
Febbi just kept quiet while looking down. He wanted to apologize, but he didn't deserve to be sorry. His mistake with Rere was huge.
"Until when will the two of us just shut up like this? I've given you a chance to defend yourself, why just shut up?" Said Rere flat without looking at Febbi.
Early Febbi came earlier, Mr. Tomas was about to expel him, but Rere forbade. He wanted to hear Febbi's explanation. A friend, the heart to do so briefly, he wants to hear the excuses and self-defense of his friend.
"Sorry." Febbi said with a trembling voice holding back the cries.
"just that? Don't you want to seek justification, self-defense?"
Febbi. "There is no justification for the actions of a traitor like me. But, I was forced, threatened. As for Romeo, he was just being fooled. This is all Gina's plan."
Rere laughed lightly hearing it. "So that's your defense, that you're not entirely guilty? And all this Gina's fault?"
"I'm not saying I'm innocent. It's just that Romeo and I want to try to improve things as a form of responsibility. Please reconsider Re, don't report us to the police." Febbi was crying, her body was shaking. He was really afraid of prison. She was the backbone of the family, until willing to be a sugar baby for money. If he goes to jail, he does not know what the fate of his family will be.
"Haikal said, you helped him erase my nude photos on Gina's phone." Rere closed his eyes while gripping the edge of the sofa. He only found out from Haikal if all this time, Gina kept a nude photo of him to threaten Romeo to shut up. He could not imagine how embarrassed he would be if the photo were to be spread.
"True, can you use it as a consideration not to report us to the police?"
Rere smiled as he looked at Febbi. "I don't know what the hearts of the three of you are made of. How he treats me that way." Rere won't cry in front of Febbi. He doesn't want to look weak. It was enough that they had fooled him all along. "And that morning," Rere smiled bitterly. "You must be laughing at my stupidity that doesn't know what. I'm like a crazy person confused by my condition, but you guys. You guys are so good at acting. You said nothing happened when you did it." Breath of Rere began to hunt. He tried not to scream despite the feeling, eager to curse Febbi with dirty words.
"Sorry Re, sorry." Febbi shuffled from the sofa and knelt in front of Rere. "I know, after what I did to you, I don't know myself once if I beg you not to be reported to the police. But I was as scared as that imprisoned Re. And you know, my whole family depends on me. Please think of them Re." Febbi as much as she held Rere's leg.
"What did you think of my feelings before you did?" snapped Rere. "Do you think my honor is worth nothing until it's that easy for you to plan the rape?" Despite trying not to cry, Rere's tears still forced her to fall. "Do you know how broken I was then Feb? I got pregnant without knowing who her father was, my marriage was annulled, but it was just a matter of days." Rere's cry grew even more intense as he recalled how devastated he was back then.
"I'm sorry Re, sorry."
"And one morning, I almost committed suicide. Do you know that, huh?" snapped Rere. He pulled his foot from Febbi's hand and stood up.
"Sorry Re, sorry. I was forced, I was threatened by Gina. I was too afraid that my status as a mistress was discovered. I'm afraid I'll get fired from a job if I'm supposed to. Not only that, my family would be disappointed if they knew I was feeding them with the ill-gotten money. My mother is sick Re, I'm afraid something will happen to her if she finds out that the daughter she's proud of is nothing more than a mistress, an actor. I just have a mother, I don't want to lose her Re. Sorry, sorry."
"But still, that can't be the reason you helped Gina plan a rape against me."
Febbi wiped her tears and stood up.
"Please reconsider Re. Besides me, think of Romeo. He's a good guy. It's just that Gina has brainwashed him, heating up his mansion for revenge. If he wanted to, he could have gone back to Japan without thinking about you. But he's not like that, he wants to take responsibility. And that guy, he hasn't been home for days. Sleeping in the car across your house just to apologize. Can't you see the real thing? I'll go home first." Febbi picked up her bag lying on the couch and left.
Rere's cry broke out after Febbi's death. He was confused to make a decision. Febbi did take part in the incident, but he also tried hard to eliminate nude photos. And Romeo, Rere gets even more upset when he thinks about it.
Jia approached Rere and hugged him. Leaning Rere's head against him while rubbing his back.
"What should I do Mah?"
"Ask your little heart, son. Do you think Romeo and Febbi deserve to go to jail? Besides, think of him too." Jia rubbed Rere's stomach. "If he asks about his father one day, can you say that his father is in prison? Because Romeo couldn't have been jailed for 1 or 2 years, much longer than that. Maximum 12 years in prison. Romeo is willing to take responsibility, even mama see, he treats you very well. There is nothing happier for a woman than to be united by her husband. Make it a consideration."
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That night, the sleepless Rere was startled by the sound of lightning. Not long after, it rained very hard.
Romeo, he immediately remembered the man. Is he still in the car, not home yet?
The rain did not subside for long, making Rere think more about Romeo.
"Let me tell him to come in. At least tonight, let him sleep in the house. Mama pity him."
"Let it go, don't take care of him. Come back to the room."
From inside the room, Rere could hear the noise of his parents. So Romeo's still out there.
After not hearing the voices of his parents, Rere came out of the room. He walked through the living room. Look out from behind the curtains. He could see Romeo's car parked across the street. In front of an empty house that has been abandoned a month ago because of transfer of residents.