
"Hold son, calm yourself." Mama Wulan said as she stroked Rey's back.
Rey gritted her teeth, she took a deep breath and tried to control her anger, she had to stay sober now.
"What are you doing. Are you out of your mind?" Sir Raymon cried while withdrawing his wife's hand.
"Talk carefully, no need to be violent, he's your son!" Mama Wulan said with great emphasis.
"Who's the girl you brought?" Sir Raymon asked, his voice so shrill that it filled Arthur's room.
Rey was silent for a moment, she tried to digest Mr. Raymon's words, Rey really did not understand all these problems.
"Mala." Call Mama Wulan as if giving a hint to Rey.
"He's.." Rey hangs up her sentence, Rey confused to introduce Mala as what.
"Don't Arthur tell you that Mala is his girlfriend. Isn't that so, son?"
"Yes, she's my boyfriend." Rey said, she still does not believe Arthur will introduce Mala as her lover.
"You.." Mr. Raymon raised his staff again, but Mama Wulan immediately held her husband's hand.
"My back hurts a lot, please treat my back."
Mr. Raymon looked at his wife who was complaining due to his wooden stick.
"Dady's not done with you yet." Said Mr. Raymon as he brandished his wand right in front of Rey's face. Mr. Raymon took his wife's hand and died in Arthur's room.
Suddenly Rey felt very tired, she laid her body on the bed and drowsiness began to attack her. Rey couldn't help it anymore, and she fell asleep in the silence of the night.
**
After failing to talk to Mala, Rafli returns to the main house, he must ascertain how Arthur is in condition now, Rafli must also ask Arthur one thing, why the personality appears again, he hasn't shown up for a long time. Petra is the personality Rafli is most wary of. Petra has always described himself as a 28-year-old man, a great smoker, an alcoholic and even a drug addict. He was also very fond of fighting, even several times he had been caught by the police for beating thugs to battered.
The main house was very quiet, even some lights were turned off, fortunately the waiter there recognized Rafli so he was free to enter the house.
Rafli immediately went up to the second floor, knocked on the door before opening it. Rafli sees Rey lying on the bed. Rafli sat on the bed and looked at Rey's face. He was very concerned for his best friend, who would have thought an Arthur Bagaskara had this much suffering.
"You're coming." Rey said in a hoarse voice
"Sorry for waking you up?"
"What's going on?" Rey asked with a confused face. "I'm Arthur." Imbuh the man, he sat down and took the glasses that were on the nightstand and wore them.
"Petra showed up again and he hurt Mala." Rafli. "Do you remember what happened?" Rafli asked again.
"I just remember the candle burning the dessert cloth cover and then I felt dizzy, Mala helped me up." Arthur said, recalling the incident at dinner. "Then I hugged him and asked him to stay with me." Inwardly Arthur, he deliberately covered up the incident, he did not want Rafli to make fun of him for hugging Mala.
"Then?"
"I don't remember anything anymore."
"Raf."
"You remember something?"
"Check the CCTV in this room, I want to see what Petra's doing."
Rafli immediately grabbed his phone to access the CCTV footage. Arthur deliberately installed CCTV in his room, he wanted to know who would dare to enter his room without permission.
A few minutes later, Rafli had access to the CCTV footage, and he immediately gave Arthur his phone and played the footage.
The two men closely watched the tape, Arthur scratching his temple as it played a scene of him holding Mala and hugging her. Arthur still remembered Mala's scent that was so fragrant and something that stood out. Arthur shook his head trying to shake off his mischievous thoughts.
"Are you okay?" Rafli asked after realizing his master looked uncomfortable.
"My head is just a little dizzy." Arthur is lying.
"I'll apologize to her tomorrow." Arthur said after the recording was finished playing. "You rest in the guest room."
"Good sir."
Rafli grabs his cell phone lying on the nightstand, after greeting him out of Arthur's room and into the guest room. He was exhausted and wanted to rest immediately.
****
In the morning Mala and Lala were getting ready to go to work. Last night Mala decided to stay at Lala's house. Lala, who knew Mala well, chose not to ask her anything about last night's events.
When they got out of the house, a luxury car stopped in front of Lala's house. Mala let out a long sigh, she did not want to get involved with the car owner anymore. Mala pulls Lala's hand and leaves Lala's house as quickly as possible.
Arthur gets out of the car as soon as Mala doesn't want to see him. He soon caught up with Mala who was already far ahead of him.
"Mala." For the first time Arthur mentioned Mala's name correctly, usually he just called her hey, you and a fool.
"Mala." Repeat Arthur again because Mala did not stop.
Arthur runs and grabs Mala's wrist. "Something I want to talk about, come to my car."
Mala immediately brushed Arthur's hand aside, last night's events still left a great fear in his body. "What else sir?"
"I.i..." Arthur could not express his intention to apologize.
"It looks like you guys need some time to talk" Lala said who was aware of their situation. Lala plans to leave them but Mala holds her back. "Speak, solve your problems." Lala let go of Mala's hand which was in her arms, then she left the two of them to speak.
Lala approached Rafli who was still in front of his house.
"We meet again?" Lala said with a sweet smile.
"Hem."Reply Rafli briefly.
"Have breakfast?" Ask Lala.
"Hem."
"You want to be my girlfriend?"
"Hem."
"Yeee, so now we're dating."
Rafli put his phone back in his pocket, he was busy taking care of Arthur's schedule so he did not focus on Lala's questions. Now he looks at Lala sharply but the girl looks back at him and makes Rafli wrong level.
"So we're dating now?" Lala's Repeat.
"You're not my taste."Reply Rafli.
"So how can I be your taste?"
"You'll never be my taste."
"Be careful if you're crazy about me." Dengus Lala then he left Rafli and went back into his house
***
Mala and Arthur are still silent. Arthur took a slow breath, he was trying to get rid of his ego to apologize to Mala.
"On last night, I'm really sorry. I know that I didn't do it, but still I have to apologize to you for having my body come with me last night." Finally Arthur can express the purpose of his arrival.
Mala just shut up and looked down, she knew that Arthur was not the culprit, but still seeing Arthur's face made Mala remember the incident last night.
"I'm sorry." Arthur is standing in front of Mala. Although he was not a good man, he never touched a woman forcibly, and what Petra did last night meant that Arthur had to kneel down and ask Mala for forgiveness.
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