Behind The Lies
Lamenting Grief

“Maira, her name is Maira,” said Edgar while giving Ashilla medicine. Of course Ashilla frowned not understanding.

“Who's Maria?” ask Miranti in curiosity.

“Maira, her name is Maira.” Edgar repeated the sentence.

“Maira who?” ask Ashilla annoyed. “Rome home as a hypnotized person,” grunts.

“The daughter is Doctor Mirza,” replied Edgar.

Ashilla and Miranti immediately sat down with both eyebrows raised.

Edgar came out of Aruna's room with a face. The man was like he had just been bewitched.

“You've eaten?” ashilla asked Aruna.

Aruna shakes. Let alone eating, drinking not, other than just when conscious of fainting.

“I get you a meal first, later you can take medicine,” said Ashilla while putting the medicine on the table.

Aruna neither shook nor nodded. Ashilla doesn't need her approval, she stays in the kitchen to get food for her twin sister.

“You ate first with Ashilla, finished taking rest medicine. Mommy wants to talk to Edgar.”

Aruna nodded. Miranti also left her room. In the silence Aruna saw the shadow of Iyash, the angry face of the painful sentence that Iyash threw back gnarled. A lot has changed in Iyash. However, not this time he felt it, first when he was about to live in Jakarta ten years ago, before the accident happened, Iyash was very foreign in his mind. Two years of dating didn't make him understand who Iyash was and how he really was. Looking back he finally knew that Iyash was like that.

Ashilla returned from the kitchen and broke her daydream. “You're out of the house quietly, where are you going?” put the glass on the table, then sit down.

“Sorry to trouble.” Aruna quickly sat up straight to eat.

“Eat first.” Ashilla gave the plate she held.

Rice with vegetable soup does not make it tasteful. But he still has to eat.

“We panicked because you didn't answer the phone, so was forced to call Faran.” Ashilla got up and prepared the medicine. “So we can call again he said you went out and already want to go home.” Ashilla sat down.

“If I may know, where are you going?”

Aruna looked at her brother without blinking.

“Your experience today is safe with me.” Ashilla tried to convince him.

“I ...” Aruna paused his sentence long ago.

“What does it have to do with yesterday's shipment?”

Aruna nodded.

“Iyash?” Ashilla waited for Aruna's next nod. “You met Iyash?”

Aruna wet her throat. He then put the dishes on the table and started taking medicine followed by water.

Ashilla sighed. “Why don't you take me?”

“Make what?”

“At least there are people accompanying you.”

“I did meet him.”

“For?”

“Apologies.”

“Oke.” Ashilla nodded. “So, you guys are better?”

“Makes worse. He's changed a lot.”

“So what is your fault?” Ashilla held Aruna's hand. “All the changes that occur in the lives of others, whether it be good or bad though, it is not your fault.”

Aruna. Slowly the water in both eyes spilled.

“All because of me, Shill.”

 “Run, maybe you misunderstood.”

Aruna shakes. “I just realized that for two years of dating I always obey all her wishes.”

 “Oh, so you feel guilty for something that has passed?”

Ashilla termangu's.

“After arriving in Jakarta I know everything. He showed his original temperament. All this time he just wanted to set me.”

Aruna took a breath. He bowed while wiping his tears. “I think I found my true self in Iyash, it turns out I was wrong. Ever since I came to Jakarta I refused to stay at his house, but he was angry and insulted my status. I finally realized that I couldn't depend on him.”

Ashilla nodded. He rubbed Aruna's back gently. “I know Iyash is a little authoritarian,” Ashilla still remembers when Iyash forbade him to come home and forced to drive him, Iyash did not even hesitate to threaten when he refused to be his adoptive mother Lily, “but, Iyash did not even hesitate to threaten when he refused to be his adoptive mother, not that it's your fault.”

Aruna pensive. “Sometimes he does like to impose a will.”

“What's the difference with Opa?” sahut Ashilla's. “Maybe that's why I don't agree. She once told Mother that she lost you when you were dating Iyash. Mother also asked me to stay away from Iyash.”

Aruna nodded. Finally he understood and realized that all this time his father had acted properly to marry him to Faran. His father had also taken the right step by taking his own path to raise himself. One that he must believe that all of it is the decree of the Almighty. God knows what is best for him.

Ashilla patted the back of Aruna's hand. “Udah do not think, you are the luckiest dapetin Faran.”

“I regret ever betraying Mas Faran.”

“Because you met Iyash secretly?” guess Ashilla.

Aruna quickly shook her head. “Because when he proposed to me in front of dad, when he married me, my heart was stuck in Iyash.”

“Sstttt ...” Ashilla hugged her brother. “What matters now is not. I can already see the love in your eyes for Faran.”

Ashilla then stroked Aruna's cheeks. “Udah don't cry anymore. Now you better rest. Tomorrow I want to take you to the salon, but if it hurts gini, we should treat at home only time yes.”

Aruna smiled as she nodded.

“Do not hurt again ah, ‘kkan I want to marry. Opa period healed you sick.”

“Still yes, Shill.”

“Iya, if there is anything just say.”

Aruna nodded and hugged Ashilla's waist. “Still yes, Brother.”

Ashilla laughs. “Geli is really called Sister. Kayak Bunda called Bude, ngadat abis-uran.”

Aruna smiled. “Please. I always wanted to have a sister like you.”

“Iya, sister. You better sleep now. Faran must be worried, from earlier nanyain, you have arrived home yet?”

Aruna let go of her embrace. Ashilla then rose. “Sleep yes, I'm also tired.”

“Sleep here aja,” pinta Aruna.

“Lonely yes because there is no husband?” ashilla Goda.

Aruna smiled. “Please.”

“Ya udah.” Ashilla got into bed and slept next to Aruna.

***

A woman was in front of the mirror. The black lines under the eyes make it look bad.

“You haven't slept?” roy asked as he sat on the bed.

“Have been a few days I can not sleep,” replied Dewi.

“Why? Any problems?”

The goddess turned and turned back on the glass. “Help me meet my son just once.”

“You have asked for it often, meet for yourself, your past is none of my business.” Roy pulled the blanket.

Pensive goddess. Why Roy could calmly say that. “I knew you married me not out of love, but out of wanting a child, after Adisty and Shaka were born, I thought you were going to dump me, but no, you inaugurated our series marriage, you did not want to, you complete everything so that our marriage is recognized by the country, but you know I left the people I love for–”

“Harta,” review Roy. “You've had a good life, so, stop thinking about the past.”

The heart of the Goddess is piercing. “But, he is also my son,” he said softly.

“Adisty and Shaka are much more important.” Roy broke his body, turned and turned back to his wife.

The Goddess' hand clenched firmly, she bowed while lamenting her sorrow.

***