Ashraf & Suri

Ashraf & Suri 0.22

"Kesian Suri."
Suara perempuan yang berbisik rendah menyapa telinganya. Dia berkerut sedikit walau mata masih kekal terpejam. Apabila diamati, dia kenal suara itu. Diyana Aishah.
"Kesian Ashraf jugak." Suara garau Hanif pula yang membalas rendah.
Dia terasa nak senyum, tapi ditahannya. Dulu waktu sesi chemonya yang pertama, Adam yang setia jadi peneman. Kadang-kadang mak atau ayah pun ada datang. Kali ini nampaknya dia ada peneman baru. Aishah dan Hanif. Senang pulak cuti dua orang ni dapat.
Oh, hari ini hari Sabtu. Baru dia ingat. Kadang-kadang kena chemo pun dia jadi lupa sekejap. Cuti hujung minggu datang melawat dia di sini agaknya.
"Ashraf kejam tak bagi Su lawat dia lagi dah."
"Suri pun kejam tak nak setuju putuskan pertunangan and leave his mind at ease."
"She loves him!"
"He's sick!"
Dah sudah. Jadi topik bergaduh pulak dia dan Suri pada sepasang suami isteri ni. Namun, baru dia nak buka mata, ayat Aishah menghentikannya.
"Nif rasa macam mana nanti? Su tetap nak go on jugak dengan majlis. Semua dia buat. She's so driven. Like this is the only thing she'll ever do."
Degil.
Sepatah kata itu menjamah mindanya yang masih berkabut. Degil. Amnanya itu memang degil.
"Tau. Kan dah pujuk-pujuk tak menjadi jugak?"
"Iye. Dah kalau Ashraf tak boleh pergi? Pengantin lelaki tak datang? Macam mana? Su jugak yang menanggung malu."
Terdengar Hanif mengeluh. "I only wish she's not this stubborn."
See? Hanif pun setuju Amna Suri itu degil.

~ The time has come. And i'm writing this while biting my lips.
In accordance to what i wrote in the last entry of this story, 'Ashraf & Suri's huggable version', this story, re-titled 'Assalamualaikum Amna' will be published, soon.

So soon that my publisher has asked for me to edit a few entries here, since the huggable version won't be so much different from what i wrote here.

I'm sorry, dear kind readers, that i have to cut a few entries short, and turn them into teasers, instead.

I hope the story has been read with your full heart, that even when i've edited them out, you can still remember the meaning behind it.

Thank you so much for your time spent visiting this humble little 'house' of Ashraf and Suri. ☺