
Not noticeably, the time has shown at 7 pm, Albert and Jessica told their children and grandchildren to stay overnight at their homes. Because they both did not want to lose this warmth so quickly. They were very happy and laughed a lot since the afternoon his two grandchildren came.
Albert also instructed Alex to bring his son and Reina to sleep in his room only. The room he used to live in when he lived here.
Arriving at the room, Railo is amazed by the father's room which he thinks is very cool and manly, but a different response comes from his daughter's face. He really does not like the look of Alex's room that is not funny. He was afraid to be there because his room was dominated by black and white.
Raisya whines to Alex and Reina to take her to their house where her cute room is located. But his wish was not fulfilled until Railo spoke. “If you don't like it in this room, go it alone. You've been a pain! Spoiled!”
Not wanting his two children to fight again, Alex takes Raisya and Railo out to persuade him, but suddenly Reina remembered that she and her children did not even bring a change of clothes because they came straight here when they came home from work. Eventually Alex asks one of the house maids to buy a dress for Railo and Raisya.
While Reina, Alex asks the woman to check her closet. When Reina left, she only brought a few clothes, so Alex said that he had not thrown away any of his clothes, and still kept them well in the closet. Reina followed the man's direction and opened the closet there.
Upon his arrival in front of the open closet, various memories directly pierced Reina's head just like that. Without her knowing it, this room actually has a lot of bad memories for her. Reina was very anxious to cry, considering that this was where the first incident happened, and it was in front of the closet that she sat there crying before leaving aimlessly. Everything just turned around.
The memory of Alex's arbitrary nature now swirls in Reina's mind. She begins to fear how it could happen if she marries Alex again.
“I was once considered a cheap woman in this place.”
“I've been toyed with, as if I had no feelings.”
The words that Reina did not want to hear just kept coming. Makes Reina couldn't take it anymore. It all felt like a trauma controlling Reina. The woman is helpless.
Reina tried to be fine, until one shirt was seen there. The clothes he first wore to this house were unconscious. He picked it up, but he dropped it back on the floor.
After the shirt was out of his grasp, Reina suddenly just moved and sauntered out of the room. His steps stopped for a moment when he saw Alex and his two children were still visible, and when it was confirmed that Alex and his two children were playing in the backyard, Reina came to Pak Agus, ask the man to give Alex the car keys to her.
“Where is Reina going? Let me just drop off, it's already night.” Agus offered himself.
“There is an urgent important need, I can drive my own car. Just tell me I'm leaving if Alex asks.”
Mr. Agus did not protest, he believed in the reason that he gave the key to the employer and returned struggling with his coffee.
Reina then drove the vehicle in the dark of the night, without knowing the direction of the destination. All he knew, was his condition when he was in that house all those years ago. A little further away the car started to go, Reina's tears were no longer contained.
“The kids will be safe, but I don't know.”
“The house started on a mistake, could it end up with a mistake too?”
“Excuse Mommy, Railo, Raisya.”
***
Alex managed to persuade his daughter to sleep in the room only last night, that's what he promised. The man also said, there is nothing scary as long as there is someone accompanying, even if Raisya feels alone, Alex told him to just scream, then everyone will come.
Yeah, maybe it's a little troublesome if Raisya suddenly yells at night. But, just for now, Alex feels no problem.
Both the children and their father decided to return to their rooms. Not yet reached the room, one maid that Alex had told him to buy clothes came to his front with the groceries that Alex asked for.
“This is his shirt, sir. I have found the most fitting and best size.”
“What did you bring here for? Bring it to the room, Reina is already waiting there.”
The maid kept smiling. “Mrs Reina is not in her room, sir. The door of the room was slightly open, I did not dare to enter, Mr.”
Alex's forehead shriveling. “What does it mean that Reina is not in the room?”
“Nothing, Sir. Below also no.”
“Daddy, Mommy to where?” Alex forgot, this daughter was so scared, if she said Reina wasn't there, she would cry again.
Alex smiled at his daughter. “Mommy is with Oma. Looks like I'm borrowing clothes.” The remark succeeded in dispelling Raisya's suspicions. So did Railo.
“Ya already, bring it to the room now.” Alex asked his maid to bring the groceries while Alex brought his two children into the room.
Arriving at the room, Alex puts Raisya from his carrier onto the bed. While Railo who had followed, asked his father to raise him as well. Both of them lay on the bed, joking.
Alex's eyes combed the room, until it finally stopped in the direction of the open closet. His steps closer towards the closet, his net caught a single shirt lying on the floor. He clucked, thinking Reina was so careless, that he could just leave his shirt lying around.
His hand was about to put the shirt back in the closet, but it finally came to a halt when he realized that this was not an indiscriminate shirt. Suddenly he remembered that this shirt was a shirt that he had ever released without the permission of the wearer.
Alex who tried to think clearly was finally screwed up as well. He started thinking badly about the fall of this shirt.
Seeing her maid leaving the room, Alex called her back. “Please apply that to my two children. I have to get out for a while.”
“Railo, Raisya. Mommy turns out there's some business outside, and Daddy has to pick up your Mommy. You guys wait here, okay? This mother will accompany you until Daddy returns, so you will not be afraid.”
Railo immediately nodded, followed by a slightly hesitant Raisya.
“It's okay, Raisya. I am, right, here,” said the wise Railo. Raisya smiled and nodded for sure. It seems like the little guy has forgiven Raisya's troublesome mistakes all day.
Alex smiled, then looked at his maid, hinting she had to go first. Fearfully, the maid accepted her Master's request. “Siap, Mr.”
Alex ran a little when he got out of his room. There was nothing else he went to except for Mr. Agus who is now in the security guard post with the house security guard. They were drinking coffee together.
“Pak, see Reina out?” tanyanya to the point.
Pak Agus who was relaxing immediately stood up. “See, Sir. Madam said there was an urgent need outside, and told me to say she left if you ask.”
“Exit? Wear what?”
“The lady used a car owned by Mr. Madam earlier asked for the key to me. Why, Mister? Something wrong?”
Alex shakes. “The child was crying. But now it's not.”
The man was not out of his mind, even though he was panicking, he tried not to look panicked in front of everyone. Now, he immediately asked Mr. Agus to give the keys to a sports bike that he rarely uses. “I want to pick up Reina, please get me my motor key.”
Mr. Agus immediately went into the security guard post, then took the key that Alex meant.
Alex rushes into the parking lot of his parents' house, where luxury cars line up not just one or two, but dozens of real cars are plastered there.
The man remembered, in his car there was a GPS, it was fortunate that Reina had forgotten about it, so he could tell where it was at the moment. Alex found his car somewhere far away. He thought, did Reina really drive her car that fast in half an hour?
He started to worry about Reina. The man was unconscious, his ego was not at all he was wearing at the moment. He immediately rode his sport bike while putting his phone buffer which is certainly in a safe place, he was not worried about his phone being thrown.
“What do you think, Reina?”
He panicked, nothing. The woman always permits wherever she goes, even when it is trivial. But these? After all the traces the woman left behind, how could Alex think positively?
The bike Alex was driving was speeding. The gas pedal continued to be pulled strong by Alex until finally with a period of less than half an hour, he arrived at the place he was headed. However, he did not find his car as far as his eyes could see. He could only see trees and deserted roads, until he drove his motorcycle slowly. Meter by meter he passed until he saw an old house at the end of the road.
Without turning around, and determined to find Reina, Alex rode his motorcycle closer to the house.
“Could he be here? But, what was he doing in a slum like this?”
Alex dyed, his feet clattering carefully considering anything can happen in a quiet place like this. But the man rubbed his grateful chest when he found his car behind the house. He walked back slowly. Afraid, if Reina was avoiding him, Reina would leave when she found out Alex was there.
Arriving behind the house with a sneak, the man was surprised, seeing Reina's condition was very alarming. Messy hair, a sobbing that sounds, do not forget his position sitting hugging the knee.
Reina looked up, very surprised to see Alex was here. He thought a little and realized, the man must have found it through the GPS in the car. Real dumb.
“Explain, why are you leaving?”
Reina was silent, as if ignoring Alex beside her.
“I forgot, you were the one who destroyed me first. Why should I trust you again.”
If Alex wasn't determined to bring Reina home, she would be furious at that. But look at that man now. He just looked down, his ears were alert and ready to hear all of Reina's complaints about him.
“You just take my kids. I'll stay alone.”
Alex choked. “What do you mean?”
“Don't you think it should be? I doubt you're doing anything to me anymore. You're still you, won't be the other Alex.”
”What have you done, Alex! Is it true that everything I've done is too bad?” inner Alex.
Alex's outstretched hand was about to touch Reina's shoulder, but the woman immediately brushed it off. “Even like that you did to me first.”
“KAU!” Reina pointed right in front of Alex's face.
“You who used to without permission touched me!”
“You know?! Even when you knew I wasn't aware, you did it all!”
Reina's tears that had previously subsided, now re-fertilized in her eyelids. His mind again revolved at a time where he was surprised to have been in a foreign place without clothes.
“S-after that, k-you …. You told me to sign an agreement for no reason!”
“You know? I was tormented in those days!”
“Therefore I go. Go to a bad place that I shouldn't have visited!”
Crying out. Yeah, no more holding back.
“M-forgive me.”
Reina did not want to hear it, she kept screaming at the man in front of her.
“Given that time, made me recall all those very sad moments.”
Yeah, nobody knows. That time.
***
“Reina, you are indeed an unlucky child!” someone shouted while pointing at a girl who was lying weakly on her bedroom bed.
That girl, she just woke up from her stupor. He had arrived home from where he had worked for the past three months. However, his house was empty, so he went to the house of his uncle and aunt, where the mother used to be.
Instead of being greeted with joy, he knew the fact that he was not someone with a clear background. He was just a child who was sadly taken from the orphanage. A girl who seems to have been orphaned twice.
He got two bad news at once. That he was not the son of the mother he was looking for, and the fact that the mother he was looking for was now gone.
However, just as she awakens from her shock, she is again faced with a new misfortune, when her step-aunt blames her for the passing of her older sister, stepmother Reina. Stupidly, the woman assumed that her brother died from being related to Reina, the foreign child she had picked up from the orphanage.
“I told you from the beginning. This kid's a fucking carrier! This child is already destined to be an orphan!”
“What proof did you say that, Margaret! Aware!”
“Proof? You said evidence? Here's proof! Back then, my sister-in-law left when she was about to save that kid who almost got hit by a truck!”
“Now? Open eyes! My brother left when he wanted to pick him up! He who has not yet returned home until the date set until my brother desperately picked him up and became a victim of an accident!”
Yeah, call it Reina wander. Just to a neighboring town, and he just came home today for preparing something for his mother. But when he got home, the person he was going to was not there. Only the group of people who were still in a grieving mood were busy with themselves at home.
Afterwards, he had to listen to his step-uncle who explained that he was not from his family. He said it was the last message from his stepmother. His step-uncle was indeed kind, he explained everything carefully. But until the word of her mother was gone, Reina could not help her shock until she fell unconscious.
Now, he must be silent to listen to all the swearing and reproach that his step-aunt threw. Uncle Reina as her husband indeed continued to dismiss all the reproach that the step aunt threw to Reina. But the husband was still the husband, he could do nothing but calm his wife and ask Reina to leave the place right then and there. He justifies all the cruel words that his wife throws with the excuse of still grieving. He forgot, that Reina was just as hurtful, perhaps even grieving more deeply.
Reina ran out of the house after the uncle hinted so. Just by carrying a cell phone and a sling bag that still hangs on his body. Reina ran without direction.
At first he stopped at a place that was not bad, his stepmother's house. He cried bitterly from evening until swallowed by night. He could not believe what the people in the house were saying.
“You ... actually from the orphanage, Reina. My brother adopted you because he was married for a long time and had no children. He hasn't had time to explain it to you yet, be me representing.”
“Kakak is gone, Reina. A week ago, when you promised me that date to go home, your mother kept waiting and worried about why you hadn't come home yet. Until finally four days ago he gave up waiting and wanted to try to find you.”
“At that time, Brother experienced something unwanted, just like Sister-in-law, he was hit.”
“That's why your aunt said Brother's death was caused because of you.”
All those words kept ringing in Reina's head. He ran out of his mind, until he ended up at a nightclub he used to avoid. Reina did enter a place like this, but not for fun. As he wandered, he often came to the place to fulfill calls from club people when his friend was found drunk. After that he came back. Never once did he want to enjoy the place.
But here it is now. Pensively with bottles of liquor that he had spent, counted from the beginning he came.
Drunk heavy even though he had never tried to touch the unclean object before, Reina floundered. It's never been this bad. Until finally he hallucinated meeting a man who will make his life happy. Meeting Alexander Leonel Bieber was the beginning of a new regret for Reina.
***
Everything that had happened became a dark memory of its own for Reina. To be honest, it is not entirely about Alex's attitude that made Reina afraid and restrained at that time, but also the incident behind the meeting of Reina and Alex that makes Reina feel very bad at this time.
The house at the end of the road that is now where they are, is the house where Reina when she returned but she did not see the person she was heading to stand smilingly welcoming her. It is an old house, but this house is quite spacious, although not as large as the family home Alex.
“Reina, I'm sorry. What are you afraid of me, say. I was so scared of losing you. Can't you feel my worry right now?”
Instantly, Reina's eyes widened, the woman seemed to have just realized from the entanglement of her past.
Alex sat down, the man facing Reina. His hand grabbed Reina's right shoulder from the left, ending up hugging the woman. “I'm sorry, I gave you so many bad memories. Even making you like this just by remembering it.”
Reina's tears fell again, the woman closed her eyes firmly, feeling how sincere Alex's embrace was at the moment. He doesn't know what to say or do. He just kept quiet, and felt an increasingly tightened embrace.
“A-I still consider you a terrible man. I-I was scared, I was afraid of everything that happened back then.”
“M-sorry, sorry that I thought you were so,” continued Reina, making Alex shake his head quickly and strengthen his embrace.
“Don't make me feel so bad. It's obvious you're scared because of me, but, you're the one apologizing.”
Alex regrets. Really sorry. What the woman said now stuck right in her heart. He felt very guilty when he knew his attitude made a woman become as scared as Reina. Although Reina was not frightened just because of Alex, but the man did not know, and he felt very guilty. “I'm too selfish.”
“No, you're not entirely wrong,” whispered Reina in her stuffing.
“A-ak-me, I had a past before I met you.”
Alex was quite surprised, but, he did not want to ask. The man was still busy hugging the woman before him very tightly, channeling a calmness so that the woman immediately forgot the thing that hurt her.