The Hated Husband
Recognition

Dev

Maria was sitting limp on the floor with a medicine bottle in her hand. He was about to take the medicine, just about to enter his mouth..

"Mary! you're crazy!" Dev flicked the bottle containing the gnawing liquid medicine from Maria's hand. The bottle fell and the contents spilled. Dev hugged Mary who was crying and tried to calm her down.

"I'm sorry. I snapped at you earlier. Why would you do that, Maria. The child in your womb is innocent."

"Dev, what should I do? Jo's suing for divorce." Maria is back

"What's? she's suing for divorce?" Dev was surprised

"Yes, now what should I do? Hicks."

"Calm down." Dev asks Maria to sit on the side of the bed. "Now calm yourself down, I want to go first."

"Where are you going?"

"I'd like to buy some food for you. I'll be right back."

Maria nodded.

"Stay here and don't go anywhere." Dev kissed Mary's forehead before leaving

***

It had been 15 minutes Jo was sitting on the front side of the car waiting for Dev somewhere away from the crowd. After a long time, Dev finally came. Jo, who was sitting in front of the car, stands opposite Dev.

"Why did you tell me to come here?" ask Jo

"There's something I want to talk about" Dev replied

"I know what you want to talk about. Relax, we'll be separated soon. You're happy, aren't you?" guess Jo with a cynical smile

"You, what kind of husband are you B*NGSAT!" Dev lays a blow to Jo, causing the corner of his lips to hurt.

"It turns out I misjudged you. Where's your proof huh! You said you wouldn't give up! You're gonna fight for your wife, Maria. But where is the evidence!" One Dev punch floated again into Jo's face and this time Jo looked even more wrathful.

"What do you want BR*NGSEK!" Jo swung a counter blow towards Dev until he staggered back. Then the two looked at each other fiercely, with anger equally controlling.

"You don't know me very well Jonathan. I'm not the kind of person who likes to force feelings. Did you forget that I was in a relationship with Maria."

Jo is still speechless hearing Dev's next words.

"I just want to know how much you love her. Can I really trust you to take care of her? All this time I've been doing with Maria, just so I know if there's any leftover flavor for me. Is there a way to receive you. If it turns out that he has no feelings for me, I want to slowly awaken him so that he will be with you. But it was all outside my expectations. Maria tried to deny her feelings."

Jo is trying to digest Dev's words that he finds difficult to understand.

"Really in my heart there is no desire to touch it. I admit we had a kiss. But there is no sense of joy or happiness like when he was with her first. In my heart I cursed myself. I feel guilty and I feel guilty for touching someone who is not mine." Dev imagines himself kissing Maria and sleeping with her in the contract that night.

"Mary is pregnant."

Deg

"We live together. But we never did that. I could swear."

Jo's trying to find a lie in Dev's eyes but he doesn't find it there.

"I swear it was your son. Again, I'm sorry." Dev opens the car door "Oh yes, I want to say one more thing. Mary almost wiped out your flesh and blood." After saying that Dev passed leaving Jo who was still quietly fixated, trying to digest all the confessions from him. Then he remembered everything in the past.

Flashbacks

"Sister Dev." Maria comes to the library to meet Dev with Jo beside her. Jo doesn't read, he prefers to listen to music with headphones on.

"Can I ask your sister for help with this? I can't brother." Maria showed me physics that she did not understand

"It's easy." said Dev lightly

"Well, brother is a genius. That's why he was elected chairman of OSIS." praise Maria with a smile

"I'm leaving." Jo left them with an annoyed face

"It seems like Jo's brother doesn't like me."

"He was like that. But he's actually very nice."

***

"Dev, how long are you gonna let that kid keep coming at you? Every single thing he doesn't understand he's always asking you for help. There is so much he can ask for help. Why should you? It seems like he's getting your attention. You better reject him immediately. Instead of you being stamped on PHP by a schoolboy."

Dev smiles at Jo's words. "Leave it. It feels good to get this kind of attention. He also often gave me food."

"So this fried rice?"

"This fried rice is made."

***

Rest hour

Jo from the second floor saw Maria fighting with one of the schoolgirls grabbing each other's hair in the classroom yard.

Dev's really crazy. What made him like that kid? Bar-bar girl, her brain is mediocre too. If I were Dev, I would have rejected it outright.

Seriate