Under the Black Umbrella
a confession

"You just got home?!"

Handy got up from her seat as soon as she saw the person she was waiting for now standing at the door.

The man walked towards Ghavi. He intended to hug Ghavi, but before he could do so, she had already retreated backwards.

"Why?" ask Handy.

The man was astonished to see Ghavi's apparent attitude trying to avoid him.

Their eyes met and locked. From each eye, the two of them wanted to talk to each other.

"Why are you just standing at the door, Nduk?! Come inside!"

The voice of Eyang Sosro who just came out of the middle room using a wheelchair driven by Bi Mirna also disperse the two.

"Eh, I-yes, Eyang!" ghavi replied a little.

"You just got home? Where are Aksan and your friends?!"

Eyang Sosro looked behind his grandson, but there was no one there other than his own grandson.

"Oh, they're back at the hotel, Eyang! Tomorrow morning they have to go back to Jakarta. Mas Aksan was keeping the car in the garage. Oh, here's the guy!" ghavi replied as soon as Aksan appeared behind him.

"Ooo!" sahut Eyang Sosro forms the letter O in length.

"Good night, Eyang!" aksan smiled.

Her smile slowly faded as she found Handy sitting on the sofa behind her. In front of him sat a woman.

Aksan immediately walked up to Handy to greet her. Ghavi followed behind him.

"Oh, there's Mas Handy apparently, how are you? It's been a long time no visit" he said to Handy.

Aksan then dropped his body beside Handy. His eyes turned forward, towards the woman sitting across her chair and Handy.

"Is he your friend?!" Aksan pointed at the woman then turned to look at Handy.

"I'm good. Aye! Lately I've been a little busy" pause for a moment.

"Ehm! Oh, that's Vika, my partner. It just so happened that we just reviewed the project site around Parangtritis. He came straight back here" Handy explained to Aksan.

But the look in his eyes looked at Ghavi who was now standing next to Aksan. It was as if his answer had been deliberately directed at him.

Ghavi looked at him as Handy looked at him. His heart still ached over what he had witnessed earlier that evening.

"introduce! I'm Vika, Handy's partner and close friend of Handy's in college. And now, we are in a more serious relationship, ", Vika replied without reaching out to Aksan who was ready to welcome her.

" What does it mean with a more serious relationship?!" Aksan.

Aksan was quite surprised to hear Vika's words. So did Ghavi and the others.

"Well, we just made it. Yeah, right, Honey?!" vika replied looking at Handy as if she was intentionally saying that in front of everyone.

"Ehm!" Handy bertehem.

"Whataa? So then?! Sa-honey?!!" Ghavi surprised.

"What does this mean?" ask him Handy.

Handy also seemed surprised to hear Vika's statement just now. Moreover, the girl he liked was now asking for an explanation.

"Ahh, that's ...," she answered.

Handy was confused, what should she answer and how?

Everyone present was shocked as well, especially Eyang Sosro.

"Didn't you just introduce to Eyang that he's your business partner?! What did he mean by those words?!!" Eyang Sosro was shocked to hear the answer of the woman who since the beginning of his arrival had made the old man ilfil.

The man did not think at all if Vika dared to say things that were out of his control.

"Jawab to be honest, Handy! Explain to us all here!" snapped Eyang Sosro hard.

The old man's breathing began to sound irregular.

"Emm, that, that ..."

Handy replied, Vika had grabbed him first. Even this time the answer made a fatal mistake for Handy.

"That's right! We just made it. Next week we will have a wedding. In fact, now I am pregnant with her child," Vika said proudly as she stroked her queen's stomach.

"Isn't he?!"

Everyone present was completely shocked this time, especially Eyang Sosro and his grandson, Ghavi.

"Is that really?" ghavi asked Handy for the truth.

"Eh, that's ... Aye! I'll marry her next week. But, I can explain what happened, Vi!" I'm Handy slow.

Lost already the decisiveness and authority he had all this time. Just because of his stupid mistake, he was helpless in front of Ghavi and the others. His face was bowed in.

"I'm sorry, Vi!" lirih's great-grandson.

" You're, really outrageous, Handy! How you played my grandson. You, how dare you ... on .. my grandson," hardik Eyang Sosro.

The old woman fell unconscious after finishing her sentence. His body fell from a wheelchair to the floor in front of Ghavi.

"Yahoo!!" pekik Ghavi was terrified.

Everyone was surprised to see him, especially Handy. He felt so guilty about being honest with everything. He was forced to do so because Eyang Sosro urged him.

If only Vika was not reckless in front of Eyang Sosro earlier, maybe it could have been prevented. His hands clenched tightly restraining the anger. Angry at Vika, also angry at herself who is now helpless before Ghavi.

"Go from here!" banish Ghavi to Handy and Vika.

"For you guys, my eyes are like this" he said with tears.

"If anything happens to him, I will demand a reply, especially to you," he said pointing to Handy who was still fixated.

"Mas Aksan, get the car ready. We're going to the hospital now" he ordered Aksan to support Eyang Sosro's body.

Ghavi takes over his eye body letting Aksan prepare the car.

Upon returning from preparing the car, either got the courage from where, near him Handy who was now standing near Ghavi's feet. One punch floated onto Handy's handsome face until the corner of his lips spewed blood.

"Amaha!!" pekik Vika tight.

Handy was silent. He did not intend to repay Aksan's treatment of her. He really deserved it.

He let Aksan carry Eyang Sosro in his car, and Bi Mirna led Ghavi who was also now weakly drooping.

"You better go now! Aunty does not want your presence here to make things worse" Bi Mirna said as she passed in front of Handy.

The woman of the late forty years also had some courage from where to say that.

"I'm yelling, Bi!" handy replied.

"Send my apologies to everyone" she said.

"If things are calmer, I will visit them and explain everything so that this misunderstanding does not drag on."

"Good!" Bi Mirna nodded.

Handy left the residence of Eyang Sosro with mixed feelings. While Vika, the woman walked in the footsteps of Handy.

A sly smile engraved at the corner of his lips red blush because the lipstick he used like lip dye that is commonly used by the j*l*ng in night clubs.