The Hidden Love

Barter

Several times the Sultan let out a long sigh, in his eyes the face of the wife who looked so pias.

He recalled the time when a doctor scolded him earlier, because he thought the Sultan was not good at looking after his wife. Hanum had just returned home from the hospital this morning, and had now returned to the hospital with a troubling condition.

The sultan massaged his temple, his head was throbbing again, he felt increasingly dizzy. Not even the household problem is finished, it has been added again with the incident this afternoon.

Hanum opened his eyes slowly, he hissed, feeling pain. This time it was not only his head that was in pain, his heart and his entire body were also feeling the same, aching.

" Mas .." he said.

" You're sober?" Sultan surprised.

" I'm thirsty." her voice was so soft, it was almost inaudible.

Fortunately Sultan saw the movement of his wife's lips, he immediately grabbed a bottle of mineral water lying on the nightstand. Pouring the bottle containing the straw to Hanum.

" It's been."

" You're still weak, you better rest. Sleep again, just." The Sultan helped his wife lie back down.

" There's something I want to ask."

" You can ask as much as you can, but tomorrow! now you better rest first. Your body is still very weak."

" No, I'm fine."

The Sultan understood very well that his wife was lying, the incident made him very shocked, to the point that the girl fell unconscious.

The Sultan breathed a long breath, prepared to think of an answer because he was sure, the question and answer session would start soon. His wife will certainly interrogate him about the events in the park.

" Is it true what you said earlier?" Hanum looked at her husband full of probing. "Is he really the culprit? the guy who sneaked into the apartment, first?"

Sultan nodded.

" Who is he? what caused him to commit crimes against me? i.... I still don't understand what's really going on?"

" He's her husband Mau ..." The sultan stopped for a moment. " He's the husband of that woman."

" What? Dion ... she .. she's the woman's husband."

Again, the Sultan simply nodded.

" Wait!" The Sultan remembered something. " Where do you know his name? do you two know each other?"

" Don't you remember when you got angry with me because there was a foreign number sending a message with a heart emoticon to my mobile number?"

" So he's that guy?" Sultan recalled when Hanum told him about the man, the man who often donated aid to the orphanage where he used to live in Semarang. " What kind of coincidence is this? lunatics! the world is really narrow. What of the many immigrants who stopped in Jakarta most people from Semarang?" The sultan grunted in annoyance. " There are still many newcomers who come here, why should we always meet with, huh ..." The Sultan screeched, feeling very frustrated.

" Why did he want to do me evil? I never felt wrong about him. And again, that incident was also a long time ago, while I had only seen it for about a month. That means ... He's been planning this crime for a long time?"

" It probably is."

" What I can't understand, why is he ..."

" I don't know either." Sultan interrupts. " What's the cause? why would he be so desperate to you."

" Hh ..." Hanum snorted, annoyed. " It's so funny."

" Already, don't think too hard. I'll find out later. The reason behind him doing all this."

" How can I sleep? what if he suddenly shows up? hurt me or worse, kill me?"

Seeing Hanum so frightened, dramatizing the events that were on his mind, made the Sultan chuckle.

" Why laugh? are you happy that I'm dead? you can be both equally perem ..."

" Sstt .." Hanum had not yet finished his words because the Sultan put his index finger in front of his wife's lips. " Don't talk carelessly!"

" Why is that? wouldn't you be happy if I died? you can be ..."

" When that bad thing happens, I swear to never get married again in my entire life."

" Liar."

" You don't believe me?"

" After everything that's happened, you still wish that I could trust you?"

" Hh ..." The Sultan did not know what to answer.

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Four days later.

Sultan who was talking with Adam was surprised by mbok Darmi who said that there were guests who came to meet him.

" Who's mbok?" tanyanya.

" The mbok also do not know den, only this first time the mbok see him?"

" Send me to come in. Mbok."

" Good den."

Adam looked at his friend, as if asking who had come, and the Sultan retorted with a flick of his shoulder.

Before long, Darmi comes back in with a man behind him.

" Please sit down" the Sultan said to the man. "Mbok, would you like to make a drink, please?"

" Good den, excuse me."

The sultan nodded, making sure the old woman's shadow had vanished from his sight. Afterwards, he turned to look at his guest, fierce.

Adam who saw Dion's face turning blue and swollen was surprised.

Waduh .. I lost until I did not see them fight. Again the winner of the Sultan, Dion bruised to such severe while the Sultan only his lips were broken. This child is still the same as before, will be a crazy lion when it comes to his possessions at the nuisance of people. Adam clucked inwardly, shaking his head in astonishment.

" I need to treat my wounds, and again, I'm ashamed to come out with such a battered face." replied Dion casually.

" Come, reason! I don't have much time, tell me! what do you want to say." said Sultan.

Silent.

Long enough, to make Adam repeatedly impatient. The man had finished his drink because he was tired of waiting for Dion who did not open his mouth.

" God, are you guys gonna keep quiet like that?" Adam raised the volume of his voice.

For a moment Dion closed his eyes, he exhaled strongly, slowly his mouth began to move.

" At first I just wanted revenge on you." - The man bowed.

" What do you mean? what mistake did I make until you dared to do that to my wife?"

" Mauryn, he never sincerely loved me, he just loved you."

" What? it's bullshit." The Sultan did not believe Dion's words.

" He had to accept my proposal because he was disappointed in you, he has long harbored a deep love for you."

" Stop talking nonsense." hardik Sultan.

" I'm being honest, I swear by anything that I'm speaking honestly right now. It's up to you to believe it or not, obviously, I just want to clear this up."

Sultan and Adam looked at each other, for more than ten years they lived together and engaged in friendship, both of them did not expect that far from the bottom of Mauryn's heart, Mauryn, it turned out that there was a love so bloated from the girl to the Sultan.

" He lived this relationship by force, making me an escape, hoping that by living with me he would get rid of his love for you." Dion gulped his spit, having difficulty talking about the thing that made his chest feel so tight.

" No way." sullen Sultan, he clenched his hand.

" Every day he goes by thinking about you, one day, I find a photo taken while you two are at graduation. The photo of you hugging, I accidentally saw it under the fold of Mauryn's shirt at that time." Dion closed his eyes before continuing his story. " The handwriting behind the photo made me realize that he had never loved me at all. There is only you who will forever be in his heart, until ever."

" How is it possible? why is this the story?"

The Sultan was completely inexhaustible with what Dion had just said, because Mauryn had been acting ordinary all along. Although the Sultan admitted that the girl was very spoiled and so attached to him, the Sultan thought that the attitude of the girl was based on a sense of loss of her parents. The Sultan felt that Mauryn needed someone to share his feelings, and at that time, among the four friends he was the closest to Mauryn compared to Adam and Reno.

" He decided to accept my proposal, after learning the fact that you love another girl. The girl you love so much, the girl who became your first love."

Deg.

The Sultan and Adam only looked at each other when they heard the shocking thing from Dion's mouth.

" I was angry then, disappointed, I felt my pride was hurt by his cold attitude towards me, he never even once tried to love me. After everything I've done to make her fall in love with me, no matter how hard it is, I never made it. And the peak, she gave up, left me without saying goodbye, without telling me. Now say! where's my mistake? you've been acting like I'm guilty of you guys."

It took nearly five hours for Dion to reveal everything in his heart. Dion deliberately told me everything, leaving no secret in his heart that would only make his mind tormented.

" Let's make a deal" Dion said at the end of the story.

" Huh?" the Sultan's forehead is wrinkled.

" At first I just wanted to take revenge on you, I thought I could do it through your wife. But it turns out .. I lost."

His words are still not understood by either the Sultan or Adam. The two men stared intently at one point, the person who was currently right in front of them.

" It turns out I'm in love with your wife, I'm crazy about her." Dion said the thing that made Sultan emotional. " Let's barter, you divorce Hanum, and I'll divorce Mauryn, in exchange for me marrying Hanum. I know you're married in an accident, I think that exchanging partners will make us live happily, not tormented like this."

Byuuurr ...

A glass of cold water managed to sultan spill on the man's face.

" The basic is insane! you think I want to follow your crazy desires? listen to me carefully. At any moment, I will never divorce my wife, we will not part, only death can separate us. You heard that!"

" Come on, don't pretend like that in front of me, I know your relationship isn't like a typical married couple. Your marriage is not healthy."

" fuckers! get out of front of me right now! man does not know himself, all this time I refrained from taking this case to court because I still have a heart, I do not want to separate a child from his father."

" Whatever you say, it won't change my will. I decided to keep going, I'll take Hanum from your side and make him mine."

As quickly as the Sultan rose from his seat, he clutched tightly onto Dion's collar with both hands. His emotions were truly already at their peak at this moment, his eyes flushed red withstanding anger. He tried to remain calm and not be provoked by Dion's every word but this time, his patience had run out.

He raised his hand into the air, preparing to deliver a punch to Dion but suddenly his hand was in a stranglehold.

" Stop!" he pushed Adam's body to make Adam lose his balance.

Adam fell down and fell on the couch.

" Stop!"

The sultan, who had taken a position to beat Dion, again abandoned his intentions.

" He's just trying to lure your emotions away Tan." Adam again blocked his friend's arm. " Hurry away! before my patience runs out, don't make me physically abuse you." Adam looked at Dion.

As if nothing had happened, Dion got up and walked away from there without any sense of sin.

The Sultan struggled, he tried to shake Adam's hand, was about to run after Dion and teach the brash man another lesson.

" Still calm!" snapped Adam. " He's just trying to provoke your emotions, you know that?"

" How can I calm down? he's openly declared war on me, he's taking Hanum away from me." Sultan did not lose raise the volume of his voice.

"What is the importance of all that? Hanum will remain yours, forever, whatever Dion does, it will never change the fact that forever Hanum will be yours." Adam confirmed his words.

" How can I be sure after all the bad events and problems that keep coming in our household."

" You forgot? god's intervention in your relationship. You forgot what happened a year ago? when you're so devastated to know the woman you love is married to another man? but I hope you don't forget, how in a great way God united you with Hanum. After everything you've been through all this time? that's more than enough to prove that you're a match. You are destined to live together, to have each other. Do not let just because of stupid things, make you doubt the goodness of God who has always been with you. Sin you!"

" You don't know what it's like, I'm scared." Sultan sat on the sofa. " I'm afraid of losing Hanum, I've felt the pain of losing once and I don't want it to happen again." The Sultan lowered his head.

" And see now what happens? you can unite now. God is just testing the extent of your love." Adam patted his friend's shoulder. " This is just a test, a reinforcement of mutual love, love, a sense of sharing among those of you who have sworn the sacred bond of marriage. So try, fight even harder, do not lose, ashamed of God who has been too good to you."

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