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Episode 24

            Reta stepped gontai. Sometimes he stopped, held the wall, and walked back to the door. Tyaz, who had just come out to throw garbage, stopped at the door when he found Reta staggering. The smell of alcohol instantly burst into Tyaz's nose, which made him close his nose. His attitude, accidentally caught by the eyes of Reta who had just turned the key in the door hole, made him stop open the door and instead stand leaning on the door that was still closed.

            “What's loe, want to be angry?!” challenge Reta. “Should you see yourself loe, let your husband not find a woman more beautiful than loe!”

            Tyaz was silent, his hands clenched. Just now he wanted to step closer to Reta and vent the emotions he had been suppressing all his might, the sound of Aleta's door was heard. Aleta came out in her nightgown. Intended to sleep that night, but disturbed when hearing the sound of Reta from outside. Reta turned her eyes to Aleta, laughing funnyly and then approached her.

            “Gue hate same loe!” he was talking in the style of a drunk. “You shouldn't be lucky, because I took everything from you. Bokap loe, treasure and loe house, all the friends at school, Biyan and now... Bimo!” Reta rejected Aleta's body until she took a few steps back. “But why all the people I've taken, keep loving you!!”

            Aleta fell silent. The emotions in Reta, inversely proportional to both her eyes that shed tears. He was crying, though not sobbing. But her falling tears could not cover the sadness that was emanating in her two eyes.

            “Why the woman even called bokap loe, Al!” he said with a vibrating tone. “He shouldn't have taken bokap loe. So that I can get close to loe without having to be limited to hatred!”

            Aleta looked at him in shock. Reta's words that can be guaranteed sincere from the heart, the first time she heard. If Reta hadn't come home drunk, maybe Reta wouldn't have revealed it. It's all his heart that not everyone knows.

            “Gue.. I want to be close to you, Al. I don't have anyone. Look at my birth, don't want to think of me as his son, in his eyes only elo his son, Al. While my first husband ditched me, dumped me after I was born. You think, I love you with me?” Reta looked at Aleta nanar. “Neg. He doesn't love me. All he loves is money and money!”

            Reta was about to fall down, and Aleta quickly held back her unexpectedly, embracing her tightly. Her crying broke out which made Aleta also sad to hear it. Aleta momentarily directed

his gaze to Tyaz who was still standing noticed everything. There was no meaningful expression from his face. Tyaz instead chose to enter leaving a sad drama that really did not make him drift away. Tyaz's steps, which entered his house, made Aleta realize that Biyan was standing behind Tyaz. Silently watching everything with a cold look. There was no smile on his lips as usual. Only a sad look was captured by Aleta, before she drowned her face on the shoulder of Reta who was still sobbing.

            “He's asleep?” aleta asks when she sees Biyan coming out of Reta's house.

            Reta who had previously started unconscious while in Aleta's arms, made Biyan the initiative to invite her inside, leaving Aleta alone outside Reta's house nearly thirty minutes passed.

            Biyan did not expect, Aleta was still waiting outside. Sit against the wall with both legs bent. Biyan nodded, then approached Aleta. Sitting next to him, leaning against the same wall while closing both eyes. Aleta drew her gaze to Biyan who looked tired, rubbed her head for a moment which made Biyan re-open her eyes and directed her at Aleta who seemed to blush embarrassed, then stopped her strokes.

            Biyan who did not want to lose that gentle swab, immediately held Aleta's hand that started to drop, returned it to the top of her head and smiled soothingly which made Aleta's heart beat fast.

            “Do not stop, Al. I need it.”

            Aleta nodded with both eyes blinking a few times. Biyan again leaned her head, closing her head as if to be a sign for Aleta to do it again. Aleta hesitated for a moment, sighing while watching her own hand still hovering in the air.

            “Do it, Al,” pinta Biyan without opening the eyes that make Aleta smile in doubt, then start doing it.

            “Loe likes it?”

            “Who, Reta?” Biyan again directed her gaze towards Aleta who seemed to shake her head.

            “When the head loe, swiped like this?’

            Biyan smile, “Very.” Biyan took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly. “Then, my sister always ngelakuin this whenever I'm tired for whatever reason. He always rubs my head until I sleep.”

            “She must be very fond of loe, right?”

            Biyan nodded, “Honey, before she married the man.” Biyan's calming expression changed instantly. He looks angry. His two eyes that had originally been set down, were now gleaming with emotion. Aleta more gently rubbed Biyan's head which immediately made the cold-faced handsome guy again set his eyes on her.

            “About?”

            “Then see me emotion?”

            Aleta nodded slowly. A nod that makes Biyan laugh funny even without a sound. Aleta lowered her hand, pulling her body straight ahead with a shy blush. Biyan.

His face was blushing from that embarrassment, making him laugh funny to see her often. Aleta who realized that Biyan just kept looking at him, immediately set her eyes in another direction. Trying to keep his face away from the look of Biyan's eyes that are still being taken care of him.

            “Gue will no longer be emotional in front of loe, Al.”

            Aleta spontaneously turned her gaze to Biyan. Aleta's gaze, made Biyan nod slowly as if she wanted to convince him of the promise she had just made.

            “Loe promise?”

            “Appointments. But if I have to be emotional, can I ask you one thing from loe?” biyan asked who only answered a nod from Aleta's head. “Don't leave me when emotions overwhelm me, Al. Because just looking at you, my emotions will not fully understand me. Can, right?”

            There was no reply from Aleta. The two of them just looked at each other without returning to their voices. Aleta's gaze this time was quite soothing for Biyan to receive, making her feel the warmth even though at that time, the wind continuously sent her cold on a night that looked cloudy with thick clouds dominating the sky. He was really comfortable being near Aleta. It was like inviting Aleta to continue to be around him at all times. But the condition that occurs, makes it difficult to persuade Aleta to stay at his house. Aleta herself even prefers to settle in the house given by Bimo.

            “Gue promises,” said Aleta who managed to pull a smile on Biyan's lips. “But... may I also ask something same loe, Bi?”

            “What?”

            Aleta took a breath for a moment, then exhaled slowly, “Never leave me, no matter what.”

            Biyan widened her smile, landing a soft kiss on Aleta's forehead which managed to make Aleta shocked instead of playing. Aleta's startled expression, again drew Biyan's laughter. The red hue on his face was back present which made his face even more funny in both eyes Biyan.

            “Gue promise, Al.”

            “One more!” said Aleta quickly without giving a pause after Biyan's sentence came out which momentarily made Biyan shocked. “Do not sell anything without permission, especially.... especially... about this!”

            Biyan laughed at Aleta's nervous tone. Biyan's laughter, felt a trick received by Aleta which made her continue to force Biyan to promise. Biyan was really unable to resist her laughter which increasingly presented a sense of regret in Aleta's heart seeing Biyan's seriousness. Realizing Aleta was lashing out at him, Biyan immediately grabbed onto Aleta's cheeks and pointed them at her.

            “Iya-iya, I promise, Al. I won't admit it without permission.”

            Aleta smile. Again the heat was present on her face which quickly diverted Aleta in the other direction. Biyan who found him again laughed which made Aleta upset, then landed small pinches on her stomach.

            Without both realizing it, Reta hears everything from behind her door. Alcohol still dominates it, but Reta's consciousness is not fully taken away by the illicit liquid. Reta is deliberately pretending to be drunk in front of Aleta in order to reveal everything. All the desire that had been in his heart. From the beginning he intends to meet Aleta by banging on her house, but the figure of Tyaz who

being present before him without being asked, made him have a good reason to meet Aleta, without having to bang on his house. Reta pulled her body down, sitting on the floor hugging her two legs that were purposely bent. Crying alone behind the door while continuing to hear Aleta and Biyan throwing jokes at each other outside.

            “I'm sorry, Al. Sorry because I've been mean to you,” he said half whispered with a cry that still dominates it.