My best friend, Maduku
Bad News

" She, this is someone calling..!" Shouted Halimah while knocking on the bathroom door.

"You pick up, baby..!" Aly answered from within.

Halimah glanced at the phone that kept ringing and was in her hand.

"Mas, are you still a long time ?!." Shouted Halimah again.

"Yes..!."

Once again Halimah saw her mobile screen that displays a contact named *UMMA*. He knew it was Alsya's mother. Halima is nervous between wanting to lift or leave it alone. But the phone kept ringing as if something was worrying that made Alsya's mother call incessantly.

"Astaghfirullah's... I don't feel very good, do I just lift it up ?." Gumam Halimah monologue.

With high confidence, Halimah finally shifted the green screen, automatically the phone was directly connected.

"Hello, assalamualaikum... Aly, you can go home no?, Alsya is now in the hospital due to an accident..!." The voice from across the phone sounded very panicked.

Astaghfirullah, Alsha !.

Halimah turned off her phone without saying a word. Halimah knocked on the bathroom door again. "Mas Aly let's get out, mas !?." His shouting.

"Yes, just a minute !."

"Mas Aly, ummanya Alsya called, she said Alsya was hospitalized because of an accident !." Shouts again.

After no longer hearing the words, a few seconds after, the door opened in haste.

"Alsha went to the hospital ?." Aly asked in panic.

"Yes, mas. Alsya accident."

"Astaghfirullah's..."

"Come, there you go home. Meet Alsya."

"Yes." Yeah." Aly rushed to change clothes and immediately took the car keys and went back to Halimah. "Mas go first, huh ?." Aly kissed Halimah briefly. "Assynoltom..." Said again.

"Waalaikum... Mas !, here's the phone." Halimah immediately chased Aly and gave her husband's mobile phone.

"Thank you, baby."

Aly walked quickly to her car and boarded it straight away. The window she opened to see the figure of his wife who was standing on the porch of the house. Aly smiled as she waved her hand and immediately gas sank away from the courtyard of the house.

A little while later, Aly arrived before the gate of her in-laws house. Aly poked her head out from behind the car glass. "Assalamualaikum, mangg." He told the gatekeeper.

"Waalaikum greetings, son Aly. Aly boy if you want to go to Alsya's son, go directly to the hospital, the house person is also there."

"Oh, yes. In which hospital, mang?."

"Jaya Medika Hospital, son."

"Yaudah, I went ya mang?, Assalamualaikum.."

"Waalaikum salam."

Aly pulled back his car and turned and went back to explore the paved highway to the hospital mentioned earlier.

Until the hospital, Aly calls her in-laws where Alsya's room is, and her in-laws say that Alsya is still being handled in the ICU room.

When he got there, Aly did not just see his sister-in-law and her in-laws. But he also saw a man he did not know at all. Aly approached her in-laws.

"Assalamualaikum, Abah, umma. " She said and then shook her two hands in turn.

"Waalaikum salam." Answer them in a very clear voice.

Aly looked at her father-in-law's face." What happened to Alsya, bah ?." Asked who had begun to worry about the condition of his wife and future baby. Even Aly's eyes had begun to dew ready to shed her tears.

"Alsya accident, Ly. He got hit by a car." His father-in-law answered in a voice that sounded raucous.

Aly breathed heavily. "Astaghfirullah's..." He muttered very surprised.

Aly scooped up her own face violently. He did not know what to say and react when he heard his wife experience this.

"Ly, sit down." Annisa, her sister-in-law told her so because Aly was still sitting in front of her in-laws in a very bad state.

Aly nodded and sat down on the empty bench, right next to the unknown man. Aly lowered her head deeply while refuting her face with her palm. The prayer was for the wife.

Almost half an hour for Aly to wait for the ICU door to open, but apparently there was no sign of anything. But, after waiting for a few more minutes, the door was finally opened.

Aly immediately approached the doctor who had just come out from there, as well as the others.

"How's my wife doing ?!."

"Is my girl okay ?!."

The words spoken at the same time made the doctor confused and looked at the two men before him with shocked faces.

Aly turned to the man beside her and it turned out that the man was also looking towards her. The gazes of the two hit each other indecipherable but both expressed dislike.

"Let's come with me, sir." The doctor told Abah.

Abah nodded and followed in the footsteps of the doctor who ended up in his room.

Umma and Annisa stared at the puzzled face of the man they did not recognize, but simply chose silence.

"You're saying my wife is your girl ?." Aly asked intimidatingly and stared intently at the man's face before her.

"She's your wife ?." Asked the man like a dazed person in shock.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Cannot be. She can't be married, she's my girl and I'll marry her when she wakes up."

"Heyy, watch what you say !!. She's my wife, not your girl !." Sentak Aly does not accept if someone claims that his wife as his girl.

"I can't believe it !. I've never even seen her with you !." The man also started raising his voice.

"Braud !!." Aly growled and instantly delivered his punch to the man's face.

Feeling unacceptable, they finally hit each other until there was an inevitable commotion.

"You guys, enough !!. Aly !!." Umma shouted for them to stop the fight.

Aly threw his fist into the air because he obeyed the orders of his mother-in-law, as well as the man who had also no longer hit him. Their faces were both injured and battered.

"You, who are you?, and why are you saying Alsya is your girl ?." Annisa spoke up and stared at the man's face.

"I'm Dimas, Alsya's future husband."

"You ?!!.'' Aly jerked and was ready to hit again.

"Cally." Annisa stared intently at her sister-in-law's face and it made Aly go back to silence.

"You, you can't just talk. I am Alsya's sister, and I reiterate, do not claim to be Alsya's future husband, because Alsya already has a husband." Annisa said firmly.

"How is it possible, Alsya is not married." Elak the man.

"Where do you know Alsya's not married yet ?." Annisa immediately raised her question.

The man immediately blinked nothing.

"You don't know, do you ?. So, don't talk about what you don't know." Annisa's words again made the man fixated deeply.

"All right, but I need proof that Alsya's married." Said the man still not giving up either.

Annisa breathed heavily, it felt like facing such a model man, she thought.

Annisa spoke up again, but stopped in mid-air at the sound of her father calling Aly's name.

"Yes, bah ?." Aly said following the call of her father-in-law.

"Astaghfirullah, Aly !. You, your face why ?!." Abah was shocked by Aly's face because it wasn't like that before.

"It's okay, bah. Just a little trouble. So, what did the doctor say, bah.?." Aly said as calmly as possible while continuing to temper her anger.

Instead of answering, Abah grabbed Aly's body and patted him on the shoulder many times as if giving strength to his son-in-law. Aly was confused and immediately let go of her in-laws embrace.

"Change, what's going on?, what's going on with my wife ?!." Aly started to panic.

Abah immediately lowered his head and along with that, umma approached him. "Change..." Calling ummanya.

Abah hugged umma very tightly. "We don't have any grandchildren, baby..." Abah said with a choking breath.

Like being struck by lightning in broad daylight, Aly collapsed instantly. Muscle joints in his body as if there is nothing left at all makes him unable to support his own body weight.

"Alsha...?. My baby... ?. Astarghfirullah... Oh God..." Aly cupped both palms on the face. Aly sobbed bitterly at the news of the grief. He did not expect that he would lose the figure of a baby that was very much awaited to be present in this world.

The atmosphere of grief was also felt by the man who was very surprised by what he heard. Not only because Alsya is really married which makes her sad, but also because it turns out that Alsya has lost her baby due to the accident. He could not imagine how Alsya would react when he found out that the baby that had been present in her stomach was gone. It must have been very painful. And he couldn't see Alsya slumped because of that. The man finally chose to leave and tried not to appear in Alsya's presence again, after knowing everything.

"Aly, where are you going ?!." Annisa screamed when she found out Aly suddenly got up and left in a hasty move.

Aly did not reply and continued his steps. He only needed a place to complain for the test that had befallen him, the test that had been present in his household. Well, Aly walked towards the nearest mosque to rest on the Creator to complain of his grievances.

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