My husband's Traumaku
Chapters 15. The Unknown People

Linda's trying to catch up to Erik. "What do you mean, Mom? I'm your wife?!" yell Linda. The guards who heard the commotion immediately approached Linda.

"If you want to make a fuss out of this store!" snatch the security guard. Linda couldn't catch up to Erik because the security guard was preventing her. Linda immediately ran out of the store. She heads to the parking lot looking for her husband's car, but Linda is late.

Erik started the engine.

"Mas Erik ...!!! My ... !!!" yell Linda. Now he really looked like a madman as he kept yelling at Erik while running after the oncoming car. Linda does not care about the people who continue to see her, she just wants an explanation from her husband.

Erik doesn't stop his car even though Linda keeps shouting calling his name. Linda continues to try to chase after Erik's car even though he eventually fell down on the asphalt. Linda could only cry staring at Erik's departure.

"Mas Erik ... You have to!" said Linda while sobbing.

"Let's get up, don't cry in the middle of the road like this!" A foreign voice made Linda wake up and look around her. He was in the middle of the road because he was chasing Erik's car.

The man reached out his hand and helped Linda stand up. Linda looked at the man and remembered it seemed familiar.

"Thank you." Linda wiped her tears and was about to leave immediately.

"Wait ... "

"Sorry, what's wrong?" ask Linda timidly. Although just plain dressed but from his conduct it seemed like this man was no ordinary person.

"Let's come with me for a minute."

"But ... "

"Once, come along. I'm not gonna fuck around."

Linda nodded. He followed the man and walked behind him. The man walked towards the restaurant not far from the textile shop.

"Let's go in," the man told Linda to come in because ever since she's just been glued in front of the restaurant entrance.

Slowly Linda stepped her foot in. "Sorry sir, but I don't have the money to eat at a restaurant like this" Linda said honestly.

"I'll pay for the food, you just sit down and order what you like and accompany me to eat!"

"Master alone ordered, I don't know this food!" linda answered innocently. He closed the menu book because there was no name of the food he recognized. The man smiled too.

"My name is Bima."

Linda stunned. He remembered it as if he had heard that name.

"Oh ... Jesus !!!" Linda shut her mouth. Linda felt like she had seen it.

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Linda shook her head.

"You're Linda, right?"

Linda nodded. "Where do you know my name?"

"From one of my employees."

Then the waiter came to bring food. Linda just glared at the food in front of her. This was the first time she had ever seen a food called sushi.

"Please eat it."

Linda just nodded but she did not touch the food at all.

"Do you not like food like this?"

Linda shakes. "May the parts for me be wrapped only? I want to bring it home for my son at home. She must be so happy because she's never eaten something like this." Linda is honest.

Bima smiled. "I'll order it myself for your son. Now you just eat!"

Linda just gawked.

"Why not eat?"

"Oh ... Yeah, well, just use your hands is okay."

Actually, Bima has been watching Linda from the cctv in her shop. Even in the clothing store Bima also noticed Linda's movements because the clothing store was also hers. Since thinking Linda is a crazy person, Bima feels guilty and wants to apologize.

Bima wants to meet Linda at the clothing store to apologize, but she sees Linda running after a car. Bima felt sorry to see Linda who fell and she helped him because the people there only made Linda as a spectacle.

"Who's the guy in the car? Why are you screaming and chasing after him?" ask Bima.

Linda speechless. It hurts to remember Erik pretending not to know him.

"It's okay if you don't want to answer," said Bima again.

"He's my husband" Linda replied in the end.

To be honest, Bima is a little incredulous if Linda's husband rides in the car while Linda looks like this. I mean, if her husband can afford a car why can't he afford to buy Linda a decent outfit?

"He was with a woman and did not acknowledge me as his wife. Do I really look like a madman until my own husband won't admit me?"

Bima choked on hearing Linda's question. Actually that's what makes him feel guilty and then take Linda to eat, because Bima had thought if he was a vagrant or crazy person.

It feels like Linda wants to cry when she remembers Erik. But he could still hold back his feelings because of this in a restaurant and in front of him was a stranger.

"Sorry, why did you take me out to eat? We don't know?"

Bima choked on her food again. Linda's honest questions left her with no answers.

Bima looked at Linda's face. Actually she is beautiful, even with clothes that Bima considers tattered camping Linda still looks attractive.

"Why do you want me to eat if I don't know you?"

"And you who asked me to come? Sir said I won't mess with ya. I'll just come along. I'd like to thank Mr. Bima for not knowing how."

"Thank you?" Bima did not understand.

"So it helped me when I fell in the middle on the road."

"So we're even?"

"Impas? Meanin?" Linda swan did not understand Bima's intentions.

"Oh ... You are a loyal customer in my shop. So I also want to thank you," replied Bima origin. She couldn't possibly say that she felt guilty for thinking Linda was a lunatic and had told her employees to throw her out.

"Can I go home now, sir?"

"Can, wait a minute ... " Bima called the waiter and asked for food that Linda would take home.

"It's for your son."

"Well, thank you, sir," Linda replied with eyes glaring at the food box with great admiration. "Aruna must really like this. I had to sew two pieces of clothing to buy this food" Linda said shamelessly.

Once again Bima made a smile with Linda's unjaiming behavior and what it is.

"I'm sorry Mr. Bima" Linda said.

"Wait .. "prevent Bima.

"What else is it, sir?"

"Next time if we meet call me Bima, not Mister!"

"Good ... " Linda nodded her head.

Linda left the restaurant and headed to the textile shop parking lot to pick up her bike. Linda smiled looking at her luggage. There are clothes for Aruna, sewing threads of all colors and also a food called "sushi" that Aruna has never eaten in her entire life. For a moment Linda forgot what she had seen at the clothing store.

After pedaling a bike for almost two hours Linda finally got home. He left early to go home not too late. But because of the unexpected incident, he finally reached home at night.