The Love I Don't Miss
Part 65 (Titania Azkayla Figure )

In the apartment, on the floor of Kenzo, Calina and Mama Shinta were relaxing in the living room. But they ended up getting involved in a pretty serious conversation.

While the children with a baby sitter were in the playroom.

"Actually I feel guilty for keeping Clarice away from Zio." - Kenzo said after telling her how she felt in the elevator. "But Kenzo couldn't, Ma.." he continued to sound sad when he told his mother-in-law.

"Son Kenzo... Sooner or later, all secrets will be revealed. There will be no such secret that can be covered longer as we want." replied Mama Shinta.

"Kenzo knows, Ma. it's just..."

Kenzo was silent again. Only a tired breath could be heard. Because it is tired of saying the exact reason is always the same.

"Don't be afraid, son... In Clarice's heart must have embedded your name. Mama will help to brief Clarice on how life was in the past. Without having to make you and Zio look bad in Clarice's eyes. No one wants anything bad in a marriage."

"Yes, Mas... I'm also sure that Clarice will understand what's going on."

Kenzo looked at the two women at the side and in front of him. It's like believing in both. That all will be well when Clarice learns a reality that the little girl never imagined.

***

Return to the atmosphere in one of the largest Mall in the Capital. In the middle of the visitors who came to seek entertainment, there was Gilang who was staring at a widow in front of him.

Not with a seductive gaze, but with a serious and half interrogating gaze. Although the pretty face in front of her was very similar to ....

Yeah, better wait till Gilang and Zahra are talking!

"Sir Gilang knew him?" tanya Zahra seemed to not believe Gilang's question.

"Hm" replied Gilang nodding flatly.

"Do Mr Gilang know what his condition is now?"

"Yes!" he said, "i know!"

Zahra fixed her sitting position, while taking a deep breath to neutralize the self that had been shocked by Gilang's question. And now back to relax after knowing Gilang know the condition of the person they were discussing that night.

"Titania Azkayla is my twin sister" Zahra replied.

Gilang stared fixedly at Zahra whose face was instantly shrouded in sadness. With what he saw on Zahra's face, he built up the defenses of his heart. So as not to collapse due to the story that he might hear.

"Tell me clearly, about you guys," said Gilang, "why does your face look sour at once?"

Zahra stared fixedly at Gilang, before conveying a poignant story in the past.

"We grew up together, in the house I live in now. With Father, Mother and an older brother" replied Zahra. "We were both 14 years old..."

Flashback On . . .

"Pay your debt now!" the voice of a man about 45 years old was heard right in front of the small multi-storey house.

"Give me some more time, Bang!" replied the man about 23 years old.

"Heh, Titan! you've been waiting for a year more, still asking for extra time? not GIla!" the 45-year-old man.

"But I don't have any money yet, Bang. Look at yourself, my father is sick. I also have to make money for the school fees - sister!"

"What do you care about me, huh?" ask the man cynically. "Absolutely I'm a census of the population who should know what your work and your suffering is?"

"It's not so, Bang. At least have mercy on us."

"If I have pity on you, who has pity on me? answer me!" exclaimed the man with his vicious face.

Unable to answer, the 23-year-old Titan Azkara just looked down deeply.

And coinciding with that, came two daughters who were twin brothers in Junior High uniform.

The two ABGs appear to be walking from a distance of several kilo meters. Seen from the sweat and sweat of those who pour out once at home when the sun is hot.

The man who was a debt collector also saw mischievous on the twins. Seen from the bright eyes.

"Let's just say, I'll give you two more weeks. If in two weeks you haven't paid the debt yet, give me your two sisters as collateral!"

"What!!" sontak Titan and two twins stared in disbelief at the old man who deserved to be his father.

"Don't be crazy, Bang!" exciting Titan.

"That's not Crazy, Titan! I'll just keep them hostage until you can pay off your debt!"

"But it's not at all comparable, Bang!"

"That's your business!" the man replied indifferently, "i can do anything to force them to come with me!" exclaimed the man then left Titan and his two younger siblings with a sullen smile.

But apparently the man no longer cares about what Titan is trying to negotiate. Because what he had in mind was better to get those two twins.

Two weeks later . . .

"You don't go out of the house for a while!" titan told his two younger brothers. "And don't open the door if Bang Dirman comes!"

"Yes, Brother!"

"Titan, where are you going to look for the lack of money?" ask Ibu Titan who also just returned from selling vegetables at the crossroads.

"Come, Ma. What matters is that I take care of my sisters!" answer Titan who is only a factory worker with the lowest position.

"Mother will take care of your sisters, but you must also be careful, Titan. Bang Dirman is reckless!" answer the half-century-old woman.

"Titan tau, ma'am." replied Titan with a les.

Titan leaves home. To look for the shortfall of the amount of money he was prepared to pay a debt to a man named Dirman.

The sun was getting hotter, the money he got from selling motorcycles was apparently still lacking. Because the bike was already in pawn at the same person. Now he has only half of what he has to pay.

He decides to return home before Dirman arrives. He did not want what he had done to him to happen. He took his two brothers as hostages.

And once he got home, it turned out to be true, Dirman was already at home to collect debts that had been betrothed.

"Don't, this is half my debt" Titan handed Dirman 8 million. "7 million more I'll find."

Laughing curiously, "where are you going?" ask Dirman. "I don't want to give you time!"

"Bang, don't be that way"

"I'm tired of giving you time! as per my rules yesterday, give your sister to me! Only as a hostage. I'll give it back when you can pay off your debt."

"Bang, you know our family's tough. We borrowed money for your treatment too! not for fun or holidays!"

"I don't care! obviously, the debt must still be paid according to the agreement!"

Help us, Bang! drop flowers!"

"Can't!" dirman replied, "because you can only pay half, hand over one of your sisters!"

"Don't, Bang!"

"Surge!"

As much as possible the foamy Titan prevents Dirman who is trying to get into the small house. But because Dirman's posture is larger than Titan's, of course he is easier to break through Titan's defenses.

While his younger siblings are hidden in the upper room and guarded by his mother, of course, will not be able to resist how strong Dirman took one of them.

"I will make a maid in my house until your debt is paid off!" dirman told Titan, Mother and one of the twins.

Everyone cried and said no, when one of the twins was taken.

And when Dirman was on the last rung the girl he wasn't carrying shouted.

"Bring me, not him! are we not the same!" said loudly.

Flashback . . .

The cafe inside the mall is a silent witness to Zahra's story about her twin sister Titania Azkayla. And Gilang as the only loyal listener to hear the story colored by Zahra's tears.

"Two days after that, Dad died," explained Zahra with tears that had been dripping repeatedly on her cheeks. "Mom and Sister are fighting for money. But one month later Mom died when her vegetable cart was hit by a sand truck. Stay with me and brother. But. it turns out that the Mother's bumpers provide compensation for the death of Mother as a victim. So forced, that's the money we used to redeem my twin brother." Zahra returned to tears in memory of the events of 12 years ago.

"Then?"

"And when Bang Dirman returned him, he was already in a bad state - fine. He stayed in the room all day, all the time. Never wanted to talk to anyone including us. And be it as it is now." explains Zahra.

"Where is your brother?"

"Five years later my brother got married and had to go off the island to get a better job. For the sake of her family and also the cost of caring for my twin brother."

"Then you?"

"I went to school and college with the money I earned myself." replied Zahra, "my entire life, filled with guilt on her. Because I was supposed to be the one who was brought."

Gilang nodded in understanding. He did not expect that heavy the life story of two Titania he knew.

"Is Mr Gilang the man who took care of Kayla a few years ago when she escaped from the Mental Hospital?"

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