
Al could not hide the chaos of thought in front of his wife. The news was too powerful to have his brain recorded. His head was throbbing so he needed a medicine.
Aisha asked him to take the train. The natural panorama along the road is very shahdu to enjoy, compared to the view of traffic jams on the highway. Wulandari and Lin Wei agreed they boarded the carriage.
Aisyah likes to see the natural panorama. On the motorway to stop several times if there is a very interesting view, take pictures or just spoil the eyes. Something he didn't get in Al Khanza.
"I wonder his ashes are covering me," Al said as he walked down the corridor leading to the ICU room. His steps seemed to float. "She usually told me about what happened to Aisyah. Her daughter's coming late in the month I've come to know."
"Abi Rashid suspected it was you who made the moon late."
"I can't make the moon come fast or late."
"But you can leak water into the reservoir. The wife dam has not been broken into."
Riany said those words just to get rid of the tension on her husband's face. Al has not recovered properly. He could fall ill again because he thought of Aisha.
Al considers the speech a form of diversion so that he does not always pay attention to Aisyah, so it seems less appropriate in the situation of his mind is very chaotic.
Al became a husband not to stop caring about his three friends. He can't forbid them to love him, it's their right, like Riany can't forbid Lukman to love him because it's Lukman's right.
The status of husband and wife is only to legalize things that are illegal so halal, and applies only to them. Not everything has to change.
Or is Riany proud to be loved by a third person in building a household mahligai? Had this happened, they would have built a fragile foundation.
Al saw Abi Rashid standing near the door of the corridor leading to the ICU room. That door is the limit for public traffic. Behind the door, there is a row of ICU rooms for the treatment of various diseases.
The middle-aged man looked tough to face the calamity that befell his son. He greeted Al with a smile.
"You got a walk, Al?" ask Abi Rashid. "Today I haven't stopped by your room."
"Thank God, I can go home tomorrow morning. So Abi doesn't have to bother looking at me."
Al knew that Abi Rashid was going back and forth to his room not just to see the progress of his condition, there was something to talk about, but there was no chance because Riany was always by his side.
For Al, the wife is not a hindrance to talking about other women. He felt that there was a strange thing about talking behind Riany's back. Furthermore, he feared that Riany did the same, even though there were different rules for wives, not in all aspects of gender equality.
Abi Rashid may have read about his wife's character. Riany does not distinguish between friendship and problems that undermine the household. For him, the affairs of friends can disrupt household order, but not necessarily.
Al was mistaken that all in his brain was his wife, children, and household affairs. Status only limits caring and socializing, not shackling.
"Abi didn't tell me what happened to Aisyah" Al complained. "You are like my own family."
If it is like his own family, it means Aisyah already feels like his own wife, Riany quipped in heart. He had a hard time dispelling jealousy, even though he had convinced his heart that Aisyah was only a friend.
Maybe because friends can be called wives!
"Is it because I already have a wife that Abi hesitates to tell?" ask Al. "My wife's okay, Abi. He understood the meaning of Aisha to me."
"So your wife doesn't matter?" abi Rashid wants to make sure.
Riany smiled sweetly even though it felt bitter in the heart. "I have a problem that Abi is closed to my husband so that it becomes my husband's mind."
Al did not know the words were innuendo or out of the sincerity of his heart. He should give signs to his wife if not all the behavior of the husband to other women should be suspected.
"My wife has a close male friend" Al said. "He paid the same attention when Lukman was in trouble, and I had no problem. So my wife doesn't care if Abi opens up to me. Abi heard his confession."
Riany knows her husband brought up the past to make it clear that his departure with Lukman is not an issue that needs to be over-reacted. So Al asked his wife not to suspect her special treatment in the calamity that befell Aisha.
But Riany has no love for Lukman among the thousands of days they go through. That's Al?
She was hard-pressed that every single issue of Aisyah received special attention from her husband!
Al looked at the man dressed in kurta and sirwal was as straight as he could. "Why Aisyah? She loves me? Lukman loves my wife too. He even looked for a future wife who was all similar. Am I in trouble? I was selfish to forbid my wife to break the friendship when Lukman was doomed. The important thing is there are rules that should not be broken."
I cannot break that rule, Riany said in her heart. Because I don't want to part with you. But you can take Aisyah without needing to part with me!
Riany's mind drifted far away, but they came to visit Aisyah. Just swiping it was so excited his heart, what if the road in that direction was open?
Between Riany and Al there has been nothing, so there is nothing to worry about yet. They just have a reasonable bond to go both and sleep one room.
Riany was sorry for the foolish decision that had been taken. She should fill the bridal night with a cup of intimacy, not curb a passionate husband. Al did not want to take the right without the willingness of his wife.
He was too late to change his decision because Al had already given him the opportunity to achieve what he aspired to.
Riany only realized that Al had different attention on Aisyah since the departure of Oma. And it was not because his wife did not take away the very woman he loved. There was something else that made Al shift his attention.
Riany thought. Al's anger at the abuse committed by the three looters, is it true because he does not want his best friend to be treated contemptuously? Not because it is not willing there is a man who first touched Aisyah's body, even though it is limited to fingering?
The prejudice messed up his mind.
Abi Rashid tells the story of the calamity that befell Aisyah that they already knew from the lawyer. At the end of the story, he looks beautiful. "I'm confused how to convey to my son. He should know what's going on right away. The doctor has already urged me."
"Then why hasn't Abi delivered yet?" ask Al.
"I know who deserves to deliver. My son needs the support of the man he loves. Even though I know his hope is hollow."
Al smiled a little. "I know Aisha's love is not blind love. I see the nobility of his love more to a friend. I don't see him trying to charm me, or trying to tease me."
Since he depended on fate, Sambar Riany was inwardly. And he believes destiny will unite you!
"So what do you think?" ask Abi Rashid.
"I'm trying to explain, and I don't want him to be ruined by it."
Al pressed the bell on the wall. Sister came to open the corridor door.
"Can I help you, sir?" ask the sister kindly.
"I'd like to see the patient in room 301."
Sister smile. "Wait another fifteen minutes, sir. The clock just opened."
"I wonder what hospital the cinema is waiting to open."
"The rules are so."
"Well, there's five minutes left. How important is five minutes to the hospital? Not necessarily the wall clock is right."
"I'm just doing my job."
"I know duty does not work if there is no you. So the decision is on you. I walked into the ICU for more than five minutes. My question is, the clock is valid for the patient or to wait here?"
"alright, Sir. Please come in."
"Obviously it should be welcome because the clock is right."
"Only one person yes, sir. Replacement."
"I thought gasoline just stood in line." Al looked at Riany. "You don't mind me holding Aisyah alone?"
Riany shook her head and smiled sweetly. "Whatever you say on the inside, your wife is faithfully waiting outside."