RAMADAN IN RAYYA'S HEART

What's Happening to Rayya

Since getting off the car driven by Mr. Rudy, Rayya immediately ran away from the mini market and stopped the public transport car. Rayya who since childhood has never felt the ride of a city transport vehicle feels foreign when having to crammed with other passengers, not to mention the smell of a diverse body makes him not feel comfortable.

About two kilometers from the mini market Rayya fled earlier, Rayya chose to go down at the fork in the road. The angkot car that pulled over suddenly made the car behind him who wanted to turn to the left immediately honked his car horn because of the action of the driver who endangered other drivers, he said, because of sudden pull over in a distance that is too short.

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The sound of the car horn made Rayya who got down from the car immediately aghast until he held his chest because he felt shocked.

While the person in the car who was right behind Rayya's transport car, was upset because he had to brake suddenly. Because if not, then the car will hit the car. The driver of the car honked because of the careless attitude of the angkot driver.

The driver even cursed the driver, but he immediately stopped his swearing when he saw a woman who came down from the angkot look surprised when he again honked his car horn.

" Rayya?" The driver who turned out to be Ramadhan gasped when he found Rayya who came down from the angkot. " Why did Rayya get out of that car?" Ramadhan was so surprised that he pulled his car over. He took off the seat belt and got out of his car.

" Jean ...!"

Rayya who had just pulled over on the sidewalk immediately turned her head when someone called her name. And his eyes were wide when he saw Ramadan greeting him.

" Brother Rama??"

" Rey, where are you going?" Ramadan sees a backpack on the girl's back. " Why is Rayya using a public transport car?" ask Ramadan wonder.

" I-i ..." Rayya seemed nervous about answering Ramadan's question.

" Rayya, you .. You don't intend to run away, do you?" Ramadhan seems to suspect Rayya will run away when viewed from the backpack carried by Rayya.

" No, brother. I want ..." Rayya confusion should give what reason.

" Rayya, come with me!" Ramadhan asks Rayya to come with him.

" I can't, Brother." Rayya refused to accept Ramadan.

" Rayya, I'll call Om Gavin if Rayya doesn't want to open up about where to go! I'm sure Om Gavin wouldn't know if you were here now." Ramadan poses a threat because he feels Rayya is trying to escape. He then took out his cell phone from his blazer pocket.

" No, Brother!" Rayya forbids Ramadan from contacting Gavin.

" Then you should come with me." Ramadan then walks in and opens the car door for Rayya.

Rayya, who did not want Ramadan to report his escape, chose to join Ramadhan who was about to leave for his office.

" Where is Rayya going?" tanya Ramadhan tried to investigate when the two of them were already in the car.

Rayya was speechless, she was not quick to reply to Ramadan's questions.

" Is it because of the threat from Om Dirga that you choose to flee?" Ramadhan suspects that the threat from Dirga is what causes Rayya to make a desperate decision to run away from her home.

" I-I need time to calm down, sister." I'm Rayya honest.

" I'm sorry that Rayya's been a hunchback like this. But I hope you don't leave the house like this. I'm sure Om Gavin and Aunt Rara don't know about your departure, do they? Don't make your parents anxious, Rayya." Ramadhan tried to advise Rayya.

" I'm confused, Brother. Om Dirga threatened to report Daddy that I did not fulfill his will, while Daddy ... Daddy himself has asked Luigi to get engaged to me immediately," said Rayya with a clear liquid that had condensed in his eyeballs.

Ramadhan let out a long sigh, he felt very guilty by what befell Rayya at this moment.

" Where are you going?" ask Ramadan back.

" No, Brother. Maybe I'll go to a quiet place for a while" Rayya said.

" In the meantime, Rayya come with me."

Rayya turned her gaze towards Ramadan with a frown.

" What does Brother Rama mean?"

" Later you will know .." sahut Ramadhan then concentrate with his wheel.

About twenty minutes later Ramadhan had parked his car in the basement of the apartment owned by Angkasa Raya.

" Where is Rama taking me?" Rayya gets more confused because it turns out that Ramadhan brought her to an apartment.

Ramadhan just smiled not answering Rayya's question made the girl even more confused.

" Br ...."

" You take it easy, I won't do you any harm, Rayya." Ramadhan finally answered Rayya's question colored with a smile.

Ramadan then takes Rayya to his apartment. The apartment Ricky gave him when he was a kid, where he and Anindita were taken by Ricky from a small warehouse in Alabama Florist.

" Come in ..." Ramadan invites entry to Rayya.

" This is Rama's apartment?" rayya asked, looking around the living room.

" Yes, you can use this place to calm down" said Ramadan offering his apartment to be a place where Rayya calm down.

" No, Brother. I don't want to bother Rama."

" I don't feel bothered, Rayya. I'm just calm when you're here."

Rayya looked towards Ramadhan when she heard the man's words.

" I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything. Rayy." Ramadhan clarified his words. " I'm just calmer with your being here than you are calming down somewhere else" Ramadhan continued.

" But I can't stay here, brother. How could a woman live in a man's apartment?"

" I don't live here, Rayya. So you don't have to worry about that. You can use that guest room for a break." Ramadan designates the guest room located next to the living room.

" But ...."

" Relance ..." Ramadhan is now sitting on his knees near Rayya sitting. " You know what? I'm very worried about you. Maybe not just me, but your parents. Here you're safer than you are outside, in an obscure place." Ramadhan clasped Rayya's hand to make Rayya gasp and want to pull his hand but Ramadan did not take it off.

" Sister, please let go of my hand! We're not mahram." Rayya tried to take her hand back.

" I'm sorry ..." Ramadhan then took his hand off Rayya's hand. " Rayya, I want you to tell me the truth, do you love Luigi?" ask Ramadhan then.

" I ..." Rayya seems difficult to answer the question of Ramadan.

" Can't you answer it? It means you are not sure how you feel about him" Ramadhan said. " Rey, I beg you not to rush into a decision like I did." Ramadan tries to influence Rayya's way of thinking so as not to quickly make the decision to accept the engagement with Luigi.

" Luigi loves me very much" said Rayya, proud of Luigi

" I love you too, Rayya!" ramadan does not want to lose.

" But Luigi never hurt me!" This time Rayya's words seemed to silence Ramadan.

* I'm sorry for hurting your heart too often, Rayya," said Ramadan.

" Why did Brother Rama decide to end his engagement with Brother Farah?" Rayya was still curious about the decision of Ramadan.

" What if that night Brother Rama did not see me, Brother Rama also intends to end your engagement?" ask Rayya again

" Maybe I will experience what Om Dirga felt first" Ramadhan said. " Rayya, I want to be given a chance for me, I know if I let you down too often. But I promise to make up for all the mistakes I've made before" Ramadhan's promise looks at Rayya's face and Rayya stares at the face of the man who still looks bruised.

" I-I don't want to hurt Luigi. Luigi's sister is too kind, she's even willing to wait for me." Rayya did not want to hurt Luigi.

Ramadhan snorted, and he got up from his feet.

" I have to go back to the office. I hope you don't leave here. Even though I have no hope, I don't want to see your parents worried. You can use this place to hide for a while." Ramadhan handed over the keys to his apartment acces. " I'm leaving, I'll order some food at the restaurant below, Assalamualaikum ..." Ramadhan said goodbye and walked towards the apartment door.

" Waalaikumsalam .." sahut Rayya noticed the back of Ramadan which eventually disappeared from behind the door.

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" What's up, Pa?" Ramadhan who was curious asked his father.

Ricky turned his head towards Ramadhan then gave a rough grunt with his jaw hardened.

" It's all because of you, Rama! Rayya disappeared, she must have been very confused because of Mr. Dirga's threat," growled Ricky. Mr. Gavin is very angry and suspects that we are behind Rayya's disappearance" Ricky said.

" Rayya's in my apartment, Pa." said Ramadan honestly

Ricky widened his eyes when he heard Ramadan say Rayya was in his son's apartment. Ricky immediately gripped his son's shirt to make Ramadan's body interested by him.

" What did you do to Rayya, Rama? You kidnapped Rayya?" Ricky was emotional.

" No, Pa. Not like that! While heading to the office, Rama saw a woman who came down from a public transportation car. Rama was shocked to find that woman Rayya. It was strange to see Rayya get off the transport car let alone he carried a backpack. Rama approached Rayya. Rayya did intend to leave the house because he wanted to calm the mind. Rama takes it to the apartment because Rama thinks it's a safe place than Rayya goes to an unknown place, it's bound to make Om Gavin and Aunt Rara have trouble finding, Pa." Ramadhan explains the truth.

Ricky let go of his grip on the Ramadan shirt.

" Quick you take Rayya home! Papa didn't want Mr. Gavin to get more upset thinking you were hiding Rayya on purpose" Ricky said, walking into his room.

After Ricky died, Ramadhan then tried to contact Gavin's mobile number to inform Gavin about Rayya's whereabouts. It took about five minutes for Gavin to pick up his phone call.

" Assalamualaikum, Om." say hello to Ramadan.

" How dare you call me! You breng sek man! Where are you hiding my son?!" Gavin answered the greeting of Ramadan with a very rude and jerking sentence. Even the greeting sentence was not answered by Gavin who was enveloped in emotion.

" Sorry, Om. Earlier before leaving for the office I saw Rayya get off the angkot, so I secured it in my apartment because Rayya intended to calm down and leave the house." Ramadhan explains to Gavin how he found Rayya.

" Breng sek! Quickly tell me where your apartment is alan!" Gavin's voice sounded jolting.

Ramadhan breathed in to hear Gavin's voice which looked filled with anger. He realizes that Gavin's change in attitude towards him is purely his fault.

" In the Space Kingdom apartment, Om. We'll meet there, Om. Tut .. tut .. tut ..." Ramadhan's phone call was interrupted and Ramadhan suspected that Gavin had deliberately switched off his phone call.

After saying goodbye to Ricky, Ramadhan finally went back to his apartment because he suspected that Gavin must have slid into his apartment. Ramadhan did not want Gavin to arrive at his apartment.

About half an hour later Ramadan had made it to his apartment first. She sees Rayya's shoes still on the edge of the inner door of her apartment indicating that the girl is still in her apartment.

" Relance ..." Ramadhan tried to knock on the door of the guest room and before long the guest room door was opened by Rayya.

" Sister Rama hasn't been to the office?" rayya asked astonished when she found Ramadhan still in the apartment.

" I've got to the office and I'm back here again" said Ramadan. " Because your Daddy's gonna pick you up here."

Rayya is wide-eyed when she learns Gavin will pick her up at Ramadhan's apartment.

" Sister Rama tell Daddy I'm here?" Rayya is visibly upset that Ramadhan dismantled his hideout to Gavin.

" I'm sorry, Rayya. I don't want your parents to worry." Ramadhan deliberately does not say if Gavin accuses him, Dirga is also Ricky as the person who has hidden Rayya.

" I'm sorry to keep Brother Rama here!" Rayya goes back inside the room and picks up her backpack because she intends to leave Ramadhan's apartment.

" Rey, where are you going?" tanya Ramadhan saw Rayya packed up.

" I want to get out of this place!" Rayya then carried her backpack on her back.

" Rayya you can't go! Your daddy's coming here any minute."

Rayya stopped in front of Ramadhan and looked towards Ramadan.

" Why, Brother Rama always makes me disappointed? Even just to keep my whereabouts a secret, Rama can't do it!" ketus Rayya then walks through Ramadan to the apartment door

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At the same time the doorbell of Ramadhan's apartment rang making Rayya stop his steps while sighing and closing his eyes because he was late, could not escape because Gavin had hunted to come first.

Ramadhan then opened the door to his apartment.

" How dare you hide my daughter like a jerk!"

Buugghh

Along with the door of the apartment open, there was a thunderous sound of Gavin plus a fist directly landed back on the face of Ramadan until Ramadan staggered a few steps back, because he didn't expect Gavin to attack him all of a sudden.

" Athaghfirullahal, Dad!" Rayya immediately screamed in shock when she witnessed firsthand her Daddy hitting Ramadan. He immediately ran closer to Ramadan.

" Sister, is Rama okay?" rayya asked worriedly until he held the face of Ramadan.

" Babies! Get your hands off that breng sek guy!" Gavin looks angry when Rayya actually cares about Ramadan.

" Dad, why is Daddy so cruel? Why does Daddy keep hurting Rama?" Rayya blames Gavin.

" Daddy hurt him? Baby, did Baby forget? If this man has disappointed Baby many times! Did Baby forget? He hurt Baby a lot! She's the reason Baby can be like this, run away from home!" Gavin launched accusations against Ramadan as the cause of his daughter's intention to run away from home.

" No, Dad! It is not Brother Rama who is entirely at fault in this! But Daddy is the most guilty! If Daddy never forced the will to match Rayya with Kak Rama, maybe none of this would be possible, Dad!" said Rayya as she sobbed.

Gavin immediately gasped when he heard the accusations his daughter had directed at him. She did not expect that Rayya would have such thoughts. Blame him for what made his daughter suffer.

" Baby, why does Baby have such thoughts? Daddy loves you so much, what Daddy did was because Daddy wanted to make Baby happy," said Gavin, bitter about Rayya's accusations.

" But this is what Rayya feels like, Dad. Rayya was like between two intersections that were hard for Rayya to choose." Rayya covered her face with both palms.

" Jean ...."

" Baby ...."

Ramadhan and Gavin both want to calm Rayya, but of course Gavin is more entitled to Rayya until now the man embraces and hugs his daughter's body.

" Pardon Daddy if it turns out that Daddy's decision made Baby's heart hurt" said Gavin, kissing his daughter's head.

***

Before picking up Dirga, Kayla first found out about Luigi's whereabouts which according to the info obtained from Dirga, Luigi was a lecturer at the university where Rayya attended first. And after he got the information, he asked the campus for help to make an appointment with Luigi. He was finally able to contact the Italian and promised to meet at lunch.

" Our scusi, lei la signorina Kayla?" (Excuse me, please, are you Miss Kayla ) Luigi asked as she saw a young woman and a middle-aged man sitting on a chair at the table that she had promised to meet with Kayla and Dirga.

Kayla and Dirga immediately turned their heads towards Luigi as the man called his name.

" Salve signore corradeo, come sta? presentami Kayla e questo e mio zio, Dirga." ( Hi, Mr Corradeo, how are you? Introduce me Kayla and this is my uncle, Dirga ) Kayla then introduces herself and also Dirga.

" Io sono Luigi." (I'm Luigi) Luigi then shook hands with Kayla and also Dirga.

" Cos' che vuoi incontrarmi?" (What do you want to meet me ) Luigi asked Kayla after she sat down.

" Mio zio viene dall'Indonesia e vuole parlare di Rayya." (My uncle is from Indonesia and he wants to talk about Rayya) Kayla explained her purpose of making an appointment with Luigi.

Luigi frowned as Kayla mentioned Rayya's name, even saying if the intention of meeting her was because of Rayya.

" Rayya, what's wrong with Rayya?"

Kayla and Dirga were wide-eyed when they found out that the handsome man in front of her could actually speak Indonesian quite fluently.

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