Italicized Before 24 Hours
PAST TIMES

Almost isya' Septian just got home. After parking the motorbike. He immediately entered with a bag containing empek empek.

He who intended to climb the stairs, stopped because he heard Nara's voice from the kitchen.

"I brought it to the front, bik." Nara's voice was heard simultaneously with the woman's appearance from the kitchen.

"Devents." He said as he saw Septian walking towards him. "His emaciated wallet?"

With a big smile, Septian raised the pouch containing Nara's order.

After putting tempe bacem on the dining table. Nara grabbed the crackle bag from Septian's hand. But suddenly, the look on his face changed when he saw the writing on the pouch.

Automatically, his memory returned to Abi. In men who used to spend a lot of time together, enjoy the empek empek at the restaurant.

"Why?" Septian saw that there was an awkwardness from Nara's expression.

"Em... How much?" No way, she told you to keepet ex-husband.

"Once your mom is as papa wants Ra. Bi Surti also cooks to look at the doang."

"But this place is expensive loh bang." Nara obviously knows the price there, because it was her favorite place to be with Abi.

"New gate gets sustenance. There's no harm in my brother's manjain wife with good food."

"Rezeki?" Nara scrunched her forehead. "Not just payday?"

"Not a salary, but people love it. It wasn't on purpose, brother nolongin the guy who got snatched."

"Abang nolongin people got snapped" Nara immediately glared. "But I don't see, there's no wound, right?" Nara watched Septian from top to bottom and twisted her body.

"Alhamdulillah good brother is good Ra." He said as he stroked the top of Nara's head. "Abang dikir money. I refused, but he was maksa. Yeah, let's just say that you're the same baby."

"Next time don't interfere in people's affairs. I don't want a brother why napa because nara nolongin people."

"See the miserably cook diem aja Ra? God willing my brother will take care of himself. Don't worry too much." He said as he gently rubbed Nara's cheek.

"Bag a shower first, let's just have the same dinner." Then he climbed up to his room.

Nara headed for the kitchen to move the pempek to the container. Bi Surti helped cut and pour the gravy into the bowl.

Nara's eyes glazed with glass when tasting a piece. Abi, the shadow of the man reappeared in his mind. Pain, inadmissibility and anger re-emerged. Maybe love is no longer there, but hate is clearly still in the deepest corner of his heart.

"Non, the leader wants to be taken to the dinner table?" Tanya Bi Surti's.

Nara is still drowning in her memory. 8 Years is not a short time. There are so many memories between them. And it will feel painful if the memory appears by itself without being asked.

"Non." Bik Surti patted Nara on the shoulder.

"Eh, yeah, what's bi?" Nara looked excited.

"The stick was brought in a dinner shirt?"

"Let me take it." Nara took a plate of pempek penih and brought him a dinner shirt. Behind him, Bi surti helped bring the sauce.

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After dinner, Nara invited Septian to enjoy the digazebo pempek in the back yard. That place was Nara's favorite rhyme first. The air is so fresh. Plus its location directly facing the pool, making the mind feel calm.

Nara rests her head on Septian's boat while holding a bowl filled with pempek. Bemanja spoiled on loved ones, in favorite places and with favorite foods as well. Trivial but very pleasant for Nara.

"Tomorrow for leave. We're going to mom's house in the morning, right?" Septian said as he stroked Nara's hair.

"So big brother." Nara answered and put a piece of pempek in her mouth.

When they are busy. Nara's phone rang. There's a call from an unknown number. But from her wa profile photo, clearly Nara is familiar.

"Cock not lifted?" Ask Septian.

Nara handed her phone to Septian. Septian's eyes were perfectly rounded looking at Diego's profile there.

"He calls you often?"

"A few times, but I never picked up."

"A lifting can be?" Septian asked as he turned to look at Nara's expression.

"Whatever." Nara seemed to mind.

Septian sighed then pressed the green button. He also meloud speakers so Nara can hear. From across the street, I heard a greeting from Diego. From his voice, it sounded very happy.

"What's the need to call my wife?" Ask Septian directly. He said he never felt stale about that guy.

"This is Ms Nara's phone number, right?" Diego thinks he's got the wrong number.

Over there seemed silent. Maybe he's confused. But I don't know, nobody knows.

tut tut tut tut tut

The phone was turned off by Diego.

Septian returned the phone to Nara. But the look on his face was no longer serilex.

"What's the bang?" Nara noticed the change in Septian's countenance.

"When to be honest if your husband's brother. Diego is already among the unsettling. And maybe, after this there'll be another Diego Diego."

Nara lowered her head while squeezing her finger.

"Are you ashamed to have my husband?'

Nara shook her head quickly while staring at Septian.

"Don't misunderstand me. Not ashamed of having married my brother. Shame of being pregnant out of wedlock. I'm lecturer bang. I have to be a role model. I'm not ready to be blasphemed for getting pregnant out of wedlock."

Nara's tears started to fall. There may have been many cases of pregnancy outside marriage. But he's a lecturer, his good name is at stake here.

Septian grabbed Nara's shoulder and kissed her forehead several times. "Sorry, I didn't think that far. But none of this can be hidden, Ra. Your old stomach is long big."

"Yes if it is big, Ngaku forced. We can say it's been a long time since marriage."

"Are they sure they believe?"

"Hopefully."

Septian wiped away Nara's tears and kissed her forehead. "I'm sorry brother, all this is wrong brother."

"It's the one we both bang." Nara Correction.

They were silent for a moment. Until finally, Nara asked the thing that had been stuck in her heart.

"How many girls have ever been on the same brother?"

The Septian tongue heard him. A question she couldn't answer, for fear that Nara would be hurt.

"How does it feel ons the same chick? How good does it feel to me? Do you want it often?" Nara's language even widened to where. In the depths of his heart, sometimes the fear was there. Fear if her husband feels more satisfied with other women than her who is still minimal experience.

"Don't talk about what you used to. I don't want you to be hurt."

"Oh.... mean many?" Nara draws a unilateral conclusion. There was a flash of anger in his eyes.

"Rba..." Septian looked frustrated. "I've lost it before. I did go a few ounces, but not often. It was also during my time in Bali doang. I was a dick in there. I got the wrong relationship. Especially away from the old. No one is shitting. If only you knew Ra. Brother is ashamed of himself if you want how many sins brother."

Septian let out a rough breath then rubbed his face with both palms. He is not a man who does not understand religion. However, not a religious scientist. Understand if adultery is a sin, but still do. Understand if prayer is mandatory, but ignore it during your stay in Bali.

He who usually always get spiritual watering from both parents. Suddenly becomes arid when it is replaced. As well as new friends and social areas, make him want to try something new. Something that friends always say is the paradise of the world.

"See." Septian grabbed Nara's shoulder and made the woman face him.

"Abang is in the phase of repentance. In time to repair themselves. So brother please, do not reveal time in Bali. The past, let it be a lesson. We live for today and the future. And the future is you and our son. You know, bad brother, maybe not worthy to be your husband. But brother will try to keep himself steady."

Nara hugged Septian. Drown her head in her husband's field. Yes, everyone has a past. Septian never even asked about his past. So, maybe she doesn't have to worry about her husband's past either.

Nara raised her face and kissed Septian's lips. Mengulum, tasting and sometimes a small bite. Their tongues clashed with each other. Until the voice of the lip fight sounded loud in the middle of the sunyinya night.

"Ra, brother wants to." Said Septian in a hoarse voice when the pagutan their lips had been released. His eyes were already filled with a fog of passion, needing to be channeled immediately. Sure, not in this place.

"Why not say from earlier if you want to." With a quick movement, Nara grabbed the bowl containing the pempek and stabbed a piece with a fork.

"Ak." Nara pushed a piece of pempek into Septian's mouth. "Living a little bit just said you wanted to. Why not from earlier."

Septian gawking with mouth filled pempek. Then he chewed it with an annoyed expression.

Nara held back a laugh seeing Septian's expression. She wasn't stupid, didn't know what her husband meant. It's just that, he was deliberately pranking the man. He's prepared a special surprise for tonight. Let the man get upset first.

"Udah ah, brother wants in. Continue to write the thesis." He came down from the gazebo and walked into the house.

As for Nara, she followed Septian in the back while holding back a laugh.

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Sorry if anyone disagrees with the Septian character. Why do you know religion when I do oz?

In fact, the author met several times like this. The author has spent several years in the country. Living freely interchanged really challenges faith. Especially if faced with a friend who can be said to be off the mark. Our chances of straying are greater. Temptation is huge. There was even someone who the author knew, he had mondok, but during the observation, never did prayer.