The Love of Habib
Chapters 10.8
Gisel and Dira sat beside Aish looking at the calendar that Aish had long noticed without caring about her surroundings.
He looked very solemn as he looked there and made his two friends worried.
A birthday?
Aish smiled wryly. It would be nice if it was a birthday. Unfortunately, it was a sad day for him.
"My mother died 16 years ago right on that day." Aish whispered without losing the smile on her face.
Dira and Gisel were stunned. They looked at each other and quietly shared an understanding.
"Sorry, we don't know." Said Dira regretfully.
If he knew, then Dira would not take the initiative to say it because it was a gulf of wounds that did not foam covered by Aish.
Aish shook her head not thinking too much about it.
"It doesn't matter, after all, 16 years have passed and I'm not so sad anymore." Said Aish leisurely.
If only his mother had died without being betrayed then perhaps Aish would not have harbored this pain too much. But in fact, Mama died because of the betrayal of her husband, friends, and family that made Aish very unwilling.
He's not willing, really. The pain was as if the one being betrayed was himself. I can't imagine how sad Mama was. It was just a pity that he could not hate those who had pushed his Mama up to that position.
"Aish, then what's your next plan?" Ask Gisel carefully.
At first, he always had a plan for that day. But being suddenly sent here limits his activities. He could no longer come to see his mother.
"I'm 18 now.." Aish bit her lips bitterly.
"I want to talk to Mama if I'm big and grown up, I can make a decision for myself right now. I want to talk to Mama, but I don't think I can because we're in a boarding house right now. So I don't know what to do that day." Connect talking.
Gisel and Dira glanced at each other, shaking their heads, the two of them were also unable to do anything because their situation was not much different from Aish's.
"Then pray from here, Aish. God will surely hear what you say and God will also tell your mother." Dira said he was providing a solution.
Gisel nodded in agreement, "I did too, Aish. You also know that my parents were buried out of town and it took a lot of time to come visit them. I could not and was afraid to go out of town alone. Sometimes I come to visit, but the rest I'm not too brave and decide to pray for them through the house." Gisel's story recalls his lonely days in the city.
At first glance the faint smiles of his two parents who had long disappeared from this world flashed inside his head. He misses them, even misses them. But because of the long distance sometimes limit the longing is satisfied.
"Well, I think so too." Aish muttered while holding the hands of Gisel and Dira.
Without the two of them, Aish might not be able to make it this peaceful.
Thank you, my friend. Luckily I still had you guys through the day and Mama must have been happy for me, because I wasn't so lonely anymore. Inner Aish felt lucky that there was Gisel and Dira beside her as she was completely devastated.