
"May I know his name?"
Arief asked with hopeful eyes. Lia seemed to think before finally her shoulder slumped and replied.
"Name's Luna"
"Ohhh. So this is your girlfriend. And you have kids?"
From their left side, the sound of Nia's sudden voice caused them to choke. All of Nia's movements and sentences sounded filled with emphasis and emotion. But Arief could see how fragile and wounded Nia was from her sullen eyes.
"More.."
Arief took off the kitten in his hand and called out to Nia while approaching. But Nia retreated, she felt like she was not touched by Arief.
"I don't think I'm wrong. So this is the overtime you mean for a month"
"No. Lia and I have nothing to do anymore. L'm... I just want to see my son Nia. Sorry..."
Arief said with his head down regretfully. Lia simply fell silent with confusion in place. Then his eyes caught a light from his phone.
Holy hooch! So surprised by the figure of Arief, it turns out, his call with Edi was not interrupted. Lia feels cold sweat. The phone quickly put it in his ear.
"Hello m-"
Too late! Edi's car braked suddenly and was parked randomly nearby. Lia saw her husband's car coming at high speed. He knew there was something serious he was going to face.
Edi came out and slammed the door of his car hard. His jaw line seemed to harden, his eyes were also sharply glazed with anger. With a hunting breath Edi stepped past Lia, approached Arief and then clenched his collar.
Bugh!
Not one, but two, three or even five consecutive hours hit Arief's face without a fight. Both of their wives tried to break up. Afterwards, without a sound Edi pulled rough Lia's hand into their house.
Whatever was in front of him and on Edi's table slammed. Lia along with her cries tried to stop, but Edi did not stop.
"So Luna is not my son. You crazy lia! You-"
The argg! Edi growled without continuing his sentence.
.....
"The boy can stay here. But certainly not as before. Don't expect me to behave like I used to. He stays here but nobody cares about him. How's it?"
And besides Edi-Lia and Arief-Nia, it was also a bitter night for Luna. The day she was first hated for no reason by her parents. Lia agreed solely because she did not want to separate from her two daughters
* * *
Arief held back the suitcase Nia was handling.
"Even if someone has to go. Just let me. I'm going back to Bandung. Again forgive me"
Said Arief with tears flowing unbearably by him. The suitcase he took from Nia who was still standing frozen with her tears still breaking.
Arief restyled Nia's clothes back into the closet and changed the contents of the suitcase with her clothes.
"Please see yourself well. Sorry for the wounds I have given you. But this time I'm honest Nia, there's no intention more than to see my son there. But still my way is wrong, and that's also the result of my mistakes first. Excuse me. Sorry"
Hhhh... Arief breathed his heavy breath.
"I love you"
That was Arief's last word before leaving. And the last word he said to Nia until finally they were completely separated.