Mom for Aira
Chapter 4.

Then Arka confirmed the blanket worn by Zea and Aira.

Zea who was still half conscious, immediately realized when she felt her blanket pulled by someone.

Their eyes meet.

Time stopped for a while.

"Sweet.." Arka.

"His eyes are beautiful, yet they seem to harbor so much sadness.." Inner Arka.

"Ehem...." Zea's clearing.

"Eh, sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, I just want to justify the blanket.." explained Arka misbehaving.

"Yes." replied Zea, cold.

Zea's heartbeats are like those who ran a marathon.

Suddenly awkward atmosphere.

"Sorry can you move positions?"

"Oh yeah, sorry..." Arka scratched his nape that was not itchy, because of shame and misbehavior.

Arka walked away from the patient's bed. Then Zea got off the bed.

With a cry Zea took her bag which was located on a small nightstand beside the patient's bed.

"Where are you going?"

"You want to pray, I have not prayed yet." Zea replied without turning her head.

"Oh, yes, I did...."

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"Well, what's wrong with my heart, why do our eyes meet, my heart beats so hard, and my heart seems to flower, what's this love?"

Zea keeps thinking 'what's wrong with her', until she doesn't realize she's in front of the hospital mosque.

"Astaghfirullah, from a strange thought, until he realized it was the same." muttered Zea.

Before stepping in, Zea threw away her thoughts about Arka, so that her prayer was not disturbed by the handsome face of the one-begotten widower.

After not thinking about Arka anymore, Zea immediately moved towards a special place for women.

Zea placed her bag in one of the small cabinets for the pilgrims.

Finished wudu, Zea immediately went to the place of prayer.

Take the mucus out of her sling bag, then put it on.

Stand straight facing the Qiblah.

"Yes Allaah eliminate all thoughts of the world in the brain of the servant, for a while, O Allaah, until the servant finished the prayer.." his mind asks.

Then Zea began her prayer. His mouth spoke, his heart and mind followed.

Finish the prayer, Zea berzikir with Muji Alloh. Then continued berdo'a.

"Yes Allah forgive all the mistakes of servants, from servants to puberty until now. Forgive the sins of the two servant parents, the servant grandmother, the servant kaka and all Muslims in the world, from their puberty until now. Amen...."

"Yes, please ease all world affairs and my will, amen...."

Finally, Zea recounted how she felt, while she was meeting Arka.

Finished complaining about his feelings, Zea ended it, because her mind had been fixed back with Aira. Zea was afraid that Aira would wake up while she wasn't there.

Zea took off her face slowly, then folded and put it back in her bag.

Then Zea rushed back to Aira's room.

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"Assalamu'alaikum's chat...."

"Wa'alikumus hail...."

Chequek. Arka opened the door.

"Look Ze..."

"He sir..."

"Don't call 'pak' dong Ze.." protested Arka.

"What I am is that old." continued Arka.

"Well when I called her baby?, isn't it weird.." Zea started joking.

"May ko, no one is forbidden..."

"But I don't want to..."

"Are you halal?"

"Ah father berkandanya can aja.." said Zea.

"I'm not kidding Ze, I'm serious.." said Arka.

Suddenly silent atmosphere.

"I want you to be Aira's mother, and our children later, as well as friends to seek out divine riddho..."

"Maybe it's too soon for us who just met, but at my age I don't want to mess around anymore..."

Zea is still tight-lipped. He was confused as to what to answer. And there is something that he is so afraid of when there is a man who expresses feelings for him, namely his past.

Tok

Tok

Tok

The sound of the door knocking, as if to be a savior for Zea.

"I'm the only one who opens." prevent Arka, when he sees Zea will walk towards the door.

Chequek.

The door opens, looking at a doctor whose head hair is beginning to change color and a nurse, who looks young.

Both men entered.

"Night, Mr. Arka, mamah Ai.." said the doctor.

"Dock night.." reply Zea kindly.

The doctor said that he would pick up Aira's infusion. Because Aira's condition has improved.

Zea immediately carried Aira, so that the toddler did not cry later.

Sure enough, Aira only woke up for a while, when the needle infused wildly from inside her blood feather, then she made sure she was in whose arms and fell asleep again.

"Alhamdulillah, it's done." said the doctor.

"So we'll excuse you first, Mr. Arka and mamah Ai..."

"It's doc please.." replied Arka.

After the doctor and nurse left, the condition of the room suddenly quiet again.

"Where is Ze, you want to?"

"Come to Umi's house." said Zea sarcas.

For Arka, Zea's sentence was a green light. His heart is now more flowery.

"You ate first, you haven't had dinner yet..."

Without many words Zea immediately ate the food Arka had prepared.

While feeding food into her mouth, Zea's mind drifted away, returning to when she was 5 years old.

It was at that age that Zea first set foot in the boarding house of Al-ikhlas, which became his residence to this day.

That same day, the last time she saw her mother's face.

Zea still vividly remembers her mother's promise to leave her.

"Mother promises to see you every month, Calolin, so don't cry, learn the truth...."

Promise to keep the promise, from that day Zea never saw her mother again, whether still healthy or not, or even already land?. Zea did not know, because from that day on Zea had never heard from her mother.

From that day on Zea was 'wasted' by her parents. But good luck still sided with him, the cottage nanny raised him to be a foster child.

Umi and her ashes also never distinguish Zea from her biological children, so little Zea never felt a lack of affection.

For the problem of school payments, Zea does not need to bother thinking about it because she always gets outstanding scholarships. And for the matter of the cottage money, umi and her ashes moved it.

Until Zea grade 6 SD, decided to sleep in the ndalem room. Because he was already big and understood the rules of his religion.

But the love of abi and uminya is still the same, even though Zea can no longer be spoiled with her ashes.

"Ze, told to eat ko daydreaming.." Arka's speech managed to make Zea aware of the shadow of the past.

"Astaghfirullah azim..." Zea beristighfar, because it's daydreaming.

A tear escaped, from Zea's eye.

"You cry Ze, why?"

Arka was so worried to see there were tears coming out of the eyes of the longing heart.

"Ga papa's..."

"Sir Arka has eaten?" distract.

Seriate......