
Humairah returned to the room after lunchtime, Alif contacted her but was not answered because Humairah was busy serving Arya which was enough to keep her entertained this afternoon.
Who would have thought Alif was no longer in the room when Humairah returned, he looked for the man in all corners of the room but nil, where did Alif go. Humairah seemed to blow a rough breath when he thought it was possible that Alif was leaving with his two friends earlier.
"What is so fun they talk until this table becomes dirty and messy," Humairah muttered while tidying up the table and the guest sofa. Humairah found a bracelet there. Humairah knew it was an expensive bracelet from a world-renowned brand.
Long he was silent, his brain memory revolved on an object belonging to him which also came from the same brand with a bracelet that he believed belonged to one of Alif's female friends.
"I have a cross with the same brand with this, yes I remember.... A bross giving Alif," muttered Humairah smiling, he looked again at the bracelet carefully.
He stood up, he also remembered Arya mentioned Alif showing a figura containing a picture of him and Alif embracing each other. Humairah was curious to ventured to open the drawer of Alif's work desk.
"Mas Alif?" Humairah was surprised when she realized Alif had been in their room at this time.
"Humairah, where have you been? Why just came back? I'm looking for you, why didn't I get a call from me? You're making me anxious."
Read Alif who immediately hugged the woman without a stale ado.
"Mas Alif," said Humairah as he took off the man's embrace.
Alif nodded, he forgot that Humairah certainly did not want to be hugged carelessly.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I mean reflexes." Grin Alif chuckled at the look on Humairah's face that immediately moved away from her.
"And you treat me like any other woman, hug me without excuse, I'm a good woman not a cheap woman you can hug and kiss carelessly, don't equate me with two of your friends' women."
Ketus Humairah back upset, not only annoyed but more than that.
Alif furrowed both of his brows.
"Do you mean to say my two friends are not good women? Humairah what is this? Don't be indignantly indistinct, they're the kind and respectable women we've been familiar with since high school, don't think that's not-not Human."
"Cmk.... You kissed me mas Alif, you hugged me and then came the two women you treated the same as what you did to me, not married you already dare to desecrate me, you, not to mention hugging and kissing the other woman in front of me. These are just two women what about your other girlfriend? How many women do you hug and kiss?"
Alif was stunned, he looked at Humairah who was blabbering at length with an adorable face half in tears, Alif understood now his wife was jealous.
"Humairah, I'm sorry... Okay well I understand you must be jealous, sorry I won't repeat it."
"Don't touch me, I'm jealous. I don't accept being treated as low as other women, if they're free you hug and kiss maybe because they're used to that kind of company, but not me, although I am not a very devout Muslim, I have never been kissed and embraced before. I'm not a cheap woman like them."
Alif was provoked by emotion when he heard the cheap words addressed to two friends earlier.
"Pair stop, they're not as cheap as you think."
Humairah was surprised to get a clash from Alif.
"At least don't hug and kiss another woman in front of me mas Alif, I'm jealous..... I feel the pain in my heart is so sharp right now, I feel like an old wound coming back to the surface. You guys are friends, but it doesn't have to be that way either. I don't know, I don't think we're thinking about this."
"I'm sorry, I'm indecisive. I understand now about your association, maybe you are already like this in hanging out with the same-sex people as you, rich businessmen with free association. I'm sorry I was just surprised, because all this time I was educated not to touch such a free man despite the reasons of even close friends. Perhaps the limits of reasonableness in our view are different."
Humairah stepped away, she lowered her face as Alif was angry with her.
"This is the bracelet I found under the table, I think it's your friend."
Humairah gave the bracelet to Alif who was silenced by a thousand languages.
"Sweetie that's not what I mean, Humairah understands.... Okay you're right, my association is pretty free with girlfriends but not as excessive as you think, not as far as you have in mind, hugging and kissing for a familiar friend is quite familiar among my friends. I understand and apologize, I promise I will appreciate you more, I will not be like that anymore.... Please don't be angry."
Alif persuaded Humairah to stop his steps towards getting out.
Humairah looked at Alif, "Sorry Mas Alif, I'm going home. I got dizzy, there were a lot of things that came to my mind. About this, just talk we're sorry if my words are too harsh to offend your friendship, it's just that I'm really jealous even though you're friends, sorry I look like a labile teenager. I'd better go home so we're at this moment's distance, let the tightness in my chest decrease."
Alif was speechless at Humairah's last words, words he had once gotten from the woman as well. A word that can make Alif lose half his soul, because Alif can no longer afford to be away with his wife.
"Oh my God, I'm wrong again."
Alif muttered as Humairah disappeared behind the door.
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Continue yes.