My best friend, Maduku
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"Alsha, I went to Abah first. I'm sorry, I can't take you to the dorm." Ning Halimah said full of regrets.

Alsya smiling. "Yes, no papa, Ning. I'll go home by myself, thanks for the stuff, Ning." Answer Alsya sincerely.

Ning Halimah smiled. "Either. Assalamualaikum..." Ning Halimah directly went to the hall on the second floor in the Nanny's family home.

Alsya steps towards the exit and turns out to see ummi nyai.

"Have you gone back to the dorm, Al?." Ask ummi.

"Yes, ummi." Alsya greets the hands of the ummi with reverence.

"Then for a minute, ummi there is something for you, ummi will take it first. " Say Ummi and immediately went into his own room.

Alsya waited still standing by the door. Ummi returned with his hands carrying a medium-sized paper bag.

"Alsha, this is for you. Sorry, we couldn't attend your wedding." Ummi said and then handed the paperbag to Alsya.

Alsya smiled stiffly. He did not expect that ummi would give him a gift even though he did not fulfill his invitation.

"Thank you, ummi." Alsya said with respect.

"Either. In front there is Aly, later you go home to his dorm with Aly alone, because in the current hour santri son again on the roam."

"Yes, ummi. Alsya went home first ummi, assalamualaikum..." Alsya said after experiencing the hands of the ummi for the second time.

"Waalaikumsalam, be careful." Ummi.

Alsya nodded and walked out of the kyai family home. She approached her husband who was standing on his back.

"Assalamualaik." His words made Aly turn around immediately.

Aly smiled when she saw his arrival. "Waalaikum salam." Answer Aly.

Alsya shines Aly's hand. "Say ummi, mas will take me to the dormitory ?." Alsya asked after she finished shaking Aly's hand.

"Yes. Yuk, the night hunt."

"Yes, my mom."

Aly took over the things that were in the hands of the wife.

They walk in silence because no one precedes to speak. Their relationship is the fruit of an arranged marriage made by their respective parents who were friends while studying in pesantren when they were young.

Although he had spent time together due to staying together for a week, he had also enjoyed his first night, but awkwardness still accompanied them.

The journey that did not feel it reached the destination. After arriving in front of the gate of the princess dormitory, Alsya greeted Aly's hand as a sign of separation. Aly also gives Alsya some more stuff before returning to the son's dormitory.

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That day has arrived, where the family of Alsya came to pick Alsya home who will finish studying at the boarding school.

Alsya took off her embrace from her best friend, Ning Halimah. They shed tears at each other because of the separation. After finishing with her best friend, Alsya greets the hands of both the highly respected cabin babysitter over her own parents.

"May his knowledge be useful, Alsya." Ummi told him.

"Aamiin, thank you for the prayer, ummi."

"Yes, Alsya."

A little while later, they immediately came out of the Kyai family home. Alsya entered the door of her father's car.

His return is not with Aly, because Aly will still go two years later, he said. Even today, where Alsya asked for permission to go home, Aly did not see it, because Aly was being commissioned by Abah Kyai to conduct a review on one of the pesantren branches outside the city.

After traveling for three hours, Alsya finally reached home safely. Alsya went straight into her room because she felt so tired.

Arriving at the room, Alsya just cleaned her face, legs and hands and walked to the bed to immediately rest her body.

Time continues to move with certainty. Alsya woke up when her ears were dimmed hearing the voice of adhan ashar. Alsya immediately cleansed himself and then gathered on a stretch of prayer to honor the Creator.

After the Ashar prayer, Alsya came out of the room and approached her mother who was cooking in the kitchen.

"Assalamualaikum, umma."

He turned his head and answered his greetings and then returned to his activities.

"What are you cooking ?." Tanya Alsya looked towards the pot that was being stirred.

"Umma cook vegetable soup goat ribs."

"Definitely Abah's wish ?."

"Well, Abah you do ask umma to cook this often, but there is never a word bored." Ummanya.

Alsya just smiled at her general words.

She suddenly remembered her husband. A month or so they do not interact like a husband and wife. It might even be more like a stranger who never knew.

Alsya who is still a teenager actually can not interpret his own status. At KTP, she is a married woman, in Islam she is also someone who has been under the leadership of a man called a husband, and in the law of marriage she is also perfect as a wife because she has given her inner birth to the husband.

But it feels like he still has not felt how daily life is always done by a real married couple. She had never felt how to experience feelings of anger, pleasure, disappointment, annoyance, jealousy and so on when serving the role of a wife.

"Umma, if Al asked Aly mas to stop mondok, would Al be an ungodly wife to the husband ?." Ask Alsya suddenly.

His age immediately stopped stirring the sauce that was in the pot and immediately turned towards him.

"According to umma no, because the name of a husband should do his role as a leader, because if Aly stays in the boarding school, he seems not to carry out his obligations." Say ummanya loud.

Alsya knows that she has never agreed to a match between Alsya and Aly. But, because the words of a husband are absolute, then a wife must only obey and obey his orders.

"But, Aly's at the boarding school for studying, umma." Alsya lirih.

"Indeed, but he should also be rational, that he already has a different status no longer a man who does not have a big responsibility." His general remarks again increasingly visible that the general was very dislike Aly.

Alsya snorted resignedly. If talking about Aly with his ummanya, then everything is getting runnin', he thought.

"From the beginning umma did not like the matchmaking made by Abah you are the same friend, because Umma knows how your relationship will be after marriage. As a mother, umma just doesn't want her umma daughter to suffer..." Ummanya lirih.

Alsya noticed his general face which now looks sad also showed a puddle of tears in his eye. Alsya immediately hugged her mother's body tightly and unknowingly her eyes also started to tear up.

"Restui us, umma. Because ridho umma is the key to happiness for Umma's daughter. Alsya does not want if Alsya's marriage It becomes ungodly because umma is not sincere." Said Alsya whose tears had run down the river on her cheeks.

"Astaghfirullah's... Why does it feel so hard to let go of you for her, when it was a time when Annisa umma was okay, even umma is very willing if one of the umma princesses is betrothed by a man who umma himself never knew her. " His common words brought out all the grunts in his heart.

Alsya no longer spoke, she only revealed her heart through a cry that began to sound clear. He could not force the feelings of others, even his own mother.

His ummah said Istighfar many times and occasionally a short peek at Alsya's head. "Astaghfirullah's... O God, may you forgive me for an unreserved heart for my own daughter's marriage..." Say the ummanya again in a soft voice.

"Mom..." Call Alsya whose cries are becoming more and more.

"Continue your relationship, son. May Allah bless your marriage, forgive the umma who until now has not sincerely released this umma princess. God willing, though heavy, umma meridhoi your marriage." Say the ummanya again.

Alsya looked at her general face for a moment then nodded and hugged her general body back tightly.

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