Butterfly Cocoon

Chapter 32

"Abi," call Ransi with a cup of warm tea and put the tea on the table.

Zayan who was focused on fiddling with his computer turned towards Ransi.

"What's ummi?" zayan asked with a smile.

Ransi sat on the edge of the bed with a gloomy face, Zayan who had not completed his task preferred to accompany his wife and ignore his computer while taking a sitting position next to Ransi.

"Abi, ummi sincerely if abi wants to marry again," said Ransi with confidence in her heart.

Zayan fell silent and looked at Ransi's face with disappointment implied there.

Ransi held Zayan's hand, feeling that the choice was the best for her household.

"Living with ummi does not make abi happy, so marry a woman who can give abi offspring."

Tests.tes..

Zayan drops his tears right in front of Ransi.

"Why is abi crying?" ransi asked as she swept away Zayan's tears.

"Only ummi abi loved. Despite ummi's insistence, abi will never marry again. Abi's happiness is only with ummi, so please do not ask abi to do something that is impossible abi can do," said Zayan.

Ransi leaned against Zayan's chest and kissed her husband's cheeks.

"Thank you abi, until this moment abi still maintains our household despite knowing ummi-"

Cup..

Zayan gently kissed Ransi's lips and said, "Porture to the Creator for having predestined us to unite."

Despite knowing that Ransi could not give Zayan any offspring, the man remained by his wife's side without any intention of stepping away. Ransi doesn't want Zayan to bear her pain in the past and after a night of thinking the woman wants Zayan to get married again. However, Zayan rejects him with words that make Ransi even more hate herself.

"If you know it's going to be like this, I better not go back to Zayan. Marrying me was the wrong choice and accepting her proposal was a selfishness I regretted. Why can I talk like that? Because Zayan is a good-hearted man on the face of this earth who is second to none let alone three." Ransi was deep in her heart.

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"Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Westarokatuh."

Tok.dok..

Ara knocked on the door while saying hello.

"Waalaikumussalam Warahmatullahi Westarakatuh . Oh, Furqon." Ransi was shocked by the presence of her sister who suddenly stood in front of the door.

"Why not say if you want to come here," said Ransi while kissing Ara's cheek release longing.

"We deliberately wanted to give big brother a surprise" Furqon said.

"Haha. Brother was very surprised. Oh yeah, where's Alya?"

"Alya in Jambi with ummi and abi, deliberately not brought because we only briefly returned to Palembang," said Ara as she stepped inside the house.

Zayan tells Ara about what happened to Ransi, without waiting for a long time Ara directly booked a ticket to Palembang to meet her brother. How fragile Ara saw Ransi as if he was undergoing such a heavy ordeal.

"Sister should be strong and don't think about giving up, bang Zayan will always accompany big brother." Said Ara while hugging and

Rubbing Ransi's back.

The veil Ransi wore became wet from her tears.

"No matter what happens, you will continue to be a strong woman."

Furqon smiles at Ransi's words.As Furqon's sister-in-law worries about Ransi's situation, they already have Alya as the daughter of her second love's fruit, and they have Alya, while Ransi and Zayan have not been given the gift of a child until this moment.

"Mbak Ransi, mbak Ransi." screamed a man calling Ransi's name.

"Sir Reza? What is it you're screaming at calling my name?"

"Noah that-"

"Why sir? Did something happen to Zayan?"

  

Mr. Reza is a close friend of Zayan's in the work environment. The pale look on Reza's face plus the sweat on his temple made Ransi worried about something happening to her husband.

"Sir Zayan at the police station, Ma'am."

"Why bang Zayan can be in the police station sir, isn't it still working hours." Ara come and talk.

"That's why Mr. Zayan was accused of raping a woman and is now being taken to the police station" Reza said in a tense statement.

Ransi rewinded his steps, his legs limp making him sit while gripping tightly in the diaphragm.

"Ara, you calm Ransi's brother let me go to the police station to meet bang Zayan." Furqon ran out of the house with Mr. Reza. While Ara tried to calm Ransi who was sitting limp on hearing bad news that befell her husband.

"Rape of a woman. Do I have to believe it all," Ransi's inner self-styled.

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"What exactly happened? You didn't do it, did you?" There were dozens of questions thrown from Furqon's mouth but Zayan chose to shut up by lowering his head.

"But! If the brother does not give information, the brother will be penalized for rape. Answer me bang!' Furqon raised his tone hoping Zayan would speak, but the man remained silent and struggled at his thoughts.

"Good afternoon my lawyer who will help Mr. Zayan in this case" was heard the voice of a man wearing pantofel shoes taking a seat between the two.

"Not doing anything, I believe that bang Zayan did not do such a cruel thing and this is slander."

"Before entering into the core of this case I will ask Mr. Zayan for information, I will try my best to complete this case," said the lawyer.

"Thank you very much, sir."

"I'm sorry I had to speak to Mr. Zayan, please wait outside while I ask for his information."

"All right sir, I leave this case to you."

Furqon is out giving time for the lawyer to question Zayan about the alleged rape case. In front of Furqon's room pacing with anxious feelings, he was afraid that Zayan would not give the truth, if it happened Zayan would really be a suspect and was punished for rape.

"Where is Zayan." Tears that flowed from the house continued to trickle down to the police. Ransi's body is weak, her eyes are twitching with a face so pale coming to the police with Ara.

"Repush brother. Bang Zayan is being interrogated by a lawyer." Furqon helps Ara carry Ransi's body which is very limp walking.

"Sorry, is Mr Zayan's wife here?" ask the lawyer who just came out of the interrogation room.

"The wife is here sir, what's wrong?" Ara asked back.

"Sir Zayan wants to see his wife, he will not give a statement before talking to his wife" explained the lawyer.

"I'll meet him" said Ransi, lowering her gaze, and walking into the interrogation room.

"The voice was mixed with a sobbing, I heard it again. Could she?" the white lawyer was deep in his heart as he walked over into the interrogation room.

Inside Ransi sat opposite Zayan, the distance separated by a long table in their midst, while a pack of lawyers stood behind Ransi.

"This scent, I smell it again." The black-clothed lawyer closed his eyes while inhaling the scent of the veiled woman's body sitting not too far from where he stood.

"So what really happened? Don't make ummi afraid."

Ransi's hand that was on the table was gently held by Zayan.

"Ummi believes in abi, right? Even though everyone else said yes, believe me abi is unlikely to do so." Zayan said as he looked at his wife's bead eyes that looked so fragile.

Ransi nodded her fist at the sign that she fully believed that Zayan had never done such a despicable deed.

"Let's not be afraid. Ummi will get the abi out of this place."

"Abi is not afraid to be here that abi is afraid if the ummi belief in abi will be reduced by this case."

Ransi took Zayan by the hand, giving her husband strength.

"Ummi can leave now, abi will testify to the lawyer."

It felt like Ransi did not want to leave Zayan for even a second.  However, despite being forced Ransi stepped out by removing the remains of her tears.

Zayan explained to the lawyer in detail and clearly, his heart was relieved to have met and seen Ransi in person. Zayan was not afraid that he would be in prison, which he feared that Ransi would no longer believe him as a priest.

Ransi took her own seat in the small garden behind the police station, she tried to calm her mind and relieve the anxiety that continues to be felt.

"Rancy?" call the lawyer in doubt.

The woman who was called by her name also looked.

"Gavin," Ransi spontaneously mentioned the name when she saw a tall man coming towards her.

"Just you said my name? It turns out you're Ransi."

"What are you doing here, Gav?" Ransi asked as she cast a glance in all directions.

"It's so sad you don't know if I'm the lawyer who will help Zayan in this case."

Ransi was shocked to hear Gavin's words.

"Lawyer?"

"Why such a shock, what a man like me does not deserve to be a handsome lawyer," quipped Gavin.

"It's not like that," denied Ransi fast.

"You're married Ran . I hope you're happy with Zayan, he's a nice guy and love you so much. Before you met him, Zayan didn't say anything until you came and then he told me the truth."

"I'm so happy to have him from the past to this second."

“Is he the man who owns the brown wooden bracelet?" guess Gavin with a sliced feeling.

"Yes. I've found what I've been up to all this time, I hope that if you're happy with the woman of your choice, too.' Ransi goes by leaving Gavin.

"You're right Ran, I'll be happy with my choice. However, if I choose you as my woman, what can you do." Gavin was in his heart.

Gavin did not expect that Ransi was the wife of his client in this case. Gavin does meet Furqon in the interrogation room but he does not recognize Furqon because eight years have passed, both Furqon and Gavin experienced many changes that make them strangers to each other. Likewise with Ara who does not recognize Gavin, even though they used to meet often.