Forgetting the Ex
Chapter 55

"Sunday, we can talk about this. Don't make rash decisions!" michael said out loud.

Karin remained speechless, she stuffed some of her clothes into the suitcase.

"Today, don't you feel sorry for our son?" michael asked following Karin's step out of the room pulling her suitcase. "Kara still needs you as a mother" said Michael began to ignite emotions.

"I've filed a lawsuit against us, I hope you will be present in court later," Karin said speeding up her steps on the car.

Michael tried to run after Karin's car.

Kara who heard her parents fighting made her cry hysterically.

Michael heard his daughter's cries running towards him, he took over the baby carrier that had not even 6 months from the hands of his caregiver.

"Dear, don't cry. There's Papa here!" Michael hugged and tried to calm his daughter. He kissed Kara's hair and forehead so that she would be quiet. No puddle of water in the eye dripping. "We can go through all of this together" he delivers a bottle of formula into the baby's tiny mouth.

Half an hour Michael held Kara until she slept in his cradle. He threw a tiny body into a baby basket.

"Sorry Papa, Son!" he stroked Kara's cheek gently. "Because Papa, Mama you went our lives," he said again.

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In the afternoon, Tissa and Arya came to her son's house and asked the servants. If Michael's on the rooftop.

Tissa and her husband followed their son to the top of the house.

"Michael, what's going on?" Tissa looked at the stained cigarette and canned drinks strewn below and on the table, her son's face tangled and hair in disarray.

Michael hugged Tissa, she shed her tears in his arms. Arya just sat watching her son hug his wife.

"Tell me?" ask Tissa.

"Sunday left me, he has also filed a lawsuit, ", Michael replied in a clean slur.

"Good," said Arya. "Mama and Papa have forbidden you from marrying her, but you continue. Look, now. She left her baby daughter. What kind of mother would she be able to part with her child?" Arya vented her heart as long as she held it.

"You just follow what he wants. We'll help you build your business again." Tissa.

"Why do you help me now?" asked Michael to release his embrace.

"For you to know, how is Karin. Whether he accepts you in distress or not" replied Tissa.

"You take it easy, Kara will be with us. You're focused on the trial and the business. Once a week visit home to see your daughter, " explained Arya. "Another house must be sold" he said.

"Why should you sell it, Pa?"

"Let Karin never see you again" replied Arya.

"Listen and follow what your father says" said Tissa.

Michael sighed and nodded in agreement.

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Yudis just got out of the minimarket, his car next to a woman's vehicle.

When together the two will enter, their respective cars. Suddenly, the woman screamed for help. The bag he was carrying was seized by a man who pretended to be a buyer who was also just out of the minimarket.

Judis who heard it, helped to pursue the snatch. The man was arrested, he grasped the collar of the man's shirt helped by the residents holding it. He immediately seized the bag belonging to the woman held by the snatcher.

The woman approached Judis and took her bag. "Thank you" he said. He left the crowd and walked towards his car which was still parked in front of the minimarket.

Judis just looked at the woman. "I feel like I know him" he said.

He ran to his car, remembering the face of the woman he helped.

"I just remembered" murmured Judis. "She was seen several times in Arvan's clothing store in the city of M" he said.

"Why didn't I ask for her phone number?" tanyanya.

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"Where are you from? Why did you just come home at this hour?" stella asked her husband, usually the woman looks indifferent.

"I am from a friend's house" answered Judis.

"Mama Linda is sick" Stella said.

"There are you whom he always prides himself on" said Judis.

"Our agreement is just a few days away, I'm afraid to tell him our farewell" Stella said.

"Then wait until he is healed" said Judis.

"Can't you open your heart for me?"

Judis smiled faintly at his wife. "Don't expect too much, it'll only make you sick."

"Jude, try again!"

"Didn't you make the deal?"

"I.iii."

"Jude..!"

"I am tired of going to sleep" Judis laid her body and closed her eyes.

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A few days later...

"Stella!" call a man when he's about to enter a cafe.

"Who are you?" tanyakanya.

"Guild."

"Gunawan, my high school friend?"

"Yes" he answered. "How are you?" tanyakanya.

"Okay" Stella replied.

"Can we have a chat for a minute?"

"Sure, I can."

"It's been a long time since we met. You are more beautiful," praised Gunawan.

"Thank you," Stella smiled faintly.

"Are you married?"

"It has. You?"

Gunawan smiled and said, "Not yet."

"What do you want to order a drink?" bargain Stella.

"Just like you."

"I haven't mentioned it."

"Let me guess, you'll definitely order ice chocolate!"

"Hey, how do you know my favorite?"

"Know dong. What 'sih I don't know about you is Stella Cornelia" he said.

"You also remember my name completely, too" Stella praised her schoolmate.

"I always remember" said Gunawan.

While chatting they enjoyed the ordered ice chocolates and fries.

"Hey, what did you see?" gunawan asked following the direction of Stella's eyes. "You know him?" tanyakanya.

"Heemm.yes." Answer Stella. "Oh, yeah. It's gonna rain, I gotta go home."

"Let me drive," bargained Gunawan.

"No, I'll take the car."

"alright. Can I have your phone number?"

"Where's your phone?"

Gunawan handed me his phone. Stella pressed the numbers on the screen after which she returned them to the owner.

"I'm trying to call, okay?" Gunawan hit the number Stella wrote on her phone screen.

Stella's phone shook, and she saw it. "I'll keep your number!" said smile.

"me too. Careful, yes!" Gunawan replied with a smile.

Stella drove her vehicle at moderate speed. Rainwater slowly washed down the streets. Her phone kept ringing with the name 'Mama Linda'.

He refused to answer the call and chose to silence it.

When he got there, his father-in-law was waiting at the door.

"Where are you from? Just got home at this hour?" cecar Linda followed in her daughter-in-law's footsteps.

"So see a friend."

"It's been 4 months. How'd it go?"

"It's still negative, Ma."

"How's 'clean you? You're not pregnant yet, you're Sabrina!" linda was disappointed.

"Maybe it has not been given!" stella.

"Or you may not be infertile" Linda accused.

"What did Mama say?" stella asked, raising her voice a little. "Mama said I wasn't fertile?" ask him again.

"Yes, you and Sabrina cannot have children!"

"Want to know the truth?"