
"Mas, where am I sleeping? on the couch again, huh?" Ruby slipped a satire when they had arrived in Arka's room.
Arka did not reply at all, she just exhaled her breath. He looked at the wife who was staring at him.
"Please don't remind me of it anymore. I just felt like sleeping on that couch didn't feel good. Because after you leave I try to sleep there," said Arka, pointing to the sofa whose position still remains the same.
"Seriously, Mas?" ruby asked ascertained and Arka nodded weakly.
"So you sleep in bed?" continued Arka while smiling.
Ruby returned Arka's smile and nodded her head.
"Yes, you rest first, I'm going to the study, because there's something important I have to do. If there's anything you need, you just call me. I'll definitely come right away" Ruby nodded her head and Arka kissed Ruby's forehead, before the man left.
After Arka's body disappeared behind the door, Ruby circulated her gaze to all corners of the room. There was no change in this room, except now there was a picture of their wedding in the length of the bed.
Just now, Ruby was about to lie down, suddenly the door was knocked by someone from outside. Ruby stepped up to open the door.
"Aelia?"ruby's brows linked so knowing that the one who had just knocked on the door was Adelia's sister-in-law.
"Am I interrupting, brother?" adelia asked, smiling faintly.
"Oh, not at all!" ruby quickly.
"Can I come in? there's something I want to talk about" Adelia bit her lower lip. Actually the woman felt bad, but she felt uneasy before revealing what was stuck in her heart.
"Of course you can, let's go in!" Ruby opened the door wide, and gave way to Adelia.
"What do you want to talk about?" ruby asked, sitting next to her sister-in-law.
"Sister, what Sister ... emm ...."Adelia was nervous to start talking.
"Why stop, Del? i why?" Ruby was really curious.
Adelia exhaled slowly to calm her heart.
"Sister, don't you hate me?" ask Adelia carefully.
"Hate you for what?" Ruby was completely confused as to the direction of Adelia's conversation.
"Emm, for my engagement to Kak Pandu. Brother must be angry and upset because I will be engaged to Kak Pandu, which automatically makes Kak Tiara's heart hurt," Finally Adelia dared to express her grief.
"Wait on! does that mean you actually already know that Pandu ...." Ruby hung up her words because she was sure that without her continuing, her sister-in-law would have understood her point.
"Yes, Brother. I already know everything. I even know that Kak Pandu misunderstood Kak Tiara. I also know that Bima is Kak Tiara's cousin, but I really can't, if I have to fail to get engaged to Kak Pandu. I love her," said Adelia with a sad face.
"Did you also know that Tiara also has feelings for Pandu?" ask Ruby to make sure.
Ruby was increasingly shocked to see Adelia nodding, assuring.
Because I can't imagine if my engagement to Kak Pandu was canceled. I'm selfish, aren't I?" Adelia started crying.
Ruby did not reply, because if she said Adelia was not selfish, in fact, her sister-in-law was already being selfish. But if he answers 'yes, you are selfish!', he feels bad about saying that. He was really faced with a pretty severe problem, where one friend was always there for him and the other sister-in-law.
Ruby finally took a deep breath and exhaled it back into the air.
"You shouldn't have to ask Brother that matter, because you sure, you already know the answer, Del." Ruby paused for a moment to take a pause.
"Love is not selfish, and the amount of love we have for someone is measured by how happy we are to see the person we love happy, even if not with us" Ruby continued.
Adelia was stunned, silent a thousand languages. Without being spoken directly, Adelia can already understand the purpose of her sister-in-law's words that implied that she had been selfish.
"We talked about this before leaving for Jakarta. Actually, your brother Arka and I wanted to help resolve their misunderstanding by telling Pandu the truth, but Tiara forbade because she didn't want you to get hurt . In addition, he does not want our family relationship and the Pandu family to be destroyed if Pandu cancels the engagement. Tiara said, being happy in someone's tears, is useless and making a relationship will be bland because it is haunted by guilt," Ruby returned to explain at length and without pause.
"Son Tiara said that?" adelia asked, and Ruby nodded, agreeing.
"Why Brother, Tiara can be so heartened?" adelia again.
"As Brother said earlier, love is not selfish. Now it all depends on you, if you still want to continue the engagement, it means that you must be ready to accept the pain, whenever you are under-received or under-noticed by Pandu, and you also have to be ready to try harder, make Pandu can forget about Tiara and can love you. If you choose to step down, you also have to have a clear reason, and try to keep the two big families do not misunderstand and the relationship is maintained" said Ruby, straightforwardly.
Adelia flirted, neither refuting nor asserting her sister-in-law's words because her heart and mind were still at war.
"Hey, why are you here? you're bothering your sister-in-law, aren't you?" the Arka that turned out to be back.
"Currently, can't I just talk to my sister-in-law? Sister Ruby is not only the property of Brother," said Adelia with pursed lips.
"Yes, he does not belong only to Big Brother, but he does not belong to you either. He belongs to Brother, and our children," Arka did not want to lose.
Adelia smiled happily, seeing the attitude of her brother who always invited her to argue had come back again.
"No need to smile! now you come out, and let your sister-in-law rest. Mumpung there is papa and mama who keep the baby triplet," Arka pulled Adelia's hand and pushed her sister out.
"Cih, just say if Brother and sister Ruby want to miss," said Adelia, quipped.
"No, you know! Sono go!" arka closed the door.
"Why did he come here?" arma asked after she came back to Ruby.
"He's here just to ask my opinion about his engagement to Pandu, Mas. It turned out that he already knew everything about Pandu and Tiara's misunderstanding" Ruby explained.
"So how? did he choose to retreat?" tanya Arka enthusiastically.
Ruby sighed and shook her head. "He's very heavy to back off, Mas! but I gave him a look earlier. Hopefully he can consider the views I'm giving,"
Tbc