In the Name of a Mate
Chapter 50: Bela and Bilal

Behind the window that connected with the courtyard that looked beautiful, a middle-aged man stared at the speckle after speck of rain water that descended from the sky, falling onto the earth-wetting ground. When he heard the phone call being received, he immediately turned his eyes to the sofa, the place occupied by his son. He gave the code to enlarge his voice, a voice he missed so much

"Hello, Assalamu'alaikum" the voice of greeting from across there

"Wa'alaikumussalam's chat. You're in the apartment?" The first question Bilal asked his sister who sometimes could go home at the end of the year or holidays

"No, I'm in India" the answer that made Naufal and Bilal in disbelief

"Why there? Want to be your primeval people?"

"I need a vacation, in a quiet place" Layla answered, which Bilal thought made no sense at all

"What sounds? The sound of his horn parade was heard up here" His sister's naughtiness sounded from across the street

"It seems I really need this" his sister's answer made Bilal feel too

"About the resignation letter so you write it down? Dad said he couldn't see you all the way there" Naufal glared but not harried by Bilal

"I haven't given it yet but I've written it"

"Serahin quickly, return to your own country not too long in the country of people until we forget the nation where we were born" replied Bilal with his Nationalist tone that came out

"Yes. Tell me don't think too much, especially think of me, I'm fine here. If I resign immediately" Bilal turned his eyes to his father, surely his father was saddened by all these events

"Yes, I'll say it later. Take care of your health there, Assalamu'alaikum"

"Wa'alaikumussalam"

"He's a good father, he can even get to his own country"

"Fearful father Bilal, your sister was looking for a noise to comfort her silent heart. But still he needs someone to fill it"

"Ammar keeps asking, but it looks like he's traumatized by love" Bilal guessed

"Aren't you able to feel it? He's not traumatized, but his heart still links to the one man he's been with"

"Dad meant Qais?" Naufal hit his son on the head with a roll of newspaper on the table

"How many times has your sister married and lived with other people?"

"There are still two more years until his sentence ends. But I feel sorry for Ammar, though I told him several times to surrender, he was still stubborn"

"Let your sister answer him. The man seems to be able to step back when he hears directly from his loved ones"

"Why didn't you call me directly?"

"If you're the one who calls directly, he'll always say fine. Besides, dad just finished calling him last night, I'm afraid he's feeling burdened" Bilal let out a long sigh and took a slow massage on his temple

He saw the phone screen on the table lit up, he took the flat object and saw the incoming call from his wife

"I want to pick up Bela first father" Naufal nodded and looked back at the raindrop that had not shown any sign of letting up

"Ila, I'm sorry that I failed to look after our daughter"

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Bilal got out of the car using an umbrella, heavy rain has not shown a sign of subsiding. He entered the junior high school where his wife taught, Bella prefers to be a Biology Teacher rather than Bilal who focuses on agriculture to apply his knowledge

"That's my job, don't feel burdened like that, I'm your husband"

"Yes, husband" Bela laughed and Bilal graciously embraced his wife's shoulder so as not to get wet in the rain

After the various codes given but never make Bela understand what it means like when Bilal said

"I don't want you to be alone anymore"

Bela even thought that Bilal wanted him to stay in the orphanage, so he became a little reluctant to ask Bilal for help because he thought he was too troublesome. Finally Bilal back to do the same thing, now he believes that Bela must understand. Therefore after Bela worked, he deliberately waited and took her to the edge of an artificial lake that was not so crowded that afternoon, because the cloud cloud may they think it will rain. It was there that Bilal again said his point more clearly

"Let me be with you and be your priest, be my makmum and let me guide you"

But instead of being moved or happily accepted, Bela's answer actually made Bilal drop his jaw in disbelief

"Actually I have been praying asar before going home, if I become the imam of magrib prayer how?"

Until Bilal dared to tell his father, it was a little help but of course after being laughed at first until satisfied

"Maybe Bela understands what you mean, it's just that she's afraid you're just playing around and ending up misunderstanding, so she pretends not to know"

"But it could be that Bela doesn't really understand such terms, her hard life as you say, makes her get used to it plainly without many such terms. Only simple sentences with no ambiguous meaning had more than one meaning that he used to hear"

Bilal nodded as Naufal said that, until then he waited for Bela to work who happened to get a sift afternoon, meaning to go home at nine pm. It was then without hesitation, Bilal said his point without any terms

"Married to me"

The sentence that made Bela speechless looked at him

"Married, married, lived as husband and wife.."

"I know without needing to explain what you mean, but do you really say that for a woman like me?"

"What are you really doing?" Bilal scrunched his brows inexplicably

"I'm a broken home kid, I used to be a market thug and I'm just a regular cafe waitress" too"

"I don't judge from all that, I just want you without looking at that background"

Finally settle them together in the last year of college, when Layla was angry unclear because it was not introduced from the beginning and suddenly married. Even so he was happy to see his brother happy, his prayer that the events that happened to him did not happen to his brother.

"Athala isn't fussy, is it?" Bela asked when she got in the car. Athala is their only two-year-old son

"He's sleeping"

"I don't feel good about Dad, what if he wakes up and cries"

"Dad was happy, he didn't feel lonely. Some are accompanying, he is sometimes even smarter to take care of Athala than us" Bilal slightly chuckled at the end of his sentence, probably because Naufal was used to taking care of He and Layla from childhood, especially after the departure of his mother

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End again..😅😌

How do you think Ila same Qais?