Kaluna Marriage Wound
Me or Him

The rain was still pouring so hard when Rizhan tried to find Kaluna's car. He gripped tightly at the wheel holding back emotions. If he had not obeyed Eliza's desire to go to the mall, they would not have been caught by Kaluna. But Rizhan could not refuse Eliza's request because he himself had promised to buy a necklace on her birthday.

"Where are you Kaluna?" Grumbling Rizhan, he looked to the right and left looking for the figure of Kaluna although his view was not too clear because of the rain water that hit the window.

Rizhan's feelings were mixed, he was actually heavy leaving Eliza alone especially with the chaos Kaluna had made plus everyone was watching them. Now Eliza had to endure that shame alone. But Rizhan had no choice, between the two women he had to choose Kaluna as his wife. Although it is undeniable that Rizhan loves both. At least Kaluna who was always beside Rizhan under any circumstances. Eliza always managed to give something different that Kaluna never gave.

Rizhan remembers his first meeting with Eliza about 2 years ago when they both attended a campus reunion. It was their first meeting after years of never seeing each other and communicating. Seeing Eliza after a long time made Rizhan's chest rumble again. But at that time Rizhan tried to dismiss all the feelings that again gnawed at him like when he was still dating Eliza. Yeah, they used to date in college. But the feeling that is still unstable makes their relationship run aground.

At that time there was no deep impression for the two, after the reunion was over they also still did not greet each other. But Rizhan's loyalty is tested when he accidentally meets Eliza again at the SPBU. At that time Rizhan's wallet was left behind so Eliza took the initiative to help Rizhan pay for it.

"Why Zhan?" Eliza who was riding a motorcycle realized the strangeness of Rizhan.

"This is my wallet I missed."

"If so I pay ya."

Rizhan has no choice but to accept Eliza's help anyway no one else he knows here.

"I can ask for your number later I change, you send it to WA account number yes."

Indeed, at that time Rizhan did not intend to communicate with Eliza again, he thought after changing the gas money their business would be finished. But Eliza always pay attention to Rizhan as a reminder not to force yourself to work late at night or remind eating and so forth. Sometimes they talk about each other's lives. All that makes the seeds of love grow back in the hearts of the two until they decide to meet again secretly without the knowledge of Kaluna.

Several times Rizhan was made tense when Kaluna found a hotel voucher that was often the place to stay with Eliza. Once Kaluna found a male intimate organ safety device in Rizhan's bag.

"Kok there's this in your bag, we're again pregnant program why do you wear kayak gini?" Kaluna asked at that time with a little suspicion towards Rizhan.

But Rizhan managed to throw away Kaluna's suspicions by saying that it was a gift when he bought underwear.

As a good wife Kaluna put all her trust in Rizhan. He did not accuse Rizhan of cheating on him despite having discovered the irregularities several times.

Until this day comes when Kaluna must know the bitter reality of her life, namely seeing with her own eyes that Rizhan has long been in contact with Eliza.

"Kaluna!" Rizhan stopped his car after seeing Kaluna at one of the rest areas. He picked up an umbrella in the back seat before getting out of the car. "Kaluna, what's wrong with you?" Rizhan straightened Kaluna's wet body, he was shocked to see the wife's pale face. "Let's go home later you catch a cold."

With half-open eyes Kaluna brushed off Rizhan's hand, "it's better to catch a cold than other women who get into other people's domestic relationships." The drill.

"I can explain all this to you." Rizhan tried to hold Kaluna's arm but again the woman brushed him off. Kaluna felt disgusted to be touched by the man who had betrayed her.

"Yes, it's clear." Kaluna folded her hands in front of her chest because of the cold, she leaned her body on the chair.

"I don't mean to cheat on you."

Kaluna clenched her hands, "you have intentions or not, in fact you cheated you betrayed me, you reneged on your promise broken our sacred marriage promise."

"I love you Kaluna."

"IT DOESN'T MATTER, I DON'T NEED WORDS OF LOVE FROM YOUR MOUTH!" Hardik Kaluna was full of emotions, although her voice was slightly muffled by the rain but that sentence was able to make Rizhan surprised.

"I'm sorry." Rizhan put on a face of melas begging that Kaluna forgive him even though it is not that easy. His mistake this time was not just about him buying the wrong color but hair for Kaluna or because he finished off Kaluna's favorite Viennetta ice cream, more than that, Rizhan's mistake this time is very fatal almost unforgivable. But what Rizhan can do, he also does not want the household to fall apart. "I want us to keep going."

Kaluna laughed, again a laugh that made her cry bitterly.

"I've never seen a man more selfish than you!" Kaluna said full of emphasis while pointing at Rizhan's chest.

"How do you make me sorry?"

"Now you choose me or him?"

"Kaluna, horrified me first—"

"ME OR HER!" Strictly Kaluna once again.

"I can't choose." Rizhan.

"Why? oh you choose her, divorce me now!"

"Eliza's pregnant."

Kaluna widened, her mouth opened in surprise with Rizhan's words. His stomach felt more and more twisted unbearable as when he was about to come the moon just more pain many times more than that. Especially now that his emotions are out of whack.

With the rest of the energy that Kaluna had gone from there, she brushed off Rizhan's hand that was about to hold her back. Really he does not want to see the face of Rizhan at this time, he wants to be alone.

Kaluna closed her eyes tightly feeling something warm running all the way to her thighs, calves to her feet as soon as she stood up. Like someone falling from his body. Kaluna brushed aside her bad thoughts at this time.

"Kaluna, why are you bleeding?" Rizhan was surprised to see blood flowing to Kaluna's calves.

Not caring for Kaluna who refused to be touched, Rizhan raised Kaluna's body to bring her into the car.

Kaluna's body felt soaring far into space, she could not feel her own body when Rizhan lifted her up. Kaluna kept trying to open her eyes even though her vision was dark. Until finally he was really unable to open his eyes because his head felt dizzy.

******

"Sir, who will be responsible?" A jeweler saw Eliza, who was still pale from the scene a few minutes ago. Eliza was still standing rigidly looking at the cake on the floor that was out of shape. Some people looked at Eliza, not a few who were whispering throwing cynical gazes at her. Of course in this case the most embarrassed was Eliza because she was present in the middle of the household of Rizhan and Kaluna. But what else he can do after an hour early he already knows that Rizhan is married.

Eliza swallowed her saliva with great difficulty, she slipped her straight, reddish-brown hair behind her ears.

"I'll pay, how much will it cost?" Eliza took out an ATM card from her bag. Fortunately, Eliza got an ATM card owned by Rizhan so she did not have to bother thinking about the cost of the chaos that Kaluna caused.

"What about the necklace you're wearing?"

Eliza fingered the round necklace pendant that coiled around her neck. He saw his reflection through the mirror, the necklace was very fitting with his neck level.

"I take it." Eliza raised her chin confidently unwilling to make the people there step on her pride even more.

"Please pin number." Eliza pressed a series of numbers on the EDC machine. It was Eliza's birthday suit that was deliberately used to pin the card. Eliza sees Rizhan has several other cards in his wallet and she manages to get one.

Eliza breezed away from there with her chin raised after paying. He ignored the cynical views of the people as soon as he passed them. Eliza was not ashamed to think they were no holier than she was.

Eliza had given everything to Rizhan including his precious crown. Eliza was determined that if she had given the crown, she must also have Rizhan forever no matter if Rizhan already has a wife. After all, they do this affair because they are both willing and in love instead of Eliza who deliberately teases Rizhan first. It happens naturally.

Today when they were discovered by Kaluna, Eliza was not too surprised because she had prepared this matter a long time ago. He is sure that gradually Kaluna will find out their relationship. After all, now Eliza has a powerful weapon to make Rizhan stay, namely the child in the womb, it is the blood of Rizhan's flesh.

"I want to get rid of this stuff." As Eliza said when she first told Rizhan about her pregnancy because she was afraid that the man would not take responsibility. But Rizhan forbade Eliza from doing so because he would give a living to Eliza.

"You have to take good care of that child because my wife fought so hard to get pregnant, you should be grateful." Rizhan's words are still ringing in Eliza's ears to this day.

"What if Kaluna asks Mas Rizhan to leave me?" Eliza asked herself, she sat pensively at the stop waiting for the bus to come.

Of course Kaluna has the right to ask Rizhan to leave Eliza. But for now Eliza already loves Rizhan, she is used to be enveloped in a myriad of attention by the man. Nothing makes Eliza feel as comfortable as Rizhan did to her.

Like the fallen leaves, Eliza also could not choose to whom her heart would fall and now she has fallen in love with the husband of the man even carrying her child. It has fallen into the deepest abyss and is difficult to return to the surface.