
Time goes by quickly without feeling. Now Arana's pregnancy has stepped on the third trimester. Seven months pregnant makes Arana's stomach bulging, and sometimes Arana must have difficulty if you want to walk or move. The bigger and older the pregnancy, the greater the attention of those around her.
In order to keep Arana safe, Alva hires a housekeeper who stays in the apartment until Alva returns, and Arletta's frequency comes more and more often. But when Arana advises Arletta to stay together, Arletta refuses on the grounds of not wanting to interfere with Arana and Alva's time.
Arletta said that time with your husband during pregnancy is important.
And Arana admits that she is indeed quite often related to Alva. Because doctors say that having sex with your husband when pregnancy enters the third trimester is needed to prepare pregnant women for labor, and so as not to experience muscle tension or even the worst can have a heart attack because of the shock in labor.
"But it feels a little boring." Mumbled Arana who was sitting on the sofa, staring at her housekeeper who was opening the window so that fresh air could enter.
"Miss, have you drunk the milk?" Arana shook her head, "Not yet, bi."
"Then I'll make it for miss." The woman's words made Arana nod her head, because she would usually drink pregnancy milk at that hour.
Ting... Kegs...
Not yet able to enter the kitchen area, the art aunt turned around and immediately stepped towards the door. Arana turned her head and looked at the door, wondering who was coming. When aunt Art shifted her body, Arana slightly stopped her movements and stared ahead with a pair of slightly complicated beads.
"Selena?" Tonya.
Selena stepped in under the supervision of aunt art. Arana turned and sat down with aunt art before nodding her head and making the art aunt step into the kitchen and give Arana and Selena space to chat as she made drinks for the two.
"For so long as you don't meet, your stomach is this big."
Arana slightly lowered her gaze and her hands involuntarily covered her stomach. At first Arana already has an unpleasant first encounter with Selena, so with her maternal instinct, she subconsciously tries to protect the baby in her womb even though Selena does not show a threatening attitude.
"What are you here for?" Ask Arana.
Selena placed her bag next to him, sitting gracefully, with legs crossed and hands lightly interlocked. He glanced at Arana, letting aunt Art deliver the drinks to the two before returning to the other room, before he opened his voice. "Did you know that Alva has a sister?"
Hearing Selena's question made Arana a little surprised.
Alva has a sister?
Selena went on to say, "If you don't know it, then, that was a natural thing because neither Alva nor her parents had ever talked about Alva's sister in public since her death by suicide many years ago.
"What?"
"Alva's younger brother's name is Theo, Theo Mateas Erlangga. He's my best friend and best friend. In the past, we used to play together and he was the only place I could complain about the problems I was facing. You know, he's a very sweet and nice boy. He is very happy and he likes to joke. Anyway, he's very inversely proportional to the stiff and cold Alva." Selena looked straight ahead, nostalgic before saying, "But as a friend, I never knew what happened to her."
"What ... What happened to her?" Arana squeezed his hand. Actually Arana is not sure and not ready to hear such a story from Selena, but Arana must hear it.
Selena's a little down. "At that time, Alva and I were sitting in college. Early semester, when Theo was in high school. She came to me with the happiest face she had when she confessed that she was in a relationship with someone she had long liked."
"I think Theo really got his happiness and I'm really happy for his achievement. However, I never knew that there was the origin of all the bitterness and the origin of hatred growing in my heart." Selena.
"I never knew that Theo was getting ill treatment from his lover. The woman madly tricked Theo into coming to a bar, and Theo never knew it was a gay bar." Selena's words made Arana feel even more uncomfortable, she looked at Selena who was not looking at her and just stared blankly at the glass filled with pink liquid.
"The girl accidentally trapped Theo because of a game she played along with her friend. Theo almost lost his pride there, even when he was at school, he began to be nicknamed with a strange call and people looked at him with disdain. They accuse Theo of sleeping with an old school teacher so that Theo can attend school there, because they know, Theo is a poor boy."
"His life was completely ruined, and I as his best friend did not even know the sadness and destruction behind the smile he used to give." Selena smiled poignant and incense.
Selena rubbed her tears without being able to hold. "A innocent man like him, faced with a situation where as if the world hated him and threw him away made his mind disturbed. We were all busy at the time. Neither me, Alva, Erlan nor even her parents could pay too much attention to the changes to Theo. Even if we were a little aware, Theo's smile would clear our doubts."
Selena seems to stop preparing herself, as if what she will tell you next is the hardest part for her.
"That night he called me. We chatted, but because I was busy with my college work, he and I could not talk much. I began to realize that there was something wrong with her when I heard her voice break, as if she had swallowed thousands of pains all along."
"But when I realized it, he had already taken a terrible last resort. In front of our eyes, we found him lifeless in his room, with hundreds of tranquilizers scattered on the floor. There was a letter he wrote, with a writing filled with scribbles and vibrations as if he was in pain. Saying his apology for not being able to survive in a world too cruel for him. In a world so unjust to her, when she gives a sincere love to the girl." Selena says.
He looked up and looked at Arana who was in tears. "If you're wondering where I can find out, I went through all the places and gathered evidence that it's true that the girl who committed the cruel act told Theo. But I could never pass it on to anyone else, because I couldn't see what kind of expression Theo's parents would have."
Selena grabbed Arana's hand, squeezed it a little. "I never hated you. At that time, I really couldn't think of anything, other than the thought that I should protect Alva and couldn't let Alva end up like Theo."
"Because of me, I have failed to become an aunt, a friend and a woman who loves."