Behind The Lies
The Distance Between Friendship and Hostility

Iyash helped Aruna stand up. “Please stop crying, the orphanage person may think I've made you cry.”

Aruna took a deep breath and took it out slowly.

“I'll take you inside.” Iyash opened his suit and attached it to Aruna's shoulders. “Please don't get me wrong, I'm just afraid you're cold.”

Aruna just kept quiet and let Iyash put the maroon on her. Afterwards the man knocked on the door next to the home and said his greetings.

“Have mother said cold,” Yanti scolding while opening the door. “Loh, there's Ashilla. Login-in.”

“Sorry because everyone will call you by that name.”

Aruna nodded. However, he could not pretend to be Ashilla, what would be a woman who was bitching and about to get married even out nights with other men, although what he did was also not right, he said, moreover, she is a married woman.

“Why? Wet like this?” ask Yanti worriedly. “Yash, get a towel.”

Iyash nodded and went to the back.

“Sorry, Mom, I'm Aruna her sister Ashilla.”

“Oh ...” Yanti's forehead frowned. “So, Mas Gusman has twins?”

Aruna nodded.

“Hmm, I thought you were Ashilla. He often came here to make a courtesy event, initially only Mr. Ganjar, but since Ashilla's sickly who replaced him. We are happy because Mr. Ganjar has remained a donor in this home even since this home was established.”

“But, Mom, why is there Iyash, is he a donor too?” ask Aruna curiously.

Yanti smiling. “Kok even chatted on the doorstep. Sit here, Son.” Yanti took Aruna to the sofa and before long Iyash brought back the towel he used to wear while there. For Iyash the orphanage was a second home.

“Ni, use my towel.”

Aruna looked up at the man.

“Not anything to use, this is clean, just finished in laundry.”

Aruna grabbed the towel.

“You can know, Yash? Intentionally targeting his sister?” yanti Goda.

Aruna quickly bowed and dried her hair. Iyash seemed to be misbehaving.

“Iyash is the grandson of the owner of this parlor,” said Yanti.

Aruna looked at the man. It turns out that the world is so narrow, has Iyash known for a long time about the origins of his father's family? No-no, Aruna doesn't want a lot of thoughts, she doesn't care about what's gone by.

“But, the bad news, she's hardest to get a girl.” Yanti smiling. “People are stiff,” he added whispered.

Aruna soaked her throat and bowed again, while Iyash himself did not even blink looking at her.

“Have known?” ask Yanti.

“We are friends SMA,” reply Iyash.

“SMA Friends? Ah, lest he's your girlfriend you made that park, yeah, ‘kan?”

Aruna and Iyash were instantly stunned.

“Sorry-sorry, I talk too much, so digress everywhere,” added Yanti when she saw Aruna and Iyash were both clumsy. “Ya I've stayed first. Later Mariam make hot tea for you.” Yanti.

“I don't drink tea,” says Aruna.

“Oh.” Yanti then looked at Iyash at a glance. The man often said that his girlfriend used to love tea mixed with cinnamon, apparently he was wrong because he thought the woman was his girlfriend Iyash, thought Yanti.

“Warm white water, Mom, thank you.”

“Good, yes already mom stay ya.” Yanti went to the kitchen.

“How long have you not been drinking tea?” ask Iyash curiously. “After I used to be you tea lover?”

“That was,” replied Aruna briefly.

“Oh, did that Doctor forbid you on health grounds?”

Aruna looked at the man sitting next to her. “He's my husband, and you need to know, he never forbade me in any way. He never set my life.”

Iyash was stunned, then nodded. Although it was painful, but his lips remained flat.

Long life for Faran, just talked about Aruna immediately got a call from him. The call made him surprised, until he was silent for a few seconds staring at the phone screen.

“Why not lift?” ask Iyash.

Aruna blinked and immediately shifted the answer button, after which Iyash's question was a command.

“Mas,” call Aruna nervous.

“Where are you, Darling?” ask Faran gently.

“Hah?” Aruna cringing. Why did Faran ask like that does the man know that he is not home?

“You did not answer Mother's phone, did not answer Ashilla's phone. They panic at you. Do you want to go to Bali?”

Aruna's heart is beating. “Hah, no kok, Mas, when I went to Bali.”

“That's it, Mas said it's impossible, you must have said that you left. But, from earlier they called you.”

“Sorry I didn't hear any phone calls, the rain was heavy.”

“Now where are you?” ask Faran worried.

“I ... Aruna circulates the view and stops at Iyash. “I'm just walking around, Mas, find some good food.”

Aruna bowed and smiled as she touched the nape of her own neck. It sounded clear that Faran was so worried. “Mas–”

“She said it rained there?”

“I-iya.”

“You're not rained on?”

Aruna shook her head slowly, but her lips locked. Of course his lies were felt by Faran.

“I don't want you to be sick anymore.”

“I'm fine, Mas.”

“Iya, Mas trust.”

“Mas, yes, I'm on the road again, want to go home, later if I've called again.”

“Yes, be careful. Don't forget to tell Mother with Ashilla, they are worried.”

Aruna immediately closed the call.

“Pinter really lied,” comments Iyash.

“So I have to say, if I'm here with you?” Aruna put her phone in the bag, then got up. “I have to go home.”

“But it's raining. There will be no taxi passing by,” Iyash said.

“I can order online.”

“Lama.” Iyash immediately got up. “I'll drive you home.” He then walked towards the exit.

Aruna followed him. However, when he was about to go out Yanti came to bring two glasses of warm water. “Loh where are you going?”

“I want to take Aruna home, Mom,” Iyash replied.

“But, it's still raining.” Yanti put the tray on the table.

“His family is worried.”

“Why to worry, he's safe here. You call Mr. Ganjar, let him know that his grandson is here.”

Instantly Aruna turned his head and looked at Iyash at a glance, then looked back at Yanti. “I'm sorry, Bu.” Aruna walked first past Iyash.

“Mari, Bu.” Iyash caught up with her and pulled the woman's hand to take her to the parking lot. He opens the car door and asks Aruna to come in.

Aruna flabbergasted.

“Quickly, later you get wet again,” said Iyash.

Aruna quickly entered and sat down next to the man. Suddenly his head was dizzy remembering the accident again. “I want to take a taxi.”

“Why the hell, you don't want–” Sentence Iyash choked when you saw Aruna out of his car. “Aruna!”

Aruna went to the terrace and booked a taxi through an online app. Fortunately yesterday had downloaded the application on the proposal of Faran.

Aruna's hands were trembling. Not cold, but because he hasn't been completely out of that trauma. Iyash snatched the phone from his hand.

“Why trouble? I can take you home.”

Aruna shakes. “Balikin, Yash,” pinta Aruna. However, Iyash kept him away. “Balikin!” yelled Aruna annoyed. “I should ask, why did you make it?”

“I'm just worried.”

“Not. You want me to depend on you as much as you used to. You will be proud when you feel needed by me, yes, ‘kan?”

Iyash wetting the throat.

“I should have realized that you haven't changed. You make friends with a lot of women and let them depend on you. You think everything will go according to your rules?” Aruna shakes. “You're narcissistic.”

“Aruna!” Iyash.

Aruna gasps.

“Quite, you know nothing about me,” said Iyash as he pointed his index finger.

“You also know nothing about me,” reply Aruna while retreating because she does not like when someone pointed their index finger at her. “I hope I never see you again.”

Iyash approached and placed the phone over Aruna's palm. “Home alone. I should have known that you're still a stubborn woman who wants to win by herself, pretentious, but actually crybaby and can't do anything. That's why your father married you to that doctor because he knew you couldn't live alone. Benalu will stick from one branch to another branch.”

THE PLAQUE! Aruna's palm grabbed Iyash's cheek for the first time.

Iyash. His cheeks were throbbing pain and heat. However, what shocked him was not because of the pain he felt, but because this was the first time he had gotten a slap from a woman. Aruna is her first love and hurt.

“You've insulted me, Yash. I should never have seen you again. I thought I was stupid to ask you to stay away, it turns out my decision was right.”

Both of Iyash's hands clenched firmly. Somehow he can't be as patient as he used to face Aruna? Now he was easily angered when others refused his help.

“You need to know, dad married me to Faran because dad knew that I would never be able to live with a grumpy guy like you.”

Iyash punched the wall near Aruna's head. Until the woman screamed in fear. Iyash's breathing hunted down and he immediately turned around without seeing Aruna's face again. He was about to get into the car, but remembered something, then reached into his pocket and returned to Aruna, he then placed a piece of photo on the palm of the woman's hand.

“I forgot that I just wanted to give you this.”

Aruna was still downcast and did not dare to show her pale face, until the man passed by with his car.

Aruna sat down and cried when she saw the photo in her hand. The photo Iyash took in Germany as he and Faran celebrated their second wedding anniversary.