
"What did your brother tell you? Arshad ... Arsyad betrayed you?" Aira could not immediately answer the question of the mother from across the phone, her voice choked, her eyes felt hot and teary, her head slightly nodded but she knew, her mother did not see it.
"Aira, answer Ummi!" Ummi Firda.
"What's wrong?" Abi's voice came from across the phone. "Arsyad remarried to one of his Kindergarten teachers, and she is now pregnant, Bang. Aira in selingkuhi." replied the Ummi who made Aira's chest back tight.
...
Abi Gabriel who heard the wife's words of course immediately inflamed, he snatched his wife's phone. "Aira, is that right?" Abi Gabriel asked sharply, his hands clenched and his jaws tightened especially when Aira instead of answering just sobbed. His heart as a father was so painful to hear the sobs of the daughter he loved so much.
"Abi will be there right now, Aira," exasperated Abi Gabriel with stifled emotions.
"Ja-don't," said Aira. "Let me solve this problem, Abi. Please don't come."
Ummi Firda recaptured her phone and spoke to her youngest daughter again. "Then you go home, Aira. Ummi didn't expect Arshad to do this to you, O Allah." Ummi Firda could not hold back her tears because the princess who continued to hiccup.
He was very surprised when Micheal contacted him and told him everything that happened, Umm Firda even felt like he would faint from hearing the bad news because he knew, it would definitely hurt his favorite child.
"It's Aira's fault, Ummi. Because Aira could not get pregnant, so Ummi Ridha chose another woman to be the mother of Arsyad's child."
"It's not your fault, Aira!" Ummi Firda cried while looking at the husband who also looked very angry. "It's not your fault, honey. Not..." he softly shrieked then.
Abi Gabriel embraced his wife, rubbing her shoulders gently to make her calm even though she was so emotional herself, her chest rumbling and her blood boiling, if only Arshad were in front of her at this moment, he will definitely beat up that guy.
"That's not your fault, my daughter. Do not be sad, it is only a little temptation from God to raise your degree" Abi comforted. "Patience, Son. In Shaa Allah, Allah will give you great rewards if you are able to pass this test. Here, we always pray for you and support you, always."
"Hikss, Abi.." Abi's heart was as if crushed to hear the daughter's voice. "Please pray, Abi. I was confused" he said.
"Calm your mind first, Aira. Pray and ask God for guidance, dear," continued Umm Firda.
"Aira must be strong, dear," said Abi. "So believe me, you must be strong to face all this. God cannot choose you in this test if you are not strong, God believes you are strong, cook do you not believe in yourself?"
Inaudible to Aira's answer, back that sounded only a small stuffing that made Abi's feelings as a father increasingly sick. "We'll always be there for you, yeah" he continued so gently.
....
Arsyad grimaced while treating the wounds on his face due to Micheal's indiscriminate punch, however, Arsyad was not angry in the slightest because what Michael did was very reasonable.
If Arsyad had a sister and her sister in the sikiti, Arsyad would definitely do what Micheal did.
"Arshad...." Arsyad refused to turn his head when he heard the voice of Umminya who was now approaching him.
"Micheal shouldn't be doing this to you, why is he being such a thug like this" said Ummi Ridha who made Arsyad smile wryly.
"If I had my sister and sister hurt, maybe I would have killed the man who hurt her," Arsyad's cynics made Umm Ridha sigh heavily.
"Has Aira not come home yet?" great-grandson of Ummi Ridha later.
"Ummi thinks he's going home after what we did?" arsyad asked sarcastically and Ummi could not answer.
"He is hurt, we break his heart when he is not wrong, Ummi. What is. Did Aira ever hurt us even just a fingernail? Why am I being a mean man to my own wife?" muttered Arsyad frutations. "I feel like the ugliest, the meanest, the dumbest man. I hurt the wife I love so much and love me so much, and I will never be able to give happiness to the wife who bore my child. Aira's right, I'm not a good husband for Aira nor Grace."
"Arsyad.." Umm Ridha growled but Arsyad soon left her room, making the mother could only look at her sadly.
"So great is your love for Aira, Arsyad. Until Grace has not the slightest place in your heart even though she will give you a child."