Rainbow for Aqila
A promise?

When night welcomes the earth, the moon is ready with its light, but tonight the beautiful moon is covered with gray clouds containing the weight of water, as if ready to spill the burden at any time

"Let me meet them" said Aqila in a voice so soft, this pain felt incredible

"I've asked Brother Devan to bring them here"

"So Naufal is strong, why cry?" Still with their respective prayer clothes, the husband and wife had just finished praying together

"Qil, meeting you is a joy that can never be expressed with sentences and poems as beautiful as anything"

"Thank you for loving this weak servant of God, thank you for your promise to be a rainbow"

"Rainbow forever"

"For ever, until I'm finally gone"

"I love you"

"I know that, I love you too, do I still need to be expressed like this again?"

The two of them chuckled together, this moment was an unforgettable moment in Naufal's life

"The "DELAY" arrival of two young children in the room made them wipe away each other's tears

"We miss the mother" the two children pulled seats on the left and right of Aqila, went up there and kissed her cheek

"Mother misses you more"

"Mother don't cry, we're here"

"Mother's son strengthen? You boys are fighting?" Aqila stroked each of their heads

"We're strong, we're great kids"

"May mother go permission? Mommy tired?"

Naufal could not say anything more, he turned his eyes away

"Where to? Called God?" Aqila nodded her head as the question escaped her daughter

"Mother won't come back?"

"Mother can still see you from there"

"What if we want to see you?" the boy's eyes were red

"Gaze at the photo of the mother and pray the mother during prayer, God will listen to your prayers, we can still meet in the dream"

"What if we want to hug the mother?"

"Pad's embrace, because part of your soul is left for you"

"Who are we drawing again? Dad can't"

"Could ask for help with Aunty Rena, she's good at drawing"

"Who will tell me again before going to bed?"

"Dad can be every night that story"

Aqila to the point of unconsciousness, fresh blood flowed from her nose

"Qil" Naufal took the tissue and cleaned it

"May mother go? Mother tired of sleeping continuously, mother tired of headaches continues, it turns out mother can not be that strong"

Aqila apologized many times, her promise to see them happy, her promise to heal and her promise to be strong, she could not do, this disease was out of her will

"Promise to be a good child and do not make the father angry, promise yes the mother if Ilal and Ila become strong children, so the mother can calm down"

The two brothers looked at each other, their eyes and noses were already reddened, they nodded their heads which made Aqila able to smile a little, her heart could be a little relieved

"Don't forget to pray that you're gone"

"We must miss mom"

"Mother will miss you there more"

"Ilal be a good sister, protect adek Ila, Ila also have to be horrified said sister, you guys do not fight, later the father is sad" the twins again nodded their heads, he said, water has been pooled in the eye

"Can you let me rest? I was tired" Aqila tried to smile as she said that, she looked at Naufal who was still quietly shedding her tears. This headache he never imagined it to be this painful, no wonder sometimes people prefer to inject dead rather than withstand extraordinary pain and do not know when to stop it. His passion and motivation to recover did not make the disease succumb

"So the father is strong for them, if Brother Naufal is weak who will guide them" Aqila said softly, his body was already like losing its power

"Father of our hero" his two sons hugged their father's feet tightly, as if to strengthen them

Naufal kissed his wife's entire face, he put their eyebrows together long enough, his tears dripping down his face, before he finally spoke

"Rest, you must be tired"

"Thank you"

"Ashhadu alla illaha illallah wa ashadu anna muhammad the apostleullah" whispered the shahadah which was spoken as the end of Naufal's duty as a guide for his wife during the world

Aqila displayed her beautiful smile before finally closing her eyes. Her husband and children were able to let go quietly, so she could calm down when she left

Thursday, 02 February when the night sky overshadowed the earth, a figure who was always strong and felt fine, finally closed his eyes and left for eternity. Leaving her successful rainbow to keep the promise to give her many colors forever, during her life

Naufal's body fell to his ground, he hugged his children who were also crying knowing their mother had left. What can they do? Death is in the hands of the power. Man must only be prepared, ready to be abandoned and left behind. Next to his wings gone, part of his soul was gone, the smile and laughter that he had always seen in every moment were no more, gone already

"Patience dear, don't cry, mother will cry there" Naufal hugged his children who darkened their faces on his father's neck, he said not to cry but his own tears could not stop

The person outside immediately entered when he saw them like that, Mama Intan and Papa Arya cried to see their daughter leaving a smiley face but no longer breathing

Devano, Darren and Rian, powerless not to cry, their sister has left, a message that Aqila left for them

"Please take care of Ilal and Ila, I don't doubt Sister Naufal, but they need more people to make them happy"

That night the gray clouds finally lowered the burden, heavy rain as if accompanying the departure of strong women who had been tired of fighting, glioblastoma cancer became the end of his struggle. He left behind two little angels and a rainbow forever

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"Ilal, Ila" hurriedly opened her door, Layla called her and cried without saying anything. Panicking, he went home and left his job

"THE SURVEY!" Two children came out of his room, holding a cake with a candle number 43 stuck on it

"Happy father's birthday" Naufal was sitting limp, he set his tired breath running and overtaking the vehicle to get here and it turns out the children were preparing like this

"You've scared my dad"

"Hehehe, now let's blow out the candles and say to God at this age"

"Don't be too impudent" Bilal laughed as his father pulled his ears slowly

"Don't ask to see you, we don't want to" Layla shook her head, and last year her father prayed like that to the point of angering them

"No, I'm asking you to be happy"

"It's a do'a for dad not for us"

"If you are always happy, you are also happy and you must be happy there too"

"Udah, why so cry gini, should be happy, Ila let's take a plate in the kitchen, eat as much cake today" Bilal pulled his brother's hand to go

"Dad don't forget to come down, we'll finish the cake if you don't want to"

"Father change first" Naufal stared at the departure of his two children who disappeared behind the door. His gaze turned on the photo above the nightstand, he took it and rubbed it slowly, a drop of tears hitting the glass surface of the photo

"Ten years have passed by Qil, they have grown up, another year into the white age of ashes" he rubbed the smiling face of his wife in the photo

"We all miss you, you must be laughing there because you see your rainbow is weak like this, how else? No more sun to refract rainwater"

"I managed to take good care of them, they grew up to be smart kids, you know? They always took turns getting champion one" Naufal chuckled slightly as he said that

"You must be okay there, right? Wait for me to come see you, maybe after seeing them with her life partner, I've always loved you and it can never be changed"

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...⚘END⚘...

Finally finished guys...😌😌😌

Sorry if the ending does not match your expectations...🙏🙏🙏

Indeed, life is sometimes not in accordance with what we want, but that does not mean we give up just like that...🙂🙂🙂

See you in Bilal and Layla's story...🤗