WHY LOVE
The Extra Part 2

"What?" Sacred shakes. Then laugh big. "What time?" He was still unsure of Nico's words.

Seeing Nico who was silent, he also put on a serious face. Already got the answer.

"What's next, Mom?"

Nico leaned his back against the back of the chair with tightly gritted lips. He felt confused about how to behave after knowing the man who approached his brother was his ex-wife. Is Rafa really being sincere with Anita? But Rafa said from the beginning to know his brother, did not know his family background at all. Just know Anita as a single parent.

"Mas."

"Mas Nico."

The gentle touch of Holy hand on the shoulder, made him wake up from the daydream. He looked straight at his wife, without a word.

"What is Mas Nico worried about?"

"Me?!" The saint touched his own chest.

"In this heart only you are Mas, who reigns in the heart. I'm...."

Unfinished Sacred spoke, Nico pulled her body into an embrace. It was silent for a moment because the two were silent to each other. Nico dyed the top of his head long ago. His brain was thinking hard.

"Darling, I don't doubt your love. No, it's not that."

Sacred was silent in Nico's arms. Waiting for her husband to continue talking. I heard a slow breath being breathed.

"Honest. I. I doubt him (Rafa). You will interact with him later. I'm afraid he likes you again. And..make Anita hurt." Nico finally let out what stuck in his heart. About fear.

Sacred pulled his body from Nico's embrace. Choose to sit upright while looking at the face of the husband who looks upset.

"Mas, I'm not defending the Rafa bang. But Nico's fear is overrated."

"Last time I met her at Rahma's wedding. He even helped me when I almost fell. That's.almost a year ago."

"And after that I don't know anymore. There's no communication. Uh, even now it's pretty shocking news as well."

The saint shrugged his shoulders.

"We never know what will happen tomorrow. Including the meeting of mbak Nita and bang Rafa. It is beyond our will and plans as human beings. Can't choose where love is anchored."

Nico raised both eyebrows. The last sentence of the Saints was exactly the same as that of Rafa.

"The decision is the same Mbak Nita, maybe also mas Nico." said Holy.

And that afternoon conversation just evaporated. Nico no longer talks about it. The Saints chose not to ask. Choose to stay quiet and be a listener if possible Nico discuss it again someday. Her husband was instead preoccupied with the grand opening of several new outlets outside the city.

Two weeks passed. Suci was surprised by the arrival of Anita and Naura on Friday afternoon. He saw from the window there was a Jakarta license plate car that he recognized slowly parked in his open yard.

The saint stood on the terrace welcoming the guest. After answering his greetings to Anita and Naura, the two hugged each other and shared the news.

"Tante..not yet salam." Naura mediated her mother and aunt who were engrossed in chatting by extending her hand.

"Aishh, aunt forgot." Suci gave his hand to Naura. "Sir Naura how are you, baby?" he rubbed the adorable little girl's hair.

"Naura is sad again, aunt."

"Well, 10 days I didn't see Adek Alif."

"Alif return to Medan." Naura complained while pursing her lips.

"Who is Adek Alif?" The saint raised both eyebrows. Straps he also felt he had heard that name.

But Naura did not answer, Anita switched her child's conversation. "Darling, right kangen with Manda...."

"Yes Aunt, where's Manda...." Naura immediately sparkled and ran inside the house first.

"Manda same tea Sri again play on the back porch." Sacred slightly shouted because Naura was already away.

"Sir, why drive yourself?" The saint accompanied Anita's steps inside. "I'm worried about the toll."

Anita reviewed the smile. "I used to bring my own car.into the toll was normal. The important thing is not speeding," he said casually.

Nico returned from his office shortly. Equally, feeling surprised by the arrival of his brother who did not give news first.

****

"There's something I want to ask you guys."

Tonight when the children are asleep, Anita sits with Nico and Saints in the living room.

"What's wrong?" Nico frowned at the older brother sitting in the left seat.

"On Rafa."

"When I asked him how he knew Nico and Saints, he said you better explain." Anita stared alternately at Nico and Suci who looked limped.

"After I met that time, did your communication change?" Nico asks back about the development of his brother's relationship with Rafa.

Anita shakes.

"Communication is still intense just haven't met again because he's coming home to Medan."

"He's ready to propose to me."

"But I'm waiting for your blessing, Nico."

"Why after meeting Rafa." Anita looked at the sister who was still hanging her support since the meeting at the mother's house at that time.

Saints and Nico looked at each other. Through a small nodding gesture, Suci told Nico to explain.

"Rafa is originally from Banda Aceh, one city of the same Suci only different gampong (village)." Nico paused his words to see the reaction of the older brother.

Anita nodded. "I already know. Rafa never told me the background."

"Rafa that...."

Nico began to tell about Rafa clearly regarding his relationship with Saints. Anita's face looked surprised and shriveled after hearing the whole story of her sister.

"Sir, it's the past." The saint began to speak up. "Nothing is left of the past. Until now, we still establish friendship as friends. I really support if Mbak Nita wants to marry with bang Rafa." he said sincerely.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Not that it does not support Nita's choice. I'm just worried she's disappointing me." Nico looked at the older brother who was hugging the sofa cushion.

"But after hearing the mbak story about the seriousness of him to propose, I joined the support" concluded Nico.

"really?" anita's face looks shiny.

"Mom, isn't it steady?" Nico was convincing."

"First, Naura most enthusiastically considers Alif as her sister and Rafa also likes Naura. That's an important point for me."

Sacred rounded his lips. Guess who Alif answered already with his sister-in-law's explanation just now.

"Secondly, I like it too." Anita turned her face away from embarrassment. "I am also istikharah."

"Was this steady heart the answer to my istikharah?" Anita looked at Suci asking for an opinion.

Saints nodded. "God answers in many ways. Among them through dreams and steadfastness of heart."

****

A woman clad in a white wedding dress with a matching color silk hijab, sat on the edge of her bedroom bed. He has steadied the pace of restarting a new chapter with a man who proposed to him two months ago and got the blessing of his entire family.

"After we get married, I want you to have the hijab fulfill the Islamic Sharia. Because you will be my responsibility. I don't want to go to hell for not guiding my wife."

"I'll be in the hijab when we get married."

Anita commented on the thin smile as she remembered her conversation with Rafa during the proposal event at that time.

"Mommy pretty bangeett...." Naura praised him with a big smile and sparkling eyes.

"Aliff...My mom is beautiful, right?!" Naura who looks beautiful in a white dress and decorative flower bando, asked the prospective little sister she was led.

Alif only nodded with a radiant face looking at the adult figure who was also looking at him with a smile.

"Here baby..." Anita waved for Alif and Naura to come closer.

Anita sat Alif by her side while rubbing the hair of the 18-month-old. "Alif from now on call MAMI huh ?"

"Ma.mi....Ma mi." Alif followed her while staring at the future mother, who lived a few minutes, would be a legitimate mother.

"Printer's son." Anita kissed the top of her head.

"Yes. I have a grandpa. Later Alif bobonya same brother Naura...." Naura exclaimed in excitement and hugged Alif cheerfully.

The door to the room opened from the outside. Saints who wear peach color dresses go inside with a face as young as seeing the bride who finished.

"MasyaAllah..mbak Nita very beautiful..mangling.kayak girls."

"It can be a blessing..." Anita looked embarrassed.

"Seriously you know...."

"Sstt..dengerin yes." Sacred stuck his index finger on the lips so that Naura and Alif did not make a fuss. Because on the lower floor of Hendro's father's residence began to take place kabul ijab.

"I accept the marriage and marriage of Anita Maheswari bin Hendro Rusnandar with the mascawin paid in cash."

LEGITIMATE

LEGITIMATE

His voice was clearly heard to the bridal room. Anita smiles with relief but is also nervous because she has to go down to meet Rafa who has been her legal husband.

"I'm nervous, Saints." Anita clasped the Holy arm tightly which would lead her down the stairs.

"Relax, mbak. Breathe out slowly."

"Don't duck ya. Keep your face up and smile."

Nita follows the Sacred directives.

The violin accompanies his steps down the stairs one by one with the brother-in-law in his hand. Naura and Alif followed her steps down the stairs.

At the end of the stairs, Rafa looks dashing in a white bridal suit. He stood waiting for his queen to come down. The gazes of the two locked onto each other with a fluffy smile.

Families from both sides stood watching the bride's welcome procession which was then reached by the groom's hand to the board table to continue the signing of marriage certificates and other processions.

The wedding ceremony has been completed. Guests who are entirely family, began to enjoy the dishes provided by catering. As for the reception, it will be held tomorrow in the ballroom of the 5-star hotel in the Menteng area.

Salma and Candra are present with their two 5-month-old twin sons, sitting in two stroller. Malik and Rahma cover a lonely back garden as their 3-month-old son whines about wanting to suckle.

"Sacred.forgive me..." Someone approached him when he returned.joining after from.the bathroom.

"It is Mamak, then let it linger. We are now a family." Suci hugs Mamak Nur, Rafa's mother who once cut her ties with Rafa.

"I'm sorry...Holier. Sorry...." Mamak Nur was choked with sobs in the Sacred embrace. He regretted his past mistakes.

Suci rubbed Rafa's mother's back. He also commented on the smile behind the back of Nur's mammoth because a man was standing straight watching his interaction.

The fate that was initially painful has led him to the happiness of living with the figure of a man who is still standing glued to hold the baby.

The quiet saint left Mamak Nur who began to calm down and was able to smile back. He is going to the source of his happiness. The husband and son stared at each of his steps.

"I love you, baby." Suci dipped the mangrove cheeks of her adorable smiling beautiful princess.

"I love you, Papa." He looked at Nico with a sweet smile.

Nico tapped his cheek.

Sacred shakes. "Shy ah....."

Nico. "Manda kissed, why don't I. Prove that it is love!"

Sacred rolled his eyeballs. There's just Nico's wits to grasp it.

Cup.

"One more!" Nico brought his right cheek closer to kiss his wife.

"Now we kiss Manda's cheeks together!"

Unwittingly flashless camera shots of Suci, have immortalized the small family-friendly scene. Of course everything was planned by Nico with the photographer.

Friction of the middle violin plays the acoustic song Angel Heaven - Uje, with shahdu, accompanying a pair of brides as well as all the happy guests and chatting in a family atmosphere.

I want him to be loyal

And able to maintain its purity

When I was not far from him

Amanah also became his guard

Your heart is my refuge

From my orgasm crime

My God approved that

Made you my wife

You are my heavenly angel

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Dear readers, dear,

This story is really over. Follow all my work. The story of the character who is still hanging will be answered in the next novel. God willing.

Onlen hug for all loyal readers 😍

Me Nia (@me_niadar)