In the Name of a Mate
Chapter 34: Only One

The moonlight that peeps through the window slit bears witness to how a Qais finally prostrates himself before the creator. Kowtowed with tears that soaked his alphabet. Shame, one word that made his heart hesitate. Ashamed to return, ashamed of his own deeds, he considered himself too filthy to face the all-holy god.

"If you continue to be embarrassed to apologize, then what we bring later if it is ended. Our life in this world is for the Hereafter. So, what are our provisions if we continue to be ashamed to repent to the creator who opens the door of repentance as widely as possible"

Layla's words touched her until Qais came to a realization. Right, isn't this world mortal and the hereafter eternal? So if he continues to feel unworthy and even away by breaking God's prohibition, what will he bring as the provision of the hereafter?

Another word that disturbed Qais's mind

"Does God forgive his sins?"

"We must always strive as human beings, God's forgiveness is so extensive, he will forgive his sincere servant of repentance. Multiply the istigfar and do not repeat the same sins. Verily the repentance of the sinner is preferred by Allah over the worshiper who is arrogant with his charity" explained one of the ustadz in a dawn study. After prostrating with tears, he decided to pray together at the mosque complex not far from their home

Qais who heard that lowered his head, why only now did he realize that he had gone too far, might God unite him with Layla to make himself aware. Not getting further but getting closer. Not feeling unworthy to be a leader and stay away, but trying to solidify yourself to be the leader of the world of the hereafter

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The atmosphere of the parking lot on campus is quite crowded before nine, probably because of the number of students who have courses at that hour. Qais took off his helmet and parked his bike, looking back to see Layla just entering the gate. The man sighed, his wife always went down at the crossroads on the grounds that she did not want to be seen by many other students and became slanderous

"WOY" Rio patted his shoulder softly, making the man gasp in shock

"Where was last night? I'm sorry that you came home with Layla's cousin. So I can't refuse"

"Who?" Qais asked, he suddenly did not remember anything this morning. He only felt pain in his face and thought it was due to him falling. Layla also said nothing about it, maybe she forgot to tell you

"Gabruz"

"Name is not foreign"

"The boy next door who often brawls" Qais just nods his head, he is not very familiar with Layla's distant family. All he knew was a part of the Bramadja family

"I have to be ready to take risks such as he reported to Naufal's father" muttered Qais who could be heard by himself

"Qais" attention was attracting the attention of some students in the parking lot, one month after the death of her father was heard, the Queen entered the campus this time. They think the girl must be pretty depressed

"What?" Qais responded in a flat tone as usual, if Layla heard she might not have expected her husband to be able to talk like that

Unwittingly, Qais clenched his hands, he still had a personal grudge against this woman. According to the confession of one of the thugs who managed to catch their members, he admitted that he was told by a female student in exchange for quite large. Rio showed a picture of the Queen that was considered the most suspicious and the thug immediately nodded in agreement

"Why did you die, I didn't see you there?" Sounds sad maybe to the person who heard it. But to Qais the voice was quite nauseating

The queen lowered her head, perhaps embarrassed as many noticed and received blatant rejection. Even though he never got a rejection from students at this campus, they will be happy to accept

"My father's body has not been found. They thought he was drifting in the river and the possibility of living was very small" his great-grandson in a soft voice made Qais or Rio next to him snort to hear that. They think it'll end like the others? Touching and empathizing with her?

"You don't seem to know your father well until you conclude like that, it should have been possible from the beginning so that there weren't many victims of his greed" Qais' voice was almost like a whisper that only the Queen could hear. The woman looked at Qais's back away, a moment later her gaze was diverted to a young blue-hijab woman who was cool talking to her friend under a tree and making eye contact with Qais, she clenched her hands. Should have been that day he got the happy news that the woman he considered a wounded rival did not expect the figure that became his savings.

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"Ila" the hot sun that was quite blazing made Layla close the top of her eyes with her palm to clearly see the figure that had just called out her name

"Sister Zain?" He raised an eyebrow in wonder at the sight of the man. Yes, the man who once filled his heart

"Why?" Ask Layla. I don't know, but they only met fairly yesterday, and the man made his mood pretty bad

"I'm not into ponpes and haven't met Yasmin. If you want, just point directly at the same person" Layla said as a warning before the man asked again about Yasmin, his cousin.

"No, I'm here to see you for something important"

"What?"

"I don't know if this is true or not, but the rumor is that Ustadz Naufal wants to get married again?"

"What?!" Layla's voice was almost like a screech, she looked at the man with deeply furrowed brows

"Don't just spread hoax news, there's no news like that" Layla said in an unacceptable tone. Until whenever he will only admit one mother, no matter how selfish though it is said

"So wrong, huh? Yesterday I heard when there was a kyai sir from another boarding school who visited Ustadz Hasan, which I heard was like that"

"Since when did Zain change profession to be a stalker?" it was clearly a Layla syndicate for the man

"I didn't mean it, just that the news was true or not. The news was in Ponpes"

"But it wasn't me who was spreading" Zain raised his hand as Layla looked at him sharply and accused him of being the perpetrator

"Since when did Zain become a gini kepo?" Layla looked at the man and turned her eyes back to the front, the direction of the monitored highway smoothly

"This is nothing like that, I believe that the father never betrayed or duain mother, even though the mother had left" replied Layla slowly. The girl kneeled her temples slowly which felt pulsating