THE FORMER SHADOW
52. Hugged

"Why shut up?" tanya Arshaka looked at the bowed Badrina, sitting on the sofa of Nuraini's living room.

Badrina still held her position, she did not expect Arshaka to come home so soon and leaned herself with questions about where, where, with whom, and so on.

Badrina was saturated, wanting to take a break from the current berserkness of her mind. Arshaka will only make Badrina the most beautiful emotion, will not be good for the relationship of the two who have just improved.

"I want to go home" said Badrina, playing on the edge of her clothes. There was a sense of heat in her eyes, but all her might was being held back by Badrina so that her tears would not spill.

Arshaka clucked not understanding Badrina's intentions. "Rina, I came home just because I heard you weren't at Cantara school, disappeared all of a sudden. Your phone was contacted by the school, but it was not picked up" Arshaka continued.

"Now you shut up and ask to go home like a child," complained Arshaka difficult to understand Badrina's communication. Arshaka increasingly did not understand because Badrina just kept quiet and diverted the conversation.

Finally, Arshak used high-pitched words to at least have Badrina reply to her words so that it opened up the reason why Badrina had disappeared all of a sudden.

Badrina's shoulders trembled in tears without a sound. His cheeks were rubbed rough with the back of his hand, then rubbed into his pants. Badrina didn't want Arshaka to see her cry.

Papa Cantara observed Badrina's body movements, he took a deep breath. Jarvis stood up and sat down next to Badrina.

Instantly, Arshaka felt guilty for impatiently asking so many questions that Badrina finally did not answer.

Arshaka was eager to hug the woman before him, but he doubted Badrina might run amok.

Badrina once said 'not wanting to be touched carelessly, including being hugged', Arshaka undoes her intentions. Be, an awkward feeling enveloped Arshaka to help Badrina calm down.

"I'm sorry, I've been poking you with a lot of questions" Arshaka said regretting her attitude.

"I just--"

Unexpectedly, Badrina threw herself into Arshaka's arms while sobbing loudly. Badrina clutched tightly onto Arshaka's work clothes, as if venting her anger over the shocking incident earlier in the hotel.

Badrina's treatment made Arshaka's hand rise into the air, Arshaka was frozen.

"Poppy's aunt, Shaka, aunty Poppy did improperly with another man" Badrina said with a cry so that it did not sound clear, but the meaning could be captured by Arshaka.

Arshaka digested Badrina's speech with the position still the same as the beginning.

"Tante Poppy. He made out in a restaurant to the hotel lobby. That's public space. I felt like I was going to throw up to see her attitude," Badrina fought in a sad and disappointed mood.

Arshaka snorted loudly after hearing Badrina's speech. Arshaka lowered her hand to touch Badrina's back then rubbed her slowly. Arshaka knows Poppy's life orientation.

"He's the same Hafez?" charlie Arshaka is trying to show empathy.

Badrina fell silent from her crying and then broke down a hug. With tears Badrina asked Arshaka a question. "Cock Hafez?"

Arshaka blinked, guessing his guess was misdirected. He guessed another figure was accompanying Poppy. "Just ask, because they're close. It could have been wrong," Arshaka's correction looked at Badrina who was astonished to hear his words.

"Not Hafez. His name was. If not wrong... Ahmed Sabri," said Badrina, remembering.

Arshaka could not bear to hear the new name thrown from Badrina. Arshaka laughed loudly hearing it until he held the stomach.

Badrina's face gawked with a frown, she was not delivering a joke, but why Arshaka laughed at her.

Arshaka's laughter suddenly stopped, her face turning flat. Arshaka forgets that the ex-wife is seriously crying over her aunt's actions.

"I'm sorry" said Arshaka clenched his hands in front of his chest. "You don't seem ready to accept the reality about Aunt Poppy, yet" Arshaka's value responds to Badrina's grief.

"Are you hiding something about Aunt Poppy?" Badrina made a guess. "You seem to know my tant. Is there anything you know, but I don't?"

Arshaka said he did not expect Badrina to be pointing at him right now about Poppy. Arshaka was wondering if he should tell the truth? Or let Badrina find out from others.

Arshaka is worried about the choice of telling or not. After Badrina finds out how the authenticity of Poppy, inevitably Arshaka's past will be revealed. Arshaka is on the verge of a dilemma.

The truth of the past is presumed Arshaka will have an impact on their relationship as two people who are improving themselves.

"Shaka," said Badrina, waving her hand before Arshaka's face. Several times Badrina called Arshaka until he realized he was daydreaming.

Arshaka is back focusing on his ex-wife. "Tell me what you know about my aunt" Badrina asked seriously.

"I. um, I'll take you to the right person. This guy who knows Aunt Poppy with details," Arshaka said. Arshaka does not have the courage to tell Badrina the authenticity of Poppy.

"I have to go first, my bag was left behind in the office," elak Arshaka intended to end the conversation with Badrina.

Badrina's eyeballs glanced quickly at the wall clock. "It's past four, you still want to go to the office?" he asked. "Not that you say 'already permission' and working hours are also almost over," Badrina continued staring suspiciously. Badrina felt Arshaka was just making excuses not to talk to her.

Arshaka moved wrongly, rubbed the nape with the right hand. "You don't want me to go?" arshaka Goda. A prickly idea crosses his mind.

Badrina cut off the gaze on Arshaka. "Just ask," said Badrina turning the other way. Badrina is now the wrong one.

"Maybe.you still want to hug me, maybe it's not done yet." Arshaka widened her arms, knotted in a smile on her handsome face.

Arshaka began to use seduction sentences on Badrina. Nervousness hit Badrina, Arshaka was not kidding at this time.

Badrina felt the warmth running through her face, it undoes the desire to smile back. Badrina embarrassed Arshaka will laugh.

"I. I. went to my mother's room first" Badrina said and stood up.

Badrina needs to neutralize a heartbeat that is not racing. Arshaka's attitude is able to make Badrina's heart full of blooming flowers.

"Ee. uh. wait a minute. You didn't drive me to the door?" arshaka Pinta. Badrina's movement stopped, she turned to Arshaka.

"Yes.we need to practice caring for each other. Nothing's wrong, is it?" tanya Arshaka also stood up, even highlighting the face of Badrina that had matured due to embarrassment.

Badrina completely lost face, Arshaka advanced her face close to Badrina.

"Yes, already," said Badrina short, passed towards the terrace still accompanied by a tightening heartbeat.

Arshaka chuckles to himself watching the attitude of his ex-wife who is far from angry and nagging. She did not expect Badrina to be so beautiful when she blushed shyly, adorable.

Arshaka shook her head, unable to hold back a smile as long as she remembered the look of the mother of her daughter.