Love For Madinah Girl
Episode 74

While walking away from the fruitful corn garden, Riany protested, "I don't want to have a household hidden between us until the smallest thing."

"We are not married yet" said Al lightly. "So can you please don't tell me the same to you?"

Riany silently pouted. Of course it doesn't seem to be hindered by the niqab, but Al knows the girl is angry.

"Aren't tired of just tugging?" al Sindir. "Why is it that every time we speak the tip always makes a heartache?"

Riany stared intently. "So you're the same as me?"

"When am I willing to marry you if you're a prankster?"

"Don't you be forced at Dad's request."

Al looked in shock. "Now, do you have such thoughts?"

"You're not being honest."

"Say I can be dishonest before marriage, how the hell?"

"Indeed how important was the information Mang Kirman gave me so I shouldn't know?"

"What information?"

"What did Kirman write in the corn garden?"

"Know where Mang Kirman wrote something?"

"Your feet move to wipe it off as if I shouldn't know."

"You see don't I delete something?"

Riany did not see Al deleting a message or any clue, but why would her feet rub the ground if there was nothing?

"Don't get used to suspect that you don't know exactly" Al said casually. "The problem goes everywhere."

"Oh, you are the same!"

"How same?"

"You really suspect I'm the same Lukman!"

Al looked at Riany seriously. "Who suspects anything? Did I ever say anything to you?"

"You're a little changed because of that diary."

If Al had a little change, it wasn't because of the diary. She is not ready to get married so soon. But he did not want to admit in front of Riany. Business is complicated. 

"Let's not change how you mean?" ask Al. "My feeling is still handsome, not turning ugly or becoming a ghost? A little black from the heat of the sun in Saudi."

"Not funny!"

"Where are some cute guys? Lukman funny no?"

Just as Ridwan and Nidar arrive behind them, Al immediately comments, "Well, they're just funny."

"What else came around saying I'm funny?" nidar Protest. "What the hell do you guys look like?"

"Riany said handsome guys aren't funny."

"Well, you say I'm funny, mean I'm ugly dong?"

"What about your future wife?"

"Irma says I'm a handsome man."

"Did he say that?"

"Irma's words always please my heart."

"Wife candidates should be. If the new speech candidate makes enek, how has the household?"

Riany felt shunned. "So I made you sick, did I?"

Al shrug his shoulders a little. He is lazy to serve. The end must be back to the message Mang Kirman wrote in the corn garden. He couldn't possibly tell Riany, the girl must have messed up her plan.

A sense of love that has been fostered for a long time causes a burst of worry that sometimes makes Al uncomfortable. Would that love survive if he took honey? Athaghfirullah! Nothing has been dragged into sunah fantasy!

Returning home, Al finds his mother pacing uneasily on the porch. Must be about Fatimah, what else? When the trouble passed!

"Something's missing, ma'am?" ask Al jokingly. "Aren't tired of pacing?"

"Dad."

"Daddy's time is gone?"

"Lost his loyalty."

"Can't you?"

"This one went with Fatimah."

"Not that it's lost faith, ma'am."

Ma'am Haikal immediately put on a fierce face. "So you're supporting me to take on a new mom?"

"Old mom is more greget." Al smiled trying to melt that strong face. "More sensational."

"Mom didn't come?"

"Mom's kids are already big."

"Dad went with the mosque manager."

"Who said?"

"Al see for yourself."

"Are you just being quiet?"

"It's a talking."

"Why just say it now?"

"The other day."

"Why should Fatimah be invited?"

"Kan ngurus the deceased's treasure."

"Lack of what?"

"The deceased gave his trust to Dad."

"Keep loving Fatimah too?"

It's hard, Al thought wryly. If jealousy has taken hold of the heart, every answer must be suspected.

The increase in living standards in this village does not make the household serene and peaceful, but makes every husband suspicious. Just past the house next door, clothes flew because the husband had just two days to go home, while going on business.

Again, Dad was intentional. Already knew his mother was jealous, and left secretly.

"What's good for?" his father when they met at the mosque. "Your mother trusts Parman more."

"Can tanya?"

"What about?"

"On men."

"What's that?"

"Dad is related to Ustadzah Fatimah?"

"There's."

Fatimah who was standing nearby was startled, instead Al smiled slightly.

"Then you lobby Mom, don't lobby her son. Al does not want the history of Oma repeated. Search sincerely to the Holy Land and end in death."

"What are you doing, by the way?"

"Even if you don't need to ask a wife's permission, you need to see Mom. Don't let this be an exemplary example for your son."

"Father there is a relationship with Ustadzah Fatimah about the property of the deceased gono-gini, that's all. What example do you mean?"

Al almost choked. "It's just about the gono-gini treasure? Not about anything else?"

"What other question? If I never say goodbye, because your mother is always suspicious. Well, let her find out for herself what her husband looks like outside."

"I'm going back to Gaza next month" Fatimah said. "So volunteer."

Al looked at him in shock. "You're going back to Palestine because the ustadz is gone?"

"Soul call."

Call soul or feel no chance to be father's second wife? Thought Al was bland. There was no reason for his father to take honey, other than a handful of orgasms wanting to get a fresher woman.

"Today God willing the transaction to sell the purchase deal," said Mr. Haikal. "Ustadzah Fatimah feels that his existence in this village only invites slander and makes congregational sins."

Al does not believe that their closeness does not ignite the feeling of love. There's gotta. Just wrapped up in their faith.

"Don't abandon something that should be, and don't hold something that shouldn't be. That's Al's message as a child."

He hopes Dad can finish his third-sided love well, without anyone getting hurt. Within a month, everything can happen.

Al wants to forget the problems that happened in his family. There's an important issue to be resolved tonight. Mang Kirman's clue in the corn garden leaves a big question mark.

Al with Nidar and Ridwan gathered at the boarding school to discuss the matter. They don't want pesantren people to know.

"The clue describes Mang Kirman as Ben Muzakir's spy" Nidar said. "Lately, it's been heard that Ben Muzakir wants to have a fight with you."

"Mang Kirman could have robbed his spies" said Ridwan. "They want revenge because five of your friends killed you."

Al and Nidar are shocked. Where does Ridwan know? The problem is only they know.

Ridwan smiled bitterly at their reaction. "Police story. Then I wait for you to come home. I want to be free with pleasure if I can prove the dead man was a robber."

"Then I accept this challenge" said Al. "No matter Ben Muzakir or the herd of robbers who want revenge, I'll come to the meeting place."

They agreed to make a surprise, precede the meeting place and lure the herd of robbers out of the boarding school.