Mentari for Dawn

CHAPTER 16 - Concern And Doubt

But it seemed like he could not resist the call. Finally Fajar decided to raise it doubtfully.

"Yes Om"

"Fajar, are you still in Switzerland?" Ask Helmi across there.

"Mmmm..... Iy-iya Om" Fajar answered hesitantly because he gave an answer that did not fit the facts.

"How's your job there? Smoothly?"

"Alhamdulillah, all my work here is smooth Om. Oh yeah, what did Om call me?"

"So, right now Shreya's gestational age has entered seven months. Well, Tantemu plans to hold its seven-monthly event here, in Jakarta. How think? You agree no, with our plan?"

Dawn was filled with blank stares. It didn't feel like a month had the woman returned to Jakarta and left him. Her pregnancy has now been seven months. How is Zahra doing now? Surely his stomach is getting bigger with the age of the fetus, right?

Hearing about him makes the feeling of longing for the Dawn increasingly peaked, in women and babies in the womb. The baby he thought he was going to be a child. But destiny does not say that. The woman had gone from him when her feelings were already very deep.

"Hallo Dawn. Dawn, you're still there, right?"

Dawn was shocked when Helmi made her voice again.

"Mmm, yes, Om, I'm still here. What did Om say?" Dawn asked in a daze. So stressed and raging his mind, he did not focus on hearing the middle-aged man's voice across there.

"Lho, the voice of Om is not clear, right? Your aunt wants to hold a seven-monthly Shreya event at our house here. She seems very enthusiastic about your wife's pregnancy. Understandably, until now his wife Rahul still has not met either. Did you know that this woman is also pregnant? We are pregnant with our grandchildren.

That's why Tantemu loves Shreya and your future son very much. Perhaps he felt he had found the figure of his son-in-law and future grandson on them. So what do you think? You agree no, the show was held at our house?" Helmi gave a long explanation.

Dawn could hear the sad tone of her words when she mentioned Rahul, her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Makes Dawn feel slapped. Guilt struck him, for he had lied to the man who had thought of him as his own son.

Somehow Om Helmi's reaction if he knows, that the woman and fetus in question is his own daughter-in-law and future grandchild. Either he should feel sad or happy, because the real facts they still do not know other than himself and Rahul.

"Iy-iya Om, of course I agree. Om just do what you guys plan to do for Shreya. Om and Aunty need not worry, I don't mind at all" Dawn replied blandly. He resigned to whatever they were planning for their son-in-law and future grandchildren they had been looking for.

"Thank God then. When did you come here?"

"I? Why should I go there?"

"Lho, how are you? Why even ask? This is a show for your wife and your future son. Of course, you have to participate in the show. After all, you haven't met for a month. Don't you miss your wife?"

"His busy you, cooking can't take a little time for your wife? After the show is over, you can go back there. Or the.... You two have a problem? How does Om feel like you're trying to avoid Shreya huh?" Helmi's tone of voice sounded like it was harboring suspicion towards her.

"Mmmm.... Not really Om. M-maybe it's just Om's feeling. Shreya and I are fine. We have no problem. Yes already, tomorrow I try to go there yes" Dawn assented Helmi's request hesitantly.

"Well, so dong. Yeah, you be careful, Om wait. Take it easy, Om won't tell Shreya about your arrival tomorrow. Let this be a surprise for him. Because she must have been very eager to meet you" Helmi said cheerfully and confidently.

"yes Om. Already yes" Dawn closed the voice call with a feeling of emptiness.

A miss? Could it be that the woman felt a longing while away from him? He was one hundred percent sure if that feeling never existed.

Especially now that she has returned to the side of her original husband, whom she loves very much and misses every moment. Unlike her who was nothing more than a third person among them.

Now Dawn is feeling restless on its own. He promised to come there tomorrow. And he couldn't possibly deny it, right? But what about Rahul? How does the man respond when he sees his presence at home later? Will he be angry?

Still fresh in his memory of the incident one month ago. When Rahul came to him with deep wrath. Accusing him of teasing and brainwashing his wife into forgetting her.

Even the man wanted to beat him up so much his emotions. So ready not to be ready he must give up, and return what is already his.

He did it all not for fear. Except because he still has a conscience. And the feeling of being a fellow man, which of course also will not be able to accept, if his wife is approached and seized by another man.

Dawn took back the bottle of drink she had saved when she had to answer a call from Helmi. He gulped the liquid down quickly to the toilet half a bottle. No matter what happens, he has to go to Jakarta tomorrow.

There was no other choice, he who had already started the charade to pretend to be Zahra's husband. So now he can't just run away from that connected scenario, until the woman's memory is healed.

What happens tomorrow, he should think about tomorrow. Including Rahul's reaction when he sees his presence there.

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The next day Fajar traveled to Jakarta, using his personal car. Throughout the journey his mind was jumbled between agitated, disappointed and happy.

He was happy because after a month had passed, he was finally able to meet Zahra again. The woman he loved and missed so much. But he was disappointed because he did not know if the woman would be happy with his presence.

Or maybe he even felt anxious, because his arrival could interfere with his friendship with Rahul! As well as Rahul's attitude which may still hold anger and negative thoughts, if he still dare to show his nose in front of his wife.

Huhhhhh... I don't know what drama will happen with his arrival. And he was already trapped and wedged in the scenario he had created himself. So now there was no other choice, other than that he remained in the drama that the ending would never side with him.

Dawn stared at the huge and majestic building with a hollow feeling. He entered the mansion doubtfully.