Pursuing Love in the Past

Chasing His Love

Alfian was staring pus out the car glass.

Cit.

Forced Alfian to stop the speed of his vehicle, because he almost hit a cat that passed in front of him..

"Did the cat get hit, huh?" Alfian made sure to get out of the car. But suddenly the orange-colored cat came out from under his car. "Thank God it's okay." Alfian let out a sigh of relief. Then he got back in the car.

"Does you see what?" ask Zahra's tiny lips.

"Owh, it's nothing."

Zahra leaned back on her body when she was satisfied with Alfian's reply.

 

Ayunda had just parked the vehicle she was carrying in the courtyard of the house.

"Who's coming?" adrian said to his son who was learning to walk on the porch of the house. Azzam who was being spoken to responded by turning towards Ayunda.

"Azzam's handsome aunt", call Ayunda when getting out of the car. "Come, it's the same aunt." Ayunda stretched out her hands, asking the nephew to walk towards her. Just now Azzam was walking two steps towards himself the nephew had turned back to face Adrian.

"Emm, what's 'cause aunt hasn't had a bath yet?"

"Yes, this aunt custom wants to carry Azzam but bathe bath", said Adrian representing the child.

"OK deh Azzam, aunt shower first yes. Wait aunty, baby."

 

It didn't take long for Ayunda to complete her bathing ritual. He walked into the living room looking for Azzam's whereabouts, but his eyes gasped when he saw Dafa sitting alone on the sofa looking at him with a smile.

"Udah ready?" ask Dafa.

Ayunda replied with a smile. "I'm sorry I can't go with you, Daf", he said.

"Lho, why ay?" ask Dafa with a little disappointment.

"Because I don't want to give you false hope!"

Dafa was flabbergasted when he heard Ayunda's words. For years he waited for Ayunda to open his heart to him, but he still had to swallow his disappointment.

"Aren't you going to try it first?" haggard Dafa, there may still be a little hope.

"I'm sorry again, Daf. I don't want to hurt people as good as you."

"But you've hurt my heart, ay. Does our togetherness mean nothing to you?"

Ayunda was silent for a moment. She felt guilty that her attitude had made Dafa misinterpret her.

"It's precisely because it's Dafa. I don't want our closeness to make you misunderstand me, because all this time I just thought of you as my best friend, nothing more."

Dafa bowed with a reddened face. His breath was as if irregular as he held back his emotions. "I thought you were different from other women. Not arrogant and soft-hearted. I was wrong all this time." Dafa looked up at Ayunda. "You're no better than Sherly... Excuse me!"

Dafa got up from his seat and stepped out of Ayunda's house.

"Dw... Dafa's... Please control your emotions." Ayunda tried to pursue Dafa, but he did not succeed in preventing him from leaving.

"Bec...!" shout Ayunda. But Dafa had already driven his vehicle to leave the courtyard of Ayunda's house.

Adrian came to Ayunda. "Come, we're going inside. Brother, talk for a minute."

Ayunda turned her body, then walked into the house following the steps of her brother.

"Sit down first."

Ayunda followed the direction of her sister. He sat down on the sofa.

"Sister doesn't know how you really feel about Dafa. But you know that Dafa is a good man. Brother is very grateful because while abroad there is Dafa who accompanies you. Even he protected you from the gunfire back then. I hope you don't forget that."

Ayunda was silent for a moment. His mind raged when he heard the words of his brother. He also begins to worry about his own feelings.

"Yunda apologized, Brother. Maybe Yunda looks very cruel because he did not repay his love for Dafa. But would it be fair for Yunda and Dafa, if Yunda received Dafa's love for his return?"

Adrian was silent for a moment thinking about Ayunda's words, then he sighed. "Try to think again, perhaps Yunda did not realize that there was already a little love for Dafa."

"Yunda has tried for years to open her heart to Dafa, but the results have always been the same. Yunda could only regard Dafa as a friend."

Adrian seemed to run out of words to hear Ayunda's words. Suddenly the wife came to them.

"Azzam's asleep, ma?"

"Already pa. Mama accidentally heard your conversation, so come here." said Winda while sticking his butt on the sofa. "Can mom think pa?" tanyakanya.

"Please, ma."

"According to my mother, love cannot be forced. He must be born from a sincere heart. Right now Yunda is not feeling love for Dafa, and we are asking her to learn to love Dafa. It will make Yunda depressed if later she still does not feel love. So let her be with the one she loves."

Adrian frowned, staring at Ayunda's sad face. "Is there a man you love?" ask Adrian.

Ayunda nodded slowly. "There's a brother."

"I can't guess who that guy is. Alfian right?" guess it's confident. He knew his sister had never forgotten her first love.

"Sister already knows. So Yunda doesn't have to say it anymore."

"Then pursue your love dear", said Vinda. Adrian protested. He already did not want his sister to be in contact with Alfian anymore considering all the events that had happened to his sister because of his relationship with Alfian.

"Don't suudzon, pa. Everything that happens because it has been arranged by God."

"But papa wants Yunda to get the best man."

"Goodest according to us, not necessarily Allah willed, pa. Please, we don't have to interfere too deeply. Let Yunda follow his own heart."

After that, there was no more conversation between them. Adrian and Winda entered the room, while Ayunda was still sitting for a while on the sofa while contemplating the words of her sister-in-law.

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Inside a room, there was a humming that filled the room. I don't know why Zahra's having so much trouble sleeping tonight. How many Alfian songs have been sung, but Zahra is still literate.

"Come on, sleep dear", persuade Alfian, because the clock has shown at 10 p.m.

"Ara kangen mama", said her tiny lips while hugging the bolster.

"Tomorrow we'll go to Mom's, baby. Papa promised."

"But Ara wants it now, pa!" whining.

"It's Ara's night. Look out the window." Alfian walked towards the window, opened the curtains and pointed out the circumstances outside.

"Ara wants to see mama now", he whined by hiding his face in a roll.

Alfian seemed to have run out of ways to persuade his little princess. Then he remembered there was an app on the phone that could make photos move. He also tried it.

"Pope, call mom." Alfian swiped at his phone, then showed a video through an app he had downloaded. "Let's see this mama."

At first Zahra was still whining, eventually she was silent and finally she started kissing Alfian's phone, then hugged him until finally falling asleep.

"Papa's beautiful princess." Alfian pulled the blanket over Zahra's body, kissed her, and then left the room.

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