For A Husband Who Doesn't Love Me
68. Ending

Fathers play with their grandchildren, while mothers are busy with their children's business. Maira's mother is busy helping Maira in the hospital gurney, while Bu Zainab nags at Hidayat.

"Cracked amniotic period is said to wet the bed? You're not learning, are you...? This is what gave birth to your wife, Yat... Had anything happened earlier as a daughter-in-law and granddaughter Mother, Mother would be very angry with you..."

The others just smiled letting Bu Zainab nag her youngest son. They felt funny, because Hidayat also responded with his mother's scolding.

"Mother, Hidayat panicked... Hidayat knew how amniotic, but in the panic at that time, Hidayat did not think..." Hidayat tried to defend himself.

"God, excuse... Don't-don't as long as Maira is pregnant, you often ignore her, huh?" Accuse Ms. Zainab of not believing Hidayat's words.

"Astaghfirullah hal'azhiim, ma'am... Hidayat is not that..." Sangkal Hidayat started to look serious.

"Yes, Mum... Bang Hidayat really became a standby husband for Maira..." Bela Maira's. "Actually Maira did not want to buy a car, but for the sake of Maira, Bang Hidayat insisted on buying... In fact, Brother took a leave of absence after the doctor said that Maira would be born this week..."

Hearing Maira's explanation, then Bu Zainab felt calm.

"We are just our parents, Mai... Let's see every day how you treat this brother's wife..." Hidayat said as he approached Maira.

"Yes... Want it, Dad, Mom?" Maira asked as she looked at her parents and in-laws alternately.

His parents looked at each other, then heaved a heavy sigh. "For now it will, but it can't go on, dear..."

"Yes, Son... We can't leave the village..." So did Bu Zainab.

"Emmm, okay..." Hidayat let out a heavy sigh of disappointment. "But, Mom and Dad the next two months have to stay in our house..."

"Why?" Ask Mrs Zainab.

Hidayat and Maira glanced at each other with a smile. "There is a gift from the late bang Ajiz that we must give..."

"What gift, Yat?" Ask their father at the same time.

"Alhamdulillah, Father and Mother have been called Hajj this year..." Hidayat replied with a hoarse-sounding voice and teary eyes.

Their father and mother heard Hidayat's words. They don't seem to believe knowing it all.

"This year?" Asked his father Maira with a amazed face and reddened eyes.

"Yes, Dad... Dad's happy, right?" Maira continued while looking at her father.

"Dad's very happy, son..." His father answered, hugging him.

"Maa Shayah Allah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar..."

Ms. Zainab and her mother Maira were close to each other. "We're going to the Holy Land, Miss Zainab..."

Bu Zainab nodded. "Our kids are great, Besan..."

Umayyah stepped towards Hidayat who looked at her with haru, then hugged her youngest son very tightly. "Thank you, Yat... I'm proud of you, son..."

Hidayat slowly broke his embrace. "It's a gift from the late bang Ajiz, Dad... Hidayat and Maira just went on... Bang Ajiz cares a lot about your big dreams..."

"Don't Ajiz?" Ms. Zainab was surprised to hear Hidayat's explanation.

"Yes, Mom..." Anguk Maira chimed. "Yes, although it was stopped when the Ajiz bang went bankrupt, but Alhamdulillah thanks to Brother Zahra all recovered..."

"Your brother's broke?" Maira's father was so shocked to hear her words.

"Later after Father and Mother from Mecca, Father and Mother will see for themselves how they hide everything from us..." Sela Hidayat's.

"How is it?"

***

A few months later.

Maira and Hidayat were standing side by side next to Ajiz's burial ground, staring at the tombstone while smiling with relief.

"This is your uncle's funeral, son, Uncle Ajiz, Aunt Zahra's husband..." Maira said to the five-monthly baby in her husband's arms.

"Yes, honey... Even if you never meet them, but you will get to know them better later through our story..." Hidayat whispered in his son's ear.

"Buried side by side does not guarantee that humans will also coexist in the afterlife... But, even though brother Zahra and bang Ajiz were buried at great distances in the land of the earth, Maira was sure they had met long ago there, Bang..." Maira.

"Yes, you are sure of that too... Ajiz bang's desire to go home and stay at our house for the last time has been a sign for us, Mai... It has become a mandate for my brother... Yes, even though you have dodged and tried hard to refuse... I'm sorry Brother for all the mistakes, dear brother... Just this time you dare to speak in front of the tomb bang Ajiz..." Hidayat said with regret.

"Maira had even forgotten about it from a long time ago, Brother... Maira imagined that Maira was the queen of Bilqis, and the brother of king Sulaiman..." Maira breathed out loudly. "Yes, although their story is actually much more amazing, but still our story also feels special to Maira..."

Hidayat nodded, then he grabbed Maira. "We're back home, yeah, honey... Shouldn't honey be ready to get us back to town?"

"Yes, Brother..." Maira walked in her husband's footsteps leaving a lump of soil embedded in her brother's body several years ago.

They entered a simple house belonging to Hidayat's parents. The whole family was gathered waiting for them.

"Dek Bilqis can be the same with Faiza, Aunty Mai?" The eldest daughter of Rianur who had enough girls ran after their arrival.

"Oh Sure, Honey..." Maira answered while giving her son to Faiza carefully.

"Be careful, kid, you're gonna fall..." Exclaimed Rianur who was busy pairing Faiz's belt from a distance.

"Yes, Ma..."

"Come, Mai, I can't wait to see your sister's movie..." Bu Zainab sounded enthusiastic.

"Yes, Mum... Sorry for making me wait so long..."

"Ah, not so... Mother is too much... The movie is tomorrow too..." Said Mrs Zainab then with a cry.

They left for the city that afternoon. Previously had visited both parents Maira first.

In the city was early in the morning the big family of Arya Irawan and also Mr. Miko had been waiting for their presence.

Maa Syaa Allah, such a moving sight. Together they are in a happy atmosphere, united in four big families, Marwan family, Rashid family, Irawan family and Pak Miko family who also gathered there.

Ms. Yanti and her husband, who is considered a family member, also attended the invitation to be together that day, and they will watch Zahrana together in the cinema.

Elephants die leaving tusks, tigers die leaving stripes, and humans die leaving names. So before death comes, we ourselves will decide that our name will be remembered for good or bad by the people we leave in the world.

Indeed, the name Zahrana Habibah Marwan is known very well by the people he left behind. Those who were still alive were so weeping over his passing, and they were so happy for Zahrana's achievement in life. So also with what he left behind, so meritorious and very useful. Not only that, even the story he left behind in a novel he wrote became an example to them.

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