
"Neating, right?"
Meidina shook her head with a smile, but tears were ready to burst out.
"Thank you for coming" he said, and immediately embraced his three companions in turn.
"Don't cry, it's your happy day." Nabila rubbed his shoulders.
"I miss you guys." Meidina looked at them one by one.
"We are too, Ma'am." Zaskia re-embraced the bride-to-be again. And they hugged each other again.
"You know, who called us to come to see you?" Davina asked, after they broke each other's arms. Meidina shakes.
"Bu nyai Sharifah. He met us at the guesthouse, after the shajuh congregation," said Davina.
"Oh God." Meidina says haru.
"True, he seems to understand very well, if you miss us very much," said Nabila who was accepted by Zaskia.
"What does that mean, if you don't tell ummi, you won't see me?" Tukas Meidina with a peeking look.
"Don't get me wrong, Ning Adin. We've drawn up a thousand and one plans to meet you. From plan A to Plan Z nothing is realized. Know why? Because we were too awkward to go into the dhem without being called first." Nabila explained that.
Meidina understood, if they would not immediately come to visit dhelem, if there was no call from one of the family caregivers, or indeed have an interest that requires to go there. Longing for their friends, may also not include reasons that can make them dare to visit the personal shelems of shaykhona, which is inhabited by Meidina today.
Indeed, since getting out of the hospital two days ago, Meidina immediately stayed at the dhelem kyai nanny, in central Alhasyimi. That means, he was separated from his friends. Not only that, until the marriage contract occurs, Meidina also should not take lessons in KM first, and should focus on rest to restore health. As a result, he only stayed in a private room that was already provided. Sometimes there was santri dhelem who accompanied him. But, accompanied by them is certainly not the same as the three friends at Wisma.
The ayu girl had stung her mind, not yet Rafka's wife, she already felt like she was in a golden cage.
And on this day, where the marriage contract between Meidina and Rafka mas will be held on Friday prayers, suddenly the three friends who he had missed were present knocking on the door of the room. Meidina felt so happy not to be a reed.
"Where?" Meidina asked especially for Davina, after now they sat together on a thick fur carpet, which was spread out in the middle of the room with a very large size.
"Yes, I .. I may arrive at Darul-ulum, before dhuhur, on Sunday tomorrow. Together ... Ra Fattan." Davina still shows awkwardness when telling. Seen from the sentence that is not so smooth, there are still some terms and pauses that are quite long.
"So, you guys talked?" Meidina asked that with a smile.
Davina nodded.
Two days ago, when Meidina came home from the hospital, unexpectedly, Izzat-sister mas Rafka-who came to pick up with his wife to the hospital. They also shared a ride back to Alhasyimi. Davina was supposed to be in a car with Ning Zaskia and Azmi. But, arriving at the parking lot, Ra Fattan came to pick up. Then that is the time and opportunity that God may give them to speak.
When his friends had gone home in their cars, Davina and Ra Fattan were still standing far apart, occasionally looking at each other, but neither of them started the conversation.
"Eh Ra." Davina braced herself to speak first. However he was aware, the presence of the handsome young man to the hospital was to pick him up. It's not good if he just silences it. After all, everything about Ra Fattan and Meidina has been revealed clearly, either from the side of the son of the Muhajir, or from Meidina Shafa. And Davina also understands everything.
"What time is it going back to Darul Ulum tomorrow?"
After asking that, Davina clucked herself in the heart, because she felt that the arrangement of words she said was less neat and not systematic. It must be the result of nervousness that still envelops the heart. However, fortunately Ra Fattan understood. Because he answered the question with very simple words.
"After the study of the book, ba'da jamaah shajuh."
"Ee sa-I want to come, Ra," said Davina quickly.
Despite feeling very happy with this sweet girl's words, Ra Fattan still seems to want to be sure with his question. "You want to go home too?"
"Yes, at the inauguration of our engagement, only the genengan was there, Ra. I also wanted to attend" Davina replied, and before the answer was perfectly pronounced, her head had lowered first.
"You sure?"
"God willing."
"From heart?"
"Yes, Ra."
"Alhamdulillah." Kalam gratefully was also spoken from Ra Fattan along with the look of his face that sparkled.
"Alhamdulillah. Come hug first." Meidina spread out both her hands.
Davina immediately hugged her best friend with a sense of sadness and happiness.
"Hopefully be happy, Davina."
"Amen. You are also Ning Adin. Today is the most historic day of your life. May your happiness begin from this day until the end of your life."
"Amen." Nabila and Zaskia follow the prayer said by Davina. While Meidina herself looks a pair of neutrals are glazed.
"How's it?" Nabila looks to raise next to his eyebrows.
"What?" Meidina asked back.
"Here you can meet Rafka every day."
Meidina simply smiled, and gave no answer.
"To be sure, it's Mbak" said Zaskia.
Seen Meidina shakes. "We never met at all" he said.
"Huh?" The shocked expression came simultaneously from Davina, Nabila and Zaskia.
"Correct?" tanya Nabila could hardly believe it.
"Yes. Last time I met, it was time to get home together from that hospital."
"Didn't Rafka live here, too? What stays in his old house huh." Zaskia made her own estimate. Meidina shook her head, as she also did not know for sure.
During his time in this grand residence, he never asked about Arafka to anyone, including the two santri dhelem who often accompanied him, even though they were increasingly familiar with various casual chats, he said, every time together.
Who occasionally met him was also his wife Mas Izzat, but they could not be said close enough because of limited interaction patterns. His wife mas Izzat who was from Makkah, was accustomed to communicating with Arabic, there was only one or two Indonesian vocabulary that he understood. So, if in the pattern of interaction alone between two women kyai's son-in-law is not so smooth, then how could his wife mas Izzat talk about Irfan Arafka Wafdan.
Moreover, Nyai Syarifah, he was among the most frequent to meet Meidina. Every morning, he invited his youngest son's wife to sit casually in the flower garden behind the residence. Every afternoon he also talked together. Bu nyai was like teaching Meidina to be familiar with the dhelem suasna, especially her people. But, not once did Sharifah's mother talk about her youngest son, or just simply say the name Arafka.
"Maybe you're on your toes huh, Ning Adin. So you can't see Rafka yet" Davina said.
"It can be," said Nabila. Although they all know that pingitan culture does not occur among the Alhasyimi extended family.
"Maybe let Rafka and Ning Adin miss each other" Zaskia said.
"For sure." Again Nabila appeared to agree to this opinion as well. "Kangen, isn't Ning the same as Mas Rafka?" ask her again. Meidina answered with a small smile. "Kangen is sure." Nabila decided for himself the answer that Meidina did not refute.
"Well yes, the real kangen is red face," Davina pointed to Meidina's face that made her face feel even hotter.
"What the hell," tepis Meidina as she slightly poke Davina's shoulder.
"No more papa. Kangen is the same prospective husband, mandatory," Davina said while chuckling.
"That's not wrong what was said by ustadz Fadil," said Nabila while looking at his three friends.
"When we were about to get home from the hospital, remember not ustadz Fadil said what the same Ning Adin said," he said again. Which makes each self so turn the memory back. Back at the events of two more days in the hospital, fifteen minutes before mas Izzat came to pick up.
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"Right, Ning felt no need to ask Rafka's feelings for you?"
"Yes, because I believe, he is full of responsibility, and can fulfill what has become a necessity," Meidina replied steadily.
"Well, if you don't feel the need to question my feelings, then I won't ask you how you feel about me either. Let us live everything according to heart, and with all our heart" Arafka told Meidina Shafa. Immediately accepted by the girl. Agree and obey.
"But I feel sure that Mas Rafka is in love with you, Ning Meidina," said Ustadz Fadil.