The Love That Is Taken

Hello, Mimin!

“Yes! Glad, you remember me. Just who are you here? Your wife?”

“Oh, no. Same friend. This is Bastian.”

Bastian who was wearing a treadmill next to Jonathan smiled amiably as he reached out and mentioned his name. Mimin aka Mina smiled mischievously while receiving the man's helping hand, “Mina. But my schoolmates used to call me Mimin.”

“What do you call, how good?” ask Bastian politely.

“Mina aja. Sounds cooler. Hehehe...” replied the woman kenes while releasing her hand back. Then he turned his face to Jonathan again. “I've been exercising here six months now see you, Jon? Are you a new member?” tanyanya astonishment.

Before being asked to answer, Bastian interrupted first, “He actually has long joined here, so rarely come.”

“Why?”

“There are no likes.”

“oya? Who?”

Jonathan glared at his best friend. Bastian just looked at it. “Don't beat him up, Min,” interrupted Jonathan before his best friend rambled further. “Whose are you here with?”

Mina replied casually, “Today happened to be alone. Usually the same friends who know here. I never got married after marriage, Jon. Yes, just here it starts again.”

“oya? Where's your husband?”

“New a week ago I officially widowed.”

Jonathan was flabbergasted to hear the confessions of his high school friend. Meanwhile, Bastian decided to be a good listener.

“Ehm, Sori, Min. I don't know,” said Jonathan awkwardly.

“No problems. Just ordinary, really. It was only after parting ways with her that I became free to do whatever I wanted. Gym-gym for example. Whatever I do must always be in accordance with his will. Even the style and color of my hair must be with her consent. Sebel, right?”

Jonathan nodded in agreement. You deserve now a hobby of changing hair color, the inner man is in the heart. Perhaps to express a freedom that you did not get during marriage.

“By the way, whose kids are coming, Min?” jonathan wants to know.

Mina laughed out loud. “I don't have a child, Jon. I was married for five years and had no children. Doctor sentenced me to barrenness.”

Jonathan was again flabbergasted. Mimin honestly expressed his condition, thought the man was astonished.

“Sori, Min. Again I was wrong to say.”

“It’s ok. You don't know anything. How many years have you been married, Jon?”

“Ten years.”

“Wow!” mina cried in shock to close her own mouth. “Udah ten years married but still looks very affectionate with your wife. Great!”

It was Bastian's turn to laugh. Mina to the astonishment of seeing it. Jonathan hurriedly distracted the woman.

“Yeah, his own wife's name must be dear, right?”

“Thank you for your wife, Jon.”

Jonathan returned. His best friend smirked mischievously. Mina herself answered Bastian's question with a grim facial expression, “Yah, ten years married but still able to watch both kayak still dating.”

“Lha, the two of them are indeed dating every day. I still don't have any kids!”

Mina was stunned to hear Bastian's answer to the point. Then he looked at the other man with question marks. “Previous story. If you have been married for a long time but have not been blessed with children, you must have been counseling to various obstetricians. If you may know, who's in trouble, Jon?”

His High School friend was silent and did not answer. The man felt bad about opening up his family's problems in front of outsiders. Bastian did not dare to interrupt again. Mina finally talked to herself, “I'm suing for my husband's divorce because he was having an affair with another woman. For he willed a child from his own flesh. Her lover finally conceived and did not mind being made a second wife. I don't want to! If he were barren, I would take it with a chest. In this world, there are many abandoned children. We can adopt one of them and nurture it like a real child ourselves. But well..namely people, have their own principles.”

“My wife who had a problem with her uterus, Min,” Jonathan finally confessed. He felt sympathy for Mina who had frankly revealed what was really going on in her household.

“Oh, I see,” says Mina now understands. “Then how did you react to it?”

Jonathan took a deep breath and said, “I was indeed disappointed, but I was finally able to take it with a big heart. Even I don't mind adopting a child, but my wife doesn't agree.”

Mina mangosteen sign understand. Sometimes there are women who cannot take care of children who are not their own flesh and blood, their minds understand.

“Eit, it's half-time eight nights. I've been here a long time. Go home, Jon, Bas. Next time we talk again. Oya, if there is no wife here, I can ask for your mobile number, Jon?”

Bastian's voice laughed out loud at Mina's request. Jonathan could only name his mobile number resignedly.

“Quiet aja,” says Mina while grinding mischievously. “I will not call or chat you outside of business hours. Afraid I'll be attacked by your wife. Hahaha..”.

The woman then stepped lightly leaving the two grown men behind. As soon as his attention-grabbing figure vanished from sight, Bastian immediately commented, “It seems that his appearance is a bit muddled, Jon. But she is actually a good woman.”

“It looks so, so,” replied his best friend justifies.

“Pity yes, fate. There should have been here to hear Mina's life story.”

“Create what? In fact make him even sadder to remember the situation.”

“Not that I mean.”

“So what, dong?”

“So that your wife feels grateful to have a husband who would accept her shortcomings as a woman. Instead of cheating like Mina's ex-husband did.”

“Ah, stop, Bas. There himself also suffered.”

“I see's. Hopefully he really tries to change his war as told by your in-laws, yes.”

Jonathan nodded. Hopefully..., his mind is hopeful.

***

Jonathan often spends his time at the gym after work. It could be alone or accompanied by Bastian. Sometimes they meet and talk to Mina. The third relationship gradually became familiar and the woman also considered the two men as her friends. Mina actually fulfilled her promise to contact Jonathan during the working hours only and finally it was also applied to Bastian.

The three people finally opened up to each other. Bastian reviews his status as a husband and father of two young daughters, Jonathan revealed about the depression experienced by his wife, his wife, while Mina herself tells her dream to become a famous make-up artist.

“My ex-husband is jealous. She doesn't like me to dress up pretty. I had to obey him because I was lazy to fight. Fortunately I was still allowed to continue my work as an accounting staff in a ceramic showroom. You work behind the scenes, not as marketing.”

Jonathan and Bastian laughed at the woman's words.