Marrying Sergeant Major
~ 34 ~
After about ten minutes, the bathroom door opened. Mas Bima came out with her face and hair a little wet, maybe she just washed her face to dampen her emotions.
She must have been angry that I disappeared without news, she was also disappointed that I deliberately ignored her daughter.
But what about the one who betrayed me at the Gemintang hotel with Gesya?
I must be angry too, right?
"Hand, I've prepared warm water" he said to my surprise.
I was stunned, not at all expecting that Bima mas would command me in a soft tone like he was talking to Lala.
Closing my eyes, I noticed that Bima's face was not as scary as before as she dragged me from the ground floor to the top floor.
He was silent, patiently waiting for my response.
"Arimbi!" Call her when I flinch while looking at her who is also looking at me.
"Clean yourself now!"
Swallowing, I started walking slowly towards the closet. Just taking about three steps, Bima immediately grabbed my hand and led me into the bathroom.
"I'm gonna get a change of clothes, mas"
"Let me get it, take a shower before the water gets cold"
"T-but_"
My words were cut off because the door was closed.
In the bathroom, I could only resignedly think of the greatest possibility that I would come out wearing only a wrapped towel._____
I rubbed my head with the water that Bima had prepared, hoping that fear would drift along with the water flowing in my body.
Without realizing it, my tears came back as the shadow of Bima and Gesya danced in my brain.
Even though I don't see it with my own eyes, I can paint a picture of a man making love in bed.
My chest was tight, my heart was like it was being pinched so hard, inflicting pain that somehow I treated it.
Not wanting to linger, I ended my bathing ritual. I wrapped a towel to wrap my body and wet hair.
Slowly, I open the bathroom door. After the door opened, a pair of netraku directly met the view with dark netra belonging to Bima mas.
I gulped my saliva trying to expel the nervous feeling that was directly attacking me.
"The change of clothes is on the sofa" said Mas Bima glanced at my clothes. So was I who directly directed my attention to the sofa next to the bed.
When my clothes were in my hands, and when I was about to go back into the bathroom, Bima hurriedly blocked me by standing at the door while choking.
Whatdoes thatmean?
Why didn't he give me permission to change clothes in the bathroom?
"Excuse me, I'm going in"
"What are you doing? Didn't you take a shower?" his focus was full of staring at me.
"I want to put some clothes on inside"
"Wear it here" her ink was flat, as flat as the look of her expressionless face.
"But mas_"
"Wear it here" she said in the same vein.
I am ambiguous with a divided mind between remembering the sentence mas Bima just now and weighing whether to obey him to wear clothes in front of him or not.
"Would I help you wear it?"
"T-no" I said lightning.
There was a slanted smile that suddenly rose and it instantly made my heart go numb.
"Then put it on now"
"But, mas!"
"Why?" Quickly ambush. "Wear it now otherwise I'll_"
"What will?" My investigation.
"Build you"
Exhaling, inevitably I have to obey his words.
I had not had time to put on my clothes, Bima suddenly walked towards the work desk. And as she was turning her back on me, this was my chance to put on my underwear.
After all the clothes attached to my body, Bima mas told me to eat. He who was walking towards the desk turned out to take a tray of rice and some side dishes on the plate.
I haven't eaten yet, it's because there's no appetite.
Let alone rice, water alone seems unable to enter when my mind is upset.
"Eat!" He is more ordered.
Sitting leaning against the headboard, I started to spoon the rice and then I put it in my mouth.
I lyrics Bima mas who was sitting in a swivel chair by leaning back on the back of the chair and hands folded on the chest.
A gaze full of intense and unmoved from my face stuff for a moment. A look that implies intimidation, which makes me even more nervous.
At such a notice, obviously my concentration is crumbling. I almost choked on my food because I was so nervous.
Silent, there was no sound other than the clink of the spoon I created.
"Where have you been?" tanya mas Bima made a motion of feeding a spoon to my mouth stopped.
"From a friend's house"
"Whose friend? All your garden friends I've contacted, but they don't know where you are, and why'd it get soaked?"
I kept quiet, not knowing what else to answer.
Silence returned to ambush.
"Next time, don't turn off your phone. If you're angry, don't leave the house, talk to me about it"
Mas Bima was right, but if I ask about personal matters and want to solve them, doesn't he always say it's his privacy?
"Where are you going?" Ask when I get up. I felt full, and I was about to go to the kitchen to put down this tray.
"Put this in the kitchen"
"But_"
"Here" Mas Bima snatched the tray from my hand. "Don't sleep first, after the kitchen, we're talking"
After saying that, Bima turned around and I tailed behind her intending to go to my mother's room to bring Lala to this room.
I miss her so much, I want to hug her as my apology for leaving her.
"Where are you going?" Bima turned around.
"To mami's room"
"You're doing"
"Take Lala here"
"No need, my mom is very tired because she took care of Lala who was fussy a while ago. Lala must have been tired from crying from five o'clock in the afternoon and just stopped at ten"
Hearing Bima's words, my chest throbbed pain.
God, I've been making Lala cry for hours, what kind of mother am I?
"Let Lala rest, and you" The man said with full glare towards my eyeballs. "Don't sleep yet!"
Mas Bima turned back, then directed his feet towards the door of the room.
****
Hearing the words we spoke, my legs were squeezed but as hard as I could I tried to prepare myself to explain the reason why I left and turned off my phone.
After about ten minutes, the door suddenly opened displaying Bima mas with a flat look.
My heart in there started beating so badly.
While a pair of netraku continued to scan the body of Bima mas who walked over to me. This man was leisurely sitting on the edge of the bed right beside me and facing me.
"What will you tell us about your departure?"
Alright, it seems like I should indeed dare to express my reasoning.
"Before I answer why I left" I said as calmly as I could. "Can I explain what I did at the Gemintang hotel with Gesya?"
There was a surprised look on Bima's face after hearing my question, but in the next second, I was confused because he suddenly smiled obliquely.
"You know I was there with Gesya?"
"If I didn't know, I wouldn't"
"So that's why you disappeared for a few hours?"
Mas Bima shook his head, and I did not understand what the headband meant.
"Say it's jealousy"
"Which wife wasn't jealous to see her husband coming out of the hotel, and when I met Gesya in her room, she said that you guys just missed"
My words made Bima's mas immediately frowned, then silent with the spotlight changed as if he was looking at me.
"Looking off?"
I nodded in response, then looked down at my finger that was linked on top of my lap.
"Hufft... It turns out because of this to" his fuss.
"Did you see me there?"
I nodded back.
I'm begging with my jaw tightly clenched. We stared at each other fully.
From her gaze and slanted smile, I felt that Bima was underestimating my curiosity about their meeting at the hotel.
"If you go faster to that hotel, you'll know what's going on between me and Gesya"
"Mas thought I'd let my heart break into pieces?"
Mas Bima brought his face closer and sighed right in front of my face, while I held my breath with my heart pounding.
"Eat it" Bima's hands removed the strands of my hair that covered part of my eyes. "Don't guess and don't get carried away with emotions. If so, who would be hurt? Misunderstanding due to rush to conclude without confirmation first"
"Well, why are you there?" I asked because I felt I had not yet got the answer. I'm holding back from launching a clear point ready to fall.
"If I say nothing, do you believe me? Or if I say I didn't go to Gesya's room at all, do you believe me?"
"You mean, I'm gonna beat me up because I've taken a bad preconception, right?" I immediately rubbed the cheeks that were sprinkled with a speck of dew.
"Hmm" he said without guilt "And would correct you. Next time you have to ask really, and don't rush to speculate. You know, since you left, Lala yelled at me, I was overwhelmed by persuading her to eat, I couldn't stop her crying either, so who would I blame if it wasn't you?"
"But what does Gesya's wet hair mean?" I ask again to be curious.
"So you're accusing me of touching it"
"What is my prejudice if it's not in that direction?"
"You should think Arimbi! You're the one I'm obviously halal to touch, I don't touch you, let alone that damn woman"
What!!! Did Bima call Gesya a fucking woman?
Wait for...
Do I not lie to Gesya?
Bima stood up and grabbed a pillow on my left.
Walking towards the sofa, he said.
"It's almost an hour. Go sleep! we'll continue our conversation tomorrow morning. Since you've got my answer, tomorrow it's my turn to get your answer"
"What answer? I just didn't give me a clear answer"
"I'm just telling you because you won't believe it. Better, tomorrow we go to Gemintang and see the hotel's CCTV. From there you'll know I'm doing it there"
"What do you mean?"
"Sleep it's night" Mas Bima threw herself on the sofa. He slept on his side while looking at me.
Feeling annoyed, I tilted my back to Bima mas.
Before I really fell asleep, I thought hard about what kind of answer Bima wanted from me.
Seriate.