Dear Adam - Afternoon
"Your chant cools my heart, when I miss my family."
*
Thursday night Friday leg. At a mosque in the city of Seoul. Khadijah finished performing the Isha prayer.
The beautiful melodious voice hypnotizes, even thrills his heart. Who's that? the question crossed his mind.
Verse after verse has been heard, suddenly Khadijah's tears just dripped. A longing for a father who has left and cannot return, even though there is a new father to replace a biological father's role, but it is still different, because the blood that flows cannot be deceived.
"I wish my father were here?" The tears were getting heavier.
The sound of the holy verses is so beautiful and melodious.
"If only he was my soul mate, maybe I would never reject him," Khadijah muttered.
Khadijah folded the mukenah she borrowed at the mosque. Then, he left the mosque while carrying a bag on his shoulder.
The man with the beautiful voice also left the mosque without Khadijah knowing. They actually cross paths.
*
The weather is hot and extreme, the sun is quite stinging. Especially in broad daylight, it's best to drink young coconut ice.
"This ice tastes the best and freshest," Khadijah thought. "Uh, but unfortunately I'm fasting like this."
Khadijah was always diligent in fasting the sunnah of David. For her, worship is important as her gratitude to Allah. She remembers what uncle Haqi said, if we want to pursue the afterlife, we will also get the world.
Haqi, always gives a lot of knowledge. In addition, his profession as a professional surgeon. He also opened a foundation and a hospital in Indonesia to help many people.
"I'm very grateful, God replaced the role of father to Uncle Haqi, but still I miss my daddy. I really miss being held in his arms, storytelling, and daddy's piano sound. Unfortunately, I don't have the talent from daddy."
Khadijah stared sadly in her daydream about her long gone father.
"I wish there was a father. I wish God always laugh and spend time together and try not to be naughty."
Khadijah saw a little girl who was about five years old in her father's arms. The girl licked chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavored ice cream. The girl, made her play some of the memories she had with daddy.
"Unconsciously I feel your presence, dad. I really miss you, wherever you are, I always pray for you, dad. Although, I hope you come back with us."
Khadijah's cell phone rang, she saw on the screen her mother's name was written on it. She still misses her mother, but how can he be separated for the sake of a dream, what's wrong?
Khadijah shifted the answer board.
"Assalamualaikum, honey?"
"Walaikumsalam, Mother."
"How are you?"
"Thank God, I'm fine, how are things, Mother?"
"Alhamdulillah, fine, son. Next week Hasan will follow you to Seoul."
"Oh, for what, Bun?"
"Hasan got an offer to work there, he also brought Ridwan."
"Ridwan? Uncle Seno's son?"
"Yeah, you know."
"Yes, Bun. I know Ridwan whose body is like a polar bear, wearing super thick glasses."
"Yes, you remember it, don't forget next week Monday you pick them up."
"Mum and dad aren't coming at the same time?"
"Mother, you can't come because you have to go to Istanbul with your father. She will attend a seminar and get a job there."
"O."
Then they ended the conversation on the phone.
*
From the horizon, it's so orange that it makes anyone fall in love. At that time the sun was starting to turn orange. Khadijah sat on a park bench to enjoy the sunset along with her wounds and past.
"Why did it have to be Father who left in this world? " Khadijah mumbled in her small heart as if she was remembering about her past. She hoped to meet her father soon.
Khadijah's eyes immediately aimed at one point. She saw there was the figure of the man of her dreams. She wanted to know who this man was. She didn't have the balls to just say hello or ask how she was.
"Would you like to know me now?" Khadijah was only able to beat her breath slowly. She hoped that one day she could get to know the man more deeply. Even if it was only a small possibility.
*
Rania was waiting at home. She had already prepared some food for dinner with her son and husband. She has cooked a delicious menu of food. Incidentally her daughter was in Seoul, South Korea to continue her education at S2. She also really missed the figure of Khadijah, her daughter.
"This is Khadijah's favorite food. If only he came here Maybe he would be very hungry to eat some of the side dishes that have been served on this table. " Rania began to expand in her little heart while waiting for two men from different generations. She is her son and husband who until now have not come home.
*
Hasan still hangs out with his friends at a restaurant. Because one of his friends had a birthday. He got a treat from one of them.
Hasan had contacted his mother not to wait for him to come home. Because he'll be home a little late at night.
"Hasan, you really want to come with us," said one of Hasan's friends because he was very difficult to hang out with. He was too busy with some work.
Hasan just smiled while enjoying some of the food menus that were served on the table. He doesn't care what his friends say about him.
*
Naina's life is so complicated that she has to raise her daughter alone. She felt that the world would never be fair to her and he even wanted to make a reckoning with that bastard.
Dahlia was born imperfect, even the man who had been called her father threw her away at that moment because she was ashamed to have a child who was born with a disability. She was really good which was never expected in this world back then and there.
Naina feels her life is completely ruined right then and there. She felt how cruel life was to her who only lived alone but was treated as a slave to a man who was the master at that time.
"Once again, I'm sorry, Dahlia," said Naina so softly as she kissed the top of Dahlia's head lovingly. "Even though your father doesn't accept you in this world, your mother will still care for and love you. You are the reason from my mother to be able to stand again with these two feet. "