The Love of the Widow

Chapters 11. Widows

It took me about a month to complete my divorce and Mas Rayhan.

Now I am a widow.

The shame is immeasurable of course.

It is not only I who feel even my family in the village was affected.

Those who do not know the truth only speak as they please about me.

Not a few who think I'm divorced because I can't afford to give offspring to my Ex-husband's family.

Some argue that I am divorced because I demand too much from my ex-husband's family.

And many more rumors scattered about my marriage that only lasted for approximately 4 months.

I can only stand up to all these trials.

Only my nuclear family and Mira know the true story of this divorce.

Now I am a widow at the age of 23.

***

I walked from the motorbike parking lot to my work space at It. 2 Finance office.

Mira followed from behind.

We chatted while occasionally laughing.

After the Divorce, I decided to stay with Mira in a contract not too far from the office.

I no longer live in the Pesantren.

Too embarrassed to feel.

But of course I still routinely visit there once a month.

I'm getting used to my new status as a widow.

I even feel like I'm back in my teens.

I am still a virgin, but my status is now a widow.

For me, the most important thing now is to enjoy my life.

It's up to people to think about what my thing is.

When passing through the receptionist room, Dela who served there gave me a bunch of fresh roses.

"to Aina! " he told me.

"Thanks! " my word to him.

"Cie.. Cie. the widow of flowers can send ni yee flowers!! " mira's mockery to me.

"From who? " ask her curiously.

"I don't know the name of the sender" I replied.

We laughed together.

My HP vibrates when I get busy on reports that need to be done right away.

Scroll a little bit of my HP screen.

There was a telegram message coming in there.

Out of curiosity, I opened the telegram

"Hi Aina's.. Greetings.. What about the flowers? what do you like? "

"Some, who is it? How do you know my name is Aina? who got my number from? " i said in my heart.

But the contents of the telegram I did not reply.

I went back to the job I was doing.

"Hai Jankem, Lunch Yuk.. Are hungry! " take Mira to me.

Sounds good, she said, as the name of the legendary Korean woman in the movie Jewel in the Place Dae Jung Geum.

"Where to eat? " just ask her.

"I want to eat KFC. We go there!! please!! We have not eaten there for a week!! " answered Mira begging.

It has been a week that we did not eat at KFC which is only two shophouses from our workplace office.

There's Mr. Brandon, the KFC manager who really likes to bother me.

I feel uncomfortable.

He's actually kind and pretty good-looking, but the thing is, he's been repeatedly divorced with his ex-wife.

And I can't imagine being her fourth wife, and then being divorced again.

And I'll be back again widowed.

"Oh.. No!!! " my cry in my heart imagines it.

"Eat it on another KFC!! please!!! Let me take the bike. Okay?? " persuade me to Mira who really likes KFC.

"Alright" she replied excitedly.

***

I enjoy a cup of warm capuchino while reading my favorite novel on the front porch.

Mira is out with her boyfriend, an Intel cop who works in the city of Siak.

He just got to Pekanbaru yesterday afternoon.

They went to buy the Ring for the engagement, he said.

"Tringg. "my HP sounds.

Read in your heart whatshaap message on my HP screen.

"Hey.. How are you doing? How come my telegram is not in reply?. You do not like to send flowers? "

"Who the hell is this guy?? So mysterious?? " i am in my heart.

I lazily reply to his WA.

"Sorry who is this? where did I get my number from? " let me go back.

WA was sent.

My HP is ringing.

The WA phone came in from a number I didn't know earlier.

"Hallo! Assalmualaikum Aina's! How are you doing? " Sounds a man's voice from across the phone.

" Waalaikumsalam's. Alrighty! " answer me anyway.

"Have you forgotten about me? haven't saved my number again? I'm Randy your KKN friend in college" he said, introducing himself to me.

"Yes ALLAH, sorry Ran.. Your number is not saved on my phone, yesterday HP error. All contracts are lost. Some of you pretentiously send flowers not using the name. "I replied.

"Would you give me the name of the sender, but I'm ashamed. hehe. hang out Yuk!! I'm now doing my job in Pekanbaru Loh!! " answer again.

"can.bby.bby.. When?" ask me on her.

"What week night? " ask her again.

"Just a week!! " answer me anyway.

"All right! we will be in news again! " he closed our conversation in WA.

Being a widow makes me have to be more careful in hanging out with men.

I don't want to choose the wrong partner anymore.

enough stories used to be life lessons for me.