Italicized Before 24 Hours
FOREIGNER

This second, too, I dropped my talaq on you

Abi's words kept turning around in Nara's head. He seemed to be unable to listen to anything other than the talaq pledge.

Why should it be so soon. Not 24 hours she became a wife, why now must be a widow.

8 Years he keeps his love for Abi. Why the betrayal he got. And more painful, why did the woman have to be Arumi. Best friend since High School.

Nara opened her sling bag. Take two tickets to Japan.

Flashbacks

"Tara.... " Kinan said with a series of beaming faces while holding two plane tickets.

"What's that brother?" Ask Nara while grabbing the ticket. "Japan." He half yelled. Japan was the honeymoon destination of Nara's dreams.

"Yes. Wedding present for my beloved sister." Kinan said as he hugged Nara.

"Thank you brother." Nara tightened her embrace on Kinan. Her sister is the only one.

"So, I have a hotel reservation for you. Have a good time. Hope to go home with your stomach filled. Brother wants three. Peeky aftershocks." Temptation Kinan while holding his stomach.

"Kinan's pregnant?" Nara asked in disbelief. How not, Kinan's second child is only 1 year old. And now, the woman is pregnant again.

Kinan nodded. "Your third nephew candidate."

"Wussis....Bang Raka production of teroosss." Ledek Nara while giggling.

Flashback off

Nara walks to the edge of the rooftop. He stared at the two-ticket trip to Japan. Does that ticket still mean anything now?

To japan? wh-wh-what for? celebrating his widow's status? Oh, my God, that's ridiculous.

Nara flew the two tickets. Seeing the object that was no use was floating in the air because of the wind to land perfectly in the hotel yard.

No more honeymoons, no more Japanese. All that remained was a heart that felt like it was pierced with pain.

With a stride, Nara returned to the ground floor. He was about to take his goods that were entrusted to the security guard who was lobbied.

"Excuse me sir, I'll take the goods."

"Oh, yes Ma'am. The other suitcase was taken by her husband before she came out a while ago. I saw you guys together during the chek out. So I believe that he's a mother's husband." Tell the security while pulling the suitcase and give it to Nara.

Husband? the former more precisely.

So Abi left the hotel? An astonishing reality. Don't care about him at all. Not put a pity on him. Don't ask him to talk to apologize from heart to heart. It's really been dumped.

"Yes sir, it's okay." Nara walks out of the hotel while pulling her suitcase. But where is he going now? going back to Jakarta? is he ready for the questions of his parents. It still doesn't feel.

Nara got into a taxi. He told the taxi driver to drive him to a hotel close to the beach. Yeah, the beach, that place seems like it's perfect for crying. He had heard his friend say.

"That beach can be shit."

He used to laugh at hearing it. The impossible myth he believed. But now, he seemed to want to believe it.

Nara stared at the traffic in Bali. Everything seems fine, maybe it's just him who's not okay.

Sayup, he heard the song Agnes Mo from a radio channel tuned by taxi drivers.

You walk with him

As long as you're with me

So complicated is the world

Just because of a taste

Love

Be me, you, and him

Being in a lie created

Why should I guess?

Is that as important as your love?

We started because of love

Let the love end

A perfect backsound that accompanies her broken heart. It makes her unable to cry back. Yeah, maybe just crying can do to reduce chest tightness.

"Are you ok miss?" Ask the taxi driver who noticed it from the mirror center.

"I'm ok."

Did ya? of course not. A lie to look strong. Mouth and heart out of sync. His heart was clearly broken to pieces right now, but the brain was trying to deny.

When the red light. Nara suddenly smiled when she saw a sticker attached to the side of a woman.

The widow is getting ahead

The taxi driver looked cringing. There was a cry, now a smile of his own smile. Crazy one? not yet, definitely still the stage of depression, that's what the taxi driver in the brain.

When he entered the room, his phone rang. There's a call from Kinan. Maybe the woman wanted to ascertain whether she had left for Japan or not.

Not knowing what to answer, Nara chose to deactivate her phone. Just for today. He promised himself that tomorrow he would deliver this painful news. Yes, tomorrow, he's not ready today.

Nara walks on the beach in a pink dress that she deliberately prepares for a honeymoon moment. The dress she was wearing during the gala dinner with Abi. There are actually memories. It even ends with the road alone, midnight.

After his feet feel sore because walking alone along the beach. Nara decided to sit down and opened the drink cans that she had bought at the minimarket.

Drinks with low alcohol content to accompany him spend a cold night on the beach. The night wind that hit as well as the sound of the waves, became a complement to his grief.

"Only?" Reprove someone who arrived to sit next to him.

Nara just glanced from the corner of her eyes. Not intending to answer the reprimand of the familiar unknown man.

"Septian." The man extended his hand towards Nara.

Rather than shake the guy's hand, Nara was more interested in looking at his drink.

"Regular drinking of alcoholic beverages?"

Disturbed by the man's presence, Nara intends to stand up and look for another quieter seat.

"Breaked heart?" Guess the guy. "Lupain guy who already nyia nyiain lo. Life is sometimes not just happy. A little bitter taste is also needed so as not to feel bored with life. Let there be more colors, not just monocromes."

The speech of the pretentious man undoes his intention to move on. I don't know, it looks like he really needs a friend to confide in at the moment. Not confiding with unknown people is safer.

"Still young. Break up, find a new one. The simple is alive."

Nara chuckled at the words of the sotoy guy. If there is such a simple life, there is no such thing as stress, madness or depression.

"Lo ever had a broken heart?" Finally Nara made a sound.

Septian chuckling. Didn't expect that the girl next to him would finally make a sound.

"Once, but I forgot when. It's been too long. And too busy, that there is no gap to lament the fate of the less fortunate. Elo just broke up? Why, you guys are cheating?"

That's almost a correct guess, but not a hundred percent.

"Not broken up, but divorced. 8 years of dating, married not to 24 hours." Nara smiled bitterly as she stared at the drink tin she was holding.

"Wow..it's amazing."

Nara turned towards Septian. A little furious because the man's response turned out to be beyond his expectations. Impressed to underestimate the severe problems he was facing.

"Why did you see me like that?" Septian asked while chuckling.

Nara clucked in annoyance. It seems like he was wrong because he had confided in the middle of nowhere he had just met.

"So you're a widow?"

Nara's heart is getting cobbled. She is indeed a widow, but does her status need to be affirmed like that?

"Sory if I say that." Septian could see the annoyance on Nara's face. "But there is nothing wrong with the status of a widow. Maybe just a bad luck."

"Sometimes, it's rare to get in trouble, putting us down the first time we get into trouble. Different from people who are friends with problems every day, it's hard." Septian said while looking straight ahead. His lips poked a bitter smile. As if I was telling myself.

"Sometimes, people feel like they are the most miserable creatures on earth. But there are still many who suffer more than him. Less grateful, that's why. Just try if he wants to calculate how much happiness he gets during life, of course he will not feel to be a creature plaing terdzolimi."

"If you may know, why were you divorced?"

"He's gonna be a father."

"meaning?"

"So long he cheated without my knowledge. And her affair is pregnant. She's mentally challenged me to be with her affair."

Septian breathed a rough breath. It sounds painful, but that's how life is. As long as we are breathing, there are problems.

"You should be grateful. It means God loves you. Before 24 hours, you already know this harsh reality. Isn't that better than you don't know. Lying until the year." He turned to look towards Nara.

"Come on, widows are not the end of everything. Your life will not stop just because of the status of a widow. Life must go on."

"Lo doesn't know what I'm feeling. That's why you can respond to that roof." Kilah Nara's.

"Gua will never get rid of that. Because it's impossible to be a widow, I'm a guy."

"So, not clear." Nara Cibir.

"But actually. I can't be a widow." Septian chuckled, but not with Nara. The joke could not make him smile for a second.

"Lo look at that." Septian pointed to a mother who sold coffee around. "He's a widow, his son three. She had to be willing to slam bones for the sake of her son because he was left behind to run away with her husband. And that's." Septian again pointed at a woman who was going around selling souvenirs. "He was a widow whose husband had died. His son is a toddler."

"Sokot know." Nara rolled her eyes off guard.

Septian chuckled as he shook his head to hear Nara. "Not knowing, but knowing. I work there." Septian pointed to a cafe that looked quite crowded.

"My habit, if you're out of work, find a friend talking here."

"Hi Sep." Greet my mother who was appointed Septian. "Do you have a pair now?"

"Doain, who knows the soul mate." The Septian chirps that instantly got a sharp shot from Nara.

"Can't believe I know them?" Tempting Septian while smiling triumphantly.