The Second Wife

Part 112True Taste

Early morning in the capital is still in the rain, even though from last night the blessings of the sky came down. And it makes the atmosphere even more cold. Now this just shows at 02:30 WIB. However, someone who should be a warm friend is not known of his existence.

Last night when it was just 11:00 AM local time, she found her husband on the balcony in solitude. And at this time, he again woke up without a handsome figure next to him. He was really confused, the last three months, the heart condition was getting cold. It's no longer as warm as it used to be.

Although the husband looks ordinary to him, but he can feel that it is all just an obligation. Lately, even the man who had been with him for ten years was often very sick. And he doesn't know what to do.

The beautiful woman sat hugging her knees on a cold, silent night. Although the air conditioner he did not turn on, but the cool air that was able to make him shiver.

Finally, he exhaled a rough breath and lowered his legs from the bed. This cold air made her unable to take a shower. So, he would just wash his face and pray.

In his convulsion the woman cried, sad it felt. The moment he expected was a happiness, it turned out to be sadness. It complained of all its sadness there, on the prayer mat. Until the moment he was satisfied, he went to see the husband who he knew was where.

There, in a room once occupied by three humans at once. When there is still love and warmth, unlike today, full of bland. The salt in love had run out, the taste in it was also strange, and it all made the woman who was now watching the man standing in front of the window shed tears.

Yes, there her husband. Standing in front of the window saw the rain still falling. All this time he knew if the man had always moved, but all this time he also pretended not to understand and the next morning he would ask as if he b o d o h.

Slowly the foot stepped, approaching the man who was still wearing a sarong and cocoa, and complete with skullcap on his head. In fact, when he passed the bed, he could still see the prayer mat on the rug, which he could confirm if the husband had just performed the prayer.

"If only I could get things back together, I wouldn't bring you together" he said without looking at Alfin. The woman was staring out there.

Alfin gulped his saliva roughly, he turned his head as he was completely shocked when suddenly the wife was already there. "You mean, what?" tanyanya did not understand.

Yes, he was there, aloof after every night prayer. Honestly, the feeling he had, the more it tortured him. He has tried to be ordinary, back to being kind to the woman he once brought to happily sail the household. But after the first love of her life and the sudden desire to leave, she loses everything. All the flavors that were inside the chest went along with the loss of everything about him, the first love.

"I don't regret it because I'm no longer in love. But, I'm sorry because of me, you're like this. Was I wrong, if I wanted my husband to keep his promise" said Alifa who was very sad. He had not seen the husband, still faithful staring at the rain water out there which seemed to be getting faster.

Alfin was silent, he just exhaled a rough breath that ended with Istighfar.

"If you can't be with me, go. Find your true love" said Alifa again sadly.

"What do you mean, honey? What did you dream of?" ask Alfin not to understand. Whatever his wife, when he was trying and trying to get back in love, now his wife instead told him to look for a true love that he could no longer find.

Although his heart desperately wanted to know the whereabouts of him and the child he was carrying, but Alfin certainly would not do it, because now they are no longer halal.

Although to be honest, in Alfin's chest, he felt a very intense pain.

Alfin looked sadly at the face of the wife who had been his only wife for three months.

"You think I don't know, if you're sick thinking about her, you're so alone on the balcony, you're always sleeping in this place, I know, Mom," the woman said with her guilt.

"If I had known, if your love would come back this big, I wouldn't want to be in a match with you in the past" continued Alifa.

"I think you really love me. Because of your gentle attitude towards me. But it turns out I was wrong, it wasn't love, it was just your duty to respect a wife."

"What are you talking about, obviously ak-"

"No, Mas. No." the woman shook her head. "You can't lie to your own heart, neither can my heart" Alifa said.

"What do you want, now that I'm by your side. You asked me once, and I answered, I will always be with you forever" said Alfin at last.

"You know, if asked who I would choose between a woman who has been so kind to accept my existence for a long time, and a woman who I love despite her new presence. I'll obviously pick the first woman. You know why?" ask Alfin. Alifa nodded inexplicably. "Because I don't want to, he's in big trouble if I stay by his side, but part with you" the man continued.

Alifa smiled, "finally you admit everything, Mas. Love does make it difficult for Mas, I love you and don't want to lose you-"

"And you've got me" Alfin interrupted.

"I only get your body, not with your heart, Mom."

Alfin nodded, "sorry, if I hurt you."

Alifa shook her head, "you and she never hurt me, I was wrong."

"There's nothing wrong with love" Alfin said.

Both are silent. No one wants to continue what they want to say. This is Alfin, he can always be kind to Alifa, because he thinks a gentle woman like his wife should be filled with affection.

Alifa looked up and left from there. Passing the foot with a gamang, it feels like he is heartbroken and feels sick.