Picking Up the Past

Debt Budi

‘Yes God, is it time for me to choose, who I should choose, whether I should choose the person I love, or the person I fear to leave if I leave

Mila was still silent at the thought of it all, while Arya could only rub her face frustrated at not hearing the answer from Mila. He really did not understand at all with the girl who was currently silent petrified in front of him.

Arya then stood up, and again the fear penetrated into Mila's heart, “where are you going?” asked Mila with her worried tone.

“I want to sleep, I'm tired, do not go into the room” said Arya flat without looking at Mila. He must indeed rest now, from yesterday he was so tired of traveling far, plus last night he also did not sleep, it was time he gave a little time for his body to rest.

He actually wanted to sleep in his small rented bed, but seeing Mila's attitude, maybe it would waste his energy again, because he was sure Mila would not let him go just like that.

Arya immediately went inside the room, while Mila saw it all could only waste a rough breath, she was disappointed with herself who still could not to choose, ‘ya Lord, she said, why does my heart have to be like this, why is it so hard for my heart to choose Arya, whereas I was so afraid of losing herMila's inner’ lamented her.

Half an hour Mila just looked blankly at the door of her room, the water that Arya gave was finished she drank, she then stood up to clean her glass and Arya's glass that was still on the table. Mila washes the glass still with mixed feelings, happy feelings because Arya has returned, the feeling of sadness because Arya survives only because she holds the secret about Indra and the feeling of disappointment because she has not been able to choose Arya with her heart.

Mila stared for a moment at her hands that had been soaked by soap foam, ‘what now I have to learn to do all the homework, all this time I was spoiled by the maid in this house, she said, and now the homework is done by brother Vanessa alone, maybe with this I can be a good wife for Arya’

After finishing washing those 2 glasses, Mila then stepped towards the stairs to unwind her on the 2nd floor because Arya forbade her from entering the room, her heart felt tired after fighting with her feelings since Arya came back, her heart felt tired after fighting with her feelings, but he had not yet stepped towards the stairs, his eyes staring in the direction of the door of his room. There was a feeling of worry he felt, ‘how about Arya leaving again while I sleep on top?’.

Mila then undoes her intention, preferring to go into her room even though Arya has forbidden it. When he entered the room, he could see Arya who was sleeping soundly, ‘you must be tired yes, yes, your sleep is so good her inner’ that looks deep into Arya's calm face enjoys her sleep.

Mila then went up to her bed and joined lying next to Arya, she looked back in Arya's face, then she smiled to see that face ‘ finally we can sleep in bed like this, like this, I even begged you to sleep with me, but you always rejected me’ the inner Mila who smiled bitterly remembering what had happened to them.

Mila was still staring in the direction of Arya's calm face, she then raised her hand to hug Arya again, but had not yet happened, Arya's phone was heard ringing near her sleep lamp.

‘who the hell? disturbed aja’ inner man Mila snorted annoyedly, she then took Arya's phone to immediately pick her up, she did not want her husband's deep sleep disturbed by the voice of the phone.

When the phone was in his hand he narrowed his eyes and looked at the name that appeared there cynically.

*

Rita has just finished cleaning her house, she has a routine activity with her husband to clean the house together every Sunday, the next activity is to watch a movie with her son and husband, she said, routine activities that he used to do with his small family to spend time with family on Sundays.

Her husband was busy turning on the TV and choosing the movie they were going to watch, while her son was sitting next to Rita watching her father work. Rita momentarily opened her phone to wait for her husband to finish with his work. Rita opened her chat app, and started browsing through some of the incoming messages.

His eyes then glanced towards Arya chat that had been ticked blue, ‘what Arya has returned?’,,

Rita then immediately contacts Arya and puts the phone in her ear, Rita gasps in shock because her husband pulls the phone that has been stuck in her ear suddenly. “this is the time for the family, not for work” said her husband had sat next to Rita, her husband knew Rita called Arya because he had glanced at the screen of his wife's phone.

“mass, Arya seems to have come home, I have to contact her immediately to arrange a meeting with the people from Hardi corp, they always urge me to the meeting”, Rita said to her husband.

Rita's husband takes a deep breath, Rita is always open to him for all problems, including work problems. He knew Arya had disappeared for 3 weeks which made his wife always put on a tired face every time she came home from work. Every time Arya left, his wife would definitely have to finish the work many times more than usual, what else Arya disappeared 3 weeks like that, his wife's work must have piled up a lot, his wife's work must have piled up a lot, plus the company's declining condition due to the loss of Arya, he knows all too well, because they work in the same office.

Rita put her phone back in her ear.

“Assalamualaikum, what's your sister calling my husband?” asked Mila with her cynical tone which Rita snorted in annoyed breath at hearing that, ‘why did she lift anyway?’

“walaikumussalam, where's Arya? why are you lifting?” rita replies with annoyance, which leaves her husband confused.

“my husband is sleeping again, do not disturb him” said Mila still with cynicism that makes Rita even more upset,

“if Arya is awake, tell her to call me” replied Rita, she then turned off the phone and threw it irritatedly onto the sofa next to her.

“why dear?” ask Rita's husband, who was surprised by what he heard. Rita looked at her husband.

"not to be discussed mas, lazy I discuss the person” replied Rita ketus, he was still carried away his regret on Mila.

“wife Arya who picked up the phone earlier?” ask Rita's husband who already knows if Arya is married.

Rita is indeed open to her husband, she tells all her problems to her husband without anything she hides in the slightest, to him, she tells him, it is better to be open than her husband should know from the mouths of others about his problems with the Dakarsa family, her father's problems in the Adinata group and including Arya and Mila's marriage made her feel uncomfortable to work with Arya.

“If you are not comfortable anymore being Arya's secretary, you just stop, let me talk to her”

“no mas, I promised to work for him while he needed me, he saved my mother's life, and gave me and my mother a better life as they are now, if it wasn't for her help, maybe I would have lost my mother, and I would have been the woman***** out there, and you would never have loved me like this, she said, my life was not comparable to what Arya gave me”, said Rita who began to tear up told me that.

Rita's husband hugs his wife to give her peace, he knows very well what kind of good Arya, among Arbi, Ari and Arya, only Aryalah who seems most sincere to help her employees who have problems, Arya said, as well as the most friendly greet every employee in his office.

Next to Rita's husband their 2-year-old son just glanced confused at his parents' behavior.

Meanwhile, from the living room, Rita's mother who had just returned home shopping shed tears hearing it all, she understood very well the debt of her son to Arya, she even owed her life to Arya, she even owed Arya, if there is no Arya, maybe she can't see the world anymore, and somehow her daughter's life now, what else her husband also still has to spend a long time in prison, he could not imagine how Rita lived her life with such circumstances.