Solar Throne
Reason

Gina drove her car slowly as she saw an ordinary convenience store she stopped to buy her favorite snacks and fruit drinks. He put his car into the parking lot of the department store. Then he went inside and bought snacks and drinks. Then when everything she got was in her hands, Gina sat at the table in front of the department store while enjoying her snacks.

Moments like this are very comfortable times for those who are restless. He wondered why his mind was not calm.

"They won't misunderstand, miss. Because what they understand is not wrong."

"What?" Gina blinked her eyes many times trying to digest Surya's answer.

"Let them know. That's better. So that they all don't expect much from me."

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry I heard that. The more days you're getting narcissistic." Said Gina lazily but made Surya laugh.

"But it feels good to get a call from you like this. Let's talk on the phone often, meet for a meal, watch a movie at the cinema, shop. Let's do a lot of things together." Surya's words left Gina not knowing what to say. It was eager for him to say he agreed but there was something like holding him back from doing that.

"Miss.I hope you gave me a chance to do that." Surya confirmed the meaning of his sentence. Gina was getting more and more agitated by Surya's expression.

That was the conversation with Surya. He should feel happy when his feelings are reciprocated. But in fact it even makes Gina a dilemma. He finally could do nothing but have to accept the consequences of having opened Surya's way to approach him.

"Hey, lonely woman." Call someone suddenly. Gina looked at the man standing behind her. Faris smiled at him. Gina turned her face and drank another drink.

"Your habits haven't changed." Faris said while pulling a chair beside Gina.

"The solitary man. This world has a population of over eight billion, but you are not at all interested in being with even one human being. You really are a losing human being."

"Oh, don't talk too much. You're a housewife, why bother me. Go home, your wife and son are waiting." Reply Gina cuek. There was not the slightest bit of fondness for Surya to make her feel like she could say anything to him now."

"Housewife?" Faris chuckled at Gina's words.

"How else, my wife was so busy with our baby that I had to help her shop after work."

"Good." Praise Gina while offering Faris potato chips.

"I never thought a Faris could live the life it is today and look happier with it." Once again Faris laughed at Gina's words because she knew what the woman in front of her meant.

"You're right, I'm surprised too. How can a boss of a software company as big as Font be able to shop for baby needs in a minimarket alone like this."

"Of course it's love that makes you do it." Chirps Gina fast.

"Sunday allows me to do many things. Not only could she make me fall in love but it turned out that the long-term effects were much more severe. I can't get away from him, I want to do a lot for him, I want to give everything to him. Plus Cena's presence between us made me love Sunday even more. Although her time with me was reduced by having to take care of Cena, but it just made me love her more than ever."

"You're this. your love but syndrome hasn't healed yet."

"Yes, I don't want to recover from this syndrome. I want to relapse more often." Faris said with a small laugh.

"Basic..." Cibir Gina looked at Faris' stupid behavior.

"By the way, what happened back then? You went in a hurry with Mr. Surya. You didn't mean to beat up Mr. Marco somewhere, did you?" Gina knew Faris knew that too because she was there as a member of the business union just like herself and Surya.

"No, there's just a little problem outside."

"About you and Mr. Surya?" Pursue Faris with another question.

"Why are you so curious about other people's business?"

"Whose other person? I don't think of Roby's sister as anyone else." Faris folded her arms around her chest with her mummy. Gina was brushing her nose.

"I see you and Mr. Surya are still on good terms. Do you have a project together?"

"No?"

"Or are you guys planning on referring?" Faris' question this time made Gina's face change.

"Certainly that?" Said Faris again with round eyes.

"What? You're a fucking know." Gina drinks another drink on the table to disguise her nervousness for fear that Faris can read her heart.

"Yes, you must be making another approach."

"No, I didn't do it."

"That means Mr. Surya did that."

"Hey, you know so well." Gina became anxious for Faris who was teasing her even more like that.

"From the beginning I didn't understand you. Suddenly married. But then it was a sudden divorce and now I see you guys together again."

"You only saw me together once, how can you accuse me and he'll come back. It doesn't make any sense."

"You think I don't know. I even saw your comments on the social media account of cafe Pak Surya and he replied with an emoticon hug & kiss. Then what's his name."

"That's... Ahh, you're like a kid just taking that seriously. It's just an emoticon. How can you think of it as something important."

"Although not too close, but I know Mr. Surya well enough. He's not the kind of guy who does that kind of thing. Emoticons hug & kiss is too special if given to people he does not consider important."

"Sokot know." Gina sneers.

"And again, I see you guys very well together..."

"Now, don't pretend to do the analysis again. You must have heard it from your wife, right?" Hearing that Faris then smiled widely because it was true. He knew everything that happened to Gina because of the story from Sunday.

Gina felt Sunday was a comfortable friend to talk to besides Lita. But between the two, Sunday has the most time compared to Lita who increased working hours so that Gina could not freely contact him as freely as he called Sunday.

"What are you worried about? Your liver? Your worth? Or principles?" Faris's series of questions was like a conclusion that summed up all the contents of Gina's anxiety.

"Which one?" Faris face started to look serious as she said that. However, Faris was a friend since she was a teenager so she knew Gina like a sister who knew her sister.

"Stop that..." Gina replied lethargic because she felt that everything she felt was very complicated.

"Try asking your heart, are your feelings for Surya still the same? Isn't it still there, but is it still the same? Because if it's just there, maybe it's the rest of the flavor you once had. But if it's still the same, it's a sign you're still tied to it. It's not easy to remove it if you yourself are still at a loss. You have to make a decision whether to stay or leave." Hearing how Faris was advising her, Gina just silently listened.

"And again, if your feelings are still the same while you still want to hold fast to your principles, it will only be a thorn in the flesh for you. You'll just keep feeling confused about where to go. So, make the decision that you don't always get hurt by your own worries."

"When have you been this smart?" Gina saw Faris as knowing what she was feeling right now.

"All right..all right..." Gina laughed seeing Faris sulking.

"I think according to my point of view, everyone will change one day. As long as it doesn't get any worse or the change can damage him and others, I don't think there's any harm in changing. Just like your principles." Faris' last words made Gina look straight at him. Gina felt what was wrong with the principle? He also wondered if Faris knew the principle he had? Because since then Faris has always been all about a principle and like understanding the problem of the principle he is facing.

"Basically love is freedom. You can't keep tying love to your principles. The principle that you won't be back with your ex for the second time, I think you can make it simpler." Gina blinked her eyes many times hearing Faris' words which were exactly what she was facing right now. How Faris knew that, Gina became curious.

"How did you know?" Tanya Gina was curious.

"You are my sister. I've been watching you, I've been watching you for a long time. I know you've never been back with your ex. But isn't that different from what you're dealing with now? You can start making excuses so you don't break your principles." Gina took every word of Faris more seriously.

"You just ended your marriage, not your love feelings." Hearing that Gina's eyes sparkled from realizing something.

Gina sat in front of her dressing table after coming out of the bathroom. He was still thinking about his conversation with Faris. If you think there's a point in what Faris said. He and Surya are not ex-girlfriends. They are only ex-husband and wife who are forced to get married because as a condition of his Papa. So if so, he and Surya should not have any bond before. So, the principle that he held was not tarnished even though he was with Surya back. Gina's lips also revealed a smile.

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Faris who had just from watching the ball game in the lower floor TV room seemed to enter opening the door. Sunday was seen putting their baby in a baby box in one corner of the room. Slowly he began to put Cena to bed who was asleep now. Faris approached Sunday who was still patting Cena's small arm to make him calmer.

"Just been sleeping?" Tanya Faris shrewdly embraced Sunday's shoulder while looking at Cena sleeping with extremely adorable cheeks.

"Yes, Cena is like you always sticking to me like a stamp. It's been hard to put me to bed since." Faris gave a small laugh hearing that out of fear Cena woke up to hear the noise.

"Of course, he's my son so it's only natural that he inherits some part of me." Hearing that, Sunday put his lips together.

"Oh my God, why do I have to get caught up among people who always stick to me like this." Said Sunday while trying to take off Faris' hand which is now circular on his stomach with a chin that he rested on Sunday's shoulder.

"That's because you're my candlestick. I'm even if I'm a few feet away from you."

"It's a dreadful thing." Sunday pinched Faris hand which was getting tighter and tighter hugging her. Faris complained while laughing to get a sneer from Sunday.

"By the way, did you say you met Gina?" Sunday distracts Faris as the man's kiss begins to land on her neck.

"Hmmm..."

"Where?"

"At the department store." Replied Faris briefly still while kissing his wife's fragrant hair.

"Surely he was eating potato chips and fruit juice." Guess Sunday.

"true."

"The child still has the same habits." Sunday Gumam.

"I think he really likes Mr. Surya." Sunday remembers how Gina was with him at the time and tells about her feelings with a heart that was wistful and teary eyes.

"Maybe it was also what caused Surya to choose to leave. Not hold on to me. I'm not a good wife. I can't cook. Surya always makes me food. I don't even know how to use a washing machine. Let alone ironing, I simply can't do my homework properly." Gina said at that time.

Gina seemed very sorry for not being able to do many things as a wife to Surya. He had even tried to do many things for Surya but realya at that time he felt unable to attract his attention. Sunday could feel how the heartbreak Gina felt. And that feeling must have been the result of his unwelcome love by Surya.

"And now he became worried when Mr. Surya approached him again."

"Oh yeah? Did ya? Gina didn't tell me. Tumben?" Sunday became astonished why Gina kept it a secret from him. Though usually Gina always tells anything to Sunday, because she feels Sunday is a comfortable person if invited to talk about her feelings.

"She looks like she's upset."

"Why?" Sunday asked as she turned to Faris who was still holding her from behind.

"Oh, I know. He must have been too prestigious to take it back after leaving her that time."

"That's one of them. And the other thing because he was trying to keep the principles that he had made himself."

"You know a lot about him." Said Sunday while squinting probing eyes.

Faris entered her parents' house while carrying a paperbag with the logo 'Queen Sambel'. It was a bag of chili from her in-laws shop that she brought as her Mama's order. But when entering the living room it turns out that the guest whose car is parked in the yard of his parents' house is Pak Rangga's car. The middle-aged man greeted him with a wide smile.

"Hi, Faris. How you doing?" Ask Mr. Rangga while replying to Faris' hand salute.

"Good, Om. I think Om is doing really well right now."

"More than that. Very good." Then they both laughed. Mr. Sasono also laughed to see his friend and son look familiar.

"How's Auntie doing?"

"Nice as well."

"Gina?" This time Mr. Rangga did not answer directly. Slowly the smile on his face left only a flat line on his lips.

Faris and Mr. Rangga appear to have moved to the terrace next to Mr. Sasono's house. They talked with serious faces. Unlike when they had just met each other.

"I see Gina is not okay at the moment. I know he's hiding something. And it's about his feelings for Surya." Said Mr. Rangga while staring at the park.

"He had the principle not to re-establish the relationship with his ex-girlfriend so when I saw Surya start to approach him again like this, he felt confused what to do." Mr. Rangga looked agitated. Faris knows why Mr. Rangga became like that. Gina had done stupid things first when she was heartbroken to him so that since then she has become more and more worried about her child. He was afraid that his daughter could not be happy living her life like others so Mr. Rangga felt very obliged to find a way how to make Gina can live happily.

"Of course, I've known him for a long time." Faris' sentence casually answered a Sunday question which he knew had a suspicious tone from him.

"Yes, it was a long time before you even knew me. It must have made you also have more memories with him that you can remember every time you meet." There was a clear voice of jealous speech issued by Sunday. Faris smiled at his wife's behavior. He then tightened his embrace.

"Everyone is equipped with a memory in his brain that serves to store memories. But there is a part of everyone's heart that makes those memories a priority or not. Just as my heart identifies that the memories that must always be stored in my heart are everything related to you, so finally my memory of you is the most dominating."

"I'm not sure what you say contains 100% of that noise."

"Well, I'll prove it to you now." Faris then flipped over Sunday's body and lowered his face to kiss his wife's forehead.

"I'll prove how important you are to anything further than this." Faris's eyes gently looked at Sunday's eyes and it was as if what was between them now was no longer just words but heart and heart started talking to each other. Faris drew closer to his face and Sunday seemed to know what he had to do by closing his eyes to accept everything Faris gave him.

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Surya woke up from his sleep and leaned on the head of the bed. He smiled at the phone in his hand. Those were photos of Gina while they were at the amusement park with her back then. Gina's reddened face due to the heat of the sun made her look cute. A photo of Gina from the top of the roller coaster waving at her was now grabbing her attention. Gina who is very fond of extreme rides shows how unique she is. And while sliding the screen of his phone again, Surya met with a photo taken by Gina who was selfie with him. Surya smiled because at this time he seemed to miss her a lot even though by just looking at her picture. He began to think again what to use to attract Gina back.