you have to go back and forth."

"Mahira, this is Ma'am." Khalisa knocked on the bathroom door, he waited for a while but there was no reply from Mahira. "Bak's in." Khalisa opened the door and found Mahira sitting on the closet.

"Why did Khalisa come in, I'm ashamed."

"How does it feel now?" Khalisa crouched down in front of Mahira ignoring Mahira's words.

"It's kind of like wanting a BAB but it can't." Mahira grimaced feeling the heartburn on her stomach.

"There's no blood coming out?"

"There's a little."

"You're not counting how long the pain is?"

Mahira shakes. Because of the pain Mahira forgot to calculate the distance of her contract.

"It's okay." Khalisa helped Mahira to get out of the closet. "Brought by the streets let the opening be spit."

Khalisa asked Mahira to take a walk around the balcony as her sense of contract diminished. If you can't, Mahira can sit down.

"Mom, I'm scared." Mahira whines, she is afraid she cannot give birth to her baby.

"That's not to say, I know it hurts but you can." Khalisa pinned his digital prayer beads on Mahira's index finger. "Read a lot of sholawat and pray that God will give you smoothness, you can definitely for her." Khalisa touched Mahira's stomach.

Kafa came to Mahira, he could not hide his anxiety for his wife.

"Mahira's mother's been called?" Ask Khalisa to Kafa.

"Mother and Father again to Semarang, there is a cousin Mahira who married, this morning just departed so I did not tell them, Abi and Ummi also have not returned from Turkey."

"It's okay, there's Cece." Khalisa rubbed Kafa's arm, he will replace Aisha's current position.

Mahira clung to the balcony railing as her pain came. Mahira closed her eyes tight and biting her lips held back the pain.

"It hurts a lot." Kafa raised Mahira's hand and placed it over his shoulder, he embraced Mahira rubbing her back slowly. Mahira nodded faintly, this hurts more than being left alone anymore alas. Ah why Mahira so bouncy.

"Have you eaten yet?"

"No need to eat Ce, I made no food waste."

"Mahira must eat loh so strong later, would eat what let Cece make."

"I don't want to eat rice."

"Not necessarily rice, do you want cereal with milk?"

Mahira nodded, he clasped Kafa's shoulder as his pain grew stronger. Mahira wanted to push but she remembered the doctor saying he could not do it before the complete opening. For Mahira it was the hardest thing in the world, he tried to hold it as hard as he could but it was out of his control.

"Where's Mahira?" Azfan saw Khalisa coming out of the room towards the kitchen.

"We went to the hospital after Mahira had eaten, the distance of her illness was short, her mother Mahira again to Semarang, I had to accompany her."

Azfan nodded, "hopefully everything is smooth."

"If our child does not miscarry, I will now wait for his birth."

"Sshhhh, God has arranged everything for us dear." Azfan grabbed Khalisa's shoulder and rubbed it. "We may be sad, but we must be pleased with God's provisions."

Khalisa covered his sadness with a big smile, he thanked Azfan for always strengthening him even though they were both lost.

Khalisa poured milk on a bowl of cereal, he took it to the room so that Mahira immediately ate it.

"Here I bribe." Kafa takes the bowl first and feeds Mahira.

"The stuff you want to take to the hospital is ready?"

"Before Ce, you know the forecast is still next month so we're not ready for anything."

"She's Cece helping with the packing."

"Everything's on the walk in closet, Cece's looking for it."

Khalisa picked up a medium-sized bag and put in Mahira's clothes and her baby later, diapers and toiletries.

"Do you think there are any special items you want to bring?" Khalisa finished packing all the necessary items. He saw that Mahira had finished eating.

When everything was ready, they went to the hospital. Khalisa also did not forget to give a pedestal on the car seat for Mahira. Learning from the experience of Khalisa who made Kafa car wet first, he did not want the incident to happen again.

"Bi, I'm in Kafa's car." Khalisa said to Azfan, he was worried if he let Mahira be together with Kafa.

"Yes, I'm coming from behind." Azfan got into his car. "Sorry be careful." The message to Kafa.

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The doctor examined Mahira and checked her opening. Moments later Mahira is transferred to the delivery room to begin the act.

Azfan and Khalisa wait in front of the delivery room while continuing to pray for Mahira so that everything goes smoothly.

"Ce, Mahira asked Cece to come in too." Kafa tilted his head from the door he opened slightly.

"Hah Cece came in too?" Khalisa saw Azfan as if asking for answers. He did not think before if Mahira wanted him to come to the delivery room.

"Umma come in, pity Mahira." Azfan rubbed Khalisa's arm for a moment.

Khalisa took a deep breath before entering the room. The room that had been a witness to his struggle gave birth to Azka. The crying and happy laughter always adorned the room. No one understands what the pain of mothers who want to give birth even to fellow women. Every woman experiences different pain.

"You can do it, baby." Kafa clasped Mahira's ice-cold hand and then kissed her forehead. He looked at Mahira's pale face. Kafa wants to take away all the pain and suffering Mahira now, he can no longer see Mahira in pain.

Mahira nodded faintly, "i'm sorry that you've been wrong all along." Sluggishly.

"Why are you talking like that?"

"Says the mother gave birth it was in a life and death situation, I'm afraid—"

Kafa shook his head, "don't continue your sentence, I don't want to be horrified."

Mahira closed her eyes as tears melted through her temple.

"Don't think macem-macem, when your age, Mommy also gave birth to Azka so you can definitely."

Mahira grabbed Kafa and Khalisa's wrists when the pain in his stomach came strong, he heard the doctor's instructions and pushed him.

"Look at me, you definitely can, you're a persistent person." Kafa held the pain in his hand because of Mahira's grip, of course it was not comparable to the pain Mahira felt.

Kafa knew how Mahira used to not give up on approaching him. Mahira was like a man approaching his heart.

A thread of sweat soaked Mahira's hijab, she obeyed the doctor's instructions but it wasn't that easy. Several times Mahira has not succeeded.

"Bismillah, yuk again." Khalisa continues to encourage Mahira.

The tasbih in Azfan's hand continued to roll, his lips whispering sholawat hoping that Mahira and Kafa's child was born healthy. He walked in front of the delivery room door. Azfan could not sit quietly. Azfan's footsteps stopped when he heard the sound of a baby crying from inside.

"Praise God, woman." The doctor lifts the baby Mahira to show her mother.

"You did it, baby." Kafa's tears flowed profusely looking at her baby directly for the first time. Kafa kissed Mahira's forehead and thanked her for trying so hard to give birth to their child.

Mahira smiled, the pain disappeared instantly upon seeing the baby. They have known the sex of the baby since the womb because Kafa always took Mahira to the hospital for USG outside the control schedule. Even if you can, Kafa wants to buy his own USG machine.

"Mak thank you." Mahira said to Khalisa.

Khalisa has replaced the mother figure for Mahira.

Kafa is accusing her baby of being wrapped in a pink bedong. Kafa's voice sounded trembling mixed with haru who mastered it. Maybe if his son could talk, he would protest because Kafa's voice sounded discordant. But strangely the baby actually calmly heard his papa voice.

"Ce, I'm Papa." Kafa embraces Khalisa, he is not Khalisa's little brother anymore. He became a father of one child.

"God willing, Cece's brother is big now." Khalisa patted Kafa on the back. "Because you're not Cece's little sister anymore, let go of your embrace."

"Sorry Ce." Kafa immediately took off his embrace.

"What's his name?" Khalisa sees Kafa and Mahira alternating.

"Darling, tell her the beautiful name we've prepared for her." Kafa moved closer to Mahira.

Mahira raised a smile deliberately linger to make Khalisa curious.

"Zulaikha Haifa Alindra." Mahira mentions her son's name word by word slowly.

"God is so good, I'm sure it's not Kafa who gave me that name, because he's the worst about nyami."

Mahira nodded in agreement, even when he mentioned Zulaikha's name, Kafa immediately protested.

"Why Z anyway initially, later he in school last absences dear."

"No problem last important absence later we educate him to be a brave child like his mother."

Mahira smiled considering the debate. After this another debate will take place between them. But that's what makes the two relationships feel special every day.

"You'll be called Mama and Papa?"

"Actually we haven't yet decided on Ma'am's call either." Answer Mahira honestly.

Khalisa bells, "now Cece knows why you're fooling." He stepped closer to the Zulaikha box. Khalisa lifts up the tiny body of baby Mahira and says hello. Khalisa prayed for Zulaikha to be a child of Sholehah and benefit others.

Mahira and Kafa looked at each other and smiled meaningfully.

Kafa: Saranghaeo my son & his son