ETERNAL LOVE'S

Forty-fourths

"What's the matter, baby?"

Retha turned her head when she heard a soft voice from behind her back. She smiled as her mother approached and sat down next to her. "Why is it so early in the morning that it is daydreaming?"

"No papa, Ma." He answered with a head that shook slowly.

"What's wrong?" Back the question Desi lay down because there was something unusual about the look on his daughter's face. "Say, what makes you daydream early in the morning like this?"

"Ma ..." Rethah took a slow breath. "Ma, it turns out the girl is here."

"Girl?"

"Hit ..." Head nodded. "I don't know since when the Girl came back. I met him yesterday, and that was in Kalan's office. I'm scared, Ma."

"Darling ..." The mother grabbed her daughter's hand gently. "Isn't that girl married? what are you afraid of?"

Again, Retha's head shook. "But stay, Ma. I'm afraid Kalan's back at her."

So great was Retha's worry when she saw the Girl back. However, it was the girl who made Kalan turn away and cut off their relationship. And now, seeing the girl in Jakarta made her feel uneasy again.

It's not that Retha doesn't trust Kalan. The man promised he would never hurt her again. But still as a woman, the fear re-emerged. Moreover, Retha knows that Kalan used to love girls so much.

And for now ... I don't know!

"Darling, what if you ask Kalan to speed up your marriage?"

"Will Kalan agree?"

"Of course he has to agree."

"But what if Kalan refuses, Ma? Do you know what Kalan is like?" Said Retha who made Desi think a little.

Yes, Desi knows how Kalan's attitude is very stubborn and can not be forced. The man was even very difficult to approach.

Desi remembers very well how the struggle of a Retha so far to get back the love of the man. Although it was then, it was Desi who intervened to make Kalan return to his daughter. And it was Desi who had succeeded in persuading Kalan to get engaged to Retha, his daughter. Even though at that time he was using a bit of a sneaky way. Seeing there was fear in the look on his daughter's face, of course, made Desi again have to act immediately.

Desi won't let anyone take back her daughter's happiness. Whatever he would do to see his daughter happy, even though he had to go back to using sneaky ways though. Desi smiled in a slant before then she said something that made Retha nod, then smiled happily.

"Relax baby, Mama make sure Kalan will marry you soon." Said the middle-aged woman with great confidence.

******

"What's up, Tente.?"

"Roof, sorry Tente interfered earlier. Looks like Retha's sick. Can you meet him at the apartment?"

"illness?" Kalan asked as he frowned.

"Yes, the disease is coming back. Auntie's out of town. Retha's alone in there, Auntie's afraid of anything happening."

There was a voice so anxious across there. Kalan also assures after returning from the office, he will meet Retha, seeing the state of the girl.

When it was five o'clock in the afternoon, Kalan immediately rushed out of his study room to immediately meet Retha in his apartment. Other than his finished work, though not entirely. Kalan also obeyed the wishes of the future mother-in-law, seeing the state of Retha who he thought was sick.

Riding his iron train at moderate speed, Kalan arrived in the basement of the apartment building after a half-hour drive. He enters the elevator to ascend to the seventeenth floor where Rethah lives today.

As soon as the door was opened, the first thing he saw was the figure of Retha who was smiling even though her face looked a little pale. Kalan guess, must be heartburn and lack of sleep that makes it sick like this.

"Have you checked with the doctor?" Kalan asked as soon as he sat on the sofa located in the living room.

"Udah, my maag relapsed. But it's better now."

"Thank God." Kalan breathed a sigh of relief. "Now go to sleep.!"

"You want me, don't you?"

"I have to go home."

"Darling ..." Retha sulking spoiled. "Please ... just me tonight?" Seriously, Retha wants Kalan to be with her tonight. Because honestly, since his meeting with the Girl happened, the feeling of unease suddenly appeared. There are a lot of things Rethah wants to ask Kalan. But he did not dare, Retha was afraid if later Kalan thought he did not believe it.

"I can't, I have a lot of work to do at home."

"You can work here, I promise I won't bother you. I just want you to accompany me."

Kalan hung up his sentence when he heard the sound of his phone turning on. Hurriedly he took the flat object from inside the pocket of the suit still attached to his body.

"All right, I'm there now." Then, Kalan turned off the call that was out of who it was.

"Sorry, I have to go now." Kalan stood up, while tidying back his suit.

"But .. am I here?"

"There's still Sinta, right?" Kalan asked who managed to make Retha scowl annoyed. It was only a few minutes ago that Retha ordered her personal assistant to go home, and now she had to call Sinta back to accompany her here.

Not wanting to upset Kalan, Retha allows Kalan to leave. But before the man actually left, Retha gave something to Kalan.

"What's this?" Kalan asked as Retha thrust a bottle of drink in front of him.

"It's herbal tea."

"Hef herbs?" Ask by frowning.

" Mama made it special for you. It's health tea, not poison." Retha said that made Kalan smile. "A drink huh? although busy, but you have to keep your health. I drink too."

"Well, I'll have a drink."

Afterwards, Kalan actually left with the bottle in his hand. The drink bottle contains herbal tea that is specially made Desi for his future son-in-law. No one knows, not even Retha. If the bottle contains not only herbal tea, but Desi has put something into it.

******

"Sorry .. I'm late."

"Widih ... Our young boss is coming?" Andrew exclaimed when Kalan had just come into the nightclub owned by Ruben Arganta.

"Are you braver, Lan?" Edo added, one of Kalan's friends while sitting in college.

"Obviously, he's the master of the company in Jakarta." Kelakar Ruben, the owner of the entertainment venue that night that made the other two friends laugh.

"Ck, stale." Kalan clucked, then poured the intoxicating liquid that was already available on the table into the glass.

"Lo drink, Lan?" Ask Ruben. At one time, Kalan never again drank the illicit drink for a long time. Since the first time he lived his lover married.

"Morning times." Andrew replied with a smile.

"Why? Any issues?" I don't know why Ruben was so curious when he saw Kalan put the drink in his mouth. "Tumben, lo?" Ask again who could not respond at all from Kalan.

While Kalan, the man again poured the illicit liquid into his glass, then gulped it down until there was nothing left. Perhaps only by drinking like this can help him to remove the face of someone who continues to spin on his head. Ever since his meeting with Girl again happened, suddenly his feelings became messy. To the extent that the man again busies himself with work, but still does not make the shadows of the face of the Girl disappear from his head just like that.

Already a few glasses Kalan drink to make him start to lose consciousness. Kalan occasionally laughed while rumbling indistinctly made the three friends just respond with a thin smile while shaking his head.

"Girls ... Goddamnit!" He giggled amusedly.

"Girls ... Girl ... ass."

Again, whether I had a few tens of times the man called and called the name of the girl in each breath. In fact, Kalan occasionally uttered words that made the three friends frown in confusion. Apparently, what made a businessman like Kalan intoxicated like this was a woman. The girl who had left Kalan and chose to marry another man.

Miris.!

Amidst his thinning consciousness from drinking too much, Kalan pulled out his cell phone from his pants pocket. He dialed the number of someone who in a matter of seconds the person immediately received his call.

"Hallo--!"

"City ..." There was a soft voice of a woman across the street. "Hallo ... Who is it?"

The soft voice he had always heard, he always missed. And now, he heard back making her smile.

"It's of no interest to me then-" The voice choked when it heard the voice of someone familiar to the ear. Girls know who the owner of the voice is, girls know who is the person who is calling her.

"Hi .. wife of people.!"

...******...