Manira /Damar Scouts

Episode 36's

Short episode version of the novel “Senandung HOMESU under the Broken Moon Wings”

Damar Jurors

By: Elmira Arasy Rahman

Episode 36's

“Change. Please stop matching Manira with other men and always position Manira in this position. If it's like this, we are also the same difficult, unpleasant with the person and in the end abah himself who will be embarrassed,”

“Why is your heart so hard?” he was clearly showing his disappointment. “Why is your heart like a rock? Do you think people like him still want to hang out with ordinary people like us?” end it, then go.

“Change...”.

Manira is always faced with a crossroads whenever something like this happens. On the one hand he did not want to disappoint you, on the other hand he also could not lie to himself to be able to accept other men. Manira's sadness is not because she is waiting for her lover who does not return, but precisely because of these things. Hal, where she must once again reject someone's proposal and hurt everyone. Let alone anyone else, he himself was sick.

Manira walks down the corridor of her house, towards the living room. Inevitably he had to meet the man who had proposed to him. Manira looked tense, she was trying to strengthen her steps. The answer is certain. He will reject this proposal again in order to maintain his loyalty to his lover. All the worst possibilities are looming in his head: the anger of the brother, the anger of the family who came to propose to him, the shame and everything.

Manira took a deep breath, mentally preparing to face all that. In the middle of the road, he was confronted by a man wearing batik clothes. Manira was surprised to see the man suddenly appear from behind the curtain.

Manira looked at the Imam. His eyes glazed over to find that the man who came to propose to him was the Imam, one of his childhood friends. Just like Manira who was sad because this time he had to disappoint his best friend, Imam had already shown his desperate face. He seemed to be able to read very clearly, what was Manira's answer. A rejection that had been a frightening specter from the beginning, which he tried to lunge but it seemed like it would still make him feel sick.

Manira ignores the Imam and continues on towards the living room.

“One more time you go forward, you will humiliate everyone,” prevent Imam

Manira quit. He himself was sad, regretting why everything should be like this. An excellent friendship should be marred by events like this. The Imam should have known it was going to happen like this and he should not have made things more complicated.

“You will disappoint your brother and mother. You will humiliate them, humiliate my parents, humiliate me and all of us,” Imam said once again.

“I don't want to hurt anyone,” Manira denies still being stupefied by her decision.

Manira continues her steps towards the living room. One decision he would tell everyone about his rejection of the proposal that the Imam's parents had brought. He cannot give false hope to the Imam. He did not betray his own feelings. Because even if he pretended, he would never be able to do it.

He did not care about all the slanted remarks of people who thought him arrogant or picky. He didn't care even if everyone cursed him. He just can't pretend to love someone. He does not want to just live a formality of life where all women must be married and have a full family like other women. He doesn't want to do something he doesn't want. Even though her lover was dead, she was willing to live alone for a lifetime and was unwilling to replace her lover with anyone. That was his heart and his feelings.

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