Shadow From the Past
Chapter 70

“Seriously call phone,”

“Eh I finished posting photos of our holiday you know, Mas, you want to see?”

“The caption must be alay, or not poetic,”

“No, you don't be pretentious, Mas. I just write Bali, same date today. Udah, that's all I made caption,” elak Elvina while staring at her husband with a ketus. Guess what, but Vano's face remains flat. 

“Oalah, kirain caption alay and poetic pretentious so,” said Vano with his leisure.

“For example how?”

“Enjoying time alone with my handsome husband named Vano. Accompanied by the sound of waves, and coconut water. I looked at my handsome husband. He was really handsome until I had trouble taking my eyes off,” Vano said as if reading a poem 

and that made Elvina unable to hold back her laughter because her husband's behavior was too strange in her eyes. He had not thought of making such a sentence, but Vano had expected that he would write a sentence that sounded very raw, and it was not Elvina once. Elvina could not make even sweet sentences to express feelings. The thing that comes to your head when you want to post photos with Vano only about the place and time of posting is today.

“You can think I wrote that. I did not think at all though, after all I can not string words,” said Elvina.

“Masa? I think jago,”

“No, where there is a word ‘my handsome’ ih it's too much. Who read also amused kali,”

“Lah ‘kan emang reality I am handsome, you just call me like it ‘kan? Remember Mas VanGan's call? That's your word short for the same handsome word my own name,”

“Yes but do not need to praise my husband on social media if I, muji aja directly, do not need without words that are deliberately written as a caption. Let alone reading, I who write will be amused. I'm not a poet and can't even hint at romance even from words,”

In the midst of his weakness, Elvina coughed again. He immediately rushed to the bathroom to remove the liquid that returned to fill the nose, as well as remove the liquid his sputum is also a little. Elvina is still not well, her health is still declining.

Elvina was in the bathroom, Vano, who was about to lay her body on the bed, failed to do so because she happened to see a flashing Elvina phone screen and displayed a glimpse of incoming messages through the instagram app.

He did not want to care, but because Elvina had not come, he felt he had a chance and apparently also wanted to know what message Elvina received in the direct message instagram. Finally grabbing the phone Elvina no password at all then he opened the instagram application and without further ado went to the direct message feature.

Vano saw the top message that just came in from an account called Rendra. He chose not to open. But there was something he could see a little bit of the content of the message.

it's healing fast, El. The tidings.-.

Only that piece of sentence could Vano read without opening. He didn't want to open because somehow he wasn't so interested in doing that either.

Just curious to see there is an incoming message on Instagram Elvina. But once opened he did not even wonder more deeply.

He returned Elvina's phone near her pillow and lay down, and before long Elvina came out of the bathroom after removing phlegm, fluid from the nose, and urinating as well.

“You want to sleep?” Elvina asked her husband who was lying down.

“Neither, want to exchange but. Why why?”

“I want to go for a walk, but it feels impossible because I am sick again,”

“Yes know the answer, why is it still? Minded rest, not even a walk,”

“Iya, but actually not satisfied streets here,”

“Ya already satisfied, do not be strange you tuh, again sick even want to walk. Want to faint on the road?”

Elvina spontaneously shook her head. Of course he did not want to suddenly faint. That will make Vano difficult later.

“So there is a chat you tuh in dm, your ex is of course,”

“Hah? A rendra? Oh yes he told me, yes want me to reply, what did he say?”

Vano shrugged both shoulders not feeling interested in answering, let Elvina who saw for herself what was the contents of Rendra's message.

Elvina immediately grabbed her phone to open her Instagram direct message. There was a message from Rendra. He read it later without He retorted, It came out again from his instagram.

“From Rendra's real. Eh yes, he was sure I can copy together mumpung still here—“

“Crazy a time. Then you want to go make coffee like him? Forgetting that it hurts again? We just don't go home because you are sick now you even want to coffee? You are the one, El. Are you in your right mind?”

“Ih did I say I want to coffee with him? You haven't heard me say it until you're done getting angry. Who would want to copy him? Huh huh? I talked until the end,”

Elvina was shocked when her husband misunderstood her. Vano considered that he would accept Rendra's invitation to drink coffee together, when in fact He immediately rejected the invitation without further ado using reasons that are in accordance with his current condition.

“Keep what?”

“I don't accept him. Don't get me wrong, dong. I also knew that if I was sick again, I couldn't possibly have a coffee with him. Besides, I can't go straight if I'm healthy, because I haven't talked to you, I haven't asked your opinion, Mas,”

Vano threw away his gaze. He had mistakenly thought, not yet his mouth had spoken at length scolding Elvina.

“Partially less work ngajak wife people coffee together instead of him udha ounya new?”

“Yes don't know why he's making sure I'm coffee together, Mas. But I said I can't. Next time I can tell you. Later you come sometime if I make coffee with him,”

“Yes just copy you. He ‘kan your ex, not my ex. Would it be awkward if I was there too?”

“Yes, you have to meet me if I meet other men. Let's not nimbul slander,”

“Ya if you don't want nimbul fotnah mending no usha meeting all, very complicated,” said Vano with ketus.

“You think of people you don't think of me being jealous,” 

“Yes so you come let you not be jealous, I ‘kan udha no longer have any relationship with Rendra,”

“As for you, I don't want to interfere,” 

Elvina was sad to hear her husband's words. Vano is her husband but somehow doesn't care. He wanted to involve Vano because he didn't want any misunderstandings. He could have refused to keep asking Rendra but he was not tasty too. 

“How do you say that anyway? You are not my husband, I just found this time a husband who sebodo very you,”

“I just want to be free of you, whatever you want to do and the same as anyone. I do not want to take a headache and I will not be jealous again,” said Vano this time with a more straightforward tone again. Tired Vano is not appreciated.

Elvina exhaled a rough breath. After that grab the phone as a distraction from its seidh taste. It was willing to lie down but because Vano made his mood so moody, he instead prefers to be busy with his mobile phone rather than lying next to Vano who has also been fiddling with his phone in silence.

Vano did not say anything more, after confirming that he did not want to bother with anything Elvina wanted to do with others. Elvina caught the point, if he was close to other men would not be a problem for Vano and it made him disappointed.

“Not mean it's me in your eyes huh, Mas. You don't care about me,”

*****

“Vano same El has not arrived or not. So go home today ‘kan?”

“Well papa doesn't know? Did mom forget to tell you? But Vano didn't even call papa if he's the same El hasn't come home because El's sick,”

Once at home after work from morning until afternoon, Beni immediately discussed the child and daughter-in-law who He knew would come home today.

After hearing his wife's explanation, he found out. It turns out that Vano and Elvina are delaying their return schedule because Elvina is sick.

He really doesn't know about it.

“Not really going home, Ma?”

“Iya really, mama told them to delay first than El why if maxain go home,”

“It's best that way. Is Vano maksa El coming home or El? They still want to go home?”

“Iya was kekeh want to go home but thank God not so make that decision. El said, Arga doesn't make it, Pa. But El is coming home,”

“So how is El now? And what pain El?”

“Fever, cough, cold. Still quite severe it, mama had heard the sound of coughing earlier,”

“Oh because it is too crowded his holiday times. So less attention equals health,”

“Iya mama said it was because of the tiredness. So it is better to postpone the return. Plenty of rest and if you are really healthy then go home, or at least meningan first. If now Vano said his fever was high, mama heard himself his cough was still severe as well,”