Love for Vita

The dark past

"Where are you from? these nights just got home?" Rika, who had just entered the front door of her house, was surprised by Irwan's greeting standing looking at her from the top of the stairs.

"Tumben you're home, Mom?" rika asked her husband again.

Irwan smiled, "Why don't you seem happy to see your husband at home?"

"Good, you finally realize that you have a wife" Rika timpal said with a gasp of breath.

Irwan came down from the stairs, approaching Rika who was laying down her body on the long sofa in the family room, "This time who did you meet?"

"What are you asking? usually you don't care" Rika said as she massaged her own head.

"You look so tired, have you traveled so far?" asked Irwan still with his smile that continues to be thrown to Rika.

"Why do you keep asking tonight? you must not have taken your medicine yet" Rika replied.

Rika is very tired, all day he really was not given a break to relax, before traveling to the house of Zovita he also had time to visit the campus of Nikita to hold a meeting.

"Do we need a vacation? you must be very busy with your routine, right?" Irwan.

Rika was flabbergasted, slowly looking at the face of her husband who was sitting next to her. "What?"

"Are you not happy?" Irwan asked again then turned his head and laughed at Rika's face that looked incredulous.

"Don't joke you!" Rika snorted seeing Irwan laughing at her.

"I'm not kidding, you just say where to go, then immediately tell secretary Mery let him take care of everything," said Irwan, Rika looked at Irwan again with more seriousness.

Rika still does not believe what she heard, trying not to take it seriously and then calls Susi to massage her shoulders very sore.

Irwan stared at the screen of his phone and then showed Rika something, "See I've emptied all my schedule, I'm doing it for you."

Rica stared at the phone screen intently, "What's wrong? what exactly do you want from me?"

Rika still can not forget her initial meeting with Irwan, although she is a child of a conglomerate family, Rika is willing to marry a man with one child, Rika, Rika is fascinated by Irwan's attitude of treating her with special, it was before Irwan managed to occupy the hot political seat.

"You are my only woman, Rika. Thank you for accepting me to be your husband."

By marrying Rika, Irwan's career in politics has skyrocketed, leaving Rika to lose Irwan's warmth towards him, Irwan continues to be preoccupied with a job that is very draining of his time, even after his second child is born, Irwan rarely goes back home.

Until one day Rika hears something shocking, which makes her hate her own husband even more, Rika's surrogates tell her that Irwan has had children with other women, even that before Irwan married her.

Rika kept looking for information about the whereabouts of the child. Rika will not let Irwan know that she has a daughter from a girl who was once her affair.

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Zovita woke up from her very unwell sleep, her head was dizzy, her chest was very tight. He looked at the clock at 06:00 AM local time, then immediately got up from his bed, looked at the window of his room, looked at the trees blown by the fresh air that morning, Zovita recalled her decision to stay in the village.

'Here, I set a hope. Forgetting the dark memories that continue to plague my life, I want to breathe the air without any pollution. Alan are you really who I think you are?'

Suddenly there was a knock on her bedroom door, Zovita turned her head and opened it.

"Vita, bi Wati has prepared breakfast. Comeondown!" invite bi Wati to widen her smile.

"Is Sofie still around?" ask Zovita.

"Sophy? already went to see his grandmother, because all night he felt guilty not to go back there," said bi Wati with a confused look.

"I took a shower first, just got off" said Zovita, who closed the door again.

'There is something that makes me unable to leave this place, I will not allow you to live happily in the suffering of my son.'

Accidentally, those tearful circles fell on bi Wati's cheeks, her gaze full of ambition. His innocent and simple face, turned into a terrible person, bi Wati slowly went down the stairs, while continuing to wipe her tears, the shadow of her past appeared in her head.

The events of the past few decades that made her have to bear the shame, because she had been pregnant and gave birth to Sofie out of wedlock, everyone sneered at her and she was exiled by her family, then received at Zovita's grandmother's house like family because bi Wati also worked long at the house.

"Well, why daydream?" Sofie awakened her mother's daydream that was still standing under the stairs.

"Sofie you're back? did Grandma scold you for not coming home last night?" bi Wati asked as she wiped the remaining tears on her face.

Sofie shook her head, "No. Is mom crying?"

Bi Wati took Sofie to sit at the table, then scooped the fried rice onto the plate that was in front of her.

"Well, did something happen?" Sofie is still curious.

"No, mama's just worried about you." Bi Wati passed to the kitchen after preparing the fried nasu for Sofie.

"Don't lie, I don't like it. Is there anything that makes you sad?" Sofie asked as she bribed the fried rice into her mouth.

Sofie did not hear her mother's advice, continued to continue her food, Zovita appeared shortly while staring at Sofie who devoured fried rice seriously, like a starving person.

"Sophy? your mother said you went to Grandma's house" Zovita said, then sat in the chair right in front of Sofie.

"Just for a minute" Sofie said briefly.

"It looks like you're really hungry." Zovita scoops food onto a plate.

"Certainly hungry, I worked all day at the cafe and then when I came home was tired, did not have time to eat," said Sofie who continued to devour her food.

Zovita responds Sofie just smiles.

"You probably won't feel like me, because you don't have to work hard to get something right?" Sofie looked at Zovita with a cynical look.

Zovita had not had time to bribe the food, putting the spoon he held back on the plate.

Bi Wati clearly heard what her daughter had said, silent for a moment looking at Sofie at the dinner table.

"Sofie, something that you think is fun, not necessarily fun for others." Zovita explains to Sofie, then devours the fried rice into her mouth.

"But, Vita. If I'm in your position I'll be happy to have everything, what no one else has, you have," Sofie chirps, leaving Zovita uninspired to eat the food, although it was very delicious but what Sofie said made her stomach suddenly full.

"You're right, Sofie. I would also be happy if in your position, I would not feel ashamed and hate my own body," timpal Zovita then put a spoon on the table then he passed by in a hurry to the stairs.

Sofie was silent for a moment. Seeing Zovita passing like that, a little makes Sofie feel guilty because Zovita must be so because of his words.

Bi Wati immediately walked over to Sofie, standing beside her, Sofie looked at her mother while taking a breath, "Did my words upset her?"

Bi Wati shook her head while shrugging both of her shoulders.

"You just continue eating, and then get ready to go, didn't you lose your phone? we buy a new one," said Bi Wati while cleaning Zovita food that is not finished in the meal.

Sofie laughed happily at that.

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