In the Name of a Mate
Chapter 41: The Secret

By late afternoon, the sun was stinging. The paved road certainly makes someone will not be able to set foot barefoot. The road is quite slow before entering the asar time. Across the street, he saw a woman running, saw the same suit with the campus, can be sure if they are one campus. Usually Rio ignore, especially in the middle of this hot weather, but instead his motorbike leads after someone who is suspected of pickpocketing, of course the perpetrator was caught even though there was little resistance that certainly won Rio

"If you want the money to work! Don't pick up people!" Hit the thief. That person stood limped and ran away with limp legs, it seemed like Rio's punch made him sprain

"Thank you sir" the woman's remark made Rio furrow his brows

"Sir?" Repeat Rio once again to confirm his hearing

"Mr?" The woman repeated her words

"I'm not your father" Rio replied gruntingly and returned the woman's bag which was taken straight away

"Sister" repeated again

"I'm not your sister"

"if you knew my name was Zara, what was your name?" Zara cupped her hands in front of her chest

"Anggrio Dion Prataya, just call Rio" Zara seemed to notice the male face in front of her more clearly then remembered something

"Ohhh Qais, huh?" He immediately cried when he remembered that familiar face

"Know Qais?" Zara nodded then shook her head then nodded again making Rio astonished

"Famous" he replied hesitantly

"Qais's a business boy, right?" Asked Rio to make sure

"Yes" Zara replied

"Why did you call Dad?" Rio seemed to still be offended about Zara's first call to him

"I'm sorry, it was from behind I thought the gentlemen" replied Zara grimacing in embarrassment

"Where do you know Qais?" Zara was silent for a moment, Rio saw her as if weighing something

"She's my cousin's husband means she's also my sister-in-law" Zara's expression was already guessed by Rio, in fact her jealous tone and gaze was too obvious

Rio just nodded his head, he thought it was his first and last meeting with the medical-majoring girl, in fact, they often meet in an accidental condition with almost the same case when someone wants to take the girl's item. Even Zara had treated him because the knife brought by the thief accidentally hit his arm. Rio rejected all the codes of his heart, but in the end he could not lie to his own feelings. He often saw the girl from a distance even though their own faculty was quite far away as well. And unfortunately again, Qais knew it and suggested something that Rio rarely did, especially if not to face the creator.

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The gray clouds decorated the night sky with a dense, increasingly creating a pitch-black atmosphere. The moon that usually shines with millions of stars is now hidden because of cloudy clouds that are like ready to spill rainwater

The wind blew slowly, slightly cooling the night which felt hotter than usual. The dark blue curtain waved in the wind because the window was left slightly open by the owner of the room. The atmosphere was pitch-black, only the sleeping lights seemed to light up on the nightstand

"In retrospect, our destiny is strange huh" Laila opened the conversation by looking at Qais in front of her who was only blocked by a round wooden table. The couple chose to look at the gray sky when the clock had shown at half twelve. Time that humans often spend overthinking by thinking about how to live in the future

"Any? Meanin?" Qais looked at his wife who was now focusing his gaze outside the window. See some of the porch lights left on by the owner

"Any aja I think, Kak Qais suddenly appeared in the middle of the road when I ngehindarin razia, the trus even directly menggegombal, very playboynya" Layla kekeh

"From the many women I meet, only you think I'm a playboy" Qais tugged at his wife's ear slowly, making Layla complain and laugh

"But in retrospect, it's funny too" Qais sipped a glass of water and laughed softly

"Especially at that time you even said you wanted to be kidnapped by om-om" Layla laughed and returned to see the night sky was getting late

"I wonder why Kak Qais behaves like that, when it's like the first time we know?" Layla asked as she recalled a piece of her brain memory

"We've met before?" Layla scratched her head in confusion

"You didn't want to, about thirteen years ago" Qais replied

"Emmm maybe" he continued then attached the grin

"Thirteen years ago? I think I'm still kind of a TK"

"Indeed, we met then. You're not inget?" Layla is trying to remember the memory pieces that have been buried thirteen years ago

"Hah I remember, the SD boy who wore a disheveled shirt and a mouthful of straws was it?" Guess Layla didn't miss it at all

"Why you have to inget the part, you should want if at that time I was already handsome"

"Didih, Sister Qais is narcissistic" Layla laughed then fell silent as she recalled something

"Why?" Qais asked who noticed the change in the look on his wife's face

"Suddenly so miss mother if the keinget, at that time when the mother looked good at all" said Layla glare at his memory

"Parents cannot show pain in front of their children" Qais replied

"What if we make a pilgrimage to the grave of the mother? I never went there" continued Qais later

"How about tomorrow afternoon?" Tanya Layla who was called Qais

"Emm Sister Qais" Layla hesitated to ask

"Why?"

"Since we got married, I don't know how Kak Qais' parents told me they died in an accident"

"I'm sorry if this makes Kak Qais hurt, but if not answered also no papa really" said Layla hurriedly when she saw the inertia of her husband

"No papa, it's been a long time"

"But as you need to know, they didn't die in an accident but were killed sadistically" Layla shut her mouth in disbelief, let alone say that without any expression at all

"I witnessed how my parents were shot for power-hungry, which is what made me this person"

"That means that Kak Qais knows who killed them?"

"You know, if you know, you can't believe it either"

"Who?" Ask Layla curious

"It's not yet time for you to know, there will be a good time to reveal everything"

"That means the demon Kak Qais meant was him? Kak Qais would have said that The Devils were built for children who were victims of what they called demons" Qais nodded her head in response to the question

"Ila, if in the future you know all the bad things about my past, do you still want to accept me?"

"Human has a phase in his life. Not continuously right or continue to be in error, human beings who never escape from sin. Such is the past, something that has passed away. Just leave it and make it a lesson for the future, not to be remembered"

"So the answer?"

"Yes, why not. Now Kak Qais is my priest who will guide me. Let's go for today and in the future. The past is a lesson enough to change for the better"