When Love Begins to Be Asked

The Substitute Bride

The atmosphere in the house right now is really chaotic! How not? Fatimah suddenly disappeared from her home. The wedding is only half an hour away.

Umy and Abinya were already panicking, when they saw the guests and the family of the groom who had all come and were ready to perform the kabul ijab.

However, Fatimah as a bride, who will be married, sought since then but did not also see the trunk of her nose.

"How is Abi? Fatimah does not exist! Umi's been looking for him everywhere, but I can't see him! How is this, Aby? While the wedding is half an hour away" Umy said in a panic.

Suddenly Abi looked closely at Hilya. His eyes look glassy. Slowly his old eyes began to tear in his shady eyes.

"Hilya, now Abi's only hope is with you, Nduk! Please don't you put our family to shame and disappoint the Kyai Rashid family!" abi said as he looked at Hilya sharply.

"What does Abi mean? Hilya doesn't understand!" Hilya asked her Father who was currently grasping her hands very firmly.

"Hilya, please replace your brother to marry Zaki! Right now, only you can help our family, Hilya. Save us from the shame and disgrace that will not be saved if this marriage fails!" hilya's father said with tears in his eyes.

"How is it possible, Hilya could marry a man that even Hilya never knew?" hilya said as if she did not believe what her father was currently asking for, it seemed selfish for her.

"Zaki is Kyai Rashid's son where you go. How do you never know him?" asked his father Hilya as if he did not believe what his son said at this time.

"Hilya didn't lie to Abi! Hilya does not know about Mas Zaki! Because we've never met before!" hilya said while looking intently at her father.

"Quick Hilya! You quickly change kebaya for ijab kabul. There's no time to argue, Nduk! Look, the hikers are coming!" her mother, Hilya, pulled her daughter's hand into Fatimah's room.

Hilya was completely shocked and confused at this moment. Hilya didn't understand what to do.

But even to resist his father's wishes, it was impossible.

Because Hilya knew, her father had a history of heart disease. His father's health here is at stake.

Finally with a heavy heart, Hilya was allowed to be groomed by the make up artist who called her mother to decorate the bride.

Hilya was wearing the clothes her older sister Fatimah was supposed to wear.

Hilya, who is 20 years old, must be ready to become a wife of Zaki Al Bukhari. A man she never even met. Even in his life before this marriage.

Hilya's father is now approaching Kyai Rashid's family. Looks like Hilya's father is negotiating the change of bride.

They seemed to shake their heads, but then they agreed with what Hilya's father had said. Because they also do not want to bear the shame if the marriage is canceled just like that.

"I'm sorry Mr. Kyai! My first daughter, Fatimah. Who should be married today he has run away from Mr. Kyai's house" said Mr. Toni in a sad voice.

"What's? How come?" looks Kiai Rashid surprised by the news brought by the prospective iron.

"I prepared my second daughter Hilya to take the place of Fatimah in this marriage!" said Mr. Toni provides a solution to their current problems.

"But how can? My future wife just changed?" zaki appears to be protesting.

Even though it was actually in her heart, she felt very happy. Because it means that his marriage with a woman he does not know will fail automatically. Zaki's heart was already feeling very happy.

"All right, Mr. Toni! I agree with your proposal to marry Hilya to our Son Zaki!" incidentally Kyai Rashid does know the figure of Hilya who became a santri in his cottage.

He already knew that Hilya was a Muslim girl and also a Hafizah Candidate who was devout of religion.

The marriage just happened. Without any feelings between the two brides.

"I received the marriage and marriage of Auriza Hilyatul Aulia bint Toni angkasa, with a dowry of a set of prayer tools and also gold weighing 50 grams and money of Rp50,000,000 paid in cash!" zaki said with one breath and finally the marriage was declared legal by the ruler who married them both.

Meanwhile, Hilya who is now in her sister's bridal room. Hilya was crying.

He was saddened, when he listened incensefully to the kabul spoken by Zaki, the son of Kyainya in his current place of lodging, for almost three years.

Coincidentally, Hilya went to college. So not only is he good at religion, he is also a Hafizah. Hilya is also a smart doctor.

Because until now, Hilya is still active as a student at the Faculty of Medicine at a well-known university in Indramayu.

However, now all his dreams have been lost for a moment. Only because of Fatimah, her brother who fled on her wedding day.

Now Hily is the substitute for her brother. To marry a man who is foreign in his eyes.

Zaki Al Buchori is the third son of Kyai Rashid who owns a boarding school in Indramayu. He was a friend of his father when he first went to East Java.

Dear reader can read the life story of Kiai Rashid and his wife qonita as a young boy in my novel entitled:

..."My assalamualaikum ustadz"...

This novel is a continuation of the novel. But specifically talking about Zaki and Hilya, his wife.

Zaki just got back from Egypt. After he finished his studies there, for almost 6 years left Indonesia.

Because his father is old. Therefore, Zaki was betrothed by his father to Fatimah. The daughter of her best friend.

But Fatimah did not take it plainly to her parents, that she rejected the arranged marriage.

So without suspicion, both parents then prepare for their marriage.

Who would have thought, if it turns out Fatimah even fled, when the wedding day was in sight.

Now, this is where Hilya and Zaki end up. The two of them are now trapped in the bridal room that has been prepared by Hilya's parents.

"You don't expect me to touch!" suddenly Zaki broke the silence between the two of them.

"Even I, your wife, am lawful by state and religious law. But I am not willing to touch you either! You don't have to worry!" hilya said while leaving her husband alone.

Zaki seemed to gasp listening to what Hilya said.

Zaki frowned. His pride felt stepped on. When he is not even wanted by the woman he rejects outright.

"Who do you think you are, huh? How dare you reject a Zaki Al Buchori?!" Then Zaki ferociously approached Hilya who was preparing to leave the bridal room.

Suddenly, Zaki pulls Hilya's hand back into their room. Zaki kissed Hilya's lips, which were unprepared for her husband's sudden and violent attack.

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