In the Name of a Mate
Chapter 6: Cousin?

"Qais?" Layla repeats the name of the man called her cousin, she remembers the man named Qais who hit her yesterday

"But Qais's name isn't he a rhyme?" Mumbled himself

Layla scratched her head in annoyance "Why the hell should she think of him?"

"But if it's the same Qais as Kak Yasmin, is he really a good man?" Layla became doubtful of the man's attitude, especially when she remembered Qais boldly teasing her yesterday. But Yasmin said the man had never been close to a woman

"Akh, it's not important to think about" he muttered annoyed. Just standing up from his chair, a knock on the door rang out from outside his room

"Ila, let's talk for a second, it's important" it's Bilal's voice, somehow the brother came knocking on the door in half ten like this

"What?"

"You know the man we were accused of dating this afternoon"

"Why that guy?" Qais has not finished the matter now about the man's identity

"He wanted to apologize for misunderstanding. He's Uncle Maher's son and Aunt Fadila's. He said my dad's best friend used to, I met his parents"

"Continue?" Layla asked with her eyebrows raised

"He's sorry"

"I'm sorry" he said a little upset. He does not want to deal long with men

"So Bilal just wants to say that?" Layla folds her hands in front of her chest. If Bilal just wants to say that, he'll be sure to shut the door right now

"One more thing, it's about Amar"

"Why else is he?"

"She said she likes you"

"WHAT!"

"Ilal, Ila, what's wrong?" Naufal came out the door next door, the twins looked at each other and found their father had not slept

"Father's little problem"

"Naufal's "heartbreak" was ever young, even through the bitter sweetness of his amorous life, teenagers like his two children must be in trouble. Twins bowed, they could not lie from the hero who educated them from the age of four and a half years after the death of his mother

"Who?" Naufal asked softly, instead of trying to interfere just to see their confused faces, his son would need a solution

"Ammar" Layla murmured in a soft voice answering the question her father was asking

"What did he say?"

"I don't know"

"Do you not know?" Naufal certainly furrowed his brows confused at the answer

"He told me about Ilal"

"She said I like your sister, but don't tell her first" Bilal replied

"Why does Ilal tell you about me?"

"Because I want to ask, you don't like him?"

"Repo!"

"Don't really like it anymore" he muttered softly which his sister could still hear. Layla deliberately stomped on her brother's feet hard

"Awsh"

"Like someone is natural, as long as we can control the heart not to be too plunged into the taste" said Naufal with a slight smile staring at his two children

"Never love like glue that will leave marks and broken. Naturally and know the limits, do not forget also to pray, because still the determinant of the scenario is God"

"But I don't like Ammar, I just think he's a friend and a brother since he was a kid"

"Tomorrow if he reveals his feelings of love knowing well"

"Dad used to date not the same mother?" Bilal asked, he became a little curious how his parents met

"That means marriage?"

"It's not that easy, we went through many long trips and even had to be on the verge of despair several times"

"Can't you?"

"It's a long story, Dad, tomorrow's story. It's late" Bilal and Layla look at each other, is it possible that their father is evading?

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In the middle of the night, the cold air that pierced the skin was like nothing to the man in the black jacket, he said, the harshness of the sea breeze slap on his white face did not dampen the view of the man staring at the moonlight reflected by the deep blue sea water

"Udah is done, let's go home" the voice of someone behind him spread his daydream

"Udah?" The man saw what was in his friend's hand and shook his head, they came night and night to look for crabs? Qais felt this was the most unreasonable thing he did to an older brother of his level

"Why did you want to ask whose number you said? My cousin?" Qais looked at that elder brother and nodded his head

"Zara?" Joseph asked, though he was sure that Qais said yes

"No, but Ila" Yusuf was silent in his place, did he not hear wrong? What is the harshness of the sea water today makes him have hearing problems?

"Who?" Ask again to be sure

"Ila" replied Qais again casually

"Did I not hear wrong? The ila? Where did you know him?" This time it was Qais who knitted his brows, did Joseph not remember they had met as children?

"Ever meet"

"I'm sorry, but if it's him I can't" Yusuf shook his head. If Zara could perhaps consider, she was about the same age as Qais, but Zara had a much more mature mind and her intact parents loved her

"Why?"

"You must come directly to his father, I don't want to disappoint his mother who is already calm there" Joseph sometimes a little sad also when remembering Aqila

"It's quiet? Meanin?"

"You don't know her mother's dead?" Qais shook his head slightly stiffly, he was surprised to hear this. The last time they met was about thirteen years ago, but the name of the little girl he always remembered, the girl who refused his love for thinking he was a bad boy who did not put in school clothes when all his female friends praised him handsome. He remembers Kenzo being quite close to their family from the orphanage. Unfortunately after their meeting that day, unexpected events occur that must make them move to another city and never meet again. Until after graduation, Qais decided to return to the city where his little girl lived, armed with one word name "Ila", the name he heard from the call of the figure called mother by the girl

"When did he die?"

"For a long time, while the twins were still on the bench in kindergarten" Qais fell silent, meaning it was not long after his first and last meeting with the little girl

Drett

The vibration of his phone made the man reach into the pocket of his jacket to see who called him. Brother Kenzo, that's the name written on the caller's contact

"Hello brother"

"Where areyou? Brother has already pulled the door of your apartment many times no one opened" an angry voice sounded from across there

"I'm at sea, help my friend catch a crab"

"Don't have much of a reason for you!, go home now! Don't expect your brother to believe your unreasonable answer" Qais rolled his eyes lazy, his brother never believed him since he lied at a friend's house while racing wild

"Sorry yes, ngerepotin you night-night kayak gini because this crab doang" Yusuf rubbed his neck that feels cold in the night wind

"I know more than that, right?" Qais patted big brother level who he thought was a little strange

"Sometimes the night air can make us feel freedom that we cannot when the sun shines, this wind is like an intermediary longing for someone who is unable to deliver"

"I go home first, may we not meet again unless I succeed in becoming your cousin as well" said Qais, who made Joseph annoyed to hear, but he was almost touched when he heard the previous sentence. A moment later he remembered something

"Wait.." It was too late, Qais had already climbed on the bike and waved at him.

"Where does he know that I'm Ila's cousin?" Yusuf Mumam. Suddenly his body shuddered when he did not see anyone there. Somehow at times like that sometimes sounds terrible whispers like calling his name, no matter what else he immediately turns on the motor and drives at high speed. Even forgetting the crab that was the reason he could be in this place with Qais

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