Two Faces One Love
The Painful Reality

With an impatient gesture, Eilaria opened her photo gallery. He's looking for a photo of Gabriel that he's taken close up. Gabriel's face was clearly the color of his black eyes. Eilaria's heart was beating very fast. He saw Gabrian checking in. Does he use softlens?

"Eil, come! There's been an incoming call" Gabrian said.

"Wait!" Eilaria held back Gabrian's hand and looked into the guy's eyes. His eyes are gray. "Are you using contact lenses?"

"No. Why?"

Eilaria was about to speak but a call to get inside the plane was heard. He also abandoned his intention to ask.

When the plane took off, Eilaria closed her eyes. Not that he was sleepy, but he was thinking. The differences that happened to Gabriel before the wedding and after their marriage are very clear. Gabriel, who used to love eating meat and rice, now prefers to eat vegetables. The way she hugs him is also different, the way she kisses him is also different. What really happened? Eil even feels that Gabriel doesn't love him like they first dated.

The plane landed at Singapore airport. When Eilaria came to the toilet, Gabrian called his mother.

"I came with Eil, bun. I can't afford to keep going like this anymore. After all, Iel's situation has changed. Eil deserves to know the truth."

There was a sound of a deep breath from across the street. "My son, you understand your distress. But can't you hold on for a second?"

"Mother, I'll fall in love with Eil if I stay with him."

"It's up to you, son."

"Thank you, mother." Gabrian saved his phone when he saw Eilaria coming out of the toilet.

"Where are we going?" ask Eilaria.

"To the hotel for a while to eat and shower, after that we'll go to the hospital."

"To the hospital?"

"Yes." Yeah."

Eilaria was about to ask but Gabrian had already stepped into the car that seemed to have been prepared for them.

Arriving at the hotel, the two ate after it cleaned up each other.

"Eil, before we go to the hospital, there's something I have to tell you."

Eilaria, who was ready to leave, turned to look at Gabrian who was already sitting on the sofa. Eil finally sat opposite Gabrian.

"What's up, Iel?"

Replace taking a deep breath. "Before everything you know, the one thing that should hold you, Gabriel Dawson loves you so much. You are the love of his life. He never loved a girl like he loved you. With you, she feels sure to get married. Even he ignored all the pain of being present on your wedding day."

"Iel, why are you talking like you're someone else? What's up?" Eilaria was confused.

"Eil, are you sure that Gabriel Dawson loves you?"

"Yes. That was before we got married. But after our marriage, exactly 3 days after you disappeared, I felt that your love for me, diminished. Especially after the appearance of a woman named Figia." Eilaria's face instantly became grim when she mentioned Figia's name.

"Be sure that Iel loves you. He does not want you to be hurt, sad let alone feel abandoned if something bad happens to him. He asked me to take care of you, while he fought between life and death."

Eilaria. "You, aren't Iel?"

Gabrian. "I'm Gabrian, Gabriel's twin brother."

"No....!" Eilaria stood up from the sofa she was sitting on. He shook his head, covering his mouth with both hands. He hoped that this was just a dream. He wanted to make sure that he would wake up soon and never listen to this story.

However, one by one the memories as he and Iel courting back playing in his memory. How romantic and sweet Iel is to her. His phone will ring every 30 minutes because Iel always sends him friendly messages. It was very different when they were married. Even Iel's phone is very difficult to contact. And Iel's rejections when Eil wants to ask her to make love.

Eilaria's body shook violently. He tried to deny all the truth now laid before him.

"Iel never said he had a twin brother. He just always said he had a brother who went to college and worked in London."

"No....!"

"He's too scared to lose you. He's afraid you'll be confused when he sees our similar faces. Because what you saw at London's airport wasn't Iel but me."

"No.....!" Eilaria.

Gabrian told me what happened on the wedding day. He also recounted the condition experienced by Iel until finally had to leave Eil alone in the villa for 3 days.

"She really wanted to marry you so as to hide her true condition. When the doctor said it was severe, Iel asked me to take care of you. He was terrified when he remembered you said you would die if something happened to him. I asked him to take his place because he didn't want you to be sad. All he has in mind is your happiness. During this time, Iel was hospitalized in Singapore. For months he was in a coma. He was even nearly declared dead several times. But I know he fought because he wanted to be with you."

"So, I married Iel, and then went through it with Ian? How cruel was my heart toyed with? I hugged, kissed, even almost gave my body to a man who wasn't my husband? How evil you did for me!" Eilaria cried out in great frustration.

"Don't blame Iel, I'm the one who's wrong. I'm the one who agreed to take care of you. I'm wrong, Eil."

Eilaria's cry deepened. It even fell down on the floor. All his strength seemed to be gone. "I want to die....!"

Gabrian felt his heart break into pieces. He knew that his confession would take Eil a beating. But he did not want to lie any longer.

Eilaria cried for a long time. In his entire life, he never cried like this. Wasn't she always known as the girl who was always smiling? But now let alone smile, think clearly even he can not. It was like losing all of his passion.

Gabrian wiped his tears. He hugged and calmed Eilaria. He wanted to shout to ask, why fate wrote their way of life like this.

"Eil, let's go to the hospital to see Iel's condition."

Eilaria turned towards Gabrian. "I don't want to go! I want to go back to London right now. " Eil stood up and pulled out his suitcase from the closet. Then he stepped up to leave the room.

"I beg....!" Gabrian suddenly knelt before Eilaria. "Look brother. I also don't know if Iel will be conscious or not. Shelove you. Love you so much."

Eilaria's tears fall again when her sweet memories with Iel return to play in her memories. "alright. We're going to the hospital." His words then made Gabrian breathe a sigh of relief.

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Pale face and looks thin, a body that is stretched quiet with several tools attached to the nose, chest, hands and feet. Eil's anger seemed to disappear instantly when he saw Iel's condition.

Even Gabrian, who recently saw Iel after 3 months in Jakarta felt very hit by the condition of his twin brother.

"Why Iel? Why did you let your twin brother be you? Why don't you let me know your true condition. Why...?" eilaria said as she touched Gabriel's cold hand in her grasp.

"Why give me such happiness if in the end it hurts me so much. Shouldn't the husband and wife be together in joy and sorrow?"

Giani and Jero who were also in the room could only hug each other while crying. Gabriel has indeed been moved from a special treatment room to a regular patient's room even though all the tools that support and control his health have not been removed. Several times Gabriel responded by moving his legs and hands, according to the doctor it was an excellent development.

"I hate you, Iel. I hate you for making selfish decisions without considering my feelings. I hate you....!" Eilaria released her hand which held Iel's hand. He turned his body and meant to leave. But the heart detector Iel sounds very loud. Iel's body was convulsing.

"Gabriel....!" giani's shout made Eilaria look over in shock.

Doctors and nurses ran into the treatment room as Jero shouted to them.

"Lord, don't take my son. Don't take my Gabriel. No....! No....!" yelled Giani when he saw how Iel's body was convulsing. Jero immediately took his wife outside at the doctor's order.

Gabrian also intended to take Eilaria out of the room. But Eilaria did not want to move from his stand. He felt his chest tight and his heart that seemed to stop beating. What if Gabriel really dies? Can he accept it?

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Duh, my mother made the conflict too heavy....

Why is the conflict not light2 anyway?

Duh, this has indeed become the hallmark of mother when writing a novel. Perhaps the mild conflict is just a story: TO BE THE THIRD WIFE OF JURAGAN.

Stop by Ig mom too ..oliviaeini.....