A Handful of Love for You
14. Love is Blind

Atep POV

“Tep, how is your thesis?”

Teh Iyah asked me about my script when I visited her new home.

“Yes that is, Tea. There are revisions everywhere. The lecturer is rather difficult to find and super fierce.”

“He complicates you?

“No also anyway. It's just that Atep is often upset with this guidance counselor. She's the supervising lecturer who replaced the previous supervising lecturer who is on maternity leave."

"It is customary for a teacher like that. They are often difficult to find because they are busy, can indeed be really busy or say busy because they do not want to be disturbed by student guidance."

"Maybe so, Tea. Atep was just upset with him"

“What's upset about why? He complicates you?”

“Not complicate it but the talk is always unpleasant."

“Not convenient how?” ask Teh Iyah.

“Like nudu that assortment, Tea. He often accuses without evidence. I like to be angry, unclear. Atep is often confused as he.”

“Leave you clarification only if what he accuses is not true.”

“Difficult, Tea. The guy is arrogant and likes it. If he is not a lecturer and a woman, I have finished the arrogant woman like him.”

“Oh she's female. Yes, you must also maklumin oruh, Tep. Sometimes if the woman has a time to like bad mood. So maybe he's in a bad mood after meeting you.”

“His bad mood every time? Atep also understood that once every month there are times when women in a bad mood. But this is every meeting always angry unclear. Bad mood every meet.”

“Still young?”

“What, Tea?”

“She is young?” Tea repeated the question.

“It looks like he's not over 30. Maybe a year or two older than Atep. Atep also did not know much about the lecturer.

“Maybe he has a crush on you,” said Teh Iyah surprised me.

“Ih amit-amit deh if assessed by a nyebelin lecturer like him.”

Be careful Tep loh, later kemakan same talk yourself.”

“Do not arrive, Tea. There was a normal guy who liked him. Iiih far away from female models so.”

“And we never know who our soul mate is. The trick that every time asking for a good soul mate eh even dapetin soul mate like his father Aras and Aris who nyebelin. We can not choose our soul mate, it is determined from there but we can get the soul mate we want.”

"How do we get the soul mate we want when we can't choose our soul mate?"

"If we want to be good people, we have to be good people. A good man for a good woman, a good woman for a good man. On the contrary men are evil for women who are evil and women who are evil for men who are evil" explained Teh Iyah

"The good betrothed gets the soul mate of his father Aras and Aris who is not good. How's that theory?"

"That means Teteh has not been a truly good woman in the eyes of God."

"For Atep, Teteh is the best woman in the world. The devil never does anything bad. So Atep wondered Teteh matchmaking with his father Aras and Aris.

"Don't judge the book from its cover, Tep. In your eyes his father Aras and Aris are bad people but in the eyes of his family, he is a good person. In my eyes, he is a good man. He made mistakes but he admitted his mistakes and tried to be a better person. Ex-bad guys are better than ex-good guys, right?"

“Hm..” Teh Iyah blushed in embarrassment when stating that she loved her husband.

“Now Teteh's husband is no longer annoying, right?” ask again.

“Iya. Teteh already said that he wants to change. Now she loves the same. He wants to follow what he wants Teteh including living in Bandung. Tete also never thought that A Endra turned like this.”

“Alhamdulillah then. Atep mah happy if Teteh also happy. But if Teteh's husband dares to hurt Teteh again, he will have to face Atep.”

“Thank you very much, Tep. Thank you for accompanying and helping you so far. I don't know what it would be like if there wasn't you.”

“Atep mah what the hell is not for Teteh. Teteh's family has helped his family a lot Atep.”

“Teteh must be praying for the best for you. Hopefully quickly finished the script continues quickly deh lamar girls people.”

“Still away Tea.”

Ah, it seems like there is no chance for me to get the love of Teh Iyah. But I'm happy if Iyah Tea is happy. Just let me keep my love for Teh Iyah to death. The position of Teh Iyah will not be replaced in my heart. I kept the name Teh Iyah in the safest place in the corner of my heart, the most special place.

“Teteh must be happy, right?” my many.

“Eh?…..”

“Teteh happy to have gathered together with her husband tetah again?”

“That's great, Tep. Teteh never thought that Teteh would gather again with Teteh's husband. Teteh did not think that Teteh loved her husband so much. Her feelings now Teteh loved her even more.”

“Love is blind like that huh, Tea?”

“Hm...”.

“He who has hurt Teteh in such a way but Teteh still forgives and even loves him more,” I said softly

“Love is blind. It seems very precise that expression. Maybe you consider Teteh stupid for accepting and forgiving the man who has hurt Teteh. But love can beat all that.”

“Love can make us stupid so yes, Tea?”

“Later you will feel it when you fall in love. Love does not make logic. Others may think we are stupid and do not use common sense but we feel love. We feel whether we are happy or not. Tetah who feels happiness with A Endra, then Teteh will heed the ears of the speech of the people.”

“But Atep doesn't want to be a fool for love. It doesn't make sense that we're fools for love.”

“Ah that's because you've never been in love, Tep.”

“If falling in love can make us stupid, it looks like Atep will not want to fall in love.”

“We can't resist when we fall in love, Tep. We cannot choose who we fall in love with. If the heart has not been beating, all logic will be ambyar. Tetah is lucky to be surrounded by people who love and understand Teteh so as not to judge when Teteh decides to be together again with A Endra. There are many women who do not get the support that Teteh gets. That is why many women are shocked at their happiness just because they listen to the words of others. For Teteh, what Teteh feels, that is what Teteh will live, including deciding to be together again with his father Aras and Aris.”

I shuddered at the words of Iyah tea.

“Teteh pray you fall in love with your lecturer, Tep.”

I shuddered more and more to hear the prayer of Teh Iyah.

The laughter of Tea Iyah sounded melodious in my ears. Love makes us stupid. Stupidly I love a woman who already has a husband and a daughter and the woman I love is very much in love with her husband. Iyah tea is right, love does make humans stupid.

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to be continued....