A SPECK OF LIGHT (Handle of Good-Loving Love)
10. Leaning Soldier

Who would have thought that the man who had been showing her liking was a young man. Even very young.

Adzilla shook his head in disbelief at the reality he had just learned a while ago. More hesitant to consider, now.

Some time ago, when Soldier drove Adzilla home shopping. As usual, the man would look for a way to linger with her.

"Kok quit?" asked Adzilla when the motorcycle matic Soldier stopped in front of the stall Nasi Padang.

"Lunch first, brother."

One thing Adzilla realized was, he often could not refuse what the soldiers said. Like there's a magnet that needs to be quiet.

Both of them entered the stall choosing an empty seat. After seeing one empty table just sat down but the Soldiers ordered their food both.

The soldiers watched Adzilla who was looking down. "Sister money is falling?" ask Soldier was able to make Adzilla stare at him.

"What money?" not the answer but behind the question with a confused face makes Soldiers laugh.

"Not any money, brother why keep bowing?"

"Oh, that's okay."

Mangosteen soldiers. The chatter of the brushes came to a halt when their order had just come. Soldiers and Adzilla washed their hands in small bowls of water that had been served on their desks.

"How old, brother?"

The soldiers looked directly at Adzilla. For a long time he was silent about what would happen after the woman in front of him found out that he was younger.

"20 years."

For a moment Adzilla silently stared in surprise at the fact that the man in front of her was much younger than her.

A fiver?

A second later Adzilla forced a smile and continued eating again.

"The age may be younger, but God willing I can be better than my sister's ex-husband." chirped Soldier seemed to know what Adzilla had in mind.

"Don't talk about him." said Adzilla.

"Why? do you still love her?"

Adzilla looked back at Soldier, for a while they only looked at each other and then the view was cut off first by him.

"If you think all it takes in a marriage is love, then you're wrong. Building a household ark is not only based on love."

"But, there are days when you will definitely go through a fight. And when that happens, then you must fight together to solve all the problems that are being faced so that your marriage does not lead to divorce." Adzillah added again so that Soldiers consider the desire to approach it.

"Yes, my sister was right and my answer made me learn to keep myself strong so that when we get married, I can be what you want."

Adzillah let out a long sigh of feeling futile talking to Soldier in order to consider the feelings for him instead of making more and more spirit like this.

Not least important talks and their meal has been completed. Adzilla handed over ten thousand bills to the soldiers.

Soldier's forehead frowned in surprise to see Adzilla thrust ten thousand money at him. "For what, brother?"

"Pay my food."

Soldiers gawked at Adzilla's answer. Not expecting, if he accepted could fall his pride as a man.

"Save it, brother. I have more than enough money for our wedding dowry." Soldiers held back laughter from seeing Adzilla's reddened face blush in embarrassment because of her speech.

So adorable.

Soldiers themselves have never been offended by Adzilla's attitude still often cold and talk bitterly to him.

After paying, Soldier actually drove Adzilla home to Joseph's father. The man did not want Adzilla's two children to wait for his mother too long.

...****...

The night breeze hit Adzilla's face. Raindrops are still visible in the leaves. Who can deny when the Owner of the Universe has turned the hearts of His people upside down.

But to welcome love is still reluctant because the fears and wounds of the past are still gaping and so painful.

Given the Soldier's age, he was increasingly hesitant to step closer. Let it be, for a while it dwells in place until fate brings it closer to the Soldier or further away.

"Zilla, why aren't you shutting the window?" joseph's father went into Adzilla's room.

Adzilla turned to the source of the voice and smiled. "Sorry, dad. Zilla's just trying to open the window." He dropped his eyes out the window again.

Joseph's father rubbed Adzilla's bronze. "Are you still thinking about next week's trial?"

"No, yeah. Zilla doesn't think about the trial."

"Mikiri, Soldier?"

Adzilla turned to Joseph's father again and looked down. "Eitherway. One side Zilla doesn't want to be close to other men first, well. But Zilla can not be denied that the charm of Soldiers began to disturb the heart and mind of Zilla."

"Especially he was close to the children of Zilla." continued Adzilla again.

Joseph's father looked out the window. As a father, of course, he wants to see his only daughter always happy. Moreover, the separation of his daughter makes him more sort out to whom Adzilla befriended or related more.

It would be a lie if Joseph's father did not know the intentions of the Army. He was also young.

"He's good."

"Zilla knows, dad. Before Zilla parted ways with Bari, Zilla often bought his kebabs. He's also friendly."

"Why do you call Soldiers by name?"

"Dad, he was twenty years old. So much for Zilla." I don't know why Adzilla said this like an unacceptable tone.

Joseph's father laughed to see his daughter pouting after saying that. "Don't hate too much, it'll be too love."

"Come, yeah. He's too young, single, and a lot of his money. He just wants to mess with Zilla."

Silent. Then Joseph's father returned. "Son, love and hate are so thin. Like you and Bari, the beginning of love but the treatment he gets makes you end up hating, right? likewise now, it could be that you say you dislike the younger one but your dislike ends with a deep love because of Soldier's concern for you as well as your two children."

Hearing that made Adzilla sigh long. "Love is not enough for a wedding. Zilla also wants her family to accept Zilla's two children. Why do you have to talk to him anyway?"

"Because the only one you saw so sincerely approached you, even before the first trial he was with you. And one more thing, he can already be a prayer priest." quipped Joseph's father because he knew his daughter wanted a soul mate to be able to pray imamin, first.

"Dad, don't quip Zilla that way."

Joseph's father laughed and stroked Adzilla's black mane. In the kiss of his daughter's head.

The child who was in the past with his late wife, after three years of marriage finally became pregnant and during childbirth, his wife experienced severe bleeding to death.

"Sleep, it's night" Joseph's father said, closing the window. Seeing Adzilla lying in bed, Joseph's father took a blanket and covered Adzilla.

"Familiar read do'a."

"Yes, yeah."

❤

TB