Cursed Night
CHAPTER (44): The Truth Revealed (2)

"I'm on the balcony."

Tere knew it was Arya's voice, meaning that from earlier Arya heard the words and saw her behavior throwing things. Tere directly walked towards the balcony of the room, and rightly it was Arya.

"Good morning dear."

Without answering Arya's words or returning Arya's smile, Tere immediately sat on the bench beside Arya.

"I want to go home."

Tere who got no response from Arya, turned to Arya and his eyes glared in disbelief when he saw Arya smoking a cigarette while holding a glass filled with alcohol.

"What are you doing?!"

Arya put a glass in her hand, then rubbed her chest in surprise at Tere's sudden cry.

"I see your eyes are still in Tere's place, which means you can see what I'm doing."

Tere rolled his eyes puffed at Arya and Arya's answers that looked ordinary and even enjoyed smoking and drinking alcohol.

"When did you smoke and drink alcohol?"

"It was a long time ago, when I was seventeen. You know what juvenile delinquency is, and I did."

Tere could not hide his shocked gaze at Arya's reply, but for nine months they lived together, never once did Arya smoke or drink alcohol in front of him.

"But why have you never done it in front of me before?"

"Because you're pregnant, and smoking in front of a pregnant woman is not good. I vacuumed for nine months for you, I wanted to vacuum forever but I realized that the reason I was vacuuming would be gone after nine months. Then why am I vacuuming?"

"You know, cigarettes can kill you and alcohol isn't good for you...

Tere's speech came to a halt as Arya interrupted her speech. Arya stared intently at Tere, while Tere just silently stared at Arya's answer.

"I don't need your doctor profession with me Tere! Why are you worried about me anyway? If I die, you must be the happiest."

"I don't care about you, but I care about Arsa. She's a teenager, if she lost her parents, she'd be very sad."

"You're still there for her, after all Arsa is a strong daughter, she can live without her mother figure beside her, surely she can also live without her father figure beside her."

Tere tried his hardest to hold back the anger within him, as Arya insinuated herself through the man's words.

"Is the cigarette delicious?"

Arya is surprised to hear Tere's question, but she still answers Tere's question through a nod of the head. Tere quickly took the cigarette in Arya's hand and smoked it.

"Huk, uhuk, uhuk."

"What are you doing stupid?! Tere let go of the cigarette, you're coughing!"

Arya tried to take a cigarette from Tere's lips because she was very worried to see Tere coughing, and Tere's face began to pale just because of the cigarette smoke that Tere smoked.

Tere tried to avoid Arya, and ran out of the balcony while continuing to smoke the cigarette even though he had difficulty breathing.

Arya tried to ask Tere to stop smoking the damn cigarette, but Tere even more dare to smoke the cigarette even Tere vaporized the cigarette smoke in front of him.

"Why do you now say Arya Panggalila's dangerous cigarette? You said cigarettes were delicious, so I tried them, but now you're preventing me from feeling them."

Tere stared intently at Arya, and Arya realized that Tere was challenging her. Arya rubbed her face violently, frustrated at Tere's behavior.

Seeing Tere off guard, Arya immediately ran towards Tere and hugged Tere while Tere tried to rebel Arya to take a cigarette from his hand.

"Arya release! Don't take my cigarette!"

"Give me the cigarette!"

"No! My cigarette!"

Arya tries to take a cigarette from Tere's hand without hitting it on Tere's skin, but it feels very difficult when Tere continues to rebel until they fall on the mattress with Arya on top of Tere.

"SILENCE!"

Tere was instantly speechless as Arya shouted right in front of him, let alone Arya's sharp gaze as if ready to burn herself alive if it remained rebellious.

Arya directly took the cigarette from Tere's hand, and squeezed the cigarette in his hand no matter the pain like burning in his palm.

"Never smoke, you can't smoke, please listen to me just once Tere for this time."

Arya stared pleadingly at Tere, Arya's hand rubbed Tere's hair gently while Tere just silently stared.

"I was scared and worried when I saw your reaction after smoking, I didn't want you to get hurt."

Both of them just fell silent saying nothing more, because they did not know to say especially after this.

"Never smoke again, if I see you smoke then I will do it again. That cigarette kills Arya slowly, and I don't want you to leave me and Arsa, I can't."

Arya doesn't know what to do when Tere hugs her tightly, and Arya can feel her shoulders wet with Tere's tears.

"I won't smoke anymore, I promise."

Arya replies to Tere's embrace and kisses Tere's hair trying to calm him down, while Tere just quietly enjoys the warmth of Arya's body.

Arsa, who was worried to hear the sound of screaming and falling objects, immediately asked her father's spare room key to his maid, then opened the door of Arya's room.

But what he saw now made his heart sick and sliced, arsa's hands clenched firmly when she saw her father's wedding photo for the first time because Arya always hid the wedding photo but now Arya herself put it in her room.

"Basin' cheap women!"

Arsa immediately ran away from her father's room, she still did not expect that the woman he hated the most, who bore the status of mother in his birth certificate.

Arsa covered her mouth with her palm, trying to muffle the sobs coming out of her lips. Arsa wouldn't cry over that cheap lady.

Tangerang, December 29, 2019