The Ark of Love Nurmala

The Past is Back

Aldi kept driving through places that held memories of his past. Sometimes he smiles thinly, but he hides in concentration looking at the streets. Nurmala enjoys the view of her husband's birth village.

"Home building here is good, Kang? it means the people are prosperous!" nurmala said while looking at the rows of houses lined up along the way.

"Yes, the farm here is already very advanced!" papar Aldi's. Some time after swaying on the uneven streets, Aldi finally turned to the house painted green, that's the house in-laws Nurmala.

"This is Akang's house?" nurmala asked as she widened her eyes. Aldi nodded.

"This is my home, Nur!" Aldi opened the door lock, they both went down.

Lila rushed to the yard when she found out her sister was coming.

"Sir Nurmala?" Lila hugged her sister-in-law tightly. "Sister Nur is prettier than I imagined!" lila said while holding Nurmala's hand.

"Hehehe, can you be Lila!" Nurmala blushed with her sister's praise. They entered the house, Mr. Sardi sat waiting in the living room.

"Assalamualaikum Sir?!" Aldi shook hands by kissing the back of his father's hand.

"Sir, this is my wife, Nurmala!" Aldi introduced his partner. Mr. Sardi smiled looking at Nurmala. His eyes could not be seen from Nurmala's face and stature.

"It seems I'm no stranger to you Nduk, similar to someone!" mr. Sardi said with a frown, his eyes glaring remembering someone in his past.

"Please sit down Nduk! Lila make you a drink!" pinta Pak Sardi's.

Aldi and Nurmala sat waiting for his parents to talk, but Mr. Sardi was still silent, he still connected his past to the reality before his eyes.

"Healthy Father?" tanya Aldi breaks the stiffness.

"Alhamdulillah be healthy! I want to ask you Nur, is your mother named Samira?" Pak Sardi's question made Aldi and Nurmala surprised.

"True sir, do you know Nurmala's mother?" aldi asked in astonishment. Nurmala's eyes are breaking.

"It turns out the world is so narrow!" mr. Sardi answered Aldi's question. He said that he had friends in West Java, and had worked there for 2 years.

"How did you know Samira's mother?" Aldi is curious. But Mr. Sardi chose to be quiet not to tell his past. Then Lila came in with three cups of tea.

"Let's drink Kak Nur!" lila said as she swayed spoiledly sitting beside Nurmala.

"Long stay here, right, sister?" lila asked hopefully to be closer to Nurmala.

"We do a lot of Lila's work, maybe just two nights!" nurmala said as she stroked the hand of her sister-in-law who was on her arm. Aldi and Nurmala took the teacup on the table, but he put it back down.

"It's too hot, brother?" ask Lila.

"I like this Lila, but let it be a little cooler" Nurmala tried to dispel Lila's condolences. Meanwhile, without a word, Mr. Sardi occasionally looked at Nurmala. "His face is very much like his mother's" inner Mr. Sardi.

Aldi stood up "I'll go to the bathroom first!"

"Come on Kak, I show you the room, surely Kak Nur is very tired" said Lila while holding Nurmala's hand. Lila helped bring her sister's things into the room.

"Excuse me sir, I'll go to the room first!" Nurmala pamit. Mr. Sardi nodded with one word "Yes!"

He entered the room that used to be Aldi's room. The atmosphere is still the same, Bob Marley is still plastered on the wall. Nurmala's eyes swept across the room. "Everything looks worn, but still well-groomed" Nurmala's inner.

He opened the cupboard which stood firmly in the corner of the room, the door was unlocked, there was a small black and white half-body photo stuck on the inside.

Like there was a magnet, Nurmala's eyes were immediately fixed on the image of the woman next to Aldi. "Isn't this Anisa?" Nurmala scrunched her forehead. Various questions came to Nurmala's mind about their relationship.

Ceklek, the door of the room opened, Aldi entered after finishing from the bathroom.

"Where? hehehe.iya, we are indeed close friends, so I love to throw it away!" aldi clingukan said.

"He's an ex-Kang Aldi?" ask Nurmala.

"Yes, just an ex, right? let me throw away the picture!" Aldi grabbed a rough photo stuck on the closet door, then threw it into the trash can.

"Kok was thrown away Kang, baby is not a photo of memories!?" Nurmala regrets Aldi's attitude

"Say people 'throw an ex in his place' so I better throw that photo away! now you are the only Nur" Aldi said, tying his hand to Nurmala's waist, which was still standing near the cupboard.

Aldi brought his lips closer to Nurmala's face,

"I will love you until the end of my life Nurmala, my dear" whispered Aldi as he hugged and kissed his wife.

"Don't, off Kang! sultry!" Nurmala kept her face away from Aldi's. Slowly Aldi took off his embrace. Nurmala reopened the suitcase looking for a change of clothes.

"I want to take a bath first Kang, where's the place?"

"Follow me!" Aldi stepped out of the room followed Nurmala towards the back of the house. Aldi pointed to a small building next to the kitchen.

"I'm staying ahead!" aldi said to Nurmala who was already in the bathroom. Aldi came to his father in the living room.

"Sir, if you may know, how do you know Nurmala's mother?" aldi asked as he sat down next to his father. Mr. Sardi did not immediately answer his son's question. His eyes were still fixed on the television, but his mind floated on his youth.

Samira, a beautiful girl with plump eyes, with thick eyebrows, the son of a foreman who works in a tea factory. Young Sardi was orphaned, joined a neighbor working to find experience after graduation Junior High.

"Sir?!" aldi's question disperse the daydream of Mr. Sardi.

"Eh, yes Al, did you talk to me?" Mr. Sardi pretended not to have heard Aldi's question before. Not yet able to answer, Nurmala called out to him from inside the room. Aldi rushed to Nurmala.

"Wasn't you shower?"

"In the meantime, Nur, still sultry!"

"It's just a shower for Kang!"

"Yes, but first!"

"Well, whatever, I put Akang's shirt here, huh!?" Nurmala put Aldi's change of clothes on the suitcase. Aldi went back out of the room, walking to the courtyard looking for cool air while looking at the Lila flower plants.

As Aldi stood enjoying the cool air beside the house, a young man of his age approached and greeted.

"Aldi huh?!" ask when approaching. Aldi smiled and confirmed the person's question.

"Cosim? how are you doing?" Aldi served closely his old friend. He was Aldi's friend when he sat in High School.

"You're married?" ask Kosim. Aldi smiled and told me about his wife.

"I thought you were really going to marry Anisa Al!" ledek Kosim, whom Aldi responded by putting his index finger into his mouth while glancing right left, he did not want many questions about Anisa if Nurmala heard the talk of Aldi and his friend.

"This is your car Al, great, cool!" praise Kosim for seeing Aldi's new car parked in the yard. Aldi could smile widely.

"Usually Sim, who works hard will achieve the results!"

"Come on, we'll go in the Sim, have coffee with you!" Aldi offers a banquet. But Kosim refused on the grounds that there were other interests. After Kosim Aldi rushed to the bathroom.