Let You Sick: Husband Not Considered
Episode 12: I Consider You 'Former'

"Son... Can you accompany Rafiq to choose his engagement ring?. I can't accompany her" asked Hanna without explaining why.

"Well ma'am" Qadirah answered, and then Hanna passed from there.

Hanna actually knew long ago that between Rafiq and Qadirah there was mutual attraction. But pretend like I don't know about it all.

Of all the women Rafiq told his mother, only Qadirah was excluded. Rafiq just doesn't want to create an unwanted atmosphere if he has to be honest with his mother, considering the woman is at home with him.

His mother accidentally asked Qadirah to accompany Rafiq to buy the proposal ring so that the two of them can solve the problem between the two. Moreover, Hanna had never seen the two speak since the arrival of Qadirah on that day.

A few minutes later, Hanna is seen climbing the stairs leading to the top floor. It is certain that she will go to Rafiq's room to ask her to go with Qadirah to find a proposal ring for reasons not clear from her, even though her husband asked her.

"Where's your mom going? How can not accompany Rafiq for a moment?, Rafiq can be alone mikilihnya Bu" asked Rafiq after hearing the pinta from the mother who had been in his room.

"What experience do you want to choose your own application ring?, do you not need the advice of a woman?, Your older wife is pregnant, mother has an appointment at the factory with employees. There is only Qadirah, coincidentally since he came to this house, not once has mother invited him out. Do you want to go with bi Ratih?.." explained Hanna and then looked at her son waiting for the answer to the last question he asked.

"Bi Ratih also seems not to be coming with you, he will be busy preparing a shipment for you to bring next week. For your proposal proaesi" explained Hanna, not waiting for an answer from her son who she believes will agree to the question.

"And there's three more days, ma'am, why don't you buy the ring tomorrow?."

"Tomorrow busy mothers also with the preparation of our uniforms to make a proposal."

"Alright ma'am" said Rafiq limp. Only able to accept the request of the mother.

A few minutes later, in the living room of the house, Rafiq was waiting for someone.

"Let's go" said Rafiq who did not see Qadirah at all when he heard the sound of steps approaching him. He just focused on staring at the screen of his phone.

After some distance from the main door of his house, he immediately remembered the car keys he had placed on the kitchen table earlier. Soon he changed direction and walked back inside the house.

He had not yet entered the house, suddenly he saw Qadirah coming out of the door so gracefully. The clothes she was wearing right now were not very expensive, but after wearing them, they looked so expensive, and the ones wearing them looked pretty. 'What a charming thing'. That was what Rafiq had in mind at the moment.

Somehow he looked at Qadirah so closely, until finally he realized the call Qadirah on him so soft that it was able to penetrate his heart.

"Let's go Raf"

"A-ayo, I went inside first, forgot the car wash" replied Rafiq nervously and then immediately went inside the house.

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After enough 'silent' drama to make Rafiq sweat wrong behavior in his car and so did Qadirah, they finally arrived at one of the largest jewelry stores in the city.

"The pretty ring. Just pick this one Raf" said Qadirah. Panicked to start the topic of conversation that since the departure from the house earlier, their lips both seemed to be locked tightly. Nobody wants to start.

"It looks like the ring doesn't fit on it, but try it on your finger first. Because your body size is not too different" replied Rafiq as if nothing happened between the two of them.

"Yes, this ring is specially designed by the owner of this store. The price is quite expensive sir. But I'm sure your future wife will love it" explained one of the women who was serving them both who thought Qadirah was the bride-to-be.

DEG!

"Had this ring been mine" muttered Qadirah.

"No, she's not my future wife" Rafiq told the woman.

"The ring fits on my finger Raf. Looks like your future wife will really like this model. This one or still want to choose another one?... It seems, this design is better than the previous Raf" added Qadirah who wanted to also explain to the woman that he was not chosen by the man who was beside him to be his future wife.

"Of all the rings in this store, it's the most expensive" said the woman, who understands the current situation.

"If you're looking for a ring for me, then I don't need an expensive ring. Enough is cheap but enough to tie our sacred promise as a married couple" muttered Qadirah again.

"It's okay, the important thing is to look good. Yes I choose this one only mbak" said Rafiq later.

After making his choice, Rafiq and Qadirah turned around to go home. There was an intention going through Rafiq's mind to apologize and explain everything for what had happened in the past and present, as well as for the matchmaking he now did, and immediately want to erase the memory of the woman who is currently on the side, in her car.

"I'm sorry if .." said Rafiq was cut off after the car he was driving began to run.

"Not to talk about that." Cut out Qadirah who immediately knows where the conversation will lead.

"I'm sorry, I chose my woman at the time. You know I really didn't want to betray my woman back then. But I just found out that he betrayed me first" Rafiq said, explaining why he rejected Qadirah at the time.

"It took me a while to love another woman again. The pain at that time was very long to recover. If I'm honest, my answer to your love was to make you not so sick. And when everything I've made clear, at that time, exactly this feeling has chosen you, you've gone missing from home, and not told me" Rafiq continued a few seconds later.

"That's because I don't want to hope. I'm just keeping my heart from getting hurt if I tell you how I am. And it seems like the sad news that I experienced at that time does not need you to know" explained Qadirah.

"I'm sorry. Now.., when I have chosen my woman again, whom I consider the right woman to accompany me, you come. Are you deliberately playing with this heart?. When I need you, you are not beside me, and when I do not need you you come without news"

"That's how if you feel you just need me. However, if you really need me then, then wherever I am you are looking for me. You don't really need me"

"I did that, but I never found you?. It is hard if true love comes from only one direction. Then will not find the result" explained Rafiq as if to blame Qadirah who came at the wrong time.

"I've been trying. But whatever my day, I was then. I-my mother was sick and gone for a long time"

DEG!

The speeding car, stopped by arriving after Rafiq heard that.

Silent....

No more explanation was said other than "I'm sorry....".

"Oh, I'm used to being sick. Let's go again" the usual-sounding Qadirah pinta. But in there. Deep in his heart. Qadirah cried.

"Even if you don't accept my love. In my heart, you have been regarded as 'former'. To make myself feel like, at least you've lived your love with me"

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