The Love Between Two Countries

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Be sad if it disturbs your feelings. But your sadness will not make your life slump and your heart will rot.

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Armian saw no sign Azharin had woken up. Armian and his two friends only slept for two hours. Armian did not reach the heart to wake Azharin from her deep sleep.

Armian returned to the office and left a message, temporarily do not open the door for anyone unless Armian called and asked to open the door.

Azharin woke up after the sun was high. He felt his stomach hungry. Azharin squirms, stretching the muscles that feel sore. Azharin picked up the phone and saw the lunch hour had passed.

Azharin told Sonia that she was home. Sonia promised to go home after work. That night, Sonia and Romi find out what happened when she did not find Azharin and Armian, Sonia calls Azharin and Armian who raises.

Azharin put down her phone and picked up the towel. He cleanses and refreshes himself in the bathtub. Azharin relaxes the mind. He was planning to cook for dinner.

Azharin has returned refreshed. He headed for the kitchen with a small towel that was still wrapping his head. Azharin opened the refrigerator and saw what she could cook.

Azharin saw frozen gourami. He decided to make spicy gourami sweet and kale-only. He hasn't set up his brother since the case a year ago he asked his brother not to interfere with his affairs again and get out of the house.

Azharin fried chicken nuggets and ate with half a small serving of white rice before enjoying cooking for their dinner. Azharin will replace the night that was canceled yesterday. His brother had somehow monitored his sister several times via video call when he got a message from Azharin.

"Abang! You're either bothering me on purpose or you're worried about me!" Azharin yelled out in annoyance as her cooking activities were interrupted.

"What worries you" said Armian seriously. Azharin could see that her brother was not working on her.

"What's the use of my brother install cctv at these four points of the house? Brother hasn't been monitoring me from my phone all this time?" azharin reminded in a mocking tone.

Armian looks to scratch his head. Fear still lingered in Armian's mind. So he forgot there was a cctv in the kitchen.

Azharin was very sure, if not, which brother might not show up for a year. He knew his brother missed wanting to go home, Azharin used to do it too. But his ego is bigger and his brother deliberately seems not to want to budge. He wanted to teach Azharin to be stronger and independent in a moment when Azharin was angry and sulking.

Azharin could feel for herself when her brother was not around. Azharin began to realize that Hendri was not filling his day as much as his brother had said. Azharin is blinded by love. Azharin was weak in hope of getting married soon.

There was no advice his brother could take. Azharin actually invites his brother noisily every discuss the issue of his love with Hendri. Until the last time, Azharin expels his brother and forbids meddling in his affairs. Azharin even said he would burn his brother's shirt if he wasn't taken.

"Easy Brother? Don't bother me first. You don't want to eat Arin's cooking?"

Armian turned off Azharin's phone line and went back to cooking. His hands were so agile as to slice carrots, tomatoes and other ingredients that would be mixed as a sweet spicy sauce. When finished, Azharin is surfing in cyberspace.

"Hi, how are you."

Azharin opened the messenger message. He read without replying at all. Many similar messages came in. All this time he just ignored.

Then he replied to three similar messages. "Hi, I'm fine. You and?

It didn't take long for two of them to respond back, replying to his message, "I'm fine. Where are you coming from?

"I'm Indonesia."

Azharin started exchanging information. He was so engrossed in replying, venting disappointment at unknown people. Azharin started to like playing with fire.

One foreign man asked for a WhatsApp number. Azharin didn't give, she ignored. Azharin replied to another message. Satisfied to reply to the message, Azharin stopped her ridiculous activity.

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"Rin, are you sure you're dropping the lawsuit and giving them their freedom?" ask Sonia. They had dinner together.

"Don't be afraid Nia, there's my brother who won't let me get hurt."

"But the proof is your brother's keccolongan. Thank goodness that kidnaps only love criminals. Inexperienced." Sonia gets a small kick in her leg from Romi.

"What is football," said Sonia without wanting to know. Romi was wrong. Azharin laughed and Armian smiled. Armian is even more interested in Sonia as it is.

"I was disappointed, because again daydreaming of my stubborn sister defending desperately the kunyuk. So I'm afraid I don't hear him step out of his room anymore." Armian seeks self-defense.

"How safe are you, two free-snakes crawling?" sonia's words became more blatantly unacceptable.

"Once, let's eat. Leave it to fate and we pray for the best." Azharin stopped Sonia's debate.

"Usaha is also necessary," Sonia again denied.

"Yes," Azharin replied briefly.

"Yes, make that effort by investigating your case last night" said Sonia. Sonia looked at Armian, looking for support.

"He doesn't want to. It's a pity if the kunyuk sleeps on the cold floor. Though the kunyuk needed to cool his brain." Armian always called Hendri with the word kunyuk. That's the one that provoked Azharin to rage once.

Azharin asked her brother to stop with a sharp glare at Armian. Armian shrugged.

"Uhhh takuuut" Romi said in a voice like a woman. Azharin took a tissue, squeezed and threw Romi.

"Geli I heard it," said Azharin.

They were just about to scoop up the rice, Armian's phone rang. Armian received a call and excuse me for a moment to leave the living room.

"So you're sure you're coming to work tomorrow?" ask Romi seriously.

"Quiet, not yet how hard my life's journey has been." Azharin was joking. Her rigid carrying made her joke crisp.

"Come Bang, we'll eat" Azharin asked when Armian returned.

Armian sipped his black coffee. "Sorry to the office. There was a sudden call from the commander." Armian took and put on a black leather jacket. Azharin was used to living eating.

"Can you sleep here tonight. Azharin is quieter?" Armian felt still unsettled.

"Don't worry Bang." Azharin said seriously.

"Ok Bang's. We're just here." Sonia agrees. He saw Armian not calmly leaving Azharin.

"Thanks to Miss Gorgeous."

"Ye was going to eat instead at staying," said Sonia a little disappointed.

"Still mending it. I'm staying again alas," said Azharin. Romi and Sonia looked at each other. Azharin glared funny.

"Kanda night. Let's eat," Azharin asked.

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Romi headed to the veranda to start his cigarette. Azharin and Sonia rushed to clean the dining table. They washed the dishes and headed to Azharin's room after telling Romi to go to his brother's room, if he wanted to sleep.

In the room, Azharin looks engrossed with her cell phone. "Who's with you, you're so engrossed." Sonia reprimands Azharin who is engrossed with her cell phone.

"I'm looking for a girlfriend in online dating." Azharin replied without taking her eyes off the phone. Sonia was curious and approached Azharin. Azharin does not cover.

Sonia looked at Azharin suspiciously. He couldn't shake his curiosity. "Are you no longer laying low on men?"

"No. It is not good to have revenge. Damaging the heart." Azharin replied without any burden.

"Then why are you serving those outsiders. Aren't they a lot of bad ones?" Sonia expressed her assumption.

"much? Not that nothing's good." Azharin stopped his activities for a while. He focused on looking at Sonia.

"Yes too." Sonia could not find any other answer.

"Yes already. That means I can find the good ones, right?" Azharin ignored the incoming messages.

But Sonia's heart was still not satisfied. "They're a lot of rude to women. Aren't you scared?"

"Are our country's men nothing rude?" tanya Azharin reminded Sonia.

"Hmmm, whatever."

Azharin refocused on her phone screen. He replied to a message that was delayed. "See Nia, saucy no. He's from Manchester. His eyes were blue as if looking at the sky if he looked into his eyes."

"Hmmm not real. Have you ever talked to them?"

"Yes not yet. Just yesterday I replied to their message that I ignored for months. Ehhhh was preoccupied with me first being arrested by the ex."

"Definitely not. Hendri was not clear for a long time. Especially this one in the middle of nowhere." Sonia nagging. Azharin just shook his shoulders. He continued to reply and looked smiling.

Azharin is not bullying. Azharin again said, "This is a man from the Philippines. He said he was originally London."

"Like heart. I'm going to sleep."

"Sleep there true singles."

"Let's, rather than kidnapped the ex." Sonia won't lose. Azharin throws Sonia with a hugging pillow. Sonia dodged and pulled the blanket. He's under the blanket. "Congratulations Miss Kaku's offspring."

Azharin gave an email to her foreign friend. Azharin is not willing if asked for a phone number or WhatsApp number. Not too long ago, Azharin caught up with Sonia who had been sleeping.

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