
Rani smiled bitterly, imagining how hurt and guilt were haunting Zain until every prayer she always shed tears. Rani sighed deeply before continuing her story.
Rani begins to recount Zain's dark past. Nadine listened carefully to every detail.
Zain lived with his grandmother since childhood. Her parents live abroad to work. When his parents returned home, they brought a 2-year-old girl named Miranda. They said it was his daughter.
After only a few months of living in Indonesia, they have returned abroad, leaving Miranda with Zain and his grandmother.
When Miranda was 4 years old, Zain took her for a walk to the night market. He who was busy choosing clothes and sandals for his sister so off guard. When looking to the side Miranda was no longer there. He's been looking for where but not found. Surrounding the night market, every place and every corner, Miranda remains nowhere to be found. Zain had searched Miranda everywhere, but was still nowhere to be found.
Zain always blames himself, guilt continues to haunt him. After learning of Miranda's disappearance, Zain's parents return to Indonesia.
The presence of his parents further makes Zain's guilt widened and torn. She hoped that her parents would scold her and beat her, hoping that with that the pain in Zain's heart could fall bit by bit. But the mother's cry broke, unwilling, unreserved, unable to imagine how Miranda's fate would be. What if he was sold, hurt, made a beggar. Bad thoughts continued to linger in his mind, breaking everyone's heart.
A few months after the incident, both of Zain's parents had an accident that caused them to lose their lives. Complete is Zain's suffering.
Wailing, regretting, and being destroyed. That is the burden that Zain has been carrying. After losing Miranda, she also lost her parents. Death is destiny and it is clear. While the loss of Miranda is certainly still a burden for a Zain, because it is not clear what kind of fate his sister experienced.
Zain often goes to the night market, hoping to meet his little sister again even if it's impossible.
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After Zain's success...
Once a month, Zain would go to the orphanage to donate some of his money. Somehow by doing so made his heart a little more relieved.
What's more when you see a 3-year-old little toddler named Miranda. She's beautiful and smart. At a small age he could memorize and follow the chants of sholawat and prayer that was heard from the Madrasah and the mosque where the place lined with the parlors. Because he was used to hearing so he memorized by himself. Therefore Zain adopted him, not wanting Miranda to be cared for by others, let alone the same name with his missing sister.
Miranda's adopted sister is now 5 years old. She's a smart girl. Evidenced by the value of his school that always gets a rank of one.
Nadine felt sorry for what Zain and his sister had experienced. He did not expect that Zain had ever experienced a difficult time because of the loss of his sister. Nadine begins to compare her fate and Zain's fate. Although Nadine is not a rich person, she is always surrounded by people who always love her and are always there for her. Thinking about it made her eyes glaze over, as if she could feel the sadness that Zain felt.
"Then his grandmother's brother Zain where's brother?..."
"Died long ago, when Zain was still sitting in college."
"What does Miranda's face look like?..."
"Why?... Make what?..." Rani asked.
"Yes, who knows if I'll see you, brother..."
Rani smiled at him, her gaze shady looking at Nadine's face.
"Miranda, Zain's missing sister is so beautiful." Rani said with a blank look, staring somewhere.
"Sister did you ever meet his brother brother Zain?..." Nadine asked a little confused.
"Well, 4 years old, why wear the SD uniform?..."
"The news is that Zain just got home from school, Miranda was raging, crying so she asked for an elementary school like her neighbor's child, so Zain just bought her an elementary school uniform. In the sense that the moment is funny, just be captured by Zain using a camera."
"Oh...." Nadine herself was confused, she could not say anything more. His heart was also sad to imagine it was not hearty especially for those who experienced.
"You're so sad."
"Who is not sad to lose a brother. Surely until now brother Zain still think the same Miranda is missing. That's why Zain loves going to the night market."
"Miranda is not lost, Miranda is here." Miranda suddenly took her eyes off her toy doll. At that moment Rani and Nadine chuckled with the innocence of Miranda in front of her.
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Zain opens his phone, activates the CCTV feature. Yes, Zain was powerful enough to be in the house of Iqbal, because Iqbal already considered him brother. And entrusted Zain to take care of everything the house of Iqbal. Iqbal just take it right.
Zain also has the authority to regulate the systems, procedures and security of Iqbal homes.
Zain searches for Miranda and Nadine on CCTV, smiling as he finds them under a mat tree. Miranda was playing with a doll, then opened her bag and colored the picture.
Zain ran small towards the balcony, to be more free to look directly at the faces of his loved ones.
Zain stood on the balcony, watching Miranda and Nadine being together. Happiness enveloped his heart, seeing the closeness of Nadine and Miranda.
What's on his mind. Why did Nadine daydream while smiling herself at Miranda, who was coloring her picture while hugging her doll. What was the girl thinking that made her smile like that?... Is he the same as Zain who always thinks about him.
Nadine did smile to think about it when she remembered Zain who had misbehaved by wearing the same perfume as Nadine, which she said smelled dizzy.
Suddenly, Rani who joined sat next to Nadine.
A while later Zain was a little confused by the change in Nadine's moody facial expression and Rani's serious-looking facial expression. I don't know what they're talking about. What they are actually discussing.
Zain took the initiative to find his year.
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