Husband's Taste Friend
Chapter 9's

Since an hour ago Nisa kept staring at a number on her phone, she was worried half dead. Should he call that number? Or didn't?

Yesterday Nisa asked for Viko's number from Lala. Lala was wondering why Nisa suddenly asked for Viko's number, did they know each other? Then Lala launched questions on Nisa. Reluctantly, Nisa finally told him everything.

Lala was flabbergasted, she was really surprised not to think that Nisa turned out to be the main character in her novel Viko. Lala used to love reading Viko's novels, because the editor was Brian, her husband. Lala knows very well how Viko has been upset by one girl. Lala knows because Viko is Brian's best friend. He did not think that the girl was named Danisa Alia, his own best friend. Now Lala understands why the thanksgiving time of her new home Nisa suddenly got sick and went home, also why Viko immediately chased Nisa out.

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Nisa dropped her phone back. He's really not ready. Lala's talk yesterday came back.

“Nis, I know during his life Viko only love one girl, that is the character in his novel, emang Viko guilty equally lo, but you know he is almost a madman? She was depressed until she went to a psychiatrist. I know exactly how Viko struggles to survive with the same guilt. So please Nis, meet Viko, talk to her. You do not have to imagine how it used to be, which is important to meet first.”

Nisa covered her face with a pillow, then she shouted. After that he threw a pillow and his eyes glanced back at his phone.

“OK, I'll call Viko,” he said to himself.

His thin finger squeezed the call in doubt. The connecting tone began to sound, before long there was a heavy voice answering. Nisa knows it's Viko's voice.

“Halo ...,” saya Viko.

“H__hello ...,” says Nisa. Viko held her breath when she heard that voice, her chest shaking violently. Maybe he didn't hear wrong? How could he forget that voice? The voice he had longed for eleven years.

“N__Nisa?” suhut Viko was a bit doubtful. Nisa jumped. How could the man instantly recognize his voice?

“This is Nisa, right?” Viko repeated her words. The man smiled widely, like there was a whirring of wind blowing in his chest and was able to cool the entire cavity in his body.

“Iya it's me.” Nisa swallowed with great difficulty. He heard Viko's breath hunting, it seemed like the man was very happy.

“Hai, how are you? You okay?” Confused, Viko began the conversation.

“Iya,” answered Nisa briefly, but it seems that Nisa did not want to mince words for too long, she immediately said her intention to call.

“Tomorrow no time? I want to see you" said Nisa.

Viko is jumped, she feels strange Nisa suddenly wants to meet, considering how the girl's attitude was at the thanksgiving of Brian's new home.

  "A__ada, what time?” tanyanya.

“Jam six pm. I'll SMS the place.”

“Good.”

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Sometimes life has to look back. That way we can step up and solve one problem faced by taking lessons from it. During these eleven years Nisa tried not to look back one bit, but she could not let this matter continue to be entrenched in her mind. He had to finish it, no matter if his heart would be scratched again or not.

Nisa sat down and stirred the cappuccino with a plastic spoon, waiting for Viko at a cafe. They made a six-afternoon appointment, but Nisa came fifteen minutes early. It's six and ten minutes now, Viko hasn't arrived yet. Nisa starts to get caught off guard, she pulls out her cell phone to call Viko, but she wants to say it. He could not be impressed to want this meeting so badly.

When Nisa re-inserted her phone into the bag, suddenly someone greeted her from behind.

“Hai.” Nisa's a little jumped. He knew exactly whose voice belonged to him. Nisa looked up because Viko was already in front of her. Not much has changed from the man other than being tall and pure white. His smile and the look in his eyes still remained the same as before.

“Sit,” Nisa said by trying to look calm when dealing with the man.

“How are you?” ask Viko after sitting down. “Good. You?”

“For eleven years I was not good, but now I feel starting to improve,” said Viko. Nisa swallowed the saliva, the man had started, and it made it easier for Nisa to talk about the matter.

Nisa smiled cynically. “If that day doesn't happen, maybe you'll be fine for eleven years now,” said Nisa. Viko looked down while biting her lips and then she looked up again. “Nis, why don't you ask me why I did that with Gita?”

Nisa gnashing. “Actually I don't want to know why you and Gita did that behind my back, but after I read your novel, I got curious. Because you didn't write it there.”

Viko looked surprised. “You read my novel?” tanyanya does not believe, then a smile rises on Viko's lips without being able to hold it.

“Iya, I read your novel, at first I did not know that the novel 'My Endless Love' is your writing, but when I read the whole story, it feels familiar.”

Viko really looks happy. “I deliberately wrote the novel to look for you. And I also intentionally didn't write down the reason I did that with Gita because I just wanted to say it to you. Looks like God heard my prayers for eleven years. I know what I did was a mistake, but it wasn't meant to hurt you, I did it for us. To save our relationship. Because for God's sake, I only love you, nothing else__until now.”

Nisa. How could he possibly accept that. Even if it was for the sake of their relationship, but that includes infidelity.

Nisa smiled again. “Did you do that kiss for the sake of our relationship? Kissing another woman because of me? Heh funny once.”

“Because Gita threatened me, she would ruin our relationship. From before we were made up, Gita's been like me, but I don't like her, I like you. He is very jealous, and he hates you very much, but you are not aware of that. You still consider Gita your best friend. As long as we're dating Gita, it's just undermining me. He's been bothering me. Honestly, I'm very frustrated.” Viko sighed for a moment. Nisa saw in Viko's eyes a puddle of tears ready to spill.

“Then the peak at our school graduation. Gita told me, if I kissed her, she wouldn't interfere with our relationship anymore, she'd step back and leave. And stupidly I accepted it. For God's sake, I didn't mean to betray you. When I saw you get hit by a car because of me, I really wanted to die. I'm so scared. I'm afraid you're leaving me for good.”

Nisa took a deep breath, all this time she really did not know that Gita liked Viko from before they were made. Nisa sips a cappuccino to calm down.

“Ko, you have not ordered a drink,” Nisa said to switch the conversation. Viko blinked, he grabbed the menu book on the table and raised a hand to call the waiter.  While Viko was ordering, Nisa looked at Viko silently. Is all this true? If so, Viko is actually the victim. Nisa recalls the novel she had read, how Viko's days were so hard after the incident, how the almost crazy Viko, how frustrated she was that she did not go to college and throw away her dream of becoming a surgeon. Viko, have I gone too far? If only I hadn't run away and heard at least a little of your explanation, maybe the two of us wouldn't have been tormented for eleven years. Now how should I?

However, when the shadow of their kiss flashed again, Nisa still felt fed up and could not accept it yet.

“Nisa, thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain all this to you. Honestly, now I am very relieved, I do not care if you want to forgive me or not, the important thing is that I have explained everything,”, said Viko after the waiter left.

“Now where is Gita? I want to meet him.”

Viko. “You sure?” Nisa nodded steadily.

“He was in Bandung, after graduating from college he got married immediately, and all I heard was that he already had two children. If you want, I can take you there.”

“No need, I can do it myself, I just ask for the address.”

Viko took a breath, she was a little disappointed Nisa did not want to be ushered in. “Good.” Viko took the phone in her pocket and typed something, before long a message entered Nisa's phone. It's the Gita address.

“Thank you, this weekend I want to go there with Seno.” Viko was a little surprised when Nisa mentioned Seno's name.

“Is Seno your girlfriend?”

“He's my best friend,” replied Nisa straightforwardly. Viko involuntarily sighed in relief and her lips slightly raised a smile.

“Nisa, I'm still standing at my place, I'll keep standing waiting for you to turn and come to me. Forever__until I die.”

Nisa blinked then said, “Don't do that! You don't expect me anymore. Live well from now on."

Viko swallows saliva. Nisa's words have made her chest like pierced by a sharp dagger. Although Nisa told him so, but he will not just obey her.

'I'll fight you again, Nis. I'll make sure you get back in my arms!' inner Viko.

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