The Fake Couple
Pain relief.

Amber turned to Ikram who was also stunned staring at Kinanti and Daffin who were hugging by the lake, her husband even almost forgot how to blink. Pain relief radiated into Amber's chest looking at the unwilling look in the Ikram's gaze.

Amber lowered her head and looked at her fingers, where her wedding ring was beautifully circular. It's the cream that embeds this beautiful ring, but Amber realizes that Ikram just pinned this ring without actually pinning all his love into their marriage. Because part of his heart is still left in Kinanti who is now married to Daffin, a man who once loved Amber so much with all his real sincerity.

"Amber, accompany me, yuk? There's something I want to buy for Kinanti," asked Ikram at that time, when they were still studying at the same campus in America.

It turned out that Ikram was heading to a jewelry store and buying a ring. Ikram said he would apply for Kinanti when he returns to Jakarta next month.

"Kinanti's finger size is like yours, right?" Ikram asked while choosing.

Amber nodded and thrust her finger, letting Ikram make it a trial of the ring he would buy for Kinanti.

"Bagusan yang ini, Ikram." Amber menunjuk sebuah model.

And Ikram shook his head.

"You don't like that kind of thing. He prefers simple but sweet," replied Ikram who seems to have understood the character of Kinanti Queensha.

However, a few days later, there was an event that they had never expected, when the alcohol of the curse drew the two in a hot struggle on a snowy night and left long regrets in Amber.

Amber was crying. This wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been stuck in his comfort zone while befriending Ikram in America, Ikram made Amber feel safe. Ikram had to fight with drunk men who roared Amber while she was chained with her friends at the club. Not once twice the handsome face had to be beaten blue people to protect Amber. Quietly evokes Amber's sympathy for the man who clearly loves Kinanti, the bestie.

"I'll take responsibility, Amber." The promise of Ikram with a gaze that actually hit Amber with pain. Amber could see the compulsion in a pair of fakingly rigid Ikram eyes. Because Amber knows how much this man loves Kinanti Queensha.

And all was clear, on the day of their High School reunion at the top of the year.

Later then. When Ikram finally met again with Kinanti Queensha after several years without a meeting. Their eyes were unable to hide the overflowing longing. Their interaction that day was very sweet, even Ikram like forgetting if he was committed to him. Plus Ikram who like deliberately drove him away because he wanted to be alone to accompany Kinanti looking for her missing earrings. And so Amber foolishly complied, leaving them alone there. In Amber's heart, sure, something will happen behind her. After all, the male and female Kinanti, plus there is a longing love in their hearts. Amber secretly hates herself, having become the third person in the love story of her own close friend.

Amber closed her eyes, when she remembered how Daffin still cared so much about himself who had been more than two years of former status.

"Amber, please. Why him? If the man is not a Ikram, I can still accept" said the man with a worried look that filled his eyes.

"So what if, Ikram?" Amber hid the unease in her heart. He actually knew what Daffin meant.

"Amber, Kinanti likes the same Ikram since High School. And you know that! When you could betray bestie yourself?"

Daffin's words stabbed him in the heart. Amber laughed, laughing at herself.

"Braying? Wh who? Me? Hello. uh...? It's my fault, if I like the same I?" Amber acted confidently, in order to protect her self-esteem.

"The camera? Like you?" Daffin.

"Amber. I tell you, Ikram loves Kinanti. Since High School," hissed Daffin while looking at him closely, hoping Amber would listen to him.

"It's none of your business! I like who it is my right. Kinanti likes who it is also Kinan's right. Also Ikram likes the same who, that's the right of Ikram. There's no right to make people feel!" ketus Amber while enduring the pain that wrapped around her heart.

"I like you too, don't I, Amber?" daffin said so gently, as gentle as his gaze to Amber. A gaze that has never changed since the man declared his first love in High School.

Really am! Daffin's words have actually melted the feelings of Amber who had been hard to reject Daffin. However, a sense of inferiority has plunged Amber into a deep shame for Daffin. He did not want Daffin who had always praised and adored him ended up disappointed if he found out he was not whole again on their first night if married. While dating Daffin, Amber was careful to keep herself from dissolving into Daffin's intoxicating seduction. Amber only allows Daffin to kiss her, without further action, Amber refuses whenever Daffin invites her to stop by his apartment, in order to keep themselves from the no-no. However, Amber gave herself to Ikram in one night.

Because that's. Let it. Better still Daffin remembered him as the most beautiful ex. Rather than getting married but having to ruin the man's feelings on their first night.

"I like you too, don't I, Amber?" Daffin softened his voice again.

Hearing this made Amber's heart ache.

"Yes, and my right to refuse you too!" And Amber chose to cover her with that poetic attitude. Let Daffin go, so that Amber can quickly shed all these weeping things she held.

"Anjirr." Daffin laughed softly.

"What am I lacking, Amber?" his sigh grabbed Amber's hand and squeezed her with a pleading gaze.

'Daffin.., please, don't kayak gini. I was afraid I would not be strong, but I had to marry Ikram. For my good and also for the sake of keeping your feelings so that later will not be disappointed with me. You're a good guy, you deserve a girl who's as good as you are, ' Inner Amber is secretly frustrated.

Amber knows how much Daffin still loves her. Love that he often sees as one eye. However, if to be honest, Amber began to need that love, but that slid off her lips that day instead.

"You're not my type, Daffin! You're chatty and childish. While the cream is more mature.

"Amber, I care about you. I have to remind you. The cream likes it to be the same as Kinanti."

"Stop it! I know, Daffin. I know more about Ikram and Kinanti than you do. As long as you know, the pity is the same, Kinanti!"

Yep. In the eyes of Amber, Ikram's love for Kinanti indeed began from pity. Because Ikram knows the condition of the Kinanti family who went bankrupt, then he became a hero for Kinanti.

"Are you serious about your words, Amber?"

"His kin is also.., Baperan so people. All the goodness of Ikram is papered!" Amber became a judge, for some reason suddenly the hatred for Kinanti poked in her heart.

"Ambers! She's your bestie, right,?"

Why the hell is Daffin always siding with Kinanti?

"So what?" ketus Amber was really angry that day.