Mahabbah Love Khalisa

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"Where are you going today?" Rindang scoops his food lazily because he sees Khalisa eating white rice while he has to settle for just oatmeal and plain milk. White rice looks so special in the eyes of Rindang because he can not eat it every day.

"There is a mukenah washing activity together in the mosque." Khalisa put his freshly fried beef eggs on the rice, he made a simple breakfast of white rice and egg ceplok and canned tinsel sauce in his refrigerator. He sat in front of Rindang preparing to eat his breakfast.

"It looks like it's exciting."

Khalisa nodded, "want to come?" He devoured the rice and chilled sambal deliciously, he should have warmed the sauce first but he was already hungry to eat immediately so had to receive the chili that tasted like ice in his mouth.

"Pengen joined but I want morning worship, afternoon to the police station for the investigation process."

"Jason temenin you right?"

Rindang nodded, since that incident Jason never let him out on his own. Because they are studying at the same campus it makes it easier for Jason to keep Rindang. They stick like gelatin that cannot be separated. Khalisa no wonder because all the guys who become Rindang's girlfriend will definitely be crazy. It's just that their relationship won't be longer than 2 months. That's why Khalisa amazed Jason because soon he and Rindang will celebrate the 1st anniversary.

"May all go well." Khalisa hopes that there will be no such thing in the future. He does not want Rindang hurt physically or mentally.

They had breakfast together at Khalisa's house because Rindang stayed here last night. Rindang is still traumatized by the incident especially his parents have returned to Banyuwangi so he had to sleep in Khalisa's apartment for a while, at least until the investigation process was completed.

"Today I saw the CCTV footage of you sleeping in my apartment, the guy was completely invisible, he was wearing a hooded jacket, because the corridor was dark so I couldn't see what color it was."

Although he had thought about it, Khalisa did not know who the possibility of people who had banged on Rindang's apartment. The biggest possibility that Khalisa's head is currently the apartment staff who like Rindang and want to tease him in such a way. But he did not want to be too quick to draw conclusions because they did not have any clues except the CCTV footage that was not clearly visible.

"That's a lot of fruit." Shade glanced at the watermelon, papaya and apples that had been peeled and cut in a box. He switched the conversation quickly because he did not want to damage Khalisa's appetite.

"You want me to take it to college." Khalisa prepared it all to eat with his friends after cleaning the mosque later. He also ordered a rice box for lunch.

"Truly craving." Rindang also wanted to eat those fruits but they contained so much sugar that he could only drink them occasionally.

"Oh yes, Azfan said thanks because you already want to give your love to him." Khalisa forgot to say thank you Azfan to Rindang when he gave the phone a few days ago.

"If you want more, there's still a lot in my studio."

"Make what Rin, now hp has been designed with many features so rarely use more than one hp except those who are really busy and do everything using hp kayak you for example."

"Now there is still a hard time buying hp." Shady lowered his voice even though they were only the two here but he felt uneasy as if someone would be offended by his words.

"There are, we are less sociable with others, from small we live in the upper environment that yearnya all rich and wealthy when out there many who buy a hard meal."

"But this is no longer the year 2022 which oil until the queue at the minimarket time with the price dropped by the government."

Khalisa took a deep breath, "i'm sure Azfan can actually afford to just buy hp but maybe he has other needs that are more important than he has to pay for his own college."

"Kok you know what?" Rindang looked at Khalisa with a perusing glance before he got up from the chair to wash his used bowl.

"Mom Kirana said it to me herself, when we were there we were chatting."

"Same as a camer."

Khalisa mendelik, camer said? "What a miss." He followed Rindang to the dishwasher after finishing his meal.

"The face is red." Rindang laughed satisfied to see a red tinge on Khalisa's cheek.

Khalisa lowered his head to hide his hot face, was it because he ate too much sambal?

"You like to seduce people." Khalisa splashed water on Rindang's face to stop teasing him, "if there is Ko Levin said it's my goodness Ko Levin attention huh, if there is Azfan, my goodness Azfan handsome ya." Khalisa imitated Rindang's style of speech when teasing him.

Rindang held onto his stomach as he laughed, he placed the washed bowl on the shelf and hurried away from Khalisa before he got another splash of water. The lazy shade came into contact with the water until today he decided not to take a bath.

"So you mean, I have to be consistent that your temptations are the same Azfan just not the same Ko Levin."

Khalisa turned around and shook his head faintly, "meaning don't tempt me anymore."

Rindang tried to stop his laughter, how could he stop flirting with Khalisa when he really enjoyed the moment where Khalisa's face could be flushed even if Khalisa happened to not wear a hijab then Rindang could see his best friend's ears were flushed.

"okay." Rindang put his shoulders, meaning okay I will seduce you continue.

"Guruan bathe gih, he said to worship do not say you do not want to shower." Khalisa stepped into the room to change his clothes with a robe and pashmina.

"Because you told me to take a shower." Rindang half yelled as he was about to get out of Khalisa's apartment. Shady retracted his words not to bathe because he wanted to face God so he had to dress up beautiful for it.

******

All HAWASI members have gathered at the Ulil Albab mosque to clean the mosque. It is a routine activity carried out by members of campus student organizations. Not only cleaning the mosque, they also make repairs if there are damaged mosque facilities.

Female members were in charge of washing the congregation while male members washed the prayer mats installed throughout the floors of the mosque. Mukenahs that are not feasible to use will be replaced by new ones because they have a lot of new modern reserves in special cabinets.

"Hm? not really." Khalisa laughed, whether his clothes look expensive when he bought them in one of the e-commerce at a price that included cheap.

"Well, I'm looking for something like this in Alindra Mall, I think all the clothes you buy are there."

Khalisa actually rarely buy clothes there because it is quite far from here. If not Huma who always forced to go to Alindra Mall then Khalisa would not visit him.

"In Alindra Mall there seems to be the same as this but maybe the quality is better with a more expensive price as well but if this is the cheap version."

Ikha still did not believe that the robe that Khalisa was wearing was cheap. Indeed, if people who are basically rich wear cheap clothes will look good and expensive.

Khalisa and Syifa brought the finished and dried mucenah in the washing machine to be dried back in the hot sun.

The sun began to rise so it did not take long to wait for the face to be completely dry because it had previously also been dried in the washing machine.

"Khalisa." Levin approached Khalisa who was drying the face with other members of HAWASI women.

"Yes Ko?" Khalisa's a little closer to Levin.

"Wear this." Levin thrusts a plain white hat at Khalisa, "your eyes are barely visible due to the heat."

"Ko Levin too." Khalisa took the hat and put it on. "Bag too, kamsia Koko." He gave a big smile.

"You fit that." Levin wanted to praise Khalisa look more beautiful with the hat, Khalisa's cheeks are reddish when exposed to sunlight makes Levin reluctant to take his eyes off him. But Levin had to control himself and immediately leave from there even though his heart said it wanted to continue to be near Khalisa.

"Khalisa, is Koko your boyfriend?" Syifa who had been stealing glances at Levin finally dared to ask what the medical man's relationship with Khalisa because they look very familiar. Although Khalisa is familiar with everyone, Syifa feels the spark of love from the way Levin looks at Khalisa.

"Not it." Khalisa.

"But you guys look so familiar." Ikha.

Khalisa did not answer because surely they will be more curious if he answers their questions.

******

The most awaited thing when conducting an organization meeting is to eat together. Usually they will find a place to eat near here such as klatak satay stalls or gudeg for lunch. But this time Khalisa has brought boxed rice in his car for all HAWASI members.

"Sister Hasan may ask a boy to take his food in my car?" Khalisa saw Hasan who had just laid a pedestal under the sapodilla tree.

Some male members took a rice box in Khalisa's parked car not far from there.

They sit in a circle under a shady sapodilla tree so that even though the weather is hot they still feel cool let alone the wind blowing quite strong that afternoon.

"Eat well." Knock one of them.

"May it suit your taste." Khalisa distributed the food to all of them with the help of other members.

They thanked Khalisa for giving all these foods and fruits to them.

Azfan sat down after finishing distributing the food, he caught a glimpse of Khalisa who was also just sitting with other female members. The smell of sambal came when Azfan opened the food box. There is white rice, vegetables and sambal, tofu and tempeh as well as fried fish. They look tempting.

"Oh yes for your information Khalisa said this is typical Banyuwangi food, so get ready for pengesesesan ya." Hasan cried after he opened his food box.

"Hopefully not too spicy because I ask the person to reduce the chili, if the addiction means you have to go to Banyuwangi yourself." Khalisa spread a smile that was met with laughter by the other members.

They read prayers together before starting to eat rice tempong which is a typical food of Banyuwangi which is famous for its spicy sambal.

"Azfan can eat spit, right?" Khalisa saw Azfan's face reddened despite only a few mouthfuls, apparently even though he had asked his chef to reduce his chili but it still felt spicy for them.

"It can be." Azfan hesitated because he did not think that Khalisa was paying attention to him, he lowered his head in shame even though the other friends did not see him.

"Make me take it if you don't want to, don't throw it away, baby." Khalisa could not bear to see Azfan such spiciness.

"It's okay, it's still strong." Azfan commented on the forced smile because he was actually unable to eat the chili again but there was no way he would give it to Khalisa after eating it a little.

Khalisa's leaning slightly, "I'll take ya?" Ask.

"I ate a little."

"It's okay." Khalisa took all the sambal Azfan than he saw the guy was spiciness and could not enjoy his meal.

Azfan was stunned to see Khalisa so casually taking sambal in his lunchbox, he thought Khalisa did not want to carelessly take the food of others because he came from a rich family. But Azfan was wrong, Khalisa was not only friendly but also never considered himself different from others. During this time Azfan built a high boundary between himself and Khalisa because he considered them very different. But Khalisa seemed to break through that boundary and try to tell that he is also an ordinary man.