Cidro (Between Love And Wounds)

Chapter 39

Tian mengabaikan telpon yang masuk ke dalam ponselnya. Dia mencoba mengalihkan pikirannya dari nama yang tertera di ponselnya.

His phone rings again. The same name appears on the screen. Tian again ignored the phone call of the name. His heart still ached as he remembered what the owner of the name had done.

The caller was not desperate. He called Tian back. Tian who was furious and upset finally wanted to pick up the phone.

"Hello Tian" said someone on the phone.

Tian did not return the greeting. He's upset because he was on the caller.

"Can we meet? I want to make it clear that everything is the same as you" said the man.

Tian smiled in a slant when he heard the remark of that person who was none other than Marta, his former fiancee.

"No need. I already know everything," Tian replied in a faint tone.

"No. You don't know yet. You misunderstood Yan," said Marta.

"I'm not who you think I am" continued Marta.

Tian smiled obliquely at Marta's words. His heart and feelings for Martha had already frozen. He no longer wanted to hear anything about Martha.

"Misunderstand what? Everything is clear I see in plain sight. You and your family deliberately insulted my family in front of a lot of people," Tian growled.

"My family and I didn't mean that. I didn't mean to embarrass you in public at all" Martha said.

Tian again just smiled obliquely. His heart was already sick and disappointed. That feeling can never be treated with just an apology.

"My family and I have understood you and your family enough. But what do we get? Insult after insult we continue to accept. Not only that, you and your family have made my brother have to marry in front of my father's body. Because my father died after hearing insults from your family" Tian said.

Marta was silent hearing Tian's words. It is not easy to restore the glass that has been broken back into one piece. If you can, there will be a mark. That was what Tian was currently feeling.

"And you know. I have never had a grudge against you and your family. But for the rest of my life, I'm gonna keep remembering it all."

Tian immediately hung up without giving Marta a chance to speak. His chest rose and fell as emotions rose and fell as well.

Tian took a deep breath. Then he slowly breathed it out. The young man tried to calm his erratic heart.

Elsewhere, Arga was sitting in the living room of her house. There were his parents, his older brothers, Shania, and both of his parents.

"Let's take responsibility anyway, Arga has to. Because Shania is now pregnant with her child" said a man with thick eyebrows and a moustache extending under his nose.

"Yes I agree" said Mr. Salman.

"But it's good we do check in the hospital. So we can find out if Shania is really pregnant or just pretending" she said.

"So you don't believe that Shania is pregnant? You want to run away from responsibility?" jolt a woman with full make up and wear jewelry all over her body.

"It's not. But we know Arga well. We also know who your children really are" Ms Salman said.

The woman dressed in menor seemed to be poking her lips. He mocked the Arga family.

"You don't know your family, do you? You rejected our children's match. But in fact, Arga even fucked our son until he got pregnant," the woman quipped.

Vania and Nanda seem furious to hear their families being insulted by others. Their blood seemed to boil hearing that insulting sentence. But that's not the truth.

"If you already know that, why still hold us accountable? Isn't it shameful to have a family that doesn't know itself?" Nanda voiced his opinion. He could not stand still hearing the humiliation his family received.

Shania's father glared at her eyes sharply. He was annoyed by Nanda's words just now. While her mother Shania seemed to be poking her lips.

"Now we go to the hospital. We check together. Let us know how it turned out," said Nanda at last.

Both of Shania's parents seem to object to Nanda's proposal. They want Arga to take responsibility without having to do any further checks.

"Why not? Are you lying about Shania's pregnancy?" syndicate Nanda.

"We are not afraid. We are just lazy if you have to do a check to the hospital," replied Shania's mother.

"We go home to Mother!" shania Lirih.

"I have a bad feeling about this" he said again.

Nanda looked suspiciously at Shania and her mother who seemed to be whispering.

"Or gini aja. We're not going to the hospital. We'll marry him, but..."

Nanda purposely hung up her words. He wanted to know the reaction of the Shania family and of course Shania herself.

"Well, we agreed to get married" said Shania's father.

"We check here" said Nanda.

"Lho said he did not use any tests. Why call the doctor home now?" Shania's mother tried to protest.

Nanda smiled mockingly. "It is unlikely that we will directly marry Arga without knowing the truth" said Nanda.

"Darling please check him. You wait until he finishes the test" Nanda told the doctor.

The beautiful doctor who turned out to be Naima nodded her head. Then she took Shania to the bathroom.

"You're outrageous" jolted Shania's father.

"How special? We just want to know the truth. Because we do not want the future of Arga destroyed just because of unclear news" said Mr. Salman.

Half an hour passed. Shania and Naima are seen coming out of the bathroom. They walked to the living room. Where the whole family is waiting for the results.

"How did it go, dear?" ask Nanda. The young man could not wait to know the truth.

Naima smiled faintly. Then he looked towards Mr. Salman and Mr. Salaman.

"Shania is currently coming by the moon. So she's not pregnant" explained Naima.

Everyone there breathed a sigh of relief. Arga also breathed a sigh of relief because he did not have to marry a cunning woman like Shania.

"No way. She must have miscarried. You must have caused Shania to miscarry, right?" snapped by Shania's mother.

Naima simply smiled in response to the snaps from the woman. He then shows a sample of blood that came out of v***a Shania.

Nanda and Arga shuddered in disdain at the sight of the dinghy that Naima had brought. They closed their mouths so they wouldn't throw up there.

"This is a blood sample I took from a Shania sanitary pad. This blood is different from blood when a person has an abortion. Either abortus naturally or not" Naima explained.

Shania's mother pinched her lips. She could not believe what Naima said.

"You are a family of liars. This must be your wits. So that Arga is not responsible to Shania" said the woman.

"As far as you guys are gonna say what. But what is clear is that this is the true fact" said Mr Salman.

"It's not because we don't want responsibility. But we already know what happened in the past when Arga suddenly rejected this matchmaking" said Mr Salman.

"Yes. All of that has a reason. Why I refuse that match." Arga who had been silent since then, finally spoke up.

"I used to accept this matchmaking because I also like Shania. I used to love Shania. But that was before. Now...."

"Wait moreover? You love each other, don't you? Whether or not Shania is pregnant, you should get married" Shania's father said.

"I'm sorry I can't" replied Arga firmly.

"Why? Don't you like each other?" ask Shania's father.

"I used to love Shania. But now my liking has turned to disgust. It was all because I had seen him in a hotel together with two men" Arga replied.

"Keep if you see Shania is the same guy at the hotel why? They are not doing anything. They may be there or attend a party" said Shania's mother.

"Yes. They really need to. And it was their need that made me feel like Shania" replied Arga.

Arga then took his cell phone which he kept in his pants pocket. He swiped the screen of the phone and opened the gallery on his phone. He then plays a video and shows it to both of Shania's parents.

The eyes of the two old men widened in disbelief as they looked at the video footage. They didn't know the child would do that.

"No way. It must be an editan. This must be someone who does not like Shania and edit this video," said Shania's mother.

"At first I thought this was an edit. But it's a reality. It was a fact that I got after I searched for information about Shania," replied Arga.

Shania could only bow her head deeply. He had no face to look at the faces of Arga and his family. She felt so embarrassed. Initially he and his family intend to intimidate Arga as well as his family. But it turns out that he and his family are the ones who feel ashamed.

Unable to resist embarrassment, Shania and her family break out of Arga's house. They came out of the house with an unparalleled feeling of shame. They feel ashamed because of the girl.

After the death of Shania and her family, Arga immediately contacted someone. He wanted to share his happiness with that person.

"Hello, can you meet? Do you want me to tell you the same story?" ask Arga.

The voice of the man replied in a soft voice. A smile grew upon hearing the answer from that person.

"OK deh. I'll take you to your house later. Love you" said Arga at last.