INFINITE LOYALTY
TOO SUDDEN

Riani and Ethan took off their arms, their eyes staring at each other meaningfully and deeply regretfully.

"We'd better go home, I'm afraid it'll happen again if we stay here..." Riani lirih.

"I'm sorry An-an..." Ethan said he felt guilty.

"I'm sorry, too, Than...I refuse your kiss, but the truth is.."My body can't lie.." (said Riani in heart), I really feel sinful to this baby..." Riani replied, with a cry that finally broke.

Ethan hugged Riani tightly.

"Why are we like this...? Why do I have to experience all this...? I'm not strong anymore..." The increasingly becoming cry of Riani.

"Crying...Take out all the burdens in your heart, weep..."

In her tender kiss of Riani's head, smelled by her the familiar fragrance of hair on her nose, the fragrance of hair that never changes.

"Are you still wearing that old hair shampoo?" ethan asked trying to divert the conversation to ease Riani's cries.

Riani simply replied with a nod of her head.

The ringing sound of incoming calls made the two distance themselves from each other.

And when Riani saw the name of the caller, she was a bit surprised.

Radja called, I picked up Than?"

Ethan just nodded and looked at Riani who was walking away from him, there was a sad feeling seeing his first love in such a depressed state, moreover he could not help Riani at all, although just entertaining him, instead he tends to make Riani more sad.

.............

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Where are you now?"

"I'm now on the beach, why Mas?"

"Who are you there with?"

"Together with Ethan"

"Ethan?!" said Radja from across there in a rather loud voice.

" There are things we both want to talk about" Riani explained.

There was no sound from Radja for a while.

"Mass? are you still there?"

"But...Should it be on the beach and nowhere else that's more crowded when you're talking about something?" Radja finally answered.

"We want to talk about it in a quiet place Mas, let alone just this beach closest to home"

"You mean...Let's be alone with your former first love, right?" asked Radja in her jealous tone.

"Mas! this is what makes me lazy to talk to you, because whatever we are talking about must end in a fight" Riani said in an annoyed tone.

"okay...Okay, I'm sorry, then...When can we both talk?"

...

"Sir...?"

"Tomorrow at two o'clock to pick me up"

"Alright, Deck! Just hang up, there's a call coming in..."

"okay"

"Hurry home Deck, the day before afternoon, be careful and take care of health"

"Yes, I'm going home"

"Then, Assalamualaikum..."

"Wa'alaikum hail..."

After Radja hangs up the phone, Riani walks back and approaches Ethan, who is still waiting for her, seeing Ethan staring fixedly at her.

"You think I'm like that Than?" riani said as she arrived in front of Ethan, blushing in embarrassment.

"You look more and more beautiful with this big belly of yours" Ethan replied innocently, as his hand gently stroked Riani's stomach.

There was a sincere and affectionate look in Ethan's eyes that made Riani feel moved.

Slowly his heart melted and forget the mistakes of Ethan first, especially his actions at that time because of the influence of the pain he was suffering.

"All pregnant women will look more beautiful and more charming, so you should also be able to make your wife Vio pregnant..."

"You really want me to do that An-an?" ethan asked with a sad and disappointed face.

And it could be clearly read by Riani.

"If I say I don't want it you should still be able to do it, because in my religion or your religion it is obligatory to do your responsibilities as a husband to his wife..."

"But Than...You should also give Vio the right as a wife"

"I promised you I'd be a good husband to Vio, I'd do it but not for this one, so...Don't make me An-an, please..."

"okay...Okay, I'm sorry if it forces you too much, let's go home now" Riani replied gently patting Ethan on the shoulder and immediately diverting the conversation.

Riani thinks that if she keeps forcing Ethan, she is afraid that it will trigger her illness and bring up another person from Ethan, and if that happens she will most likely not be able to avoid it, especially with the situation around the quiet and far from the settlement, and the position of the driver and car Ethan is also far from the two of them.

"An-an...Comeing! he said he'd go home?"

Ethan's gentle pat on the back of Riani's hand made him wake up from the daydream.

"Sorry...Sorry, Come!"

Riani immediately pushes Ethan's wheelchair, then the two leave the place.

Arriving in the car, the driver swiftly returned to help Ethan to get into the car.

Agilely the driver ran his car after his master gave the order.

.............

Just as Riani got off Ethan's car, her mother and father Ethan had already approached her with their anxious gazes.

"Aante, Om...I want to go home first" said Ethan say goodbye.

"Yes, Ethan, be careful..." Widya replied, her heart was sad, if nothing had taken her husband away, she would have embraced Ethan's head as before.

Widya sees Ethan's car walking away and disappears, after which she invites Riani into the house.

Arriving in the living room and sitting Riani, Widya and Rolland looked seriously at Riani.

Seeing Mother and her papa behaving like that made Riani develop an unpleasant premonition in her heart.

"What's up, Mom? why are you two looking at me like that?" ask Riani astonished.

They did not immediately answer but looked at each other, as if they did not dare to say it and encouraged each other to speak to Riani.

Seeing them like that made Riani feel that Mother and Papah lift it looks suitable and like there is an invisible bond between the two of them.

Thinking of that Riani just smiled knot.

"Come on, Mom, just say it...What's the matter exactly?" riani asked again, as not a word came out from the mouths of the two of them.

"Ehem! as long as Ethan was with you, did his illness recur? because I was so worried about you after Lana told me you were out with her" Widya's mother replied.

"As long as I'm with him Ethan's illness doesn't recur, the proof is I'm still fine now"

"Thank God then..."

"But Mom, I don't think this is what I really want to say, and there's more to it than this, right?" riani asked, sensitive to the attitude of his mother who seemed to cover something, especially when she saw the expression of Papah Rolland who let out a long sigh when his mother answered his question earlier.

"Look, son, you're right...Actually there is an important thing that Papah and your mother want to tell you, we both." said Rolland hesitated to continue his sentence.

"What are you two?" asked Riani who was getting impatient with the long-winded answer from her foster papah.

"We're both married!" chirps Miss Widya.

Hearing the spontaneous answer from his mother, Riani was immediately shocked, and more surprised when he heard the words that came out of his adopted Papah's mouth...

"Father is your real father, son, sorry for not taking care of you..." Papah Rolland said with trembling lips.

And when Riani looked into the eyes of Papah Rolland with his confession, clearly visible by him there was honesty there.

"You're kidding, right? if you want to get married, just marry...I'll definitely give you permission, but not in this way either, right?" riani replied between disbelief and hesitation.

"Son...I'm sorry, I've been hiding it all this time, actually ..."

"Mom! I'm not ready to hear everything, sorry...I was tired, wanted to rest, I entered the room first" Riani cut off, she immediately got up from her seat and left the two of them bowed and then looked at each other full of sadness.

"My wife, you better persuade her, try talking and explain all the reasons why we should get married" Rolland said.

"Well, I'll talk to him now"

Rolland nodded, then Widya immediately woke up from his seat and left Rolland who was still fixated on seeing the departure of his wife.

.............

Riani was still stunned in front of the mirror.

On the elus-elus his stomach gently.

"I'm sorry, Mom, son...You are not born yet have experienced many heavy things like this...Mother is sure you will be a strong child..." (Whisper Riani with teary eyes)

Her heart was broken, she believed that what Mom and Dad said was an honest reality, but...Why did he not know anything all this time? and why since she was born her mother never told her about her real father? and why are they revealing everything now?

Many questions in his mind that want to be answered, but in his little heart he also knows that his feelings are not ready to hear and accept everything, because it is too sudden for him...

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