My Heart to You, Brother (Love in Silence)

31. Shoal together

"Germis Ar... want to go home or wait? " ask Uwais after paying for the chicken noodles and meatballs. He approached Arrida who was still sitting where he had eaten earlier.

"Cah? just drizzling, right?"

"Yes"

"Just go home, I want this rest"

"Yes ayok, ntar if the rain is big, we wear raincoats only,"

Arrida nodded, then followed Uwais with a slow step towards the motor parked in front of the chicken noodle shop.

"Well, it's real rain, brother," Arrida and Uwais were at the door.

"Yes, put on a raincoat! Wanna?"

"Whose brother brought two?" ask Arrida. Because as far as the girl knows, the raincoat belongs to Uwais raincoat model tops and subordinates (pants).

"One of them, you wear it,"

"Our father, I don't have to wear it,"

"Yes, we wear both" suggested Uwais.

Arrida turned her head, twitching her forehead.

"Would you wear both?" ask Arrida.

"It can be, it's a poncho raincoat, that wide one,"

"Ooh, isn't that brother raincoat upstairs?"

"Oh, that one, yesterday on Asep's pinjem while playing at home, nyampe now has not been returned, tuggu here yes, let me take the suit first,"

Uwais rushes to the motor to pick up the raincoat, then returns to Arrida's front. He also put on his rain jacket.

"Let's go in here" said Uwais, widening his rear raincoat and ordering Arrida to enter so that he could be seduced by a raincoat. But Arrida was silent. He seemed doubtful.

"Why?" tanya Uwais caught the doubt on Arrida's face.

"Hmmm, means we'll both be in one raincoat, brother?" asked Arrida hesitantly.

"Well," answered Uwais briefly and casually.

Arrida is confused. Although in his heart he felt happy, but he was not too confident to be alone with the young man in a raincoat.

"Ehhh, later if it's the way, you don't macem, Ar," Uwais joked deliberately, to distract Arrida, so that she doesn't hesitate together with him in a raincoat. Uwais knew that right now, her favorite girl was feeling awkward.

"Hish, brother, what the hell, filtered his mind, where there I want to say," said Arrida as he struck Uwais' upper arm.

Uwais laughed, he was glad the girl in front of him had started not awkward.

"Hehehe, but if you just hurt me, I allow it" said Uwais still with a laugh.

"Haish," Arrida pouted, but then Uwais embraced it until Arrida was in the shade of a raincoat. The girl did not dodge. While limping, he also walked to line Uwais's fingers to the motorbike.

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Currently, the motor is traveling at medium speed. Actually both feel awkward, but they really enjoy the togetherness that they are feeling right now. Warm and comfortable.

Suddenly, there was not five minutes to go, the bike felt good. Turns out the tires are deflated. Actually Uwais a little strange, why the motorcycle tire can be deflated. Even though only yesterday the bike was in service, it should be all safe. He stopped his bike on the side of the road.

"Why, Brother?" arrida asked a little confused. His hands up made his raincoat rise up.

Both of them got off the bike. Uwais checked his motorcycle tyre. It turned out that not only one, but both of the motorcycle tires were flat.

"Yes, brother?" ask Arrida to make sure.

"Yes, both" answered Uwais.

Arrida feels weird.

"Yes yuk, we take shelter first" Uwais tried to calm Arrida down. He looked around.

"We go there first, while praying Dzuhur," said Uwais while pointing at a mosque across the street.

Uwais pushed the bike, a bit slowly as it offset Arrida's slightly limped pace behind him.

When they arrived at Mushola, they immediately

towards the ablution.

The atmosphere in the mosque is not quiet, although the time of congregational prayer has passed and the situation is raining heavily. In the mosque there was an adult man with a boy who was about ten years old, while on the terrace there were grandmothers about seventy years old, and there was a little girl who was about two years old being fed by a woman who was about forty years old who was most likely her mother.

They are like a family that is traveling far, and deliberately to the mosque for rest and prayer. Because in the courtyard of the mosque there is a metallic family car.

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"Ar, jamaah yuk!" bring Uwais. At that time he had ablution and deliberately waited for Arrida to be invited to pray congregation.

Arrida, who was about to enter the mushola, stopped his steps. He just finished his wudhunya. He looked at Uwais hesitantly.

"Let's wear the mukenya, we pray together yes,"

Arrida nodded with a smile. I don't know what kind of feeling is present at the moment. Like there's flowers blooming in Arrida's heart. Happiness and newness just melt away. I want to cry because I am happy. Can Arrida now hope that Uwais will be his 'priest' in the world to the hereafter?

After putting on the mukena, the two occupied a place near the entrance a bit to the right. They also prayed according to his shaf, Uwais in front of the priest and Arrida in the back became his master.

After the greeting, Uwais and Arrida took time to pray. Then Uwais turned to look at Arrida, and nodded with a smile as the two met. Arrida nodded and returned Uwais's smile. Already, until there, there is no shaman event let alone to kiss the forehead like a married couple.

Arrida got up and took off and tidied his face. Then he went to the terrace following Uwais sat down.

"Where, brother?" asked Arrida to ask for certainty how they went home and overcome the two flat tires. He sat next to Uwais a bit a few centimeters away.

"You get home in a taxi, yes," Uwais suggested.

Arrida. "Then what brother?" ask him while looking at the motor.

"That looks mah, you don't have to think about it, what matters is you!" the word Uwais made Arrida nod once more.

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"You're not married yet, are you? You're still in school, right? You guys dating?" The one who asked was the grandmother sitting on the terrace. He approached Uwais and Arrida, and sat down before them. Since then, the grandmother held a prayer beads, her lips did not stop reciting the sentence thoyyibah. But his gaze could not escape the interaction of Uwais and Arrida since they arrived at the mushola.

The question from the grandmother made Arrida and Uwais surprised. There was a little bit of worry about the question, afraid that, right now, Uwais and Arrida were doing something that was considered to violate the norm according to the grandmother.

"We are still in high school, we are not dating" Uwais replied reassuringly.

"But you guys aren't sisters either, are you?"

"No, Grandma," answered Uwais again. Arrida actually answered but only with a headband.

"Hmmm, you are too much trouble from the outside, whereas from yourself you never have problems, you are like rain water that is fun to water. Do you know the philosophy of rain? Ninety-five percent of the rain was simple, pleasant and soothing and that five percent of the anger was like a flood. And if you become a couple .. you water each other for benefits, you can be happy ...."

Arrida and Uwais looked at each other, their gazes clashing. There was something difficult for them to describe right now about their feelings.

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