Teach Me (Naina)
Chapter 24

Naina still faithfully looks at her phone, waiting for Alfin to call. He sighed, slipping his face into the pillow. Trying to shake off the bad things that come to his heart and mind.

"Stupid! Why do you want to give false hope?" he swore to himself. Naina banging the mattress vents resentment.

Crying sadly, but held back as much as possible. However, a notification of the incoming message, stopped her crying. Naina timidly glanced at who the sender was. His hands were trembling, anxiety loosened as he thought of the contents of the message that were not good.

Not sleeping yet, Nai? Sorry, yeah, overnight.

The sound of Alfin's message ended a smile emoticon with both cheeks blushing. Naina sat up, wiped the tears in her eyes, and typed a reply message quickly.

He smiled, dropping his body back into the bed. Flowers are scattered in the heart, all the bad things that had stopped, disappear by itself.

Intermittent, the ringtone of the phone also rang. Alfin called. Naina was determined, normalizing her voice after a few days passed without hearing the young man's voice, she became nervous.

"Assalamu'alaikum!" greet Naina as soon as she picks up the phone.

"Wa'alaikumussalaam's chat. Not sleeping?" sahut Alfin as usual with a soft voice.

"Yet, are you done?" Naina asked back, biting her happy lips while turning to face the ceiling of the room.

Alfin rolled over in the gazebo, overlooking the dormitory where his children were shelter from the heat and rain.

"I told my parents about you. They want to meet you, Nai," said Alfin playing index finger, making abstract scribbles on the gazebo floor.

Naina flinched, her body jumped to a quick seat. The face immediately paled. Remembering the rejection that the two men used to do, what if Alfin's parents also refused?

Naina was silent for a long time, brooding over all the bad possibilities that would befall her.

"Nai? You're still there, aren't you?" Alfin's reprimanding voice jolted Naina's daydream.

He took a deep breath, normalizing his heart.

"But before that, I want to talk to you first. Can you?" pinta Naina with a witty.

His heartbeat, despair kept coming to his heart. Now, he did not hold much hope for Alfin. Just in case his heart doesn't hurt too much when it's rejected again.

"Can, we're talking in the gazebo here, yeah. Abis shared the food with the children" Alfin replied with a smile imagining Naina's innocent face.

The girl agreed and immediately hung up the phone, then pensively returned. He glanced at the right side of the body, grabbing the image of Lita he had mounted on top of the closet.

"Mother, how is this? What if they reject Naina again? There's no mother here. Where did Naina spill her grief, Mother? Nai needs Mom," she lamented while shedding tears.

Naina held the picture tightly, sobbing alone in the silence of the night. The pain always made his chest tight every time he came to say hello. There was no Lita beside him who would give her encouragement, as well as sincere support and prayers to calm her heart.

He dropped the body on the mattress, rolled over while continuing to hold the picture of the mother. Dissolved in crying and wish I could meet. Until the drowsiness brought him to forget all the sadness.

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"Nai, where are you going? Said he was off?" the aunt asked when she saw Naina who had been neatly dressed.

"Nai want to help Alfin, Bi, at the mosque. Food for orphans there. He said, now there are children from several villages invited," replied Naina while tidying up the long shirt she was wearing.

"Oh, that. Yes, but Uncle has left," tell Sumiyati about Asep who has gone to work.

Naina was stunned when something crossed her mind. He came to Sumiyati who had gone back to the kitchen to ask her something.

"Bi! Mmm ... What if I wear a veil, huh? No pantes?" he asked while biting his inner lips, blushing in embarrassment.

Sumiyati was flabbergasted at Naina's question, turned around and smiled and cupped her niece's face.

"Come on! Let's try in front of the mirror, "he quickly pulled Naina's hand to get into her room.

"You got a veil?" ask Sumiyati enthusiastically.

"She, Bi. I was once loved by Sei's mother. Ntar, Nai take it first," said Naina while opening the closet door and pulling the veil given by Seira.

Still wrapped in plastic and neat, not yet touched. Sumiyati took it immediately and opened it. A nice veil, with a smooth material. Sumiyati felt the surface of the cloth, smiling in satisfaction.

"This hood is a good material, does not make you overheated when making. Here, Bibi pakein," he said as he stretched the rectangular cloth and folded it into two triangular shapes.

Do not forget to slip a needle earlier in the negligee shirt he was wearing. Sumiyati curled Naina's hair and tied it. Then put the cloth over Naina's head, put the two sides together at the bottom of the girl's chin and hold it with a needle.

Simple, then pin a flower-shaped brooch, in the middle of the veil.

"Well, done. How do you judge yourself?" sumiyati asked after completing her task of perfecting a Naina.

The girl looked at her face in front of the mirror, nothing different. It's just, now he's closed there's no body part that opens. Naina smiled, hoping that in her heart may Istiqamah perform Islamic shari'at as directed.

"Good, huh, Bi? Try from the first Nai learned to wear a veil, surely now it is commonplace," he chirped as he approached the mirror to see clearly the face wrapped in cloth.

Naina held her cheeks, flipping right and left, looking at every inch of her new face line.

"Yes, good and more beautiful. Son Alfin must have seen you," said Sumiyati as she stared at Naina from behind the mirror.

He was grateful that Naina's heart was knocked to perfect religion by closing the aurat. Hope in your heart that not only a little bit of the girl's eyes wear it. Hearing Alfin's name, Naina's heart melted.

"Yes, Bi. Nai's leaving, yeah." Naina turned around, shaking her aunt's hand as usual.

"Assalamu'alaikum!"

"Wa'alaikumussalaam, careful!"

"Yes, Bi!"

Naina put on her shoes, walking through the alley towards the big road. Sumiyati looked happy, that day Naina looked even more cheerful and bright of course.

"Hopefully Alfin and his family can accept you for who you are, Nai. You are a good girl, sholihah and obedient. Whoever gets you as a wife, must be lucky. Nowadays young people are happy." Sumiyati muttered softly, turned around and closed the door back on her work.

Meanwhile Naina, felt her heart warm. There is peace that greets, as well as a sense of security after wearing the hijab. He looked around, no more wild spies staring at him lustfully.

"Bismilbornrahmanirrahim! I take refuge in Thee, O God, from the evil of Thy creatures." Naina stepped steadily down the large street while waiting for public transport.

He has convinced his heart to this day, accepted everything that will happen and fixed everything that is wrong.