
Fuad stopped his motorcycle and immediately ran after the figure of the woman who had stepped into the yard of Ummik's house. Without saying anything, Fuad immediately pulled the hand of Nirmala who was jolted due to her presence. The girl also said nothing but resignedly pulled Fuad to his car.
Fuad opened the car door and pushed Nirmala in, then he himself circled the car and sat in the steering wheel. Still without a word between the two, Fuad then took the car drove out of the housing complex. In silence, Nirmala glanced at Fuad who was driving the car with the goal of going somewhere. Fuad used to drive his car often if they were walking anywhere. And even now as if still with that habit, the man was like still the same, as if still treating him the same, I don't know .... Nirmala's confused.
The car finally stopped at a cafe not far from the housing complex dr. Raya.
"Down!"
In a cold tone Fuad told Nirmala to get out of the car while she herself stepped into the cafe first. Nirmala followed Fuad's footsteps.
Fuad chose to sit in the corner of the cafe to freely talk to Nirmala. He has to solve his problems and his relationship with Nirmala today. For him the relationship with Nirmala is certainly over when he has decided to love Ayuni with all his heart, but certainly not for Nirmala. Fuad was fully aware of Nirmala's position and how the girl felt.
"Speak! I'll listen to you" Fuad said shortly after they ordered a drink at the cafe's butler.
Nirmala looked at Fuad sharply.
"You are so happy, Fuad! You really don't feel guilty to me?" asked Nirmala in a fierce tone. He really did not expect only those words that Fuad was able to say to him.
Fuad gave a long sigh. He feels so guilty. Must feel guilty.
"I feel guilty for you, Nir. But I'm in a situation where I can't do anything right now" he said at the end.
"Huh? Can't do anything? Can't you apologize to me? Can't you explain something to me?"
"Huffpdf .... I apologized to you at the mall, and I explained to you my situation. I'm married, what else do you want? I'm a jerk yes, I'm******* yes, I admit. But this is how it is, I hope you can face the chest accepting it. You'll find a better man than me, Nir!" persuade Fuad.
"You think that's enough, huh??!!! Have you not considered my feelings at all, Fuad?!" nirmala snapped half screaming so that their conversation caught the attention of some cafe visitors.
Both of them did not even realize that there were two pairs of eyes that had entered the middle of noticing.
"Nir, lower your voice!" fuad warned me.
Nirmala grunts rudely. He lowered his voice intonation.
"You really don't love me anymore, Fuad?" tanyanya. Her tears are now falling.
"Nir, I'm married. Please understand!"
Fuad felt guilty seeing Nirmala crying in front of him.
"You know I love you so much, right? You promised me we'd finish college and have a more serious relationship with me. You promised Mama too. You promised to introduce me to your mom after we finished graduation. Butwhat? You disappeared for months. Your phone number is changed, all the sosmeds you never use again. I also don't know your home address. Even if I wanted to find out, I still wouldn't dare to meet you at your house. Can you tell how I felt when I saw you at the mall? You know what I feel when you say you're married?"
The girl was crying bitterly no longer cared for the people who looked at them in the cafe.
"My heart is broken, Fuad! I don't know what's wrong with you. If there's anything lacking to me why don't you say it, I'll change it for you. Don't you treat me like this. Even your apologies, they won't heal my wounds. I don't know what I'll tell Mommy later. Mama likes you so much. He believed you. Hiks ..." isak Nirmala.
"I'm sorry, Nir. Really, I'm sincerely apologizing to you. Whatever happened between us up to this point, it was my fault. You're a good girl, Nir. Please don't waste your tears on a jerk like me. I don't deserve that."
Fuad was sad to see Nirmala crying so hard. Nirmala has filled her life. Although she did not love the girl completely, Fuad knew Nirmala was a good girl. He regretted hurting the girl.
"You love him?" tanya Nirmala suddenly made Fuad stunned.
"Hmmmm?"
"I mean ... your wife ...."
Fuad nodded.
"What's in him that I don't have, Ad?" ask Nirmala.
Her tears fell again.
Fuad.
"Ayuni has nothing more than you, Nir. She's just a kara girl. He only has me, I can't ignore him, he depends on me."
Nirmala nodded in understanding.
"So you feel sorry for him?"
Fuad nodded.
"At first I just felt sorry for him, his life was complicated and heavy. But the feeling of being the person she always needed made me love her. I love him, Nir."
"I need you too, Fuad." Nirmala was crying more and more.
"That's not the same, Nir. You won't understand. You have parents, friends and everything you want. But Ayuni is different. He has no one. He just has me. Just me. It makes me want to protect her, want to be by her side, keep her forever. Things that no one else will ever understand. So please, help me Nir, I don't want to hurt you two. Please delete that photo. Don't let Ayuni see it. She's pregnant with my son. He would be very sad to see that picture. He won't be mad at you maybe. But he would definitely hold his feelings in his heart. Please delete that photo, Nir," Fuad pleaded.
"I can't. It's a photo of my memories with you" refused Nirmala.
" You can keep any photo, at least until you can completely forget me but not that one. That's a photo that's really less worth saving. Please Nir ....!"
Nirmala looks heavy hearted to grant it.
"Please .... Please ...."
Nirmala finally nodded. From inside his bag he pulled out a cell phone and handed it to Fuad. He let Fuad wipe it out on his own.
Fuad received the phone and looked for the photo in the Nirmala mobile phone gallery. He found a picture of her kissing Nirmala's lips. How embarrassing to see him now. The new Fuad will delete the photo when someone snatches the phone from his hand.
Fuad flinched and raised his face to see who the cell phone hijacker was. His face immediately turned pale.
"Mama??"
Mama Salma was very angry to see the photos on the phone. She did not expect her son would have this kind of forbidden relationship with another woman.
"Yes!!! What's all this mean?" ask Mama to get angry.
"Ma? What's your mama doing here?" Fuad asked back.
"Why are you here? What are you doing here with other women? Where's your wife?"
"Ma, Mama .... It's not what Mama thought. Nirmala is Fuad's friend on campus, Ma! Mama don't think of the weird donk!"
"No need to think strangely what? Obviously you're here alone. Pake event cry-cry all. And this is a fuckin' photo, Fuad! You're making Mama ashamed! Oh my God ... What are you doing. And you!" Mama turned to Nirmala until she looked up at Mama Salmah.
"Do you know Fuad is married? Can you usually want to be invited by a married man alone to a cafe like this? Do you realize how cheap your attitude is?"
"Ma-sorry, Auntie. A- I ...."
"Ma, it's donk, Ma! Nirmala is not wrong. Fuad is wrong!" fuad.
"You are still defending your affair. Listen Fuad, Mama is not fully able to accept Ayuni but Mama is more unable to accept your behavior like this. Oh my God .... What have you been taught to do until you turn into this irresponsible man?" nagel Mom.
"Ma, Nirmala is not Fuad's affair. Fuad ain't cheating, Ma!" refute Fuad's frustration.
"You're still a ...."
"Aante!" nirmala Sela. "Fuad's right, we're not cheating. Sorry about the photo, I can't explain it. But I'll delete it" Nirmala said, asking Mama Salma for her phone.
Nirmala immediately deleted the photo and showed it to Fuad and his mother.
"Fuad, I'd better go home" he said afterwards. "Aunt me, excuse me."
Then without waiting for an answer from the two Nirmala then leave from there leave the former lover and prospective in-laws who did not so it. His heart was muddled into one. She didn't expect that Mama Fuad would be that hard. Was it possible that Fuad had refused to take her to his house because of that?
"What's this mama, anyway?"
Fuad looks upset. He wants to end his relationship with Nirmala but of course he doesn't expect any interference from others, what else is Mama.
"Come on! You're going the same, Mama!"
Mama immediately paid for her order and called Nadya who was also eating in a chair not far from Fuad and Nirmala earlier. Damn indeed! Fuad did not expect that he would meet Mama and Nadya. Apparently, Mama and Nadya were walking around and stopped by the cafe to eat.
" You got a motor?" ask Mama.
Fuad.
"If you are driving!" tell Mama to hand over the car keys to Fuad.
"We're going to Ummik's house!" mama's orders again make Fuad a head-scarf.
"Why are you going to Ummik's house?" ask Fuad.
Mama did not answer. An annoyed roar still loomed on his face. He still did not expect that Fuad could have a forbidden relationship with the brown-haired girl. My mom really didn't like that girl. Her reddish-brown hair and tight clothes formed the curves of her body, really not a dream daughter-in-law at all. Ayuni was also not his dream daughter-in-law but the appearance of his wife Fuad was much more polite than the girl.
Ayuni was surprised to see Fuad coming with Mama and Nadya. Didn't Fuad go with Nirmala? thought.
"Ayuni!! The fuad!!! You pack your things right now, you stay at Mama's house now. Mama wait!"
Huh??!!!
Everyone in the house was shocked at Mama's order.
"Ta- but ...." Ayuni confusion.
Ayuni did not want to stay in her in-laws' house. But Grace ...?
Mama Salmah understood what her youngest daughter-in-law was thinking. Immediately he reached out his hand reaching for the Grace that Ayuni was carrying.
"Let Mama aja who is carrying Grace, you pack her clothes as well. What matters first. Other items can follow tomorrow-tomorrow," said Mama.
It makes Ayuni even more dumb. Mama's carrying Grace? What the hell is going on? Usually, even though visiting here, not once Mama wants to hold her child. Even glanced at her, Mama did not want to.
"What the hell is it, Ma?" tanya Raya looked at Mama and Fuad alternately. It's disconcerting.
"Yes, what's up, Miss Salmah?" tanya Ummik felt bad. "We made a mistake? Did anything offend Mrs Salmah?"
Mama Salmah immediately shook her head while laughing wryly.
"Oh, no, no! It's not what Bu Farida thinks. I have no problem what makes me feel offended. I just thought of bringing Fuad and Ayuni to live with me first. There's something I have to keep an eye on."
Saying that Mama's eyes were on Ayuni. His son-in-law's eyes looked a little puffy. My God, does Ayuni know that Fuad cheated on her? thought Mama. In his heart he had pity on Ayuni.
Mama Salmah's answer even made Raya and Ummik more confused.
"What the hell is it, Ma?" tanya Raya was confused while looking at Fuad who was randomizing her hair.
Mama approached Raya who was sitting on her wheelchair.
"It's okay, baby. Mama's story later. You're in a wheelchair, okay? Not comfortable?" ask Mama to switch the conversation.
Raya smiled.
"Lumayan, Ma. Rather than in the room continue." replied Raya.
Mama stroked Raya's stomach with affection.
"You promised, yes. Take care of Mama's granddaughter!" mama Salmah said while stroking Raya's back. "Sorry Mama hasn't looked at you for a long time."
Raya nodded.
"Hum um."
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"For a while you use a floor mattress first, yes Ayuni ..." said Mama while holding a mattress in Fuad's room. "Grace can sleep on top mattress."
"Yes, Ma." Ayuni replied.
Fuad beds while single are indeed single bed models like those in the Mahfudz room so they do not allow for three sleep there.
"Later wait Mama or Fuad there is a new time we look for a big bed to the furniture store," said Mama.
"Yes, Ma." Ayuni replied awkwardly.
I don't know why Mama's attitude today is a bit different to her. Mama was kind of soft on him.
"Yes, Mama went back to the room first. If you need anything, call Mama in the room. You can put the sheets on yourself, right?"
"Hmmm yes, Ma. Thank you." Thank you."
Mama smiled as she could and patted Ayuni on the shoulder.
While Mama was gone, Ayuni put on the bedsheets and Fuad went into the room carrying several more bags from the trunk of the car.
"Darling, are you okay living here?" ask Fuad.
"Hmmm ...." Ayuni simply answered.
Fuad realized that cold answer. Fuad closed the door and locked it. He then approached his wife and hugged her from behind.
"Awas, I'd like to put the sheets on. The corner over there has not been entered," said Ayuni trying to escape from Fuad's embrace.
But Fuad was determined not to let go of Ayuni's kneeling body . He hugged her tighter as his hand stroked Ayuni's stomach which formed the mound.
"Dek, say Mama. If you want something to say to Papa, don't snack" he said as if talking to the child in the stomach of Ayuni.
Ayuni was still making no sound. The more the hands of the mischievous Fuad touched the other parts of his body. Ayuni brushed it aside until Fuad gasped in shock. He did not expect, would get a rejection from his wife. Usually Ayuni is a wife who is obedient in everything including when she does something intimate to his wife.
"August ...." Fuad jerks.
Ayuni remained unmoved. Until the sound of Fuad's cell phone ringing disperse the tension between them. It was used by Ayuni to escape from Fuad's embrace.
"Hello ...." Sapa Fuad's.
"With Fuad?" Someone across the street asked convincingly.
"Yes, I'm alone. Who is this with?"
"It's Akbar. The former boy and Waridi's right-hand man" replied the man who called her.
"Ac ...?"
Fuad did not continue his words and glanced at Ayuni. Ayuni must not know what she is doing and what she has to do with Waridi.
"Hmmm .... What is the need to contact me?" ask Fuad.
"Can we meet?" ask Akbar back.
"For?"
Ayuni silently listened to Fuad's conversation on the phone. Who did Fuad call with? Is this Nirmala? Why does it sound so serious? Is that just Fuad's trick so he doesn't know Nirmala called him?
"OK, okay. Where's kira-kira? Yeah, I can go there. Now then? Yes I can. I'll be there for a while."
Oh, so she's going, Inner Ayuni nelangsa.
"Darling, Honey. I'll go out for a second. There's someone who wants to see me. I'll just be a minute" said Fuad.
"Who?"
Fuad thought for a moment.
"Friends," he replied.
"girls? Guys?" ask Ayuni again.
Fuad scrunched his forehead. Since when has Ayuni been this possessive of her? Usually he never wanted to know who Fuad would meet with if he went out of the house.
"With girls or boys?" Ayuni repeated the question in a slightly raised tone.
Eh? Fuad was confused. Is Ayuni jealous?
"With a guy, Mama? Why anyway? Mama's jealous, huh?"
Ayuni snorted annoyedly.
Fuad who was near the door turned his body and approached Ayuni. He hugged Ayuni.
"I'm not going with girls, baby. Trust me. The vow! " he said as he brandished his two index fingers and his middle finger. "Don't think of it like that, pity his grandfather if his mother is not happy, hmmm?"
Fuad kissed Ayuni's forehead. And stroking her hair.
"I'll just be a minute."
Ayuni is still riveted after Fuad. Are you really trustworthy, Fuad? If you can be trusted, why did you betray Nirmala's trust and marry me? batin Ayuni with a tight chest.