Survive Loving you
chapter 40

Abimayu's condition turned out to be getting weaker and weaker, he could no longer control his heart that was hurt because of thinking with Nayla. Behind it, Ana believes that Abimayu's condition is declining because she does not want to be taken to the doctor for examination.

"Don't you care about me?" Abimayu forbids when Ana wants to take care of her.

"Don't be so stubborn! Mas Abi was sick, so he had to be treated so that Mas Abi could recover" Ana replied.

"I don't need treatment! I just need you not to be here so that my condition doesn't degrade."

"Mas Abi don't beg me to argue!" Ana said angry. He is currently preparing Abimayu food.

Abimayu no longer answered Ana's words, nor was she able to speak anymore, because Ana would still do what she wanted to do.

"I'm going to Abi and Umi's house!" Abimayu said tell Ana. Right now he wanted to calm his increasingly restless heart. She decides to go there because she knows Ana definitely doesn't want to go with her.

"I'll go with Mas Abi there!" said Ana quickly which made Abimayu surprised and astonished.

"Don't you hate going there?"

"I'll come along, because I want to take care of Mas Abi!"

After deciding to leave, they prepared all the equipment to be brought there.

Abimayu was already waiting for Ana below who had yet to descend restlessly. From the top floor there were the sound of Ana's footsteps coming down the stairs. Abimayu quickly turned her gaze towards Ana and she was a little surprised by what she saw. His worry at that time changed with a sense of wonder, because Ana came down with a covered dress complete with hijab.

Abimayu had not yet taken his eyes off Ana because he did not suspect her.

"Don't look at me for too long! I just don't want to make Mas Abi sicker if I argue my clothes later." Ana said while insinuating Abimayu.

Abumayu just kept quiet because there was nothing she wanted to argue with Ana at the moment.

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"What happened to you, son?" asked Umi Aida when she saw Abimayu who looked pale and a little thin. He had never seen an Abhimayu like this.

"Mas Abi does not want to be taken to the doctor, Umi." replied Ana while telling, as if Abimayu's condition was so because she did not want to be taken to the doctor.

"So good, Umi!" Abimayu denied what Ana said because only she knew what she was feeling right now.

Seeing the condition of her son, Umi Aida remembered Nayla. In his heart he said, could it be that what happened to Abimayu now, was just like what Nayla felt. Was he this fellow equally distressed by their current state?

A few days stay in the pesantren accompany Abimayu, there is a sense of saturation in Ana's heart. He was bored because he had to wear clothes that were covered wherever he moved. He had asked Abimayu to return home, but Abimayu did not want to go home.

"I want to go home first." Ana said as she was inside with Abimayu.

"Sup to you! I guessed it too, if you wouldn't be here."

"I have to see Mas's boutique. I have something to finish there!" Ana reasoned, and neither did she lie, as these days her employees kept asking her when she came to the boutique.

"You shouldn't have come here in the first place either." There is a sense of resentment in Abimayu's heart when Ana says she wants to return to their home. She also realized, as long as she was sick Ana took good care of her and they also rarely fought. In addition to her being lazy to argue, Ana also seemed to refrain from fighting him.

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The day after Ana returns home, Umi Aida's home comes Nayla's parents.

"What about Nayla?" ask Umi Aida to Nayla's parents.

"Umi, our arrival here is actually something we want to convey." continued Nayla's parents again.

"What if the feet know." Umi Aida said with a little wonder.

"Seeing Nayla's deteriorating condition, we would like to apply for Abimayu for Nayla. We want to try this way to cure Nayla, maybe if she can marry Abimayu, she will be able to heal. Sorry, Umi. We overheard Nayla telling Umi that moment."

Umi Aida and Kafian Mustapa are silent at the request of Nayla's parents. They don't know what to answer. If they reject it, they feel they are not entitled, because the candidate is Abimayu. They should seek Abimayu's opinion first.

Umi Aida actually disagrees, but Nayla's parents have pleaded with her to ask Abimayu first. They assume this is the last way to help their children have hope again. Their goal was only for Nayla's recovery, but they did not think about the feelings of a woman who is now Abimayu's wife.

"How, Bah? " ask Umi Aida to her husband after Nayla's parents' return from their home.

"We ask Abimayu and Ana first" replied Mustapa Financed calmly.

"Umi disagrees, Bah."

"You know what else, we must convey this first to the person concerned, because we also have no right to decide."

"It's like agreeing to it." Umi Aida said with her shrinking voice.

"Don't approve, Umi will understand, in our religion, the man can have more than one wife. If you can do justice"

"Umi understand. But what about Ana, Bah?" Umi Aida thought highly of her son-in-law. She was also a woman, and very understanding, rarely found a woman who was willing to mingle. If there are, they are the women of choice. Umi Aida does not oppose polygamy, because it is mentioned in the Quran. Now, he's just talking about feelings, not about rules that are definitely the law.

"That said, ask them both. If Abimayu accepts and Ana approves, it could happen, and this is her intention to cure Nayla, not for the others!"

From inside the room, Abimayu can hear all the conversations of her parents, even when Nayla's parents come forward to propose to Nayla. He learns that Nayla's condition is now getting worse, and he is even more devastated when he hears the reason why Nayla's parents took this way to cure Nayla.

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In the evening, finished praying Isya, Abimayu was met by Umi Aida in his room. He wanted to convey Nayla's parents' proposal to Abimayu. He wanted to solve this problem immediately. If he had delivered to Abimayu, he felt he had no more burden.

"Pig!" call Umi Aida when she sees Abimayu lying on top while closing her eyes, and one hand on her forehead.

Abimayu opened her eyes hearing Umi Aida calling out to her. He moved to sit while leaning his head and back behind the bed, then stuck his legs forward. Umi Aida sat on the edge of the bed and faced Abimayu.

"How, Son? Are you feeling better?" asked Umi Aida while stroking Abimayu's legs.

"Here, Umi" replied Abimayu honestly

"You must have heard the talk of Umi and Nayla's parents." Guess Umi Aida.

Abimayu simply nodded while closing her eyes.

"What do you think, son?"

"Abi will ask Ana's opinion first, Mi!"

Umi Aida nodded her head at her son's reply. He also did not believe in the answer given by Abimayu. From that answer, Abimayu was like there was no rejection in the slightest.

"I'm sorry Umi and Abah" said Umi Aida with her own face, and her hand still stroked Abimayu's leg, occasionally giving a massage to the leg.

Umi Aida feels a little guilty, maybe they were too forced to betroth Abimayu and Ana. They admitted that the matchmaking happened by promise, and they wanted to repay the favor of Ana's parents. But, that does not mean they are sorry, because if the reason Abimayu has not known and liked Ana, then the answer, love is after marriage, not before marriage.