In 30ths.
31.

" What are you doing? Why haven't you told me?" Al muttered while turning back his phone. Many times Al opened the chat application, but there were also no messages from his wife.

" If I call her, she's distracted, isn't she? Did I go too far yesterday?But, honestly as a man I feel disappointed. All this time, I've never done that at all with any woman. I just want this the first time I feel with my hallal partner.

But, finding her no longer a virgin really disappointed me." Mumbled Al in his solitude staring at the ceiling of his room.

" Ah, I'll call you. She's my wife anyway. I should have been able to forget his past whatever it was and live with him to the future." Al again monologues with his solitude.

" Athaghfirullah...! She's upset. My number's been blocked." Al looked at his phone with disappointment.

Al was speechless thinking about Tania who had gone missing without any news. Return Al as before when assigned by the Father of God to watch over Dera. Al became a scout. This time the search first went to Mayang.

Naught,

The news of Mayang was not found at all. Al grew more agitated, but as he pensively sat on his bike, Al remembered Akan Tania.

Al then rushed to Julian's residence. Al does not know if Julian himself is being discussed with the attitude of his mother and also Tania who blatantly rejects his existence.

In his spare time Al used to find information about his wife. Al did not dare to ask his Father-in-law, Al was afraid that if he asked his Father-in-law there would be a commotion and it would be seen if Al could not take responsibility for his own wife.

For two days Al staked out Julian's house, still making no progress. Al doesn't know if Tania gets a house next door to her in-laws. From the observation of Al earlier Dera is the least likely to go out of town or just a shopping trip.

Al returned to his usual activities. He went to college and started his studies. Without knowing Al, every hour he went home from campus, in another corner there was Dera watching him. And again this time Al went back to the same house with the same woman.

Also the report that Dera received, a photo that reported if Al was at home along with a woman and her daughter.

Dera cried tears again in her car accompanied by Tania.

" You see? He doesn't even care about me leaving Tan. He wasn't looking for me at all." Reveal Dera who felt persecuted.

" Not even your phone?" Tania asked who was angry with Al's treatment of her best friend.

How can someone who has been in a relationship ignore their partner just like that?

Tania thought such a thing only happened to herself but it turned out that her best friend was the same.

But Tania is not her name if she only judges with one side of view.

" Why didn't he call you? Don't you block him?" Tania took a deep look, it's possible that her best friend's habits would recur. Run away from trouble and find a safe hiding place.

" yes. I'm Upset. I also turned off the location marker." Dera answered with a disappointed and sad face.

" Hhhh....!" Tania sighed at Kelu and pinched his forehead. His head seemed to pulsate thinking about the childish attitude of his best friend.

" If any of those problems are encountered, and solve them. How long will you run away from trouble, dear? Face him, whatever the outcome we must be heartened to accept." Tania spoke softly and calmly trying little by little to change Dera's mindset.

" But I'm afraid of being disappointed and sick again Tan."

" Then you will continue to hang this Maslaah for the rest of your life without any solutions?Talk about Dera, talk. Find a good situation and talk." Tania looked straight ahead at Al who was seen contacting someone with a look of anxiety.

" You've been like this one week. Aren't you tired of torturing your heart and yourself?" Tania asked while raising her eyebrows.

" Want how?If I go any further then Dad will know and a lot of my business will be stuck."

" Go home, baby, talk about it. Appreciate your husband, if you want him to respect you.Jikq you as a wife want to be treated as a queen, then you should be able to treat your husband like a king." Tania advised Dera. The point is Tania wants the dera to be able to appreciate Al without forcing Al's will and to be breastfed for what happened.

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Dera listened to Tania's advice. But not directly act.

3 Days later.

Dera returned to the apartment.His eyes were wide open when he saw the entire apartment neatly and cleanly. There are also instant noodles that have been brewed available on the dining table. Dera walked slowly looking for Al's whereabouts.

But there is no. Every corner of the room has been checked Al is not there. Dera searches for Al without calling him. Dera sat at the dining table staring at a bowl of instant noodles.

" Are you hungry?" Al asked with his baritone voice.

Dera was silent and confused with the sudden presence of Al behind her.

" You hungry, hum? Eat it I can make it again." Said Al softly who then sat beside Dera.

Al still wears Koko's clothes and also the holster that is still attached as his subordinate. Al's face looks bright and sparkling makes Dera amazed, there is also a longing in Dera's heart.

Wanting to feel the dera scattering and hugging Al instantly. But all of that was stopped because his heartache was greater than just longing.

Not getting an answer from Dera, Al then stood up and headed to his room. Dera was still stunned, Dera could not say much when facing Al with her calm demeanor.

" It's." Al handed Dera a brown envelope.

" What is this?" Dera started to make a sound.

Is this a divorce warrant? Dera began guessing and turning back the brown envelope she received.

" Open it, it's your right." Replied Al who gently rubbed the top of Dera's head with a sweet smile.

Like lost in the big swallow of Al's attention. The anger of the withering disappeared instantly as Al treated him gently.

" What is this?"

Dera opened the envelope and without feeling her tears just shed.

" This money...." Dera said softly with a trembling voice.

The money is 700 thousand. It's nothing to Dera that's just a small amount of money. Even Dera could spend that money just to order a menu of dishes.

" I'm sorry, not much. But, that's my ability. That's why I'm not ready to marry you."

" It doesn't matter much or not. I really appreciate your efforts to support me." Dera's reply stopped..

" But this? what is this, who is he? and this kid? What relationship do you guys have?Is this why you are not ready to marry me? Have you got a family? I'm sorry if that's the case, I was willing to let you off Al. I'm willing to." Said Dera who strafed Al with a number of questions. Dera showed me the photo she got from the spy's report.

Al smiled faintly, raised the corner of his lips then nodded slowly once in a while after seeing his picture with the woman and her child.

" If you ask, not much. How would I answer." Al stood up and hugged Dera who was still sitting in front of him until now Dera's head was in his arms. Al gently stroked Dera's hair and kissed Dera's head.

Dera gawking gets Al's gentle and affectionate treatment to him.

If he's like this how can I be angry? Dera curses herself as Al hugs her where her anger disappears instantly.

" So, my wife ran away from home jealous?" Chirps Al who then got a blow on the chest from Dera who unraveled his embrace.

" Is! Explain it!" Urged Dera with her annoyed face.

" Look at this, and this." Al opened his sleeves and revealed his bruised arm and also the palm of the hand that was getting a stitch cut.

" ...Eung?" Dera was getting confused.

" This woman is my teacher. He's the only one who knows our marriage. This little girl is his son. I helped her move house because her husband was in trouble. They were robbed in the old house and her husband got a stab wound because of the robbers. They were traumatized and eventually moved home. I helped him as well as work because he also paid me."

" This money is my work. He also advised me on the obligation of living for the wife of a husband. He's like my own family Dera." Replied Al who was calmly sitting back on the dining table chair.

" You lied!" Ketus Dera did not believe.

Actually there was already calmness in the heart of the derah after listening to the explanation from Al. His heart was no longer swayed.

" I'm honest with Dera." Al looked up and saw in Dera's eyes. Dera also stared fixedly at the two beads of Al and looked to see if there were any lies tucked away there. But there is no.

Al was silent for a moment and reached into his cocoon pocket and contacted someone via video call.

The woman in the video looks the same as Yanga da in the photo. Al gave it to Dera and they spoke. Apparently, he was honest with his words, seen in the video there is a middle-aged man sitting with a bandage that still wrapped his thighs and shoulders.

From the VC was a lot of advice that was heard from the woman who was the same age as Aunt Ari.

" Where?" Ask Al after the call ends.

Al devoured the instant noodles in front of him which were now cold.

" Don't eat, it's cold." Said Dera who was no longer angry but embarrassed to admit his stupidity.

" I've been eating cold like this since my wife left." Al said casually insinuating Dera.

" I'm sorry." Dera scatters and hugs Al with a sense of regret piled up on his chest. Dera felt guilty for only judging what Al did from one side.

Al who got a lot of accusations, actually he was working hard to slam bones for the sake of just menfkahi Dera even with a nominal amount that is not how much.

" Already, tomorrow-tomorrow do not repeat yes. I'm sorry I was so cold at the time with you." Said Al softly.

" I can explain, baby." Said Dera who then unraveled her embrace and returned to sit beside Al this time sitting him closer.

" In fact, I'm not a virgin anymore because of an accident." Dera said honestly.

" What?" Al asked a little surprised. Al did not understand what the accident meant that was really an accident, or an accident with figurative meaning?

" When I was in elementary school, I was put in Grandma's house. I played with Tania and Mayang. I climbed a tree and fell. But before I fell down I was stuck several times on the branch, well there was a branch that pierced it me." said Dera with his face down.

Al gave a sigh of relief, at least not touched another man which caused him to be no longer a virgin.

" If you don't believe me, ask Tania, Mayang, or grandma." Said Dera reassuringly because Al looks still doubtful.

" What? So you're in the virgin guava tree? Hasn't the tree been cut down yet?" Tanya Al who looks angry but funny in Dera's eyes.

" Peffttt.., Yes it should be rough as a guava tree also Al times." Chirps Dera who can now laugh in front of Al.

" Eh, what was that? The al? Call what it is Polite and dear." Again Al quipped about the call dear.

" Yes, honey, I'm sorry." Said Dera with her cheerful face revealing her sweet smile and white teeth.

" I'm sorry for you, baby. I'm sorry if later as long as we're married I haven't been able to provide you with enough of a living."Al said with a sense of disappointment bag himself.

" Oh, I don't mind that." Said Dera who was now sitting spoiled on Al's lap.

" I miss." Dera's whispers in Al's ears before she hugged Al tightly.

" I'm more, more, more, miss baby." Al replied, who then buried his head in Dera's chest.