VEILED WOMEN (BEST WIFE AND MOTHER)
16

Reyhan looked into the room, Syifa who had finished teaching looked at him and directly pulled Annisa out. Reyhan was shocked to see the person his daughter had pulled.

She looked into Annisa's eyes at a glance making Annisa's head down uncomfortably, and she herself also felt uneasy.

This is definitely the guy at the airport and the mall, his eyes are the same in Reyhan's mind

Annisa lowered her head in embarrassment because she remembered Reyhan the person she had seen a few times.

"She's Reyhan, remember?" said his mother

Annisa raised her face, and nodded slightly.

So this is Reyhan Inner Annisa

"It's been a dozen years so his face also changed, Nisa also certainly no longer recognize Reyhan's face" said Mr. Harun

Annisa did forget Reyhan's face so when she met several times, she did not know if it was Reyhan.

The last time he saw Reyhan was when Reyhan was still in the pesantren.

So this is the woman I once refused for a woman like Denada, how stupid I used to be to reject a prayer woman like this, while Syifa from the beginning had liked the inner Reyhan

His eyes occasionally looked at Annisa who sometimes looked down and did not speak.

"It's finished teaching, it's not nice if we chat outside like this" said Mr. Aaron

Ms. Janeta smiled, she knew what her son was thinking.

They walked towards Mr. Aaron's house, Reyhan walked in front with Mr. Aaron while chatting about the pesantren that did not change much, once in a while Mr. Aaron pointed to the place where the santriwan played which was also where Reyhan played.

Reyhan smiled remembering that.

Ms. Janeta and Ms. Aisyah have already walked and have arrived.

Annisa and Syifa walked not far from Reyhan and Mr. Aaron, Annisa only dared to lift his face and look at Reyhan after only his back was visible, his heart was beating incoherently, it's the same as it was when her father said they'd be betrothed.

All she remembers is Reyhan's face, she doesn't expect fate to bring them together after a dozen years without anyone else's intervention.

*

At home, they all sit in the living room, Annisa makes them drinks in the kitchen, and Syifa sits at the dinner table to see Annisa making drinks for all of them.

Annisa and Syifa came out of the kitchen and immediately served the drink she made.

His hands trembled slightly as he served the drink in front of Reyhan but he did not dare to look towards Reyhan.

Then he sat down and lifted Syifa into his lap. Seen like this as if she were Syifa's mother.

Reyhan now saw firsthand how sticky his daughter was, from just now wherever Annisa was she would always come along.

Janeta gave the money that Reyhan brought earlier, Mr. Aaron and Ms. Aisyah still refused and it feels still can not accept it even though they had talked about it.

"I beg you to accept it, you can pay it slowly" forced Janeta again, "This is for Annisa, she deserves to marry a good man,"

"Annisa is still young, her future will be bleak if married to such a man," said Reyhan who made Janeta turn her head, usually her son rarely cares about other people's things, but here he talks seriously.

"Alright, the money we receive, God willing we will pay slowly," said Mr. Aaron

Annisa looked at her Father and Mother sadly.

Reyhan knew that Annisa's gaze on her parents was a sad look.

"This is also not the time of Siti Nurbaya, we are free to refuse if we do not want to and can find another way," he addressed this speech to Annisa.

Annisa looked at her for a while and nodded, she did not want to be like Siti Nurbaya.

Reyhan raised the glass on the table and drank it slowly, in the glass it smelled the scent of a woman probably because it was held by Annisa.

*

In the evening, Ms. Aisyah and Annisa prepared food at the table.

"Bu Janeta yesterday told me a lot about her son's life" Ms Aisyah began

"Reyhan and his wife separated when Syifa was a baby. Annisa, if we get you guys again, how about it?" asked Bu Aisyah while pulling a chair and directly sitting down.

"She refused, we can't force someone's heart, Annisa doesn't want to be rejected a second time" said Annisa, who did not want a second heartbreak, but when her mother talked about the matchmaking her heart beat again not because of. He immediately remembered Reyhan's smiling face earlier this afternoon until he finally chanted something in his heart, he felt wrong to have remembered the face of a man who was not his mahram.

"Yes, Reyhan is very handsome, he is also from a rich family, he may not want to be with our family who can only trouble them," said Bu Aisyah sadly considering their family now.

Annisa also just kept quiet, she also felt unworthy if she wished Reyhan any more. For him the soul mate will come by itself at the right time.

*

At the Pramana house, their family was also having dinner except Syifa who had eaten first, Syifa was playing alone in her bedroom.

"So they refused but because we were forced so they wanted to" Janeta said of the incident.

"Did you meet Annisa?" pramana asked as she looked towards Reyhan who had just finished his meal.

"Yes Pa," Reyhan replied briefly and casually as it was normal, when he heard the name his heart beat erratically, but he was Reyhan who was used to hiding his heart.

"She's the woman you rejected, the woman who was good, she said softly, and also loving that you used to reject for a woman like Denada who was inversely proportional to her," janeta said, annoyed to remember the first thing.

Reyhan was silent because all of his parents' words were true. Denada and Annisa are like water and fire, like heaven and earth.

"If we proposed to Annisa for you how?" pramana asked who was sitting leaning back while looking at her son.

"Pa, Annisa may not want to, I am a different widower from the old days, plus the first time when betrothed to him, I refused without wanting to see him first, he said, he must be disappointed and his parents, he must be heartbroken" said Reyhan self-conscious if his past mistakes are big enough

"We try first" said Janeta, who wanted Annisa to be Syifa's mother.

"Ma, later they even think we lend money to them with a certain intention, which they will think is us and the landowner is the same just want to help because there is a certain intention, because there is a certain intention, and they will definitely accept this matchmaking half-heartedly" Reyhan said

"Yes you are right too, our intentions will be sincere and even considered helpful because there is a purpose," said Janeta who felt the words of her son had a point as well, what difference they are with the landowner.

"Leave it first, if the soul mate is not going anywhere," said Pramana who felt this time fate did bring them back and maybe to a higher level.