Teach Me to Cheat
AAS 19: Deep sorrow

It is undeniable, the mother is the most meritorious female figure for all humans in the world because everyone is certainly born from the womb of a mother.

During the nine months of pregnancy, until giving birth, caring for the baby with affection. There was never a grievous sigh that emerged from his lips, he was so sincerely selfless.

Losing your mother's figure is very heavy. As he went away for all eternity, there was a gaping hole in his heart.

Not only that, the loss of a beloved mother becomes the hardest moment for everyone. The loss of the most loved makes the world crumble and full of despair.

Aini still locked herself in the mother's room. He recited the yasin to the mother with tears that kept dripping so as to make the scriptures in his hands wet.

Daffa's heart was like a sharp dagger in the iris looking at Aini in deep slump.

The same is felt by Daffi. He wanted to be next to Aini and embrace her. But he realized that Aini was now his sister-in-law.

" Kiddo, where's Aini?" Ask Mama Daffa.

" Aini's in her room.." Daffa.

Mama took a deep breath before she finally entered the room.

My heart hurts to see that sight again.

Mama can still remember very well how bad Aini was when her father died. And now God also took the much loved and respected Mother Aini.

" Assalamualaikum son, mama's coming." Mama said as she slowly approached Aini and tried to hold back her tears.

Aini stopped reciting the holy verses of the Qur'an. He was silent for a moment.

"Son, the world changes from year to year, living from day to day, but your love and memories together with Mother will never be lost." Say to Mama carefully.

" The body no longer exists. But his memories are still lingering in the heart." Mama tried to bring her hand closer and held Aini's shoulder.

Aini turned around and hugged him.

"I couldn't stop crying when he died. I also could not help but let these tears not ruin the smile he gave me while still alive. I'm tryin. I tried but I couldn't."

" Why is fate so evil to me mam, has not healed the wound of losing Dad, now God takes Mom too." Aini's cry broke again in her mother-in-law's arms.

" That's because God loves your mother and father very much. God wants them to be together in the most beautiful place on his side."

"Mother is my home, where I go home. Now, I don't have a home to go back to. To whom I'll share the happiness I'll get later"

" Daughter, you still have Mama and Papa. We are your parents since that sacred word has been validly spoken. Don't ever think that you don't have a place to go." Pekik Mom.

"May God provide comfort for me and my brothers in our grief over the loss of our mother." Akbar said when he overheard a conversation between Aini and Mama Daffa.

" Abi, is Abi okay?" Yuli asked when she saw Akbar rubbing his eyes with his index finger and thumb.

" Yes, Abi is fine, you should accompany Aini. Let Ms. Retno alone meet the mourners. What Aini currently needs is your support."

Yuli lowered her head, she wiped her tears. He can't be weak in front of Aini. How could he calm Aini down if she could not control her own grief.

Akbar hugged Yuli.

" It's strong for your brother." Pekik Akbar's.

"No matter what I do to forget this pain, deep down, I will always know that I will never be able to hug my mother again. I miss her. Can God allow me to hug mom again" Pekik Aini.

Tests....

Yuli again shed tears, she lowered her steps to get closer to Aini and turned to her husband again.

" What's up?" Akbar asked who was astonished to see Yuli back again and had not even reached Aini.

Yuli immediately hugged her husband and cried there.

" How can I come and strengthen my sister while I myself cannot strengthen myself."

Akbar then returned Yuli's embrace and clasped her tightly.

" I'm sorry Abi, you told me to go inside and strengthen Aini but I can't."

Akbar sighed..

She knew, this was the most difficult moment, the loss of a mother filled with expressions of sadness and longing for her figure. Losing someone who means a lot in life is not an easy thing.

Yuli then comes to the maelstrom of the Mother buried behind the orphanage along with the maelstrom of the Father.

"Mom, your loss has locked me in pain, suffering, and misery. But, I don't mind suffering, at least it has relieved you of the pain you didn't even show us. I'm sorry I couldn't be around to strengthen Aini because I'm not as strong as I look." Pekik Yuliy.

Finally Mama can make Aini feel much better even though it may only be temporary.

Mama invites Aini to go out of the room and see that she is not alone.

" Remember the beautiful moment you spent with your mother. Maybe it'll make you feel a lot better."

"The wonderful memories of the moments that Mom and I spent together made me smile, only until the moment they finally reminded me that she was no longer here."

Mama hugged Aini again. But now Aini was not crying just her eyes that looked empty.

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"Death has taken you to a beautiful place called heaven, but it has made my life hell." Aini said while sowing flowers in the vortex of her mother and father on the third day of her death.

"Life took you from us. You'll always be our unsung hero. For every flower I place on Mom's grave, I think of all the things you do to make my life as beautiful and fragrant as a flower bed."

Daffa walked up to Aini and held her hand.

"If I had the chance to meet with mom one last time, I would just ask mom to hold me as tight as possible, lean my head on your shoulder and cry until my tears dry up."

" Aini, those we love don't go, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard but always near, still loving, still yearning."

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