I AM FAITHFUL TO HIM WHOM YOU LOVE

MARA'S ANGER

This morning local residents flocked to aunt Hanum's house to help process food for the event tomorrow morning. Mara who just finished bathing can only sit on a foam mattress in the room, while Arthur sits down while holding a laptop researching the report sent by his assistant.

" I'm bored in here." Mara's words made Arthur take his eyes off.

" You bored? Then what do you want? Do you want to help Aunt Hanum with them? If you want, I'll take you to Mom." Said Arthur.

" It's not so, Mas, I want to go where it is." Mara.

" Road street." Arthur's Mumbling.

" Where road? I don't know the area either." Keep Arthur.

" But if you want to walk, then I'll take you. Finish the job first." Said Arthur.

When Mara approaches Arthur, she sits on Arthur's lap staring at Arthur's laptop.

" Dear, how can Mas focus on doing Mas's work if you are like this hmm? Very spoiled tumben, usually not like this." Arthur stroked Mara's cheek.

" Even more pengja Mas spoiled by you." Mara stroked Arthur's face with both hands. Mara glanced at the front door where Vida was standing there while observing the two of them.

" Well, Mas will end Mas's work and take you on the road, because you are the top priority in Mas's life." Said Arthur.

Arthur shuts down his laptop after storing his data. He placed the laptop next to her and wrapped his hands around Mara's waist.

The two of them throw one another a glance...

Cup...

Arthur kissed Mara's cheek.

" You love to steal opportunities." Mara.

" why? Stealing the same chance as your own wife is okay, baby." Said Arthur.

" I'm not ready yet." Mara.

Arthur held Mara's nape and kissed Mara's lips gently. Arthur was astonished that Mara had not rejected him. He thinks Mara has started to accept it, he smacks Mara's lips gently.

The annoyed Vida saw that, soon passed from there. Mara smiled as she saw it.

" I'll show you where I really am Vida. Arthur is mine and forever will be mine. Even if you try so hard to keep us apart." Inner Mara.

Feeling out of breath, Arthur took off his pagutan. He gently rubbed Mara's lips with his thumb.

" Thank you dear." Said Arthur sticking his nose into Mara's nose.

" Hm." Mara muttered her head.

" Let's walk! If it's not wrong not far from here there are rice fields that are directly connected to the train." Said Arthur.

" Well, I want to see you, come on!" Mara Sahut.

The two of them went out while holding hands.

" Arthur, Mara, where are you guys going?" Tanya bi Ningsih approached them making everyone who was busy making food look towards them.

" Mara is bored by the mom in the room, I want to take her on the road to see the scenery around here. Isn't there a rice field near here?" Said Arthur.

" There, you walk south. There you can find rice fields and small rivers. The atmosphere there also looks cold Arthur." Aunt Hanum's.

" Yes Bi." Sahut Arthur's.

" Me and Vida are coming. We can play together there." Said Gania pulling Vida's hand closer to them.

" What do you want to play in Gania? Mending memenin Mbak at home." Alena the bride-to-be.

" No need to ah. Come on. I'll show you the way so you don't get lost." Gania walks ahead of Arthur while holding Vida.

Arthur and Mara follow Gania from behind. It looks like a densely populated house unlike when Arthur last came here.

" That's the rice field." Gania pointed forward. Where the expanse of rice fields with rice plants that look green stretches out in front there. The flow of a small river and the train road at the end of it make the scenery look beautiful.

" It's still very natural, Mas, unlike in the city that has a lot of factory buildings." Mara.

" Yes, obviously, if the people of the city mah mata duitan so have a land sejengkal aja sold to make a factory. If it's not here, the farmers defend their fields more than money." Gania Sahut.

" I think if I get a lucrative offer, the farmers want to sell the land. How about I buy a swath of their rice fields for half a billion?"

Gania's currency is perfectly rounded when he hears about half a billion dollars.

" No, we rural people are not tempted by that kind of money. We'll keep our rice fields, won't we, Mas Arthur?" Vida looked at Arthur.

" Hm." Arthur nodded his head.

" Mr Mara, let's go down to the paddy fields." Bring Gania.

" What? Down to the rice field?" Mara Pekik.

" Yes, we walk through the dirt road that is on the edge of the rice field, we take photos for memories." Gania.

Vida smiles smirk.

" No, later if there's a snake I'm bitten. Could I die, I'm horrified." Sahut Mara shuddered in horror.

" Not the Ma'am. If there's a snake, the snake has run first." Gania.

" Dear, we'll take a photo here to remember the memory that we've been here." Said Arthur.

" Vida please take a picture of us." Arthur gave Vida his phone.

" Yes, yes." Vida Sahut.

Arthur pulls Mara's hand down into the rice field.

" There's no need to be afraid that there's a Mas here, baby." Said Arthur.

Arthur stood on the vast expanse of rice fields while hugging Mara from behind.

" It's Da." Said Arthur.

Vida immediately took their portrait with a feeling of annoyance. Arthur changes style by holding Mara in a friendly manner, Mara seems to display her best smile. The last time Arthur kissed Mara's cheek made Vida even more upset.

" Mas now replace the three of us who took photos, I want to have a memory with mbak Mara. After that, the three of us took pictures, I'm Mas Arthur and Vida." Gania Uajr.

" No, you guys are the only ones who took pictures. I don't want to." Arthur keeps Mara's feelings.

" It's up to Mas Arthur." Gania Sahit.

Gania and Vida exchange places with Arthur. Gania appears to have clipped Mara's body as well as Vida's.

" Eh don't mop up gini donk! I can fall later." Mara.

" Be calm, Ma'am, you won't fall." Gania Sahut. The three of them took a marching position with Mara in the middle.

" It's yes." Said Arthur.

" Yes, yes." Gania Sahut.

" One.. Two...

On the count of three arrived Vida pushed Mara from behind to make Mara's body stagger forward. Then....

Byurr....

Mara fell down to the rice field made her whole body exposed to mud.

" Good god, baby." Arthur immediately ran towards Mara.

Vida and Gania held back their laughter.

" Dear wake up." Arthur helped Mara stand up.

Mara looked at Vida sharply then..

Plaque....

A hard slap landed on Vida's cheek.

" Mara!!" Jerky Gania.

" What the fuck are you, huh? How dare you slap my best friend." Shouted Gania staring at Mara sharply.

" Because he pushed me." Reply to Mara by shouting.

" You're the only one who can't stand up so well, then why are you blaming Vida. Basic city girl, spoiled girl, girl don't know the rules." Gania.

" Who doesn't know the rules? I'll show you how girls don't know this rule teaches you a lesson." Mara said annoyedly.

Mara pulls Vida and Gania's hand hard, causing them to slip and fall into the rice field.

" Mara!!!" Shouted both.

Gania pulls Mara's hand and grabs Mara's hair hard. Not to lose, Mara also retaliated against Gania. As a result, the two of them jambak each other to make the plants there become damaged.

" Stop! Mara stop! Gania stop!" Arthur tried to break them up.

Seeing that Vida smiled triumphantly.

" I'm not letting you go." Mara Shouted.

" I won't let you go either, arrogant girl." Reply Gania.

Their commotion attracted the attention of local residents. Until her parents Gania and Arthur approach them.

" Stop this!" Shouted uncle Eko stopping the two of them.

" A.. Father." Gania looked at her father.

" Come here you three!" Said uncle Eko.

Gania, Vida and Mara walked over to Eko's uncle. Arthur accompanied Mara by standing behind her. Uncle Eko and the others looked at the three girls who were currently standing in front of him. Vida's condition is not severe, severe is Mara and Gania, their hair looks random, their faces appear filled with mud paddy fields.

" How can you guys act like little kids like this huh? Aren't you ashamed to be the center of attention of all the people here." Said uncle Eko.

" Mara first Well, she fell alone but instead blamed Vida. I didn't accept that, instead he got angry and pulled us down into the paddy field." Gania.

" Yes Uncle, Mara fell by herself but she instead pulled us until we fell. Even he slapped me on the cheek, it hurt a lot." Vida touched his cheek.

" Unlike that, Vida pushed me first." Sahut Mara defended herself.

" Dear shut up!" Arthur's whisper made Mara misunderstand. He thinks Arthur is defending Vida.

" Why should I shut up?" Say Mara with you high while looking at Arthur.

Everyone was shocked, they stared at the two.

" Do I have to be quiet when I'm accused of doing something I didn't do? Who would he dare to do that to me? No one has ever denied Mara's words, but what have they done to me? They made me dirty like this, and then they insulted me. And you.." Mara pointed to Arthur.

" You're just silent to see your wife being demeaned like that. Maybe you're used to being demeaned like this, but I'm not. I won't let anyone demean me including your family." Mara left them all.

" Mara!!" Shouted Arthur calling Mara but Mara did not care She kept walking back to Hanum's aunt's house. Whispering of the neighbors was heard in Mara's ears but Mara did not care.

TBC.....