
The dark sky had changed with a bright sun shining in the blue sky with a stretch of white clouds moving in tandem. So bright with the heat felt in all parts of the earth.
The brightness of the sky was very different from Alice's current mood. Cloudy misty. Last night the woman did not close her eyes for a second. He also missed his breakfast and lunch.
He sat there, thinking about what had happened. Everything that happened was like a dream for her.
After he officially assumed a new status. Widow, her passion is gone instantly. Just hearing it made her ears hurt. Alice wanted to cry again, but her tear sacs were drained all night.
Blush eyes and dark circles under the eyes become a sign if he is not okay at this time. Not to mention his encounter with the woman added to his heartache. Fat, was the phrase he hated the most at the moment. It felt like Alice wanted to slice through the fats in her body so that she could change instantly.
Geck! Geck! Geck!
The door of his room was knocked firmly. Alice looked at the door indifferently. His body seemed reluctant to move from the quarrel that every night felt cold.
"Alice! Open the door, kid! You have to eat, it's almost afternoon. You'll be sick Alice, Mama please open it!" jelita screams worried from behind the door.
A tray with a white ceramic plate on it. Contains a complete diet of four healthy and do not forget the fruit and headache medicine for the woman. Jelita believes that Alice must need the drug.
"Alice, open the door, son!" call Jelita back. Bara who had just returned from work approached her mother who was still standing upright in front of her sister-in-law's door. More precisely his former sister-in-law.
"What's up, Ma?"
Jelita looked over with a sad face. "Alice, he didn't come out of the room earlier. He hasn't eaten anything since yesterday afternoon" he replied worriedly.
"Bara, you get Gavin to talk. Who knows if the two of you are talking, he will listen to you. Mama doesn't want them to separate, Mama doesn't want Alice to leave this house" Jelita confronts her with a gloomy face on her eldest son. Saying what he was afraid of.
Jelita has always wanted a daughter. However, he who can not have children anymore because of something. Finding Alice as a daughter-in-law makes Jelita's heart happy.
Alice who is kind and friendly and smart to put herself makes Jelita more affectionate to him. For Jelita Alice is a beautiful woman behind her round body.
"Mama take it easy. Alice will remain in this house. He will not go anywhere and will continue to be a good daughter-in-law to Mama" Bara assured.
He knocked on the door strongly. It is not usual for the woman to lock herself up all day without eating and drinking.
"Alice, open the door! Choose to open it yourself carefully or I'll break it!" shouted the man loudly. Alice, who heard him, got up from her seat, with a lazy step she approached the door and opened it. From behind the door she opened, Jelita and Bara stood.
"What's up, Ma?" he says flat. The look on his face now. Bara squinted his eyes to see this woman before him. He could not even read what the woman before him was thinking at this moment.
"You haven't eaten since yesterday, son. Let's eat first!" jelita held out the tray she was carrying. My eyes looked at the tray, then grabbed it.
"Thank you, Ma. I'll eat later" Alice replied briefly.
"Eat a lot, yeah! Be smarter and stronger! After giving the food away, Jelita went back down to allow Alice to calm herself down for a moment.
"What's wrong? Is anyone staying?" ask the round-faced woman with long straight hair who was plucked upwards with that origin.
"I want to talk to you. Can I come in for a second?"
The eyebrows on the right of the woman were raised. He thought for a moment. Should he let the man in? What does he want to talk about?
Curiosity defeats Alice. He allowed Bara to enter without closing the door. Not for fear of the man acting to her. Because Alice is not that confident.
"Tell me what you want to say!" he said as he placed the food on a small table in front of the sofa, not far from his bed.
"Let's get married? I'll replace Gavin's position. I will take responsibility for you" Bara said. Suddenly the woman turned her head, for a moment she looked at Bara like a fool. But a second later the woman chuckled.
Bara's speech is like a clown show that makes his stomach feel tingled. Is this called laughing over your own suffering?
"Sister's joke is really good. I want to give my sister an award. Category pleasing women," said Alice. His laughter sounded so bland.
"I'm not kidding Alice. What I said really!" he said it was so convincing.
Alice smiled wryly. "really?" ask the woman again to make sure. Bara nodded. After what happened between them, he felt responsible for the woman.
Alice stared at the eyes of Bara, looking for something there and finding nothing but pity. Yes ... I just did it all out of pity for him.
"How big is that? Do you think I'm a really good toy to play with, huh! When your sister was disgusted and divorced me, now you have come to marry me. Do you think I'll just believe it?"
"It's not like that, I don't intend to lie or hurt you. But I feel burdened with this guilt."
Alice chuckled at the end of Bara's words. Overburdened? Alice doesn't want a marriage based on pity and guilt.
If they marry, then what is the difference between the marriage he will live with his marriage with Gavin who ran aground? As long as there is no love, the marriage will end the same.
"Keep that guilt for yourself, brother! Honestly I don't understand what Brother Bara is saying? I feel like Brother Bara has done nothing to me."
Bara squinted his eyes. He felt awkward about what Alice said to him. The woman was pretending to be stupid.
"Are you avoiding me Alice. Don't play words on me. I understand clearly the meaning of your words!"
"It's good that you understand what I mean. Now please Brother get out of my room. I don't want to be disturbed, neither you nor Gavin. I don't need you in my life!" reply Alice. His finger pointed towards the open door of the room.
Bara breathed a heavy sigh. It seems like he came at an inopportune time. Women are still emotional and cannot think clearly. At the moment he cannot force. It is not just a responsibility that makes Bara decide to marry Alice. But for Jelita. Although not saying, Bara was so sure Jelitah was the most disappointed in Gavin's decision.
If Gavin and Alice split up, she would automatically leave the house by herself. They no longer have the right to hold it.