Trust & Love

Trust & Love (019)

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"Mom don't know what else you want to say?.. .. How many times have I reminded you, don't play with your friends! they're not good." Yulia Bentak. Today Yulia was forced to go back to the BK teacher at the Zulfikar school.

"What the hell, ma'am, that's so bad. Zul's just playing what's wrong? besides, you can't be picky, Mom herself who taught how?"

"But they're not good, ever since you've been friends with them you've been naughty like this. Your grades even plummeted very far, your teachers often call Mom because your behavior at school has also started to follow along as a school thug, what do you want to be?" yulia.

"So what do I want, just as rich Mom and Dad who always determine Zul's life as you like, SATISFIED?" Zulfikar left his mother who still did not believe in the behavior of his son, since they moved out of the city, Zulfikar turned into a dissident child. His father's job as a contractor did force them to move at any time.

Three months after the incident, Yulia was convicted of TB. Either because their home environment is so close to the plant that it produces waste that is quite harmful to health, or because of the inner pressure with his son, Zulfikar. Junior High School Grade 2 who has often paced back and forth into the police station because they are often found drunk on the side of the road with his friends.

The inner pressure that Yulia found made her health worse, until one day Yulia was really in a condition that had been said to be very difficult to heal. He often coughed up blood. Wira as a husband has resigned to see his wife who never improved in the hospital.

Having exhausted his patience and hoping to reduce his wife's burden, Wira asked his younger brother Hasan and his wife to bring Zulfikar to live with them in the village. He hoped that if Zulfikar went to school in the village, his association would not be as bad as in the city and Hasan agreed with him gladly, considering that Hasan had not been given a son.

Although Zulfikar initially strongly rejected the plan, but in the end as a child, Zulfikar again had to follow the wishes of his parents.

During his stay with his uncle, Zulfikar gained invaluable experience. At the place where Hasan lived was a place of study for young people the age of Zulfikar, so that every night Zulfikar was educated completely by his uncle and aunt.

Gradually as time went on, Zulfikar's heart withered. He increasingly understood what a parent's hope meant to his child, he realized that all this time the form of attention of his parents was because he wanted him to grow into a useful child and did not regret it in the future.

Until one day, Zulfikar begged to return to his parents, he wanted to stay back with his father and mother. Hasan and his wife agreed, however, that Zulfikar was entitled to it.

One year after Zulfikar's departure, Yulia's condition had improved especially after hearing the news that Zulfikar had changed. But not long after Yulia's disease returned because the production of factory waste around her house suddenly boomed.

On the day of Zulfikar's return, Yulia returned to the hospital. Hasan who had just arrived at the airport immediately took Zulfikar to the hospital.

"Why are we going to uncle's hospital? who's sick?" little Zulfikar asked in wonder. The boy, who had never taken off the black peci on his head, looked at the uncle full of big question marks.

"Come, kid hurry!" Hasan led Zulfikar to run because his brother, Wira, kept calling Hasan to come to the room where Yulia was being treated. The confused little Zulfikar just ran until they finally got to an IGD room.

He saw that his grandmother, Luna, was crying in his father's arms, "what are they doing here?" inner Zulfikar 'Mother' Yes, Zulfikar remembered, the family member he had not seen was his Mother, "where is Mother?" Her thought.

"Sir, where's Mom?"

The hero only hugged Zulfikar tightly, he could not say much.

"So, why are you crying, which mother?"

Not yet Zulfikar got an answer from his father, a doctor came out of the IGD room to make people immediately greet him with panic

"How's my son doing, Doc?" ask Luna impatiently.

"The patient wants to meet his son, is his son here?" ask Doctor.

"Who does he mean, Dad?" Zulfikar looked closely at his father, while Wira tried to wipe his tears that had repeatedly fallen and clasped Zulfikar's small hand to enter the IGD room.

Zulfikar was so surprised to see the figure he had been lying weakly with a hose infusion in his hand "Mother," zulfikar's eyes glazed "what really happened to mother?"

After feeling enough, Zulfikar let go of his mother's embrace and then changed to look at his father's face "what really happened to Mom, Dad?"

Wira as a father tried to calm little Zulfikar not to cry. "listen to Daddy well dear, Dad wants you to know the real reason we asked you to stay at uncle's house, because we want you to turn into a good and useful child. But if you feel the objection gpp, Father and Mother now will no longer force,"

Zulfikar shook his head while sobbing, "Ngga ko, Dad. Zul even seneng live with uncle Hasan there, but Zul can go home if Zul kangen same father Mom, gpp ko kalopun just a few days here, Zul promises not to be naughty again." Little Zulfikar brandished two fingers to form the letter V as a sign of his promise. Surely tears kept flowing in his eyes. His sadness could no longer be hidden.

"Darling, come!" The soft, loving voice was faintly heard in Zulfikar's ears until he finally realized that it was coming from his mother.

"Why Mom, is Mom sick? what's that hurt? let Zul incandescent." Whether what disease was lodged in his mother's body, Zulfikar only saw a very drastic change of his mother's body, his body was now much thinner than the last he met.

Yulia shook her head slowly, her lips were already deathly pale.

"Promise Mom! You must be a devoted child of the family! you must grow up to be a man of faith!. and I also hope that you will be the head of the family responsible for your family, accepting all the shortcomings of your partner, and you will be the one who is responsible for your family, just like you've been accepting Mom's shortcomings all along." Luna looked at the male voice behind Zulfikar who had accompanied her for almost 15 years.

"Yes, Ma'am, promise me! Zul will fulfill all of Mom's wishes, but I also have to promise that I will accompany Zul until Zul reaches all of Mom's dreams." Zulfikar sobbed holding back his cries from breaking, as a man he did not want to look whiny in front of the woman he loved so much.

Zulfikar hugged his mother again, faintly smiling Yulia behind a transparent colored device that helped her breathe, "Mother love you more than anything on this earth, I'm sorry that I can't be a good parent to you, baby" Yulia couldn't hold back her tears from falling, Zulfikar who saw that wiped her tears.

"Mom don't talk about it! Mother is the angel whom God broke her wings to protect Zul on this earth, and Mother is precious to Zul. Zul dear Mother." Zulfikar hugged his mother again.

It seems like this is the time for Yulia to leave forever, although it is hard to leave her husband and child but at least Yulia is calm because her child will not be too troublesome for the family as before so she can leave quietly.

Tiiitt

The creepy sound came and made little Zulfikar lose his mother, the woman he loved the most.

"Yulia!" The eyes of the Hero sparkled, he immediately ran out looking for the doctor just now.

"Mother....." Zulfikar shouted "wake up Mom! wakeup! Zul promises not to be naughty again Mom! Zul promised not to make Mom sad again, but please wake up Mom! wake Mom!"

As loud as Zulfikar shouted, the woman named Yulia Wiratama would not wake up to wipe her tears. Even Zulfikar had not had time to tell his mother if he could memorize some short surahs and verses that his mother often recited when Zulfikar was going to sleep.

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Luna could only hug her son tightly when she saw that her grandson 'Zulfikar' did not want to leave the funeral where his mother had been sent for the last time. The child continued to teach while occasionally talking red earth on top of which was sprinkled with roses, "Mother of Zul yes! now Zul wants to read Ayat Qursi for Mother," he said as if talking to Yulia directly, "it used to be this bacain mother for Zul if Zul wanted to sleep, he said, even though Zul likes to close his ears." A little laugh, Zulfikar tried to hold back his sadness, "Now replace Zul who bacain Mother. Mom wants to sleep, right? but don't close your ears, Mom! zul's voice was good, and I told him that time." While sobbing little Zulfikar began chanting the recitation of the verse with a reading that has not been fully eloquent.

"Allahu laa ilaaha illa huwal hayyul qoyyum ...."

Uncompleted Zulfikar recited the verse of the Chair, his body collapsing just like that on the red ground. The panicked hero carried Zulfikar's body into the car and took him home.

Since Yulia died, Zulfikar grew up to be a poor boy. Especially since he knew if his mother died from TB disease, and that causes TB because of inner pressure during taking care of it.

"Your mother died because of your mischievous boredom."

The words thrown from Zulfikar's cousin kept ringing in his ear and made him more convinced that he was the cause of his mother's departure.

The hero who could not bear to see Zulfikar was always moody in the room every day, finally with a heavy heart asked Hasan and his wife to bring him back to the village in hopes that he could return cheerful as before with friends in the village, and since then Zulfikar stayed in the village until finishing his S2. Growing up to be a successful young lecturer with his career.