EL NATH (Glorious Regrets)
BonChap Nair (9)

Nair just got out of the hospital building where he was interning. Nair walked towards the parking lot. A shirt with material pants that look right on his body makes him always the center of attention either nurse, young doctor, doctor koas or even an apprentice like him.

"Doctor Nair." call someone in a soft voice.

"Yes..." Nair stopped his steps and turned around. Nair could see a girl with slightly wavy hair that she let dangle over her chest standing up straight developing a smile.

Slowly the girl Nair knew named Kayla walked over. Body fitting shirt and skirt span limited knee as well as a typical white suit doctor that he sipped on his arm makes the girl look sexy and charming.

But whatever the power, Nair's heart that was already engraved Naira's name made the girl in front of him was not at all attractive to him.

"Can you ride? Until the end of the road there? My car in the garage was the problem." asked Kayla to Nair.

Nair was confused as to what to answer. He noticed the girl's skirt that looked cramped and claustrophobic, then alternated on his sport bike parked in the corner of the parking lot.

*Baga*how can he ride the bike with me? The skirt is so, and my bike is too? Don't you bother?

The phone that rang in the pants pocket became a temporary lifesaver for Nair.

"For a moment Doc."

Nair shifted the green icon and placed the phone in the ear. The name he had seen on the screen made him not want to delay answering the call.

"Assalamualaikum, Nai?" nair asked slightly turning his eyes away from Kayla. His body even turned 90 degrees to the right.

Kayla stared meaningfully at Nair. He tried to find a doubt on who called Nair and tried to eavesdrop on their conversation. But unfortunately Kayla can not hear the voice of the other person Nair.

"Nair Waalaikumsalam. Can you meet me at the park near the hospital?" ask Naira.

Nair knows the park in question is the park near the hospital where Naira interns. A small park that is quite crowded if visited this afternoon.

Nair immediately smiled brightly. "Of course Nai."

"I'm there now, huh?" Nair Langaung agrees without knowing Naira's reason for meeting her now. Nair was just too happy to meet the girl he always mentioned by name in the prayer.

"Yes Nair. I'm waiting for ya. Assalamualaikum."

"Getishalight."

Nair immediately closed the call. He faced Kayla. "Sorry, Doctor Kayla."

"I have to meet someone and it just happens that it's not in the direction of the place the Doctor meant."

"I'm first, Doc."

"Assalamualaik."

Nair walked straight to where his motorcycle was parked. He immediately drove his motorbike to the park that Naira meant.

Nair arrives and Naira's familiar performance makes her walk to the bench where Naira is waiting.

"Assalamualaikum, Nai?"

"Waalaikumsalam Nair." The girl raised her face looking at Nair who was already standing in front of her.

"May I sit here?" tanya Nair pointed at the empty space on the bench that Naira was sitting on.

The girl nodded. His face was gloomy and his eyes were puffy. All of that did not escape Nair's sight. But Nair tried to think positively.

Nair sat next to the girl with a distance of about half a meter. They both sat at the very end of the bench.

"What's up, Nai?" ask Nair to the point because Naira is not a girl who likes to waste time just to be alone with her like this.

Naira looked at Nair briefly and then she looked down again. Nair saw the girl squeezing her fingers in her lap.

"What's up, Nai? You don't look like you usually do." Nair tries to push Naira.

"You seriously want to be with me, Nair?" the question that made Nair suddenly frown. He did not expect Naira to ask him to meet to ask this question.

"certain." Reply Nair sure. "Do you have any doubts about me, Nai?"

Naira shook her head slowly with her eyes fixed on her fingers.

"Then, can you send a CV to Abi, Nair?"

Nair returned like he was struck by lightning. The request that he had always been waiting for but when Nai had already said it somehow his chest was pounding.

Since a few days ago, Uminya told about Abinya's plan. Naira has never been absent from Istikharah. And the answer is still the same.

Nair's face is always there in every bow. Nair's face was always in his dreams and it was always Nair in his mind.

"Nai? Why suddenly?" asked Nair unexpectedly.

"Nai... I know Abi and Umimu, and also Pakdemu."

"I'm going to ask you directly, not by sending a CV like we're strangers who don't know each other, Nai."

That is the Ta'aruf process. If you know each other with his family, it's good to talk directly without going through CV submissions. But if you do not know each other or want to do ta'aruf through an intermediary or agent, then you must send a CV first.

"But Abi is in Java, Nair."

"I'll be there, Nai. I'll be there if there's a holiday schedule."

"Next week."

Naira looked at Nair with teary eyes. Nair immediately panicked to see the clear round eyes that almost had trouble accommodating tears that were ready to fall between his lower lashes.

I'm afraid there's no time, Nair.

"Send to Abi's email, Nair."

"Why is it sudden, Nai? Tell me what's up?" Nair and Naira face each other. Nair wanted to wipe the tears that had already plunged down the cheeks of the girl he loved.

He wondered why Naira was like being chased by a taget and seemed to rush.

"Pig... Abi planned my match with Kyai's son, the owner of the boarding school I studied in."

Duuaar!

The bright afternoon sky could not change the mood of Nair who was already ravaged poranda.

"A... Abi?"

Naira nodded. "I beg you to send Nair. As if when your CV has reached Abi, I can resolutely reject Abi's matchmaking by saying that I want to be with you."

Nair's feelings were mixed. He is sad and afraid if Naira is betrothed to the son of a boarding house owner. But he is happy and happy because Naira really wants to be with him.

*If all this time the barrier is only time, then this time it is obviously more difficult.

Harkat, dignity, social status, religious knowledge, and background are now clearly a comparison between me and the man. And that must also be my biggest obstacle.

O Allah, why should it be this difficult*.

Nair looked at the girl before him many times wiping her tears. Nair held out a handkerchief from his shirt pocket.

"Wear this, it's still clean."

Naira wiped her tears away. He looked back at Nair who had not responded to his request.

"Naair..."

"Sstttt..." Nair put his index finger on his lips.

"Without you asking me to fight Nai."

"Thank you for saying you want to be with me."

"I'm going to hit everything even if it's a storm."

"I beg you, stay calm and respect Abi. Don't make your heart seem to choose between me and Abi."

Naira nodded.

"Abi told you directly about this matchmaking?"

Naira shakes. "It was Umi who said it."

"I don't know when, but Abi unexpectedly Nair. Abi can come anytime or tell me to come home anytime."

Nair nodded slowly. He continued to develop a smile even though his heart was not fine.

How can I make a decision between two choices.

Naira stays with me but I have to face Abinya head on.

Or I gave it up for the sake of not fighting the Abinya. So that he is not stamped as an ungodly child.

Help us, O God.

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