Waiting for your Love to Grow

Ask for Divorce

"What do you need to do to see me?" asked Nabila, shortly after he dropped his body on the chair facing his interlocutor.

"Of course I want to talk about the man I love the most. I have nothing to do with you but trouble with Denis" Jenica said arrogantly.

"That penis is my husband, so what is the business of another woman like you with a married man? Or indeed you are used to being busy with the affairs of married men" said Nabila with a mocking smile.

"Wife?" Jenica smiled no less cynical. "Are you sure Denis thinks you're his real wife? While in front of his friends he introduced himself as his brother, you yourself introduced yourself as his assistant. What kind of marriage is that?" Said Jenica who then sipped the drink in front of her.

Nabila did not accept what her ex-boyfriend said, but she tried to refrain from being provoked by her emotions. "Then what do you want?" Challenge Nabila.

"Leave Denis! Ask for a divorce!" said Jenica firmly. "Why do you maintain a marriage that is not based on love in it? As long as you know, Denis still loves me a lot" he added.

"If my husband still loves you so much, why don't you ask him to divorce me? If he really wants a divorce from me, then I will gladly accept it" said Nabila who still trying to show his composure.

"Because as a woman, I feel sorry for you. Isn't abandonment more painful than leaving? So let you not be very sick, you better ask for a divorce. Don't you love Denis too?" Said Jenica who then casually sipped the drink in front of her.

Jenica's last question made Nabila speechless. What Jenica said was not all wrong, because in fact Nabila herself did not know how she felt about her husband, although she had promised her husband yesterday to learn to love the man she had just married for a few months.

Jenica looked at the anxiety that was gushing out on Nabila's face. For a moment his frown seemed to think of something, before he finally opened his mouth again. "Or don't you fall in love with her?" Tanya Jenica was full of questions.

"Men like Denis will easily make a lot of women fall in love. He is handsome, well-established and highly appreciative of women. But, they must know that he is not a man who easily falls in love and gives his heart to women. So if Denis does you a favor, don't be so confident that he already loves you. Because Denis will indeed pay attention to the women around him. But only that, not love" said Jenica followed a cynical smile on Nabila.

"Is it really like that? Is his concern for me all this time just as ordinary attention as he treats other women?" Tanya Nabila in heart. There was a sudden pain approaching his feelings.

"So I beg you, Nabila, please stay away from her! Let go of him ! Let him live happily with me! I know Denis hasn't been happy with your marriage, so let me make him happy. I love her so much and I know she still loves me so much" Jenica said expectantly. His voice was lower than before.

Nabila smiled bitterly at Nabila's words. It was undeniable that his feelings this time were completely messed up. Between anger, disappointment, and fear mixed into one. His eyes now looked teary, but he tried hard to keep him from falling.

"If you want Denis to come back to you, ask him yourself. If he chooses you, I'll be breastfed because it means I don't deserve him. But if Denis prefers me, then get out of our lives" challenge Nabila.

Nabila intended to leave the place, but not until he stood up, suddenly his cellphone on the table rang. The screen of the phone showed a name that was actually foreign to Nabila, because he felt he had never stored a number in the phone with the name "my dear husband".

Without being told, Nabila can guess who gave such a name in his phone. She also showed a smile, feeling silly with her husband. Conversely, Jenica who had a glimpse of the name of someone who tried to contact Nabila through the video call, looks furious. His hands were squeezing the edge of his clothes.

"Assalamu'alaikum, mas!" Sapa Nabila, after the green button he slide so that it shows the face of the person who contacted him.

Jenica roughly put down the glass that she had just gulped down the contents, thus making some of the contents splatter out. He was hot with the facts he saw. The man he loved, said a word of affection to others who were none other than his own wife.

"You're done not yet lunch, if I haven't followed you there yet?" Ask Denis.

"I'm going back, Mom. So Denis did not need to come here" said Nabila.

" Yes, I ate the food you made then. You go straight home, baby, don't stop by anywhere" Denis said.

"Yes mas, met lunch yes mas", exclaimed Nabila.

"Bye, sweetheart. Careful home!" Denis cried before he closed the window of his phone, accompanied by a sweet smile from his wife.

After putting his phone in the bag, Nabila moved from his seat. He was indifferent to the face of Nabila who was so reddened by holding back anger. "Excuse me", said Nabila firmly, before then he really moved away from the restaurant, leaving Jenica who was busy with her sense of rhythm.

*****

The middle hour shows at 20:35, when Nabila had just cleaned up because he was about to rest. He climbed into bed and tried to close his eyes, but apparently the drowsiness never came. He just turned his body on the bed. There is a strange feeling when he had to sleep alone, because some days Denis always accompany his sleep.

Bored, he got up and picked up a book from his own room. After getting the book he wanted, he returned to the bed in Denis' room. She intended to wait for her husband to come home, while reading a book. Although her husband told her not to wait for her to come home tonight.

After reading several tens of pages of the book, Nabila's focus was shifted when his phone rang, indicating a new message came in. He also put the book he had read on the nightstand and turned to his cellphone which had just been reached by his right hand. At first glance looks happy curate on the face of Nabila, because he is sure that the message that just entered his phone is a message from the husband.

However, immediately Nabila's face changed. When he saw the name of the sender of the message, especially when he managed to open the contents of the message. A grain of water instantly fell from his eye pellet onto his smooth cheek.

Two photos are still open on his cell phone, showing the person he was trying to love, was with the woman he had met at the restaurant this afternoon.

Indeed, the photo does not show the activity of the two of them were making out or in a very close position, even one of the photos only shows Denis who was chatting with someone, standing on his back to Jenica. However, where the background of the photo was made, made Nabila disappointed with her husband.

In the photo it is very clear that the former lovers are in one area of the hotel. Which unsuspecting wife found her husband with another woman who obviously wanted her husband, was in the hotel, it was a situation that was happening to Nabila.

Nabila seemed devastated and disappointed to see the photos. "This is why you forbid me to wait for you to come home? because you're going home late because of a preoccupation with other women. Is it really time for me to let you go?"

Nabila's cry broke instantly. Long enough it happened, until fatigue ambushed him and he fell asleep in a state still as unwilling.