Not the Perfect Wife
65. I'm envious
The unwanted night Fazilah finally arrived, Hisham came with his extended family. Yasna could not come, because Afrin had a fever.
Someone knocked on Fazilah's room door.
"Fa, the guest has arrived. Go, out!"
Fazilah who was in the room immediately came out to greet the guests. Time and again the woman took a breath and exhaled him trying to expel the doubts in her heart. He convinced himself that this was the best thing for everyone.
"Finally the long-awaited came out as well" said Hisham's relatives and greeted the laughter of several people.
Fazilah circulated his gaze he was very surprised to see the whereabouts of Nuri, his former friend who was also Hafidz's affair. Likewise with Nuri, he was equally surprised when he saw that the wife of his sister-in-law was Fazilah.
'Why is he here? Is he a relative of Hisham?' inner Fazilah.
The event had begun, everything was going smoothly, until when the time of the exchange of rings, Fazilah seemed hesitant, for some reason suddenly he wanted to cancel this engagement. However, with a whisper of his mother Fazilah finally put a ring on Hisham's finger.
The event is over, just a casual family chat. Nuri approached Fazilah and slipped a paper into the hands of his former best friend, Fazilah did not understand, what did Nuri mean? However, as soon as he put the paper into his shirt pocket, he did not want others to know if the two of them knew each other beforehand.
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After school Yasna wants to take Aydin and Afrin to her mother's cake shop, it's been a long time since the children were there, making Alina miss them.
"Kids, today Mommy wants to take you to the grandma's cake shop, will you not?"
"You, want!" exclamation Afrin.
"Sister, How?" yasna asked Aydin.
"You, Mother."
"Okay, we're going to Grandma's cake shop."
"Back of the day, we stopped by mom's bakery, yeah!" yasna said to Pak Hari.
"Good, Mom."
Mr. Hari drove the car towards Mother Alina's pastry shop. It didn't take long for them to finally arrive.
"Assalamualaik."
"Waalaikumsalam, you came not to say?" Alina was very happy to see the arrival of her daughter and grandchildren, although they were not born from Yasna's womb, but for Alina they were still her grandchildren.
"Alin misses grandma." Afrin looked at Alina as soon as she saw her.
"Grandmother also misses Afrin and Aydin as well" Alina said. "Let's go in,"
They entered the room that Alina used to rest in.
"Aydin and Afrin want what cake? Let grandma take it." haggard Alina.
"No need, Grandma. Later Aydin take it himself if you want," replied Aydin who was embraced by Alina.
"You guys sit here first, Mommy wants to go back for a second."
"Yes, Mother."
*****
I'll be waiting for you at the Star Restaurant at lunchtime.
Such is the writing that Nuri gave to Fazilah, during an engagement event last night.
Actually Fazilah was very lazy to meet his former best friend, but he was also curious, what was the reason Nuri wanted to talk to him? He was sure there must be something important that the woman wanted to convey.
During the day Fazilah went to the restaurant that Nuri had written on paper. When Fazila arrived at the restaurant, Nuri had arrived first, Fazilah sat down without saying anything, until a few minutes without talking, he finally opened his mouth.
"Would you ask me to come here?" ask Fazilah who does not want to mince words.
"You better order a drink first." Fazila was forced to call the waiter and order the drink.
"What's wrong?" ask Fazilah again.
"I want to apologize."
"I'm sorry for what?"
"Regarding what happened first."
"It's been a long time, so there's no need to talk about it anymore."
"It was very necessary for me, because of this misunderstanding, to make my life unsettled and feel guilty until now."
"What do you mean wrong? You guys are obviously cheating behind my back, and then what kind of misunderstanding do you mean?" fazilah unconsciously raised his voice, making some visitors look at him.
"Fa, me and Hafidz have never been in a relationship or anything like you think."
"You want to say if I saw it wrong that time, you mean it!"
"It's not like that ... Hafidz did it because he was forced to, I forced him, I envy you so much, Hafidz loves you so much. Whatever he does only for you, when I am not inferior to you, I am beautiful, I am also smart, but Hafidz never sees me, I always pay attention to him, but he always looks at you, I just want him to see me once. Until then, his father fell ill, he needed a lot of money for his father's surgery, I happened to see them when I drove mama to check. I offered to help her, as long as she wanted to be my lover and cut her ties with you, but she firmly refused, saying she didn't want to hurt you. It feels so bad that I'm mad at him, so much love for him for you, that he refused my help and risked his father's life? One month he tried to find a loan, he worked day and night, still the money was not enough, he also did not get a loan. Finally, by being forced to come to me and accept my offer, I was very happy at that time, I gave him the condition that this would only be a secret for both of us, he could not tell anyone including you, then we made the drama as if we were in love and betrayed each other, after you saw us kissing, she cried begging me to end it all, but I was too high-hearted at the time, I've helped her dad so, I'm not just gonna take it off, I'm gonna try to have it."
Nuri sobbed after telling her past, Fazilah also joined in tears he did not expect Hafidz through all that alone, even with the heart he accused Hafidz of cheating.
"Why didn't he tell me that his father was sick?"
"Don't you remember when you just lost your father? Do you think Hafidz will tell you the problem, when you are in a calamity? Seeing you cry alone, has already made him very hurt, let alone having to add his burden to you."
Fazilah was sobbing, his guilt for Hafidz was immense. Nuri was right, once when they were together, Hafidz was always there for him, but when the man experienced a disaster, he was busy with other bad thoughts.
"I told you all this, because I realized, love can't be forced .. And one more thing, don't hurt my sister-in-law."
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