RUMI: The Love of a Paralyzed Man

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"You believe me, don't you, Vi?"

"Yes, I believe you,"

"I'm gonna do it tonight, but tomorrow I'm gonna go see Mama and your Papa, and then we're gonna get married."

"Rumi lost her memory seven years ago due to a case of abuse. Rumi's legs also become paralyzed, but there is still hope for Rumi to walk again. It's just, Rumi never wanted to go to therapy."

"So please persuade Rumi too so that he will take therapy and start walking again. Rumi is also entitled to be happy and marry a girl, then build a household."

A gal?

A girl and not a one-child woman who has been in an unclear relationship with Rumi. Not even Rumi's friends and family knew anything about Vivian having been Rumi's lover in the past.

"Mom!" The rebuke from the bus conductor disperse the reverie of Vivian.

"Where are you going?" Ask the conductor while giving a bus ticket to Vivian.

"Last terminal, sir!" Reply Vivian stammered. Vivian just remembered that she didn't have a penny in her pocket. There was only one cell phone he had brought that contained evidence of Erick's affair with the maid jal*ng in the Attala family. How'this?

"That's a hundred thousand, Ma'am!" Said another conductor who suddenly immediately made Vivian kneel at her feet.

"Sir, I don't bring any money. Please don't put me down now! My son is sick and I have to see him" Vivian pleaded with a teary face and teary eyes.

"I have a cell phone. My phone is for Dad! But please don't put me down!" Pinta Vivian again showed her phone to the conductor.

"Can't be so-" the conductor did not continue his sentence when he saw Vivian's slightly bruised face.

"More victims of the KDRT, huh?" Ask the conductor.

"Yes, my husband almost killed me just because I asked for money to go home and see my son. So I ran away with nothing. There's only this phone" Vivian said, showing her phone again to the conductor who now feels sorry.

The conductor sighed and offered Vivian a ticket.

"In the meantime, Sir!" Vivian said as she unpacked her phone and pulled out the memory card and simcard from inside the phone. When finished, Vivian thrust the only phone to the conductor sir.

"Later down at that hospital before the terminal, yes, sir!" Order Vivian once again.

"Yes!" The conductor replied before passing from the front Vivian.

Vivi looked back at the window beside her and the woman sat down hugging her knees.

"Mom's coming home in a minute, Archie!"

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The sun began to infiltrate the windows inside Vivian's room. Rumi herself had not closed her eyes for a second since she entered this room. Rumi was still hoping Vivian would just go out of the room for a little while either looking for something or doing something. But until the morning, Vivian never came back.

What did Rumi do to that woman?

Rumi should have believed in Vivian!

Rumi should have listened to Vivian's explanation and didn't believe Erick Baj*ngan's words!

Rumi pushed out her wheelchair from Vivian's room, as the man accidentally passed the maid who had just come out of the kitchen.

"Good morning, Mr. Rumi!" Courteous maid greetings. Rumi's eyes squinted as she accidentally found a red spot on the maid's neck that was almost covered by her collar.

The sentence of defense from Vivian flashed back in Rumi's mind. The man did not respond to a greeting from the maid who seemed to have lied and made a false testimony. Rumi immediately went to a room that since yesterday was unthinkable for Rumi to check on.

So stupid!

Rumi was still paying attention to the screen that contained some CCTV footage that was in the house. The footage that leads to the kitchen is a little strange as it only features a blank white screen. Someone seemed to have turned the camera around and pointed it at the wall.

Other footage shows Erick coming from the kitchen. It was a few minutes before Vivian knocked on Erick's door, and Alsya caught Vivian in Erick's room.

Then Erick did go to the kitchen before Vivian to her room carrying a plate filled with food....

Goddamn bum!

Erick had indeed deliberately sent Vivian into his room. It wasn't Vivian who deliberately teased Eric!

But why would Vivian go to Erick's room? Hasn't Rumi repeatedly reminded the woman to avoid Erick? Vivian and Erick are...

Various kinds of guesses continued to flicker on Rumi's head, and made Rumi groan because his head seemed to want to explode now!

"Rummy! What are you doing here?" Mami Lily's reprimand instantly made Rumi shocked.

"Just checking some footage. This is why the CCTV that leads to the kitchen only looks at the wall, Mi?" Rumi asked as she pointed towards the kitchen CCTV.

"really? Mami rarely checks because our house is safe so far," said Mami Lily while checking the CCTV kitchen appointed by Rumi.

"It looks like someone's been tampering with it" muttered Mami Lily after seeing the awkwardness on the kitchen CCTV.

"Mami should fix it because Rumi is a little suspicious of the maid at home" Rumi said before the man turned his wheelchair and was about to get out of the room. But for a moment Rumi remembered Vivian who had suddenly disappeared. Rumi came back again and checked the front yard CCTV.

"Mommy and Papi came home at what time last night?" Asked Rumi whose hand was still busy playing the CCTV footage of the page.

"Through midnight. About an hour and a half or two. Mami went straight to bed" replied Mami Lily with a small laugh.

"Vivian invisible tumben. You locked her in a room? Or is he not awake?" Mami Lily asked next full of questioning along with Rumi who finally caught the figure of Vivian sneaking out of the gate, along with Papi Juna's car that came.

Vivian looked wry and seemed to have intended to run away secretly. Why would Vivian run away if she was innocent?

"Rumi, where's Vian?" Mami Lily asked once more to the son who looked dreamy.

"Go," Rumi replied briefly as she ran her wheelchair out of the room leaving Mami Lily.

Vivian shouldn't have run away if she was innocent and never did anything Erick and the maid charged at home. Or maybe Vivian did?

Rumi's heart suddenly became worried now.

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