The Tarnished Wife

Every mistake, there will be consequences

Zayn follows wherever Rara goes. He continued to follow the woman who had just been silent and did not want to talk to him.

Zayn could only look at that doldrums-looking beautiful face. He wanted to give her his shoulder so that Rara could cry as much as she could on that shoulder. However, Rara looked tough and ordinary, although Zayn was sure in his heart that it was not mediocre.

Zayn first came out of a large enough musholla on the beach. He and Rara had just performed the maghrib prayer together with the worshippers who did it. He sat in front of the musholla and waited for Rara to come out of it.

Zayn's eyes kept on the door of the musholla to make sure the woman was done with her activities. Zayn's lips immediately turned upside down when he found Rara standing in the doorway and looking for her whereabouts.

Rara smiled at Zayn from a distance when she saw the man sitting there waiting. Zayn immediately returned the sweet smile. He was always fascinated by that smile.

Rara walked up to Zayn and sat next to him wearing shoes.

“You came here to tell Papa?” rara asked as she glanced at Zayn and returned to wearing her shoes.

“You know that Papa knows all this?” Zayn asked back.

“You told papa?” They ask each other questions.

Zayn nodded. “Sorry, I didn't mean to interfere in your affairs.”

Rara turned towards Zayn. “Papa have met Manda?”

Zayn nodded his head again.

“Papa have met his grandson? He's handsome, isn't he? I'm sure Papa is happy to have a grandchild. Although not from my womb.” Suddenly, Rara's tears flowed back.

Zayn immediately pulled the body and hugged it.

“Papa will have a second grandson. Zay. You'll get another nephew.”

“Sstt ... Don't talk much!”

Rara's cry broke. He sobbed in the chest of the field. Zayn did not let go of his embrace.

Fortunately, the situation in this place was getting quieter because maghrib time had long passed.

“Crying, Ra! Take out all the burdens in your heart.”

Rara grew sobbing while squeezing Zayn's arm. Sometimes he also hit the chest of that field. It hurt, but Zayn accepted it. He sincerely made his body as an outlet of Rara's frustration with everything that happened.

“Why did he betray me, Zayn? Wh why? Said he loved me so much but he made that mistake again.” Rara squeezes strong Zayn T-shirt. “By the beginning I want to accept that misfortune. I want to accept Noah and take him as my son. But hearing she was going to have another child, I felt betrayed Zayn.” Rara crying.

However, a moment later Rara wiped away the tears that had soaked her cheeks. He pulled his body from Zayn's chest and looked at each other.

“I want to split from Reza.”

“You sure?” ask Zayn.

Rara nodded. “I've thought about it.”

“Then, how about you? Don't you love my sister so much?”

“Love? I don't know what love is?”

“Hei.” Zayn cupped Rara's face. “Don't tell me you're traumatized by love! No way, Ra! Because out there true love for you is still waiting.”

Rara stared at Zayn's beads, as did Zayn. They looked close enough that Zayn could clearly see the lashes twitching several times.

Rara shook her head. “I don't know, Zayn. But obviously, right now I want to get out of this circle.”

“You don't want to keep your wedding? Because Manda is willing to leave sister.”

“No.” Rara shook her head again. “It can't. She's pregnant.”

“Yes, Papa also does not allow. Papa says, he's the one who's going to divorce you.”

Rara nodded. “Yes, it was a good decision indeed. If I go, nothing is told. If Manda leaves, Noah and their baby-to-be will be damning. So it's better that I give up.”

Zayn hugged the fragile body again. “Ra, I will always be there for you.”

Rara returned the embrace. “Thank you, Zayn.”

“You know, I also have a big mistake with you. I don't know after you know that, do you still want to be friends with me?” inner Zayn with the position of those who are still hugging.

The night is getting late. Rara is getting calmer. Zayn's presence really made him much calmer.

“Let me drive home!” Zayn.

“Then?”

“I want to go directly to Jakarta only.”

“Then. Comeing! I'll take you,” said Zayn.

“But not now, tomorrow morning only. I want to spend the night at a hotel near here. I still like the view here.”

“Alright, I will accompany you,” Zayn said again.

“You don't work? Didn't you come here to run a project? I can do it myself Zayn. If you want to go back to Lembang. Comeback!”

“Ck ... That you, still don't understand me.” Zayn immediately pulled Rara's arm and told her to get into the car. “I won't let you alone here.” Zayn said shortly before closing his car door.

Then, Zayn sat down beside Rara. “I wasn't the only photographer on the project. There are still other friends who replace me as long as I have business.”

Then, Zayn turned on his car to a nearby hotel. Rara is just moving.

After finding the hotel and getting two rooms, also making sure Rara was resting in her room, Zayn laid her body in her own room. Then, Zayn's phone rang displaying the name “Papa” on that screen. Zayn picked it up.

“Ya, Pa.”

“How, Zayn? Have you found Rara?” asked Kemal in a voice that still sounded panicked.

“Already, Pa. Rara's safe with Zayn. Zayn will take care of it.”

“Good then. Tomorrow morning, Papa will go to Jakarta to meet Sanjaya and let go of the relationship between Rara and Reza,” said Kemal lirih.

“But big brother won't part, Pa.”

“Stay must be Zayn. It's a consequence of his mistake.”

Kemal hung up that phone.

Zayn massaged his temple. His head was heavy thinking about this. He does not want to see his brother slumped, because he knows that Reza loves Rara very much, only that the man can not keep his love. However, he also could not see Rara's sadness.

At Manda's house, Reza shut herself up in the study. Since the departure of Kemal and Zayn, he immediately entered the room and did not come out at all. Manda was afraid to see a flash of anger on her husband's face. He did not dare to show his face in front of Reza at this time, until when dinner time arrived, Manda told Noah's nanny to take the food to Reza's study. He also arrested his son who wanted to see his father. He knows that right now, Reza needs to be alone.

Inside the room, Reza looked disheveled. He hasn't worn that shirt since the morning. His hair was messy, his eyes were swollen because he was crying too. He truly regrets everything that happened. He does not want to lose Rara, because Rara is his love. He has loved Rara ever since he knew the meaning of love. He has loved women since he knew Cleopatra. Only, he was too selfish and wanted perfection from the woman. But he clearly knew that Rara was not perfect anymore. However, he still insisted on marrying her.

Instead of forgiving everything that happened to Rara and Zayn, but instead by living with Rara, he was increasingly unable to forget the incident.

Reza grabbed her phone to call her dad.

Dretc ... Dretc ... Dretc ...

“Halo.”

He answered the phone call quickly.

“Pa, have you heard from Zayn?”

Reza is not looking for Rara, after knowing that Zayn is looking for her, because he is confused where to look for Rara? His current mind was completely dead-end.

“Already.”

Reza. He was sure that Zayn would take advantage of this situation, but Zayn was not like that.

“Za, tomorrow morning Papa is going to Jakarta to meet Rara's parents. Papa wait for you there. Release Rara with a gentle, Za. Tell your in-laws about all this.”

“Pa, Reza can't live without Rara.”

“You should think like that before you do, because all the mistakes we make will definitely have consequences, Za.”

Reza lethargic. He removed the phone from his ear and cried, banging it on his forehead several times.

Kemal, who had not heard his son's voice over there, hung up. “Pardon Papa, Za.”

Inside the room, Reza stood up and walked towards the window. He looked out, looking at the dark sky and dotted with small stars.

Rara did the same. He stood in front of the window of his room while folding both hands on his chest. He stared at the small stars like a dot, but was able to shine a light on the dark sky. While Zayn, who was beside Rara's room, was also standing in front of the window, looking at the beautiful lanti while sipping a cup of coffee that he held.

These three men remember the little moments, when they lay on the grass of the garden of the house of Kemal and looked at the sky. They counted the number of stars together while laughing cheerfully.

However, after this it seems like those times will not return, especially when later on Rara's memory returns. Reza and Zayn might not be able to reach Rara again.