The Beautiful Doll of the Judge
Alone

Both of them ate in silence. I ate without looking at her while her husband glanced at her occasionally. But the man who more quickly give up because not at home the wife.

Jun cleared a moment. "Julia, I'm leaving soon."

"Mk."

"I'm going out of town, Julia."

"Mk." Khati just stuck to her plate, and not a single bit raised her face.

The man took a long breath. "Are you careful? I'm not in Jakarta" he said in a low voice.

At that moment, the woman turned her gaze forward. Although impressed flat but he could glance at the face of the husband for a moment. He then returned to his plate.

Jun admitted wrong. "I'm sorry about last night? I-I won't bother you anymore."

At that moment, for some reason, the pain felt in the heart. He was afraid that man would stay away. He lifted his gaze again and looked at the husband who was trying to finish his breakfast. As the man stood up, the woman grabbed Jun's hand and kissed the back of his hand.

The man looked at his wife with a look that, I don't know. He gently rubbed the woman's head. "I'm not a threat to you, Julia. Believe it."

Kept lifting his head. She just kept quiet and drove her husband to the front door. The woman stared at the car her husband was riding in, until it came out of the high fence of their house.

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The soft music finally stopped. Khati took a small towel that was beside her and rubbed the sweat that appeared around her forehead and back of her neck. He took a bottle of the drink he brought and drank it a little. It feels fresh after drinking after exercise. "G ...."

Some young women and girls who began to grow up disperse and busy with their respective activities. Some resumed their sports at the gym, and some were sitting around chatting, but Khati chose to stay away from them immediately to the dressing room. After that he came out of the gym.

"Hello." A young man came to him.

"Eh, hello," said Khati who was surprised by the appearance of the man in front.

"Can you get acquainted, right?"

Khati recognized that the man was one of the people who came to exercise at the gym. "Eh, no." The woman dodged by moving in the other direction.

But the man followed her. "I know you're a model. Time to not get acquainted?"

"Eh, sorry. I was in a hurry. Waiting for my husband at home." In a hurry, he left, but the man no longer bothered him. He breathed a sigh of relief. "Hhh ...." Khati set his heartbeat that had raced because he met the man earlier.

"Julia."

This time he was again startled by another man, but this time it was a man he knew. "Mas Dam?"

"Eh, don't call me that. That's my ex-wife's call to me" she asked in a soft voice.

I panicked back. He didn't know what to do until he stepped back.

The man immediately raised his hand so that the woman could not be mistaken. "Eh, Julia. Don'tbeafraid. I came to make peace with you. Ok? I-I just want to be friends."

"I just want to be friends, Julia. Give me a chance. I-I'm not gonna bring up the past, okay?"

The woman is still silent.

"okay?" ask the man to make sure. Slowly but surely the man approached. "Eh, how about we find a place to eat? We eat together, how?" He looked at the face of the fake Julia who was still full of doubt. "okay?"

Damar took the woman to a pretty fancy restaurant. An Italian restaurant and they ordered food there. After that, the man started talking to Khati.

This time he changed his strategy by approaching his ex-girlfriend again. He did not want to lose the woman a second time. The woman who made him fall in love for the first time in his life.

Yeah, he's never been in love. Khati is the woman who loved her since college and Sofia is her experiment to get a child. Julia is the true fire of love in her life.

He only knew love when he met this woman at a party. Love at first sight and the woman also welcomes him. After that, everything flows as it is. He regretted not knowing this woman from the first while he was married to Sofia because she was already pregnant.

Though they had slept together in the hotel several times, but suddenly Julia disappeared and when she reappeared, she was married to someone else. How shocked he was because they had promised to get married, even though the woman was only his second wife until the murder occurred.

"Em, is your marriage happy?" This silly question had sliced his own heart when he asked.

"Em, yes," said Khati briefly. He knows it must be hard for Damar to know that his ex-girlfriend is married to someone else, as he felt when Damar confessed to her that he had impregnated another woman. Must be very painful.

Maybe this is karma for the man. I don't know, Khati herself is still confused. Should she be grateful or pity for the fate of her ex-husband.

The bespectacled man was still staring at Khati with his admiration. There's a miss drowning there. There is an unattainable desire. "You disappeared for so long. What .... Even if you think of me?"

Kati is wrong. This is the question whose answer may be the most painful. "Can we just talk about other things?"

The man then regained consciousness and again tried to remind himself that every time he met this woman, emotionally, could not just let go. He turned his head in the other direction. "Eh, yes. Excuse me. My head is still full of memories of us."

Khati began to pity, but that second also changed to be aware of his current position. He is on a mission to find out about the night of the murder so that the man also survives the law. That's why he's trying hard.

A little selfish might make him carry out this mission well. "We're friends now, you better not discuss things that are too sensitive because now I'm married, Mas." Yeah, he's not alone. Jun's existence as her husband empowers her to undertake the mission.

"Eh, don't call me 'Mas'. Just call my name, that's enough. You're older than me. I'm afraid your husband is angry that you call me that." Damar was also confused. Julia had now a younger and more beautiful face than before. What is the effect of a happy marriage?

"Eh, yeah."

The drinks and food then came. Damar lifted the glass and spoke again. "Today we celebrate our friendship and your marriage, how? May you be happy."

"Eh, yes." She reluctantly raised her glass and toasted in the air.

Both of them drank a little before eating. Kati tried to smile happily. It's really uncomfortable being with her ex-husband. In the office he never linger alone except when he is with other staff. This mood makes him clumsy.

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