You're Not the First

Sah

A marriage I never expected but had to do as a form of my dedication to my parents.

I never thought I'd get married in front of a corpse.

In the mosque, the body of the mother was covered in cloth and ready to be dispatched after previously bathed, in a caravan and saluted.

In front of the body of the mami, Abah Fani and Koko Basofi sat cross-legged facing each other and ready to carry out ijab qobul.

"Well....!!!!!" Witnesses said it with witnesses.

My tears fell again, officially I have become a wife of Basofi Sudirman. The man I was betrothed to was also my superior.

I who sat and leaned against the wall could only cry without sobbing.

" mommy.... Fiah is married to Koko. Sorry Fiah ya miii....." I said without a sound just moving my lips.

Mama immediately hugged me while whispering, "May you be happy, baby...."

The hajj maam sitting next to me also tried to strengthen me by rubbing my shoulders. I was too shocked by this big event. Like being hit with an invisible sledgehammer.

I was so shocked when my mother breathed her last near me. So foolish was I who was insensitive to the signals he was conveying. I was even engrossed in talking to Reyhan's brother when Koko and her family were waiting for her. What kind of child am I?

My eyes scanned the mummy's body that was lifted up and placed inside the coffin. I wanted to stop him but my body didn't have the strength to stand up and go with him.

"Innalilahi wainnailaihi... Returned to the Grace of the Mother Soraya bin Abdulloh before us all........." Abah Fani stood in front of the coffin and gave a speech before the body was buried.

Basofi approached Sofiyah who was sitting between her mother and Fani's wife. The two women soon shifted to make room for the newly married couple.

"Wanna go to the funeral?" Basofi asked his wife on one leg.

Sofiyah nodded her head without seeing her husband's face.

"I'll get the car first...." Basofi said as he looked at his wife whose face was still wet with melted tears.

"I'm carrying...!" Basofi said as he folded his shirt sleeves.

"Yeah-laaannn!!" His tears fell down profusely as he insisted on his will, forcing it to be granted.

"Come...!" Basofi raised Sofiyah to his feet and immediately wiped her out. Because it was still a shock Sofiya could not walk quickly. Basofi immediately lifted the body of Sofiyah ala bridal style because the mourners did not immediately leave because they were waiting for them.

"Detach...!! Shame Ko!!!" Sofiya pinched Basofi with the remnants of the power he had.

If usually the newlyweds walk to the pelaminan, they ⁶ embrace to the funeral of the last resting place of the mother who had breathed her last following the father.

"La ilaha illallah La ilaha illallah......!":

Basofi grabbed the waist of Sofiyah who resigned because it did not have the strength and power to resist. Also, she hopes that her mother who is now in a different realm can see herself and her husband making out and happy. They also walked with the body of the mother to the tomb, to her final resting place

"If I'm not strong, I'm fat....!!" Basofi told his new wife.

Sofiya did not reply with words. He only further tightened his arms around Basofi's waist.

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Alhamdulillahot... The show's done. Although since the morning cloudy covering and the rain fell then stopped for a while then fell again and then stopped so steadily until just before Maghrib. Thank God before the event the sky was clear and the event went smoothly even though many invitations did not come and here and there are still many shortcomings.

Thank God it's over, relieved. Plongs.

Hopefully tomorrow can be up every day ndang khatam ndang wes. Change the story again.

Btw Married in front of the body I know when I passed to the brother of my sister-in-law. They were married before his father's body was buried.