Just a Substitute
Chapter 24's

Shanum went down the floor of the house, saying goodbye to go straight home. Shanum's uncle and aunt were still there, chatting coolly with her parents.

"Aren't you in this house anymore, son?" tanya Nia looks like she still misses her son.

"Yes, Mah. Later we will spend some time here again," Shanum replied as he sat on the terrace chair waiting for Raka's arrival.

"We still miss you, you know. Why not take two or three days?" said the aunt while holding Shanum's hand.

"Bi, not Shanum is not kangen, but Shanum already has his own home now. If left too long no one takes care," Shanum said as he thought about his home.

"Yes, really. Yes it's okay. Go to Aunt's house with your husband, yeah." Aunt Shanum smiled, hoping the newlyweds would pay a visit to her house.

"Yes, Bi. God willing."

A while chatting, Raka's car entered the courtyard. Shanum stood up smilingly to welcome her husband. The man came out, walked over to them all.

"Shanum pamit, yes." Shanum salutes them followed by Raka anyway. The two joined hands towards the car even, Raka opened the door for his wife.

Their car left under the grateful gazes of the Shanum family members. Each of them prayed for his second household to remain happy throughout life.

"Are you sure you don't want to do it again?" raka asked remembering Shanum's happiness in the house.

"No. We, right, have our own home. Who will take care of our home. If you can do it sometime," Shanum replied, leaning back to her husband.

Raka clasped Shanum's hand and brought him close to the lips. The back of the hand is full of love. He really expressed his feelings to Shanum.

The woman smiled, emanating tremendous happiness from her two manics.

"When you're pregnant, you're big, you stay at home. Not going anywhere. The store, right, there are employees. I don't want to work with a big stomach condition" Raka pinta without releasing their fingers.

Shanum turned back, smiling at her husband's sweet request.

"Yes. I now have a husband and I'm not a free girl anymore. Later if my stomach is big, I want it at home." Shanum countered tightening his grip. Both look happy.

"Well, I plan to take my cousin to work at the store. Irwan was overwhelmed because the customers who came continued to grow. How do you think?" tanya Raka asked Shanum for his opinion.

"Yes, it's okay. That's good in my opinion. Let your work not be too heavy" said Shanum agree with the idea.

Raka looked at it for a while while smiling. Then, back to focusing on the streets.

"Thank you, yeah. You are very understanding" said Raka.

The car continues to drive to Shanum's shop, Raka delivers it, then returns to her own shop. Shanum is not too busy with activities, he controls more store supplies as well as orders.

There was nothing he did but just sit at the cashier's table waiting for payment. Shanum looked happy, serving with a smile until someone's arrival made him fall back.

"Nobody entered? Help pick the cake." A woman's soft voice ran through Shanum's ears. He was still calm and focused on the report book he was reading.

He raised his face, gawking to the right to make sure the ears did not hear wrong. In front of his wet cake shop, a man dressed in alim stood up while playing a device.

As Shanum's heart throbbed, the male's presence always managed to damage his concentration.

"Sister Dzaky? Who's he coming with?" shanum asked himself.

He tried to be indifferent and refocused on the report on the table. However, curiosity about who the man came from, greatly disturbed Shanum's calm. He again busied himself with the store report, hoping that his mind would be distracted from the handsome figure in front of the cake shop.

"Sha's? I thought you weren't in the store. It turned out that here," the man scolded who had been out of nowhere since when he had stood before Shanum.

With forced Raka's wife looked up, forcing her lips to smile while continuing to hold her heart so as not to get carried away.

"Yes. You buy another cake? What else to do?" shanum asked pretending not to know.

Dzaky smiled, a smile that always managed to tear Shanum's defense down.

"No. I wasn't. I'm just taking my future wife to buy a cake here. The cake in your store is delicious, different from other stores," replied Dzaky.

The man was acting ordinary, in contrast to Shanum who immediately felt pain in his heart. Hearing Dzaky drive his future wife to buy a cake in his shop. Shanum's not happy about it.

"Oh, yes. Thanks though. Please continue, brother. Choose it, ask for discounts on employees there for prospective mantens," said Shanum held back his unreasonable feelings.

Dzaky instead of leaving, was getting closer to Shanum's desk. Perhaps the heart's intention was to heat up the woman, but it was precisely she herself who was overheated seeing Shanum able to master her feelings.

"Sorry, Brother. Don't get caught up, I'm married now." Shanum pushed his chair away.

Although hindered, it is still unsightly considering she is a married woman and an adult male Dzaky.

"I knew. I just want to see your face before I leave." Dzaky turned back away after he managed to stare fixedly at the face of the girl of his dreams.

"Sister. I'm done, we go straight home, yeah." The woman's voice rang out again, making Shanum even more curious.

However, he was reluctant to gawk, out of embarrassment at the man still standing in front of his desk.

"Oh, yes. Have you paid yet?" dzaky asked in the hope that the girl had not paid for the cake.

"Udah, Brother. I bought some cake. Now, let's just go home, yeah." The woman said again further adding to the curiosity in Shanum's heart.

"Oh. Kirain has not, he said earlier we can ask for a discount. If you get paid, yes." Dzaky looked back at Shanum, as if no matter which girl he was with would know.

"I'm saying goodbye, yeah. The discount for tomorrow-tomorrow is okay, right?" said Dzaky then turned around after Shanum nodded his head in agreement.

Curiosity in his heart, made Shanum elongated the neck to be able to see what kind of girl became the future wife of the male alim. Unfortunately, he only saw the back.

A girl with a big hood wrapped her body. Very closed and very different from him. Shanum sighed, minding himself looking at the woman's appearance.