The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 26 - Home

The bright color of the night on the horizon indicates that the night has just arrived. Alfa drives her car at an average speed. Alone in the middle of a lonely road. Only occasionally there are four-wheeled vehicles or two wheels that cross opposite. It's going to be a long trip tonight. Actually he could have stayed one more night at a nearby hotel with his photographer friends, but, he could not bear if he had to linger leaving Tiara alone. It was free for him to rest his body in this place. However, his mind could not pause at all to not think about Tiara.

Finally tired of filling him, Alfa was determined to go home with a distance of eighty kilometers tonight.

Wait for me to come home, baby.

With vigor, Alfa continued to smile as if Tiara was returning her smile in plain sight. In the light music that echoed in her steering room as a lonely friend, Alfa tapped her fingers in a constant tone enjoying the music she was playing. However, even though he was concentrating on driving and listening to music, his ears could still hear the sound from the outside of his car.

Alfa was surprised by the strange sound from behind. The man pushed the body to the side to turn off the player installed on his car's dashboard. His ears caught a rumbling sound that gradually came closer to him from behind. Sontak Alfa saw through the middle glass and how shocked he was when there was a large vehicle that drove at high speed as if chasing him. He was even more surprised when he looked ahead and there was a car driving opposite was directing the spotlight towards him so hastily he slammed the steering wheel to the right side.

The sound of that bang sounded loud. The collision of three vehicles was inevitable. The truck managed to reach the back of the right. Crumbed. Right at the back of the Alpha sits. While the front of Alfa's car rattled because it hit a large tree when he slammed the steering wheel earlier by force. The sedan car opposite the direction of Alfa car had grazed the left part of the car and fate rolled up to a few meters to the left of the road.

Silent. Alfa had awakened for a few minutes until finally her ears were ringing and her consciousness was greeted by darkness. The ringing of the roaring mobile phone was already unanswered. Until a few minutes later, Davian's name on the phone screen had made ten calls.

The loud sound of impact was heard for several kilometers in all directions. Leave a creepy gripping silence. The view of three vehicles that hit each other with a final shape that is really terrible with the passengers who are not known how the fate.

Some vehicles passing by also stopped haphazardly on the side of the road to see the situation. There were also people who rushed to call for help and some who approached and tried to see the victims. The crowd was getting more and more crowded, even though there were no lights, only the lights of other vehicles passing by showed the situation that was happening in that place.

A few minutes passed, until finally the sound of an ambulance roaring with bright lights came along with several police cars arriving at the scene at full speed. They moved agilely and immediately put up a police line in two separate places. The medics immediately moved to remove the victims from their damaged vehicles. With great difficulty, Alfa was also taken on a stretcher to be taken to an ambulance and immediately rushed to the nearest hospital.

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Tiara blinked her eyes slowly and smiled. Alfa was sitting on the edge of her bed with one hand that was fondly stroking her head. How relieved he felt after he tried to soak in his longing for these two days. The woman then sat down in front of her husband and just poured into the arms of Alfa. Hugged it tightly.

“You healthy? Why is your body so cold?” Tiara still squeezed the spoiled into her husband's chest before Alfa finally squeezed his wife's shoulder and let go of his embrace resulting in a fairly close distance. The man looked at her with sadness. The reddish eyes with the brown eyeballs that decorate there appear dim and prepare to launch tears.

Tiara couldn't bear to not cupper her husband's cheeks. “Why are you sad?” Tiara put on a loving smile while rubbing Alfa's cheeks with a slow finger movement.

“I miss Tiara.” One tear slid from his left eye. “I miss you so much.” His right eye finally shed tears.

The woman spontaneously kissed her husband's lips. Sticking there, then sipping it later and releasing it slowly. The tears that escaped the two beautiful eyes of Alfa.

Tiara coughed as she choked and she held her chest firmly to immediately palpate onto the table. Trying to find where the white water as he remembers he put right in the corner of the nightstand.

Small sweat appeared around the temple and he closed his eyes for a moment. Set his sudden heartbeat to rumble.

A few heavy minutes. After his heart was pumped regularly, he slowly opened his eyes. Slowly until he realized one thing. He has dreamt. Alpha is not in front of him.

His countenance was wrinkled and the space of his heart was suddenly empty. Ah, why could he have seen Alpha so clearly. Those wistful eyes. Why do they appear in his mind? How Alfa looked at him, it really looked real. Tiara sat on the bed and grabbed her phone.

Half an hour in the morning. No incoming messages and calls.

Alfa hasn't arrived home yet?

Ah, hopefully he took the time to sleep for a while in the rest area considering the trip he took tonight is very long. Tiara had filled all the emptiness in her heart with all the good possibilities, before an uncomfortable feeling reached her again.

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Davian grumbled with annoyance because up to the call to ten times Alfa did not also raise his call. It was like he hit his best friend's head if they had met later because it managed to irritate him half to death. Wait for. A pal? Is Davian worthy of being called a friend after his secret attempt to snatch his wife from behind?

The man ruffled his hair in frustration. Whatisthis? Is he sorry? What is the deepest corner of his heart protesting and realizing that this was a mistake? Davian saw his reflection through the window-shield that was closed in front of him.

He is now at the Alfa exhibition. And he himself forced himself to be here.

“How?” Leon who was sitting across the chair stared with furrowed brows at the visibly irritated Davian.

Davian looked at Leon for a moment. “Sebentar.” Davian opens his phone screen again and tries to contact Nelly. Yep. The woman is still in the same city as Alfa now.

Putting the phone to your ear. Niente. Many times Davian did the same thing he did with the Alpha number but the result was the same. Niente.

Oh, what are they doing? The shadows of Alpha falling in Nelly's arms forcibly crossed his brain. Not likely. There's no way Nelly would do crazy things out of plan, right? There's no way Nelly would put Alpha in unconsciousness and then do the trapping?

Ah, really only this time he felt desperate for his worry about Alfa.

Nelly's crazy!

Repeatedly in the heart. A minimalist home is right across the street. All the lights are out. Most likely Tiara had already fallen asleep by this time. Thinking about it made him even more desperate.

“Maybe Alfa is resting for a while? No way not he forced himself to continue driving because of the journey he traveled very far.” Leon said in a questioning tone that looked very hesitant in his pronunciation. Davian glanced at him. There was a little relief that had touched his heart when he heard Leon's statement.

With a rough gust of breath, Davian finally threw his phone on the table and slammed himself to sit next to the young man who was accompanying him from morning until evening.

“Ya, hopefully so.” Davian spoke in a heavy hoarse tone, then leaned his back and head against the sofa he was sitting on and closed his eyes.

“You'll stay here again?” Leon stared anxiously at Davian who looked completely desperate.

“Yes. I'll just be here until I can make sure Alfa's back.” The man spoke with both eyes still closed. “Go home.” His eyes narrowed at Leon who was hesitating there. The young man nodded his head thinly.

“Good. I'm going home. Call my number if you need anything.” Leon finally stood up lazily and was about to walk towards the exit.

The sound of Davian's phone ringing on the table shocked the two. Leon stopped the move.

Davian widened his eyes to see who called his number. Ah, that's right. His best friend was very happy to work on it. He shifted the green button and cheerfully greeted.

“You-"

“Iya, right.” Davian's expression turned pale hearing the voice that asked him to speak across the phone. Both her eyebrows are furrowed. Sometimes he looked to turn his eyes toward Leon.

Talks ceased. Davian lunglai removed his phone from his ear.