Calibra: A Delayed Taste
CALIBRA | CHAPTER 56

"You wanna stop by for a meal?"

"I ate with Mba Shireen."

Audi turned his head, and he found Ibra who pursed his nose with slightly throbbing lips. Audi is amused, he pushes Ibra's shoulder which immediately laughs, his hand trying to keep the steering wheel safe. They were on their way home from the hospital.

"Mas Ibra what the hell, uh, looks like a kid's face."

"You don't wait for Mas, but Mas is hungry to eat again."

"And was Mas Ibra himself who told me to snack with Mba Shireen?"

"Snack, not eat until full. Very laper, Yang. Eat first, yuk?" Ibra rubbed her stomach with a slurry expression.

Seeing that Audi just rolled his eyes. "Who has been playing the game? Where is my hape batre until low anyway," he said as he sneered.

Audi folded its hands, throwing its face out of a window filled with street lights.

"Kan Mas wait for Kenan to sleep, Cla," said Ibra occasionally turned his head. "Eat, huh? No papa you just nemenin," he continued trying to persuade.

"Son, ah, it's sleepy. If you want to eat, eat by yourself. But later, take me home." Audi is still in the mode.

"Why are you, anyway, Yang?" ask Ibra wonder. "You're angry because Mas lama's with Kenan, aren't you?" guess it's kind of like the Audi mood.

The question was answered only by Audi. Ibra sighed, he then tried to reach one hand Audi, but stopped when Audi pulled him over.

"Bikin the sleeping child is not invited to play games, which there is even a preoccupation."

"Yes, I don't know how to sleep with a child. If you sleep ..."

"What!" audi sewot. His eyes bought at the annoying look of Ibra.

"Swinks, Honey. You're jealous of a kid, anyway."

"Who is jealous? I was just surprised, how Mas Ibra can be as patient as it takes care of people's children? I want to be told this, asked to buy this."

"Cla" whispered Ibra. "That's enough, huh?"

"Until when did Mas Ibra play Kenan's father?" Audi refused to give up.

"Claudia, please, we've talked about this before, right?" Ibra looked at it. "And you know what I'm going through."

"And Mas Ibra must know I don't like children, let alone people's children" Audi responded fiercely.

Silence enveloped the two, there was only the sound of Ibra's breathing being stifled many times long enough. He sidestepped the car to then stare at Audi completely.

Audi looked at the man for a long time. Somehow his heart was back tossed to find Ibra's response. Would Audi be too much if he was jealous of Kenan? Does Audi seem evil if he does not like the closeness of Ibra and the child?

Although Audi itself knows and understands everything that happens, but until when? How long should he share Ibra with others?

"It's only been a few days, you know, Cla. How will it go ahead? Before becoming a girlfriend, you should have understood what to face. Inevitably you have to practice regulating ego and emotions."

Ibra reached out to grab the side of Audi's face, she stared into her brilliant girl's eyes. "You know Mas's bound by a promise with Rega. Mas has sacrificed his trust by divorcing Shireen. You can't just leave Kenan. Kenan has no family other than his mom and grandmother."

I don't know since when the eyes of Audi have been shadowing. He looked at Ibra with a deep frown. "Mas only thought of them, but did Mas Ibra ever think how I felt when Kenan assumed that I was the woman who took the husband from his mother? Did Mas Ibra ever ask why I want to date Mas? Mas Ibra never asked why I was angry when Mas lived alone in Kenan's room. I never want to know how I feel!" exclaim Audi angry.

"Because in Mas's mind there was only guilt on Rega, a promise that made Mas feel obliged to look after Shireen and Kenan. The promise that made Mas act like a stupid man with no purpose. Maybe Kenan was a good boy in Mas's eyes, but in my eyes he was nothing more than a little devil trying to keep me away from a man who wasn't his father!"

" It's Claudia!"

"Well, I've even locked myself in the toilet! And neither Mas nor Mba Shireen knew about it!!" exclaim Audi hard. His breath and Ibra were both breathless.

For a moment Ibra realized that he had snapped at Audi. Ibra was a little hesitant to apologize, but Audi immediately brushed off his two hands that had been perched on the side of the girl's face.

Ibra pecked, he blinked as Audi sobbed before him.

"Cla" whispered Ibra. "Mas sorry-"

"Emang has never understood my feelings since long ago" said Audi with a vibrating voice. "Mas Ibra only wants to be understood, but Mas himself never understood how sick I waited decades, then finally Mas Ibra married each other. Continue ... continue now Mas Ibra also ask me to understand? What do I understand? Should I give up on them again? Da? Tell me, what should I do?!"

Audi shrunk his wet face using his sleeves. He tried to stop crying and return to being tough, although his look and appearance could not hide the remaining damp.

"I was too tired to be in the phase of vacillating without clarity, plus now Mas Ibra requires me to understand Mas's complicated problems and does not make sense to me. I ... I don't know how to hold on until when."

Hearing that Ibra's countenance was filled with anxiety. He scooped up Audi's hand as he continued to look at her full of supplication. "Cla, we've only been in a relationship for three days. You just haven't gotten used to everything."

"Not used to? Then, do you want me to get used to all this pain? This jealousy? I want to keep feeling restless every time Mas nemuin Kenan and Mba Shireen, do you?"

"Mas told you not to worry about Shireen. There's nothing to do with him. We have agreed to separate, and more certainly our contract has been completed," said Ibra.

"But that doesn't erase the fact that you've been married" Audi argued.

Ibra was already looking frustrated rubbing her face rough. "How many times do you have to insist it's just a contract?" He looked at the messy Audi. "Mas should how else? If possible, Mas also want to go back in time so as not to end up marrying Shireen. But it's all happened, right?"

"What matters is that you love her, don't doubt it."

"Oh, yeah, honey. Don't cry anymore, Mas apologise," Ibra continued wiping Audi's face.

"If only Mas had to choose, would Mas love me more or Kenan?" ask Audi suddenly. "Mas choose me or Kenan and Mba Shireen?"