The False Lover the Culun
Chapters 15. Mutually Honest

Because every human being is worthy.

Worth being appreciated as he is,

Worth listening to his opinion, though,

Worth to speak his mind, though,

And it is worth expressing his feelings.

Pretending to be silent will only lead to regret.

Acknowledging imperfections will not make someone look weak, but the people around you will feel very appreciated.

By being honest about your feelings, not only will your burden be lighter, but it can also show a sense of caring for the people around you.

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# Harsya POV #

[ Flashback ON - Harsya's Past ]

Since my father's coal mining company began to grow rapidly, My Mom and I finally chose to move to Sangatta Utara East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan Province.

Previously, Mom and I lived in Yogyakarta with Eyang. While Dad had to go back and forth alone between Kalimantan and Yogyakarta.

All of this happened because Eyang, not allowing his grandchildren and daughters to follow Dad to Kalimantan before Dad's coal mining company was financially established.

My father and mother had to undergo a dozen years of Long Distance Marriage, and maybe that was also the reason why I became an only child.

As the only granddaughter of the largest gift shop owner in all of Central Java, Eyang spoiled me with an abundance of materials.

My days are never quiet, wherever I am I am like a magnetic center that has a very strong attraction for the people around me.

But my magnetic attraction only works for people who want to take advantage of me.

It's painful, because in the end I know that all the compliments they give me are nothing but a joke.

I even forgot what friends, friends, or maybe lovers mean. I never felt sincerity, because after giving them what they needed, then I would feel lonely.

Maybe because my money helps others has accumulated enough, so God gave me a way to get out of the vicious circle of association that is full of this falsehood.

Father's company, which after a dozen years was just a small coal mining company, is now developing into one of the 5 largest coal mining companies in Indonesia.

Eyang was really proud of my father's persistence, a dozen years of being hard on his son-in-law also did not make it comfortable for Eyang.

It's just that, Eyang wanted my father to be a persistent, strong, and responsible man.

At the age of 17, I was a 2nd year high school student when my mother and I finally moved to Kalimantan to follow my father.

Unlike my father and I who are very happy to be together as a whole family, my mother looks unhappy.

Father and Mother instead of getting more friendly after being together, the two even often quarrel.

Even though they are adults, children will still be the victims who get hurt when their parents fight.

When I need attention, I need a place to pour out all my grief, the figure of a woman named Lia who is none other than the daughter of a business partner Daddy is present and fills the void in my heart.

All the love, affection, trust and sincerity I had given her.

Until the time I graduated High School, I felt like the end of life approaching my life.

The lia I thought was a fairy was no better than a bad and evil goblin. It turned out that Lia had been approaching me only because of her father's request.

Not only that, Lia's father turned out to have been deceiving Dad, until Dad's company went bankrupt.

I felt so disappointed in Lia, I never thought that such a gentle woman could be so cunning-hearted.

My disappointment in the figure of a woman is increasingly so when I know if Mom chose to go with another man who has been his affair for 8 years ago.

All this time I've been betraying my father.

Mother chose another man, regardless of my biological son, my father her husband, or the warnings of his biological father.

Bad luck befell Mom and her mistress, both of whom died in an accident while on the run.

My father and I returned to Yogyakarta, but because of depression, Dad finally chose to end his life.

I chose to hate a god called a woman.

[Flashback OFF ]

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“You don't laugh, I'm now confused!”

I felt even more upset after hearing Rafie's laughter across the phone.

In the past, Rafie was the only person I trusted.

Before I met Sherina, the woman who made it into my life, the woman whose sincerity you can even see just from the look in her eyes.

An innocent woman who never intended to take advantage of me.

“Then what should I say? Should I be happy? I never even knew what Sherina looked like,” urged Rafie.

“Do you like Sherina?” rafie asked doubtfully, the implied unreality of his words.

"Sherina's... The woman is fragile, for whatever reason but I know she needs someone to protect her,”.

“What do you say I can trust?” Rafie again confirmed my words.

“Go back and I introduce you to him, I'm sure you'll also easily like him.”

I tried to convince Rafie.

“Alright, I trust you. Go, meet Sherina, be honest with her. If you can trust him, I'm sure I'll be able to trust him too.”

My smile broke, Rafie's support even if only by phone but gave me the strength and passion to see Sherina.

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I drove my car to the fast food restaurant where Sherina works.

This restaurant belonged to one of my friends, so I easily asked my friend to vacate the restaurant and arrest Sherina.

I need to talk to him alone, just the two of you.

I saw him mopping the floor, in my heart I cursed my luck-nut friend who let Sherina do the hard work alone.

“Ekkhheeemmm I'm throats.

I saw that he only glanced at a glance, then resumed his work.

“You're still mad at me?” ask me to start a conversation.

Sherina shakes.

“Thank God, I want to apologize about me being dishonest about who I am,”.

Sherina just kept looking at me.

“I don't think it's a big deal who I am. That night I intended to be honest and surprise you,”.

“For you may not be a problem, but for me it's a problem,” Sherina replied with a ketus.

I was quite surprised by his reaction, I better shut up.

Letting Sherina reveal all the burdens in her heart, might as well make me know her even more.

“You don't know me Harsya, you don't know what happened to me, why I ended up in this city with my depressed Mother with no family at all,” Sherina said.

“Then tell me Sherin!” My reply.

“For me who is not honest I really have no bad intentions at all to you,”.

“Sorry if I just meet you now, sorry to keep you waiting until maybe your judgment gets worse on me,”

“But I also need to steady my heart!” Press me.

I don't know why I was also carried away by the warming atmosphere.

“My past that you don't know, will probably be worse than your past, my puree” while turning my gaze away from it.

I saw Sherina silenced, the gaze of the eyeball with a very distinctive color that exuded an incredible curiosity.

“I'm sick Sherin!”

“I have a deviation orientation se**al, I'm G*y!” saskan.

Sherina covered her mouth with both hands in response to her shock at my confession.

I thought Sherina would be disgusted or maybe avoid me, but what happened was that she approached me and took me in her arms.

Sherin to her tiptoes to hug me, she gently patted my back, “What a stroke... It'sit's okay.... I know you have a reason. Don't tell me if it hurts. I trust you, you are still a good man to me.”

Sherina's reassuring words made me even more convinced that I could trust this woman.

That night I told Sherina everything.

How could I lose both my parents, the beginning of my sympathies lost on women, until I finally met someone who could understand me, give me comfort, and make me feel loved.

But unfortunately all those feelings came from the figure of a man named Rafie.

As long as I tell my story, Sherina never judges or justifies everything that is my life's choice.

Then Sherina also told all the stories of her life that she had saved herself.

I had an emotional time hearing Sherina's story.

Tonight we both managed to remove some of the burden that we had been carrying alone.

It turns out having someone to share it with is better.

We promise from tonight we will look after each other and support each other as best friends.

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Not wanting to ruin the moment tonight, one thing Sherina doesn't know if Rafie's full name is Rafie El-Fatih.

And I know the brengs*k guy who hurt her.

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