MARRIED

S2 - Feelings

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"What's wrong?" zach asked as he rubbed Eowyn's hair sitting next to him.

Ever since receiving a message a few minutes ago, Eowyn seemed annoyed and occasionally grumbled. So that makes Zach who is driving become curious about the thing that makes Eowyn upset.

"Here, Zahra said she went home because of the brother who told her to. But even at home, my brother was busy playing games."

"Rayyan did it?" zach said in disbelief. "Are you sure there's no love between them, honey?" Zach chimed in with a smile towards Eowyn.

Eowyn was silent for a moment, trying to remember how Zahra had been interacting with her brother all this time. He said there were no irregularities in their relationship. As Eowyn recalled, Zahra once told her brother about meeting his ex-lover. But Eowyn found no jealousy in Zahra.

"You think so?" Eowyn asked Zach.

Zach who was focusing his gaze on the traffic that was quite crowded nodded confidently to answer Eowyn's question.

"Why do you have such thoughts?" Eowyn demands Zach to provide the clearest possible explanation.

"Zahra is indeed Rayyan's PA, which means Zahra is entitled to know about all of Rayyan's personal life. But, if Rayyan's sick and sends Zahra home just to get Rayyan to play games, I think Rayyan's in need of Zahra's attention."

"Need...attention?" Eowyn tries to accept Zach's explanation. If it was true that his brother had been paying attention to Zahra, why did Zahra not tell him once.

"I'm a man too. When I put Rayyan and you as Zahra, maybe I will also tell you to come home for various reasons related to work. The goal is only one, even though I am sick and have to rest at home, I can still see your face all day at home."

"But since when? Zahra never even told me or asked about my brother."

Zach smiled again as he rubbed Eowyn's hair. "It's about feelings, baby. We do not know exactly when these feelings arise. We just know the feeling gets bigger every day."

"I'll have to ask you for an explanation later."

"It's not so, honey. I. I'm just afraid that later Zahra's brother is dating, something continues to happen with their relationship, then it will also affect our friendship. Do you know how much I'm with Zahra? I can't imagine that until it happens."

"Don't think too far like that. I know Rayyan quite well, she's not a person who likes to mess with a relationship. She's so grown up too. You are calm because Zahra is close to Rayyan, because Zahra is in the right hands. That's why yesterday I didn't want to make Rafa bet, because I'm sure Rafa will get married."

Somehow after hearing Zach's long explanation, Eowyn began to be able to leave Zahra to her brother. He knew very well his brother was such a good man. Rayyan is not only a big sister figure that she can rely on in everything, but is also always ready to sacrifice to be her protector.

"Hopefully their relationship was not as complicated as I had imagined, because Zahra had always closed herself down just because the man who always approached her was from family."

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Rayyan entered her room after a few minutes ago Rafa had just left to drive Zahra home. Staring at an agenda book on his desk, Rayyan realized that Zahra seemed to forget to include the agenda book he had issued earlier.

On purpose, Rayyan opened the book to treat her curiosity. It seemed like Zahra had just bought the book when she was about to start working with him. Rayyan noticed the handwriting of Zahra who recorded all the explanations of Mr. Hendra, the results of the meeting and even the deadline of his work.

Unsatisfied with what he had seen, Rayyan kept turning page after page of the book. Tucked some of Zahra's personal notes there, such as the amount of money that Zahra spent to shop for his personal needs. Until finally, Rayyan stopped on a note that made her smile expand widely there.

I don't know when Zahra wrote it, which Rayyan is sure if Zahra wrote it after their trip to Bandung. Zahra linked the tulips she received at graduation to her date that night. Zahra did reject him, but with this writing Rayyan believes that Zahra is trying to analyze how serious he is.

Rayyan recalled Zahra's expression this afternoon when she said she was learning to be a husband for Zahra. The blushing face that he covered by closing the room door in a hurry, turned out to be quite deep. Afterwards, Zahra even seemed timid to be nearby. And even worse, the girl did not dare to look at him. Zahra was so brave to him.

"Let's see who will give up first, Zah." murmured Rayyan while closing Zahra's agenda.

Moving to lay himself in bed, Rayyan reached into his phone from his shorts pocket. Rayyan opens her gallery album and searches for the folder she accidentally hid. Observing the photos of Zahra there, Rayyan was happy to have succeeded in copying the photo from Zahra's phone carried by him while in Bandung.

Rayyan smiled cynically, remembering how she had to let her pride fall in front of Rafa in order to get help to melt Zahra's heart. In the past, Rayyan so confidently refused to be in touch with Rafa especially for love problems.

"It's not just an obsession, Zah. I know it's a feeling of being in love even though I haven't felt it for a long time." Rayyan muttered again as she continued to observe Zahra's photo on her phone.