Talak After Shah

Gift Forikail

2021 Years

Naura has entered the sixth semester, Mikail has finished High School and Adam is now second grade High School. When Mikail graduated I didn't come at all, because covid hit the whole world.

Actually I could come, with the consequences of two weeks of isolation. But because my parents and Naura and Adam were there, I chose not to attend even with chest tightness. Because since Mikail graduated Elementary School I have never attended it at all.

I apologized to Mikail for not being able to attend, and as always, Mikail would have been heartened to forgive and understand me

"It's okay mommy, it's also not a big ceremony, just ayuk coming in, grandma and uwak at the hotel, they just look through the zoom"

At that time I could only cry. Then I asked for a link so that I could also watch when my dear child was put in a pair of samir by the principal.

Coinciding with Mikail's graduation day, my brother deliberately installed an infocus at home so that we could all watch Mikail's graduation event.

Serkan and Defne who was then school from home could also see how his brother was at graduation.

All students wear masks and only their eyes are visible, and their distance from each other is far apart

One by one they mentioned their names, it was Mikail's turn to look at the unblinking infocus.

Mikail looked in a black trouser suit and a suit walked forward. No applause, no excitement, everything's normal.

My heart is so bad to see it. When the samir was attached to his neck and was about to descend from the podium, Mikail waved her hand.

I shrunk my tears, wanting to feel like I was hugging and congratulating her

Because the show is ordinary due to covid, so this graduation event runs short.

After the graduation show through zoom was over and my brother turned off the infocus I covered my face.

I was crying as much as I could.

"Video call is the same Mikail, brother believes he is happy" Ozkan said while holding his wife's shoulders

I immediately picked up the phone, sent Naura a WA message

Mommy can video call now, son?

Check two, not yet read. I'm sure Naura is busy taking care of Mikail, because she's the only one with Mikail

I looked at my brother with a still overcast face while shaking my head

"Yes, I will"

I nodded then put my head on my brother's chest

"How many sins do I have with my brother, since childhood he has lacked my love, should he still drink breast milk I should sweep because I have pregnant Adam, should he still I carry, should he still I carry, it's no longer because my stomach is growing"

"When he was a little old, I left him, and I didn't come home for years, and I almost thought that my three children had forgotten how I looked"

"When she graduated from Elementary School, I wasn't beside her, nor was she graduating from Junior High, only my family was with her, even now when she finished High School, only Naura was nearby"

I keep sobbing.

"I failed to be a good mother to Mikail. I love him more than anything, I love him so much"

Ozkan hugged his wife tightly. Serkan and Defne who saw his mother crying can only put on a cloudy face

"La tabki ya 'umiy" (don't cry on ma) both of them persuaded me to stop crying.

As I cried, my phone rang

Ayuk Naura

I quickly picked up a video call from her

"Assalamualaikum mother"

I answered her greeting with tears still

"Where's brother?"

Mikail's face appeared, the larger the face was whiter and similar to Andi, only her eyes were big like mine, but her hair remained brownish blonde unchanged since childhood

"Assalamualaikum mother"

My tears flowed back as his face appeared.

Brother held my shaky shoulders. I couldn't say anything for a few seconds

I saw Mikail also shrinking her tears

"Don't cry mother, brother has graduated, should be happy mother"

I shut my mouth and held my crying voice so as not to come out.

"Sister Iaaangggg at all mother" she softly as she shrank back her tears

"Mother do not blame yourself for not attending, because you are sure, if not covid mother must come"

"For the most important brother is the mother's prayer, because thanks to the prayers and hard work of the mother, the sister can finish until High School and Insha Alloh soon the sister becomes TNI" he continued, trying to laugh at the end of his sentence so I could smile

I smiled but my tears kept flowing

"Congratulations son, mother also Iaaaang at all brother" I said with a trembling voice

"Congratulation brother.." shouted the twins.

Mikail smiled and waved her hand. Hearing the twins, Naura and Adam approached and they waved at us

"Miss you twins." said Naura.

Then Serkan and Defne sat on my lap, and brother stroked the heads of both

"I'm sorry you can't come, son, I really want to feel like you're coming, but what's the power. Mommy pray that you will be able to become a soldier and mother can be present on your graduation day"

"Aaminn" answered the three compactly

"Where is uwak nak?"

"What's sat?"

My sister showed her face

"Sister, after returning from East Java please stop by the car showroom, buy Mikail's brother Pajero Sport"

My three children heard each other's words

"Not for mother, for what?"

"As a gift for your sister for graduation, and as your mother's apology for not being able to attend every graduation"

Mikail shook her head

"For what mother, sister does not need a car"

"So you don't want to receive a gift from your mother as a happy form of mother because you graduated?"

"It's not so mommy, but it's an expensive Pajero Sport car"

"Your Tahfiz success is much more valuable to my mother"

"If you don't like black, you can choose another color later"

Mikail was silent, looking very confused on her face

The faces of Naura and Adam sumringah, their smiles expanding.

"Do you want a brother?" I asked because Mikail had been silent since

"Let uwak teach you to learn the car, later if it is new smoothly we buy"

Mikail nodded, and I smiled.

...****************...

Finished all with Mikail's school business, while waiting for her diploma to come out, my father took her home.

As Andri promised, Brother Andri taught Mikail to learn the car two hours a day.

It didn't take a month, Mikail finally did well. And today, Brother Andri took Mikail to the car showroom.

As soon as I arrived at the showroom, Andri immediately made a video call to me

"We're already in the car showroom sat"

Then appeared a row of cars lined up neatly

"Ke Pajero kak"

Looks like my brother and Mikail are walking followed by a middle-aged man

"Sister don't strain dong" my god

Mikail was smiling

"This is the Pajero sir, what kind of father would you like?"

"What do you want, brother?"

Mikail looked confused and dazed

"Type Dakar 4x4 AT Brother" I told Andri

Brother Andri looked back at his phone

"What sat?" he said while directing the phone towards the middle-aged man who had accompanied them

"Dakar 4x4 AT Brother"

The middle-aged man's face immediately looked surprised

"This is sir if that type" he said while taking my brother and Mikail walk towards a bit inside

Brother Andri and Mikail appear to surround several cars with different colors.

"What color is good?"

Then my brother turned the camera back so I could determine what color would be appropriate for my son

"Jet black brother, very dashing black color that. The only way if later brother takes him" I said while chuckling

Mikail nodded

"The color is exactly what my mother said"

The man nodded his head.

"Let's get the administration to finish the whole administration"

Brother Andri nodded then invited Mikail to follow the middle-aged man who had walked first

In the administration, he explained how the procedure

"The GDP is one hundred million pak, and the monthly cost is the lowest for five years or sixty months of Rp. 16,750,000"

My brother seemed to nod his head and looked towards Mikail whose face was stiffening

"Sir, it's expensive"

Brother Andri still nods his head. And the face of the middle-aged man sitting in front of my brother was just silently watching

"How about sir?, so what was Pajero earlier?, it was expensive sir, but I can make sure if you will not be disappointed. Because the specifications of this car are very extraordinary, and this is the type of the best and most expensive in the class of Pajero Sport"

"Can't be less, sir?" ask brother Andri

I who was still on the video call held back a laugh because my brother was pranking the man

"We're sorry we can't sir, it's already priced. If credit is that"

Back brother Andri nodded his head

"Mother is expensive, not so yes. The usual car"

I shook my head

"Mother wants to give sister that type"

"Sister, I'd like to talk to you earlier"

Brother Andri gave the cellphone in his hand to the middle-aged man in front of him

After I could see the man's face clearly I spoke straight away

"Sorry father, I am the mother of the boy who is currently sitting next to my sister. I want to give him a car as a gift because my greatest son is now legally a hafidz"

He looked like a man with a beard and smiled kindly

"What cash is that, sir?"

I can see his face was a little surprised

"If cash Rp. 878,000,000 bu"

I'll shut up for a second

"Wrap it, sir. All his administration I gave up on my brother"

The middle-aged man immediately fell silent and said nothing until my brother called out and he realized

"Serious cash sir?"

"Yes like my sister said. If he says cash, it means cash"

The man immediately called the administration nervously to take care of all the correspondence.

"I ordered a special plate sir" I said, which made the man bend his head back to my brother's phone

"Yes mom?"

"The plate is 3003 MKL"

"Ready ma'am"

"What is bun?"

"The date and month of your birth, son, and behind that stands your nickname, Mikail"

Mikail's eyes immediately glazed over and she could not say anything more, only able to look deeply into her mother's face with a look of indescribable longing