The morning was so foggy, the cold still kept grinding until it crushed my bones. My eyes had to be forced when I couldn't find Bagas sleeping next to me. The stuff of times he was still angry with my remarks last night. But where did he go so early?
I went down the bed and rushed to find the man's whereabouts. This was the first time in all we were together, he was angry with me. Maybe because he had to be shut down a few days from his job because of my actions in the hotel or because he failed to rise through the ranks because of the incident. I don't know if I don't care. After all, without him rising my salary rank was enough to finance our lives.
"Honey, Bagas, where are you?" I called me through the entire room in my house. However, I did not find the whereabouts of the man.
I saw that the time in the living room was five o'clock in the morning. Is it possible for Bagas to go to work? Isn't he being shut down.
I hurried back to the room to get the mobile phone that was on the nightstand. I saw Bagas's cell phone and his rangsel bag was no longer in place he usually put the two important objects.
I swiped gently on my phone screen. There were only a few notifications from my college group and a few chats from my teacher friends. There was no chat or call from Bagas to leave a message. Then where did the man go?
Tut! Tut! Tut!
"The number you are going to is not actively trying for a while longer."
The sound of the robot machine from behind the phone annoyed me even more. I threw any of those phones on the bed. My chest rumbled more and more, holding back the annoyance to Bagas who left without saying goodbye to me.
The sun is crawling up, the light is so brightly warmed all the inhabitants of the earth. However, not with me. I'm getting with my own mind. Guessing the whereabouts of Bagas who didn't give me any news at all and just disappeared.
I've contacted all of Bagas' friends even to his boss who is in the office. However, the arrogant man also didn't know the whereabouts of my husband. Makes me even more upset.
It seems that I have to temper my emotions a little bit, I can be high blood just because of looking for bagas' whereabouts.
"Mrs. Reza, Mrs. Reza!" called Mrs. Tari from the doorway of the staff room.
His face this time looked different uncharacteristically. His face looked so panicked with hunting breath because of running.
"What's wrong with Mrs. Tari?" I asked in surprise.
"Let's come with me!"
Mrs. Tari forcibly pulled my arm towards the administrative room. There were already several teachers who were putting on tense faces staring at the television screen that was on.
"Look Mom, look?" mrs. Tari's command pointed to the television screen that aired the news of the ongoing murder.
"What the hell is Mrs. Tari?" I asked, still not understanding the intention of Mrs. Tari.
I dropped my gaze on the television screen not too far away from me. "Mrs. Iska?" I opened my eyes wide to make sure the woman on the television screen was Mrs. Iska, and it turned out to be true, that woman was Mrs. Iska.
"Such is today's news."
The female news anchor on television ended the news.
I'm still confused by what's being said in the news. Because I only saw The Sobbing Mother's crying face on the television screen and then the show ended.
"I really didn't expect Mrs. Iska to kill him!" said Mr. Danang shaking his head.
The man who passed across my body looked incredulous at the news about our best friend on the television screen.
"Come on!" Mrs. Tari pulled my hand towards the teacher staff room.
My breath hunted following Mrs. Tari who ran here and there.
"Miss, what's the matter?? I still don't understand?" I asked Mrs. Tari who immediately dropped her look at me.
"So Mrs. Reza didn't understand since just now?" he said with his eyes slightly open looking at me in surprise.
I shook my head, because I didn't catch anything that Mrs. Tari meant. All I know is that Mrs. Iska appeared on television.
"That's Mrs. Reza, Mrs. Iska is suspected of being a suspect for the murder of a woman's body that was in a culvert."
"What's murder?" I said half-incredulously.
I pulled my chair closer to Mrs. Tari. She looks very sad.
"How can Mrs. Iska kill?" I asked, who was not finished thinking with the woman who I thought had never shown her anger at all.
"It seems that the woman is cheating on her husband. I heard that the woman is pregnant."
'Cheating again, That sentence over time made me feel crazy. No wonder Mrs. Iska is really crazy because of her husband's cheating.'
"Really, Mom?" I pushed my body back slightly, gently rubbing the sweat that soaked my temples. Kasian once heard the fate of Mrs. Isak. He lost his family and now has to spend time in prison.
"Of course it is true, the evidence is in the television news. Maybe Mrs. Iska moved to her hometown to avoid the police." Mrs. Tari nodded her head looking at me seriously.
"Um, men are indeed the most greedy human beings in this b umi," said Mrs. Tari. The woman who no longer wants to marry.
I was silent not flinching, I didn't want the kind of cheating news to break my mind again and make me feel bad. Until I was always suspicious of Bagas.
Instead of me getting swept up in Mrs. Tari's story. I'd better try to call my husband back. Who knows this time the number I can call.
I put my phone out of my trouser pocket. Then I took a soft swipe on the screen that revealed a picture of my marriage to Bagas, very beautiful.
A happy smile was clearly drawn on Bagas's face at that time. Likewise with myself wearing a white kebaya to show my beautiful face.
'Ah, I really regret my stupidity for humiliating Bagas in front of so many people.'
Immediately I pressed the green button on the contact I named my husband. May this time he will fulfill my call, my prayers in my heart.
Tut! Tut! Tut!
"Hello,"
I smiled broadly at the man answering my call. "Honey, where are you?" he asked happily.
"What's the matter, Reza?" the soft voice made me happy. Like I was in love for the umpteenth time with Bagas.
"Where are you going, baby?
Why not tell me?" I said in a spoiled tone.
"I'm sorry this morning I was in a hurry and you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't want to disturb," Bagas replied. "I'm in Purwodadi."
'Purwodadi again. This bagas again to his mother's place. Ah, does he really not miss me. I would love to be with him.'
"Then when are you going home?" I asked in annoyance.
"Don't know yet, mom said, she still misses me,"
"Oh," for a moment I was silent, whether Bagas loved his mother more than I did, I thought.
"It's been a long time ago, I want to take care of mom," Bagas said.
"Baby, can I come with you there?"
"No need to Reza, far away! You will be exhausted later." Bagas ended his call.
I snorted harshly. I know my mother-in-law doesn't like me. I don't know what made the middle-aged woman dislike me, which I know since my rejection of Bagas's wishes first changed instantly. Even at our wedding he didn't come.
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I gently sucked the mattress where Bagas used to lie. It was there that the man let go of his deepness beside me faithfully hugging my body tightly. He said if he didn't hug me then these eyes would be hard to close.
"It's better that tomorrow I catch Up with Bagas to Purwodadi, after all, I haven't seen my mother-in-law for a long time. I want to improve our relationship that was not good."
I thought it was getting further and farther away, wanting me to correct my mistakes in the past. So that Bagas does not have to choose between me and his mother.
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