
"Dek wait..! someone wants you to say, "hold Baim when Aini will step foot into the stairs of the mosque on the left.
Aini stopped her steps. It felt as though his entire body was so stiff as he heard the man's voice.
"What do you want?" inner Aini.
"Sir, why did you stay away from my brother? Did your brother have it wrong? If there is an apologetic brother," said Baim.
Aini silent a thousand languages. He did not even look back. Letting the back of his body that uses a pink mukena patterned with cherry blossoms was seen by Baim. He did not not want to answer the man's question, but he was confused as to where to start. Is it possible that she would say that she was jealous because there was another woman who loved Baim? Or will he say that he hates the man for destroying his growing feelings towards him? No way! He was self-conscious about it, it was impossible for him to say it because he was not who he was, even Baim never revealed his heart to Aini.
"Hold Aini. hold it. Don't cry here," he said. Aini held back all the emotions raging within her. Finally he decided to keep stepping away and left Baim behind him.
"Dek..don't go, answer your brother's questions first," Baim walked up to Aini.
"Bang, called wak dolah, he said his brother told azan, this has entered the time isya," ivan shouted from the stairs to the right of the mosque when he saw Baim slightly to the left of the mosque near the main door.
Baim clucked in annoyance. "Yes" he answered. There is no way he refused the request of wak dolah, but he also did not get Aini's answer.
"Let it be, later after the prayer I will try to go back to see him," muttered Baim, then he passed away leaving Aini who had entered the main door of the mosque.
When Aini felt that Baim was no longer chasing her, she looked back and it was right that Baim had left.
"I'm sorry, but we better be like this. I don't want to hurt other women's feelings. Enough of me to be hurt here, "his mind.
Imam has said greetings signifying congregational prayer is over. Aini immediately offered a prayer without following the priest. Then he hurriedly left so as not to meet Baim again, he did not want to feel pain for the umpteenth time. Seeing Baim's face his heart ached as it felt he had been lied to.
"What is the meaning of our closeness so far if it turns out that bang Baim already has a girlfriend? Does he just think of me as his sister?" Aini guessed the answer to her own question.
Meanwhile, Baim is still inside the mosque. Actually after the prayer he also wanted to rush to go after Aini, but wak dolah called him.
"Im, where are you going? Why does it look so rushed?" ask wak dolah when he sees Baim leaving the prayer.
"Yes, Baim wants to go home, Baim's stomach has been rumbling," he said giving an excuse.
"Oh, someone wants to say uwak," continued wak dolah.
"What is wak?" In Baim's heart he wanted to run fast immediately because he was sure that his little girl must have rushed home to avoid him.
"Uwak wants to say, you if you finish praying maghrib do not go straight home until entering isya time. There is no azan fear if uwak does not come. Luwak uda lagian is not strong for azan, uwak breath likes to roam," said wak dolah.
"Yes wak, Baim. Usually after Maghrib Baim come home to eat wak, if you wait ready is a long time," said Baim.
"Then, you eat it before Maghrib alone" proposed wak dolah.
"Okay, kok wak dolah so set my eating schedule," Baim inner.
"Yes wak" he answered to wak dolah. "Rather than the answer that does not add length to the story," he thought again.
"Yes, let's go home, he said you're hungry," he said.
"Duh.kok not from earlier anyway wak! Surely now Aini has gone home, "inner Baim.
"Yes, let's go" he said later.
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Aini gasped for breath even as if she was losing a lot of oxygen in her body. "Good thing Baim didn't chase me" he murmured.
"Well, brother why?" asked the father when he found Aini entering the house panting.
"It's okay but his breath is as dull as in chasing the devil so!" chirps mom.
"Yes ma'am, in front of the fence there was a cockroach, so my sister did run up to the house" he said lying.
"Sama cockroaches are afraid," ledek Iva participated in the stand.
"Sort of like you dare!" cipir Aini's.
"Dare dong" he said proudly. Though Iva was actually also afraid of cockroaches, only for the sake of prestige he pretended to say that he was brave.
"It's fast to change your face there, it runs out immediately eat, later if often late to eat can get stomach ulcers again," said the mother.
"Yes ma'am" he answered.
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Baim had laid his body on the bed. After returning from the mosque he had eaten, because it was normal after Maghrib he ate with Umi, Abi and their two children. But because he had intended to wait for Aini, so he did not return home after Maghrib.
"Followly because I failed to find Aini again. Even until now I don't know what my fault was with him." Baim was talking to himself.
"What's wrong deck? Why don't you talk to your brother? Even looking at your brother you don't want to," his mind again. Now the clear details of his eye patch have wetted his cheek.
Baim had never felt anything like this before. Just because not being harried by a girl makes her cry. While with Yuna he often ignored her and Baim felt fine.
"What makes me this weak just from facing a little girl? Is this karma because I used to ignore women who liked me?" Baim was unceasingly asking himself.
He was so frustrated thinking about the girl, that he was tired and fell asleep on his own.
"Astaghfirullah's..." Baim woke up from his sleep. He just had a nightmare. His breath was so hunting, sweat was soaking all over his body. He sipped a glass of water that was on his nightstand.
"At 02:00" look at the clock on the wall in his room. Baim decided to take ablution immediately and perform night prayers.
O Allah, O Rabbi.. Forgive all the sins of the servants, the sins of the parents of the servants, and the sins of the believers, protect the parents of the servants wherever they are.
O Allah, I surrender to you from all prejudices good and bad. I know You have chosen a soul mate for every creature on this earth, but one thing I ask, O Lord, I want her, the little girl who fills all the recesses of my heart, the little girl who has been gracing my life lately. Forgive me if I selfishly ask you, but only You can grant my request. Take care of him for me until the time comes, O God, open the door of his heart for me. Give me my request, O Allah, aamiin. aamiin.
Baim could not hold back his tears when he pleased the Creator. Even his eyes were already very red and continued to emit those clear details. The feeling that could not be expressed with those words was only able to be evaporated through her tears. His love was so great for the little girl, but he had to ask the Creator for his blessing so that he would not make the wrong decision.
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