Diamond Luster
Chapters 30. The stubborn star

"Hey..people have no heart, come down you" shouted some people from outside while banging on the glass of the Star car.

"What do those people want?. Maybe just find trouble"

The star out of his car was followed by Diamond. Once down from the car, the star was immediately greeted with a throw of rotten tomatoes.

"Based on thieves, give us back our land" said the mothers who were there while continuing to throw the Star with rotten tomatoes that they had prepared if the Star appeared.

"Stop!. You have dared to look for things with me" snapped the Star while protecting his face with his hands from the throws he received.

"Stop, please don't throw her again" Diamond ran to protect her husband.

"Lian, you don't be a traitor. This man is the mastermind behind our planned eviction settlement" said one of the most passionate mothers pelting the Bintang nonstop.

"Bin, you better get in the car. Let me try to talk to the people" Berlian said.

"This is my business, you don't need to interfere because I can solve this problem without your help" declined Bintang undaunted by the anger of the citizens.

"I ask you to disperse now before I call the police to disperse you, if necessary all of you I throw in jail for daring to find a case with me" snapped Bintang at his snobbery.

"Basic, arrogant man" a middle-aged woman who did not accept the words 'Star, tried to throw the Star using a stone the size of a baby's fist.

"Bin, look..." The diamond that saw it quickly protected her husband.

"God...." The diamond was stirring in pain while holding its left forehead.

"Lian, are you okay?" anxious Stars.

"Your head is bleeding..." The star became anxious and panicked to see fresh blood coming out of his wife's forehead. Residents who had been rioting suddenly shut up and blamed people who had thrown stones at the Diamond.

"Excession.." furious Star did not accept his wife as a victim.

"You have made me really angry. Now, you guys go home!"

"Pack up all your stuff!. Because I make sure tomorrow morning, your house is flat with the ground" threatened the dusty stars.

"Bin, don't..." The diamond shook weakly withstanding the pain and dizziness that came attacking due to the wound on his forehead.

"Everyone, I hope calm down. I promise I'll talk this through with my husband. So, it is better for mothers and fathers to disperse now" Berlian tried to persuade and calm the residents who did not accept his house to join in the rubble.

"His husband?" it was a shock of the citizens who did not know that the Diamond they knew as a good child was already married to a man who clearly had no heart.

"You disperse now or today your house is flat on the ground" snapped the Star unwilling to compromise.

"We go to the hospital now, let your wounds be treated" Bintang said.

"To the puskesmas only. Not far from here there is a puskesmas"

Without saying much more, Bintang led his wife into the car and then fled to the puskesmas in Berlian which only takes 8 minutes by car. If you obey his ego, Bintang prefers to bring the diamond to the hospital because it can be handled by the best doctors. Hmmm Stars yes hehe. But, looking at the blood that kept coming out of the Diamond's forehead, the quickest help should come first.

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"Mr, don't worry. The wound on the forehead of the father's wife is not severe, only the next 2 or 3 days will probably feel a little dizzy in his head and I have written a prescription drug that you can redeem" obviously the female doctor after finishing treating Diamond's forehead and covering her wound with a bandage, then handed a piece of paper to the Star.

"Thank you, doc" said the star as he received the white paper. The doctor left the Star alone with the Diamond.

"Why do you have to act stupid like that?. You don't have to take any action because I'll never revoke my decision to evict the residents' settlements"

Not the words of thanks that came out of his mouth Star, but the slur that made Diamonds coarse.

"You're wrong, what I did earlier had nothing to do with the eviction. I did it purely in defense of my husband's self-esteem that began to fall in the eyes of many. Don't you see, how these people no longer want to know who you are and they no longer have any respect for people who obviously have more power in the plantations where they make a living" lang Berlian mastered his disappointment in the hard attitude of the Star that is difficult to soften.

Hearing his wife's explanation, the silent Star of a thousand languages delves into the growing admiration of every time when it can feel also see realistically how Diamond is living her role as the perfect wife.

"Thank you for helping me. I'm sorry, I can't take good care of you"

Those words just slid from the mouth of the Star as his hand clasped his wife's head leaning against his chest.

Diamond is quite surprised, Star can be sweet towards her and she is confused about how to respond to her husband's sweet attitude. Diamonds can be silent.

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"Bin, can't you reexamine your decision ?. Is there no other path you can take besides eviction?" ask Diamond as they walk out of the puskesmas.

"There's nothing to review, the decision I made was unanimous. At the latest, the day after tomorrow, all the houses there have been flattened with the land" he replied fixed on his stance.

"Bin.., you can't just take a unilateral decision like this" Diamond stopped walking and jerked her husband's hand.

"I've warned you not to interfere in my affairs, what else is related to work. Whatever decision I make, I've taken careful consideration. So you don't need to be pretentious to judge the decisions I take" said Bintang jokingly discussing this.

"You only consider the economic value that you can get if the settlement of the finished citizens in the rushes and turned into a vast plantation and produced the coffers of priceless wealth. But are you also considering the adverse effects that the citizens will receive?"

"They're not just going to lose their land. They will lose their hard-earned home they built. They won't have a shelter anymore. Where would they live if you stayed angry?" clearly Diamond at length gives understanding to her husband.

"Where they want to live, that's their business. What is clear is that the eviction that will be carried out is already legally valid. So there is no reason for them to stay there" said Bintang, making Diamond do not know how to soften the hardness of her husband's heart.