Should We Divorce?

35

In the first second Ares woke up from his sleep, the first thing he did was grimace squeezing his hair. His head hurts so much. Pulsating.

As his petals slowly opened, he realized something. This was not a room in his house, but in the office. What's up with him? Why did he wake up in his office like this?

Ares intended to stretch his body, then he was amazingly surprised to find the back of a woman was sobbing next to him.

Holy hooch! What happened to her?! Why does he sleep with another woman and-****!- is he bare-chested?! As he remembered last night he finished a meeting and met a--

Good Lord! Carnation!

Is this woman Carnation?! Is that really him?! But...why is she crying?! What the hell is going on?!

With hesitation Ares touched the woman's arm wrapped in a thick blanket. "Uhm... S-sweet...heart? Carnations?"

Anye hurriedly shrank her tears and stopped crying. He squeezed the thick blanket and held the sob.

"Why you?"

"No. I-i'm gapapa. I'm okay."

Ares' throat up and down indicates the man was completely blocked. He's speechless. That's right Carnation. Carnations.

It felt like talking, but Ares was muffled with confusion. Confused what to say. Confused about what happened. Honestly, he doesn't remember a single thing about last night. But Anye's tears of pain seemed to lead the opinion that something was wrong. Something's wrong here. Even though he was not sure what mistake he made.

"Anyelir. ap-what was last night we did...

"Stop, Tr. Please don't be put away."

"Why?" whispered as thin as the wind. "I just want to know what happened last night."

"Nothing. There's nothing."

"So nothing happened, why are you crying? Please, tell me. I. I'm not...

"You don't remember anything because nothing happened. Thats it."

Ares swallowed his saliva again. Anye's statement instead of making her relieved, even more makes her feel guilty. Waking up to bed naked next to a crying woman is not something that can be ignored just by saying it's okay. It's obviously nothing.

"Look at me, Sweetheart. Please."

Hearing Ares' soft voice even more to make Anye tight. Her tears are shed again. The woman shook her head slightly by biting her lower lip.

"Sweetheart, please. We need to talk."

"There's nothing to talk about" he whispered. "I told you there was nothing."

"You see me. This is not how we talk. We're talking right, huh? Okay?"

Gently, Ares pulled Anye's arm to face her. Twisting that skinny body was underneath. Their views meet. Ares stared fixedly at Anye's two watery and slightly puffy eyes. Now he really feels like a jerk who just raped a girl.

"Anyelir, did we do that last night? Did we last night..." Ares tergugu's. I don't think it's worth saying that. "Am I.. forcing you?"

Anye quiet. Just quiet. And Ares is getting unsettled because of that.

"K-kalo is yes, say yes. Honestly with me. I-I don't remember what happened last night. I need your explanation."

"Well I said yes, what would you do, Res?" Shoot Anye who created a small circle in Ares' mouth. Stuck him with surprise.

"I... Carnations, i..." Damnit damnit! Why so nervous! "I'll take responsibility if you get pregnant."

Damn, Antares! What kind of nonsense is that?! Pregnant?! Ck! I don't know! No other words appeared in his brain other than that word. At one time, in this kind of position - sleeping together with the opposite sex and the woman crying - was that all you were afraid of? Afraid of being left without accountability?

Anye researched the earnestness inside Ares' eyes. Tested how much confidence the man had. But just as he had expected, only doubts appeared there.

"It's not that easy. How's your wife? No wife would accept her husband having children from another woman." His voice was somewhat challenging. In my heart it was incredible.

Quiet again. Long enough. Even very long. Ares Gagu to answer this question. He's confused. It's very difficult. Then, there was a long sigh of Ares as he closed his eyes. "I'll divorce him."

Cracks.

Both of Ares's eyes were open. What is that sound? Ares spontaneously took his distance from Anye and turned around. Right in front of the bedroom door, there was Serena who stood up with watery eyes and her shocked face. Hold tight the doorknob. Apparently the sound was the sound of the doorknob moving because it held Serena limp.

"Serena?" Ares muttered no less surprised.

On Ares' side, Anye sat herself down with a blanket over her exposed upper body. Kontan alone, Serena's gaze turned to him. And practically, Ares's heart beat gets harder.

"Sorry." Serena's scales vibrate. Then, his figure disappeared leaving the door.

Ares with his mouth half open, immediately jumped from the bed snatch his shirt on the floor. He ran stuttered while having trouble fishing. Serena's figure had already run quite far. It's in front of the elevator and pressing a button there is impatient.

"Serena. Wait for. Just a minute."

Serena was frightened when she saw Ares approaching. Panicking that the elevator door was not open, he decided to leave the elevator. Continue running. Not forgetting to increase speed. Turn towards the emergency stairs, then slam the door hard. The fool tired of going down 20 floors. All he knew was he just wanted to run away from Ares as far as he could.

Ares's voice echoed from outside, and when Serena looked up, Ares had already entered the emergency staircase.

"Serena. Wait." Wait."

Things are getting worse like in the movies. Ares and Serena race down the stairs. Serena seemed to exert all her strength because Ares took big steps through two stairs at once.

"Serena wait! A minute!"

Whether because of panic or because of the scream Ares, Serena so lost concentration to misplaced the feet and--

"Yeah..."

Ares held Serena's hand that was about to be slammed down. He pulled his wife's body up to stand in front of him. Save him from danger.

Ares' worried raut was incredible. Serena's face flushed in shock.

"You're a gapapa, Serena? Is anyone sick? Is there a wound?" cecar Ares without pause. "Where is sick? Where are the injuries? Say the same ak-----

Realizing who the person in front of her was, Serena took a step back and gently swayed the arm that Ares touched. Spreading the distance that made Ares stare unwillingly as if begging Serena to continue to be near him.

"Serena..."

"Please don't come after me anymore." Serena let out her voice.

Ares shook his head weakly. "Serena me...

"Don't. Don't explain anything" he whispered. "I don't know if I'm capable of shitting it or not."

"But...

By swallowing all her pain and disappointment, Serena pushed something from the moment she squeezed in her grasp. He opened Ares's hand, and put it in his. "I quit."

After a while, Ares looked down at the test pack on his palm. Again Ares repeat, test pack! And there appear two red lines that point to a positive sign. I don't know for what reason, but Ares felt himself choked. There was an invisible hand strangling his neck. Ares was unable to say anything, not even to raise his eyes. It is like having your own world.

While on the other hand, Serena continued to look at Ares as if saying that the figure of the man she would no longer see. His heart whispered this it was time he left the man. His heart said enough. Just forget his desire to bring Ares back. In fact, the man had gone too far. He can't ask for any more.

Serena walked backwards with endless tears. Whether not realizing the footing was exhausted or indeed no longer care about the situation, Serena's legs slipped backward and fell plummeting.

Body's rolling. The pain immediately attacked him violently. He closed his eyes. No power to scream or just whimper. His head throbbed and a long shrill opened his ears.

Before his eyes closed completely. He looked up there Ares was wide-eyed and shouted his name out loud. 

"SERENA!!!"

...• • • • •...

If there is something Ares hates most in this world, the answer is certain; the fear of losing those he loves. Scraping the gurney containing the unconscious and bloody Serena everywhere was not what she had expected, even in a nightmare. Let alone seeing the blood flowing from his thigh to the limit of his legs. His fear seemed to be spanked to the maximum extent.

Son-to-be. Their child candidates.

Ares was sitting limp on a hospital bench after Serena was taken inside the examination room. Rubbing his face rough full of regrets and bad thoughts that pervaded his mind. He forgot the last time he was this frustrated, but it felt really excruciating.

She chanted, prayed, bounced herself with words; Serena must have survived, our son must have survived. As if, anything he expected in his heart was capable of soaring into the seventh heaven and being heard by God up there. And hopefully, God will kindly whisper the same words in the ears of Serena and their future child who is struggling in there.

After half an hour of waiting like a lost person, Ares immediately moved after the door of the room opened. Approaching a female doctor who treats Serena.

"How's my wife doing, Doc?! How is my son?! They're fine, right?! No one was seriously injured, right?!"

"Your wife is safe, sir," the answer does not necessarily make Ares relieved. The doctor's tone still hangs like there is something he wants to convey again. When viewed from his regretful face, it seemed like it was not good news. "But I'm sorry, we can't save the fetus in the womb."

Without excuse, Ares's tears slid. Dropping one drop at a time, making everything he saw blur unguided.

"The collisions that patients experience are too harsh. It cannot be faced by a fetus that is just a matter of weeks. In cases like these, the chances of survival are very few and also rare. I tried as hard as I could, but God wanted something else. Again I am sorry and very sorry for that. I'm so sorry, sir."

After being left behind, Ares found a wall to hold. But in fact, he fell to the floor. Sitting there with the saddest look anyone has ever seen. Letting his entire soul and body fall apart immeasurably.

It's a lie, right?! It's a lie, right?! Please someone tell me this is a lie!

His body trembled violently while clenching his two hands tightly. She cried. His face was like an unstoppable sea of tears. Isakan who keeps gliding from his mouth as if telling the whole world that he just lost his life, his hopes, and everything.

I don't know how many compact tears gathered in his eyes. The sadness he felt was inexplicable. Can't be counted just by how many tears she had. Her chest hurts so much. A dagger seemed to skin him slowly, deliberately.

Good Lord! Why?!!! Why?!!!

He roared in his heart. Screaming as loud as he could there. Expose the anger and disappointment that blend into one. Asking, is God so selfish that He can separate a child from his parents?!

What should she tell Serena? How did he deliver this sad news? It seemed, facing Serena alone she was unable to. He has no face anymore.

Serena, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Sorry for hurting you so much. Sorry for being the cause of our son leaving without having seen it. Sorry for apologizing too late.

Sorry, Serena.

...• • • • •...

The footsteps of someone clad in black sports shoes looked hurried. His footing was wide as if he could not wait to reach the place he was headed. Several times the shoes squeaked when they had to brake suddenly because they accidentally nudged people.

With a single push, the hand managed to open a room. Kontan, the steps stopped. The grip on the doorknob strengthened anxiously after what he saw inside there.

Ares who was sitting waiting for the consciousness of Serena, turned his head in disbelief at the guest who came to him. Wondering in the heart should that person come at such times? When he was grieving like this?

Leaving the chair he had occupied for about 1 hour, Ares walked over to meet the man. The traces of sadness were still clearly drawn on his face, as well as his slightly adorable eyes. But, especially the person he was looking at, he was trying to show the highlight as unfriendly as possible. Let him know that his presence was not expected.

"Gapain loe come here?"

Reno-the uninvited guest was-clenched her hand in her anxiety. If only he had not known this was a hospital and Serena was lying limp in there, he would have beaten Ares with all the strength he had. Fortunately Ares because he prefers to swallow his anger again. But, don't blame his sharp gaze because his eyes can't lie if he so cursed Ares.

"What do you think I'm doing here if it's not for Serena?"

"Loe's seen him now. I don't allow more than that."

"On what basis do you forbid me?"

"Gue her husband Serena if you forget."

"Once upon a time the man who caused him to be there if you forget." Press Reno.

Ares was stunned for a moment. This guy reminded him again of that. Anyway how did he know. Fucking reno!

"To the point what do you want now?" Cetus Ares's.

"You talk to loe. Allowed?"

...• • • • •...

In the hot hospital garden during the day, Ares and Reno look at each other with torches in their eyes. The scorching sun had nothing to do with the heat of the situation of the two humans. Both have continued the hostility. Very fierce. Trying to kill each other with a deadly spotlight.

"Congratulations, Antares. A very remarkable achievement could make his own wife hurt until she lay weak in the hospital."

"Gue doesn't need an outsider's voice to comment on my household matters."

"No outsider knows as well about your household problems as I do."

"Don't act like you know everything when it comes out of your mouth is just bullshit."

"Where would you like me to tell you? From the beginning until the end I know," Reno's gaze froze. "Even I know you just made your child-to-be not able to see this world before he was born."

"HEY!" Ares pulled out his index finger at Reno. "Take a mouth loe! Don't you dare talk any more than this, or I'll forget all the boundaries."

With his flat attitude Reno defiantly. "How did you feel when you discovered that fact? Offended? Getting angry? Feeling jerk?" then he tightened his jaw. "Yes. Because that's what you, Antares. Goddamn bum! Loe is the most jerk I've ever known. No husband is more a jerk than you."

"I told you not---

Reno removed Ares's index plan from her sight. "Before today I always felt I was the most jerk in Serena's life. I promised him to keep it together, invited him to live together, gave him hope, and by our wedding day I was leaving just because I was pursuing a career..."

"...but, Antares, today I know that the title of jerk is more suitable for you. If I only give him disappointment, then you give him suffering, betrayal, and also endless wounds by indirectly killing your future son..."

"...what's wrong Serena is actually the same loe? How big of a mistake was that until you retaliated this badly? Is this just because I suddenly entered your life? And you misunderstood that?"

Ares's voice turned somewhat surprised. What does Reno mean by that? Does he know about that?

"Yes, Antares. I realized that your anger was coming from my return. Loe inget, the day I went to your office that time *(part 20)? There you indirectly explain everything. Loe made me realize that you clearly misunderstood my closeness to Serena..."

"...gue does not know if I am late to realize it or not. But maybe I should have realized earlier, so all this is not too bad. I should have known what you said at the camera store *(part 13), or better yet I should have seen your anxious gaze when we were at the coffee shop *(part 4)..."

"...honestly, I came back here for Serena. I intend to bring him back with me. That was my thought when I didn't know he was married. And when I found out he was married, I once asked him to have a diem-diem relationship *(part 10). Yes, I was very stupid and overconfident. Because apparently, he rejected my offer outright. He doesn't want to..."

"...and you know what Serena has made of me, Antares? Serena says she loves her husband. He wants to keep your feelings. Instantly, my hopes were shattered when I saw that love in Serena's eyes. I stopped hoping for more of her. At the time, I knew that Serena's love was no longer mine, but belonged to the man she had been trying to love for five years and she finally managed to do it."

One more fact makes Ares more irregular heartbeat. Either because of shock or because of too much disbelief.

"In order to heal my heart from the rejection of Serena, I decided to return to the UK after my career. Before that, I had to come to your house to say goodbye to Serena *(part 17). But as it turns out, you can also meet the bonus child loe," Reno smiled faintly at the thought of the day. "A adorable boy who apparently also likes superman like me..."

"...right on that day, after saying goodbye and apologizing to Serena, and before I went home, I had no idea what Serena's husband was like, so you know how to look at your wedding photos in the living room *(part 17). And you know the first thing that came into my brain at that time? I'm directly aware of the incident at the camera store*(part 13). Where I saw you with another woman at the time. That's why I came to your office tomorrow *(part 20). I want to make sure that my bad thoughts aren't real..."

"...surprisingly, you look like you know me, Antares. Loe's eyes look cynical as if you hate me so much and have a personal vendetta. There I began to guess, and from the answers loe I could immediately catch if you misunderstand me and Serena. At that time I want to straighten out if you misunderstand me, Serena and I were never as close as before, we pure temenan..."

"...even at that time, I intend to tell you if Serena loves you. But I don't think that's my right. Serena has more right to express her own feelings..."

"...be it since that day I am determined to make you understand and not misunderstand again. I want Loe and Serena's household to improve..."

"...loe inget, the day Altan was kidnapped *(part 25)? He may have told me that he was taken away with a man with black glasses, a hat and a mask," Reno noticed that Ares' eyes were suspicious of him. "Yes, as you thought, that guy was me. I'm taking Altan away."

The light of Reno's confession made Ares round his eyes in anger. He labeled Reno's sweatshirt collar roughly. "How dare you!"

"Silent. I had no bad intentions at all for Altan. Like I said, I just want to help you fix your household. I have no other way. All that came to my mind was to bring together loe, Serena, and the woman to see how you reacted. I took Altan to the park near the woman's apartment. Deliberately left him there because my spy said the woman always ran every morning at half-seven..."

For some reason, Reno paused. Want to assess how Ares' reaction will be as well as prepare again the word he will convey.

"...Carnations, after coming from the camera shop, I met him again in Serena's office *(part 23). Serena says she's the model. I immediately realized that Anyelir was a girl that I saw at that time loe same in the camera store. I was honestly confused at the time. How can Serena who is the wife of Loe, can be one workplace and very familiar with Carnation which at that time I thought loe's affair..."

"...from that moment I found out who he was, what his background was. And as it turns out, Carnations are just loe's best friend. She's been living abroad for a long time, maybe that's why she doesn't know that Serena's your wife. And let me guess, you certainly don't know if Carnations work at your wife's place. That's why you were very surprised when Anyelir came to the house nganterin Altan and talked to Serena. It's also why Anyelir looks angry when he finds out that his boss' husband is Loe, Antares."

Ares growling. "How can you loe---

"Gue was watching your house back then. I want to know what my plan is like. And apparently, everything went well. You finally know each other. Except Serena..."

"...since the beginning I knew Carnations were good. That's why I knew this would affect him. And it was proved by his resignation from Serena's office *(part 27). She also decided to leave her apartment that day. Ninggalin loe, leave this all. The cruelty is evil indeed, but I'm as if he's gone. That means the chances of you with Serena to turn again more wide open. And I saw for myself the results when Loe and Serena returned friendly on the balcony of your house *(part 28)."

"...I'm stupid, I feel you guys are safe. I thought you two were living happily again. I did not expect that one day Carnations could come again and destroy everything. Yesterday afternoon, when I was going to Bali for a photo exhibition, half dead I was shocked to wriggle Carnations at the airport. He returns. He's back, Antares. I don't know why I feel his presence will have a bad effect on your household. That's why I asked my spy to watch him again because I really can't cancel the event in Bali..."

"...semalem spy I told you that Anyelir came to loe's office. At that moment my feelings started to feel bad. And this morning, my spies ran again... Serena. loe brought it unconscious and bloody. For God's sake, I regret leaving for Bali. If you knew it would be like this, I would have stopped Carnations at the airport yesterday..."

As before, Reno faced Ares' shock calmly. He lowered Ares' grip on his t-shirt slowly. Staring at the man who had made Serena so devastated with a disappointed look that he never aimed at anyone.

"...what the hell are you doing, Antares? What do you do with Anyelir and Serena can be like this? Not enough revenge? Not enough of all the suffering you've been giving? Should I add this too? Should by forcibly snatching that fetus? Your baby?..."

"...Serena loves loe. He loves you very much. Why can't you price that love a little bit? Why are you never grateful for that love? Everyone wants to be in the loe position. All men want the love of their wives as much as the love Serena gives you."

Reno swallowed her saliva as if she had been in the pain of Serena all this time. Regretting her failure makes Serena happy again. Wanted to curse Ares and beat him until he was as hurt as Serena.

But this is the reality that is happening now. He could only be silent imagining everything that had happened.

"Gue has no more words to describe how much anger I have as loe, Antares. Loe's crimes exceed the limits of humanity..."

"...Once again congratulations. Congratulations to all who have done to Serena."