Merapi Never Ingkar Janji 2 (The Return of the Sultan)
SS. 54. Before Akad
This morning everyone in the house seemed very busy. Some prepare a series of parcels, some are busy making cakes.
Their hands are not silent, so is Tata who helped Mbak Watik make a cake batter.
"Eh ... bride-to-be don't get tired of entering the kitchen." Tempt one of the neighbors who also helped.
"It's getting used to the Buk." Answer compensates.
The bride-to-be, yes .. this bustle is for her, the beautiful girl who just spelled out the bride-to-be.
The bride-to-be should have been pinned down somewhere else, but not for Tata. A Javanese tradition that he had to break due to his limitations.
"Mak Tata." Call a mother she's never known before.
"Yes Buk."
"Mother is called Mother." Her speech.
"Oh, yes. Wait a minute, I wash my hands first." He replied, immediately standing up to clean his two hands wrapped in dough.
"Yes Ma'am, he's in the front hall." He said again, before finally leaving Tata to return to his duties.
Tata immediately stood facing the Mother. When else could there be more affection from a mother that she had dreamed of since childhood.
"Assalamu'alaikum Mother." Apply when you get to the place that was informed.
"Wa'alaikumsalam, sit down son."
"Good, Mother."
There is Al who has been sitting sweetly with Mother there.
'What is this ? It seems there is something serious.' Think Tata in the heart.
"Today, the last day before you're legally married." Mother Said.
"Tomorrow and so on, you are no longer a selfish person with individual interests. But one family that must complement each other lacks a partner." He said again.
"Especially you Al, put aside your ego attitude, love and protect your wife's children. Tell your late father who never made Mother cry." Mentioning the word father, Mother could not hold back the crying.
"God willing Mother, Mother's blessing we always hope." Answer Al.
"Surely Nak."
A man who can respect and love his mother means he will also respect and love his wife.
"Sir, this is our family's hereditary jewelry. Mother wants you to wear it at the wedding."
"God, this is too much for Motherhood." He received the trust from Mother.
"Wear it, Mother is happy if you want to wear it every day."
Tata is not used to wearing jewelry, but this time he tried to get used to new habits, for the happiness of the Kamandanu family which he will later maintain his honor.
"You should be bitten, but that's okay, circumstances that allow you to meet and co-exist." That's the message that Mother conveyed.
"I'm sorry Mother Order, if only the two Tata parents still exist, maybe not like this."
"Crssttt ... Don't talk like that. Everything has become his will. Maybe if your parents were still around, you wouldn't have met." The wise Mother said.
"Truely said Mother, grateful for all that we have whatever the circumstances, all there is that regulates." Connect Al.
'Alhamdulillah ..' he said in his heart.
Again, God gives us a precious happiness.
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Tonight was so sultry, making Tata unable to sleep, even though there was an AC that he turned on, out there, the air was also so cold. I don't know what she's thinking, maybe nervous, because tomorrow's the marriage contract.
Likewise with Al, he was still awake, standing on the balcony of his room. Perhaps, what Tata felt, was the same as Al felt at this time.
"Why are these nights like you outside ?" Al asked as he approached his future wife, when he saw Tata standing with both hands crossed by himself outside.
"Mas Al himself what's going on here ?"
"He's behind it."
"Gerah Mas, can't sleep. I took mineral water." Answer Tata origin.
"Are you nervous ?" Tanya Al who started occupying an empty seat next to his future wife.
"Yes, I don't know why I feel so bad." Lirih.
"Don't think too negative, just positive thinking, let the results also positive." Advice Al.
"There's one thing I haven't told you." Al said while asking Tata to sit down.
"What's up ?"
"There's something I haven't loved you yet."
A red jewelry box Al hand over.
"What is this ?" Tata asked in wonder.
"Just open it."
As per Al's instructions, Tata opened the jewelry box that Al gave her.
A gold jewelry, precisely a bracelet that he was very familiar with.
"This bracelet ?" Lirih.
Tear shedding. Still clinging to her memory, while she was being treated and in order to avoid Al, Tata escapes from the hospital.
And that bracelet ?
One of his mother's relics, which he had sold for hospital expenses.
'Sister Wulan, is it possible that Sister Wulan gave this bracelet to Mas Al ? Because at that time I asked Ms. Wulan to help sell it.' Thought in the heart.
"Why ? You're wondering, how can that jewelry be on me ?" Al asked right in front of his girlfriend.
"Mbak Wulan gave this to Mas ?" Tata asked half a guess.
"No, how could he dare to do that." Answer smiled.
"Then ?"
"Reza was trailing Wulan when selling the jewelry. And I asked him to buy it back."
Tata noticed the jewelry in his hand. Unexpectedly, he would get it back.
It was very heavy to give up her mother's jewelry to sell at that time. But circumstances that require Tata to sell it.
And at this time, the jewelry came back to him again. One proof that he is still a match and he is more entitled to have it, than anyone else.
"I know, jewelry means a lot to you." Al said, before standing up leaving Tata alone in that place.
"Mas Al." Calling lirih.
"Hhhhmm."
Al had not yet looked back, Tata had already hugged him from behind.
"Aaauu..." Al raised his hand.
"Thank you, I don't know what else to say." His issue is becoming.
"Sssatttt .. don't cry, you'll hear." Al still raised his hand.
"Yes sorry, so why is his hand raised so ?" Tata asked in wonder.
"Not yet muhrim, heheheh ... " Answer replied.
"Sorry, khilaf.' Tata Say. He roughly rubbed his cheek that felt soaked by tears.
"It's too late, rest. You have to get up early tomorrow. Don't make yourself tired on our first night." Bisik Al lirih, while removing the remaining tears on the cheeks of her beautiful angel.
Tata smiled sweetly before she finally ran ahead of Al who was still dumbfounded to see her sweet smile.
'That smile that makes me unable to forget you.' Mumbled Al in the heart.
She watched her heart disappear behind the door of her room, before she herself returned to her room.
'Alhamdulillah, finally this bracelet back to me.' said Tata before he closed his eyes.
His right hand clasped tightly to his left wrist, where he wore the Mother's relic jewelry.
Tonight, the last night she lived alone. In his sleep, he hopes to meet father and mother.
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