Bound Mumtaz
160. Collecting Puzzles of the Past

After Zayin and Adgar left, the fathers told the children to sleep, the Hartadraja Pradapta clan, and Birawa who refused to leave the unstable children to rent a room as a resting place.

In the middle of the sound of a human who fell asleep on a makeshift pedestal in the room of Ibnu's house, only Mumtaz who was still awake sat beside Ibn who was still mocking because of his anxiety which greatly disturbed the defense of his sanity Mumtaz saw his best friend suffering on his own.

" Bapak...ibu..tidaakk.." Ibn's moan, Mumtaz's hand held Ibn's hand and put it on his forehead regretting this situation, a puddle of tears dripping onto the white sheet.

" I'm sorry.sorry I.sorry.sorry..can't save them." Pilu's party.

Mumtaz's moaning was like an instrument that sliced the hearts of his companions who heard the regretful voice, though their eyes were closed, they were not really asleep.

The eyes that used to radiate tranquility to his companions are now dimming, even empty with no livelihood, time as if at a standstill.

" Mumtaz's... Mumtaz..." Pekik Ibn, suddenly his eyes opened wide like a surprised person

" Mumtaz.."he said slowly.

" Shuusshh, I'm here. Next to Lo "soothing Mumtaz whispers.

Ibn turned his head to his right side, staring at the face of Mumtaz who suffered the same with him.

Mumtaz's heart was filled with grief at the suffering of Ibn's black bead, and it would kill his soul.

" Muy" Mumtaz was surprised by Ibn's sudden sitting down, then pulled out his needle. With an aggressive movement he went down and hastily opened the Mumtaz shirt which was rejected by the owner.

" Nu, Lo why?" refuse Mumtaz to distance himself from Ibn.

Ibnu did not answer, he instead grabbed back the navy blue flannel shirt.

" Nu..."

There's no answer.

" IBN ABDULLAH." Mumtaz's snapping blew away Ibnu's hand that kept touching him.

The friends could no longer pretend, they sat upright in their respective places staring at the two closest people, they were astonished to see Ibn kneeling before Mumtaz who stood with his upright body stiffened with his hardened jaw and sharp gaze.

" Mommy, I have to see your body." Said dragged.

Their views clashed with each other, immediately Mumtaz's body looked stiff when he realized Ibn knew what had been forgotten by him, then the pundsk was decreased resigned.

" Muy, please let me see Lo." The glare from Ibn's eyes rubbed his heart, he rubbed his face violently.

The companions just saw, none of them to break up.

" For what?"

" I just want to make sure something I hope doesn't happen."

" If that happens?" Ask Mumtaz.

" Muy, please.gue will continue to suffer.gue can no longer continue under these circumstances, it's exhausting." Please with your hands together.

Their eyes did not escape the sight of each other, did not want the suffering of the protracted netra Ibn Mumtaz took off his shirt which was behind it still wrapped in black t-shirts.

Impatiently Ibn lifted the shirt to the chest, looked at the part from the chest to the waist, then turned it only half a step, Mumtaz's hand stopped him.

" No,.please...don't..." A heavy and hoarse voice signifies Mumtaz's heart on the verge of defense ability to accommodate all his burdens during this time.

Ibnu did not have the heart to see it, but he knew, this had to end or they were both more soluble in this pain. Ibn again begged, back Mumtaz resigned which this time impressed defeated.

When Ibn stepped two steps back, seeing the back of Mumtaz straight to the waist, his steps back a few steps, his body was shaken, his eyes closed tightly as well as Mumtaz he cursed that day, the day this wound was born.

The friends hold their breath when they see the wound, it is answered why all this time Mumtaz never bare chest, even for just swimming.

There, at the back of the waist there is a fairly large sharp object punctures imprint clearly. Ibn's trembling hand touched it slowly and slowly permeated the ugly textured skin.

Mumtaz's hand that had fallen on the side clenched tightly.

" So that's all true? Did that day happen right?" Her moaning held onto her suddenly clenched chest.

" They killed father and mother not easily." Said slowly

" When I don't remember, why wasn't there something in my brain? Whither? what was that day?" Parau Ibnu sounded desperate.

Mumtaz twisted his body and hugged Ibn tightly.

" Forget it." His whisper was in Mumtaz's ear.

Ibn pushed Mumtaz away, "How can I forget that which I do not remember, but every March my body trembles with fear by itself." Shouted Ibn frustrated, he grabbed his hair firmly.

Gaddafi who was surprised his brother shouted hysterically sitting hugging his knees in the corner of the room while crying.

The shout woke up all of them who were directly running towards the room.

Teddy pulled Gaddafi into his arms, pecked at the tip of his head, rubbed his back in comfort

" Shuusshh, everything's fine, there's Dad." Teddy said calmly.

Gaddafi shook his head, "Aa Ayin, please call Aa Ayin, hiks..."

Heru unobtrusively exits the room to call Hito to bring Zahra and Zayin back.

" I'm stressed, I don't know what scares me, but this body is always shaking, Muy. Please help me remember what happened that day?" The frustrated rumbling voice hurt Mumtaz's heart.

" Want to know what happened that day?" Ibn nodded quickly, instead of speaking up, Mumtaz looked at Ibn with a very guilty look.

" Mommy, don't shut up, talk, what's going on that day?"

" That day the father and mother died" answered Gaddafi, he was not strong enough to continue to see his brother like a mad man.

" UJAH." Mumtaz stared at Gaddafi's clenching guts in Teddy's arms.

Everyone gasped in surprise, on Mumtaz's face there was no calm at all, the ripples of their faces paled into a gripping atmosphere of silence.

The brightness of the shadows screams, encouragement, laughter, crying, flames, fresh blood flowing.alternating like flashes of images photographed in the camera.

Ibnu shook his head, he held his head that hurt because of the cut of the scene like a spoiler drama that continues to spin in his head.

" No.no. Dad died of a robbery, that's what Lo said to me, Muy." Ibn walking without direction turned the room rejecting the new understanding of that frightening conclusion

" Hiks...A...it's over." Lirih Gaddafi's.

Didn't touch his brother Ibn squeezing a T-shirt around Mumtaz's neck." Tell me when and how my parents died."

Mumtaz flinched, he lowered his head in a silent cry, the companions wanting to grab him, but could not yet.

Mumtaz's back looked tired, tired, and then surrendered to fate.

The eyes of the friends glazed over, Mumtaz who was usually the most sturdy among them, now haggard, he gave up.

" Say how did you get that wound?" Ibn stomped Mumtaz's body like it was not boned.

" MUHAMMAD MUMTAZUL YUSUF, SAY IT!!"

Mumtaz took Ibn's hand away from his shirt, he knelt down, his hand took something from the slip of his shoe, which turned out to be a folding knife, opened it and thrust it at Ibn, looking at him firmly with an expressionless look.

When the companions approached, they stood around them.

" Bvnvh me, I gave them."

" No, I know it's not you."

Mumtaz smiled smirk, "you forget about the incident, while I remember every detail."

Ibn groan," Muy,..."

"Because of me they died." Shouted Mumtaz.

Ibnu shook his head, smacking his best friend's statement. He was also upset with himself who had forgotten the events of that day.

Bara stopped him by holding both hands of Ibnu, even his arm was hit by the incision of the folding knife held by Ibn, the women screamed stifled at the sight of blood in Bara's arm that Bara himself did not notice.

" You're lying." Hardik Ibn.

Mumtaz shook his head, "if this can free you from your suffering, bvnuh me. It's all my fault that they can help your parents."

" Lives are paid for lives, that's our oath."

" But that's for pembvn.vhnya." Connect Ibn.

" It's for Lo's suffering, believe me I'm the cause of you two being orphans." Mumtaz's trembling voice sliced through the hearts that heard it.

" No, not Aa Mumuy, A..no." prevent Gaddafi fast."

" GADDAFI, HUSH! Bentak Mumtaz's.

" How can the injured people membvnvh, those who beat the mother and father, who stabbed Aa mumuy also them" said Gaddafi

" You know what happened back then?"

" Yes I thau, Aa Mumuy saved Aa." Gaddafi said, his face paled.

Mumtaz, and Ibn was struck by that fact.

Brakes...

Zahra and Zayin, along with Hito and Adgar, stand at the very back of the door.

" In, uh,..." The soft voice of Zahra brought Ibn to the present world.

Stepping slowly towards Ibn Zahra held his hand gently, then slowly pulled the knife from his hand, then threw it at any place secured by Damar, then hugged it tightly.

The same hug as she slumped for the first time after burying her father and mother.

A warm hug that treated his heart's pain after they died, an oasis-like hug in the arid Padang of his soul

" Sister..." His moaning cries out loudly to hug Zahra tightly, he misses his mother.

Hito is reluctant to accept that the zahra being hugged by another man is not his mahram, but the bond between the two is far from romantic, and he must forgive her

" Sister, is Mumtaz really giving them?" Zahra glanced at Mumtaz whose eyes were reddened, Zahra shook her head.

" No, it's not Mumuy, it's the bad guys." Answer the cold Zahra.

" Sister, how did father and mother die?"

Mumtaz's cry grew louder his head bowed deeply." Pardon me!!...I'm sorry!!! Sorry!!!"

Bara who saw Mumtaz holding him offered his support, now he is strong.

" I was wrong, I lost. I can't keep my word to keep him, Bar." 

" I'm salaaahhh..." His emotions roared wanting to release the tightness of heart that he had been holding.

Mumtaz's concoction presents Ibnu's awareness of the wounds that his best friend felt for his suffering. His eyes looked at Mumtaz's nanar.

Gradually Mumtaz's consciousness weakened, then lost in Bara's embrace.

" Yes, Muy... Wake up..Muy..don't look like this.please wake up." Persuade Bara to fear.

" A.N..." Gaddafi screams like a child, he doesn't want to lose his life protector.

Akbar helps Bara carry Mumtaz to the top of the gurney.

Zayin took over Gaddafi from Teddy.

Alfaska was stunned in a place unable to move, he was too shocked, Daniel patted his shoulder slowly calming down.

" He's okay he's the strongest among us" he whispered.

" At this time the power is invisible." muttered Alfaska wistfully, making it clear that it had wet his cheek, he was afraid that something might happen to his best friend.

Daniel could not answer.he was the same.

Sicily and Tia were already crying, Dominiaz hugged his sister tightly, while Dista and Cassandra hugged Tia braced.

Panicked, and alarmed, Ibn approached the gurney, as quickly as lightning the guard doctor and nurse entered the room.

" I'm sorry, we'll check on the patient first."

" Just check, I'm not going anywhere." replied Ibn stubbornly.

" Nu, this is the same brother, you want to know the truth, right?" persuade Zahra, Ibn nodded.

" But Mumuy..." His party.

" There's a doctor."

Before withdrawing Ibnu, Zahra asked permission to the parents which of course allowed.

Hito, and Gownzaga's son, and Zahra's friends leave the room.

*****

In the city park that is quiet visitors, but began to crowded street vendors, because at dawn they sit on a bench nearby park

Daniel draped a jacket over Ibnu's body wrapped only in thin hospital clothes.

" Wear it, Lo's sick, we're hard." The pressure of his hand on Ibn's shoulder when Ibn was about to refuse."

" Sister..." Tegur Ibnu who sat to the right of Zahra who still did not open his voice.

" Hmm, okay. I don't know where it started..."

His eyes began to glare into the past, his hands reflexively trembling.

Hito who sat to the left of Zahra carried the hand over his lap, he held it tightly.

" Sister actually does not know for sure, exactly brother to your house after Ayin returned home shortly after bringing Dafi home when it was raining."

" He screamed for help while crying, at that time my father and mother were not at home, so the brother who went there with Mr. RT at that time."

" Ayin's shout invites curious people, when they ask what is the matter? Ayin simply replied indistinctly, but a look of fear was imprinted there."

" By the time you get home, your house is already on fire, but not yet the whole..."

Zahra paused the story for a moment, as memories returned to the terrifying moment in her eyes.

Zahra licked her lower lip in agitation.

" On the porch, we saw you crying hysterically beside Mumuy's blood-soaked body." her voice shook, still warm in her memory of Mumtaz's state back then.

Zahra lowered her head to hide her teary eyes.

" He, there was a butcher's knife that pierced his waist.but his mouth still spoke to beg to save the father and mother who were still inside..."

Hito and Zahra's hands clasped together firmly.

" We are working with the locals to keep you and Mumtaz away from the house whose fire is growing..."

" The brand managed to break down the door of the house, but the fire was already surrounded, RT sir saw the father and mother lying down, he called them, but there was no response, they did not move, we did not dare to enter, he called them, because the fire continues to grow and quickly spread through the house...."

" We stay away from home, choosing to save Mumtaz and you who turned out to have fainted.sorry!!! I'm sorry, I can't save them." Zahra groaned with grief.

Now that Zahra is crying, Hito embraces Zahra.

Ibn bowed deeply with his shoulders trembling with tears, Daniel hugged him.

" What about Dafi?"

" It turned out that Dafi was secured by Ayin in the house of the citizens."

" So on..." 

Zahra breathed heavily." Mumuy was critical for three days, when he realized he immediately asked you who turned out after waking up from fainting to forget the incident you experienced."

" Until we decided they died of a fire and robbery, you remember someone deliberately burning your house, but you forgot their form."

" Nu, you might hate Mumuy if you know the truth, but one thing you should know, ever since he got out of the hospital no night he's been through with no nightmares that always end up crying while muttering apologetically." Zahra said, remembering the hard times for her family.

Both of Ibn's hands clenched, indeed his friend was smart to keep his secret, until now Ibnu did not know if behind the calm attitude of Mumtaz stored a flood of emotions that were held back.

" Aakrgh... Why didn't you ever tell me?"

" For what? You may forget, but your subconscious remembers it. It shows that every March you will shiver in fear and vomit like a pregnant person. What's good, after all, Mumuy forbade us from telling you."

" You both suffer, don't forget Dafi and Ayin who saw it too."

Ibnu stiffened, his eyes riveted," what?"

" The two months they couldn't talk, somehow Ayin was healed, maybe the instinct of being the older sister of Tia and Dafi who needed her got her up, while we were busy taking care of you and Mumtaz."

Ibn restrained his hair restlessly, he felt guilty.

" What about Mumuy-"

" It looks cheerful, warm, friendly, open, and blah.blah..." Cut Zahra.

" Before the incident, that was how Mumuy was, slowly but surely from the moment he was close to the computer he turned into the now calm, focused, reliable, even flat prone cold" Mumuy." 

" Cause of me?" Ibnu wanted to ascertain the extent to which his life affected his friend.

" Not really, yes, you want to change it a few times." Entertain Zahra.

" What else do you want to know?"

Suddenly the atmosphere was silent, they were busy with their respective thoughts.

" Amazkrghh..." This time Alfaska yelled, taking the attention of some merchants, yet they let him.

" Are we putting a burden on Mumuy as well?" Daniel pointed at himself and Alfaska.

Zahra stood up, kissing each one of the heads of her sisters, "you are not a burden, but a gift to us." The thrill of staring at the sisters intensely.

" It doesn't seem so..." Alfaska said slowly.

Zahra frowned puzzledly as she asked, "what's wrong?"

" dn4l-si4l..." Umpat Alfaska was upset.

" and.t..." Tegur Zahra's.

" Mumuy, get in trouble again because of me, he's now the talk of people."

" Because..." Zahra's question stiffened.

" Hit Mami who's been insulting my sister."

Zahra was stunned, after which she rampaged tore at Sandra's figure without hesitation.

He stepped away from the friend with big strides, followed by Hito.

" Sister, where are you going?" Shouted Daniel.

" Turn to the hospital."

*****

" I looked at the man's mother, and then fell down on the floor while they laughed out loud." Zayin's voice was hoarse.

Without being asked Zayin who saw the curiosity of all told me about that day according to what he saw while holding Gaddafi's hands that felt cold froze as if the blood flow was blocked.

Throughout the story, their mouths grimaced a lot and wide in disbelief, occasionally their eyes glanced at Mumtaz who had not been conscious with a look mixed Concerned, sad, poignant, even Eidelweis had cried in Heru's arms.

Bara was silent to listen to the story, his eyes staring as straight as Mumtaz's face that looked tired.

Bara's unpleasant facial ripples force Akbar to call Rizal and Ubay. 

" Bar, we're changing. He's not just Lo's best friend but we all care about him and Lo as well." Akbar insisted when Bara was about to refuse.

" In front of Rizal and Ubay waiting for Lo." Added Akbar.

Bar let out a huffed breath, a second later he nodded.

" Thank you, if there's anything call me."

" Well, eat right." Bara just nodded before going out to join his best friend.

" You, all right?" Tanya Aryan sympathized.

Zayin laughed heartily at the question, "it's been a long time, I've accepted it all. It's just that I never knew if Aa Mumuy still carried that guilt up until now." He said slowly because he was sad.

Gama who was sitting next to Zayin embracing his shoulder offered protection, they did not expect this young man to experience such a terrible event.

Tia was just staring from the distance his twin, he felt selfish let alone his behavior so bad a few days ago. She wants to hate Sandra, but the family values her parents instill prevent her.

Brakes...

Zahra opened the door to the room to attract all of their attention.

" Is it true that mumtaz is blasphemed by many because of me?" Ask everyone who ended up to Nando who sat on the floor next to God and Dimas.

" Not to be blasphemed, just a subject of conversation. In other words viral." Nando was tired.

" And you just shut up?"

" It's over, brother. But the mouth can't be bragged." 

" Yes, shit. I have to do something." Then his eyes looked at Hito who was still standing in the connecting doorway.

Zahra approached him, grasping both hands of Hito with her eyes clear.

" He's always insulting me because I don't get married, it'll all be over if we get married, don't you always want to marry me?"

Hito nodded quickly, "so why don't we get married now and I'll deal with it until he regrets having insulted us all along." Say it with revenge.

" No, I disagree." It was not Hito who refused firmly, but Zayin....

The atmosphere of the room was tense again, for some reason every Zayin spoke in this situation, like an angel of death approaching...

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