ERIKA (The Slandered Woman)
Chapter 6

"Why you, Bro!" Aldo fell in shock when his shoulder was patted by one of his coworkers. "Resume payday instead of sumbringa, this is a daydream in the corner. Not afraid of frivolity. Ngopi dong, coffee!"

Aldo just smiled blandly while glancing at the coffee that Aria offered.

"Don't eat?" aldo asked as he received the glass from the cup. Right now, they are indeed in a time of rest.

"Lu himself?" Aria asked back while burning the tip of her cigarette.

"Non nafs*!" Aldo's face was gloomy. Right now he was thinking about his mother's medical money that had fallen on the floor this morning. And ended up going to the hospital because his blood pressure was very high, said the doctor.

"Aria, do you have a side job? what the hell is that? I need the money!" said Aldo. Hope his best friend has a job.

Aria who had seriously smoked her cigarette, immediately glanced quickly at Aldo's face who looked straight at the bright clouds above. Factory employees passed by carrying boxes of food, ignored by them.

"Erika's getting chatty, Bro?"

"Where is! My wife is grateful for my salary!" sahut Aldo is proud.

"Well... A wife like this needs to be suspected, bro."

Aldo instantly sniggered intensely with those eyebrows raised by one. "What do you mean?" ask Aldo ketus. He doesn't like it when Erika gets a foul.

"I'm sorry, Al. I as your friend just remind you, if we as men are to be appreciated. Although our income is far from many words, still the wife __"

"To the point only! I don't want to hear what you say! Make me feel dizzy!" serga Aldo's.

"Hum...!" Aria grunting. Then he re-opened his voice, "Gue heard from the mothers of our gang mothers, that bini lo is cheating!"

Jedeeerr...

Like the sound of thunder right slapping Aldo's heart. He smiled in mockery to Aria. "Lo don't make it!" Aldo gritted his teeth. His feelings are getting messy. Cih... How could his wife who knew the meaning of sin do what she did not.

"Gue only heard this rumor from Mothers who often shop at my Mother's stall. I swear, I don't tell more stories. Mostly in the alley area we leave to talk bini lo, Bro. Your time doesn't hear at all!"

Aldo's spirit of work is broken by the story of Aria who greatly slaps her pride as a husband.

" No, Aria. It must be just a rumor. Here I am a good man! " tepis Aldo's. He still has complete trust in Erika, although honestly at this time his tongue also needs an explanation from Erika.

"Hem, whatever the hell, Bro. I'm just telling you the news that was teased in the neighborhood alley of our house. Yes, yes, I want to eat first! Wanna come with me?"

Aldo only shook his head as a sign of his rejection. Everything is all lazy at this time to hear there is a bad issue tarnishing Erika's good name and obviously impact on her.

"Already, Aldo. This is just a gossip of mothers who are less than work. As long as there's no evidence, Erika remains your wingless angel." Aldo asserted himself not to be consumed by the irresponsible gossip. Erika is a faithful and good wife. The point!

***

After work that afternoon, Aldo went straight to the hospital. Earlier this morning, he was forced to tell Erika to keep her mother with Icha under his supervision.

"Buck...!" In the waiting chair, Erika welcomed Aldo's arrival while kissing the back of her husband's hand.

"Then are you outside? How's mom doing?" ask Aldo. Sejurus took over Icha from Erika's sling.

"Doctor said, I can go home, Mom. The tensia is stable. I'm outside because Icha is fussy inside!" In addition to Icha fussy, Erika also always gets scolding from Ibu Rani, until she decides to wait outside only.

" duh... How yes, Rik. I wanted a kasbon but was not given the same boss. I haven't been able to get the hospital costs." Aldo felt like a useless man. Confused about where to look for loans. No one is willing to lend a million and eight hundred thousand for the total treatment of his mother in one day.

" Calm down, Mom!" Erika gently stroked her husband's arm. "I've paid for everything. We can take mom home."

So kind-hearted was this woman, who worked hard and often stayed up late to write, but she was so sincere in her salary that happened to have dropped today, there are only a few sheets left because they pay for the sick costs of people who often mendzoliminya. And Erika did so, as well as a sign of her affection and love for Aldo.

"Aren't you paying half my salary to the bank? So, the rest of the kitchen is also not so far? Where'd you get your money to pay for your mother's treatment?"

Aldo's eyebrows shot up one, asking full of suspicion among his curiosity as well, where does his wife have money from? He became reminded back to the words of Aria, if his wife is digosipin cheating. Did Erika get alimony from her affair? Aldo's brain is back to negative thinking.

" From result__"

"Hi, Mas Aldo!"

Erika's confession is again stifled by the arrival of a long haired woman with a stylish fashionable office, Sinta! The woman who is said to have a taste for Aldo who did not arrive because of Erika who suddenly came as Aldo's future wife at that time.

"Hi, Erika!" he said to his wife Aldo, but his smile was half-hearted. Not like Aldo.

"I'm here to see your mother?" Sinta showed off the fruit parcel she was carrying. He was unrelenting to spread charm in front of Aldo with a sweet smile while sighing his hair behind his earlobes.

"Ouh, then, please come in, Ms. Sinta. Mom's in this room!" Erika welcomed the kindly intention of caring for the woman to her mother-in-law.

"Mas, just shut up? Wanna come in?" Erika patted her husband's arm to wake him from his daydream.

"Just be surprised!" Aldo was not aware that he had used his ketus intonation for Erika. Really, his current mind was full of questions bated for Erika to be told. Better, he held on for a second. Until home, he will interrogate Erika. But... Where does the thief confess to the thief? Erika could have dodged it. Does he have to investigate in his own way? Ah... The idea is like the best.