In the Name of a Mate
Chapter 10: Curhatan Zara

"What does Zara want to tell you?" Layla stared at Zara who was focused on the ceiling of the room, she was quite curious what her cousin wanted to say

"La, do you think that love and liking are the same?" Lirih Zara makes Layla blink slowly

"Maybe" Layla replied as if, she was confused actually

"Maybe what? Maybe the same or maybe not"

"Maybe the same, I was just thinking how can love grow without liking?" Zara breathed her breath on hearing that answer

"If the woman who talks to men likes what do you think?" Layla blinked again hearing that answer

"It was Khadijah who first came to the Apostle, asking his friend Nafisah bint Munyah to convey his point. I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman first expressing her feelings, but coming back to us whether she dares to express them" Layla replied with a straight look at the ceiling of her room

"Whose sister Zara likes?" The question finally escaped Layla's lips, she was curious about the man who made Zara so familiar with the taste. Whereas previously Zara said to focus on getting her doctorate first

"Qays"

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Layla's heart seemed to be pumped quickly to hear that one name, Qais?. If you remember what things the man had that made Zara and Yasmin fall in love with him. Yasmin is a sholehah woman who grew up in a boarding school, while Zara grew up with her aspirations to become the same profession as her parents. Layla does not or may not have seen what makes her two cousins fall for men like Qais who she thinks are nothing more than playboys who like to seduce women, like what the man did at their first meeting

"That Qais?" Layla asked to make sure the man was the one in question

"Yes, he was the only one in the campus whose name was Qais, the head of basketball and famous for his behavior"

"What does it like to tease women?" Layla asked, she recalled Qais's behavior the day they met

"Where did you get that hoax news? Qais is known to be anti-female"

"Huh? Who really is sister?" Layla doesn't believe that at all, anti-woman? Then why did the man tease her at their first meeting?

"She had the famous motto 'Enough one woman, no courtship, until death that separates'. The motto that makes the students pray so that they can be with him"

"Hahahaha" Layla looked up as if she had heard a funny fairy tale

"Why laugh?" Zara was amazed, even though she felt there was nothing funny about her words

"Sister Zara said he was naughty, what kind of mischief would it be if it wasn't the same woman?"

"Well, that's" Layla exclaimed

"If he's often racing motorcycles means he must be a girl, Ila's friends also say that, sometimes they make bets that are women" Layla lowered her voice in the last sentence. It's pretty sad actually saying this

"Other than that, Qais must have been a dream because of the motto he valued women" Zara argued, he seemed to be upset about Qais being demonized like that

"According to Brother Zara, is it possible that there are no women in the campus who deletin him or reveal blatant feelings?"

"There is a certainty" Zara exclaimed

"How did he react? Accepted?"

"No, he said 'don't make yourself hurt to like me' "

"What is this thing called respecting women?" With Layla's grunts, he could not stop thinking about the thoughts of his two cousins who were interested in the man

"It's impossible that he accepted everything Ila, appreciate that it doesn't mean being a girlfriend" Zara upset, he intended to confide in Layla but his cousin even vilified Qais

"What if it turns out that man already loves another woman?" The question escapes from Layla's lips, fearing that resentment might arise among her cousins because of Qais. What he was most afraid of when the man's attitude was inversely proportional to the story of Yasmin or Zara with which Qais was shown directly in front of him

"Surely the woman may have many enemies in the campus" replied Zara soberly

"Including Brother Zara?" Ask Layla

"Maybe"

"Did Zara really hate that girl?" Layla asked, she was afraid that something she didn't want to happen

"Why should you be hated? But maybe I'll be quite disappointed. That girl is lucky"

"Humans are weird sometimes? Though already know will be disappointed why in the end still hope?"

"There is hope"

"Hope is nothing more than planned disappointment" Layla murmured

He thought about what would happen in the future. It's really complicated, his two cousins love Qais, while the man who is considered anti-woman even blatantly approaches him