The End of Hope

87 Eps. Papa's Missing

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Long time no answer. Naya looks back at her phone and does not get any reply from Ares. He circled his gaze around the house and still did not find the man there. Naya became so embarrassed by her own lingling-like behavior. Eventually he ignored his phone.

'Whatever to answer'

Naya sat down beside Raya and patted her shoulder as she said, "come on, take a bath, change clothes, keep eating."

"Tante doesn't care about me" replied Raya Ketus.

"Hm... Why si... This sweet kid snuggles?"

Raya is silent, she does not respond to Naya's words and comes back aaik with her phone.

"Don't you see, where is papa?" said Naya, because seeing Raya is silent like no matter what is around.

"What's your aunt doing about papa. No need to see me again papa. Than later Tente sad again." Raya still said with a ketus. Naya looked at the teenager from the side and smiled, even though her heart was slick.

"Why say that. Who is sad?"

"Tente Naya right, who said to papa, if you see papa Aunt so sad. Is papa wrong with auntie?!" the word Raya frankly touched Naya's feelings.

'Should I be honest about everything to this little boy. But what does Mr. Ares mean to say to his son, si?'

"Raya, at that time Auntie did say that, but __" Naya's speech was interrupted.

"Yes already. Auntie don't have to find papa anymore."

Deg. 'Why can this be so, God. What am I supposed to tell this kid?'

Naya remained sitting in her place, while Raya entered the house while turning her face away from Naya. Naya is confused until she decides to go home. But when he was about to say goodbye, Dinda came. The now-veiled tomboy girl entered the house after parking her vehicle.

Naya and Dinda hugged each other after saying hello. Dinda looks more beautiful and graceful, with a neat Muslim dress that she uses instead of her jeans and the men-like clothes she often wears.

"How are you?" dinda and Naya answered with gratitude.

They sat together on the sofa. Naya recounted everything she saw and heard in the house, but when the story was not finished, she stopped talking, because Mala seemed to walk past the two of them and resigned herself, because he's going home.

"Mama Mala wants to go home now?" ask Dinda. "I just got home and haven't had a chance to talk. Nginap dong, mama.." said Dinda while hugging Mala warmly.

"When we meet again, God willing. Been talking to your mama for a long time. You dong, when to go to mama's house?"

"When, maa.." replied Dinda, while Naya just smiled.

Finally Mala left after she also hugged Nauya and advised her to take good care of herself. Naya simply nodded, and thanked him for his advice and prayers.

After Mala's departure, Naya also wants to pamitt because she doesn't normally come home late, she has never been outside the house, after the Maghrib arrived if only alone. But Dinda still wants to discuss everything she heard from Naya about Ares and the other women Naya disagrees with.

"Why don't you like it if you don't want to see my sister?" ask Dinda with a serious face. Naya has not given an answer because she is ashamed and she just wants to say it to Ares.

They talk in the room, babysit Yoni and invite him to play. While Raya settles down and rests in her papa's room, she is reluctant to be with Naya. The girl looked silently at the sky of the room.

Raya recalls a few weeks ago, when she tried to contact Naya via her usual mobile phone, as they often talked only through chat, but Ares forbade it.

At that time Ares just said to Raya, 'we will be fine even without aunt Naya."

"But why, pa?" Raya was surprised at that time because all she knew was that her father was very supportive of their relationship.

"Raya, listen to papa. Actually Aunt Naya does not like papa. He's sad to see papa. So papa doesn't want us to get any closer. Because it's gonna hurt Aunt Naya."

Ares' words disappointed Raya. He did not think logically because he was still a teenager. He just followed his heart. Until he followed Ares' advice not to connect with Naya anymore. Because of her carelessness, Raya finally poured out her heart on Dinda, until finally the three people compactly tried to reduce closeness with Naya.

Girls of Great age will usually be happier if their father or mother who is alone, or separated from her partner, does not marry again. But Raya thinks differently, because she sees her sister's situation. But now he knew that his father was no longer expecting Naya.

Ares tries to limit the relationship between Naya and Raya, so as not to get any closer, because he feels useless if the relationship continues, while Naya cannot be with him. Their relationship was like floating and unclear, and it was stifling his chest.

Ares tries to break his own expectations, he tries to forget Naya but strangely, the more he tries to forget the greater his desire to meet again, the greater his desire to avoid the greater the sense of heaviness to let Naya go.

Over and over again he tried to convince himself that he should be able to recant to really release Naya, and make the story between them only limited to memories. Why continue, when every meeting will be painful? Relationships that like hugging a thorn are getting approached the more hurtful. Ahq..

But where is he now?

Everyone at home is looking for him, but Ares is searched everywhere. When Yoni cried because Naya said she was leaving. The still weak Rasti could not do much. Then who's gonna take care of it?

At that time Naya stopped chatting with Dinda, and they will continue at a later time through chatting, because the day is almost maghrib. It's impossible to stay because today is not the weekend. But then Yoni cried and looked for his Papa. Finally Naya relented and she decided to leave after Yoni slept.

Now they are all gathered at the dining table, after finishing the Maghrib prayer. Raya eats uneasily, Naya eats while taking care of Yoni, she is actually very shy about eating with the family. He was just a friend of Dinda's.

Raya finishes her dinner faster, she picks up her phone and leaves the house, she calls Ares while looking in the car and she sees Ares's phone there.

"Grandma, I don't know if papa's in the car. It's worth it from earlier on the phone not picked up." Gerrutu Raya.

'It's a shame my message wasn't answered' Naya.

"Where's the car key?" ask Dinda.

"Nothing, brought papa usually." replied Raya. "How about tomorrow, the same school uniform is in the apartment?"

They had no intention of staying over, as Ares had just come to pick up Yoni and return to the apartment. Ares did not want to live together with his parents long ago, on the grounds that he wanted to be independent, he bought the apartment since Raya was a child.

"Tomorrow, go home with aunt Dinda, keep going to school. Or skip school!" sahut Dinda's.

"Hus, you're not good!" said Rasti.

"Where is the boy?" hendra said while running his own wheelchair.

"Let's go, it's been this big. Can't papa be stray?" the word Raya joked.

'Sir Ares must have avoided me, if I hadn't come home, yes, he wouldn't have come home either'

The day had entered the night when Yoni could already be put to sleep by Naya in her room. Naya approached Rasti for a break. He crouched down on the side of the bed while holding the woman's hand.

"Mama, I'm sorry in advance that I was presumptuous" Naya said slowly.

"What are you talking about, Naya." replied Rasti with a smile.

"Mama, you want to find a mate for Mr. Ares, right?"

'He's your brother is not my brother, right he also has children, what's wrong with being called father?'

"Eh, Dinda.." said Naya.

"He, don't bother people talking, get out there" Rasti said. "Come, Nay, what are you talking about?" said Rasti.

"Mom if you don't mind, I hope you cancel the matchmaking of Mr. Ares. Sorry ma, actually I want to be the mother of children" said Naya slowly with a shy face.

'So her mother's children, you know'

Rasti Resti smiled widely he immediately grabbed Naya's hand, and grasped it while saying,

"Become Naya, would you like to? Alhamdulillah ... If you want, my mom is grateful. Mama don't bother anymore to find someone who can take care of Yoni."

"So mama wants to accept ssha?" ask Naya.

"Yes, of course Naya, of course. Mama's happy!"

"But mah, I beg you, don't say anything to Mr. Ares, let me tell you myself. Let's just say Mama doesn't know I'm talking like this."

"Just calm... Mom pretended not to know."

"So ma, excuse me. I'll be here sometime, okay?" naya said while kissing Rasti's hand.

Dinda smiled as she breathed a sigh of relief.

Mr. Hendra who saw all that smiled knot. He said, 'He said,

"Sometimes a soul mate is like that, there are people who date or become old friends but the marriage is the same as people who are new to him. Some are betrothed to as many far away, but the same marriage is close."

The soul mate is also part of the destiny of life.

"Sister now has a mate, if I how dong?" said Dinda crouched down on the side of her mother's bed, like Naya.

Naya chuckles at Dinda's childish behavior. Then leave after patting his best friend's shoulder.

"Right, you don't want me to drop off?" dinda said after being outside the house, they were both standing on the side of the road to wait for an online taxi, Naya ordered.

"No, no need, I've booked a taxi online anyway."

"Nay. Why don't you want to be my sister's wife?"

"Hehe, I want to be a child's mother."

"Yes, it's the same thing."

"A lot, the reason. The main thing is I want our relationship to remain family."

"Due.so sweet. So now don't hate it anymore, do you?"

"Well, that's what I want to ask why Raya is the same you can say that?"

"I know him from Raya, he's banned from his papa, can't call you, can't chat with you anymore, can't see you again."

"Why?"

"Say you are sad when you see my brother, so I am not so, keep your distance from you. I wonder, what exactly is wrong with your sister?" Said Dinda looking annoyed.

"Oh, he's not wrong, wrong is me, long story. I'll tell you sometime. What is your relationship with Rama?"

"I didn't expect much, Nay. Now I don't see Rama often. We're ordinary, I consider him a friend, because he doesn't give me certainty. Though I I have told him, do not worry if it will be a mate, continue to be married, I will follow his will. I also don't mind if he wants to join the company I take care of my shophouse."

"Hmm..continue he doesn't want to?"

"He's planless, like any other man I know. I gave him hope, I gave him attention even I've been frank, said that I like. But they're just the same. Now I've been steady with my change, although at first there was a little desire for Rama to prefer, because I changed. But now that I continue to correct the intention, I will continue to close the aurat because of God. I still have a lot to learn, I can't be as good as you, Nay."

"I'm not good either, Dinda. I also need to repair myself. And that's the duty of everyone, the duty of all Muslims, not just people who wear hijabs."

"Yes, thank you for continuing to encourage me." Dinda hugged Naya.

"Yes, equally, I also thank you for wanting to be a friend. Now the cab's here." Naya again patted Dinda on the shoulder, then approached the car that stopped in front of them.

"Yes, assalamualaikum!" naya said as she opened the taxi door, and closed the door again, waving at Dinda.

Dinda just shook her head while answering her greetings and smiled seeing the taxi Naya was riding away.

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Somewhere else.

A man threw himself in the corner of the mosque. He seemed to sigh deeply repeatedly while staring at the high ceiling of the mosque. It is like trying to calm himself and not want to go home, because trying to avoid someone who will be hurt when he sees it.

For a moment, he did not care about his son, he looked for a cell phone in his pocket and pants but then he realized that he had left the phone in his car. Finally he tried to close his eyes to cover his body with a prayer mat.

He still remembers the last time he saw Naya's face, which was difficult to decipher. What does his gaze mean? But he saw a different look at Naya.

He wanted to scream, then,

"If I am guilty of you, then punish me, and marry me. I don't care about your past, no matter what you've experienced in the past, so you don't have to be ashamed!"

"Naya, love does need sincerity, and because of someone's fault, it does not mean he has the right to be humbled. Everyone is guilty, I am too, but this time I will not be mistaken!"

The shout was only out of his heart, he was an adult male who would not be rash in his attitude and actions, moreover he had a lot of business with work, children and home, he said, all he did himself so he would not make any more of his business.

"Life is hard, sometimes man himself makes life more complicated, ahk.." he sighed curled up.

The coldness of the floor of the mosque is not like the coldness of Naya's attitude when away from him. He got an answer to his attitude a few weeks ago why Naya always acts cold to him, because he is someone Naya does not expect. The loneliness of the mosque, no quieter than his heart which he always covered with hope, longed for no answer. Feeling very naive because it gives Naya sincerity to never intend to forget, even survive.

Perhaps that is like sincere love, he chose to stay even though his heart was full of wounds and pain.

The man sighed strongly with his breath, giving the struggle to be released. He has resigned to the destiny of God who does not destroy.

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