President Cilok
96 Faith and heart

“So, after crushing crime Kusumo. Now what's bothering you, Nang?” asked the Holy Mother, seeing the look on her son's face that looked worried.

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Damar was ashamed to meet his mother, he lowered his head deeply, and pulled his hands from the table, then twisted his fingers under the table. Nervous, gamang, worried, to voice his intentions.

Although not the first time, he is dating. However, this is, the first time for a Damar, to express his pent-up feelings to a woman. Because, in the past when he was dating the ex, he never expressed to his mother.

And if, his mother had known of his previous relationship with Ratna. That too, from the ngadu biang, namely Danum Mahesa. Sometimes Damar feels, I don't know what will be? his sister after school. Because Danum is always curious about anything, just like a news journalist.

Holy Ma'am sighed, catching the uneasiness clearly drawn on her son's face. He got up from his seat, then walked to get a glass and poured mineral water, and returned to the dining table, then gave water to his eldest son. “Minum,”

Holy Ma'am then sat back, at the beginning he sat.

Damar took a breath that felt stuck in the throat, and exhaled slowly, he raised his face to look at the glass given by the Mother, he said, and take it and gulp until it runs out until only the remaining water in the wall of the glass.

“Emm... Ma'am..” is still in doubt, to make a sound. It was as if his vocal cords were buried by the material of worry.

Holy Ma'am sighed, “Speak Nang, so that the burden in your heart can be resolved soon,”

Damar began to look at his mother who was looking at him with a shady look. “Bu... What was the foundation of Mother and the late Father, when deciding to get married?”

Holy Mother widened her smile, like the dawn sun. His gaze turned into a radiant gaze as if sunflower petals.

Damar is getting embarrassed, even though a man. But it was not denied anymore, that now his heart like going to jump and run leaving himself in front of the Mother who was looking at him with a smile, Damar back down.

“Le cah good...” said Holy Ma'am, looking at his eldest son who was looking down, he knew very well. As a Mother, the Holy Mother knew that her son was now in a kasmaran.

Damar lifted his face, sat down with his mother.

The smile on Sacred Bu's withered face, was still painted there. “Wife is trust for husband. Marriage is a secret. Husbands and wives must be committed to life like and sorrow. Together receive the shortcomings and advantages to sail the household ark, Nang,”

Damar was stunned, hearing the wise advice from his mother. “So, what should Damar do Ma'am, should Damar strengthen himself first? For the best soul mate Damar?”

“Nang, you can not build a road, if there are no stones. You can't build a house, if there's no foundation. You can't build love if there's no friendship. Because getting married is not just a signature on the marriage book, and the penghulu says it's legal. You must have the firmness of faith and heart, in order to make the marriage and household that you will lead into a worship only hope Ridho Gusti Allah, Nang,” explained Holy Mother, who was a member of the church, uncover the secrets of the marriage that should be.

Although he himself knew, the marriage he had in his path with the late Gusli. Not getting blessing, but must have firmness and a strong foundation to accept each other in joy and sorrow.

Damar mangosteen, absorbing all the wise advice of the Mother. In order, it becomes the foundation for him to firm his firmness and faith, in establishing seriousness with the choice of his heart.

“Who is the woman your heart chose, Damar?!” exclaiming Grandpa Bagaskara snatched the question, who had just arrived in the kitchen room by pushing Granny Ayudia's wheelchair.

Holy Ma'am and Damar turned to look at Grandpa Bagaskara.

Along with Danum who ran around from the direction of his room to the kitchen room that connects two rooms at once, the kitchen and dining room. “Mas, Mas Damar! I know who Nawul's initials are!”

The gaze of Holy Mother and Damar turned to look at Danum who was standing beside Grandpa Bagaskara. Likewise with Grandpa Bagaskara and Grandma Ayudia who turned to her second granddaughter who was standing next to her.

Especially Damar, he glared at his sister.

“What the heck Mas Damar, so very sorry, I'm the shy one so more embarrassed!” gerutu to the Brother.

“Usually aja, shy!” chirps Damar.

Danum blinks his lips, “Ck, what the hell Mas!”

Bagaskara's grandfather released his handrails on either side of the wheelchair's handle.

Danum also turned to push the wheelchair to approach Mother and her brother who was sitting on a teak dining table chair with a typical Jepara wood carving.

Now, Grandpa Bagaskara, Grandma Ayudia and Danum gathered in the dining room, joined together with Damar and Holy Mother. And continue the discussion about the thing that Damar and Holy Mother talked about.

“So, who is Nang, the girl who will be the daughter of Mother?” holy Mother asked, looking at her son's mind.

“Betul, who is the woman who will give a great-grandmother a great-grandmother, Mar? You don't see, the angel of death has approached Grandma 72 times in 24 hours, Grandma hopes, before Grandma really left for good, Grandma can still see Grandma's great-granddaughter,” said Grandma Ayudia, I asked, hoping to see her great-grandson.

“Grandma, don't say that,” said Damar, he looked at his mother, turned to look at Grandma Ayudia, and Grandpa Bagaskara.

“Nawul!” chirps Danum, “Iya, Nawul, Nawang Wulan!” he was happy, able to remember the long name of his brother's secretary.

This teenager also again got a bullet gaze from Mother, Grandma, and Grandpa. “Bu, Grandma, Cake. Yes Sister Wulan, Danum is serious!”

While Damar looked down while biting his lower lip, he was embarrassed to look at the three adults sitting before him.

“What did your sister say, Damar?” asked Grandpa Bagaskara, looking at his first son who was looking down.

Damar did not answer in a voice, he just nodded steadily. The sign justifies his sister's speech. Inside he lowered his head, to hide the natural redness that was clearly drawn on both of his cheeks. Damar smiled happily, ‘Love and friendship this time, very felt!’

Grandpa Bagaskara, and Grandma Ayudia also pulled both corners of her lips. Displays increasingly visible wrinkles on both cheeks.

Holy Ma'am re-branded her smile, “Analuri of a Mother, is never wrong!” he was expecting it. “That the woman of your choice is indeed the choice of your heart, even though when you were going to West Java there was a beautiful woman who came home to look for you,” explained the Holy Mother, recalling a beautiful woman, visited Grandpa Bagaskara's residence, to ask his eldest son.

Damar raised his face, sat with his mother, hearing that a woman had come to the house and asked about him. “Who's Bu?”

“Bernamed Angelina,” said Holy Ma'am, “Mother, just remember, because yesterday fitting you story about Kusumo, a moment I forgot,” she explained, again.

“Young people are like that many beautiful women who shroud, Grandpa also used to be so. But the choice of Grandpa remains your Grandmother, whose beauty is eternal eternal abadi, like a Goddess, hahaha.” said Grandpa, Bagaskara, grasping the fingers of his wife's wrinkled hands.

“Ehem... ahem..” deheman Damar together with Danum.

“Danum did not expect, it turns out that Grandpa is the type of man who is yomantis.... abiiiss..” Danum, with a witty behavior.

Damar circulated his gaze, staring at the red tulip painting as a decoration of the kitchen room wall. ‘Parasmu is indeed ayu, Nawul. Every day you look tomboyish. But your compassion is a real woman. God of romance I offer prayer. Give me help who is in love. Give strength like a tiger, so that this taste will no longer be benalu.’

“So, when can I propose to you, Nang?” holy Mother asked, as if it was the youth who could not wait to fondle grandchildren.

Damar turned to look at his mother, “Akan Damar talk first with concerned Bu,”

“If your heart is still in doubt, then pray isikharah. Ask God for guidance, Nang. If indeed Wulan is really your soul mate, however the way, God will bring you both closer, and vice versa,” said Holy Mother.

Damar nodded, “Iya, Bu.”

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After breakfast and chatting with Grandma, Grandpa and Mother. Now, Damar drove his sister to first go to school.

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