Should We Divorce?
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Ares smiled broadly at the sight of Serena's body starting to squirm and her eyes twitching. A soft cry sounded out from the mouth of a beautiful woman. His body wriggled softly and his eyes twitched small as it dispelled the dazzling sunscreens. When his body was about to side to the right, he was struck by the figure of a handsome man sitting cross-legged on his bed.

"The surprise!!! Happy anniversary, darling!" Shouted the man with a wide smile full of enthusiasm.

In his right hand he put together a plate of toast wrapped in the number five. And in her left hand a red tulip looks very pretty.

"Ares," muttered Serena as she woke up from the fall. She looked at the two objects in her husband's hands with a confused look. "What are you doing, anyway?"

"Give me a surprise." He said with a big smile.

"What do you think is gini-gini?" Serena asked lazily.

"Yes, make our fifth anniversary, baby. Do what else? You forgot?"

Seeing the look of Serena who was not excited at all, enough to make Ares know what the answer is. Who remembers this date all the time? Just Ares. And Serena always forgets about it. Always was.

But naively, Ares put on a big smile even though his heart was throbbing pain. "Okay gapapa if you forget. Our wedding date is hard to remember. I almost forgot, but luckily I put a reminder on my phone."

"Rice..."

"Oh I know I know! We should have married just valentine so that you easily ingetnya. Or if not on the seventeen of August, let the celebration of all Indonesia. What do you think, honey?" Obviously Ares with his radiant face.

Serena bellowed violently while rubbing her face at a glance. "Pres. please, deh. We're not ABGs anymore."

"Father dong, darling. It's romantic to be like a date."

"We're merried, okay?"

"Yes continues? Why did we get married, honey?"

"Because I think these things don't matter anymore."

"Cock not important? Small things are important in a relationship. That's a sign our partner appreciates us and the relationship."

"So if I don't have that system, then you're saying I don't value you and our relationship?"

"Y-yes that's not it either. I mean it's tuh--yeah.

"Yes already. Means fine aja dong if I don't like to be loved kayak gini?"

"I mean today is our day, baby. At least we can quality time. Aye, right?"

"Oh well," Serena raised her palm. "This is not a time for quality time. I'm busy today with model selection, and I can't be late. So I have to take a shower and get ready."

When Serena got out of bed, Ares held her hand. "But how is this? Our show's not over yet. I made it this morning. Eaten, huh? Please, dear."

"I'm reimbursing you, Res. But I really can't waste my time doing this kind of thing. Besides, I'm on a diet and can't eat bread like that. So, please, let me take a bath. Now."

"But flowers? I also have hadi--had

"Simpen flowers on the nightstand, okay? We'll talk about this again tonight."

As soon as Serena from before him, the joy from Ares's face completely disappeared. He looks very pathetic. His head looked down at the bread and flowers he had prepared with all his heart, in fact not glimpsed at all. Not to mention a gift he hid behind his sturdy back. All futile.

Therefore do not like this surprise, because he thinks today is not an important day and this small celebration is just a waste of time.

...• • • • •...

Ares was very focused on his laptop when someone knocked on the door of his room. With eyes fixed on the monitor screen, his mouth let his guests in.

"Break time, mulu work."

Ares' head looked up for a few seconds, then looked back down. "Oh loe it turns out."

The man in the dark blue suit smiled broadly as he walked leisurely towards Ares. "Eat, Bro, die and you know how loe feels."

"Damn it," Ares chuckled softly. "Loe just eat there. I don't want to be with you anymore."

"Eh, sori yes, Bro, I've had a meal."

"Oh yeah? Really?" Ares grinned ignorantly. "Who's the guy?"

"Natasha's." The handsome and masculine man pulled a chair in front of Ares to sit on. Smiling puffed up looking at Ares.

"Who else?" Ares's lyrics are confused.

"It's customary" his shoulders are poking. "Resiko has a handsome face."

"Sad. Crocodiles are proud. I'm the same old man as bini loe, have a very gini husband." Ledek Ares with the gel.

"From loe. Poulet. Scared of bini loe."

"Well at home, you are also afraid of being scolded by Kania. So I'm all hell."

"I'm afraid he's angry. But I've been loved, rubbed his head, kissed, kept abis it. No kayak loe, who was scolded doang continued to be left behind. It's so bad, Bro."

Ares clucked no like. "Get started, Vin. What do you want to do here?"

"It's so fierce," ledek Vino. "He whose wife cannot be insulted, reviled, persecuted, and hurt."

"Alvino.. I throw loe from here down." Ares.

"Chill, Bro, chill. Okay okay I answer." Vino chuckled crisply.

"Udah spit."

"So... Dear Mr. Antares Risjad, my arrival here is to ask what kind of surprise event you've been dizzy thinking about for two weeks, huh?"

"Didn't you know what it was? Very cap."

"Oh no. not kepo. This is my concern as a good friend. I just want to know, how painful is the refusal of your wife. I don't need my shoulder to lean on." Ledek Vino with dramatic face.

"Alvino Natanio's! I'm really throwing ya loe! Now too!" Ares growled furiously and Vino instead laughed softly.

"Okay, Bro, sori-sori," said Vino with the rest of his small laugh. "So what's my idea? Not working?"

"Udah diem's. Don't talk about it. I'm males." Ares glanced back at his laptop screen.

"I think I know the answer." Vino shakes his head while stroking his chin.

The tall man walked casually around the table, then stood holding both shoulders of Ares. "What I'm saying, bro, this isn't gonna work. Same when do you want to be rewarded like gini? Free. He won't change."

"Yet? Wait until when? First of all, well he can't accept your marriage yet. In the second year, Altan was born and he should have been able to accept Loe. Third and fourth, he was still the same as before. And now? Come on, bro, don't be naive. Five years of your life in vain if you keep kayak gini."

"Gue's been waiting for Serena all my life."

"Wait until the fish has feathers and the sheep has scales. I'm sure Serena won't change."

"That's called process, Vin, I know it's not easy to love people. Moreover, at that time the position of Serena just broke up with her ex, and I am a stranger who suddenly came in her life."

"That process is only for people who are willing to put in the effort, Bro. And I don't see that will in Serena. Loe always tried to open the door to her heart, but did Serena open it a little?"

"Loe language height. Doesn't fit." Ares elbowed Vino's stomach.

"Here you go, Bro, that's why I took you out. Find girls. Can nyenengin loe, can muasin loe. Aren't you?"

"No! I'm not loe. I don't want that girl. Anyway if you already have a wife why would you snack outside?"

"That's lying! Come on tell me, how long have you not been given the same ration bini loe?"

"Loe's talk is ngaco, seriously. You better go back to your office."

"Diingetin temen even angry. I'm kasian loe, afraid ade loe karatan."

"Damn, Alvino!" Fizz Ares.

"Come with me this malem. We have fun, Bro."

"Relieve it!"

"Girls my acquaintance okay-okay you know. You can choose whichever one."

"I don't fucking care! Okay? Besides, my taste is not loe's paid girls."

"How do you want to kayak? Want to be as beautiful as Angelina Jolie? Who's Nicky Minaj?"

Ares shook his head inexhaustibly. But it seems that the ring is mistaken for Vino as the answer is not.

That made Vino think hard for a while. His face seemed to be thinking seriously. Until shortly, a proud grin was imprinted from his handsome face.

"Aha," Vino clicked a finger with vigor. "Gue knows I know. I know whose taste you're like."

"Vin, that's it. I want this job."

"But seriously, Bro, I know whose taste you're like."

Ares let out a long sigh then clucked lazily. "OK let me spit. Kayak who?"

...• • • • •...

"Michelle Louis."

"Yup! Carnation Michelle Louis. The grandson of Hong Kong businessman Tony Louis."

Hearing the answer from Hana-sang her best friend and co-worker-makes Serena's head look up at a photo before her. His eyes narrowed as if he was measuring the beautiful woman who had fallen on the screen of his laptop.

"She's a serious model, Han?"

"You're not a model, there's no way a photo of her appears on my list of cute models."

"i know's. But you said his grandfather was a businessman, a bit strange aja his grandson model. He didn't take his grandfather's business?"

"His grandfather was a businessman, and it went down the same way. But Michelle used to be a model, maybe she's in her late mother's career."

"OK," said Serena nodding doubtfully and her eyes were still exploring the model's self-data. "But here it says he lives in Singapore?"

"From the survey and the data we're looking for, Michelle lives in Indonesia from small to high school because her mother is here. But since her parents died, she moved to Singapore and lived alone."

"alone?" Serena looked in disbelief.

"Yes. And if there's no misinformation, he's taking a job as SPG to fix the cost of doing it."

"Really's? Even though his grandfather was a big businessman and could afford to buy his campus?"

Hana nodded enthusiastically. Eyes rounded. "And even better, she pioneered her modeling career from scratch. Without anyone's interference. Absolutely."

"Wow," muttered Serena in admiration. "Gue likes that kind of girl. Self-reliant and can build a career on their own without the benefit of a big family name or anyone else."

Serena's head nodded slightly while seriously measuring the face of the model he was about to recruit. Once more. This time more mature.

"Where? Okay no? It's good, too, I've seen it."

"Gue likes him anyway. Her face. Her body. Her aura. He has a charm that I don't think has the same as the previous models you pointed at."

"Agreed."

"Other than her long hair. I just thought he could have such good hair."

"So fix him?"

"Can deh. Call it first the manager. I hope he'll be in our agency."

"OK ready, Mrs Boss. I'm back at work."

"Yes." Yeah."

Shortly after Hana closed the door, Serena's phone shook on the table. The woman picks it up and sees Ares' name floating on the caller's screen.

With a rough sigh earlier, Serena finally shifted the green button. "Yes. Hallo-o. I busy. No, I can't. I'll have lunch sometime. I already ate. Ja. Okay. Yes, I closed. Bye." 

Like a broken cassette that kept repeating the same piece of vidio, Serena's mind was suddenly filled with the same thing this morning. The scenes that might make the cheeks of other women outside are red and hovering.

Ares' smile, his joyful face, his sparkling eyes, the softness of his tone. Serena was happy to see him. Serena was happy to see Ares' enthusiasm. Only, there is one that blocks Serena. Giddy feeling. The silence of his heart made him not know what to do. On one hand, he was very happy to be loved, and on the other hand he was sad because he could not give love as big as Ares.

So accidentally, he forced all the happiness of Ares. Disappointed this morning. Brings all of Ares' joy because of his selfishness.

"Sorry, Res, I didn't mean to hurt you so far. I'm just still confused about what I'm feeling right now. I hope you will understand and wait patiently until I'm sure my heart has fallen on you or not."

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