Betting Love Above Destiny
1 Call Before Shajuh

An unknown number filled his phone screen. The numbers are so many and long, not as usual. It was that, which made the girl's hand feel heavy to receive the phone that had robbed her of her slumber. In fact, almost a minute already ringing the phone is asking for attention from those who have.

"Why not get caught?" asked Davina, who had watched her friend's reaction to the midnight phone call for a long time.

"Unknown numbers, a lot of them, too" he said with hesitant eyes, it sparked Davina's curiosity to look at the same phone screen.

"Meidina, this is Kayak code from abroad" Davina said.

"Autside the country? Whoa, who called me from abroad, at this hour." The girl beraras ayu looked at the wall clock, the needle leads to the number 3 in the morning. Tahajjud.

"To know, just pick it up!" Davina's proposal.

Although with a sense of doubt that lingered in the heart, finally his fingers moved also to pick up the phone.

"Assalamualaikum, Madina Shafa." The voice of the caller from across, the voice of a man who when he heard it alone, Madina immediately felt the chest, because the sudden heartbeat was more powerful than usual.

"Waalaikumsalam" he said in a soft voice and almost stuck in the throat.

"Sorry, I'm bothering you, Madina."

"Eye." The girl still remained with her chokedest mode.

"It's me, Rayyan Ali Fattan."

The more he explains who he is, Madina Shafa's heart rate, the more it can't be conditioned. Actually, from her voice alone, the girl can already guess, if she is the son of Kyai Muhajir, the nanny of the boarding school Darul ulum. The place where Madina Shafa and Kanza Davina devoted their knowledge as teachers of the Diniyah Madrasah there. Darul Ulum pesantren, which paved the way for Davina and Madina to study Kulliyatul Muallimin in Al-Hasyimi pesantren, where they are studying now.

The girl was still in disbelief if the handsome and reserved crown prince Darul Ulum called her.

"Yes, Ra." Madina's voice responded. Ra, is an abbreviation for Lora. Lora is the name for Kyai's son in Darul Ulum. Since Rayyan Ali Fattan was the son of Kyai the caretaker of the Darul-Ulum boarding school, he was called Lora.

The question word by calling the short name, makes Davina who wants to get out of the guesthouse, still stop her steps and look towards her best friend. The look in his eyes emitted an unspoken question with a word. But Madina Shafa only focused on the caller.

"How are you?" ra Fattan asked, and that was enough to unravel the nervousness felt by Madina.

"Good, Ra."

"Some in Alhasyimi?"

"Yes, Alhamdulillah."

"Still a long lesson?" Such a flat question tone is indeed one of the characteristics of a Rayyan Ali Fattan. Flat and authoritative.

"About four months, Jenengan's back in Darul Ulum, Ra?" ask Madina slowly.

"No. I'm still in Al-Azhar."

"Oh." And the more astonished Madina's feelings, who knew that Kyai Muhajir's son called her from Cairo. Far-away. What is it, the young man who has been there for two years, suddenly called him in the time before dawn.

"Bra pray for me, Madina. Maybe only your prayers can make me feel calm." Fattan's voice sounded heavy as she said so.

"Today, I often remember you . And that makes me less able to focus. I'm working on a thesis right now."

"Oh" Madina could only throw her breath on hold. He did not fully understand what Rayyan Ali Fattan said.

"Pray me yes, and let's wash what I'm feeling." Why did Ra fattan's voice when he said that sound softer in hearing, was it because he said with all his feelings. Uh. Madina did not dare to guess, let alone conclude. He chose to be busy to interpret his own feelings that felt vibrating because of hearing such words.

And in the end, after a few silent jokes, he said, "Yes, Ra, I pray, and I iklashkan."

"Thank you, thank you, Madina, I .." until that sentence, suddenly Ra Fattan's voice disappeared, and what was heard later was the tone tut...

Looks like the connection was disconnected, or it was deliberately disconnected. Madina fell silent with a misty heart. He looked at his cellphone which was no connection activity there. Even with how dare he dial the number. However, it was only the return of that deafening tone that filled his hearing room.

"Ra Fattan called you?" ask Davina who has been a witness to everything.

"Yes" said Madina.

"He called from Cairo, yes" Davina guessed. Because currently, Kyai Muhajir's son is indeed taking a graduate program at a famous University, in Cairo.

Madina just nodded.

"Why be lethargic, Din? What did he say?"

"He only asked for my prayer, he said he was working on a thesis" Madina said.

"Yes," said Davina, as if she knew about it.

"But ..." Madina seemed hesitant to continue her words.

"Why?" Davina showed a smile, and it made the doubts in Madina blur. Unworthy, even including sins if you have to doubt friends who are like brothers. There is a bond between Kanza Davina and Madina Shafa.

"He asked for my prayers and sincerity, he often did not focus on doing his thesis, because he often remembered me. What does that mean, Vina?"

"Do you really not understand, Din?" Davina stared fixedly at Madina Shafa who seemed to be shaking slowly. A silence that shows no confidence. He said he did not fully understand the meaning of the words, it felt like a lie. Madina is very smart and sensitive. In KM, or abbreviation of kulliyatul Muallimin, he is the chairman of BES, the executive board of santri. Equivalent to BEM in the lecture level.

But, keep in mind, understanding about taste, is not only needed intellectually intelligent. Because of the taste, the mouth is in the heart. And no one can understand the heart, nor the language of the heart, except with the heart. And what about this, Madina also has not understood? Answers already. Only, if it was about the heart, he wanted to be more careful. Moreover, this was about someone who had been enthroned in the heart secretly all this time. A known person is always careful in every word and action. Madina, obviously did not want to rush to draw any conclusions.

Another case with Davina, when she told Madina, what was the review and the reason, all of it was not the results of arbitrary assessment, but after passing the previous study. Unofficial review, which he has done for quite a long time.

"Madina, Ra Fattan always thinks of you. Always thinking of you, until he can't focus on working on his thesis. That's why he asks for your prayers and sincerity for what he feels." Davina said, explaining.

Madina. He doesn't understand, but just doesn't want to misunderstand.

"And the whole point of it all is, Ra Fattan likes you" Davina continued.

Madina was still silent, she just stared at her best friend for a while and refused to switch eyes. Davina immediately came out of their room and did not add any information. Because he also knew, if his friend who is ayu did not understand what he said.