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Perceiver

"In the Day of Resurrection every traitor will carry a flag that he hoists high according to his betrayal. Know that there is no greater betrayal than a ruler's betrayal of his people."

(CHR. Muslim).

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Amira sat in a cafe near the city university, in her hands she carried a colored sheet of paper some pictures of minimalist home buildings. He observed one by one the clarification of the advantages of one house with another, do not think that Amira wants to buy a house. If there is a desire, but it will only be a desire because for Amira it is only limited to false expectations, I don't know. Actually, when he was about to walk to the minimarket opposite there were two young men who spread the housing brochure, and with pleasure Amira received. And so now Amira is busy observing images with those criteria.

Amira is still busy choosing, she compares one house to another. Amira is busy with herself and occasionally takes a sip of the hot chocolate she ordered. It seems strange in the middle of the hot afternoon he ordered hot chocolate but it did not reduce the desire of Amira.

This afternoon the sun shines at full strength after a night of high enough rainfall, may feel excessive heat but according to Amira no, this is only a factor of the body that has not adjusted the temperature.

Amira folded the paper and she accidentally saw the address of the brochure and she was quite surprised, because the address shows the area near here which means there has just been a clearing of land for housing. Amira sighed, perhaps the rice fields would soon be eroded away due to human civilization.

Amira took a sip of her hot chocolate and then she took out a packet of wet bread that she had bought at the minimarket. Amira eats the bread with blueberry jam quietly every once in a while she moves her phone screen to see the writing underneath.

"Sorry too late" said Luluk, who put his bag on the chair.

"Assalamualaikum warohmatullahi wabarokatuh," said Amira made Luluk turn his head.

"Getishalight." Luluk sat a three-year-old girl in a chair. Then Luluk immediately took a seat next to him.

"It's been a while?" Amira looked at Luluk for a while then turned towards the child who was sitting while nodding. He answered honestly what he asked he did not want to mince words or say something that could calm his interlocutor.

"Why do you look at my son like that?" Amira turned her head then she made her lips in a straight line.

"Nothing" replied Amira casually then she took a sip of chocolate that was no longer hot.

"Want to?" amira asked Luluk's son.

"No, my son does not eat bread." Amira stared then she nodded when she knew very well that the little boy had wanted the wet bread that Amira offered as evidenced by the round ball of the child's world window which was always staring at him and also the presence of bread.

"You don't want to order anything?" Amira looked at Luluk.

"No, because I just want to say that stay away from Farhat and Fatih. Just stay away from both of them because since meeting you again the relationship between the two is getting messy." Amira looked at Luluk with a face not surprised at all. He was already numb to the scathing remarks of the woman in front of him, he had already been well aware all along who was the person he regarded as a best friend.

"Where is my fault?" Amira asked casually as if the matter did not bother her at all, but it was true that it did not bother her in the least. Amira never tries to reintroduce the two brothers into her life and the fate that brought them together.

"Whoever is the destroyer. As a shameless actor." Amira looked at Luluk then she turned to look at the little boy who had been sitting quietly since. Amira salutes enough with Luluk's upbringing that does not make the little girl afraid of his screams.

"Egglers?" Amira said the word decapitatedly, she still thought hard about the meaning of the word. Honestly, that word is very foreign to him.

"Yes, don't be so innocent. I saw you and Farhat meeting and eating together a while ago. And it made Farhat's great quarrel with Fatih." Amira was increasingly made dizzy with Luluk's speech which he thought was not grooved.

"Keep me wrong?"

"Yes, you're wrong. You've ruined Farhat and Fatih's good relationship. And even more fatal, you are the main cause of Farhat to sue for my divorce. Did you not think? what is my fate and also the fate of my son. I thought you were my friend but you're not my friend but you're my enemy." Amira wanted to laugh at Luluk's words but he said it because there was something more important than that.

"You know karma, Amira? Karma will come to you, I swear that you will feel what I feel." Luluk said that with a deep tone and breath up and down because of holding emotions that Amira said were not important.

"There's more to it?"

"You cheap woman, you seductress!" Luluk looked at Amira full of anger, while Amira he was much better at overcoming his anger. Because he believes anger will bring disaster if we obey him.

"Your language, here is your child who will most likely imitate all the words of his mother." Amira gave the warning in an ordinary tone unaffected.

"I don't care! She should know that the woman in front of her mother was a cheap and despicable woman." Amira silenced a thousand languages, she really wanted to answer but she chose to hold him back so that he would not make a mistake.

"All right, what do you want?"

"Stay away from my family." Amira turned towards Luluk with a face that looked astonished.

"Your family? Have I ever approached a family that you consider to be yours? I thought I never." Luluk stared hard at Amira.

"It looks like you've got the wrong target, Luluk." Amira shifted her brown cup then put her clutched hand on the table and leaned over her body. "How about we flashback for a moment." Amira leaned her body on the chair then looked at Luluk with a calm radiance.

"When I had a relationship with Farhat you supported and encouraged even you who advised me to get married. However, due to a principle between the two of us and breaking off the relationship, you suddenly blamed me. If your point of view as my friend, I'm sure you will support every decision I make. Not just playing with my ex-husband who has not finished his business with me." Amira looked at Luluk's face.

"But take it easy I don't blame you, because that way I know the quality of Farhat and also the quality of my friend." Amira smiled and then cleaned up the stuff.

"And for all the unwarranted accusations that you make. I'm just saying, if you want your hopes fulfilled don't tell me all that, but tell Farhat and Fatih. And I didn't start a relationship with either." Amira stood up from her seat she picked up her bag and said her greetings. Not even greeting answered Amira had left the table to the cashier to pay for the hot chocolate he had spent.

"Mr Dinan?" Amira was shocked when she saw that Dinan was already in front of the cafe as she was about to get out.

"Yes it's me," replied Dinan flatly as if there was no problem at all between the two.

"Brother want to come in?" Amira looked at Dinan who had been looking down since.

"No, I just want to make sure of something." Amira looked to the will and left.

"Alright then I go first, assalamualaikum warohmatullahi wabarokatuh." Amira stepped away from Dinan who had been looking at her, Amira did not realize that Dinan was looking at her.

Amira walks to the minimarket across the street, he wanted to buy a drink because he had been really thirsty since talking to Luluk earlier but he tried to hold it and now it seems like he can't stand it he needs a drink so he refocused.

Amira came in and immediately took a bottle of bottled drinks, she paid then she sat in the front seat of the minimarket. He thought, Amira too often seems to find a coincidence with Dinan. Not together but meeting with Dinan.

Amira so thought that the meeting with Dinan that could be considered unintentional was an element of intent, because he could make sure it happened often. If only once could it be an element of accident but this is often the case. It must have been intentional but for what?

Amira put the bottle down and then she scanned her finger, there was a sense of emptiness when she saw nothing on her finger. He felt something was missing, but what?

The ring?

Yes, Amira just remembered that she usually wears a ring on her ring finger. But at the moment the ring was not on his finger he gasped in surprise at the thought that the ring could be removed. Amira bit her lower lip, she felt anxious. He beristighfar then he tried to remember where he last saw the ring. But it was basic forgetting, he could not remember at all.

Amira grabbed her bottle and then she opened the lid and drank it, she still thought where she put or saw the gift ring from her brother. But whether it was a gift or not, he did not remember but his eyes actually found a scene that was able to make his heart turn upside down. On the street near the minimarket he saw the woman who lived with Dinan and the woman who was with Dinan at Faris' house shaking hands with each other.

Really, what other game is this???

Amira was very surprised by the extremely unreasonable sight. Don't tell me the assumption is true, that both of them are old wives and young wives of Dinan. No, he was unable to continue his thinking. Amira immediately stood up she closed her drinking bottle tightly then stuffed it into the plastic bag she was carrying. He immediately walked quickly towards the highway and stopped the taxi passing in front of him. He needs to go home to cool his brain.

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