BEAUTIFUL REUNION IN TWO

84. Stop hiding

Tristan and his wife never attend a High School reunion again. Also not active in the group chat friends alumni of his High School.

His wife's affair with Bimasena, in addition to shaming his friends, also weakens his confidence. Until now he and Nadia were reluctant to meet with his High School colleagues.

But Alfredo's arrival brings the wedding reception invitation leaving them in a dilemma. Moreover, Alfredo brought special alumni wedding uniform, for him as well as for Nadia. Batik cloth for men and brocade for women.

"Tris, I'm still embarrassed to meet friends" Nadia lamented in a soft voice as Alfredo left their home.

He breathed heavy breaths. Nadia shy? Should be the one who cheated on him who was more ashamed.

"It's not always that we have to hide isolating Nadia. We are social creatures in need of each other. We must rejoin our social life, and live a normal life as before." He gave his wife. A second chance to improve the relationship as a married couple must also be accompanied by improving their social interactions.

"What if ... ," Nadia hesitated to continue. Only the woman's eyes looked at him full of question marks.

"When he comes?" as usual. Nadia refused to mention Bimasena's name, as did she. Every time he heard that name, the pain of the scar as his heart that had been torn to shreds was felt again.

Nadia nodded weakly. "I don't want to meet him Tris."

"No way he's coming. He is already in America. It is not possible just because he wants to attend Alfredo's wedding and then he returned to Indonesia" he added.

He left Nadia in the living room, walking towards the bedroom. Then get into bed, lie down and open the phone. Open an online media app.

Once there is no news that makes him interested in reading, he also opened a social media application. Some photos uploaded by someone's account caught his attention.

Honeymoon photos of Hakimah and her husband.

The couple honeymooned on a remote island. Tinabo Island. It is located in the Takabonerate National Marine Park.

Hakimah showed off her picture with her husband walking on a very beautiful stretch of white sand. Photo playing with Baby Shark on the beach. As well as photos of the couple exploring the underwater beauty of Takabonerate National Park.

How did he feel seeing those pictures?

Nothing to reveal. She only prayed that Hakimah and her husband could go through the ups and downs of the household, still able to firmly hold the commitment to maintain the continuity of the marriage heresy until only death separates.

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Bimasena had to spend more than forty hours flying from Caracas to Jakarta, using the first class of one of the airlines from Europe.

In order to attend the wedding of his best friend Alfredo, he was willing to leave Venezuela. While in Venezuela, FreddCo Energy is facing many problems in its oil production.

The supply of naphta, which is a mixture of hydrocarbon liquids to dissolve crude oil has been cut off by the United States, making it difficult for the company to process the highly concentrated Venezuelan crude.

Unresolved the problem, there is a degradation of the electric power system in the Venezule. Most parts of Venezuela have been experiencing power outages for a week. Electrical problems also hampered the company's oil production.

Until now, the company's oil production is still not running normally. The oil produced cannot be exported.

If he is not serious about solving the problem, FreddCo Energy could fall in Venezuela. It will be a bad record in the course of his career.

In the end the impact will return to him as one of the shareholders of FreddCo Energy. Influence on the decline in the value of dividends or the decline in the value of profit sharing for shareholders.

Maybe if only attending Alfredo's wedding, he still thinks twice to return to Indonesia. But the longing for his biological father brought his steps back.

He will not forget when his father cried roaring, as soon as he left Indonesia and moved to America.

"Daddy can still see you before Dad dies son" said his father with a raucous voice and a shaky chest.

"Dad don't cry, Bima must come back soon to see Dad," he said comforting his father.

So now he returned to Indonesia, in addition to attending Alfredo's wedding also because he wanted to see his biological father.

Are those two really the reasons for his return?

Goddamn bum.

What should he admit if it wasn't just those two reasons? Is it true that his father was the only one he missed in his blood-spilling country?

Don't do it again, Bimasena (Don't repeat it again, Bimasena). He advised himself.

A chef came to him asking what menu he ordered. One of the best services on a Turkish Airlines plane, since entering the plane, the chef will come to the guests kindly and ask what menu they want. He also ordered tuna pancakes with beef steak which is the main menu of the airline.

The focus of enjoying tuna pancakes with beef steak served by the airline is a very wise choice, rather than letting his brain revolve around thinking about how to see the face of the yearned once arrived in Indonesia.

Just to see that face really, not to hug, kiss let alone to have. He is unlikely to renege on his promise to Tristan to stop his efforts to seize Nadia or disrupt their household.

A promise is a debt that must be kept.

But his brain doesn't want to work together. Still persistent in thinking about how to see the woman directly. Although it must be done in secret.

He did not believe in his madness. His brain was more keen on thinking about how to peek at a woman than to think of his company barely raising a white flag in Venezuela.

Now he realizes his stepfather's mission is to send him to Venezuela. So that he drains his brain thinking about how to save the company and make a profit. His attention was diverted from the woman. A very noble mission from his stepfather. Honey, it's not very effective at treating his crazy brain.

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Nadia stood looking at her reflection in the mirror. Looking at the makeup of the face was also the dress worn to attend Alfredo's wedding reception.

She only wears simple and natural makeup. By applying lipstick colored fuchsia plus blush on pink. So that her thin cheeks that began to round because of the influence of her pregnancy increasingly blushing. The eye area he gave smokey eyes makeup.

Electric blue brocade cloth distributed by Alfredo as a wedding reception uniform, he sewed with babydoll dress model. Her hair was just a pussy.

It was actually a bit heavy-hearted to be present at Alfredo's wedding reception. Because he had to thicken his face to hold shame over the scandal he had done. But Tristan's push for them to re-mix and stop isolating themselves from his old friends, makes him finally willing to attend.

Especially in the High School alumni group, Bimasena has delivered a statement of inability to attend Alfredo's wedding reception. No need to worry about meeting the man.

Because he himself does not know how he will react if he has to meet Bimasena directly.