The Tragedy of the Night

Part 49's

The noise of vehicles filling the streets of Jakarta which is being hit by traffic jams due to consecutive accidents near red lights. Arsen did not stop complaining, he hit the steering wheel while trying to dampen the anger in his heart. His soul was now struggling, his mind was not calm. The man clasped his hands tightly. His body was in the car, but not with the man's mind. The man is frightened by his anxiety towards Nisa.

Arsen stared flat at the vehicle in front of his car that did not move. It felt like Arsen wanted to hit the car, his heart was furious impatient. But just now he wanted to do the action, a ringing his cellphone reads cancel Arsen's intention to hit the car.

"Hows it? Did you find Nisa where Dive is?"

"....."

"What do you mean by Nisa being kidnapped? How could. Akhh. I want you to find Nisa as soon as possible, if you don't find Nisa, you know what's going to happen?"

"......."

"It's good if you understand."

Tuttt

Arsen turned off his phone. The man slammed the phone in any direction. Then the man grabbed his hair in frustration. His mind now branched, it was hard for the man to calm his heart.

Arsen chuckled in silence, in case something happened to Nisa. Arsen will not hesitate to skin the perpetrator who kidnapped Nisa very cruelly and will be more cruel than the victims he previously tortured with his own hands. This is not just a joke, but his promise is true.

"She is where you are. Why would you torture me like this. I know I was wrong to often give you pain. But don't torture me like this. Though I want to pay for everything including the shame you got after giving birth to my child. I'll promise to marry you later, you'll be happy right? I know you used to love me so much, and you're ashamed to reveal it. Forgive me for being this stupid," Arsen muttered weakly. He was never like this, he was always strong and never let his tears come out. But not with the current circumstances, his heart is fragile when he gets news if his Nisa disappears kidnapped.

Fortunately approaching Arsen, the man breathed a sigh of relief when slowly the congestion could be overcome well. Arsen drove his car brutally, the man overtaking a vehicle that was felt to be blocking his way regardless of his safety. The sound of horns and swearing flared all over the street addressed to Arsen. But the man did not listen to him. This is not the time to respond to the words of the person, they do not know who is in the car.

As Gabriel's face flashed across the man's head it made him even more impatient to meet his son. Surely his son was devastated by the loss of Nisa.

Not for half an hour, Arsen had arrived in front of his mother's house. The man came out in a hurry and entered the house with wide and swift steps. When the soles of his feet just touched the living room, Arsen immediately ran to the guest room where Cilla used to live to stay at her mother's house.

Arsen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his son playing with Cilla so cheerfully. Cilla is indeed talented to make anyone run from his sadness. The Dive child is always excited and very sweet if he is joking to make people laugh because of it.

Arsen smiled, he opened the door wide and ventured to step in to meet his son whom he had been worried about ever since from the office.

"Hi handsome papa's son, and beautiful uncel niece."

The two children turned to Arsen. Their eyes twinkled clearly and especially when their faces were engraved with a smile it made him forget a little about the problem. Cilla and Gabriel immediately ran and splashed in Arsen's arms.

"Hi is also uncel!" Cilla said enthusiastically because the girl was very happy with Arsen.

"Hi too papa!" Gabriel said with pleasure even though there was still sadness in his eyes.

Arsen heard her greeting replied by Gabriel and Cilla smiled. The man rubbed both of the boy's heads. Then he looked at Gabriel. A red tint in Gabriel's eyes made Arsen's smile fade away.

"Uncle! Iel was crying, he said his mother had not returned home for a week. Is that Iel?"

Gabriel nodded weakly confirming Cilla's words just now. The boy was sad when he had to remember his mother.

"Pope can help Iel find mom, right? Iel kangen sama. Every morning you always make Iel breakfast, prepare school clothes Iel. But now no one makes breakfast Iel same readyin Iel clothes again. Aunty Ibel has not yet returned to Jakarta."

Arsen's heart slipped when he heard Gabriel's words. He was also saddened by the loss of Nisa, but he wanted to how else. This stupid one can't take care of Nisa.

"Papa must be looking for mom. Papa promised Iel."

Gabriel's face rejoices when Arsen promises to find his mother. "Papa promised to bring mother home again."

"Papa Promises" said Arsen as he kissed his son's head.

I'm sorry, papa can't admit that papa is your father. But papa promised to bring mom home. Inner Arsen with a smile.

In the midst of Arsen's harmony with his son, the sound of the phone ringing again sounded. Arsen released Gabriel who was in his arms.

"Just a minute, you pick up the phone first." Arsen smiled after he walked to a place a little away from Gabriel and Cilla to pick up the phone from Dive.

Arsen shifted the green screen, in his heart he hoped that if Dive called him he wanted to convey the good news.

A second later after he picked up the phone, the voice that was across the street quickly snatched away, leaving Arsen stunned and sighing.

"Can you slowly explain to me. I'm getting dizzy hearing your voice that doesn't have that brake."

"Ah I'm sorry, man. What about my son, he's doing well? She's not at your mom's meal anymore, is she?"

Arsen who heard Dive's silly question turned the eyeballs lazily.

"Stop asking Dive. Your son is safe with me. Now the moment I ask, what about her development, did you get the reason why Nisa could disappear."

"Nisa disappeared after she was chased by reporters while dropping Gabriel off at school. The reporter told me they didn't find any trace of Nisa after they chased her into a dead end alley. But at that moment they saw someone in the alley."

"Dive I want the reporters who are after Nisa to be fired from their jobs. And one more thing you find out who the shadow is."

"alright. I'm asking you to help me look after my son."

"Hm."

Arsen snorted as Dive presumptuously disconnected the phone. He put his cell phone in his pants pocket, then the man came back to Gabriel and Cilla.

"So who called Uncle?" Tanya Cilla surprised Arsen to the point that the man rubbed his chest.   

"Cilla Papaya."

"Oh papa. Papa said what uncle, papa cariin Cilla didn't?"

Arsen needed to take a deep breath, he looked at Cilla who had not stopped asking him questions. Arsenic sense of Cilla's nature like this descends from Cilla's biological father who is equally irritating.

"Yes. Papa nanyain Cilla." Arsen looked at Gabriel with a gentle smile that belonged to the man. "Today Iel can buy many toys, whatever Iel wants, papa will buy."

Then Iel looked at Arsen, then the boy shook his head not wanting a toy.

"Iel doesn't want pa, Iel wants mom. Iel kangen. Iel doesn't have a papa, so Iel doesn't want to lose his mother either. Later if mother is not there who take care of Iel."

Hearing Gabriel's words, she was able to silence Arsen's mouth. The man was glued and silent a thousand languages. He looked at his son. This was all his fault, why he was so cowardly he could not tell his son that it was the father Gabriel had been looking for.

Forgive this stupid papa Iel. I promise I'll find my mom. Arsen said in his heart, he grabbed the weak body of his son and tears endlessly flooded the surface of the child's face, Arsen clasped him tightly as if he did not want to let go of this child forever. Gabriel and Nisa are hers, so no one can touch hers even if it's an inch, it can't. He promised that in the future he would make the two precious people in his life happy.

"Papa will bring mother home" promised Arsen. Unconsciously by the man his tears flowed back. This guilt continues to haunt him. All he had in mind was how he could atone for this guilt.

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1 month later

Arsen went into his house with circumstances that could not be said to be good. The man was dressed in disheveled clothes like no one was taking care of him. He is taken by Dive and led into his room. Arsen came home drunk, and every night the man always did.

Ariana and Davit who always get Arsen home drunk can only take a long breath. The man sometimes does not sleep to find Nisa, he is willing to spend his work time by looking for Nisa who he can never find. 

Arsen was placed on the bed. Ariana pulled out a blanket to cover Arsen's shivering body and continued to fumble. Afterwards Ariana looked at Dive and then signaled if the man could go home.

Ariana and Davit stared sadly at Arsen's apprehensive state. The man started like that ever since he got word Nisa's missing. At all the man never rested to find Nisa, until every night Arsen always came home with a good situation.

Gabriel was always crying. Ariana was made dizzy with only one person, she only took a deep breath when Arsen did not stop looking for Nisa.

Though he had warned Arsen several times not to look for Nisa. However, his words were not heard by Arsen at all. Sometimes Ariana is upset with Nisa, because the woman makes her son's life a mess.

"Ma we better leave Arsen alone here. She definitely needs time alone" Davit said, making Ariana's focus diverted to her husband.

Ariana looked back at Arsen, her heart also hurt to see her son in this condition.

"Well pa."

Ariana and Davit leave Arsen's room. Arsen was alone in the room.

Morning

Arsen came out of his room in neat clothes. The man walked to his son's room to see Gabriel before he continued to look for Nisa. 

He opened his son's room and found that Gabriel was awake and sitting on the bed with a strawberry doll in his arms.

Arsen smiled at Gabriel, looking at the boy was enough to treat his longing for Nisa. He approached Gabriel and landed his butt next to the boy. Arsen looked at his son seriously, again feeling guilty for not being able to keep his promise to bring Nisa home.

"Iel forgive papa ya can not bring mother home. Iel can be angry with papa."

Gabriel looked at Arsen with his round eyes that exuded sadness.

"Pa! Iel apologized if all this time Iel made it difficult papa Arsen. Iel will leave this house, Iel can find his own mother. Iel also want to find papa, try papa Iel already home, surely papa Iel find mother too." Suddenly Arsen sensed that there was such a hard blow on his heart. He looked at the boy's face with an apologetic image.

"There's Papa Arsen. So why would Iel want to find papa again."

"But papa Arsen isn't Iel's board."

Arsen's heart was struggling to convey, I am your papa.

"Iel forgive papa if this hurts Iel. Papa Iel's birth is...." Arsen was speechless he could not continue his speech," Iel's biological father was.papa Arsen himself."

Clearly Gabriel was instantly shocked, he widened his eyes in disbelief. He looked at Arsen with a scrutinizing look, but afterwards Gabriel's expression returned grim.

"So all this time Iel's biological father was Papa Arsen. But why would papa lie to Iel. Hix-hiks-hiks. Bad papa ninggalin Iel both mother, papa does not care about Iel. Mother also often cry because of papa."

Arsen hugs his son's fragile body, but Arsen's embrace gets a rejection from Gabriel. The boy violently beat up Arsen for release.

"Iel doesn't want to be hugged by papa. Papa is evil as Iel."

"Papa's sorry Iel, papa knows if papa's wrong. Papa promised to take mom home and make Iel happy." There was no reply from Gabriel, the boy was just crying in Arsen's lap.

Arsen who saw Gabriel calm again in his arms also revealed a smile, although there was still a soft stuffing of the child's lips. But suddenly the sound of the phone ringtone broke the silence. Arsen took his phone, he could see the phone number he had memorized outside his head there.

"How Dive. Did you find out who the kidnapper was?"

"...."

"Just tell me who it is."

"......"

Suddenly Arsen's jaw tightened, the man growled furiously as he learned who the man who had dared to kidnap Nisa was. Arsen disconnected his phone, after which the man gripped the phone tightly so that a crack could be heard.

"Sugaaa! I'm going to kill you," Arsen grumbled, his teeth rubbing against each other to describe how angry the man was.

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A silent voice decorated the room. Black and dark colors dominate the room, there is absolutely no lighting. The smell of carnation was so sharp that anyone who smelled it felt nauseous.

Nisa opened her eyes, the first to welcome her vision was dark. The woman frowned, was she dead?

He returns to illuminate the past, why he can arrive in a dark place like this. When she regained her memories, Nisa was immediately frightened. He remembered before he lost consciousness, he was chased by journalists and there were people who smothered his mouth until he remembered nothing.

Nisa wanted to escape from this room but, just now she wanted to move, her body suddenly felt crumpled and there was a rope that tied her body. How long has he been unconscious? Isn't the person affected by the anaesthetic going to wake up a few hours later? Is he wrong? Then what do you mean by the rope that tied his body, was he kidnapped? No. gabe. Nisa can't imagine if she's actually kidnapped.

Nisa looked towards the sound of the door being opened by someone. The man carried a flashlight in his hand and walked up to Nisa.

"It turns out you're conscious, huh?"

Nisa looked at the scared person.

"Who are you. Let go of me, I want to go home."

"You're quiet. You don't know how long you haven't been conscious? I've been tired of waiting for you to wake up for over a month. Lucky I haven't killed you."

"I said let me go. Who are you, I want to go home and see my son."

Sarga who did not have good emotional control immediately grabbed Nisa's face and violently touched her.

"Do you really not know me?" Nisa shook her head, "it's true my guess."

"Who are you. Please let me go, I want to go home. Do I have anything wrong with you?"

Nisa thrashed with the condition of the bound body. He scratched, his body was painful and crumpled, so tight rope ties on his body that he had difficulty breathing.

"Of course you have a problem with me. And I'll repay you now with you. Have you forgotten him? It's your own fault that you didn't die after being shot by my mother Ica. I didn't think you were so good at hiding."

Hearing Sarga's words, Nisa felt her head was very dizzy like trying to remember past memories.

"Who are you?" Nisa whimpers trying to endure her headache.

"I'm Sarga, the son of the man who killed your family and my mother shot you Ica. Have you forgotten what happened when you were six? I saw with my own eyes you and Aunt Desi were terrified when my father killed your father."

Nisa shook her head, "no I'm not Ica. My mother's name is not Desi but Aisyah, I don't know you either. My mother is still alive, you purposely made up stories. I've never experienced what you've told me."

Sarga showing her smirk. He drew his face closer to Nisa. Then the man observed Nisa's face so closely.

"You don't know if your current family is a foster family. So they're not that hard to decide to expel you when you're impregnated with Arsen. And one fact you don't know, if your pompous brother loves you so much. He already liked you when he first saw you brought home by your father."

"A-what do you mean. I'm not----akhhh." Nisa had not yet finished her words, suddenly her head throbbed even stronger until a dark color filled her vision.

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Tbc

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