A Wound

Chapter 59's

"Abrahim!" call someone, when Ibra and Ara are about to get out of the restaurant.

Ibra and Ara only went home together, because both her parents and Rissa had gone home first, a while ago.

"Hey, Rafael! When are you back?"

"A week ago" replied Rafael.

Rafael has been living abroad for the past year.

"I don't think you're coming back. Isn't life there so much fun?" ibra laughed.

"Yes, you're right there is so much fun. But I don't know, it feels so empty. More comfortable in your own country." Rafael chuckled, and turned to look at Ara. "Maybe it's because of my real happiness to be here" he said, smiling at the woman.

"Pregnant?" greet Rafael, smile. Making Ara frown in astonishment. He felt very foreign to the man in front of him.

"Do you know each other?" Ibra looked at Ara and Rafael in turn.

"Looks not. Maybe only I know him" replied Rafael with a small smile.

"really? Is my wife that popular?" ibra laughed. "Oh yes, I just remembered. I've seen your Papa at my wife's house." Ibra turned to look at Ara, who was also looking at her confusedly.

"His father? Raphael? Is he Om Jordan's son?"

"Yes, it just so happened that our parents were friends. That's why I know him. Papa used to tell me about his friend's son who said he was so beautiful." Rafael again threw his smile at Ara. Makes Ara feel uncomfortable seeing it.

Ibra laughed and nodded. "Yes, Papa you are not wrong anymore. My wife is a very beautiful woman." Ibra embraced his wife's body, feeling proud as someone praised her beauty.

"Then we went back, it seemed like my wife was tired" said Ibra, who did see Ara who seemed uninspired.

"All right! Come to my place sometime" replied Rafael.

"Will I think!" Ibra chuckled as she patted Rafael on the shoulder, then left the man.

"Do you really not know Rafael?" ibra asked when they were in the car.

"Oh yes, yes! Ara just knows her name," replied Ara.

Since then, he has been thinking about this man. The man he said he had been betrothed to, the man who had the heart to take his father's entire restaurant, and it was possible that he was also the one who caused his father to have an accident.

"Are you best friends with Mr. Jordan?" ask Ibra again.

"Eitherway. But as I recall, Om Jordan used to come home very often." Ara looked at Ibra who seemed to nod. "Then what about my brother. Is your brother very close to her?" tanyanya.

"With Rafael?" tanya Ibra, who then gets a nod from Ara. "Not so close, but pretty familiar. He's the owner of the club where I used to hang out" Ibra replied casually.

Ara rounded her eyes to hear her husband's answer. "It turns out Brother really likes to go to nightclubs!"

"That was then, not anymore." replied Ibra.

"Where does Ara know!" the strangeness.

"God! Have you ever found your brother coming home drunk or just smelling of alcohol?" ibra defended himself.

"Other than that night, of course!" he added quickly, before Ara opened her voice.

"Whatever!" Ara turned her face, staring at the street in front of her.

"Gosh, Honey. Seriously brother!"

"Whatever!" said again. Makes her get a kiss on her lips from Ibra.

"Sister Ibraa." she cried, hitting her husband's shoulder. "I don't want us to have an accident!" mean it.

"You anyway!"

"Kok me?"

"Who told me to be so adorable when you're pouting," she wrote.

"Lebay! Say you don't want to be wrong." jased Ara. Makes Ibra laugh.

"Oh yes, Brother. Tomorrow Ara wants to go for a walk with Arumi and Miya, huh?" her door. "Arumi leaves in a week. Miya also wants to go back to Surabaya. So, during this week we plan to spend some time together" he explained.

"Where can if when out Brother just keep calling me," shebik Ara. Makes Ibra laugh, realizing her excessive attitude. He always contacted her when she was out with his two best friends.

"Alright, this time Brother won't bother you."

"Really?"

"Yes, I promise."

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During the week, Ara actually spent her time with her two best friends.

Thinking of Arumi who will continue her studies in Australia, and Miya who will return to her mother's house in Surabaya. Ara did not want to spend her time with her two best friends. Because after that, Ara was sure it would be very difficult to gather with the two again.

"I still didn't expect that tomorrow you two would really leave me." Ara lowered her head as she could no longer hold back her tears.

Currently the three of them were barada in Miya's room, after a day they had been walking together.

"We can still call the phones" Arumi said.

"But still it will be very different taste," said Ara as he pleased.

Miya rubbed her fallen tears and hugged her best friend. "I promise I'll always come visit you."

Arumi hugged her two best friends, and shed her tears there. It was hard to part with both. But he also wanted to pursue his dreams. And moreover, it was one way that he could forget his feelings for the man who owned his heart.

"Thank you for all the time you've given me. Thank you also for holding me and acknowledging me as a friend when the world also blasphemes me," said Ara in between sobs.

Arumi and Miya grew sobbing and shared her gratitude and apology for sometimes hurting her best friend's feelings.

The brotherly bond despite the bloodless knitted between the three, making it fill each other's emptiness.

"Please promise not to forget me" Ara asked, as she began to ease her cries.

"Don't talk senselessly. How could we forget you. I'll even call you at all times" Arumi said.

"I'm not sure. Outer calls are expensive" said Miya, who still wipes her tears occasionally.

"Can, Papa's paying" replied Arumi. "After all I think, among us I may be the one who will be forgotten. Soon Miya will get married, you two will be busy with your respective husbands. And will definitely ignore me," he added.

"Somehow I hesitated to get married" said Miya.

"Why?" ask Ara and Arumi together.

"Eitherway! But I don't seem ready yet. I'm afraid I can't be a good wife" Miya said.

"But pity Mas Abyan. He's been waiting for you all along. Don't worry too much about the future, you can definitely go through it all" said Ara.

"Didn't Mas Abyan also set you free if you wanted to work?" asked Arumi, who then got the nod from Miya. "Then what else? Isn't that what you've been worried about all this time? Mas Abyan is a very nice man. He has also been very understanding of you all this time" he added.

"But lately we've had a lot of fights" said Miya uninspired.

"That's because you're an immature person addressing every problem you face. Stop being selfish!" said Arumi.

"Yes, never make a decision when you are angry. Maybe you are fighting right now, so you are thinking about ending it... Think about all the possibilities before you make a decision. Do not let you regret it later," said Ara advising.

"Really! you will truly regret the moment Mas Abyan leaves you. Mas Abyan is handsome, it will be very easy for him to get your replacement," said Arumi teasingly.

"Are you praying for me?" miya was upset.

"No, I'm just trying to open your mind" replied Arumi chuckling.

"Curtain!" hiss Miya puffed.

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