
The night is late, time has shown at one in the morning. Bang Zamy has repeatedly swatted the mosquitoes that perch on the cheeks. Wiggling left and right because of the pain. Usually he has been covered warmly in his comfortable room with his beloved wife. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I don't know, just a little away from me he felt tight from longing.
“Usually Shelly came home still long time no Pid?” Bang Zamy asked Opid who accompanied him to sit on the porch of Opid's neighbor Shelly. He's been there since ten last night. While the sound of snoring from some residents of the house was already heard like buffalo clashing horns scrambling females. From a distance, the sound of an owl from an empty field about two hundred meters from the back of Opid's house was already earthy. Some crickets from all sources break the silence of the night. Plus the sound of ‘sia-sia’ long-horned beast upwards like a big ladybug stuck to the bark adds to the mystical aroma that instantly stops by. The sea breeze made the cold hit. Bang Zamy again sat back down while staring at the four coffee cups that had been empty by the two of them. Martabak Bangka brought by bang Zamy is still half a box, while one box half of them have been spent.
“Not too long sir, usually he comes ushered nice car.” Opid replied.
“Owh, ever been down who drove?” Bang Zamy stared at Opid
“Rarely the hell, the most down for a kiss doang.”
“Waw!” Bang Zamy smiled as he leaned back against the back of the chair while crossing his hands over his stomach. Bored how he felt. But in search of the truth, he was willing to do anything. They deliberately did not play the phone because it would not be seen from the outside if on the porch of the house there was still a person.
A second changed to minutes, minutes passed into hours, but Shelly had no signs of going home until the clock showed at two in the morning.
“Then another night I came here yes Pid.” Bang Zamy was no longer strong to wait, but he had just stood up saying goodbye, suddenly there was a red-plate Innova car with its lights on through the darkness stopped by the roadside not far from her parked car. After a moment the lamp went out again. She looks down Shelly in her sexy clothes. The car leaves immediately, while Shelly heads to the footpath next to Opid's house. She then walked fearlessly, even humming a small step on her high heels with her short white skirt swaying while walking. Occasionally he also allowed the whitish green ropes he wore. He tied up his broken hair while continuing to walk.
“Hai Shel..., how are you?” Bang Zamy emerged from behind a pile of tree trash on the empty land. He and Opid walk through the kitchen to make Shelly stop.
“Hantukah? Are you Zamy?” Shelly was surprised, but no one seemed afraid at all.
“Iya I Zamy.” Bang Zamy walked over.
“What's suddenly coming here?” Shelly looked astonished.
“Searching you.” With a tone made as smooth as possible bang Zamy replied.
“You must miss me so much Zam, miss the legit sweet kiss of my lips until it comes so early.” Proud, Shelly looks so innocent. He hasn't thought what exactly bang Zamy wants.
“Very much missed you.” Bang Zamy quipped. He smiled cynically. But Shly did not notice.
“Why? Getting bored with your wife?” He did not understand the meaning of the satirical tone evoked by bang Zamy.
“Iya.”
“You want to go to my house? Let's get rid of this dawn air chill.” Shelly teases bang Zamy.
“No Shelly! Here, just stop for a moment and just mention who told you to spread rumors you got corona and we got infected because of the reunion.”
“Hey Zam, how could you possibly accuse me. Was I just your friend back then?” Shelly just realized the purpose of the presence of men who always avoid it. Who even let go when he was tempted even in bed in his rented first by pretending to buy drugs because of illness.
“I already have proof, try not to dodge anymore and our affairs will not be long.” Bang Zamy spoke to obliterate the memories that had come back.
“You don't lie, I never spread rumors.”
“Really?” Smiling cynically, under the moonlight, bang Zamy revealed his white teeth.
“Iya. What am I doing it for? To me you've become the past.”
Shelly talks poetic, but dating just isn't….
“It's mandatory, but these rumors who told you to spread it all?” Bang Zamy spoke again.
“I didn't do it. I can charge you with a premeditated crime, you are deliberately waiting for me to kill me. Isn't that good news? I have a reporter friend.” Shelly Jumawa tried to walk again. But bang Zamy held his hand.
“Release! Or I'll scream.” He began to threaten.
“Please, let your neighbors know what you have done so you just got home this late.”
“That's my business, not yours!” Inflamed shelly. He instead smacked the bag in his right hand into the body of the Zamy bang.
“Why are you accusing me? What's the proof?” Shelly defied bang Zamy.
“I can't cover anymore, my family threatened Shel.” Opid suddenly came out from behind the tree behind the standing bang Zamy. Shelly surprised.
“How could you...” Stuttered Shelly stared at the hateful Opid.
“I have no other choice, I'm sorry.” Opid feels bad.
“Don't I already pay you anj!ng...!” Shelly took off her right shoe and threw it towards Opid. Opid caught him and brought him closer.
“I don't want to go to Shel's prison, and I have no other choice." Opid spoke while putting the shoe near Shelly's feet who immediately put it back on.
“Set*n you!” Shelly pointed her middle finger at Opid.
“Hey beautiful girl, it's a pity that you curse so, nothing will change it. The evidence is written. You must take responsibility for this unpleasant deed.” Bang Zamy spoke slowly.
“Stupid with your threats.”
“I am not threatening, just reminding that there is a chapter that can make us imprisoned just for doing one thing that is very unpleasant to the complainant. And you know what? Ever since the news was taken down, it was true that my clinic had become deserted, even as we walked, people tried to dodge. That's what you want?” Bang Zamy looked down at the hate towards the woman who had seduced him in college. The woman with the petite body was far below him.
Lucky I didn't leave a trace on the forbidden page….
“All will not happen if you just retract your report.” Shelly finally opened her mouth.
“get Irwan out of jail, then it's all done."
“You're Irwan's girlfriend?” Bang Zamy frowned in astonishment. Shelly was silent. He tried to leave behind the two men who confronted him.
“I hate to threaten the most, but if you don't open your mouth properly, then I will also report you.”
“Report it, I'm not afraid.”
“Well, after that, your stressed mother will be more stressed if she finds out you're in jail. Your special needs sister will be waiting for you to come back to feed her.., and your father who.
“How do you know all about the state of my family?” Shelly cut out Zamy's bang sayings.
“I can hire even ten informants in one night.”
“Basic seta*n you.”
“Now just say it, who told you?” Bang Zamy continues to urge Shelly with the tape recording always on.
“If I say, promise that our problem has been solved.”
“I think it's the right decision.”
“Bang Bay.”
“Bang Bay? Who is he?” Bang Zamy was confused again.
“Pak Wahyu Head of the Provincial Social Service.”
“Waw so friendly you call him Shel..,” Bang Zamy smiled amusedly.
“Not your business!”
“Good is my business now, why does he want me to fall?”
“You find out yourself.” Shelly answered judes.
“Good, go home. Eh..., your taste is strange now because you are tired of chasing me?” Bang Zamy still had a flirt. Opid smiled in the dark at dawn.
“Not your business!” Shelly left with a pouting face. He had seen from a distance, his mother who was strees because her father married again was waving her hands in the porch lights. Bang Zamy thanked Opid and went home soon. While walking bang Zamy brain-twisting, how appropriate to paralyze the crime pak Bayu, while to report the case of discharge baby (me), the, that is no longer possible because it happened almost 30 years ago.
But there must be another way, I'm sure of it….
*****
Meanwhile, in a big house. It seemed that all the goods scattered and flew in the air, then stopped, descended and further added to the chaos.
"How could you have a concubine, huh?"
"Who told you?"
"You don't need to know, but he showed me all the evidence. You even helped her with her abortion...." The woman was hysterical while clutching the collar around the neck of the man she was accused of harboring a woman other than herself.
"Hey keep your voice down, shame on the neighbors...." Mr. Bayu reminded with reddened eyes.
"Why should you slow down? Just let the neighbors know who you really are. Outside you are so respected. But look, I just got home at three in the morning. Is it worth it for a married husband?"
"Silent I said. Or I'll just*h you later." Mr. Bayu threatened.
"Bun*h just let you be satisfied. Let's marry dozens of other women. You fucking jerk! Never changed before."
"Who's the jerk? Isn't marrying into a belly with a baby not my flesh blood the more jerk?" Mr. Bayu hit the dining table hard.
"Still mending married is pregnant, rather than like you, mengg☆sa own friend when he was drunk and did not want to take responsibility at all, even until he died you do not care."
"Shut up! Don't bring up my past, Sofie."
"You brought up my past first!" Aunt Sofie pointed at Bayu's face.
"So quiet I said shut up, do you understand silence?" Mr. Bayu approached with emotion, his hand hitting the wall next to Aunt Sofie standing.
"Bad savage base!" Aunt Sofie is still cursing.
"Shut up!" Plaque! Aunt Sofie's left cheek immediately got a hard slap from Bayu's increasingly clamorous sir.
Lizards run around the kitchen walls, looking for hiding places so as not to look eavesdropping....
Aunt Sofie cried caressing her cheeks that began to turn red.
"I'm going to unlock your secret Bayu...." His heart spoke withstanding the feeling of pain.
*****