Love That Pain
Two tough choices

Currently Kania is shopping together with Zaki, even then with Veon's permission, because the man has an important meeting that he cannot leave to accompany his wife shopping. Kania took Zaki to the biggest mall in Jakarta, there were many things he wanted to buy.

Zaki just shook his head seeing Kania shopping for so many snacks, “do you want to open a store at home, why did you buy so many snacks?” tanyanya.

Kania took a snack of french fries from the shelf, “for stock at home, I if midnight often feel hungry,” he said then put some snacks of french fries into the trolley.

“Where are you going again?” Zaki saw the clock on his wrist, “we've been here for two hours,” he said.

“This time we are looking for a gift for your Boss it.”

“There is something special today?” ask Zaki curiously.

“So Mama told me that tomorrow she has a birthday. I just want to give her a gift.”

‘Gosh why can I forget?’ murmured Zaki in the heart.

Kania and Zaki leave the supermarket and move on to a watch shop. Zaki smiled, it turned out that the choice was good as well, he thought.

Kania shows the watch she chose to Zaki, “good no?” tanyanya asked Zaki's opinion.

Zaki nodded his head, “good is also your taste,” he praised.

“Em...what will he like it?” kania asked while staring at the watch she was holding.

“Master Veon must love it, besides this is the first gift you give her.”

“Hopefully,” said Kania while brushing her smile.

After finishing buying a present for Veon, Zaki and Kania go to the restaurant that is in the mall. Kania and Zaki are very surprised to see Bella also inside the restaurant.

“Kania!” call Bella hard.

“Zak..” Kania stared at Zaki, “what should we do?” tanyanya.

“We meet him, if we dodge, he will be suspicious.”

Kania nodded her head. They set their feet toward the table where Bella sat alone.

“Hai,” greet Kania, “are you alone?” tanyanya.

Bella nodded her head, “my girlfriend is busy, so she can't accompany me to lunch, what are you doing here?” tanyakanya.

“We want lunch,” says Zaki.

“Then join here, I do not want to eat alone,” said Bella.

Kania and Zaki eventually join Bella. Zaki called the waiter and ordered food and drinks for him as well as Kania.

Bella stared at Kania and Zaki's faces in turn, “are you really brothers, but why aren't your faces at all similar?” tanyanya.

“Em...Brother Zaki is my cousin sister,” Kania said spontaneously.

“Kania, I have good news for you.” Bella's words made Kania wrinkle her forehead, “I will settle in Jakarta, I will stay with Veon for good,” he added, and that made both Zaki and Kania's eyes round her eyes.

“Although me and Veon will not get married soon, but I will still ask him to marry me, because he once promised in front of my parents to marry me,”.

Hearing what Bella said made Kania's heart like it was scratched by a sharp object, the wound was so deep and very painful. But he kept trying to smile, hiding his sadness behind his fake smile.

“Kania..” Bella clasped Kania's hand, “here I don't know anyone but Veon and Zaki, I don't have girlfriends, do you want to be my friend?” tanyanya.

“Em...aku..aku..

Bella scrunched her forehead to see Kania who was so hesitant to grant her request, “wouldn't you want to be my friend?” ask again.

“I want to, from now on we are friends,” said Kania while brushing her smile.

Zaki rounded his eyes, ‘what did he say? How could he be friends with Bella?’ he murmured in the heart.

Not long after the waiter came while carrying food and drinks that Zaki ordered. The waiter put the food and drink on the table. After the waiter left, they began to eat dishes that had been arranged neatly on the table.

“Kania, I want to introduce you to my boyfriend, Veon would love to see me have a friend as beautiful as you,” Bella said with a smile on her face.

Kania who just chewed food began to cough because it choked on food. Zaki gave a glass of water to Kania, “you're okay?” tanyanya.

Kania took the glass filled with water from Zaki's hand, then sipped it, “I'm fine,” he said.

“Why you? What words surprised you?” ask Bella astonished.

“Em...I want to go to the toilet for a while.” Kania then moved from her seat.

“Let me drop off,” bargain Zaki, but rejected directly from Kania.

Kania stepped foot into the toilet inside the restaurant. On the way to the toilet, the tears she had been holding back from now on, finally flowed down her cheeks. Kania leaned her body against the wall, she then wiped her tears, after which she continued her steps towards the toilet.

In the toilet, Kania stood in front of the large mirror inside the toilet, she looked at her face that looked very tangled, “Kania, why is your life this miserable? Are you really able to get through all this?” ask him to himself.

Kania let out a long sigh, he then washed his face with water, then wiped it with a tissue. The woman convinced herself that she would be able to get through all this. After he finished his business, he came out of the toilet.

“Now I'll take you home.”

“Then what about Bella?”

“Why do you still care about him? Do you feel comfortable with him?” asked Zaki in a slightly raised voice.

“Then what should I do? Didn't you just say that if we dodged he would be suspicious, then what would he think if I refused his request?”

“You don't have to worry about him, he just came home, earlier he got a call from someone, after that he said back home,” explained Zaki.

“What called Veon?” Kania looked at Zaki's eyes in turn, “so right earlier who called him Veon,” he said sadly.

“Now we go home.”

***

Bella gets out of the taxi as soon as she gets to Veon's private house, she sees Veon's car parked in the yard. The woman then rushed to the door and opened the door, “honey, you came?” he hugged Veon's body from behind.

“Bella, last.”

Bella let go of her embrace, “have you eaten? Or do we just have lunch outside?” tanyakanya.

“I'm just here to tell you that I can't marry you, you must already know the reason.”

Bella shook her head, “I don't care, I'll keep waiting for you. Didn't you promise in front of my parents to marry me?” the woman hugged Veon's body, “now I have no one but you, will you also leave me like Mama and Papa who have left me?” tanyanya while tightening her embrace.

Veon took off Bella's embrace, “but I still can't marry you,”.

“Then I die. Why do I live in this world, if I can't live with you,” said Bella with a body drooping on the floor.

Veon holds both shoulders of Bella, “what are you saying? Are you crazy?” ask her in a high tone.

Bella started shedding tears, “I don't want to live anymore, which makes me survive until now it's you, but now you don't even want me anymore, then what's the point of me staying alive,” she said in between sobs.

Veon hugged Bella's body, “forgive me,” she said.

“Don't leave me, I can't afford to lose you too.” Bella hugged Veon's body tightly.

Veon let out a long sigh, ‘why is it getting more complicated like this? I can't leave Kania, nor can I leave Bella in this condition. Bella is so reckless, I'm afraid she'll actually end her life, and I don't want that until it happens.’ he murmured inwardly.

Veon then helps Bella stand up, he then invites the woman to sit on the sofa.

“Veon, don't go, accompany me here. I am lonely here alone,” Bella said as she wiped her tears.

“But there is a bibik who will help take care of all your needs.”

Bella shook her head, “I want you to accompany me, I beg you,” the door with both eyes.

“But I..”.

Veon rounded his eyes as Bella kissed his lips, “Bella, you..” The young man pushed the woman's body slowly.

“I miss you so much, I want us to go back to how we used to be. Now you just have to choose, see me die, or you leave your wife.”

“What do you mean? You know those two options are very difficult for me to choose!” exclaim Veon.

“But you have to choose between me or your wife!”

Veon ruffled his hair in frustration, “why do you have to go back to my life, why?” loud shouting.

“Because I don't want to make that mistake again, I know it's too late, but I'm sure you still love me so much.” Bella then wrapped her hands around Veon's neck, “I want us to go back to how we used to be, doing all the things together, we're even almost.”.

Veon covered Bella's mouth with his index finger, “that never happened, I was under the influence of alcohol,” he said.

Bella smiled, “that is precisely what makes me love you more, you are not easily persuaded by lust.” The woman then gently stroked the man's cheek, “but right now, if you want it, I will give it,” she said in a teasing tone.

Veon lowered both of Bella's hands from her neck, “don't ever do that again, because I don't like her,” she said with a sharp eye.

***

“What? but why?” asked Kania who was currently talking on the phone with Veon.

“I have to do something with Zaki, that's why I'm overtime at the office. You better not wait for me.”

‘Do you want to be with Bella? Do you really love her so much that you lie like this?’ murmuring Kania in the heart.

“I just want to tell you that, I close the phone first.” Veon ended his call.

Kania sat her body on the edge of the bed, “I have no right to forbid you, but why would you hurt me? wh why? Can't you see the sincerity of my love?”

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