LOVE ME AGAIN, EILANI
Is Old Love Not Done?

Tiara's heart became sick to see her son who was asleep on the floor while lying face down. Nearby was a bottle of alcoholic beverage scattered.

One by one Tiara took the bottle and placed it on the table.

"Son, let's get up! Don't sleep here!" Tiara wiggled the shoulders of her youngest son.

"Whispering....!" Elvaro shook his mother's hand without opening his eyes.

"El, don't be like this. You'll be sick."

"I love you, Eilani." said Elvaro. Shortly afterwards he was crying. His hands were banging on the floor covered by the gray carpet.

"El, let's sleep in bed." Tiara painstakingly lifted her son's body onto the bed. He took off his son's shoes and socks and opened the suit he still wore. And at last he covered El's body with a blanket.

"Don't leave me, Ei. Don't marry Hanny. I could die if I lose you again."

Tiara's cry deepened when she heard her son screaming from the drunken influence.

God, if I had been so selfless and allowed my son to be happy with his choice, Elvaro would not have been like this.

Tiara rubbed her son's head gently. Hoping that Elvaro would fall asleep even though he was sure, tomorrow morning the pain would come back.

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Ardy is standing at the door of an apartment. He's got Laura's new address. His heart even beats very fast.

After breathing a few times, Ardy knocked on the door.

Door opens. Two people who once loved each other 6 years ago are now facing each other. As if they could not believe they would meet again. The breakup happens because Laura hates Ardy who so defends Elvaro and hides the truth when Elvaro stays at the hotel with Stella.

"Aryy? This you?" ask Laura.

Ardy smiled as he nodded. He knew that Laura would have seen that her body wasn't as thin as it used to be. Especially since getting married a year ago, Ardy's weight is increasing because the food that is always prepared by his wife makes taste then Ardy always increases.

"Why is it here? I mean, why do I know I'm here?"

"Can I come in first?"

"You wanna come in?"

"Is your husband inside?"

"Husband?"

"Then if it's not the husband, why are you afraid to let me in?"

Laura widens the door leaf. "Please enter!"

Ardy came in. As he passed through Laura's body, the man closed his eyes for a moment. The perfume Laura wore never changed. The fragrance that made Ard beta hug the woman all night.

Laura closes the door again and invites Ardy to sit on the sofa. The two sat facing.

Nothing has changed for Laura. A shoulder-length brunette who always uses a bando. Beautiful eyebrows are neatly arranged, eyes are green and lashes are pliable without the use of mascara. And of course, the full lips that Ardy used to love so much that it became opium for him.

In the past, his relationship with Laura was very close and intertwined almost 4 years. Ardy touched all the slender parts except Laura's crown, which he never got. Because Ardy repeatedly persuaded him, Laura always refused because she had a principle of life no s*x before married.

"You live alone?" ardy asked as he returned from his admiration for this woman in front of him.

"This is my sister's apartment. But now she and her husband are not there because they are returning home to her husband for several weeks. I'm also not here long after it's back in Manchester."

"You're gonna take care of El and Ei's divorce, right?"

"Kok you know?"

Ardy took a deep breath. He tried to choose a good sentence and right because he did not want Laura to misunderstand.

"Are you still in contact with Eilani?"

"Yes. Every week we're videocall."

"We're in one city, Ra. Me, Elvaro and Eilani. We're in Bali."

"What?"

"Huh?"

Ardy told me everything. Ei and El meet and how the relationship between them.

"You fooled Eilani! You'll get it when some of the memory is gone." Laura became emotional hearing Ardy's explanation.

"Listen up, Ra. From the beginning, what happened between El and Stella wasn't what we'd imagined." Then Ardy told me about a trick done by Tiara and Stella as well as Peter's doctor.

"You're not lying, are you?" laura asked as if she couldn't believe what Ardy was saying.

"No. Have I been lying to you all this time? I just found out El was with Stella later after Ei caught them at the hotel."

Laura was silent for a moment. He used to be so angry at Ardy that he didn't hear Ardy's explanation.

"But Aunt Nova wants me to take care of their divorce in court and the annulment of the marriage in church."

"Please, Laura. Let Elvaro prove his sincerity to Ei. Actually they both still love each other but are separated because Eilani thinks that Elvaro betrayed him."

"But they were together in the room with almost no clothes. Whatever El's reason there, it's still wrong because El lied to Eilani."

"I knew. But can't El get a second chance?"

"You know Eilani's principle. There's no apology for a traitor."

"But Elvaro didn't sleep with Stella."

Laura shakes. "I don't know what to do, Ardy."

Ardy who was sitting on the sofa single now moved to sit next to Laura.

"Laura, El really loves Eilani. He wants to fix everything."

"just free. Eilani doesn't even remember it at all."

Ardy subconsciously grabbed Laura's hand and grasped it tightly. "I beg you, Ra. Let them be together. Please give me some time and say that the divorce process is complicated. Elvaro will take Eilani's heart back."

Laura looked at Ardy. He then looked down and looked at their interlocked fingers.

"What about you? Don't you want to take my heart back?"

"Huh?" Ardy's surprised. "I.......!"

Laura suddenly laughed. "Ardy, how come you're so tense like that anyway?" Laura pulled her hand from Ardy's. "I have no heart for you. I've moved on. I already have a fiancee" Laura said as she raised her left hand and showed me a very beautiful ring.

"I got married a year ago."

"I know."

"Know where?"

"From Eilani's. Will she work in the same hospital as your wife? Even though Eilani doesn't remember you, she posted a picture of your wedding."

"Oh....." Ardy nodded. At least he doesn't have to hide his identity.

***********"

"Good day, sir!" napa Ned then began to open the window curtain in Elvaro's room.

Slowly Elvaro opened his eyes. "Ned, what time is it?"

"At half-hour eleven noon, sir. Today we are all happy because madam Tiara can already see."

"Oh yeah?" Elvaro was not surprised because he already knew. Slowly he got up while massaging his head. Ned immediately brought water and headache medicine. "Drink this sir and have breakfast. The lady is waiting for you."

Elvaro took the medicine. "Ned, are you off today?" ask Eilani.

"no sir. But we were all given permission by the mistress to attend the wedding of Ei and her pilot boyfriend."

"What?"

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