
"In each hour, that dwindling minute, Nurhan simply mentioned your name! The name of the man he called Dad!" Adeela took a deep breath and tried to hold back the tightness that was increasingly whipping her heart.
"I'm a little jealous, why isn't my name what he called?! I'm the one who's always with him, but why are you the one he's looking for?!"
"Nurhan called his father in a very slow voice with a fever that was getting higher and also weak body. But what happened, the man he referred to as a FATHER turned out to be busy out there. Busy making a substitute child for her." Adeela is no longer strong. It hurts me to remember that dark time. However he tried to look tough, it turns out he lost. Her tears are spilling again. And what makes him sick like this is just Farhan.
"The thing I regret the most in my life is waiting! Waiting for you and spending that very precarious time as a fool! I'm a stupid mother!" He stood up and rubbed his face with both hands. Adeela covered her face and shed all her tears there.
Farhan finally pulled out the clear liquid that he had been holding. It hurt her heart to hear what Adeela said.
"My madness must be in a lot of pain. I'm a stupid mother! i'm stupid!" His cry was increasingly broken if he remembered his late son.
Farhan let out his tears with a red face. His voice tried to hold it as hard as he could. Only tears come out of there.
"I'm sorry, Adeela! I-i'm sorry! I was wrong. I'm the cause of all this. I caused Nurhan to die like that.
They both cried spilling pain. From across the street, Justin watched his wife and Farhan. Let him give them time to let go of everything.
After a long period of crying spilling all the tightness on her chest, Adeela wiped away the tears on her face. Let Adeela do it. This may be the last time Adeela and Farhan meet. Today he will let go of it all.
"I hope this is the last time you make a mistake like yesterday. I feel it enough, not for other women. When you hurt a woman, you hurt her parents."
"But, fortunately in my case, only I felt it. Because I have no parents. So, no one else will endure the pain of yesterday's incident. I'm enough!"
"I'm sorry, Adeela Athala!"
Adeela nodded her head in response. This is the best for everyone. Farhan also regretted his actions. This is when all the pain in his chest he declares.
"I've forgiven you. I also want to apologize for what I did yesterday. I just want to share the pain I feel. You know, to bear the pain alone is bad!" He told Farhan.
Farhan smiled hearing what Adeela said.
Farhan nodded his head, a sign that he had forgiven Adeela.
Adeela who heard it, nodded in understanding. He saw the clock in his left hand. It had been a few minutes but her husband had not yet come to pick her up. Adeela circulated her gaze to see if her husband had arrived or not. Oh, it turns out her husband was waiting across the street and waiting for her next to the car.
Adeela waved her hand and was welcomed from her husband. Adeela gave the code to wait for him for a while. Justin nodded his head in response.
After that, Adeela looked back at Farhan. Adeela took out her glasses to cover her puffy eyes so as not to be too obvious that she had cried.
"My husband is waiting ahead. I need to get home soon. My kids have been waiting at Grandma's house." His appeal to Farhan. Farhan again nodded his head in response.
Before actually leaving, Farhan said something, "Titip my apology to Justin." He said with a warm smile.
Adeela who saw it felt something different. But he got that thought.
"I'll tell you later. Then see you!" Adeela answered and left Farhan in front of the store. Adeela was already standing on the side of the road and wanted to cross over. Justin across the road gave a code to wait first until the vehicle is a bit off.
When it was felt that the vehicle was a bit stretched, Adeela also began to walk on the asphalt. Just a few steps he walked, suddenly from the opposite direction a red vehicle drove quickly. Justin who was looking across the street, glared his eyes.
Everyone screamed to see the fateful event. Justin couldn't feel his place on foot at the moment. His feet limp in seeing with his own eyes the incident. It was as if time had stopped then and there. Her adeela had been lying beside the road. Apparently there was one more person lying in the middle of the road. Justin no longer paid attention to who it was. His eyes were only on his wife whose hijab was covered in blood. The person Justin was referring to had been mobbed in the middle of the road by people.
Justin crouched in front of his wife. With tears flowing without a sound, he saw the state of his wife. The violent clash on the head made the hijab that Adeela was wearing covered in blood.
He lifted his wife's body and he covered her with tears flowing. Justin stretched his manger and patted his wife's face gently.
"Deel, wake up, Deela! Wake baby! Hey, don't leave me! Deela! Adeela Athala!" His shouting. Hope that Adeela will wake up. But still, those eyes are closed.
Justin clutched his wife and finally cried on the side of the road. Adeela closed her eyes with blood.
Everyone who saw Justin's cry felt pity. Justin roared trying to resuscitate his wife.
Justin was not aware that there were already two ambulances beside him. Justin, who saw the ambulance coming, immediately lifted his wife's body and waited by the side of the road until the ambulance stretcher came down.
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3 YEARS LATER
Justin and the boy next to him walked towards the cemetery. The boy who had entered elementary school was walking with a basket of flowers in his right hand.
They stopped in front of two heads. The tomb of a woman and a man. They both sat beside the tomb.
Justin opened his glasses and stared at the mound of earth that was in front of him in awe. The boy next to her stared with a pushy look at the tomb in front of her.
"Papa, Reyhan is now good at reading and writing. Drawing has also become her new hobby, Reyhan. Reyhan's been a submissive boy, Pah. Reyhan promised, Reyhan won't be naughty anymore." He raised his little finger in the air.
Justin, who saw everything the boy said, stroked and caressed the boy's head. Reyhan is now living with him. And the child he adopted as his own son.
"Now, let's send a prayer first yes, same Papa, Reyhan!"
Reyhan nodded his head and began to raise both of his hands to be thrust up into the sky.
After confiding in his Papa's tomb, Reyhan and Justin stand up and visit the tomb of a woman located right next to Farhan's tomb.
Justin exhaled and threw his face to the side. He could not stare at the mound of land for long.
"Ma, Reyhan miss Mama. Reyhan please, Mama is happy there! Reyhan always prayed, may Mama get the best place by God's side. Aamiin!" After reciting a prayer for the person she meant Mama, they passed from there as they moved away from there, Justin looked back and looked at the two tombs he had come to with a faint look.
After staring at the tomb for a while, he again confirmed the location of his glasses and walked away from there by holding Reyhan's hand.
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Yeah, hang. Tomorrow I continue. And explain everything. Last night, I'm going to bed first. bye-bye 🤗😘
Greetings from By_me