
Naura had just arrived in front of her boarding room. He sat down to remove the socks while waiting for Zahra who was still on the road. They do not go home together, because they are different majors and faculties. Sometimes they just go home together.
"Alhamdulillah. Thank you God. I'm finally in court next week."
Naura felt very happy, because eventually she would soon get her bachelor's degree as a writer.
Drrit…
Naura's phone is vibrating. He immediately picked up his phone that was inside his backpack.
"Dad!"
Naura saw the contact who gave her the name Father call her.
He immediately answered the call with excitement, and also a sense of happiness.
"Assalamualaikum, father."
"Same mother how are you?"
A happy smile never escaped Naura's face. He can't wait to say soon that he's going to a thesis hearing next week.
"Alhamdulillah, I'm fine too. This is just nyampe kos, it was home this afternoon because it had to take care of some things…"
Naura started telling stories. He quietly listened to his father's words across the street. Then, suddenly arrived the smile that had been emanating on his face disappeared instantly.
"Then, what's your answer to mother?"
Naura sighed. His eyes looked glassy, he even seemed to be holding a clear grain that was about to fall from his eye sockets.
"According to the same father how?"
The clear thread finally really fell from his eyes after hearing the answer delivered by his father and his mother.
"If you feel that way, then there's no reason for me to refuse."
Naura said that while holding back her cries. Even though he tried to hold her back, those tears still spilled from his eyes.
"Dad, I'm going to the toilet first. We'll just keep going again!"
Naura lied. She couldn't bear to cry and she didn't want her parents to hear her cry.
"Goddessalam…"
Naura immediately ended the conversation that made her cry. "Hhiiikkss, I even forgot to say about my script trial next week." Mumbled.
As Naura cried in front of her room, Zahra had just arrived. He immediately ran over to his best friend who looked very sad.
"Na, what's wrong with you?"
Zahra immediately hugged Naura and patted her back gently to soothe the sadness her best friend felt.
"Na, it's okay if you haven't graduated this year. I graduated, but I will accompany you here. After graduation, I'll find a job here. Don't be sad anymore, yeah..."
Zahra tried to persuade Naura. He thought Naura was crying because she had not been able to graduate this year with him.
"Ra, I'm being betrothed."
"What's? Matchmade…"
Zahra let go of her embrace, she turned to stare intently at Naura's face which was still filled with tears.
"Busan dad said, I've been proposed."
"Oh poor Nauraku…"
Zahra hugged Naura and cried together.
"What's your future husband like, Na?"
Again Zahra let go of her embrace. He stared fixedly at Naura's sad face.
"You're lucky, Na. Don't you want a good priest, and Adi Tama is the right choice."
"Maybe right according to another girl, Ra. But not for me. I don't love her."
Naura came back crying, she couldn't imagine how she could marry a man she didn't love at all.
"Na, isn't love able to grow over time. After all, mas Tama is a religious man, kind and loving. So, I think that love will soon grow once you live together. Isn't it your dream to get married without going out..."
Instead of feeling calmer, Naura cried even more at Zahra's words. He also decided to immediately enter his boarding room and continue his crying on the prayer mat because the magrib adhan had been reverberating.
"It is not he himself who always says love will come by itself after living together in a halal bond. Why now... Ah never mind, maybe if I was in Naura's position I would cry too." Babe Zahra before finally catching up to Naura entered.
Meanwhile, in Kalimantan, this is where Adi Tama is located. He became a medic who participated in a group of heavy equipment officers who were running road and bridge construction projects.
They work under the auspices of the largest contractor company in Indonesia. And of course their salaries are also large with jobs that also risk their lives.
Tonight Tama daydreams sitting by the beach alone. Then, a friend who was also a medical officer approached him.
"What's up, bro?"
Tama sighed for a while, "Obviously bro, mama asked me to come home soon. Because the girl you're going to match up with I've already received a proposal."
"The girl accepted Loe's proposal?"
"Yes, that's it."
"It's weird too chick, bro. It was that easy to accept an arranged marriage."
They listened silently to the sound of the waves and enjoyed the wind that slapped their faces.
"Gue's afraid of not being able to love that girl, bro."
"Well, if you're not in love, why would you agree to marry her?"
"Gue can't resist my mother's wishes. If I refuse, mama's gonna be pissed off and she could kill herself."
"Keep, what's loe's plan now?"
"Yes, I married first. How do you know I can fall in love with the girl after marrying her, even if only zero comma anyway."
"What is so ugly is the prospective wife loe, kok loe who playboy gini can not fall in love with the girl…"
Momentarily smiled, "Not ugly and not beautiful either. Just normal, bro. And he looks so good in the eyes of people…"
"Nature in people's eyes, you mean loe?"
"Yes, in the eyes of people he looks very pious. Though the original yes, same with most girls."
"You mean? She's a bad girl too, isn't she?"
"Not bad either. But I mean, yes, he also had a date, hug and hand grip as well as other girls who do not hooded."
Tama opened the disgrace of Naura who is currently still in the status of her cousin's sister. And what he told me was the ugliness of Naura during the first year of college.
"Well, if that's the usual time, bro. So many veiled girls that so does her behavior."
"Yes too bro. But, how is it. The effect was that he was deformed in my eyes. I knew her ex-boyfriend and I saw for myself what their dating style was."
"Loe says it like you never hold a girl's hand, never hug a girl and never kiss." Syndir his friend who felt Tama overjudged the ugly woman he would marry.
"It's not like that either, bro. I mean yes..."
Tama could not continue his words because what his friend said was right. Tama feels himself holy and looks down on Naura, when in fact the same or even Tama is much worse than Naura.