ERIKA (The Slandered Woman)
Chapter 15

Hape Aldo trembled shakes in his pocket without any ringtones bothering the important person in front of him. He ignores it because now his sir's marriage with Sinta has taken place.

For the sake of his sense of responsibility that had tarnished Sinta, Aldo halfheartedly pledged his sacred promise, without any love in his heart.

"Well...!" The same choir of witnesses in the living room of Sinta's house was heard after Aldo's sacred pledge was thrown after having slipped the name of Erika during the first experiment. Prayers and congratulations are also said for the bride.

There is no big event in their wedding like the reception and others make Mother Rani's heart a little stuck. And that's Sinta's own will. I don't know why, only Sinta knows. In essence, Sinta only gave an excuse that siri wedding does not need to be made a big event. Shame said.

"I have a call from Aria. I'll take care of you." Aldo whispered whispers to Sinta and was given a nod of agreement from his new wife.

Aldo was looking for a quiet room to return to contact Aria. If nothing matters, then Aria will not recall it twenty-three times.

"Hello, my God Al. Where the hell are you going?" Aria immediately snickered the anxiety across there.

"Gue exists. Why the hell?" Aldo replied not excited. Although he had got a replacement for Erika, but somehow his heart space felt empty. Like his world there were no more words of spirit.

"Lo knows Melati's mother, right?"

Aldo spontaneously glanced at the largest house from the others in front of Sinta's house. Yep... Mother Melati and Sinta her house face each other. "You. why?"

"You too, Afnan? Mother Melati's son who one month ago just returned from Singapore?"

Aldo clucking lazy. This friend is on a whim or again a prank. Instead of saying the important thing, Aria even wants to ngajak ghiba like it. "If nothing matters, don't miss me, Ar. I was busy __"

"Woi... Don't be bego! It's about your wife!"

The love? What's wrong with her? Not that his wife was again chatting with the chairman of RT and pak penghulu and other witnesses. There was nothing to worry about, but Aria's voice on the other end was like someone being chased by loan sharks.

"Icha and Erika were taken by Afnan to the hospital, Al. You hustle down here. Here I am again from voracity." Aria did end up following Afnan's car from behind when Aldo was difficult to contact. And Aria also does not know what is the problem of Aldo and Erika who have fallen.

Degs...

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Degs...

"Miscarriage?" Afnan gasped in shock when the female doctor in front of him told the fate of Erika who he said lost her fetus. So, the woman who makes her sleep difficult is the wife of the man? Not the big brother of the little boy who was in elus gently his head by his mother? Oh my god, he likes same wife people! Crazy one! Cuneiform! But... Why is it that his heart has trouble accepting that fact? In his silence, Afnan cursed at his heart that misaddressed like bini people.

"It's worth it that Icha keeps whining calling her Mom and Dad..." inner Afnan just railed against the voice of Icha because she was too anxious by the state of the foreign woman but managed to make her heart shake at the first sight of the day.

"He's not her husband, Doc. We're just his neighbors." Melati's mother immediately cleared up the Doctor's misunderstanding. He does not want any slander to defile his son's name.

"Oh, so yeah. Sorry if I was mistaken, sir."

"Uncle... Mother. Want Mom!" Icha also whined which turned out to have shuffled on the side of Afnan. Her tiny hand clasped Afnan's index finger as she wiggled slowly.

"The condition of the patient is not yet conscious, but God willing will gradually improve. And you can take turns to visit him." The Doctor passed away after giving understanding.

Afnan was preparing to enter, but stopped by the sound of his mother. "Let Mama come in with Icha."

What can be done, Afnan can only sit contemplating in the waiting chair.

"Yaelaaah... Nan, pity your heart is the only one. Haven't fought uda checkmat first. People's wives, Nyuk!" Afnan monologues self-mockery. He was astonished at her heart that had been hiopnitis first the same woman who only saw a shady face full of affection and a soft voice - soft melodious Erika when she first met on the street complex time that's.

"Sin...!"

"Astagfirullah adzim, Mama kok like a demon anyway ehh..." Oup... Afnan's mouth does like to not berfilter when it is being shocked. This mama hit him on the shoulder while calling him a little sniffy. Yes... So it's keceplosan ngatain Mama's a demon. And managed to make his mother's eyes almost jump from her container because of a spooky glare.

"Erika's not sober yet. You take care here, Mama wants to go home and bring Icha to her family. And tell them too."

Afnan just nodded. It doesn't sound as much as usual.

And the departure of his mother with Icha who was exhausted, Afnan decided to go to the hospital canteen, buy cold drinks and bread to fill his stomach which was not yet lunch. Finished filling up, he also traced the hallway to Erika's nursery.

Afnan's swing stopped when he heard a male voice inside. At the maximum level, he sharpened his hearing while peering a little from the blemish of the outpatient that was not tightly closed.

It turns out that his departure to the cafeteria, Erika's husband came and the woman he helped was already human.

"Why are you quiet, Erika? Answer me! Why didn't you tell me about pregnancy? And it even ended in miscarriage!"

Erika just stared at the sky of the room with her eyes. He was tired of being born inwardly at this moment. It feels like the world and everyone is blaspheming him. He was increasingly struck in silence to see the arrival of Aldo in a neat suit and other wedding rings that were coiled on his ring finger, not the ring that used to be. And slowly but surely, Erika also took off her wedding ring that was no longer entitled to circle on her ring finger. He dropped the ring without Aldo's knowledge.

"Erika, answer me__"

"What are you doing to answer me, Mom? Isn't every strand of mine nothing to you right now? Did I say that if I was pregnant, then you would believe it was your son? Isn't it, I was in your eyes a cheating woman?" Erika strengthened her voice despite being forced into a weakness for her condition. Feeling Aldo lost a word, Erika again voiced.

"Aren't you getting married with Sinta now? Why bother coming here? If you want to argue, then please look at my situation, Mas. I've lost a candidate for A.N.A.K.K.U." Erika to spell letter by letter the sign of the child who had just been taken forcibly from her stomach was just her son. Whether to be grateful or sad about the miscarriage that already knew from the sisters before the arrival of Aldo.

The departure of the fetus is like a signal that the fetus does not want to hear the stamp of adultery from the mouth of the mouth of the closest person, let alone from Aldo who has underlined his name as a despicable woman.

"I'm leaving..." Aldo's voice was low. His feeling raged unbecoming. His life was floating and empty.

Aldo, who had twisted his body, stopped again from Erika's voice. "Congratulations on your marriage, Mas..." Despite the heartache, Erika still gave this speech to her ex-husband. From today, he will accept the harsh reality of being his friend, even making friends if necessary for the future of Icha and for the sake of his sanity. This life is a choice, going forward without looking back to the past or otherwise standing in place with grief shackled and will slowly strangle his life to death.

Man should be sad if misfortune be said, it is human. But as humans who have been equipped with reason, we should not dissolve in sadness.