
Deefa stared in disbelief at the words of the man who married her one month ago, the man who had not even touched her at all making a statement that she had never imagined.
What does this mean is that the man does not intend to maintain the marriage they do with awareness, even though through arranged marriage and perhaps forced, to do so, but the fact is that the man has pledged the Kabul ijab witnessed by his parents and closest family.
Raffan pursed his lips after saying the words that casually came out of his mouth, he was not aware of what he had just said, even though he did not expect to make that statement.
Believe it or not he did not wholeheartedly say things that would definitely make Deefa hurt.
Deefa's hurt? he thought of Deefa's feelings? since when? is not this what he wants, free without the bond of marriage that seems to restrain him.
"Raffen!" the father who sat not far from him.
"Before you speak you should think first, use your mind do not always prioritize emotions, marriage is not a toy, where there is a husband who asks his wife to choose between husband and another man!" ustad Imran looks angry with the behavior of the child.
Really all the feelings mixed into one, disappointment and also shame melted in him.
Raffan is no longer able to issue his argument, let alone argue to just make a sound it feels like his mouth is locked.
"Deefa has told you many times including you Mas." looked at the man she was with, "Deefa only wants to get married once in a lifetime, although all depends on the decree of God, Deefa always hopes that the hope of Deefa is God granted, Deefa is married to Mas Raffan Deefa a wife but when Deefa's own husband instead asks Deefa to choose what Deefa feels you understand, at the time Deefa was steady in this marriage but the man who became Deefa's husband seemed to regret everything that happened." Deefa said softly, very softly even tears had begun to bathe her eyes.
Deefa was silent for a moment to normalize the roar of her breath that seemed not working properly, the tightness was so pronounced that it made her unable to breathe normally to supply oxygen to her lungs.
"Although actually Deefa does not want to but the marriage that is trying to build only from one party will certainly not be good for the future, of course, the foundation of each side will not be strong and easily shaky if there is a storm that hits it, maybe even the wind was able to knock down the foundation to destroy the main building, Mas," call Deefa after feeling enough to issue her statement.
Calling the man who was now raising his face to look at himself.
All those in the room became good listeners amid the household problems of the young couple which could possibly no longer survive?
"Deefa is ready and will receive talaq from you Mas."
After finishing his sentence, Deefa hugged two women who were on his right left side, biological mothers who had been willing to share food and breath with him while in the womb first, also a mother continued the owner of the boarding school who always taught to be sincere in the provisions that God has outlined for her, and maybe this is one of the provisions that God is giving her.
All eyes are on the woman who tries her hardest not to cry, God has taught her not to be too late in grief even more so to the fellow creatures she creates.
But let Deefa grieve for today only, she promises that tomorrow will no longer grieve nor cry.
Raffan's shoulders decayed hearing verse by verse that Deefa spoke.
A talaq? was it true that he had just heard, Deefa asked him to say talaq? doesn't that mean the woman chose Agam? choosing another man over a husband who married her and lived one roof a month.
"Deefa, Abah did not want you to separate, divorce was not forbidden but God did not like it, but Abah also could not force you to survive if you did not want to survive, all who feel you yourself good bad husband also depends on your pleasure," said Kiyai Burhan in between a slightly different atmosphere.
Silence is more pronounced because Raffan who no longer speaks as much as before.
The man was now just staring at the woman who kept her head down hiding her face between the two women.
Raffan could also hear his mother's slightly sobbing voice, did not expect the marriage that he had actually hoped to change his child's temperament so that it could be more mature because it must bear the responsibility will be blessed with divorce.
"Raffan wants to talk to Deefa" said Raffan to whom because his eyes were now on the woman whose name he called.
And here they are now, in the room that Deefa used to occupy while teaching at the boarding school.
Deefa who was sitting on the edge of the bed with Raffan who was standing while continuing to look at him fixedly.
"Right? seriously you want me to talk?" tanya Raffan broke the silence that was created a few minutes since they entered the room whose door was tightly closed.
"That's what I want."
"Not me but elo! Lo who wants a divorce with me, I mean if you have to divorce, not now, we just got married a month," said Raffan looking for an excuse because he remembered first he did intend to divorce.
"You will now or later be the same, did not Mas ask Deefa to choose?" deefa returned her husband's gaze.
"So you choose Agam? choose another man over me, Lo's own husband!" the jolt of the standing man drew closer to the woman trying to calm herself down.
"Deefa was confused, Deefa did not know what Mas Raffan really wanted? earlier asked Deefa to vote after Deefa stated Mas's choice was even like this, Mas was angry," Deefa said her confusion over the husband's attitude.
"Tell me now, what exactly does Deefa have to do?" deefa added her shady gaze that was already filled with tears that were probably very ready to slide freely wetting both her cheeks.
"Stay my wife, I ask Lo to be patient because honestly I am not ready for this marriage but to part with Lo who for one month is present in my life, I don't think I can Deef, tell me I'm selfish because that's the truth, I asked Lo to stay with me," said Raffan shed his body near the feet of Deefa then grabbed the two hands of the woman who had been linked to each other.
Raffan clasped Deefa's hand with a asking gaze, "please survive the same I at least be patient, I don't understand why I'm like gini that I know I don't want to split with elo Deef, elo Deef, I'm sorry for my treatment."
Raffan's gaze that had looked very fierce when dealing with family also turned soft, not knowing what he was thinking now, he who asked his wife to choose but he was also the one who did not accept.
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