The Dilemma in Silence
Prologues
...'Not all silence interprets weakness and stupidity. Smart and wise people also need to be silent to make decisions in dealing with problems that are dismissed in their lives. Vice versa.'...
...~ Malini Lestari...
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The rumble of lightning at night is scarier than anything, creating a flicker of light that shocks the body after the eye has found it. Heavy rain accompanied the wind shook the trees and created a sound that disturbed the sense of hearing. In a wet dress, a pair of 30-year-old woman's legs are limped in feelings of sadness and disappointment. Her tears have been united with the rain that has soaked her body since, from the Texas hotel, where the two beautiful little eyeballs unraveled the affair of the husband who married her ten years ago.
Hudda Prasetya, a tall man, small eyes, and a picky brown leather was suing her. The man is the person he trusts most more than himself. The rain helped him find the truth. After taking shelter in the cafe in front of the Texas hotel, his eyes found Hudda embracing the waist of a scantily dressed woman, they walked into the hotel. The memory is strong considering Hudda and the woman's behavior after following them into the hotel. His eyes saw their lips hunting each other from the opening of the door.
"I didn't think you were so cruel, Mom," she sobbed.
A pair of attached black men's shoes came out of the car that stopped behind the woman's body. The man opened the light blue umbrella and walked over to the woman to cover her body from the falling rain drops. Aware of that, the woman stopped stepping and looked back.
"Why rain? You okay, honey?" The owner of the body standing behind her is Hudda.
The man looked at her confused.
The woman's eyes passed Hudda's body, her eyes fixed on her husband's car which she did not realize had stopped behind her. The light of the car's headlight highlighted his eyes as his body stepped one step to the side, evading Hudda's body protection. The car engine is still in a state of error.
"Darling ...!" call Hudda while touching the woman's left shoulder.
The woman's gaze began to blur, Hudda's face was no longer clear in her eyes until finally both eyes were closed and the body collapsed.
Hudda threw the umbrella in her hand, she let her body wet to carry her body into the car.
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"Melena ... Line ...." Hudda's lips said to call Malini who was lying on a mattress from a modern room with white paint blending black.
Malini Lestari, it's the full name of the woman who was once called Hudda along with the sacred sentences of their marriage.
Malini's two sense of hearing faintly grasped Huda's voice, but her eyes were not opened when the memory in her mind still recalled Hudda's poor vision with the woman last night. For a moment, seeing Hudda's face made her feel depressed and her chest tight to breathe.
"Leave me alone. Please keep Joke and Jian for a while." Malini's lips said with her eyes still closed.
Jenaka and Jian are a pair of their five-year-old twins. Five years of marriage, dozens of consultations to doctors, have tried tube babies and failed, finally they get children. In the third test tube baby experiment, God gave permission for them to look after the two children.
"Why? If anyone bothers you, just say it," Hudda said, confusedly watching Malini while gently stroking his wife's shoulder.
"Nothing," she replied coldly as she brushed Hudda's hand away.
Five minutes later, the sound of knocking on the door made the crying stop.
"Lini, Mama and Papa are here. If you can't see him, I'll tell them you're sick!" Hudda exclaimed from outside.
"Yes. Just tell me I'm sick!" Malini replied to Hudda's call.
Hudda's forehead shriveled increasingly confused by his wife's attitude. For a moment he was silent at the door thinking. Whynot? Usually Malini is always cheerful at home no matter what the problem.
Malini was reluctant to move her body, feeling lazy to meet anyone, including her two children.
Almost an hour Malini's body lay on the bed. I don't know what happened outside, he doesn't know anymore. It was only aloof that he needed right now to think and control his emotions and anger. Hudda's arrival made her sit on the edge of the mattress. The man stood before him with his right hand carrying a briefcase.
"Please put my das." Hudda thrust a black tie at him.
"I'm tired. Find someone who can help you put it up," Malini replied, rejecting Hudda's request with the same judes tone as before.
"Pms? No. gabe. Just last Sunday you came by the moon. What makes you cold to me?" The man sat down beside Malini while putting the bag beside her body and directed Malini's gaze towards her.
The look on his face was upset Hudda faded and turned into dismay seeing the remaining tears in both corners of his wife's eyes.
"Who hurt you? I'll teach him a lesson." Hudda's two hands wiped away the remaining tears in Malini's cheek.
"If I say his name. What are you gonna do?" malini asked, wanting to find out Hudda's reaction.
"I will beat him up until he disappears from this world. Tell me, who's the one who's been harassing you?" Gelagat Hudda is serious and shows that he is not aware of his actions.
"really?" malini asked with a smile.
Hudda's head nodded and smiled slightly in jest.
The slick smile on Malini's lips disappeared as quickly as lightning was in tandem with a cold face. Malini slapped her cheek into Hudda's until the man reacted in shock. Hudda froze for a while and turned her head that had been hit by the slap. Malini again slapped Hudda's cheek in the same section hard until it gave rise to a red mark.
"Me?" asked Hudda with a confused and shocked face.
"Conscious, before I make you aware, Mas," Malini said with emphasis.
Malini stood up from the bed, continuing her way out of the room, leaving Hudda sitting quietly contemplating her slap. Malini slammed the door until it made her two in-laws who were sitting in the living room shocked to hear it. The half-century-old couple looked up, looking up at Malini who was standing on the top step.