GENK DUDA ACUTE
26. Mental Resilience Scrutiny (2)

Toni must be blind, Dean thought. It was obvious that his secretary seemed to like his own friend so much, but his best friend was always in denial. Dean expects nothing, he just wants Toni to admit it. That'sthat's all. Point.

Dean just arrived at Toni's office and he was surprised by the absence of his best friend there. Among them all, Toni is the most loyal of friends. It is easier to spend time than all of them. Tony is also rarely dating. Toni always mentions the woman who was with her with ‘just walk’.

During Toni's graduation, her three best friends often reminded her about the importance of long-term relationships. However, Toni always berkilah. Always closed about the woman he was dating. And one thing they can't deny that, Toni is a free adult man. As long as he can account for his actions, the friends have no right to manage his life. There are limits they cannot cross as friends.

They will do nothing until someone asks someone else for help.

That afternoon, letting Dean wait, wasn't typical of Toni. Dean felt something was strange. Ever since he got out of the elevator and his gaze collided with the Musdalifah, he felt something was going to happen. And it turns out, what he thought was right.

“Ngapain you here?” dean asked Tasya. Toni's ex-boyfriend sits cross-legged and reads a business magazine. Dean was still standing at the door with both hands in his pocket.

“Ih, how is that? So sadistic. Nemuin mas Toni dong ..” replied Tasya.

“Emang any business anyway, ama Toni?” asked Dean with a smudged face. He was angry at Tasya. Too childish. Though his age is only one year difference with Winarsih.

“Someone wants me to talk about. Can't it?” Tasya challenged Dean.

Dean turned his face for a moment and stepped towards the sofa. He sat at the end of the L-shaped sofa. Closest to the door. Tasya sits at the other end.

Dean threw a dislike look at Tasya. And the girl, returned her gaze with a sneer.

“What do you want to say again? Toni will soon be married,” said Dean casually. He then picked up a business magazine and crossed his legs elegantly.

“Cannot be! Can't believe me. With whom?” ask Tasya.

“Don't believe but nanya with whom,” snorted Dean. “Once ex yes remains ex, Tasya ..” Connect Dean.

“I'm almost two years old with Mas Toni.”

“Well, what do you want? Wanna be connected to five years? Want to top up credit?”

“I don't believe Toni wants to marry again,” Tasya said again.

“Wah, same turns out the disease.” Dean dropped the magazine that he had only been back and forth since. “Trus? Did you make that nearly two years for Toni's nahan-nahan? You think he's packing you this-that's because it's still a pity? Wasn't it! Don't geer you. That's so you don't make a noise. What he sent you was nothing. Toni rich. You should have asked for more. If he gets his house certificate, company stock, then he loves you. He will be a gembal if you let go of it,” Dean said clucked then loosened his tie. It seems that today he should give time for Tasya to consult for free.

“I know mas Toni still love—”

“Ngapain broke up if still dear? He's the one who's mutusin, right?”

“Udah, ah Mas .. Mas Dean do not need to interfere.” Tasya reopened the magazine.

“Toni—bakal—married. Do you know?” dean asked, starting to get emotional. If Tasya were his sister, he would have stuck to her head.

“Whose name? I was, was nanya. Same woman whose—” Words stop.

“No—you think that beautiful woman came out of the room with her? No. Tony is back with his ex-wife. So you don't have to come here anymore. Let Tony live a quiet and happy life. After all, during the relationship with him, you were nothing, right? " Dean scrutinized Tasya's countenance closely.

"From your face, the answer must be no. Well ... Toni knows you're a fine girl, Tasya ...”

“I still love mas Toni.”

“But he said Toni's mas is also dear, so he wants me to be happy. Egrebasin me. Mas Toni said all this time I was not happy because I was with her.” Tasya was almost crying.

“Hahaha—” Dean laughs out loud. “Si dog reason never changes.” Dean muttered and continued his laughter.

Tasya ended up crying from feeling ridiculed by Dean.

“Mas actually has no right to say that to me. It's my business and Toni's. Mas Dean knows what—”

“Mas Dean knows a lot. Tau many. You don't know,” cut Dean. “I just helped simplify this for you and Toni. This consultation is free. Now listen to me ...” Dean moved his seat.

Tasya. But Dean doesn't care. He was tired of the long drama of the story of Toni-Tasya which he considered stale and endless. No relationship, but still sulking and asking for this-that.

“Denger Tasya .. I am Toni. As long as you were dating her, I never gave my personal opinion. That's Toni's right. Well, after you broke up, I think your life is back to how it was. And I think your time together is over. Toni never stopped loving Wulan for a day. Never was.”

Tasya's crying is getting louder.

“I still want to talk you know ..” said Dean then sighed. “Toni it just needs a trigger to be able to return to his wife. Maybe all this time, his mind was as innocent as you. Wulan will not be able to go to another heart. But that's not possible. All humans have limits to remember. Had I died, my wife would have—” Dean paused for a moment to think.

The parable he was about to say sounded bad. Likening he left Winarsih was not pleasant. His life must be fucked up. His son with Winarsih much. What if Winarsih suddenly left him? Dean creeps.

“Oke, I continue. Replace example. Had Mus died, there would have been no way her boyfriend or husband would not have married again. That is impossible,”, Dean said sure.

“I'm still a darling,” isak Tasya. “I don't want to marry Toni again,” Tasya continued.

“So Toni was told what she was doing for the rest of her life? Why under the banyan? Or did he split up so he could have offspring?”

“I, too, am a woman, Mas ..” shrewd Tasya who now holds me a box of tissues.

“Ih! Was ah! Whatever! Don't cry. Guessing people, I was doing you. You're young, pretty, widowed? Difference of 9 years, what would you do with a mature age male that much?” Dean immediately imagined if he asked that to Winarsih who had an eight-year age gap with him.

What do you want to do with men of that age? Dean almost laughed at his own words. Dean himself forgot, he and his wife had done anything. Many anyway. Their only child, now it's almost four.

Tasya is still crying. The open door was knocked twice. The musdalifah appears with a small tray containing two cups of tea.

“The amino acid content in a cup of green tea can help people become calmer, when they are in a state of stress and stress. It can also create a better mood. I excuse.” The Musdalifah retreated and then passed from the room.

“Teh?” Dean lifted one cup and offered Tasya. Though he spoke in a soft tone, but Tasya stood up with a wet face and grabbed his bag. The woman walked out of the room. Dean just shrugged then sipped some warm tea.

15 minutes later, while Dean was scrolling through his phone screen, Toni arrived in a bit of a hurry.

“Woi!” greet Toni. Dean looks up.

“Lo sawin fans earlier!” Dean grimaces.

“Luckily lo dateng early. If not ...” Tony shrugged his shoulders. “It's hard to clear to Tasya that. Forgive me!”

“Gue dateng early?” Dean raised his eyebrows. Suddenly he felt he had just been taken advantage of. Dean flashed a cynical look at the woman behind Toni's body while hugging her clear holder.

To Be Continued