The Honorary Owner
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"Why do you have to make excuses not to enter will be rich that way, Ta! Bangs*t!" Hiko pushes Genta's body against the wall right after his papa car leaves Genta's yard.

"Diem, Anj!" The clapper pushed Hiko's body, "Lo ask me for help! and now I'm calling you!"

"Pala please lo! You even make trouble runyam added!"

"Lo can be pinned first, can't you?" The clapper almost lost patience.

Hiko walks into the house and sits upset in the living room, Genta follows Hiko.

"Gue wants to take responsibility for what you did last night with Ruby!" Genta.

"Lo want me to marry him?" Ask Hiko

Genta shrugged his shoulders, "Yes, if you can."

Hiko just grunted annoyedly, "Lo guess he wants me? You know for yourself that he has a future priest who is an expert in heaven! A crumb of hell like me won't fit his criteria, ***!"

"But you want her if she wants to?"

"No!"

"Name*t!"

"Heh, I'm the same he's different in the world! You want to die because of living with him?" Said Hiko, "The only girl I'm going to marry is Nara."

"And from that marriage you will lose your family, career and future that is already so good." Genta Sahut.

Hiko kept silent and did not answer.

"Ruby's the only one who can help you with your current career, and you're responsible for what you're doing!"

"No, no no! There are many things I still have to think about for your will. First, she has a husband. Second, Nara can kill me if I know my best friend. Third, I'm just as different!"

"Lo thinks her future husband wants to know that Ruby is not a virgin? Which guy try who wants to? Well except for guys like lo doank."

Hiko shook her head, "Gue can't answer now, don't discuss the matter now. My brain is breaking!"

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This afternoon Kyai Abdullah and Nyai Hannah have set foot in the Darul Hikmah Pesantren. After hearing from his sister, Kyai Abdullah and Nyai Hannah immediately came to Jakarta to find out the situation of his daughter.

Descending from Nyai Hannah's car immediately asked Nyai Fatimah to drive her to Ruby's room.

"Assalamu'alaikum, Ruby!"

Nyai Hannah saw her daughter with disheveled hair sitting curled up on the floor of her room.

"Rubby." Her mouth was in a voice that was almost gone from crying and screaming for too long.

"Ataqfirullahaladzim, son. Why are you like this."

Nyai Hannah was crying hysterically looking at the many scratches on her neck and hands. Nails on ruby fingers also look bloody.

"What are you doing to your own body, son?" Nyai Hannah immediately hugged Ruby and kissed her repeatedly.

"Ruby feels dirty, Ummi. Ruby hates Ruby's own body!" Ruby said between her cries.

"Who did it to you, son? He must get a proper reply." Kyai Abdullah rubbed the princess's hair.

Ruby shook her head and still continued to cry. "Ruby is dirty, Ummi. Ruby is no longer holy! There is nothing Ruby can be proud of! Now Ruby does not deserve to be with anyone Ummi."

"Have Son, Already." Nyai Hannah hugged her daughter even tighter.

Nyai Hannah continued to hug her crying daughter hoping to heal her wound a little. He asked everyone to leave Ruby's room.

Until evening came, Nyai Hannah had tried many times to persuade Ruby to eat and pray, but Ruby did not want to do anything. Yes, Ruby is still angry at her God. Why should he be the one experiencing this? He felt like a Muslim who obeyed him.

Tok tok tok tok

The knock on Ruby's door made Nyai Hannah open it. Nara brought Ruby's bag.

"Nara?"

"Night, Ummi." Sapa Nara, he kissed Nyai Hannah's hand.

"Come, Son. Login." Take Nyai Hannah.

Ruby went inside, she saw her best friend was asleep. His tears trickled down regretting what he had done to Ruby, he should not have asked Ruby to come home let alone go out alone at night.

"It's all my fault Ummi, forgive me." Nara sat holding onto Nyai Hannah's leg to apologize.

"Wake, Nara. Wake." Nyai Hannah pulled Nara's body to stand up, "It's fate, you don't need to feel guilty. Ruby never blamed you."

"Rho? When did you come?" Ruby asked who woke up from her sleep.

"No, Ra. It's not your fault, don't cry." Ruby Saying.

Although still sad to remember the gang incident happened to him, he tried to look strong in front of Nara.

"Will you do it here?" pinta Nyai Hannah's.

"Yes, Ummi." answered Nara.

"Ummi stay first."

Ruby and Nara nodded compactly then Nyai Hannah left Ruby's room.

"Mas Iqbal kept calling today." Nara handed Ruby's bag.

Ruby picked up the phone in her bag and saw the incoming messages in her whatsapp. This time Ruby literally cried ignoring the message from Iqbal asking her how she was and what she was doing today.

Nara could only quietly not dare to ask Ruby, letting Ruby be satisfied to cry.

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For three days Ruby did not come out of her room, did not want to do any activities and too often to the bathroom to clean the body. Neither would he eat if Nyai Hannah did not force him. Ruby was busy torturing herself.

For three days, Ruby ignored Iqbal's message. Even though he did not receive a phone call from Iqbal, only he was met with a profile photo of the man he loved with a cry.

/What do I do to get you to return my messages and get my phone call, By? Am I too upsetting your life?/

Again he just read it without replying. Sad, he must have felt. But he felt it was inappropriate to even think about Iqbal.

/I've heard what happened to you. Is that why you're ignoring me, By? Please, pick up my phone. I want to talk to you./

The deg!

Ruby didn't expect Iqbal to know this. His heart was completely crushed when Iqbal already knew of his imperfections.

His phone rang again got an incoming call from Iqbal. I don't know what power made Ruby receive the Iqbal call this time.

"Assalamu'alaikum, By." Sapa Iqbal, got no answer from Ruby.

"I know you're not okay."

The phrase Iqbal is answered only with a cry.

"Know, By. Whatever happens to you will not change my decision to justify you, nor will it diminish my feelings for you a little."

Again Ruby increasingly sobbed to hear the phrase Iqbal. Instead of being relieved to hear how Iqbal feels about her at this time, it makes Ruby feel even more contemptible and dirty around Iqbal.

"I'm sorry I can't continue with our wedding plans. I don't deserve you anymore." Ruby finally ventured to say things that she did not really want to say.

"By! I love you because of God, not because of anything. Please don't do this. A thousand times you've been looking for a reason to end this relationship, knowing that there's only one reason I'm going to make this relationship last. I love you, By."

"I beg you not to torture me with that phrase, Mas. And please let me go from you."

"Didn't you love me anymore, By?"

Ruby couldn't answer Iqbal's question, she just cried and cried and ended her phone call.

"Law!!!!"

PYARS!

Ruby threw her phone at the vanity glass to make the makeup glass break apart.

Hearing the noise from Ruby's room, making Nyai Hannah, Nyai Fatimah and Azizah immediately remove her face and approach Ruby's room.

"RUBY!!"

Nyai Hannah was shocked when she saw Ruby lying on the floor of the room with fresh blood flowing from her daughter's left hand.

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