My best friend, Maduku
Not a bad girl

Aly's frustration with the man had still not subsided. As a man in control in the leadership of a family, he does not accept the vilifying words that come out of the man admirer of one of his wives.

Aly walked hastily leaving Halimah who continued to align her steps with Aly. What Aly needs now is to meet with Alsya, asking about the man who was lacking work earlier. During this time she was rarely beside Alsya but that does not mean Alsya passed her boundaries as a wife, does not it ?. Supposedly if Alsya was aware of her position as a wife, Alsya was unlikely to make friends with a man who clearly had a sense of her.

Slowly, Aly opened the door of Alsya's room and left Halimah standing unwilling to come inside.

The look on his face was dark even ignoring the sweet smile of his wife who was lying on the bed.

Aly sat on the bedside chair of Alsya with eyes focused on Alsya's eyes . If before he was very angry and wanted to ask the thing that had angered him, but when he saw his wife's smiling face, his anger subsided instantly.

Aly closed his eyes as his wife's leek brushed the corners of his lips. He just remembered, that had been hit by a man who admired Alsya, and surely Alsya saw the bruise on his lips.

"Speak, mother."

Aly opened her eyes again and stared fixedly at Alsya's shady face. He could not vent his anger on Alsya, because the loss of their prospective baby would still make Alsya sad despite the smile seen on Alsya's lips, but Aly still found a grate of sadness in Alsya's eyes. Aly's hand cupped Alsya's fingers which still gently rubbed her face then brought her closer to her lips and kissed her for a long time.

"Al."

"Hem ?."

"Mas, want to ask you something, can you ?."

Alsya. "Yes, please, mas." The answer.

"Al, who was that guy ?." Aly asked at last with an increasingly clingy look.

Alsya replied that the gaze was no less powerful, she had already thought about this before, if a misunderstanding was bound to happen.

"I don't know him, mas..." Alsya replied honestly, because she did not know the figure of the man at all.

"You lied to me, Al ?." Ask Aly again.

"For God's sake, I'm not lying to you, ma'am. I don't know him at all. He tried to get close to me when I ran off in the morning a few days ago, but I didn't pay attention to him at all, and even I went straight home to avoid him." Alsya said sincerely because it happened like that.

"Then, why did he admit you were his girl ?."

Alsya. He also did not expect that it would be so complicated.

"I don't know either, ma'am." Alsya replied timidly as now Aly's gaze turned sharp.

Aly's gaze dimmed, looking at Alsya's face that had piasmed from fear. Aly smiled then she rubbed Alsya's stiffened face.

"I'm sorry, I don't believe you, I just want to know that she made me angry." Aly's voice softened.

Alsya nodded and smiled. Alsya's hand again rubbed the corner of Aly's bruised lips. "Is this because of him, um ?." Ask.

Aly nodded.

"Sorry." Alsya lirih.

"That's it, it's okay."

"But that's because of me. Try that time I didn't meet him, maybe it won't happen like this, mas." Alsya said softly and looked down full of regret.

"Darling, heyy... Already, I'm not papa." Aly rubbed his wife's dimmed face again, then landed her kiss on Alsya's cheek.

Alsya just nodded but her face was still clouded.

"Al, have you eaten, baby ?." Aly asked then as her eyes looked towards the small table that still consisted of a tray of food that had not been touched at all.

Alsya shook her head weakly. "Not hungry, mom." The answer.

"Why indeed?. Eat yes, mas bribe." Said Aly while getting up to pick up the food tray.

"Mas, don't want to. I'm not hungry..." Prevent Alsya from pulling Aly's hand so as not to take her food.

Aly. "Alsha..."

Aly let out a long sigh, he never witnessed Alsya's present attitude, because Alsya always obeyed whatever she said. What because of losing the figure of the baby candidate, so Alsya so a little less obedient to Aly, he thought.

"All right." Aly put her body back in the chair. "What do you want now ?." Ask Aly later.

"I don't want anything, ma'am. I just want Aly here with me."

Aly smiled. "That's for sure, baby." Aly answered seriously.

"Thank you."

"Together, my wife..."

The two throw each other a sweet smile with a crunchy joke that increasingly makes the hearts of both warm just because they see a smile, laughter, and also the stiffness of each of their lips.

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"A "romantic couple. "

The baritone's voice made Halimah immediately turn to the direction of the voice. The man who hit her husband. The man also turned his head and revealed his strange smile.

Halimah gasped, her feet immediately stepping away from the front window of Alsya's room. He was no longer willing to deal with the man who could only ruin his happy moment with his husband.

"The wife of the actor ." Apparently the man followed her.

Halimah is increasingly stepping fast to avoid the strange man her best friend's secret admirer. He did not want to ignore his words.

"You're hiding your relationship behind Alsya, aren't you ?."

Halimah still doesn't touch him. He did not care about the words the man beside him said.

"Only a foolish woman would be made a mistress." Say that guy again.

Halimah does not accept if the man says that he is a mistress. Halimah immediately turned her head, staring fiercely at the face of the man beside her. "Stop your rant !." Sneaky.

"Oh, are you angry, miss ?. Didn't I tell you the facts ?." The man's words are getting worse.

Plakk

Halimah's hand landed smoothly on the man's cheek. The anger has been ignited. " Keep your word !." Gurmurm.

The man stared intently at Halimah, his hand rubbing against the reddened cheeks from the hard slap given by Halimah.

Halima turned around again and ran away leaving the man still glued to the spot.

Halimah's tears were shedding profusely along with her feet that continued to pedal rapidly down the hospital corridor. At this time her heart was sick, sick from seeing the harmony of her best friend and husband as well because of hearing people say that she was a mistress. Obviously all of that hurt Halimah's heart the deepest.

In the past, she tried hard to defy the orders of her Abah who asked her to marry Aly, because she was sure, one day she would feel a painful thing that scratched her deepest heart, and this day was the peak. Today is where the thing that always made his heart worry happened.

She just wants to be happy with her husband. He never had a shadow if it turns out he will be married by a man who is married, let alone the husband of his own best friend.

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