
"I'm sorry.if I used to have other intentions with the various gifts I gave you."
Afifa smiled and shook her head. "I'm also sorry for not realizing it". Afifa was downcast.His face blushed red.
For a long time the two fell silent, immersed in their thoughts, recalling the good times they had spent together, even though the feeling had not yet grown in Afifa. But both of them once felt stained with each other's presence.
"You know the deck..." Fauzi restarted his conversation.
"Hmmmm?" Afifa raised her head, looking at her husband.
"Since you decided to change schools and have to go to another boarding school, the sense of loss was so great.no one else made me eager to learn, so I decided to go home."
"Don't Brother Aji just came out two years ago from the cottage? and then go to college, right there?" Afifa recalled Bi Yati's story about Fauzi.
"Yes...At that time I was determined to return from boarding school, I had brought all my belongings without being known by the boarding school or my parents. I went out at night around 11 pm, walking down a deserted street to get to the angkot terminal.I passed a bridge, dimly I saw someone there, pacing suspicious, suspicious, his body was already standing on the lip of the bridge. I went up to her, a girl there, it was clear that she had just cried, her face and clothes were all messed up. There were some bruises on her cheeks and hands.
I was trying to ask why he was alone there. He did not reply, only looking at me with a hateful look. I asked again with her gaze, maybe I had something wrong with her. I saw his hands tremble and began to step foot to the edge of the bridge, I held his hand. He shouted "Let go...! I don't want to live anymore" he said. I was shocked to hear that. I was no less screaming and trying to wake her up, that ending my life would not solve her problems. I further tightened my grip, trying to prevent her from doing so.
his cry grew hysterical "I don't care.Maybe they'll be happy to see me die. My parents had kicked me out, I had become trash, and the person who was most responsible for my suffering had even run away. Release...!!! I don't want to live anymore"
Duerr...Those words pierced my ears, as if they were aimed at myself. He managed to escape from the clutches of my hand and ran. I immediately realized it, as fast as lightning chased after him and took back his hand. I cried out for help and thank God some people came towards us, and managed to prevent the girl from carrying out her intentions.
I sat there alone, contemplating all the events that had just happened, the dark shadow of my past came back. I feel so evil, maybe Wulan also fared the same as the girl. Today I can save the girl, then what about Wulan??? So great was the sin I had committed against him, that I could not forgive myself. More and more the dark shadow of sin continues to haunt me even to this day, so that I cannot touch you even if I want to". Fauzi began to let out his tears.
Afifa was stunned to hear all Fauzi's explanations, now she knows the cause of the domestic crisis.
"Sir..." Call him again
"Yes...?"
"After knowing my dark mass, are you going to change or maybe feel disgusted at me?"
Afifa took a drink of water in front of him, and drank it until it was almost finished and held his seat. Think for a moment, set the words he would say. "I'm just an ordinary girl, I don't have the spaciousness of a rosary wife, but my heart still hurts when I know there's another woman's name in my husband's heart and mind." With a smile on Afifa's lips, her eyes glanced at her husband.
"But everyone has a past, be it bitter or sweet. Kak Aji's past is so dark, I will try to accept it with a chest of air. Maybe this is my taqdir, I believe Alloh has another plan that is so sweet as to bring us together in one holy bond of marriage.
But Aji must also remember that life goes on. Do not let ourselves live in the shadows of the past that makes it difficult for us to move.
All we have to do is focus on what is happening in the present.
There is no need to look back because what we have to pursue is in front of our eyes.
It is possible to look back, but this is only as a race to be more excited again to achieve a better future life.
People are said to be successful in living life if they are able to show better development than before". Afifa smiled at her husband, looking at him intently for such a great support, support to be ready to walk side by side to meet the bright future of the world and the hereafter.
Fauzi stretched out his left hand to embrace Afifa's shoulder and gently hugged her. Afifa returned her husband's embrace, unwittingly a clear trickle dripped on her cheeks, tears of happiness, because of a warm and sincere embrace when she knew how much she was loved and wanted by her husband.
"Thank you for being present and coloring my days, for accepting me as far from perfect as I am.
Afifa smiled and asked again. "Is it after that Aji's sister returned to the pesantren?"
"Yes...After that incident I returned to the boarding school, and tomorrow I decided to go to my SMU school first, there I asked the full address of Wulan. I tried to find him, but I couldn't find any traces of him. Finally I was determined to concentrate on studying religion and continued my studies until two years ago."
"Then how did Aji come to my house? Did Kak Aji really know she was going to be betrothed to me?"
Fauzi smile. "Eeeemmmm actually. My mother was old and often sickly, she wanted to see me married, even have grandchildren from me, maybe because I was one2 son2 in our family, so she kept urging me to get married. Mama always asks every family and acquaintance, there are some women of Mama's choice, but I don't care at all because of what I have in mind, I have to find the whereabouts of Wulan no matter how.
Until Uncle Sanusi finally visited the house with his wife Aunt Rani. Mama also said the same thing to him, at first I also did not pay attention to him, but when aunt Rani showed me the family photos she kept on her phone, my eyes were immediately fixed on the figure of the sweet girl who was smiling photographed, at that time I immediately recognized you.
I smiled to myself, not expecting my little girl who I miss so much is now an adult and looks graceful, it feels old enough to justify it". Fauzi looked at Afifa who was now in his arms.The biggest smile on his lips saw Afifa's blushing face. "I thought maybe her presence would make me forget the black note that kept haunting me, just like his presence 7 years ago that always filled my days in full color.
"But sister.ada still stuck in my mind". Say Afifa then
"What?"
Afifa let go of her husband's embrace "If Kak Aji really loves Fifa and wants this marriage.Then why did Kak Aji tell Farid about our household problems? isn't that the same as giving someone else a way to get into our home life?".
Fauji again corrected his sitting position, this time he sat upright not leaning.
"Hhhhhh...." He took a deep breath. "From the moment I drove you to KKN, Farid came to your campus, and we had a long chat at the stall across campus while waiting for you to get directions from the Dean. at that time I saw his different gaze on you. It really made me uncomfortable.
Long enough we talked there, at first just talking about business, but finally he started asking about you, He started telling the past of you two, strangely I was so curious and faithful to hear the story so excited. Because of that curiosity I decided not to tell our status first" Fauzi took a deep breath.
"But at our next meeting apparently he already knew, he said you said it yourself when he came to the KKN place, Did he ever come there?"
"Yes... did Aji tell her address?"
"No..."
"Where did he know?"
Fauzi just shrugged his shoulders.
"You remember the Deck...When do we eat at Astro Resto?" Afifa nodded. "That morning I got a message from Farid, he asked permission to befriend you? and I allowed it. I think he's a good young man, if he has bad intentions it's impossible as brave as that to ask the husband of the woman he loves.
I asked her to come to the restaurant but unfortunately I had to go see my client, I trusted her so I asked her to take you home. Actually after I got out of the restaurant kok samsir retreated his meeting. I went back to the restaurant, I saw you talking to him, not the slightest bit awkward, you guys laughing together.
At that moment I saw happiness emanating from your face, laughing loosely without the burden that I had never seen since our marriage. it's as if I rediscovered your plain and cheerful face just like 7 years ago.
From then on I thought, maybe he's the one who'll make you happy".
Afifa went silent digesting the words her husband had said. "Did Aji really say that I had never been touched?"
"I am forced to say it, because Farid insisted on not coming near you out of respect for me. It was hard for me to explain and convince her until I finally told her the real reason".
Afifa was still silent.There was quite a deep sense of disappointment in him.
"But I'm really sorry about that, I'm the stupidest husband. I forgot that Afifaku was a sholehah's wife who couldn't possibly be tempted by another man even though she had stopped in his heart". Fauzi turned Afifa's body facing towards him. "Daddy, will you forgive my stupidity, I'm not sure if I'm going to live without you beside me, I won't be willing to see you belong to anyone else" Their gazes met, there was a clear liquid in both eyes, she said, which now began to fall on the cheeks of Afifa. Fauzi rubbed it with his thumbs, held Afifa's cheeks and pulled Afifa down onto her chest. The two of them cried out to each other with a sense of longing that had been held up all this time.
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