The End of the Waiting

Initial Step

“You feel something strange with Ning Fatimah?” ask Amara as they are on their way home.

“Don't know.” Akram answered honestly, he did not pay much attention to the woman.

Indeed he was not so foreign to Fatimah, they had met several times, but they never talked.

Akram honors Fatimah as a teacher and daughter of a religious figure in his town.

The rest, nothing.

“You bought something first don't?”

Amara nodded in response. He seems so lazy to do anything. I want to get home and lay down her body on the bed.

Ah ... He misses his bed and his room.

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Fatimah's mood grew cloudy after knowing who the husband of Amara was.

The man she always expected.

The figure that made him reject many applications of men who came to his parents.

Fatimah's hurt. He has harbored his feelings for Akram for a long time, but why it is Amara who is clearly a new person actually gets a place first.

After being satisfied with shedding tears, Fatimah tried to contact Umi Rahma to ask. Twice the missed call, maybe he was busy, but when Fatimah was about to put her phone in again, her phone rang the sign of the incoming call. He answered without forgetting to say hello.

“What's up, Fatimah? Nothing happened, right? Your brother's fine, right?” ask Umi Rahma.

Although unable to see him Fatimah still forced a smile. “Alhamdulilah well, Umi. He is still waiting for a suitable donor heart. I'm actually gonna ask you something.”

“Amara is married to Mas Akram, how could that happen, Umi?” fatimah asked in a soft voice barely audible.

There was a long breath of Umi Rahma.

“Why are you asking this now? Didn't umi tell you before Mara got married?” Fatimah blinked her eyes, recalling when Umi Rahma had given her that information. “You may not listen, at that time you were busy taking care of your sick people,” explained Umi Rahma reminded.

Fatimah bit her inner lips, holding back the sobs that wanted to spill just like that.

“How can Mara who is with Mas Akram while all this time I admire him, love him in silence. Why, Umi?”

Across the call Umi Rahma could only catch her breath and let her out slowly.

“Why should Mara? Why not me? What was my lack all this time?” ask Fatimah to demand.

“Son, the soul mate is God's secret. He did not choose you because you are not a match, not because you have flaws and Mara has advantages, is not it. No matter how close you are, if you are not a match there will always be a way in the way. As far as you are concerned, if the soul mate has been outlined, then Allah will bring you closer.”

“But this is not fair, Umi. I'm good why Mara who .. sorry, still learning it was facilitated.”

“Not about what, how or who, but about how Allah SWT has set it. No matter how good you are if your soul mate has been written in Lauhul Mahfudz. You can what?”

Fatimah sighed softly. Indeed his heart was so painful to feel the person who was always expected and in the sky his name was precisely coupled with others.

“Son, please explain what is not for you. It's hard, but leave everything to God. May God immediately remove that feeling.”

“I love her, Umi.”

“Maybe this is also a lesson for you, son. Do not love His creation more than your love for the Creator.”

Fatimah only sobbed while smothering her mouth so that the cry did not attract the attention of people, although in fact she was eager to shout to vent the feeling of pain felt.

To Be Continue ....