Single-minded

Explanation

"Drink!" said Azzam while giving a bottle of mineral water. Suddenly Vira turned towards the person who greeted her.

Vira was surprised when she saw Azzam standing beside her. Staring straight ahead in the direction that Vira was looking at. Vira was surprised not because Azzam was beside her. He just couldn't believe that Azzam was in the class tonight. A highly improbable event followed by Azzam Atmaja. Someone with such a busy schedule. It is impossible to have time, to blend in with others.

"Why just shut up? Are you still fasting this night? Or you're afraid I'm poisoning you. If you are not ready, you just shake. My hands are holding this bottle!" said Azzam coldly, Vira nodded slowly. He took a bottle of mineral water from Azzam's hand.

Since the first time they met. Vira was always afraid when she heard the cold voice of Azzam. Why was Vira afraid to get close to Azzam? There was a sense of not wanting to know Azzam any further. Especially with the match between Azzam and Nadya. Vira does not want to know Azzam.

This evening Vira kept her promise to Arif. He came only as a participant no more. Vira came thirty minutes later than the hour the event began. Vira had tried on time, but Vira's duties and obligations were too much. So he couldn't have come on time. That's why Vira gets the back seat.

Either luck or an unseen calamity that Vira feels later? He met Azzam Atmaja during a lecture. The eldest son of Sandy Atmaja who would later become the successor of the Atmaja business empire. A different status like heaven and earth that will never unite.

"Thank you, Mr. Azzam!" vira said, Azzam nodded and sat down next to Vira. Azzam sat a little away from Vira. But the distance is very close according to Vira.

Azzam sits selonjor on green grass. He gave up all the status of the Atmaja family. Azzam sat beside Vira, not wanting to get close to Vira. Azzam just wants to feel back, when he is not the CEO of Atmaja company. Vira shifted her body slightly away from Azzam. The distance that Vira deliberately made, so that no slander would destroy the reputation of Azzam.

"Mr Azzam, you better not sit here. Your clothes will get dirty. I'll get you a chair!" vira said, Azzam shook his head weakly. He sat right next to Vira on the ground and lifted the sky. Two wonders that will never come together. Be witness to Azzam's taste for Vira.

"Why are you staying away? That's what you are to me. I'm not someone with a contagious disease. But if getting away from me makes you comfortable, go ahead. As long as you don't leave. Just to get away from me!" azzam said, Vira looked confused. Vira clumsily hears Azzam knowing the attitude of Vira who wants to avoid Azzam.

Vira and Azzam looked up at the sky without anyone getting in the way. For a moment they forgot the boundaries between them. They both enjoyed a night full of stars. The grass they sat on. Make them comfortable and calm. Azzam and Vira felt a cold gust of night wind. Rain tubs that cool the earth. When the heat of the sun burns the earth.

"Master Azzam, may I ask!" said vira lirih, Azzam looked astonished. But a second later he nodded.

Vira squeezes the tip of her hijab. There was a sense of hesitation whispering deep in his heart. She should have asked, but curiosity was stirring up her mind. Had he been silent, Vira would have lived forever with curiosity about the figure of Azzam. Brave to ask questions, fearing the risk that will be borne by him or his mother.

"Say, as long as it's not your prayer for my match with your friend. Ask whatever is on your mind. I will answer with honesty!" azzam said firmly, Vira swallowed her saliva roughly. The assertiveness of Azzam is clearly visible. At first glance shrinking the courage of Vira, to ask about the person of Azzam.

Azzam was quietly waiting for questions from Vira. No sound of the two quietly dissolving in each other's minds. There was a boisterous sound of study that was over. Actually, the study was completed half an hour ago. The participants were eating together. Vira is shy, so she chooses to stay away from the crowd. Vira did not eat with the others.

"Mr Azzam, you're so good. You are also very mature and ready to get married. But why do I feel you keep postponing the wedding. Something that is destroyed in our religion. Obviously Mr. Azzam is already capable of doing that sunnah. Moreover, there is Nadya who is ready to be the wife of Mr. Azzam!" vira said, full of doubt, Azzam turned to look at Vira.

Vira cursed her stupidity, when she bravely asked about Nadya. Even Azzam's decision will be a match between Azzam and Nadya. Something Azzam never wanted to bring. Real asked by Vira.

"Sorry Mr. Azzam, if you mind answering. I won't force it, it's just my momentary curiosity. Sorry again, excuse me to go home. It's been so night!" vira said, without looking at Azzam. Vira stood away from Azzam. But he paused when Azzam asked him to sit back.

"For he is not the one in my life. All this time my life was just, to work and never think of getting married. But when I save the taste for someone. Instead the man ran away. He made such a deep distance. The distance he did not know why? I never understood the reason!" said Azzam coldly, Vira nodded in understanding.

"Whoever is he? What a lucky woman. If it wasn't Nadya that woman. Decide on your matchmaking, I don't want to see Nadya disappointed by Mr. Azzam's rejection. Before the taste deepens. How wise it would be if Mr. Azzam was firm. Only prayer I can give. May you and the woman unite!" vira said, then stood up without thinking will sit back.

Azzam saw Vira standing up, wanting Azzam to hold Vira's body to stay. But his wish would not be able to materialize. Seeing how firm the faith that Vira grasped. Azzam stood up to follow Vira. It looks like Vira's back is getting away.

"If that woman were you, would you be willing to accept my race. It is like your prayer for me and the woman in my heart!" azzam shouted loudly. Suddenly Vira turned towards Azzam. Then Vira put on a smile that was so sweet. A smile that instantly shook Azzam's heart. But also a smile that might break Azzam's heart.

"Mr Azzam, my ribs are too fragile and will not be ready to protect your honor. I may have been made from someone's ribs. But my life right now, will only be the backbone for my family. If that woman was me, I would wholeheartedly apologize. My ribs won't complete your life, but they'll only help you. Later there will be a rib that protects and completes your life. And it's not my ribs!" sahut Vira, Azzam stared fixedly at Vira. Vira's assertiveness sounded painful in Azzam's ears.

"If it is not you who protects me, let my hand hold yours. Be the backbone of your family. Aren't I capable of all that. Or your true rejection, because of the status of the Atmaja family. So you keep looking for excuses!" azzam said, Vira shook her head weakly.

"The hand you offer, I can only reply with the hand of friendship. Without bond or promise of unification. The status of the Atmaja family will never be able to bear. It's all real and not an excuse. Let me bear the burden of my family. If only there would be a soul mate with you or someone else. It means that by then my spine has been weak to bear all these responsibilities. That's when I'll be a whole rib. May Lord Azzam find a rib stronger than me!" vira said, then walked away from Azzam.

"She is not a woman who wants to be a mother, but a woman who wants to be the backbone of her family. He was hard on his life, because the burden of life was never easy for him. Should we force him into a rib that protects us. But on the other hand we paralyzed him by releasing his spine!" arif said, Azzam turned towards Arif.

"You mean?" azzam did not understand.

"If we do admire him, let him be the backbone of his family. If your body can't wait for the ribs. Find another rib, so that your body is strong. But if possible, wait for his ribs to complete our imperfect bodies. Love is beautiful in its time!" arif said wisely.

"You know him well!" azzam said softly, Arif shook his head weakly.

"I've never known him, he who would never want to be known!" sahut Arif, Azzam nodded in understanding.