
For extroverts and fearing ghosts like Caramel, solitude is something he avoids the most. Especially last night Caramel watched the Empty Man - a supernatural horror film released since December 4. The reason Caramel watched the movie late into the night was because he had trouble sleeping. Any sleeping position becomes uncomfortable because the stomach is getting bigger. After spending 1 movie he was finally able to sleep in Rafka's arms.
Caramel turned her head in feeling that someone was following her as she passed through the deserted corridor of the apartment. Caramel just bought a taichan satay not far from her apartment for dinner. Caramel remembered Rafka would eat noodles before going home so she would spend 2 servings of satay herself.
"How to watch Semalem." Caramel muttered to himself while touching his nape with goosebumps, like there was a wind suddenly blowing towards him.
Caramel hurriedly entered the apartment and closed the door, every time he watched a horror film he must have become more parno and easily hallucinated. But strangely, he never saw a horror movie again and again.
Caramel moves the taichan satay to the plate along with lontong and sambal, plus lime which adds a fresh flavor when eaten.
"Wake it first." Caramel closes the satay with a saji hood and steps into the room. He took off his clothes and replaced them with bathrobe.
An afternoon ritual that Caramel almost never misses is a soak. Don't forget to light his favorite aromatherapy candles and music. It looks like he will miss this bathtub after going to Bali, as luxurious as any hotel bathtub will not feel comfortable as at home.
"Hopefully Rafka is not stray." Caramel closed her eyes immersing her body inside the soft foam hugging her. He has taught Rafka how to use google maps when looking for a place. Rafka said the map drawing was familiar to her but Caramel continued to teach her husband how to use the app. "Also what's up cafe is not far from here."
Caramel laughed to himself as Rafka's figure flashed in his mind, even though he closed Rafka's eyes still seen— mastered his mind.
Anyway, I can not live with a stiff person, kudet, innocent, or whatever the name is.
Don't tell me that, who knows your husband will be like that
It is not possible, next month I married Rama.
Give you a hand!
Caramel recalled her conversation with Kayla one month before her wedding day with Rama. And now Caramel is married to that innocent, scabby and stiff. At first Caramel thought he would not feel at home but Rafka's naive attitude actually made him fall in love.
If asked what Caramel likes most from Rafka then he will answer his innocence. And most importantly Rafka never lies. Rafka is like a rare species that Caramel must protect against extinction.
"Rafka species will not be extinct because soon I give birth to a new generation." Caramel rubbed his belly wrapped in a bathrobe.
Caramel stared at her reflection through the bathroom mirror, how could she be this happy to see her increasingly bulging stomach. Unlike before marriage Caramel will exercise heavily in order to maintain his flat stomach.
Caramel combed her hair while a small humming following the strains of the song that sounded from the small sound in the corner of the bathtub.
"Ahh pake fell all of you huh." Caramel stomps her feet against the floor as her comb slips off the handle until it falls to the floor. It used to be something that was commonplace but since Caramel's stomach was getting distended, he was very upset when the item he was holding fell.
Caramel lowered her head to grab the comb on the floor with great difficulty, something that used to be so easy to do now that it was impossible for Caramel to do without help.
"Eh Rafka, help me grab my comb dong." Pinta Caramel when someone hugs her from behind. "Where's the noodle?" He re-enforced his body because there is Rafka who will take a comb for him.
"Not good?" Caramel asked once again because Rafka did not answer her question, instead, tightening a hug on her stomach. "You why the hell from yesterday hugging her so fast?" Caramel was about to turn around but the embrace was so strong that she was helpless. Caramel's body stiffened at the reflection of the hand of someone who was holding her.
Caramel's face turned pale, he was sure this person was not Rafka then who? his heart was pounding, his hands clenched tightly to the point of trembling.
"We'll see you again."
The voice was familiar to Caramel's ears, how could he forget someone who had until now been the greatest trauma to him.
"You haven't changed at all, don't you dare close the bathroom door."
"Why did you get in?"
Caramel's question was answered by the sound of booming laughter that echoed throughout the bathroom. Caramel screeched as her body twisted swiftly to face someone who had dared to embrace her. Rama?
"I said you'd refuse my help yesterday."
Caramel stared intently at Rama who was somehow in front of his eyes now.
"I waited a long time to get in here without a hitch." Rama smiled obliquely as Caramel stepped back away from him. "It's not as hard as I thought."
Caramel clutches the sink behind him, not knowing Rama's intention to break into his apartment.
"When it was your birthday, I offered to help and you took it for granted, I knew right away that the entrance pin to this apartment was really easy."
Caramel remembers that time Rama helped her carry Jane's belongings into the apartment. Caramel never thought that at that time Rama had another purpose, namely knowing the access pins in his apartment.
"You're not satisfied with my cheating and now you want to disrupt my household too, you know." Caramel scolded Rama while pointing at the face of the man who acted as if he had no sin.
"I can't spare you Car, I still love you." Rama took a step forward to make Caramel retreat.
"Gue does not care about your feelings, which obviously now stop disturbing my life, consider again at ease your sins all this time the same me."
"My sin let God take care of me, now I only want one thing from you." Rama stepped back.
"Not from here!" Caramel shouted and retreated to hit the wall. Now he can not dwell when Rama cupped his chin.
"You don't know how frustrated I was at that time, I was kicked out of the house because Adena was pregnant and failed to marry you, even I've never tasted these lips." Rama kissed Caramel's lips forcefully which of course received a strong rejection from the woman.
Caramel tries to push Rama's body but his strength is nothing compared to the man. Clear crystals flow down Caramel's cheeks as Rama gives her a hot, disgusting kiss.
Your insolent! You fucking jerk!
Caramel bit strongly on Rama's tongue which entered his oral cavity.
"Ahh shit!" Rama cursed to end the one-sided kiss if he did not want his tongue to break.
During Rama's carelessness, Caramel immediately ran out of the bathroom looking for his cell phone to call Rafka. Caramel checked the dressing table, nightstand down the pillow but did not find the thin object.
"I can't run anywhere." Rama laughed not far behind Caramel.
Caramel ran into the dining room, she remembers putting her cell phone there. His hands were trembling looking for Rafka's name in the last call.
Caramel pelted Rama with whatever was in front of him, ranging from a serving hood, plates, glasses, jams container to a bread knife.
"Stop stop!" Rama was overwhelmed to avoid the goods that Caramel threw.
"Hello." A woman answered Caramel's phone.
"Hello hello, Irene this is Irene right, I'm asking for Rafka to come home right now I beg Irene!" Caramel cried until her voice faltered.
"I'm not Irene."
"Please anyone, I need help telling Rafka to come home right now I beg you." Caramel's gaze focused on the taichan satay that he had not eaten a single one, there were no more items on the dining table for him to throw.
"Rafka ain't there, no more in the toilet."
"Rafka hasn't come home from the office yet?" Caramel doubts that Rafka hasn't come home yet because it's past work hours.
"Rafka same me again at what's up cafe, we really enjoyed the food."
Caramel closed his eyes, he did not care about the woman's story, he just wanted Rafka to come home soon.
"Have you forgotten my voice?"
"I don't care who you are, I want to talk to Rafka."
"I'm Elsa, don't interrupt our meal." The connection was cut off just like that before Caramel replied to that sentence.
Caramel threw one last item left at the dinner table. Sambal satay taichan hit Rama's clothes along with the plate that fell to the floor split into several pieces to make a loud sound.
"Where is Rafka you who can't do anything about it? try calling here." Rama laughed as he approached Caramel.
Caramel's phone fell, she had no hope. Why at a time like this Rafka did not go home.
"You don't know how hard it is to find your moment alone at home, even I'm willing to pay a lot for Joni and Anna so they want to stay here without you."
It turns out that Rafka's suspicions against Joni and Anna have been true all along. They had other intentions of living next to them. Why did Caramel innocently accept them as neighbors and new friends.
"Rafka almost never let his beautiful wife alone in the apartment, you are always surrounded by parents, he said, your in-laws and your two best friends were until I had to wait a little longer but I knew today was bound to happen, it was my lucky day." Rama grinned.
"From the beginning you were supposed to belong to me Car, no one can belong to you but me."
Caramel's body was wet with sweat, tears mixed with water droplets from her hair that had not been dried.
"Aware Ram, from the beginning we should never meet, our relationship should not be established, our meeting is just a misunderstanding." Caramel moved slowly around the dining table as Rama stepped towards her.
Rama nodded, "i don't agree." He followed Caramel around the dining table.
"From our meeting, I should have met Rafka instead of you."
"That means you're destined to see me."
Caramel shook his head as Rama got closer to him, running away towards the balcony through an open glass window. Rama only laughed because wherever Caramel went he would still get it.
"Oh my God!" Caramel stopped when her body hit the balcony guardrail. He can't go anywhere anymore.
"You choose to fall from this eleventh floor or make love with me?" Rama gripped Caramel's hair firmly, he did not want to play around with the woman who had once been his lover. "I don't ask for much, once or twice is enough again soon Rafka will come."
"Don't, I don't want to!" Caramel yelling.
"According to the article I read, women will be better in bed when they are pregnant."
"My mom please, don't gini." Caramel biting her lower lip held back the crying even if it was just a waste.
"Enough, I don't want to negotiate with you anymore." Rama lifts Caramel's body and throws him on the living room couch. It's getting darker eyes seeing the Caramel bathrobe slightly open.
"Buck fuckin' wow!" Caramel pushes Rama's body with his feet.
"Let's make this easier, don't bother yourself." Rama grabbed the bathrobe rope wrapped around Caramel's body and pulled it, he held Caramel's hands together and held her back.
"Let'soo!" Caramel closed her eyes screaming as loud as possible even though it did not help much because this apartment was soundproofed.
"I didn't ask for much, just once." Rama grinned at Caramel's neck and down to the chest that was slightly visible because he had removed his bathrobe rope. But before Rama managed to give a kiss in that section, someone first pulled him from behind strongly.
Caramel opened his eyes to find Rafka had thrown Rama's body to hit the wall.
"Damn you!" Rafka shouted, he pulled Rama's shirt to stand up and threw his fist repeatedly on his face and body mercilessly. "This time I won't let you sleep quietly, you should feel the coldness of the prison floor."
Caramel hastily picked up her bathrobe strap lying on the floor and put it on again.
"For instance, Ka." Rama raises his hand begging for mercy for Rafka to stop her blow.
"How dare you say that!" Rafka clenched his hands tightly and punched Rama in the face until blood spurted from his nose and mouth. "But you can't die now."
Rama's body hit the wall once again and slumped to the floor, no resistance at all from him. His vision was blurred but he kept trying to open his eyes as wide as possible.
"You must rot in prison!" Rafka straightened Rama's body and punched him again, this was deserved by the man who had dared to mess with Caramel.
Rama was in the phase between conscious and unconscious, he could no longer see clearly.
"One more time you dare touch Caramel, you'll be finished in my hands." A hard fist floated on Rama's right cheek to make the man stagger unconscious.