Love of a Substitute

Nikayla

"Honey," said Dev smiling from the mirror.

Kayla turned around, she only replied with a wry smile. The woman stood up from the position that was originally sitting on the dresser chair, she welcomed Dev who had just returned home.

Kayla fixed her sleeping kimono ties, then returned her husband's embrace with a face save tanya.

"I'm sorry I didn't return your message today, I was busy helping Papa's business so that I couldn't tell you, who did you come home with?" said Dev behind the embrace.

Kayla smiled slanted, for what reason he had not asked, it turns out Dev lied first about this afternoon.

"I get it, I'm going home with Susan" Kayla said slowly. He was lazy to argue which would make things difficult for himself.

"Have you eaten?" kayla asked to switch the conversation.

"Actually it is, but I will eat again. Wait for me to take a shower for a while" Dev replied as he kissed Kayla's cheek before heading to the bathroom.

Kayla knew the fact that Dev would always appreciate her cooking even though the man had dinner outside. And that warmed his heart a little.

Kayla was so busy with her thoughts that she was unconscious that Dev was sitting at the dinner table while she was busy preparing her husband's dinner.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? I don't usually see my wife shut up without blabbering as usual."

Dev stops Kayla's hand. The woman turned her head, long enough she looked at the face of the man's bath without blinking.

"If you're full, you don't have to eat anymore. If you want to appreciate me, it doesn't have to be like this" Kayla said ambiguously.

"What are you talking about? Where I may be full, I'm always hungry when I come home."

Dev ignores Kayla, but eats what his wife has prepared on the plate. Kayla could only remain silent without refuting.

"Bang Dev."

"Hmmmm," said Dev as he continued to chew without burden.

"Don't want to tell me anything?" hook Kayla who started couldn't help herself.

"Say what?" ask Dev over a drink.

"Something you're hiding for example?"

Dev coughed.

"Something what?"

"Something I don't know is possible" answered Kayla.

"Nothing," said Dev continuing his meal.

"really?"

"You don't believe me?" Dev took his wife's hand.

"Come on," answered Kayla turning the other way.

The conversation at the dinner table was enough to make them quiet each other when in bed, Dev hugged Kayla as usual, sleeping like the previous nights.

But their hearts and minds no one could guess. Kayla chose not to ask clearly about what she saw this afternoon, or Dev somehow because he chose to silence about what he did day to night before returning to the apartment.

The next day, Kayla and Dev go to campus as usual, only that there is no meaningful conversation between the two, inexplicably Kayla does not talk much.

On campus, Susan and Rania take Kayla shopping at the end of the afternoon. The three left campus after Kayla got her husband's permission to go to the mall.

But have not yet reached the mall as their destination, they first stop at a house that became the third big question, namely the house of Nikayla, their long lost friend is now rumored to have returned home.

After thinking for a long time Kayla obeyed the advice of her two friends so as not to continue to be curious about Nika's return without them knowing.

"Well, let's try to figure out Nika's truth today" said Susan, who had stopped in front of the fence of Nikayla's mansion.

Kayla just puffed her cheeks a sign of annoyance at Rania.

"Here you go, let's go in!" take Susan after getting permission from the security guard.

Kayla is nervous, this is not the first time they visited Nika's house during a friendly, but this time it is too different feeling than before.

Whether ready or not he has to meet Nika this afternoon, so that his heart is not always bad to think of Dev if he has seen the truth of Nika in front of his eyes.

Who would have thought, they were warmly welcomed by Nika's parents when they visited, as they had not changed.

"Auntie is ashamed of you guys, Nika shouldn't have been hiding all this time. But Bibi asked for her understanding not to be easy to become Nika, she was so bad when the doctor's verdict was just the day before her marriage to Dev."

The three friends were silent to the chronological explanation that was the reason Nikayla ran away from marriage, not pregnant and running with other men like gossip but running from the reality of the disease he suffered to be ashamed to marry.

Psychologically disturbed to be a strong reason Nikayla stress and depression to cause null marriage at that time. The girl who is the same age as Kayla chose to run away from marriage because she felt inappropriate for Dev.

"Breast cancer?" kayla muttered softly. Rania and Susan both heard stories from Nikayla's mother.

Madam Anita nodded, "Yes, Nika feels inferior if she marries Dev in pain, which is where doctors suggest having to remove the malignant tissue so Nika must lose one of the organs of pride of a woman."

"Nika's depressed, she doesn't want surgery. He also does not want to disappoint Dev that he is not the perfect girl again if you continue to get married. Nika was quite tormented by the decision of the doctor who said there must be surgery, there is no other way," continued Anita while shedding tears of sadness.

Kayla and her two best friends could not hide the shock of what Nikayla's mother described.

"Bi, can we meet Nika?" asked Kayla to vent.

"Of course, son, now Nika's situation is much different. Grateful there are relatives who say if there is a line of treatment without surgery, and we tried to cure Nika without surgery decision, for that Nika disappeared for a long time because she had to go to Malaysia. And now he's home with the recovery stage."

"Let's take Aunt to her room" Anita asked kindly.

The three of them turned to each other before nodding then following Madam Anita's steps towards their best friend's room.

"I'm nervous" Kayla muttered with a chest that was pounding violently, for some reason she was becoming weak at this moment. Hearing the fact Nika is sick enough to make her feel guilty towards the girl, she feels that she has taken Dev now.

"Calm down, everything will be fine" Susan said, clutching Kayla's cold hands, as Rania rubbed her best friend's back.

The door to the room opened. Their eyes meet, Kayla and Nikayla.

"Darling, look who's coming!" madame Anita exclaimed to her daughter.

Kayla approached, followed by Rania and Susan.

"Nika," said Kayla, she welcomed the hand of the girl who smiled at her, a girl who was still beautiful despite her pale face.

Nikayla was surprised, her three best friends came. Nika shed tears as she hugged releasing longing on her three thick friends since the beginning of the lecture.

"Sorry, you must be mad I'm missing without word. I miss you guys, really," Nikayla said in her crying voice.

"We won't be angry if you're honest at first, why bear it yourself, that's not fair" Kayla said.

Among the three, Kayla was the one who cried the most over the meeting. Somehow he felt evil to Nika, he had been so bad to his best friend that he seized Dev without thinking.

Lady Anita left them without interrupting.

After quite a stale reaction, Nikayla grabbed Kayla's hand.

"I already know everything, Aunt Lolita already explained to me between you and Bang Dev that day."

Kayla suddenly misbehaves, Rania and Susan turn to each other.

"You know Kayla's the one who replaced you at the sewer?" cetus Rania without stale bases.

Nika nodded.