The Love of the Sinner

S2 Chapter 114. Hope

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Chapter 114

Aulia spent the day with Mami Siska and Grandma Halimah doing treatment while talking about something useful. Most of the parents gave advice to Aulia who would build a household. They hoped that Aulia and Alvan's life would be much happier.

"Aulia, you don't do KB later, will you? Mami wants to have a grandchild soon" said Mami Siska.

"Yes, Mi. I also deserve to have a child" Aulia replied with a blushing cheek.

"Mami can't wait to see what your baby will be like" said Mami Siska and made Aulia more embarrassed because she also imagined what her children's faces with Alvan later.

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Aulia is feeling homesick for Alvan tonight. I don't know why his feelings are different than usual. 

"Is it because I haven't seen a face all day and heard her voice, have I?" murmured Aulia while looking at the mobile screen that contains news about Alvan who was nominated for 100 ranks of successful young entrepreneurs in Indonesia.

"O Allah, is this longing not excessive for me?" Aulia was confessing her feelings to the Creator who turned her heart.

The girl smiled as she recalled the beginning of her meeting with her future husband. In the past, it had never been thought at all that he would feel resentment, anger, disappointment, longing, affection, and love in his heart to this cold-faced man and the owner of this sharp gaze.

Time changes everything. Their hearts are now intertwined and will perfect part of their religion. Dreaming of a happy and hopeful life together not only in the world, but also can get to the next.

"Our Ridhoi, O Allah. Launch all our business. What we want and hope to achieve." Aulia often prayed in her daily life that this marriage would not fail like before.

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Alvan was silent as he looked at the night sky behind the glass window of his room. He recalled the doctor's words this afternoon. If the pain in his head is due to a small iron that can not be removed during the operation first, now it has shifted from its place first. That small, hard object was now pressing on part of his brain. It is too risky to have an operation. Want whoever the doctor who handles it later will certainly have difficulties and he will also have a small chance of life.

"Oh Allah, let me and Aulia live happily ever after. I want to make her happy in the rest of my life. I want to make her a perfect woman" Alvan said very slowly.

"Am I being too much if I want to be in this world until the next?" continued Alvan.

He is committed to the destiny God has given him. He only needed to go through everything with a feeling of being ridho and expect a reward for this intention of his.

This young man was reminded of the figure of Ahmad who made it difficult for Aulia to open her heart to other men. Yusuf's grandfather once told him that Aulia had asked to be married when Ahmad was dying, but the man refused and told her to find a replacement for him. Aulia wanted to marry the person who was about to die and choose the status that was certain to become a widow, had a good reason. This woman became an angel for Ahmad in the Hereafter.

Had he been in the same position as Ahmad, what would he have chosen? Alvan certainly wants to marry the woman he loves first and make his bidadirinya in heaven later. 

"But, can it happen to me there's Aulia? I am not as good as Ahmad in the level of faith and to the understanding of religious science. Am I guaranteed to go straight to heaven?" Alvan wondered in his heart.

'O Allah, do not take away my life before it is truly worthy of being a member of heaven.' (German)

"No sin, right? I wish I could go straight to heaven. Though I know that I cannot keep all the commandments of God. If all the prohibitions that exist in the religion of God, I have tried. Although sometimes like to forget to talk about business colleagues, uh, other people as well" said Alvan.

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Five days before the wedding ….

"Alvan, you must not force yourself. I'm not going to give you a schedule outside the office" said Yukari, who wanted her distant brother.

"I want the schedule for the day after tomorrow to change the next day. I want to go to Jakarta the day after tomorrow" said the boss.

Yukari was surprised to hear this man's wish. He was increasingly worried about his condition.

"Is the pain getting more frequent?" yukari asked with teary eyes.

"Hm. I hope you don't tell Aulia. Before everything is clear. Since the doctor's acquaintance I will do the examination first," replied Alvan.

Yukari's tears finally fell down her smooth white cheeks. He violently wiped his tears.

"Did Ojisan and Obasan know about this?" yukari asked with a trembling voice.

Alvan smiled faintly then shook his head. He did not want to make his parents sad.

"Why? Why are you hiding this from the people you love and care about!" yukari shouted no longer able to hold back herself who felt very sad.

"Because I love them and love them, so I don't want to tell them all this," Alvan said paused for a moment, "for now."

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After work Alvan felt his head hurt again. Even he was unable to lift his head. He fell on the carpet in his bedroom.

"Astaghfirullah. O Allah, make this pain be an evildoer for my sins of the past," said Alvan, holding a groan because of the pain.

'Aulia, how are you doing right now? I miss you.' (German)

The room where Alvan used to fall asleep as a silent witness to the owner is struggling to withstand the pain that is currently afflicting him. While crawling the man tried to reach his briefcase on the sofa. He was about to take pain medication.

Meanwhile, at the bride's house. Aulia who was preparing food for dinner, suddenly dropped the frying pan she was holding and overtook her toes.

"Astaghfirullahal. It hurts so much" said Aulia, holding her leg.

"What's up, Aulia?" asked Grandma Halimah who had just come to the kitchen after hearing a loud noise from the frying pan earlier.

Aulia who was grimacing withstood the pain, now looked towards the old woman who clearly had a sense of worry on her face. The woman also told me what happened to her.

"That's why you don't daydream. You seem to be less focused on doing everything. Why?" ask Grandma Halimah.

'Do I have to tell Grandma, huh?' (Auliah)

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What did Aulia want to tell Grandma Halimah? Is Aulia going to know Alvan's current poor health? Wait for it to go, yeah!

Waiting for the next chapter. Yuk, also read my friend's work. Nice and exciting story, you know! Cus skates into his novel.