MY BOYFRIEND LECTURER
SN 16'S
Zalfa felt himself suddenly turning foreign before Mr. Ibrahim. He can't talk anything. Simply the attitude of Ms. Fatima became the answer to everything.
“Zalfa, sorry for my wife's words, don't enter my heart,” said Mr. Ibrahim gently and wisely. “You don't know him yet. He was shocked and needed time to understand. Let me talk later.”
Zalfa tried to smile without saying a word.
“Ya already, I'm sorry.” Finally, Mr. Ibrahim could not say anything but say goodbye.
Zalfa nodded.
Ibrahim stopped at the door. “You want to visit Zalfa? Please! We excuse you to go home!” mr. Ibrahim said when he met Ishmael and his wife.
Ismail nodded with a friendly smile. Atifa smiled stiffly.
“Zalfa!” call Atifa as she approaches the long-veiled girl. “At last I feared it happened too. Faisal's family knows your status before Faisal speaks. What was wrong with talking at the beginning? So it's not like this. If they know at the beginning, want to be accepted or not, it does not matter. As long as you don't look hypocritical in front of them. And now, as if you were covering up your status in order to look good in their eyes.” Atifa spoke at length, looking very upset by what she had just witnessed. He is chatty and his emotions are explosive when provoked. After Zalfa showed an unpleasant attitude because he accused Atifa of being the mastermind behind the mistakes of the hotel room he entered, Atifa still acted as if there was no problem.
Zalfa took a deep breath. He tried to melt the uncomfortable atmosphere after suspecting Atifa by being as free as usual to his brother-in-law.
“What do you think my status is not good? The man you married was my Mas, Ma'am. At least Mbak knows me just like Mas Ismail.”
“What is my fault?”
“Not. It wasn't your fault. Ma'am tuh Just regretted your attitude that did not immediately come forth to Miss Fatima. As a result, it becomes a sagging kayak, nih. Mother's mouth is very tajem. Indiscriminate speaking. Ma'am with gedeg.”
Zalfa did not answer. Everything has happened. He will only think about the solution in the future, what he and Faisal must do to get the blessing of Mother Fatima. Maybe he was wrong because it was too late to say it, but regret and lamenting the events that have happened will only destroy the faith.
He did not expect that if Bu Fatima's response was so sharp to him, did the child born without a father look so bad because it was judged to be derived from illegal acts? Zalfa assured himself that from infancy until now, Zalfa remained holy. Nothing made him considered haram, what was haram was an act that his mother used to do.
“That's whose business card?” atifa asked as she watched the business card lying helplessly on the bed.
Zalfa grabbed the business card and observed it. Just at a glance he read, he had immediately memorized his address and eleven-digit mobile number whose number is unique so that it is easy to memorize.
Ughhhh…
Zalfa's heart felt uncertain reading Arkhan's name on the card. The name reminded him of the events of the night that Arkhan gave a new experience in his life. Zalfa was fed up, annoyed every time he remembered it. Yet strangely, tucked away a sense of awe over the experience of Arkhan's prowess that night.
TB