Don't Want to Be Pathetic: NIGHT BUTTERFLIES
Section 73
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2 Years ago
The cold night accompanied by heavy rain made anyone reluctant to get out of the shelter, as well as Ira who went with Gadun and stopped at a shopping place, and also stopped at the shelter, the man was buying what his wife asked for and Ira just sat quietly in the car waiting for her to return.
Tok tok tok tok
A woman in her 33s stood beside the car, holding a black umbrella, tapping on glass several times as if asking Ira to open it.
At first Ira was silent and wondered who he was? because of a face that is not recognized at all. "Maybe she needs something," in her mind slowly opened the car door and the woman immediately pulled her hand violently.
"What the hell?!" Ira took her hand off forcefully.
"I should ask what? do you know whose car it is?" he looked at Ira.
Degg
When his body went limp, his whole body trembled and he did not know what to do. "Is he Suleng's wife?" in his mind while looking around, there were many people who were shading from the rain.
"That's my husband's car, lo who?" her guess with a snap while pointing right in front of Ira's face drew their limelight and made it a spectacle.
His chest felt very tight, his dry throat made him feel squeezed when he swallowed his saliva several times.
"How is this?" the question in his mind was not knowing what to do and answering what?
Only Ira would reply that the woman snapped at him again, "What is your relationship with Suleng? the actor is not ashamed!"
"What Pelakor? I'm sorry, you misunderstood"
"Misunderstand? a young woman in open clothes, one car with my husband, you think I'm stupid? where there are cheap women like you want to ngaku"
With trembling and anger that Ira felt could not stand, with a reflex he slapped the woman's face.
Plaques
"Basic cheesy!" he snapped while pushing Ira's body to fall.
There was no sense he felt aside from embarrassment, everyone around looked at him with a look of intimidation as if he was the only person at fault.
"What's the matter, mah? ko's here?" asked Suleng ran over to his wife who appeared to have raised his right hand to slap Ira.
"Who is this woman? you're in one car, who is he?" she took a step forward looking at her husband.
"Misunderstand, he's a nobody" Suleng replied as he pulled his wife's hand to get her into the car, but she insisted on slapping Ira.
Ira woke up feeling pain in her bloody elbow due to the push that made her fall.
He, filled with anger, grabbed Ira's hair and pulled it very hard. Can't explain the pain, which must have been so painful.
"Basic jal*ng shit! I killed lo!" her screams pulled hard on Ira's hair.
"Pull me to break up"
"Young people have contact with husbands, do not know shame!"
"Jek, just kill a cheap woman like her"
From various directions came the sound of others meddling and judging him, now the woman did not care because all she wanted was to go from there.
"Enough is enough!" Suleng tugged at his wife's hand which was getting stronger, until she suddenly took off the hand that grabbed Ira's hair when a middle-aged woman came and slapped the woman.
Plaques
Everyone stared at him, including Ira who was still feeling pain forced to lift her chin to see who had stopped the woman who wanted to kill her.
"Lo who would dare hurt me?" the snapping made things quiet for an instant, there was nothing to hear except the sound of heavy rain and motor cars passing by on the road.
"He picked me up who just came home from abroad, I asked Suleng to pick him up because he happened to pass by and my car has not come. What do you mean by defaming her good name?" it snapped step by step cornered the woman.
"Gue told your husband, I'll pay him for bringing my bangs. What's your problem?" his screams made the woman feel embarrassed because of the misunderstanding that had occurred, which was actually the truth.
"Who is that middle-aged woman? why would he want to help me? and what is he related to Suleng? do they know each other?" the questions Ira keeps behind her pain and embarrassment with the events that have happened.
"Gue can't accept him being treated like this, he's not wrong. You bow down the same way he apologized?" the snapping made the woman speechless with the shame and anger that was within her.
"Sorry Ma, I brought him home" he said, pulling his wife's hand, but the middle-aged woman stopped him.
"It's gone too far, his good name is already tarnished. Look everyone saw and it has become a spectacle, what will you do?" tanyanya stared intently at the woman.
"He doesn't know this is about work" Suleng said with a worried look at Ira.
"I'm sorry, I don't know if it's a job" said the woman with a gloomy, downcast face. The better Ira just felt guilty. He was the one who was hurt by her, but he was the one who had to apologize. Is that human being slick? there is no better way than to apologize. The people who were there already considered her a cheap woman to be a snatch on people's husbands, even though all that was true, but Ira did not accept it if it had to be humiliated in public like this.
Without saying much, the middle-aged woman who helped him pulled Ira's hand into his car. Before entering, she tidied up her clothes and hair
semrawut because of the quarrel.
"Honey," he said softly.
Ira sat down beside him, silent for a while looking at the woman who was smoking
"Better now?" his question made Ira realize from her daydream that was still thinking about the incident without foreseen.
"Thank you aunt" he said repeatedly looking at his injured elbow.
"It feels too young if you call me that"
"Maybe too old if I call you mother?" he said as he rubbed his wound with a tissue.
"Mama Tati, you can call me by that name"
There were actually a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but maybe this time he could only keep them.
"I'm going home" said Ira, looking at him with a busy cell phone.
"Where are you going home?"
"Home, I'll ask a friend to pick me up" he answered opening the car door.
Before he descended the middle-aged woman stopped him, "Just a moment! give me your phone number"
Because she's a woman and has helped her, Ira unhesitatingly gives her phone number. Because if other people ask Ira always refuse, especially men. After that he got down and walked towards the seat while calling Iki asking him to pick up.
Tiit Tiit
With a honking sound coming from behind, Ira turned her head to leave in her car. He smiled forcefully with his mind still filled with the question, "Who is he and what is the reason it helps?"
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