I Was the Second
Seven

Zia and Maryam arrive at their rented house, of course delivered by Rayhan and Alfina. Zia rested on the mattress lying on the floor, because they had no bed. He wanted to close his eyes, try to sleep, but his mind still spun on Alfina's offer earlier.

"Maryam," call Zia.

"Yes Umma" Maryam placed the doll she was playing with near the bed.

"Maryam, for example, is there a new Abi?" asked Zia, trying to ask the opinion of the child alone.

"Mau Umma" he said with sparkling eyes.

"Maryam has sincerely called upon others who are not Baba Ilyas as Maryam's father?" ask Zia again.

Mary was silent for a moment, she seemed to think.

"Maryam loved Baba Ilyas, but Baba could not come back Umma, Umma said that Maryam longed enough to pray for Baba, and Maryam became a good child, and, let Baba also get a reward from Allah, and later Maryam can meet again with Baba in heaven," said Maryam.

"Yes, my dear God, how is it going?" ask Zia.

"Yes, you want a new Abi, but does anyone want to be Maryam's brother?" ask Mary back.

"It is Allah, son, if anyone proposes to Umma, and marries Umma, it must be Maryam's ashes, and in Shea Allah will love Maryam" Zia said.

"Yes Umma,"

"Saturday after school we will go to the house uti and akung ya," said Zia. He asked his parents for permission to remarry.

"Yee fun, we have not been there for a long time Umma," exclaimed Maryam excited.

Zia deliberately did not tell that who will be the father continued Maryam is Rayhan his brother Sulaiman who he had known and loved so far, Zia was afraid if this marriage plan failed, Zia said, Mary will be very sad and disappointed.

While at the fried chicken shop, Alfina was frying a few pieces of chicken for the contents of the display. With Rayhan and Fatimah.

"Al," call Rayhan.

"Yes Mas" said Alfina immediately approached her husband.

"Do you really want me to get married again?" ask Rayhan.

"He is, really" said Alfina.

"Come on bothering you?"

"Yes not Mas, it's good that someone helps you turn to take care of Rayhan," Alfina kept smiling.

"I am a burden to you?" ask Rayhan.

"Yee .. not that, to be able to practice yourself, so far we only know the theory, must be patient, must be sincere, must be aware that all just deposit, including Mas Rayhan, must be aware, and let me just focus, lean on God, not creatures,"

"But don't let you regret Al,"

"God will not be Mas, Bismillah,"

"I'm just a human being, I'm going to keep trying to be fair to you two, but there are times when I might accidentally hurt you, forgive me, and never ask for a divorce from me, or I divorce her, never yeah, I don't want no divorce in my life,"

"Yes Mas, in shay'ah Allah I am ready with all that, I have also asked Zia deck, if she wants to be my middle sister,"

"Huh? Already?" Rayhan was surprised, because instead Zia was still unwell.

"Yes.already,"

"So what's he saying?" ask Rahyan.

"Not giving you an answer, I give you a week, so he can think and also talk about it with his family, it's not a simple matter, let alone the view of the cloud about polygamy, so the second wife, he said, it must have been hard for him to make a decision as well" Alfina said.

Rayhan hugged Alfina, peeping at the headscarf wrapped in a headscarf.

"For this week we also pray, that God will surely God will ease everything" said Rayhan while continuing to embrace Alfina.

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On Saturday after Maryam went to school, Zia planned to take Maryam to visit her parents out of town.

But when Zia parked her bike on the terrace, there was an online taxi stop in front of their rented house.

"Father, Mother .." said Zia who was surprised, because they did not give any news of the coming.

"Zijah... Maryam. .." said Mother.

"Nuts...Akong...." Maryam ran up to them, kissed the back of her hand and hugged them both. So did Zia, kiss the back of her father's mother's hand with reverence and immediately help them carry luggage into the house.

"Sister of the same mother who did not know before, if I was the same Maryam is not in the house how?" ask Zia.

"Where are you going back to the village?" ask father back.

"I'm the same Maryam wants to see the father of the mother, the bag is ready, '" Zia showed me the bag of clothes she finished packing this morning.

"Ma shaa Allah, means we are sehati nduk," said the mother.

"Yes father and mother rest first, I get food for lunch later" said Zia.

"No need to nduk, it's in the cardboard there are vegetables the same fruit, in the box there is tofu, the same tilapia fish from pamang, we cook aja yuk, mother kangen cook with you," said the mother.

"Ah yes, but are you not tired, after the long journey immediately cook,"

"No, I want masakin's little granddaughter, this mother" said the mother.

Finally, Zia helped her cook in the kitchen, while Maryam played with her grandfather in the living room.

"Actually the same mother came here to invite you to Maryam return to the village alone nduk," said the mother.

"Why is it, Mom?"

"You're not so good, here nothing is expensive, you're also not mahrom here anymore,"

Zia thought, there is a point also what her mother said, she has no more mahrom, but what about the education of Maryam, in the village there is no Islamic school, no Muslim school, if he had to teach himself his knowledge has not been there, if in an ordinary school, he was afraid he could not equip Maryam religious knowledge early on.

"Unless you get married again, then you can calmly leave you here" continued the mother.

"Haa.." said Zia choked.

"That's Mom, actually someone wants to propose to Zia," he said later.

"Isn't he? Why didn't you tell me mom?"

"Yes, I plan to go home and say father mother" said Zia.

"Why Ma'am?" ask the man who will take a drink in the kitchen.

"Here, Zia says someone wants to propose to her" said the mother.

"Who's nduk?" ask dad.

"There is, but the problem is that he has a wife, and Zia is made a second wife" Zia said hesitantly, fearing that her parents would get angry. But slowly he told everything to his mother, how Alfina herself asked Zia to be his honeymoon sister.

"Well, are you ready to be honey at all costs?" ask father. Zia nodded.

"Then today ask them to come, you want to get to know him" said the father.