Om That Possessive, MY HUSBAND!
HER, MY WIFE!- 09. Grief News
...06.42...
...Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi......
...Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji. The sad news came from our brother and friend Gilang Ramadhani....
...Has died Mother of Gilang Ramadhani, at 02:30 WITA. And will be buried Ba'da Prayer Dzuhur, in Linggarjati cemetery. For friends, relatives and friends everywhere, expected presence....
...Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi....
Manda's hand shook after reading a message shared by Vino in WhatsApp Group. A few seconds later his body fell on the mattress, the phone he was holding also lying on the floor.
His lips quivered as he uttered the phrase "Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un."
Some pieces of memory replayed in Manda's memory, the moment where Gilang tells how the life he lived all this time, how the days he missed without the affection of a father. Even Manda had listened to how Gilang story about the figure of his mother.
Mother figure who has been struggling to raise and care for herself. Although without a real caress of affection, but the struggle of the Mother to Gilang looks so real. It's just Gilang who had closed his eyes and did not want to see it all.
Imagining the loss of the person we love so much makes Manda's sobs unbearable. Gilang's life when his mother was still there was already starting to fall apart, what about after his mother was not there?
How does Gilang feel now? Who is standing next to him? Who calms and strengthens him? Can he let his mother go?
"Hey, why are you, honey?" Zidan who just entered the room was shocked and panicked because he heard the sobs of his wife.
"Darling? Wh why? What's up?" Slowly Zidan touched Manda's body, clutching the body into her arms.
"Darling?" His burly hands stroked his head, trying to calm down even though Zidan did not know what was going on, and what caused Manda to cry like this.
"Try the story, what's up?" he asked after Manda's cry was no longer heard. His black bead looked at Manda, the girl's tears still streaming, but he tried to hold it.
Manda has no power to explain everything. He just handed over his HP to Zidan. The message Vino shared.
"Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un." This time Zidan was sideways with his ego. He still has the elf of humanity, looking at no one, whether it's Ex, Friend, or even the Enemy. The News of Grief is still the News of Grief! Especially Gilang was a religious brother to him.
"Do you know where the address is?"
Manda. He did not know exactly where Gilang's address was, but he had seen Vino sending the location of the funeral home.
"We're going there?" Zidan opens the location that Vino sent in WhatsApp Group. It turns out that the location takes about forty-five minutes by car, that's also if there is no traffic on the road later.
Zidan let out a slow breath, he touched Manda's cheek, wiping a trail of tears from Istin's cheek. "Don't understand, what makes you cry like gini. Brother will also not be banned, if you say you are crying because of thinking about Gilang's feelings."
"Remember, your heart is weak when it comes to losing someone like this-" Zidan gasped when Manda suddenly hugged her body, so tightly.
"You just don't want anyone else to suffer the pain of losing a parent, if you can, enough Manda aja, enough Manda who suffers the pain. No Ahkam, no one else feels loss!"
Zidan shook his head slowly, for however every human being would surely feel the name of death, and every one of us would surely feel the name of loss, ready unprepared, strong not strong, strong, willing to be unwilling, like it or not, we will all feel it!
""Again you going there, we're going there!" zidan.
"Ahkam coming?"
"No, Ahkam will not come, he will be at the house of Ustadz Agam, kasian he if forced to come!"
Manda agreed with Zidan's decision. Moreover, Ahkam lately often dreams of meeting with his Father and Mother. Manda could not imagine that Ahkam was coming with them, let alone that they intended to bury him as well. Ahkam must have felt the same way again, just like what Manda felt. Feelings of pain, pain, and sadness to lose both parents.
The ringing of incoming calls alternated from Qonita, Arina, and Ayu. The three asked the same question, did Manda read the message in the Group? Is Manda going to come and worship too? If so, they can go with other friends.
"You go first, I'll follow Bang Zidan!" answer Manda.
"Emmm, yes Manda. We go, you'll tell me or Arina if it's done!"
"Yes, be careful!"
Manda and Zidan deliberately postponed the trip until Ahkam went home from school first. After securing Ahkam, they will leave.
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"Yes, don't worry, Ahkam is safe here. Mama and her father Ahkam are also careful on the road, yes!"
Mother Aisyah left an envelope on Manda. Although he did not know who was grieving, he still did. As long as they are brothers.
Their car started to go after saying goodbye to Ahkam. From the look in his eyes, Ahkam had not allowed Papa and Mama to go far, but after Zidan convinced him that he would definitely return and pick Ahkam up again, Ahkam began to release his hands, but after Zidan assured him that he would come back and pick Ahkam again, and let them go.
"Oh Allah, protect Papa and Mama Ahkam, Ahkam dear Papa and Mama."
After Zidan's car is no longer visible, then Ahkam want to go into the house and play with Cila. For a moment the focus was not on Papa and Mama anymore. But on the purple veiled girl, who was beautiful and sweet like a caterpillar.
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At 09.45 the Vino, Ayu, Qonita, Arina and other friends arrived at the funeral home. Their arrival was greeted by Bu Diah, where Bu Diah immediately drove them to Gilang.
"Lang!" Vino patted Gilang on the shoulder, the teenager smiled as his friends tried to strengthen. But his eyes could not lie anymore, clearly illustrated that he had been crying long enough to make both eyes swollen.
Silently Gilang noticed one by one his friends, a soft sigh sounded as he did not see the figure of Manda among them.
"He will come!" whispered Ayu who was standing to the right of Zidan. Ayu understood very well what Gilang thought.
"You have come more than enough!" said Gilang slowly.
Ayu only responded with a smile. Then he said to Gilang to help with all the preparations, the body of the mother had begun to be bathed, Ayu and other friends also helped prepare the shroud. While the boy friends are busy taking care of the preparations for the funeral.
Mirisnya, at a time like this Ayu did not see a single Gilang family except Bu Diah since then. Even the neighbors who intervened helped this and that.
Where's Gilang's Dad?
That one question continues to haunt Ayu's mind. Where is the figure of the father who should now stand beside his son?! Because after Ayu, Gilang still has the figure of Father. The teenager had told me that he had a desire that had not materialized until now, that is to meet the Father and scold him for having chosen to separate from his mother and never appear again in front of Gilang!
When the body was finished being pardoned, that was when Zidan and Manda came, both of them immediately approached Gilang. Even Zidan awkwardly patted Gilang's shoulder, giving it some spirit.
"I'm sorry for your mother's passing" Manda said. His head bowed, not daring to look at Gilang.
"Thank you for taking the time to come!" that speech Gilang addressed Zidan and also Manda. The two nodded, "Come back, Lang."
"Please, those who want to pray the corpse can go inside!" said Bu Diah, he had looked at Manda and Zidan, then smiled with a face that was very tired.
"Those who want to take ablution' can be there!" Vino showed me the ablution spot, also he just ran out of there.
The prayer of the corpse for the first time was imitated directly by Zidan. Because Vino or Gilang both refused to become Priests. Unexpectedly, Gilang tears dripped during prayer, imagining his mother now just lying down and unable to move anymore, behind the shroud.
I don't know, Gilang does not know where all the people came to pray for his mother. Almost all of his friends were there. Starting from friends SD, SMP and SMA.
Gilang does not have a full family, but he has many good people around him. Yeah, he's lucky to be reunited with people like them.
Even Gilang's assessment of Zidan instantly turned 360 degrees. Zidan looked so sincere, even without being asked by the man to advance himself to help lift the coffin, which Gilang was confused to ask for help to whom.
But in fact, without Gilang saying the word please everyone has prepared themselves to help Gilang. Vino and the other friends also did not stay silent, they all took their respective positions, some were ready at the funeral, waiting for the arrival of the corpse.
Ayu, Qonita, Arina, Manda and Bu Diah stood a little away from the burrow. They were both bowed, not knowing who was holding back the cry, and who was crying first.
Liang lahat has begun to be landfilled, little by little all exposed to the soil pile, and only leaving wet mounds of soil. The body was calm in there, because all the rights he had. Do'a keeps hanging out for him.
While from a distance, a person who still looks handsome even though he is old can only cry for everything. Regretting all the actions he had done, regretting not having had time to say sorry to the woman who had accompanied the journey of his life. But it was too late now, the woman was no longer by his son's side. The woman has left the world and all life in it.
"I'm sorry, Karin. I'm sorry that I failed to be a husband and father to Gilang!"
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...💌 Good night new year. May all hopes, ideals and hopes that have not been realized in this year, be realized in 2022. And may happiness always accompany 🤧...