RAMADAN IN RAYYA'S HEART

Mom and Dad's Story

" So Rayya wants to celebrate sweet seventeen?" azkia asked as the two of them lay facing the ceiling of Rayya's room.

" Yes, Daddy wants to be like that" Rayya said.

" Who will I invite?" ask Azkia later.

" I don't want to invite a lot of friends, Kia. Only the closest will be invited" Rayya said.

" Sister Rama was invited too?"

Rayya glanced towards Azkia.

" Bak Rama never came if Rayya's birthday." Rayya said sadly.

" Time, anyway?" Azkia has now changed her sleeping position.

" He-eh, Rayya look at Rayya's birthday photo album from the age of a year. Photo with his family Om Ricky and Aunt Anin never existed Kak Rama, Kak Arka and Thalita." Rayya then got up and took some photo albums that are still stored neatly.

" Try on Kia see ..." Rayya presented several photo albums to Azkia and was immediately greeted by Azkia.

Azkia sees Rayya's childhood photos where there are also some photos with her due to their adjacent home. Azkia is also looking for photos that are immortalized at Rayya's birthday event every year. And indeed not a single photo of Ramadan is seen in the middle of the family photo Ricky Pratama.

" Yes, yeah .. Why are there no photos. Brother Rama here?" Azkia closed the fifth photo album she had seen.

" Mommy said it anyway, said Kak Rama was embarrassed to go to the birthday event, like a child just said it." Rayya repeats what her Mommy once said when she asked first.

" Means Rama will not come also dong in the celebration of sweet seventeen Rayya later?"

Rayya pressed her shoulders because she did not want to expect the man she admired to come to her seventeenth birthday party.

" Rayya invite Rama personally."

" No ah .. shame, Kia. When should I invite Brother Rama?" Rayya rolled her beautiful eyeballs.

" Why should I be ashamed? Did Kia say the same to Rama?"

" Don't fuck around, Kia!" Rayya threatened with a whizzing eye because she knew that her cousin could do whatever he wanted.

" Don't Rayya want Rama's brother to come to Rayya's birthday party?" ask Kia.

" Mommy must have invited Aunt Anin's family, but if Kak Rama did not want to come. Rayya can not force Kak Rama to come to the event," said Rayya sad.

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Azkia's phone sounded and appeared on the screen Azkia's phone the name of Mama Tata who called her.

" Mayo, Ma ..." Azkia answered the phone call from her mother.

" Waalaikumsalam, where are you? Looking for your father, here." Natasha's voice sounded out Azkia's words.

" Kia's at Uncle's house, Ma." Azkia then got up from Rayya's bed.

" Hmmm, a habit, if you want to go out of the house must tell you first do not just say that!" Natasha nagged her daughter.

" Hehe, sorry, Tigers ... Beautiful Mama. Kia's coming home now. Ariston ...."

" Neurobeach ...."

Azkia instantly turned off her phone connection.

" Ray, Kia go home first, yeah!" Azkia ran towards the door of the room.

" Athaghfirullahal district ... How do you run?" At the door Azkia passed and almost hit Azzahra who was seen carrying two jars of cookies in his hands.

" Sorry, Auntie ... Kia did not see. You see, Kia hastily searched for Papa." Azkia apologized for not seeing the Tantenya.

" You want to go home? Auntie wants this offer." Azzahra pointed at the two jars of cookies he had made this afternoon.

" Yes, I've brought one home, Auntie." Azkia took a jar of chocolate cookies in Azzahra's hand. " Assalamualaikum, Auntie .." Azkia said.

" Waalaikumsalam, be careful not to run on the stairs, Kia!" Azzahra.

" Yes, Auntie ..'" a cry from Azkia answered what Azzahra said.

Azzahra then looked at her son's room.

" Later, Mom. Please just put it on the table" Rayya said then sat on the edge of the bed.

" Look at the photo album, huh?" Azzahra approached her daughter and joined Rayya. His hand then took one of the albums closest to him sitting down. He then opened the photo album and looked back at photos that were dominated by photos of his daughter from birth to the latest photos of Rayya while on vacation to Switzerland late last year.

" Mom, when did you first fall in love?"

Rayya's question suddenly made Azzahra gasp and immediately set his eyes on his daughter.

" Why did Rayya ask like that?" tanya Azzahra looked a little nervous. Because the first time he fell in love, he, he was one year younger than his daughter and the man who had made him first fall in love was the man his daughter knew as her Om today.

" Rayya wants to know, what time is the age of Rayya Mommy already feels like to the opposite sex?" rayya continued later.

" Hmmm, i-yes ... Mom used to be Rayya's age when she first liked male friends." Azzahra rubbed his hijab-covered neck to disguise his grooves.

" Mommy keeps going out with that guy?" asked Rayya curiously.

" Hmmm, no." Azzahra answered briefly

" Definitely not given permission with Eyang and Enin, huh?"

" Yes, Mom just wants to focus on school first."

" That guy's not Daddy, is he, Mom?"

Azzahra shook his head.

" Surely that guy regretted not being the same Mommy." Rayya chuckles.

" No need to ask that, right! Now Mom asks Rayya, why did Rayya ask about falling in love? Is Rayya in love now? Same who? Did Mom know that guy?" This time Azzahra looked around to find out why her son suddenly asked about men's affairs and fell in love.

" Who is in love?" Gavin's voice rang out from the direction of the room door making Azzahra and Rayya aghast.

" What are you guys talking about? Who is in love?" Gavin was now staring with a sharp eye toward Rayya.

" Baby?" Gavin's voice sounded very frightening in Rayya's ears.

" Hmmm, earlier .. Mommy finished the same story Rayya about Mommy's past. Said Mommy used to be in love the whole time Rayya."

Azzahra immediately widened her eyes when she fed him, but she could not deny it because if her husband knew she was asking about romance, he was sure that her husband would be more strict about watching over her daughter

" So, what's your Mommy telling you again?" Gavin now turned his eyes to his wife who seemed to bow her head.

" Hmmm, Mommy didn't say anything else, Dad. I'm just saying the guy Mommy likes is unlucky not to get Mommy."

Gavin grinned at the words of his daughter. He went straight to Azzahra.

" Do you know who the guy your Mommy used to like, Baby?"

Azzahra raised her gaze and shook her head asking her husband not to tell her about his feelings for Yoga.

" Rayya doesn't know, Dad. Does Dad know? Dad knew the guy Mommy used to like?" Rayya who felt free from the intimidation attack that almost hit him immediately asked Gavin.

" By ..." Azzahra held her husband's arm and tried to hold him back from talking about it.

" Of course Dad knows. The man that Mommy used to love is now living with his wife, just like your Mommy who is happy to live with Daddy."

Azzahra breathed a sigh of relief as Gavin did not tell her past.

" Continue, Mom was the same Dad himself the first time we met where? Rayya was eager to hear Mom's story with Dad when she first met and fell in love with each other and eventually married."

Gavin and Azzahra looked at each other at his daughter's question.

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