
" I can't." replied Lili.
" Why can't li.?" ask Santi wonder
" Because I love her so much even though she's gone.
" But why can't I." said Santi, who did not accept Lili's answer.
" That's because you don't love her.! lili snapped though still with a voice that only they heard. " Because you don't really love her, that's why you easily forget her." Accuse Lili with her eyes staring intently at Santi.
Yes, Lili thought so, because she saw that Santi was happy with her husband Reuben.
Santi was stunned to hear Lili's accusation, how could the woman say that she didn't really love the late Rio.
" You're wrong. You are so wrong to say that." said Santi shook his head. "You know why I came to this town.? it's all because I don't accept the reality, I'm too weak to just breathe, I don't dare look at the world because every time I look at it, it will be in front of my eyes and it makes me blame myself, had I prevented him from meeting me then it would not have happened and he would still be alive today." said Santi at length issued all that was in his heart.
Because honestly, he is also an ordinary human who certainly will not be accepted if blamed or even accused of something that is not him.
Lili gasped at Santi's words and was even more surprised to see Santi who had melted her tears.
" Sorry.. Ii'm sorry. I beg you to forgive my words Santi." said Lili holding both hands Santi and head down regretting her words that hurt her friend.
" no. You don't have to apologize, because you're innocent, we're just two people who loved the same man in the past and we're two people who have their own ways of loving him." said Santi gently reply to Lili's grip.
" Thank you." said Lili sincerely.
" no. I don't accept that. All I want you to forget is Li's past" said Santi. " I'm not asking you to forget her as much as I can't forget her. Just please let her have a place as your memory there instead of as your future because it's impossible for you." Paused for a moment and slowly pulled slowly his veins and then said again. " Just like I put him in a place of his own.
Lili was silent not to answer Santi's words, because in her heart she justified what her friend said, free to love her directly while she could not be his future, he said, but what is the power also when the heart still survives to continue to love.
***
Elsewhere, after Jovan received a call from Lili. He is currently arguing with his girlfriend over a different desire.
"Come on, baby, let's go see my friend.! persuade Jovan.
" no. I don't want to. And again I still want to be with you before I go back to Paris." replied Rena.
Yep. The lovers are Rena and Jovan. They have been in a relationship for a long time, even when Rena has not returned to Indonesia, and this is also actually Jovan in the capital because he wants to be with his girlfriend.
" We can still be with them chatting together as well" said Jovan still trying to seduce the lover.
" But what will Santi will not be angry with me." lirih Rena who is afraid because she is the cause of the couple's problem becomes runyam once.
" Wouldn't. If he gets angry, I'll persuade him. And again she is not a vengeful woman." said Jovan believes her lover
" You seem to be very close to him." Said Rena with her jealous tone
And Jovan just smiled glitteringly at the behavior of his girlfriend who was lucid while being jealous blind.
" Of course I was close to him, and again I've known him since we got the title in my High School, he was my junior back then. And one more thing I just love you." said Jovan confidently.
Rena was happy to hear the confession of her lover, she was very happy and this is the reason why Rena no longer wants to teach Ruben because she is greedy as other women
Enough Jovan for her and keep it that way, then Rena doesn't expect another let alone try to find another.
" Jaudah, we're leaving." Rena finally agreed to Jovan's request.
They went to the cafe that was told by Lili, until there they still had time to see and see the sadness of the two friends.
" Hey.! what's the matter, huh.? how on this face." asked Jovan when he reached the table where his best friend.
They looked together at Jovan, and Santi was of course surprised to see what was in front of his eyes. Jovan comes with Rena and again their hands are mesmerized like kekasi.
" hello....Just shut up." said Jovan again waving his hand in front of Santi's face.
Santi twrsadar from his surprise, and now the mimic of the face depicts the flower, and full of questions.
" Know this is Rena, my girlfriend" said Jovan who saw the confused look of her friend.
" Friend.?" Santi repeated the word girlfriend again to convince his hearing.
" yes. My boyfriend." explained Jovan.he pulled a chair and sat his girlfriend right next to Santi karan he wanted Rena and Santi to solve the problems between them.
" Not in.-"
Santi was silent trying to understand the situation that was now in front of his eyes. If indeed Rena and Jovan are lovers, then why did Santi see rena being leaned spoiled with her husband at that time
" I'm sorry." said Rena to open Santi's silence. " I'm sorry I made you misunderstand. I don't know if my arrival blinded your tenuous relationship getting tenuous even terns kind of ended." Says Rena sincerely.
" Do you know where our relationship came from.?" Santi.
" I.! I told you when I found out that the girl you saw in your husband's room was my boyfriend." said Jovan ahead of his girlfriend who was about to answer.
Again Santi again quietly heard Jovan's explanation and again also crossed the question in his mind why Rena could be there.
" It was me and Rena who were fighting and it turned out that she was there to confide in your husband. If only at that time I knew that she was the woman you were referring to, maybe we could talk about her well" said Kovan again who seemed to know what was going on in Santi's mind.
" I'm really sorry for you." this time Rena is back to talk because she hasn't answered Santi for his apology.
" Yes well, there is no need to talk about it anymore, because now I am fine with my husband. And maybe this is the way for us to express our feelings. Santi replied with a genuine smile.
" Thank you." said Rena sparkling when she heard Santi's words. With reflex he hugged Santi tightly and Santi spontaneously returned the hug
" Have you hugged me ."? cursing Jovan.
Santi and Rena immediately let go of his embrace because the peacock only realized what they were doing. Both of them smiled in embarrassment considering their behavior.
" Nah, now it's hard, right. ? then let's have fun." Saut Lili girang
" No.! we are still not finished" said Santi firmly.
Everyone who heard Santi's words looked at him. Jovan and Rena looked with questioning gazes while Lili looked at Santi with her sour face.
" What happened to this child "asked Jovan pointing at Lili with her chin raised.
Santi without seeing the gaze of Lili who expressed herself to not say about the matchmaking began to tell everything.
" Jdi gitu Van." The last words of Santi's story and Jovan's laughter immediately heard Santi's words.
" I didn't expect you to be betrothed to the man you often call the bucket man" Jivan said, still laughing.
While Rena and Santi just smile to see the face of Lili more sour because of Jovan, but it does not last when Rena says:
" Riko was a good man. I've known him since we were in college and he's the kind of man who's loyal and loving to his partner. And honestly I was surprised at your confession because I always had a lover first." Tuti Rena explained what she knew about Riko.
" His name is also betrothed dear, whether she has a boyfriend or not no one can dispute that" explained Jovan
" I don't want to talk about it anymore." dropped out Lili. "mending we just have another conversation." continued Lili.
They finally chose not to discuss the matter of Lili and chatted normally, telling little things that cause laughter, until it felt like the afternoon and the sound of someone stopping the laughter.
" Dear.." Ruben's series just came back from the office.
" Dad.." Santi immediately welcomed her husband's arrival and kissed Ruben's arm.
" You yeah, I remember the time hem.. Kn tadinmas has told you not to be too long and quickly back." said Ruben softly with a small pinch of Santi's nose after a kiss of affectionate affection and landed Santi.
" I'm sorry, but I'm preoccupied with chatting." the great-granddaughter of Santi, who was afraid her husband was angry.
" You are the law.! resolute Reuben.
" I'm sorry, mas. Take care of your wife's law." said Santi pouting.
" Of course, because the punishment is a good punishment." whispered Ruben
" Mas." whiney Santi who was embarrassed by the words of her husband.
" We're home." take Ruben.
" I'm sorry all I had to go. My husband picked me up.
" Yes please." they answered.
Santi and Ruben passed away leaving the three men including Rena who had known Ruben about who his lover.
Seriate....