Loving You Through Do'A
9. Conflicts

That day Zahra decided to visit Bela to her house, because she had not attended school for three days. But when Zahra called and said that she was going to the house, Bela always refused her presence and spoke that she was fine.

There was something that his best friend had hidden. When the break came, Zahra saw Akbar on the basketball court. Their eyes met, and Zahra decided to go down and watch the basketball.

Actually Zahra wanted to ask about Bela to Akbar, because since his speech a few days ago he did not enter school. After playing basketball Akbar approached Zahra and sat next to him and made a distance between the two.

"No PKL?" Zahra asked started the second conversation.

"Honest holiday. Tumben you down?" Tanya Akbar drank his mineral water.

"There's something I want to ask you." Answer Zahra.

Akbar scrunched his forehead, "what?"

"You know Bela?" Ask Zahra.

"Defend your best friend?"

Zahra nodded, "yes."

"Why him?" Ask Akbar.

"A few days ago, when you went to the isa room, Bela wanted to talk to you. Emm..."

Zahra was confused and Akbar still listened to Zahra.

"He said... Her.. Men..."

"Love me?" Cut Akbar.

Zahra was surprised and accepted.

"Bela did tell me, but I'm not dating Zahra. He asked me to date and date, I couldn't be like them, I just wanted to be in His way."

"Then Bela?" Zahra asked who was worried about her best friend's situation.

"Defending a smart woman, she understands what I'm saying. He's not begging like any other woman to make me his girlfriend." Reply Akbar.

"Since then Bela has been ill. She doesn't go to school for three days, every time I go to her house, she says, she's fine." Zahra.

"You mean... Bela's sick because I refused her love?" Ask Akbar again.

"I don't know either. But, I went to Mika who was so expecting you to be her boyfriend. To do something that harms itself." Answer Zahra.

"Mika and Bela are different Zahra. Defend a woman who understands every time she hears someone else's words even though it hurts her. As for Mika, she is an ambitious woman and willing to do anything to get her wish." Akbar.

Zahra was silent for a while before the rain fell, Zahra immediately excused Akbar to return to class. But he did not go straight into the classroom, Zahra stood in front of the class while thinking about Bela. He took a deep breath and told his class leader to go to Bela's house together. Perhaps in that way, Bela did not refuse his arrival.

After school, Hamid as the class leader decided to invite some of his friends to visit Bela at his home. When he arrived in front of Bela's house, all his classmates did not expect that it was Bela's house. Because the house is very simple, there is no stone wall but a wall made of wood, and there is only a long bench in front of the house made of wood as well.

Zahra convinces her friends that what they see is indeed Bela's house. They immediately felt sorry for Bela, because all this time they did not care about her, because Bela was not as smart as them and of course she only relied on scholarships from school.

"Assalamu'alaikum." Hamid knocked on the door.

"Wa'alaikumsalam warohmatullahi wabarokatu."

A mother opened the door and was shocked to see the teenagers standing in front of her house.

"Can anyone help, son?" Ask the mother while confirming her veil.

"Is this really Bela ma'am's house?" Ask Nia.

"Oh, you're Bela's friends! This is his home, I am Asti's mother Bela. Let's go in son!" Answer the mother with passion.

"Thank you ma'am."

Then they sat down at the table and were given sweet tea by Bela's mother.

"Mom, is Bela better?" Ask Zahra softly.

The mother looked at Zahra's face and cried. Everyone was panicking, they didn't know where Zahra was saying anything wrong.

"Mom." Call Zahra, but the mother immediately hugged Zahra full of haru. Zahra's friends are still confused by Bela's mother's cries.

"Be... Be... Bela wasn't home, it was three days ago." Answer mother.

Everyone looked at each other, they were still confused as to why Bela was not in her house and left her mother who often coughed. Zaki immediately stood up from his chair and looked for Bela inside his house even Zaki opened the door of his room even though it was disrespectful, but he just wanted to know what reason Bela left.

As Zaki looked inside Bela's room, he just stood speechless. His other friends immediately approached Zaki and saw the contents of Bela's room. Bela's mattress is filled with cotton from inside a pillow that has been torn. Nia found the paper on her study table, it was Bela's handwriting.

"I LOVED HER A LONG TIME AGO, I COULD GO CRAZY WITHOUT HER!!!"

There was even a bloodstain on the paper, Nia directly gave the paper to Zahra.

It was getting late but there was no sign of Bela's return. His mother fell asleep on a chair with her face placed on the table and her hands as the base. Seeing the look on her mother's face, Bela's friends felt pity even Nia shed her tears.

"You go home first, it's late in the afternoon. Let me accompany Asti." Zahra said to her friends.

"But Zahra..."

"I'm okay, you guys go home first." Zahra.

"If there's anything please tell us yes ra." Hamid.

"Assalamu'alaikum."

"Wa'alaikumsalam warohmatullohi wabarokatu."

They left Zahra in Bela's house.

While Zahra was cooking, Asti woke up to a noise from her kitchen. But Zahra smiled seeing that the mother had woken up and helped her to sit down.

"Mom thinks Bela's son." Say Asti bu slowly.

"Just take my mother's son." Say Zahra again with a smile.

Asti shook his head, "you are like the earth and the sky."

Zahra paused the cooking for a bit and then continued again, letting Asti tell her about Bela's attitude. Suddenly, Asti coughed, Zahra deftly gave him water to drink.

Finished cooking Zahra invites Asti to eat. But looking at the side dish, Asti was sad because he no longer ate the good food that Zahra served. Zahra took the plate and scooped up the rice and other meat and side dishes for Asti's bu.

"You don't eat, son?" Ask Asti when she's bribing her food.

Zahra shook her head slowly, "later to eat ma'am. I ate first. Oh, yeah, is mom on medication?"

"If you have money, you better buy Bela's favorite food than you have to use it for treatment." Answer smiled.

Since then Zahra held back tears, because he saw Asti mom reminding him of uminya who are still in Egypt. After eating they sat together in front of the terrace of his house.

"Mom, why are me and Bela different?" Ask Zahra.

"What was Bela's attitude in school?" Madam asked back.

"He's a good boy, looks cheerful every day. I'm one of her best friends, ma'am." Answer Zahra.

"Mommy hopes at home she behaves the same, but in fact... She left mom and yelled at mom if she didn't want to." Answer Asti's mom remembering the incident.

"Dare yell at mom?" Zahra asked in disbelief at the attitude of her best friend who turned 180 degrees.

His mother nodded and shed tears, "Defa once said that he was jealous of his new friend who came from Egypt, why he was not born from the womb of a mother who was like his friend's mother."

Zahra was surprised to hear it, it turned out that Bela had been jealous of her life. Zahra was really sorry about her best friend's attitude towards her own mother.

"What else did Bela say to my mother?" Ask Zahra.

"Every time he went home from school there was no happiness on his face, if he asked why, he must be angry and yelled at his mother again until the neighbors came home."

Zahra hugged her mother affectionately, feeling how a mother felt to be mistreated by her own child.

"Did Bela never once smile in front of her?"

"It was a long time ago, son, he said he was in love with a boy at his school, but the next day, he became an even rougher boy. I haven't had time to ask, she blames her mother and father who are not rich, who are not like her friends. He envied the lives of his wealthy friends. He said he loved a rich woman, all men would not like him because he was born into a poor family."

Zahra shed her tears and immediately wiped them away. Already entering Maghrib time, Zahra invited mother to pray maghrib in the mosque, but mother refused him, she prayed at home only afraid when Bela returned home and looked for her mother.

Bu Asti put Bela's diary into Zahra's bag as she was about to fetch ablution water at her house.

After the Maghrib prayer, Zahra returned to Bela's house and saw her best friend berating her mother, from a distance she saw Bela's attitude to her own biological mother. Bu Asti falls down while bela carries a large bag from inside her house.

"Don't go Bela! Don't go, son!" Bu Asti held Bela and even hugged her son's legs.

"I no longer want to live in this reot house!!! Because of you and your husband I didn't get what I wanted!!! Release me!!!" Shouted Bela then kicked her mother to fall.

Zahra saw Bela walking quickly towards the luxury car no matter people saw her, not even Bela knew Zahra was watching her.

Everyone immediately helped the mother, Zahra took her bag and called her driver to pick her up and take Asti's mother to the hospital.

Zahra looked at Asti's mother with affection, her heart did not expect that Bela treated her mother like that. He took his bag, then there was Bela's diary placed by Asti ma'am. He opened the first page, Bela wrote his outpouring of heart when he got a scholarship at As-Sobirin school, Zahra smiled reading it because he knew how happy his best friend.

Sheet by sheet Zahra read, up to the sheet Bela wrote heart to her upperclassman, Akbar.

"My heart was pounding when I saw her, it seemed like I loved her. But... I don't know where his heart will be. To me or anyone else? But for sure I love my upperclassman so much." Bela.

Zahra's hand flips the next sheet.

"There's a new student at my school, his name is Zahra. And he became my first friend at school. She is beautiful, smart, and much admired by other students. I envy him, he grew up in a country I'd love to visit. Yes, that country is Egypt. Every time I ask, I envy her even more. He comes from a very wealthy family. Totally inversely proportional to me ("Defense.

The contents of the diary only describe how Bela envied Zahra from everything until Zahra's heart hesitated to open the last page of her best friend's diary, but he wanted to know what happened to Bela before he left his mother.

"That day I said love to my upperclassman. With a nervous feeling I ventured to express it wishing she had the same feelings for me. But in fact, I was REJECTED by him, he quibbled by saying that he was not dating.

I tried to understand it, and was ready to wait for him. BUT.he said... If he loves another woman. I asked who was the woman? Although I already knew from the look of his two eyes. "Zahra", Akbar's soft voice said it in front of me without feeling what I felt that day.

I just kept my mouth shut, without even listening to what Akbar said. I ran down the stairs and went home. I realized that there would never be someone who would love me in this way. I and Zahra are like the earth and the sky, and he is rich and I am? POOR, he's smart and I'm STUPID. I don't trust anyone anymore, not even my own family. I HATE them! Because of them I'm like this! I HATE Zahra too! He's taken my dream man all along!" Bela.

There were a few drops of blood and of course Bela's tear marks while writing it.

Zahra closed the diary, her hands trembling, her heart ached from reading Bela's outpouring. He knows that his best friend is currently disappointed, but unfortunately Bela is not grateful for what he has in his life. A mother who loved her so much, the simplicity she had, and the other abilities she had in herself that even Zahra did not have them.

Zahra called Bela but was not picked up, she tried many times but still there was no answer. Finally Zahra decided to take care of Bela's mother lovingly.

Akbar sends a message to Zahra and asks Bela for news. He knew from Nia, Zahra was telling the truth. And he also said that he would be in the hospital until Bela's mother was conscious and healed.

Throughout the night, Zahra sat beside Asti and recited the holy verses of the Qur'an so that Allah would wake him up and smile again. A nun told Zahra to rest, but Zahra just nodded and continued reading until she fell asleep.