Women of Choice

The Substitute

It had been seven days that the grown-up man looked glumly uninspired. Activities in the campus environment he participated half-heartedly. As if there is no passion for living let alone welcoming a beautiful future. The day before he had planned.

However, plans and wishful thinking cannot be real when destiny says otherwise.

Haidar must learn to sincerely accept the fate and reality that befalls him. The girl who had been entrusted with her real trust is now gone from her life and prefers to be with men who provide more certainty. Haidar only realized the existence of Nina was very influential in his life, after the girl was memorized by another man.

Initially Haidar was so confident that Nina would always reject every proposal that came and always waited for him until he graduated.

Haidar's memories come back to light considering his meeting two weeks ago which turned out to be the last time they met.

That afternoon Haidar invited Nina to meet in the town square of Menes. He intends to take a novel book titled When Love Bertasbih belongs to his friend who he loaned to Nina.

To avoid slander Nina invites her best friend, Lyra. To accompany him when meeting Haidar.

The atmosphere of Menes square is quite crowded. Along the edge of the field is surrounded full of food and beverage vendors lined up to the shoulder of the road. The peak of the crowd is usually at the end of the afternoon and evening people come and go from various corners around the Menes area and surrounding areas.

There was no long and serious conversation when Nina met Haidar. As if there was nothing between them. Because at that time there was no courage in Nina's heart to tell her the truth. If in the near future he will be proposed by another man.

Nina still showed an attitude as if everything was fine. After the woman handed over the novel book that she had borrowed and finished reading it until the end. He was even busy chatting with Lyra regardless of the presence of Haidar standing beside him.

Before they split, Haidar gave Nina blue money to buy ice and meatballs together with Lyra. While Haidar himself chose to go directly to the place of kotsan without accompanying Nina and Lyra when ordering two bowls of meatballs their favorite food.

"Nin, Lo did not invite Brother Haidar to eat meatballs with us first, is that it? ask Lyra.

"No, Iah" answered Nina short.

***

Some time ago, Haidar did not realize that Nina had started to know Nizam.

That afternoon after the Zuhur prayer, because there was no schedule. Haidar intends to contact Nina by mobile phone. He made almost five calls to Nina's cell phone number. But, it's not answered. Haidar does not know if it is the first day Nina meets Nizam.

At the same time, Nina looked confused when she saw the name of Haidar on the phone screen calling her up to several calls. Nina's little heart was eager to receive that phone call.

However, Nina was not happy because in front of her there was Nizam who was busy chatting with his parents. The woman chose to ignore the phone call from Haidar.

***

Just now Haidar was about to close his eyes. Suddenly he was startled by the sound of a loud ringing phone right beside his ear.

In her heart she hoped Nina would call back. Upon seeing who was calling, it turned out that his guess had missed a distance. Because what Haidar saw was the name on his phone's glass screen, Vita. Who is none other than his own cousin. Out of curiosity, there was news from his family, Haidar immediately pressed the answer button and immediately connected.

"Hello ... Vit, what's up, what, Tumben called Aa?"

"Where is Haidar now? Again at the Nina Tea house where is it?" Vita Cecar.

"Aa now in the boarding house is not going anywhere. Is there a Vit, how does it sound so frantic?"

"No idea, so who's there in Nina's tea house?"

"No, why? who is it?"

"So Vita called Teh Nina's number. But, who raised the voice of a man, his voice was similar to that of Kak Nizam."

"Yes, where does Vita know."

Haidar was silent for a moment. His mind began to guess itself. Is it true that the man named Nizam who used to be his cousin's future husband will now seriously choose and propose Nina.

Haidar only realized, he had contacted Nina but not once did the girl answer a phone call from him. Could it be true what Vita said that there was currently a special guest at Nina's house?

"Yes, later that night Aa called Teh Nina again to make sure," Haidar told Vita, before hanging up the phone.

***

"Haidar .. I didn't expect it, anyway, same lo! It's very clever of you to hide a big problem like this by yourself." The sudden words of Amir made Haidar gasp from his long daydream.

Amir is one of his closest and closest boarding friends with Haidar. A few months ago the fate of Amir was almost the same as his friend. Must be willing and sincerely left out of marriage by the woman he yearns for. For the same reason because they are still students and not yet established and can not grant his lover's request to marry him immediately.

Now that terrible fate is also befalling Haidar his own friend.

"Lo, married, right, same Nina?" amir's search.

"Oh, hell, Lo, you know, ah!"

"Leave said yes, doang too, still closed. Hey ... yesterday Nina, had time to call me, nanyain news and make sure you are here, worried about you depression or hanging yourself. Kan, horror if you enter the morning newspaper news there is a student who committed suicide due to being left married," led by Amir while laughing at the fate of ngenes that is befalling his best friend.

"Whisper, Lo, Mir, get out sono!" drive Haidar away with bulging eyes.

"Udah, please don't break his heart for long. I was strong once, when married with Sani. The proof until now I'm still alive, aren't I?" Amir still continues to tease Haidar.

"Everything if not ready for marriage, do not like PHP-in children people. Let's not hit the stone kek gini," concluded Amir has not stopped commenting.

"Hasn't you tausiyah?" sela Haider.

" Ye .. spelled out, even so. Yes, I've pulled it."

Haidar's mind began to look back, after making sure Amir had moved away from the room area. His current mind is thinking about the fate of Vita, his cousin. Worrying can not control themselves and have not been able to accept the fact that it turns out that the man who is desired instead moves to another heart that no other person who had time will be part of their extended family.

***

Haidar unexpectedly when he came home to his mother. He is asked to marry Vita in the hope that the girl can forget Nizam. Haidar is overwhelmed with anxiety. How could the man marry the woman he had always considered his own biological brother?

However, the other side of the heart of the man could not refuse because since sitting on the bench of Junior High the handsome man had been living in the house of the uwa after the departure of his parents because of a consecutive accident when he wanted to go out of town. Haidar feels indebted to his family.

"Since Vita kept himself locked up in the room, Wa?" ask Haidar. His face hinted at worry.

"It has been almost two weeks since Vita learned that Nizam was married to another girl" Wa Sumiyah replied.

"Uwa is worried that Vita is doing unwanted things. For two weeks Vita did not want to eat," continued the half-century-old woman staring softly at Haidar.

Haidar did not expect that his soul mate was so close that his own cousin. If only the man knew his destiny would be like this, he would never open his heart to another woman who is not necessarily his soul mate.

Some time after Nina left, the man was worried that he could not find a girl who would accept him. It is very clear in the Quran.

It means: "And among His signs (greatness) is that He created pairs for you of your own kind, so that you may tend and feel at ease with him, and He has made among you a feeling of love and affection (QS: Assyria verse: 11)