
Arini was silent in her room. He was sitting on the bed, there was a pillow behind his body. There was sadness on his face.
“Aw, Mother's child why?” His son kicked hard enough. Perhaps, his son could not wait to get out and see the world, including meeting his mother and his father. Daddy's? The arfan? True, the name is the name written on the birth certificate of his son later as a father.
“M-mas .. hiks” Again. Arini cried while taking a photo featuring the handsome face of her husband. Arfan smiled so sweetly there. The photo he took secretly while the two of them were still friends. Arfan wore a white shirt and was engrossed in playing water on the beach at sunset. “You must be strong for the sake of our son, Mas”
Arini's cry is getting louder. He recalled the words of his friend, Rafa earlier.
#Flashback On
“You must be strong yes, Arin” Rafa said before the man exhaled. His breathing sounds heavy, what bad news Rafa will deliver to Arini.
“InsyaAllah” Arini held back her tears from falling again.
“Hm, okay. Huft, look. Ever since you decided to stay with us here” Rafa caught a glimpse of his wife who was hugging Arini tightly. Sabrina nodded her head and smiled, as if she said everything must be fine.
“Terus?”
“And I always see you cry. Yes, although not directly in front of us”
Arini was surprised, she did not expect if others knew she was crying because she missed her husband.
“I finally decided to find information about your husband, unbeknownst to anyone including yourself”
Rafa's words succeeded in making Arini surprised for the second time. While she was away, Arini never asked how her husband was doing, despite sending several letters to her family.
“And yesterday ..”
“Burn?”
“Ar-arfan ..”
Arini did not repeat the words of her good friend. Her lips found it very difficult to say that name, though her heart always called it even in her prayers.
“Accident”
“A-what?”
Arini fainted instantly. He was unconscious.
#Flashback Off
“You're fine, aren't you, Mas?” Arini stroked her handsome husband's face as she smiled.
As she regained consciousness, Sabrina said everything. Her husband had to undergo a major and critical operation. His heart ached when he heard of Arfan's condition that he knew was not okay.
“A-I'm confused, Mas”
The woman was confused as to what she should do. Her heart still hurts and does not want to meet her husband, but her mind is not calm because she knows her husband is sick and her duty as a wife to always accompany her husband in a state of joy and sorrow. A few months later, she never learned of Arfan, and the first time she knew that her husband was struggling with the pain that Arfan was experiencing. Does she care less about her husband struggling to live?
“Umi”
Sabrina's mother, Umi Aini.
“Think, Son. Umi's advice, meet your husband. It is the duty of the wife to always accompany her husband in a state of grief and liking. And now, he needs your presence. Remember Arini, regret always comes last. Umi is afraid that you are sorry because you feel negligent to be a wife because you left your husband in a state of pain. Ridho wife is on her husband”
Slowly and gently, Umi Aini stroked the arm of a friend from her daughter-in-law. She doesn't know very well, what problems Arini is facing until she chooses to leave and leave her husband.
“Arini's heart is still sick, very sick, Umi .. hika” Arini sobbing in the arms of Umi Aini.
“Think, Son. Umi believes your husband is waiting for your presence. He needed his wife to stay by his side. Arin, we do not know when God will call and face death”
Deg
Arini's heart beat quickly after she heard the word ‘death’.
“Before God shows His power which He has ordained to every living being in the world, then we must immediately use the time and opportunity that God has given us. If not, then it will only leave regrets that we cannot change because all of that is the destiny of God”
Arini could not hear Umi Aini's words well. Her heart and mind were only on her husband.
“A-I want to meet my husband, Umi .. hiks ... hiks”
“Good choice, insyaAllah the result is also good, Amin”
Cup
Umi Aini kissed Arini's head softly crying in her arms.
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On a clear morning, Arini was preparing to meet her husband again. For some reason, his heart was beating. Like someone who is in love for the first time.
“Why smile-smile yourself like that?” Chika asked when she finished helping Arini pack her clothes and other necessities.
“Ti-no” There is a red hue on both cheeks of Arini.
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