Not Ordinary Love

Is Love

Ethan kept running. Exiting the event building, his eyes circled in various directions with messy breaths. He believes that if what he sees is Zoya, Ethan feels so. The man ruffled his waist with the trophy still in his hands, momentarily confirming his sighing which left him exhausted.

Once he realized that what he was looking for was gone from his eyes, Ethan sighed resignedly. Could it be that he was hallucinating because he had long missed that woman?

One corner of the man's lips pulled upwards, he pityes himself who is constantly haunted by Zoya's shadow.

Is it possible that Ethan should completely forget about that woman?

Ethan quickly shook his head, unable to. It will not be possible, if he forgets Zoya, then there will be no other woman who enters his life. No one will be able to because Ethan won't open the entrance.

The man sighed before then turning around to return to the event venue. But when his body was right facing a fountain statue, the man momentarily petrified as his eyes caught the figure he had been continuously looking for.

A woman in black jeans and a black oversize hoodie was smiling at him with reddened eyes. He looked at Ethan longing, while the man before him was still standing. Still convinced himself if the woman in front of him was not a mirage.

"Ethan." the woman was only able to call out Ethan's name with a soft voice filled with deep yearning.

Ethan senses that time has stopped for a while, finding Zoya in front of him is like a dream. When Ethan believes that Zoya is real, Ethan runs up to the woman and hugs her body tightly.

The man's eyes were closed feeling his longing sip deeper as Zoya was in her arms.

Zoya just resigned in the man's arms. He can't even return Ethan's arms because Ethan hugs his tiny whole body in an oversize hoodie.

"I'm sure you'll be back, Zoya." said Ethan without taking off his arms, Zoya just smiled in Ethan's arms.

"But why so long? I was almost desperate." continued with a longing that sounded so deep. Ethan does not expect an answer, because there is nothing better than the return of the woman in his arms.

The media crew chasing Ethan out of the venue immediately took a portrait of him hugging someone. Some people who also came out of the event scene seemed to wonder who the person in Ethan–'s arms was some of them were Agyan, Freya, Rachel, Randy, Selin, among others, Edrin is also some of the staff of AE RCH and the Zoya fans.

They were clearly wondering and did not understand the situation, and the media were also present. They wondered, whispering to each other "Boyfriend Mr Ethan?"

"He gave up looking for Zoya?"

"Have she forgotten Zoya?"

"Now have you found a replacement for Zoya?"

"Who is that woman?"

"That's Zoya!" all eyes were on one of the members of the media who exclaimed that the person in Ethan's arms was Zoya. Then, two people who heard the commotion broke down a hug so that Zoya's face could be seen by everyone.

No one was not surprised there, everyone looked surprised at the sudden presence of the woman. Flashing blitz increasingly hit Zoya, Freya seemed to cover her mouth on the spot with a look of disbelief if Zoya really existed, her favorite daughter-in-law. Zoya is really back?

The media crew immediately approached Zoya. There are thousands of questions to ask the woman.

"Zoya what, how are you?"

Ethan immediately takes Zoya with him, leaving no distance between them.

"Good." Zoya says briefly with a smile especially when Ethan puts a hoodie on her head.

"How do you feel after winning the best female lead nomination again?" ask one of the reporters.

Zoya turns to the award trophy in Ethan's hands. "Happy, I'm so happy."

"Can you give me a longer response, Zoya?"

Zoya looked at her husband again. "My husband has said everything I want to say." he said. Zoya squinted at the camera that was lit and pointed at him, it felt he was quite foreign back to his own world.

"The motherland is so in an uproar after you disappear. The movie you star in is a huge success, even becoming the hottest topic tranding for a week. When it happened, did you know?"

Zoya nodded her head. "Give me your response Zoya!"

"I'm very proud, it's all because of the hard work of all the cast and staff, especially our producers and directors."

"As long as it happens, where are you Zoya?"

Randy codes Ethan to leave immediately. Getting Ethan to take her away from the media once a short interview for Zoya is enough.

"You've been missing all this time and where is Zoya?"

"You're hiding overseas?"

"Zoya, can we interview for a minute?"

"Zoya,"

"Zoya, there are a lot of questions you have to answer!"

***

"You know, you've been feeling so guilty and missing you so much?" freya says some time later when they are already at Ethan's house. The woman's eyes looked watery as she said so. He cupped Zoya's face with an unexpected look at the woman in front of him.

"Sorry Zoya, well, Mother."

Freya shook her head strongly.

Selin with Randy who was there also smiled happily. It seems, after this Randy no longer needs to face the drama that Ethan often creates every year miss Zoya.

"My niece is beautiful." Zoya looks hot on the baby girl Selin who looks so beautiful.

"Yes dong Aunty," Selin said with a gentle look at Zoya. Just like Ethan, Selin misses her a lot.

Zoya only smiles when she sees Selin's teary eyes. "You're evil as you are! Where have you been all this time? No word at all, make it a thought."

"Bak is afraid that you can not take care of yourself" he said expressing his heart. Zoya just smiled and hugged Selin, her fingers stretched out to wipe away the trace of tears on Selin's face.

"Don't cry dong, now you have children." ledek Zoya who makes Selin laugh with clear crystal in her eyes.

"Can I carry a sling?" ask Zoya later. Selin immediately nodded, handing her five-month-old baby to Zoya. Zoya happily holds the tiny baby, a baby she has only seen on her mobile phone when Selin occasionally posts it on social media.

The woman turned her head as Ethan stood behind her and put his chin on her shoulders, while his outstretched hand rubbed the cheeks of the daughter Selin and Randy.

"Zoya's." Selin calls the woman and shows her phone screen, Zoya sees it. A direct message, which goes to his Instagram account.

Hello Zoya, earlier, congratulations because our film was a huge success. Mm, I know this confession is embarrassing, but I can't run away from trouble. I have to take responsibility.

I admit what I did was wrong, which is why I'm at the airport right now to serve Mommy's sentence by returning to America, I don't know when I'm going to Indonesia again before there's a call from Mommy. But, its okay. No problems.

Zoya, I hope you will be glad to forgive me. I can't live my life well in America if you haven't forgiven me.

Zoya, wherever you are, may you always be bestowed with happiness.

Alexa, who was enjoying a glass of cofeenya in the afternoon, turned her head as a man sat next to her without permission.

"How about, my offer to make a return to Indo." he asked to the point.

Alexa only sighs, for three months he returned to America and once a month or even twice a month, Edrin often came to him and invited him back to Indonesia.

"My punishment isn't over yet, I can't fly into Indo before Mommy calls."

"Marry me and you're free from Mommy's punishment, how?"

Zoya laughed after hearing Selin's story after reading a line of apologies from Alexa. "How serious? They married?"

"If marriage were to be horrendous."

"means not?"

"Alexa is still selling expensive, even though Mbak believes he also has the same feeling Edrin."

"Waw, means Edrin's stuck in the friendzone?"

Selin nodded his head. Zoya just smiled, ignoring it and her eyes turned back to Selin's tiny face. While Ethan's hand still caressed the baby's cheek.

When Zoya's hand strokes the baby's cheek, Ethan touches her hand and holds it. Zoya just smiled, then she looked over.

"If it's Naina, how?" tanyakanya.

***

"Aren't you the same as me?" Rival asked with a face that kept leaning towards Naina. Making the woman who just finished pumping breast milk avoid her husband.

"Mas, I have to give you our son." Naina tries to avoid. "Yes, but I need you too."

"For a week I was abroad we never communicated if I wasn't the one who connected you first." the man grumbled.

"That's because I bother taking care of your son." Naina doesn't want to be blamed. As long as her husband was abroad, Naina never took the initiative to contact Rival first. He is not entirely busy because Vina often comes to visit him and help him care for the baby.

But because she was still the same as when she was not married to the man, Naina still often felt embarrassed and awkward at her own husband.

Rival smiled at his wife's answer. "Below there is Rafa" the man said later.

"Yes, he picked you up at the airport. Forgot?"

"Not that, I mean, honey."

Naina frowned, especially as Rival grabbed her plate and landed a sensual kiss on her cheek. "Mas–"

"No papa dear, our baby was taken care of by Rafa for a while."

"Mas Rival, this is his son." Rafa shouted from the ground floor, followed by the sound of baby cries that echoed filled every corner of the Rival house.

"No, right." Naina pushes on her husband's body and makes Rival sigh in disappointment as his wife prefers to go down the stairs to meet their child rather than fulfill her desires.

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