Loosely Paid, CEO Beautiful
Start to Abate

One hour Arka and Amanda were silent, contemplating all the events that had befallen them. Until then Arka felt if he had to get up and solve these things one by one.

"Tok, tock, tock."

Arka knocked on the door, but there was no reply from Amanda.

"Man, open the door."

Amanda still didn't answer.

"Man, I'm still your husband. I said open the door...!"

Amanda opened the door, now she and Arka were facing each other. Amanda then threw away her sight.

"My eyes look." said Arka with a firm tone and a little emotional. Amanda didn't do it, she still threw her eyes the other way.

"My eyes are Amanda...!"

Arka's voice sounded high, making Amanda finally look into her husband's eyes.

"Do you see the lies in my eyes?" ask Arka later.

Amanda silence.

"My answer is Amanda...!"

Amanda shook her head and lowered her eyes, her tears now flowing.

"So why can't you believe it?. Why can't you trust me?"

Arka tried to take a breath in the middle of her heightened emotions and sadness.

"Man everyone outside is blaspheming me, not even my mother believes me. I don't have anyone else, Man. You're the only one who can trust me. I'm...."

Amanda immediately hugged Arka, before her husband even had time to continue the words. Amanda was crying, and so was Arka. Both are now sobbing, the problems that come as if attacking repeatedly into their lives.

"So, now you're disabled?" ask Arka who just found out about what happened to his wife. They are now sitting on the bed.

Amanda nodded slowly.

"I also just got news from the management, if some of my work contracts are canceled."

arka said while looking down.

"What happened to Liana, Ka?" ask Amanda later.

"Why is it hidden from me" he continued.

Arka also tells the chronology of the incident, how that night he and Rio met with Liana. She had just been a rape victim.

"I deliberately kept that a secret, for fear that you might come to mind, Man. You're pregnant, I don't want you to worry too much. Because it can affect the development of our babies."

"So Liana was in the hospital with me?"

Arka nodded.

"Me and Rio took good care of it, even we helped the police find the culprit. Now all the perpetrators have been caught. That's what I heard from Rio, before he got into an accident."

"Now the key is on Liana and Rio, Ka. Only the two of them can clear your name. Have you tried talking to Liana?"

Arka shakes.

"I don't think of anything else, Man. My career can no longer be saved. Rio is now in a coma, where can he make a sound."

"There's still Liana, Ka." We'll find him.

Arka nodded and hugged his wife again.

***

"Plaaaac."

A slap landed on Rani's cheek.

"Plaaaac."

"Plaaaac."

"Female basis*****lo, Ran. Don't know yourself."

Rani is about to retaliate, but Amanda kills the woman again. Until Rani falls into a chair.

"Plaaaac."

"No thanks, you son of a bitch."

"Plaaaac."

"Gue has nolongin lo of us in our teens, Ran. Why are you doing all this to me?"

This time Rani stood up and laughed a grin. Even though his face had been bruised and the corners of his lips were bleeding.

"Lo asks why?. Why am I doing all this?. You really don't know, huh?" Rani screams in Amanda's face.

"Look my face all right, Amanda. Take a good look."

Rani is now very close to Amanda's face.

"Look, who do I look like?. I look like whoaaaaa?"

Amanda took a few steps back, she still looked at Rani with an incredulous look.

"Well...?"

"Yes, you think why every time we gather anywhere. When we were in school, there were a lot of people who said we looked alike."

Amanda remembers an incident, when she and her friends were walking in a shopping center. There is an SPG who sees himself and also Rani.

"You two are at first glance similar, but look forward to this one" the SPG said of Amanda.

Other times the kids at their school start chattering, when Amanda and Rani and her other friends pass by.

"Eh, don't you realize that Rani is the same Amanda is a bit similar?"

"But wait for Amanda."

"Yes much awaited Amanda, but they look very similar."

Amanda recalled the incident with a racing heart.

"Where?. You know what?"

"Ran." Amanda still can't believe it, her body is shaking.

"32 years ago, the night before that depraved bokap lo married nyokap lo. He raped me, which was my first job. As a cleaning service in the company of Mr. Lo the bastard'uuu."

"Huh." Amanda took a few steps back, while Arka who heard this was no less shocked.

"I thought I was 18 years old, still a virgin and she had a boyfriend. After that depraved bokap lo raped her, I thought I was pregnant. He was expelled by his family, left with his girlfriend, even so the talk of one village. You know in our country, every case of rape and the victim tried to speak up. Blasphemed even victims, said can not take care of themselves, wear open clothes and others. No one is guilty of the perpetrator, even the perpetrators of the asshole defended. If I try hard to live me alone, until finally he met my stepfather who wants to accept his condition. But when I was in elementary school, my stepdad died."

"Yes but why are you bales the same as me, it's not my fault."

"Wrongly, you live a good life, glittering treasure. Me and me, no."

"Let me suffer too, Ran."

"But he suffered in a luxurious house, in a flashy car, with a wallet that was always filled thickly. While I was suffering from street dust. Sampe nyokap I make the cost of checking the contents and delivery, because bokap lo the bastard refused to take responsibility. He even told people to kill me. And the man who was paid to kill me, finally married me."

Amanda's tears are flowing now, and so is Rani. But Rani was filled with hatred staring at her brother.

"Lo lives happily, whatever you ask is fulfilled by your bokap. He's a bastard to others but not the same lo, he obviously loves you. I've always seen how that bastard bokap lo, treats you. Even though you hate him."

"Ran, I love you the same."

"Gue loves you too, Man. But my hatred for you has also been entrenched for years. I've always been jealous, you can get what you want. While I am always given the rest, if there are things you want to throw away, I ask. I was just as happy as I was difficult. Everyone complains about you because you are smart, beautiful, accomplished. I have to live in the shadows. You are also lucky to get men who love you. While I was dumped so, after he killed a child in my womb. And he's free to roam because of his new wife's money on bail. Now despite your company, I lead it temporarily. In the meantime, I'll find a way. So that what you once had, so it's mine. I've been happy for too long, on top of my suffering."

Rani passes by leaving Amanda, while Amanda cries in Arka's arms.