GROANS OF DESTINY

S2 - CHAPTER 16

Everything went back without a sound

Leave a very torturous stain

and now, maybe this is what it's called.

Meeting at the right time

Thank you for a fate that favors my story

Aisyah sipped a soft drink that Selvy bought for her. When the door of the cafe opened again, Aisyah reflexively sat facing the door accidentally glanced at the people who came.

But this one visitor made Aisyah immediately stop sipping her drink and stunned to look at the woman with waist-length hair tied back with a brown blazer she wore.

The woman walked slowly to the order table and waited for her order with another visitor who sat in the long chair in front of the order table, after getting the menu she ordered the woman turned around and was shocked to see Aisyah who was there, the woman smiled her sweet smile at Aisyah.

"Hi Shah! can you sit here with your friend?" ask the woman.

"Well, big brother" Aisyah replied with a smile looking at the woman who was none other than Serli Aulia, Riani's friend during her time in Oxford.

Serli greets and gets acquainted with Selvy, the two guys are very quick to look close.

Selvy stared at his watch which showed at 17:39 "Sorry Shah Serli, I say yes first" said Serli.

Aisyah and Serli nodded understanding "alright"

"You still want to be here first Shah?" ask serli.

Aisyah nodded her head assenting "there is something I want to talk to Serli's sister" Aisyah replied.

Selvy nodded understandingly "well, I go first" Selvy said as she walked away and waved her hand at them.

"What do you want to say, Shah?" ask Serli curiously.

"Do you know who Riani likes?" ask Aisyah directly at her core without rambling.

"Well, isn't it Sir Albern?" wonder Serli.

Aisyah shook her head "before that"

Serli thought quite hard, according to him Riani only loved Albern, but Serli again remembered the beginning of his meeting with Riani, when Riani's heart rang very loud and fast, her face blushed red like she was in love, and she was in love, but Serli had no idea who Riani had just met.

"Hmmm, don't" Serli replied.

Aisyah breathed her tiredness.

"What's the matter, anyway?" wonder Serli asked back.

Aisyah shook her head "no kok kak, Shah was just curious" Aisyah's thin laughter seemed forced.

As a lawyer, Serli had studied psychology in Indonesia after graduating from Oxford, so he knew that the laughter that Aisyah was showing at this time was just coercion, it seemed that Aisyah bore a heavy burden in her mind, therefore Serli was unwilling to discuss his first encounter with Riani on Aisyah.

"Dad..arak just want to give advice to you, do not ever you investigate things that are not good for the state of your household or even the household of others, before you regret all that" said Serli.

Aisyah smiled faintly at Serli "sorry...What does big brother mean?"

Serli stared in Aisha "You know Shah? I used to hear a story about the name MISUNDERSTANDING from my brother's good friend during a lecture on psychological tutoring to mature the soul of my brother's lawyer, when there was a man who investigated his wife's past, his wife, and his wife, the man was in a very heavy reality after getting a bracelet belonging to his best friend who also owned his wife, the bracelet was very rare and very similar to his wife, the man went back to find out more about his best friend's relationship with his wife, until he found a dead end and chose to directly question his wife, Obviously his wife was angry accused of nothing by her husband, but her husband remained insistent on his wife until his wife was tired of serving her husband and decided to divorce, the man seemed disappointed in his wife and chose to see her friend again, he was insistent with the handling of the evidence in the form of the bracelet, he accused her friend as his wife's affair" Serli inhaled a snap back to collect the deep oxygen.

Serli again continued his words "the wife of his best friend instead came to believe the words of the man, and his wife divorced her husband who was none other than the man's best friend, instantly the friendship they had formed from a small collapse due to the misunderstanding experienced by the man. He threw the two bracelets into the river, but an old man stopped the man.

"What are you doing, son?" ask the old man.

The man looked at the old man "i want to throw this shit!"

"This thing ruined my life!" upset the man.

The old man frowned "you know son... the father who made the bracelet for 2 young people who want to find a talisman in order to express their love for each person they love, even though the age of the father is getting older, but I still remember very well, happy face to the two young people who are good friends to support each other express their feelings to their loved ones, each of them, as long as the young man's father wasn't you, so what was it, son?" wonder the old man.

The man was flabbergasted and in a moment the view fell "what is a serious father?" ask the man.

The old man nodded and smiled.

The man is getting worse fragile, he does not believe that what his wife and best friend say is true, to apologize to them no longer can, he said, because the man no longer knew where the two men were, his legs could no longer stand, his tears were invisible because they were covered by the rain flowing.

After the old man left because the weather was getting colder, the man was still fragile on the edge of the bridge, he stared at the river under the bridge that was flowing fast, and he looked at the river, The man went straight up the bridge fence and free-fall into the river, his head broke from being hit by rocks in the river, his right hand was cut off because of the rope netting standing from the plant, he said, but the two bracelets could not escape his hand, he still clasped tightly onto the two bracelets, he said, and the rest of his body was scattered because of the screams of sharp objects and wrapped around which were carried by the swift currents of the river.

Until finally his life, no one came to meet his body, he was buried unilaterally by the police without the presence of anyone he knew.

Isn't dying that horrible? just because one night's misunderstanding ruined it all? although he thought it was real evidence, but it could have been a thing that was never thought of by him" explained Serli.

"How are his wife and best friend doing now?" ask Aisyah.

"No one knows what their fate is" Serli replied.

Aisyah was silent for a moment "but it was just a story, sister, not a fact" Aisyah said as she put everything in her bag again.

"I didn't know you were an editor and publisher of the Shah, and you also know that you used to be a writer, you must know very well, that there are many stories that begin sweetly with tragic endings, and vice versa tragic stories with happy ending, and not infrequently there are stories that are at the beginning until the end always heartbreaking, and not infrequently, and all the stories are really written from real stories, although it seems impossible and full of drama, but that is the reality" explained Serli.

Aisyah smiled faintly at Serli "but everything was added with exaggerated drama spices, sorry brother, Shah left first" said Aisyah as she accelerated her steps out of the cafe.

Just this time serli saw the attitude of the jutek that Aisyah showed which was usually always sweet and innocent to her.

It turns out true said people, that everyone will show his original attitude when he fell, or when reality does not match his expectations so far.

But Serli still thinks that Aisyah is a smart woman who will think a thousand times before deciding to act on something serious.

Serli sipped his coffee and re-opened his laptop which had been delayed.

***

After the magrib prayer at the mosque next to the cafe, Aisyah looked at ************ the sky is getting darker and the night wind is creeping shivering Aisha's bones.

The cold edge of Jakarta at night did not hinder Aisyah's move to continue the journey to the bus stop.

Aisyah stared at her cell phone clock which showed at 20:29, Aisyah decided to enjoy her trip for a while after getting off the bus, Aisyah stepped slowly, but surely to get to her house.

Aisyah glanced at her house from a distance, the lights of the house were already alive, a sign that Andi her husband had come home.

Aisyah's heart is getting heavier to go home, but she can no longer delay to roam these nights, especially Aisyah is pregnant, even though her gestational age is only 3 weeks, even though she is only in, and Aisyah did not tell Andi first, because Aisyah wanted to surprise Andi, but instead was slapped by a very gripping reality for Aisyah.

The condition of her young pregnancy at this time, making Aisyah sometimes difficult to control her emotions, so consciously or not Aisyah often acts out of her habit.

Aisyah stepped slowly walking into the house, as she was about to open the door Andi appeared from behind the door with an anxious expression clearly drawn on her face.

Andi immediately hugged tightly Aisha "you from anywhere? I've been contacting you from earlier, but you didn't pick up" Andi said.

Aisyah was shocked to see Andi who was worried about her, Aisyah smiled faintly at Andi while taking off Andi's embrace "i just wanted to enjoy time alone" Aisyah replied as she stepped inside the house.

"Assalamualaikum" said Aisyah.

"Waalaikumsalam" replied Andi who was still staring at Aisyah, Andi felt that Aisyah was currently slightly keeping her distance from him, unlike Aisyah who was usually.

But Andi prefers to remove his prejudice, maybe this is just his feelings, thought Andi.

Aisyah threw her body into the mattress, while staring at her screen that looked dark "like a lowbat" said Aisyah while returning down from her bed for an HP charger.