The Arabic Teacher
New Idea
To this day, Vita brings a new mission. But this time he did not involve Lala, because the mission this time only wanted to ask for the letter he sent yesterday.
As the break began, Vita went to the library to search the Arabic dictionary. It was only that lesson that made her suck to understand, while Lala went to the cafeteria alone.
Whether this was luck or a coincidence, when Vita sorted through the books lined up neatly on the shelf, he saw ustadz Dafi who was reading books while standing up.
"Ustadz Dafi.." he murmured softly.
Like hearing his voice, Ustadz Dafi turned his head. Vita was wrongly stared at by Ustadz Dafi from a distance. Vita stepped closer to ustadz Dafi. Instead of what, ustadz Dafi always dodged when Vita approached him. About a meter away, he stopped his steps.
"Assalammualaikum, ustadz."
"Waalaikumsalam," replied ustadz Dafi without turning his head and still focusing on his book.
"Ustadz can I ask you?"
"Please!"
"What about my letter, has Ustadz read?"
Ustadz Dafi closed his book, glancing at Vita before he turned the other way.
"I'm so grateful for how Anty felt about me. But I'm sorry, your status is that of a student where I teach. It is not good if teachers and students send letters to each other. Not just with me, but on yourself. It would be nice to stay focused with the school without thinking about the affairs of the heart."
"So ustadz rejected me again?" Vita breathed his rough breath in disappointment."Yes already ustadz, tomorrow I will ask again if ustadz can accept me."
Once again, Vita left the library by walking backwards. He did this so as not to hurt each other. Miris felt, with the rejection of Ustadz Dafi that he repeatedly got. Am I not worthy of you, ustadz? Am I less beautiful?
As if he had been good friends with disappointment, Vita looks ordinary after getting rejection back from his heart. Vita did not want to let a broken heart slip into her soul. Enough to understand with a sense of disappointment, and hope the taste does not last long. The hope is only one, the heart of ustadz Dafi.
"Rejected again, Vit?" Lala asked her best friend who approached her in the cafeteria.
Vita shook her head with a smile, "It's not rejected, La, it's just not accepted."
"What's the difference between oncom?"
"Dong different. If rejected it means I will give up, now that I have not given up, it is not accepted," replied Vita with a smile even though his heart was painful, for him, enough he and God know.
"Prophey, Vit!" Lala knows how her best friend is not feeling. How can one not feel disappointed if his hope can never be achieved, even just to touch it.
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It is hard to suppress the pain of rejection many times, but in fact it never makes Vita kapok to continue to pursue the love of ustadz Dafi. How else, life has to go, right?
"Withy.."
Vita gasped in shock at Bu Yuli's cry. Bu Yuli looked at Vita gently, but because her mind was in turmoil, saw Bu Yuli's curvy lips as if she was saying the word 'Takzir'.
"Make me wrong ma'am, how come I'm afraid?"
"Whoever wants to deny you, I'm here just to ask for help, after school please help you clean up the archives in the office!"
"Alone mom?"
"Sama Lala can too," Bu Yuli replied making Vita smile nodding.
After school, Vita and Lala headed to the office as Bu Yuli had ordered earlier. Seeing the many stacks of maps and books, Vita confusion must start where.
After a few minutes, after getting a yellow light, Vita suddenly got a new idea for his next plan.
"La, you look for the archives of ustadz Dafi!"
"Make what?"
"Gue wants to know when Ustadz Dafi's birthday."
Hearing that, Lala nodded. For almost an hour they struggled with dust, and finally the archives of ustadz Dafi were found.
Vita opened a neatly arranged leaf of the Ustadz Dafi archive on a green map. From the archive, Vita finally found out the birthday of ustadz Dafi. Luck sided with him, the date would fall six more days.
How happy my heart is, I will give him a surprise and happy birthday as the first person.
"What's your plan, Vit?"
⁇ ️TBC️
