Heart Treatise

Episode 52

The romance is just over. Rudi got up and left the bed after he was dressed in incomplete clothes. But before he stepped towards the balcony, he took a cigarette box he kept neatly in the nightstand.

Rudi lit his cigarette then began to look at the dark sky of the capital sitting leaning on the balcony chair, sucking and enjoying the nicotine that entered his lung cavity.

Only here and in certain places Rudi is free to do it, because outside he keeps his image very well. A doctor, a clean man, neat and polite. Far from the impression of a smoker.

Rudi closed his eyes with the cigarette still in his hand. One word that came to his mind was brutal. His anger had completely subsided after being vented by Soraya's body.

From the evening he waited for Soraya's return, so tried to contact and ask her whereabouts the number intended to be inactive. Until when he wanted to find the whereabouts of Soraya who never returned home until late at night, he who came out of the apartment building actually found his wife with another man.

Jealousy, questions that arise from Soraya's lips he tries to deny. But when Soraya asked what the meaning of his presence as if to make his soul disturbed. Not clear yet? The status he gave was as a wife, and there is still less evidence. Therefore Rudi did that, but with a rough also arrogant.

Rudi ruffled his hair in frustration. But he shouldn't have done it, he wrote in his heart. But Soraya's actions remind him of the past until repeatedly the memory is spinning like a broken cassette.

Rudi was born to a parent who was far from harmonious. There was no happiness in childhood until he was a teenager, even he considered his father was present only as a complement. His father always came home late for some sort of made-up reason. Until one day, his mother took Rudi away to meet his father who never came home. Not unlike his father along with a woman who is mixing love where his father works. Predictably, betrayal is obvious in plain sight.

After the incident was a fight, even psychic physical violence experienced by his mother. It was a long time ago, but it was known by his Grandfather.

His grandfather took action to have his mother and Rudi come with him. But another impact came after the separation with his father. Her mother was depressed due to psychic wounds, her mind always blamed her less in the eyes of her husband. Because of the psychiatric condition that worries her mother was sent abroad to get the best care and inevitably Rudi had to accompany her.

With his left hand he now corners his cigarette on the ashtray. Then he chose to go back into the room.

While happening with Soraya, she was so shocked at the actions that Rudi had done to her. His body and soul felt so much pain, but what was even more painful was that Rudi got up and left just like that after completing his desire.

Soraya's head turned towards the glass door of the balcony, Rudi's shadow looked from there. The smell of cigarette smoke bursts through the gap of the glass door that is not tightly closed. Glassy eyes stared pushyly in that direction.

"Why?" he said softly, tears disappointed fall down the bedsheets.

When the sound of the door shifting, Soraya's eyeballs moved uneasily, her lips still tightly clenched. Immediately he pulled out a blanket to cover his innocent body. He was sure Rudi would go back into the room.

Rudi's steps were getting closer, while Soraya could not hide her anxiety. His eyes returned to the mirror and tightly grasped the end of the blanket that covered his body.

Although the room is in minimal lighting conditions, Soraya's condition did not escape the spotlight of Rudi's eyes. Soraya now looked terrified from her stiffened body.

Rudi was about to make a sound, hoping to improve the situation. But when his lips opened, he paused because Soraya first interrupted even with a voice that sounded vibrating, "Don't approach me, let me rest tonight first."

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