Tarnished On The Bride's Night

He Just Takes Time

That night, Alif could not close his eyes in the slightest. It did not feel sleepy at all as his head was filled with trouble. Even filling the stomach can not be until the morning is painful. But when he tried to eat, his stomach actually grew sick to nausea and vomiting. Not wrong anymore. His stomach ulcer and acid recurred so he decided to take drugs that are always available in his bag.

After wearing neat clothes, Alif knocked on the door of the lower room. Of course to say goodbye because he's leaving right now. “Ra .. I'm leaving, yes. Breakfast is on the table.” Not just a plate of fried rice, but also a note of his apology.

‘To my wife. Morning, Ra's. Don't forget breakfast ;-) love you.’

The only thing she has never done in her entire life is cooking. But he fought hard to be able to, just for the sake of Dara.  

After heating the car, Alif first headed to his uminya house to meet Vita. He does have business with him because Alif believes— to Vita, Dara can tell a lot of things.

“Eh, there is Alif Brick,” said Umi Ros was happy when she found out her son was coming. He was preparing breakfast with his art.

“Again, Mi. I love you,” reply Alif while kissing his umin cheeks.

“Have breakfast yet?” tanya Umi, but not yet Alif replied, Umi had expected it herself, “certainly already, yes. I have a wife now.”

Alif just nodded, while his eyes circled looking for Vita and Yudha because the two people were not outside the room.

“Who to look for?” ask Umi. “Your flight has departed.”

“Oh, Which vita?”

“Vita is bathing children. Why indeed? Tumben looking for your sister-in-law?”

“Yes, there's something I want to ask you, Mi.”

“In the meantime also down.”

“Looks old. Later in the afternoon,” he decided, then asked Umi to extend his hand, “Alif go first, afraid late.”

“Be careful on the road, yes, Nak.”

“Iya.”

After Alif left home, Umi Ros wondered for herself. He was so curious why his son was looking for Vita. There must be some important problem, he thought. But he is not the type of parent who likes to be in the business of people, even though Alif is his own son.

At lunchtime, Alif meets Vita at VY Cafe. After previously they were connected by phone that he asked her to have a meeting.

“Thank you already took the time to come,” Alif said as soon as Vita sat in front of him. He just came alone without anyone's help. Yeah, so did Alif know because Vita got off the cab.

“Iya equally,” replied the woman. “Why is your face so tense, there is a problem?” tanyanya pretends not to know anything because Vita has not understood, what purpose Alif asked her to come.

Alif clucked lazily, “Come on .. just go, Vit. Don't talk, surely you know it.”

“Ok, ok, alright,” said Vita sighed for a moment. “Because asked me yesterday, Lif. And all the evidence does point to you. But that doesn't mean I pumped it, not at all. I stay in the middle. Not taking sides here and there—if you are really guilty.”

“From whom Dara knows?”

“She investigated it herself.” Vita smiles. “Because angry with you?”

Alif nodded.

“If Dara gets angry, it means you are indeed ..”

“Yes, I did it,” cut Alif immediately. “Why? You're astonished? Or do you want to get angry after knowing I did it? Your best friend's rape racketeer?”

“Alif ... hold your emotions, Lif. I don't want to come here to judge your actions, I'm not a judge.”

“Because he asked to go home, he did not want to talk to me at all,” Alif said shortly.

“Begin, Lif ...,” says Vita very carefully. He tried to be an intermediary to bridge the two of them in order to stay connected. Because after all, he was the first person who did not want them to separate. There is always a way out, he thought. “You love Dara?”

Alif nodded. “That's why I chased him there.”

“I know that and only I realize now, that it turns out—this is the reason why you build a business there,” said Vita paused for a moment. “Now ... position yourself as Chandra, Lif. Suppose you were him, you loved Dara very much and you got married. But ... it happened the same; while you were waiting for Dara all this time, your wife was raped by another man the first night. What are your feelings? Angry ‘kan?”

“I'll kill that man!” spurt Alif immediately with great annoyance.

“But I already admit it, don't I?” ask Alif not to lose. Not feel himself the truest— at all is not. But he also felt he was not entirely wrong.

“Alif ...,” said Vita while shaking her head. “If you are in the position of Dara, you cannot possibly say ‘but I have already admitted it’. You've already raped her, Lif. No woman is raped and then happy, laughing happily. It's obvious Dara must be angry. It's lucky she's a strong woman. You should know, this action can make other people depressed, Lif. Because he has to accept the reality and the pressure. There are many cases like this in the hospital. And the healing is not short, it takes years.”

There is a pause before Vita continues, “Please you be patient, Dara needs time. Keep him small attention so that his heart can be soft again.”

“Until when should I be patient?” ask Alif. “Now he has asked to go home to his parents. I'm just waiting for the bomb to explode.”

“Now you're telling stories, yes. What caused you to dare to do this?”

“Ask, same Hilman why I can do it!” balas Alif. So that makes a man who paled suddenly kicked the table, BRAKKK!

“How dare you snap at my wife?!” he said with a burning anger. Inevitably, a punch landed on Alif's face so hard that the man fell over. BUKK!!

“Mas Yudha! STOP!”

“Shame you, shame family!” BUKK!! The back punch landed on his face without a fight. Alif gave up what was going to happen to his body.

“Already, Mas! Already!” Vita screeched and restrained Yudha's body so that the man would not repeat his actions in public.

But Yudha did not care, she still cursed Alif. “Adik does not know himself, has told your sister-in-law far to this place even you snapped. I'm just her husband almost never did.”

Alif smiling smirk, “Almost never do it but polygamy. It hurts a lot more, Bang .. uhukk! Uhukk!” he said while coughing.

“Come home, free advising stone like.”

“Mas, he didn't mean to snap at me earlier, he was just carried away by emotions,” Vita said defending him.

“From now on don't take care of their problems. Free. Alif is not a person who understands thank you.”

“Mas Yudha, that's his Alif helped first.”

“Do not be silly. There's no way I can help the person I just beat,” Yudha said thoughtlessly.

“Mas, please Alif ...”

“Rome, Vita, home!” Yudha took his wife out of that place. “No need to wander, you are not at home. Remember what the doctor said yesterday, don't be too tired.”

Vita rolled her eyes lazily. He has no power to fight his mission.

***

In the afternoon, Alif came home with a blue face. It feels very painful, even to just move the lips it feels unable. So he decided not to talk much this time.

‘This blow is not worth the pain that Dara and Chandra receive, so don't feel the most terzolimi, her inner’ says. Even he also had to be lucky because Chandra did not finish him. He's just hoping Chandra doesn't find out. ‘Ya enough God alone knows.’

But now his lips mengu lum smile, more precisely smiling withstanding pain. Because he found the fried rice dishes in the dishwasher was already empty. Means Dara wants to eat her cooking. Only then did he feel very happy.

‘I'll do more, for your sake, dower!’

Alif opened the refrigerator, he took an ice cube there to compress his own wound. Unbeknownst to him, there was a woman who was secretly watching him.

‘Agem who is he?’

“Awhh! Uhuhu .. fucking pain ...”

Hearing Alif repeatedly groaned to make Dara back inward, ‘Nah feel the consequences!’

***

Seriate.