VEILED WOMEN (BEST WIFE AND MOTHER)
19

"Eating the cake is difficult, can not be like aunty," said Syifa who had sat back.

"Yes, the veil has been opened" Annisa said as she slowly opened the Syifa veil.

"Huh..." Syifa threw out a breath, "Newly able to breathe," he said innocently.

"Aunte Nisa's nudge didn't open either?" asked Syifa who was completely innocent.

"Because Aunt Nisa is an adult, different from Syifa," replied Annisa

"But Grandma Aisyah is the same Oma who doesn't wear a veil? I'm an adult" asked Syifa again

"Later when Syifa is an adult, Syifa will understand. Quickly eat the cake," Annisa said as usual when she could not answer Syifa's completely innocent question.

Syifa nodded, Aunt Nisa's answer was always the same.

He ate the cake slowly.

"Kuenya delicious. If Aunt Nisa who became Syifa's mother, Syifa must be very happy," said Syifa plain that was really innocent until she did not realize if her speech often made Annisa wrong.

Reyhan and Annisa seem misbehaved by the remark, and feel bad for each of them. Reyhan only frowned without looking the other way, while Annisa busied herself by eating her cake behind her veil unseen.

Ms. Aisyah and Mr. Aaron just smiled at Syifa, but they felt bad for Reyhan who did not like Annisa.

"Syifa let's change the clothes first" Annisa said breaking the silence.

Syifa stood up and followed Annisa to the room, after finishing switching them out again.

"Syifa it's 9 o'clock, let's go, Syifa said just stop by for a while" said Reyhan

"Tadi Syifa wants to invite Aunt Nisa to follow our path" Syifa said

"Next time Aunt Nisa take Syifa both way, now Syifa both way with Papa first," said Annisa.

He gave the clothes that he had wrapped to Syifa.

"All right," said Syifa while kissing the hands of Annisa, Mr. Aaron and Ms. Aisyah.

They leave.

While in the car, Syifa looked at her Papa.

"Pa, is Mama Syifa like Aunt Annisa?" ask Syifa

"No, people have their own personalities so it can't be the same" Reyhan replied

"Pa, why don't you just marry Aunt Nisa? he is very good" said Syifa who did not care much about his mother.

"You're only 4 years old, you can't talk about marriage" Reyhan said

"We must be happy with Aunt Nisa" Syifa said sadly

"Now we're happy too, there's oma and opa" Reyhan said.

Not long after they stopped at the mall owned by Pramana Reyhan.

Reyhan took Syifa to the mall, he recalled the incident when Annisa was taken by the security guard, and now he remembered that the clothes he had given Syifa for the first time were indeed the clothes he had bought during the incident.

Reyhan smiled slightly as he recalled how Annisa had kept her veil.

The manager came closer to see him after hearing from the employees there his arrival.

"This is the report that the Director asked for" the manager said, giving several sheets of paper.

"Yes thank you" Reyhan said as he continued on the path of leaving the manager who eventually left.

Reyhan brought Syifa to play upstairs, this floor is almost all a game, from for small children to adults.

Syifa rode the toy horse happily, having gotten used to it so she rode unaccompanied.

Several officers there looked towards Reyhan waiting for Syifa to play.

Reyhan had one of his employees pick up some dolls that Syifa might like.

After getting off the horse, He and Syifa were playing the game, Syifa was jumping around happily.

"Pa'll play that shot huh!" syifa

"Yes, want to play anything you can, until Syifa is satisfied" Reyhan said

The doll that Reyhan asked to come, the employee immediately gave it to Syifa who had a break playing.

"The doll keep it first" Syifa said, giving her another doll after kissing her for a while.

Officers waited for them to play while holding two dolls.

every 2 weeks the boss will come to bring his daughter so they are used to waiting like this until the boss' daughter is satisfied to play.

*

At Mr. Aaron's house, Annisa sat in a room alone.

Why this awe is still the same as before when it has not met for years, this awe also remains clapping the inner hand of Annisa

Annisa opens an old photo when all the old Santri take pictures together. He rubbed a photo of teenage Reyhan, a cute face with a thin body clearly visible in the black and white photo. He always kept this photo because those years were the most memorable of all. Her smile was instantly lost and replaced with grief as she recalled Reyhan's rejection 5 years ago.

Nisa's dream used to be only 1, which was to marry a young man whom Nisa admired, but it turned out that the man rejected her heart.

He kept the photo back in the drawer, locked it tightly, let this awe disappear by itself as time goes on. He breathed heavily while keeping the key.

Not accidentally he saw Syifa scribbles in his book, he smiled at the typical scribbles of small children.

"The boy was very sweet" he muttered and kept his book in a drawer as well but another drawer.