The Chosen Heart Part 2

Wahid, The Sister-in-law

" Sit And." Wahid invited Dani.

Dani sat down, taking a position next to Wahid. They were in front of the hospital, with a view in the form of a small garden overgrown with red-flowered prune plants known as Soka trees.

" Please tell me." Wahid invited Dani to speak.

Before he started talking Dani took a deep breath. It was as if that way his power to speak would increase.

" It all started a few months ago, when Anindita came. Anindita was a woman from the past, when I was in high school."

Dani stopped his sentence. His eyes looked at Wahid, waiting for his reaction.

Wahid was silent, waiting for the continuation of the sentence that would come out of Dani's mouth.

" Anin's arrival makes Isna disturbed. Whether Anin was deliberately annoying or what, I myself do not know what it means, but Isna really does not like it if I relate to him again. Looks like something made Isna uncomfortable."

" If your wife doesn't like her, don't deal with her anymore. Did Isna ever dislike someone for no reason?"

" Yes, there must be a reason."

" Do you know why?"

" Know. "

" The reason makes sense?"

" The problem is that reason is just as expected. Not proven."

" What reason?"

" The reason is, Isna felt that Anin would take me away from her."

" And you don't feel ?"

" It's not his not feeling, Hid. I'm not going back to Anin, because Anin is in the past. My future inshaallah is Isna."

" And just now, what made Isna so emotionally confront you?"

Dani tells from the beginning, on the arrival of Anin who caused an accident incident in front of his family's house, until the cause he had to be in the hospital to accompany Anin.

" Anin is amnesiac and frustrated with her life. He almost committed suicide. I just want to save him. I was just acting like a human being, putting Anin as someone who needed help." Dani ended his story with a plea.

" Isna also has a heart, Dan. He would never mind helping someone in need. But if he had to help a snake that was about to die when it threatened his life, would it still be worth it? That's the parable."

" So she should let the snake die?"

" Maybe it is."

Dani fell silent, thinking about Wahid's words.

" If you are confused about taking a stand on something, return it to religious teachings, so that we do not misrepresent it. When faced with a situation that requires us to choose between two things, we can choose the least harm or ugliness."

Dani tried to digest all the words that came out of Wahid's mouth.

" I never intended to patronize or teach, nor did I intend to interfere in your household affairs. I'm just acting as a big brother, who's intent on reminding."

" Yes, thanks for reminding."

" One more." Wahid stand. "In fact, Isna has told all about your problems with Anin. From the beginning of the matter appeared Isna had already told it. I know how she feels. So I can only order one, don't make Isna's tears flow again."

Wahid leaves Dani.

" Wait Hid," Dani's voice stops Wahid's steps.

" Wahid stopped his steps. He pointed his gaze at Dani, "Yes, what's wrong?"

" What did Isna tell you?"

" Everything you said. Also the incident that just happened. Isna was sent a photo by someone."

" Have you seen it?"

" Yes, I did, and you didn't tell me about the photo."

" Yes, sorry. I'm ashamed, Hid."

" Why be ashamed?

" Because of the scene depicted in the photo. Waallahi, I didn't do it, it was a scene of engineering."

" I know. Many are awkward if you want to believe that the photo tells the real incident. It's a quick look at the photo as if you're doing something inappropriate, but I see it with common sense, not just feeling."

Wahid stop. His eyes looked at Dani with a probing look. Who felt that.

" So you believe that I'm calling it not what it looks like?"

" yes. Just that I was confused, how could you be in the same room as that woman. That's what Isna's question is."

" He forced me to follow his will, threatening to tell all our past to Isna. I went to her room and somehow I was so sleepy at the time."

" Yes, whatever happened, has happened. I can't be a judge for you. Only I was concerned to see my sister who had to lose her baby twice. His heart is not okay. Accompany him Dan. Once again I leave, take care of her heart. This will be a lesson for me too, so that I can be a husband who doesn't cause a wife to cry."

" Don't insinuate."

" Sorry, I didn't mean to."

Wahid stepped out of Dani.

Dani was still staring at the back of Wahid who left him. Wahid is his best friend, whose family has now become Dani's family as well. The unpretentious family, who were among them made Dani feel warm. A patient father, a caring mother, and Wahid the best friend.

" I'm sorry, my wife, my in-laws and my sister-in-law. I promise you, I won't lie to Isna anymore."

Dani steps out of the garden, intending to meet Isna.

Arriving in front of Isna's room, he saw no one on the bench in the hospital corridor. Dani approached the door of the room where Isna was lying.

Go in without knocking again, and see Isna being accompanied by Mama.

Isna's eyes looked at Dani who was stepping closer to her. From his gaze Dani can guess that Isna still holds uneg-uneg, although his anger looks very reduced.

Dani approaches her, intending to hug her. Isna did it first. Isna's hand moved to pull Dani's hand, hold her, and cry on her chest.

Dani's hand moved rubbing the wife's head. Unaware, her own tears fell. Their sadness must be the same, losing a baby, when everything thought would be fine. Isna's cry this time was not over. Dani's chest was soaked in tears.

After his cries subsided, with his hands still holding Isna, Dani tried to calm his wife.

" Yes, Neng. Let him be our hereafter's savings."

" Yes, "Isna was trying to shrink her nose.

" I'm sorry, Aa? Aa's a lot wrong with Neng."

Isna looked at Dani, with her eyes open.

" Aa will do anything, which Neng wants, to stay away from Anin though, because the husband is forbidden to make his wife cry because of his tyranny."

" Not to promise. I'm tired of hearing that."

Dani held Isna's face with both hands. "Alright, Aa won't promise anything. But right now, forgive Aa ya Neng. Never get tired of forgiving this one man, who is full of flaws and mistakes."

" God willing, if God still allows us to mate, Isna will always try to understand and forgive Aa's mistakes. Please also, keep this trust, be honest and not cover anything, especially if Aa is not wrong."

" Yes, I'm sorry. Aa, I'm sorry about Neng."

Dani held Isna's head back into his arms.

Without them realizing it, Mama had covered outside since then. Let them talk to each other and exchange hearts.