Getting Married Due to a Trap

Bryan's Travel.

"How are you Ra?” ask a young man of not much different age than Khaira.

"Good alhamdulillah, Sep,” replied Khaira smiling blandly. "Where do you know that I'm here?” ask Khaira to a friend during her school who until now still loyal friends with her.

Just now the man named Asep Wibowo will answer, but Khaira has already spoken. “Ak.”

"Oh, I know. Must be from the citizens right?” Khaira circulated her gaze staring at the wall of the police station. "In the village must be excited to talk about me huh?”

Asep looked at Khaira pity, he was unable to answer. Because what Khaira said was true, that the neighbors were gossiping about Khaira Ningrum son of Abah Ahmad who had been arrested by the police.

"What can I help you to prove that you are innocent?” tanya Asep volunteered to help her underclassmen during SMK.

"Where do you know I'm innocent?” Khaira shifted her attention that was originally staring at the wall, now looking at Asep. The handsome man who once made Khaira klepek-clepek and in the end Khaira know, that handsome man in front of him is gay.

That was the first time Khaira was made to fall in love by a man who was very gentle in his character, not only that Asep was also an accomplished and humble student, a champion also playing basketball. But in fact, it's deep zonk!

"Obviously I know, you trade chickens but you're afraid to slaughter them. If you are afraid of hurting animals, let alone hurting humans,” said Asep, he knows what kind of girl whose full name is Khaira Ningrum, because he has been friends with Khaira for five years.

“Lebay you Sep! I did not slaughter the chicken, but I will cut it,” replied Khaira ducked while playing her nails.

Asep was sad to see the cheerful Khaira look moody, “Sabar Ra,”

Khaira let out a long sigh, "Hahhhh... The police have investigated the case and I was left here. So they're not saying I'm guilty, Sep. Sister Gemel also gave a testimony that incriminates me,” Khaira spontaneously kicked the table in front of her.

Brakk!

“Anjir!” Asep was surprised to see Khaira pounding the table, "Aish... Just surprise you!”

Khaira ruffled her hijab feeling a mood that felt increasingly brutal, then allowed her hijab back.

"Ah shit, Sister Gemel look out for you!” khaira is upset if she remembers the dangdut bohay singer.

"I heard it happened at Om Bonar's cafe?” asep looked at Khaira who was depressed.

Khaira nodded, "Yes,” again Khaira let out a long sigh describing her resignation. He tilted his head a little.

Asep joined the shortness of breath, seeing the state of a tough woman who had never changed, remained tough and remained an anti-broken Khaira, but this time like it was not the usual Khaira. "Don't the cafe have cctv? Whether the police have checked the cctv, it will be clearly visible if you are innocent,”

Hearing about Khaira's wish cctv getting eroded, he banged his jidat into the table. "Bonar told the police that the cctv there was broken, but obviously I knew that the cctv was normal,”

Asep was stunned, but also felt strange. "Why can it be broken?”

Khaira sat up straight again, then shook her head. "I don't know either!” his eyes began to glaze over, "How can I prove my innocence, Sep? I'm really frustrated!”

Asep let out a long sigh, “I'm also dead-end if you think about your problem Ra,”

“Uncle Bonar said to Abah, if he would have pulled the report. But there are conditions,” said Khaira weak considering the conditions proposed by Bonar.

Asep was delighted, "Hahh what is the condition?”

Again Khaira banged her eel against the table and she did it over and over again and let out a rough sigh.

Khaira who banged his eel on the table but Asep who felt pain, his face he bent and put his palm right in the middle of Khaira's forehead and table. "Don't do this Ra, you can make your eidat like people who are diligent in praying,”

Khaira looked at Asep, "You mean the black calluses that are on the forehead here,” Khaira pointed her forehead with her index finger, "and you also want to insinuate me too right, if I rarely pray?” .

"Have not discussed something that is not important, just now you have not said what the conditions are so that you can be free. I miss buying your chicken Ra, ever since you chose to work at the old grandfather's cafe. I miss eating your homemade chicken that has no opponent,” said Asep at length.

"The men want to release me without bail, as long as I want to marry and become his young wife, Sep. How should I Sep?” said Khaira will again bang his eel to the table, but halau by Asep.

"I told you not to beat your eel at the table, pity the table!” asep said, holding Khaira's forehead. A few seconds later it was realized that Khaira said her terms. "What's? Same old Aki-aki's wedding, huhh. Mending me who married you Ra, than you married the old man!”

"If I marry you, my descendants will be tired rich you Sep.” muttered Khaira lirih.

"What did you say Ra, I'm not horrified?” asep asked, not hearing what Khaira said.

"I suspect that Om Bonar deliberately omitted the traces of the cctv recording, in order to trap you, Ra,”, Asep said with his analysis.

"Well it's possible, if I could just get out of here for a day. I will find tuh cctv and I will prove that I am innocent,” said Khaira hope.

Asep sighed and thought to help Khaira, "I'll help you Ra, I'll find out where the cctv's missing. I'll prove you're innocent,”

Khaira felt a beautiful glimmer of hope spoken by the handsome man before her, "Truly Sep you want to help me?”

Asep nodded

"Thank you Sep, thank you.” said Khaira girang.

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When the visit was over, Khaira was back in the holding cell. He sat there mourning his fate, and two years and eight months in prison or a fine of fifteen million awaited him if the judge declared him guilty.

"Had calmed down Khaira, you must be free from here. Mom sure.” said Rani sitting next to Khaira.

"Yes Ra, I'm sure of that too. You will not make a fatal mistake like us - we,” said Ani also voiced, the suspected case of breaking into this ATM has been in prison for one month.

"Thank you Mak Rani, thanks Ani. May you also be free from here soon.” said Khaira, unconsciously he continued to look at Meta. He got up from his seat, and walked over to Meta, the woman who looked like a punk. "Metal Master,”

Meta did not say, he turned his face.

Khaira insisted that she did not want to have enemies. Without giving up, Khaira sat in front of Meta fearlessly. "I'm sorry Ma'am, actually I accidentally slammed Mbak Meta, it's just my reflex movement,”

Meta remained silent, leaning against the dull walls of the prison.

Rani, the oldest of the six women in the cell, approaches Khaira and Meta, "It is Met, it is Met, we must open up and forgive each other so that our lives will be better. We are here, and we can get to know each other is a lesson to share the experience of joy and sorrow,”

"What Mak Rani said is true Meta, forgive Khaira, I did not defend her. But I think by slamming you that's how to protect himself.” said Sali mingled between Rani, Meta and Khaira.

Khaira continued to stare at Meta who was adamant about not looking at him. He then took the initiative to hold Meta's hand gently, "Mbak Meta, we should not be enemies well. If Mbak Meta wants to, I want to become the Mbak Meta,”

Meta's hard heart began to melt, his eyes glazed over seeing Khaira and immediately threw themselves into Khaira's arms, "My brother was raped, and I killed the man who raped my sister, I don't accept my sister being harassed. I've reported it to the police, but the depraved man told the police that they did it because they liked it,”

Meta sobbed, wiping his tears and nose, which released a clear, slimy liquid, "and the police released the depraved man. I darkened my eyes because I saw my sister frustrated to find out that she was pregnant and chose to end my life, since then I have been looking for a lecherous man who has taken away the happiness of my sister's life, and I stabbed him blindly because I was so angry and disappointed in that depraved man and also disappointed at the law in this country,”

Meta explains the case he faced, imagining stabbing a lecherous man who was fast asleep at the patrol post, "and now I am waiting for the court's decision to give me the death sentence.”

The four different women of this generation fell silent, filled to hear the story of Meta, the woman who had been living in a holding cell for half a month and only this time Meta told her life story, her life story, without feeling a circle of tears flowing down the cheek.

Likewise with Khaira, her problems and anger are nothing compared to Meta's problems and anger.

Khaira thinks it's not bad in prison either, because here she can learn a lot of meaning from life. Khaira looked at the five women in front of him.

47-year-old Rani is a suspect in gambling and selling liquor. Whatever the reason for survival does not justify gambling is a truth. But that's the path Rani chose to take to support her children after her husband died two years ago.

Sali is a fraud perpetrator with a mode of buying and selling land.

While Susi is a snatcher who was arrested during his action in the angkot.

"We walk the same earth, but with a different destiny. May our destiny be better in the future.” said Khaira, while wiping away her tears.

"Amin.” answered all the women who were in one cell.

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