I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
111. Sorry

Minutes,,, hours,, day,, week,,,

Joel's phone rang again during the break, whether it had been the same name to contact him followed by a message from the same person. Joel ignored it.

'ARIEL'S'

Several times Ariel also came to the hospital to meet, but Joel always did not see him.

Ariel starts contacting Joel again after one week as Joel wants, until Ariel keeps trying despite being ignored.

"Please stop this, Ariel," Bram's pinta was half upset.

"Do you realize how long you've been waiting here? When are you gonna get?"

Bram stops Ariel, who is about to return to see Joel at the hospital.

"We're leaving now" said Bram as he put his hand on Ariel's boat.

Ariel is silent, but does not refuse when Bram leads her to leave the hospital in his car, while Ariel's car is taken to Sam's apartment.

"Are you going to keep going like this?" Bram snarled in annoyance.

"No," Ariel replied briefly.

"Then what?" tanya Bram raised the intonation of his man.

"If he still doesn't believe me, this is the last time I go to this hospital" Ariel replied flatly.

Bram turned his head quickly towards Ariel, then refocused on the road ahead of him.

"Curtain," Bram sneered.

Silence enveloped them, until they reached Ariel's apartment.

"Thank you for driving me, but I'm sorry, I'm on my own, so can you just go home?" hope Ariel.

"All right," said Bram.

"Rest, please, please," said Bram.

"Sure," Ariel replied with a smile.

"See you later, Bram" Ariel said before heading out.

"See you later" replied Bram.

Bram looked at Ariel's back with a dejected look, his hands clenched at the thought of the one person who should be responsible for the drastic change that occurred.

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The door of Joel's house opened only to show Joel's tired face after work and immediately went inside.

He threw his body on the sofa after throwing his bag with origin. His hands occasionally rubbed his face, unable to understand himself.

For the first time, the sea could not even comfort him, all feeling very much different when he felt the pain that Jesica had inflicted on him.

All these thoughts unconsciously made him fall asleep, until he could no longer hear someone knocking on his door and kept waiting for the owner to open the door.

The next day, Joel awakens when the sky has turned bright. Squirming and stretching his body, Joel immediately went to the bathroom to do his morning routine.

'TOK,,,, 'TOK,,,

'TOK,,,, 'TOK,,,

'TOK,,,, ', 'TOK,,,,

The sound of knocking on the door made Joel who had just finished hurrying to put on his clothes, and walk towards the door. His eyes widened after knowing who was visiting that morning.

"What made you come so early, Ariel?" ask Joel.

'You look thinner, are you sick?' ask Joel in your heart.

"Thank you for opening the door to see me, Joel" Ariel said.

"Ahh, did you come because of that promise again? Though I've ignored it and it's been more than a week, do you still not understand?" joel Cibir.

Ariel pursed her lips as if she wanted to say something, but what was already at the tip of her tongue, she swallowed back, choosing silence.

"Alright, but before that, I want to say something, and ask you a question, I hope you answer it honestly" Joel said.

Ariel fell silent, did not take her eyes off Joel in the slightest, then nodded in agreement.

"Are you in Bram's apartment the same night we met David?" ask Joel.

"Yes," replied Ariel.

"Bram called you?" ask Joel.

Ariel nodded. "No, but the bartender who works there called me on Bram's phone, and said he was drunk" Ariel replied without hesitation.

"And you still come even though it's so late?" ask Joel.

"Because the bartender had a reason why he kept asking me to come and couldn't contact anyone else" Ariel replied.

"How do you know Bram's apartment if he's drunk? If it's not the only reason you know from the beginning?" greet Joel.

"Because he kept fussing that I had been to his apartment at the time it was the first time I saw Bram drunk" Ariel replied flatly.

"And what are you doing there?" ask Joel.

"You said a silly answer, you know?" welcome Joel sneering.

All questions are answered with an unchanging intonation, a flat and expressionless face.

"I can take it if you drive her, but why don't you go home after that? And in the morning you were wearing his shirt too, in the afternoon you were wearing different clothes after the foreign man you called Sam came, what happened to your clothes before?" joel asked staring intently.

"How are you going to explain that?" coined.

This time Ariel fell silent, but did not turn away from Joel who fixed sharp on him. His heart wondered how Joel could know the details when he had not said anything? But he just kept quiet and began to understand why Joel could be so angry with him, and it hurt Joel.

"Now say, what do you want to say," Joel asked after waiting for Ariel to remain silent.

"I've said what I want to say" replied Ariel. "And I have no defense whatsoever" he added.

Ariel smiled faintly, realizing as many explanations as she would give, Joel only believed in her own assumptions why Ariel did not return home immediately after taking Bram to her apartment.

"I didn't come to make you believe me, I came just because I needed to say what I needed to say, after this I won't bother you" Ariel said.

Ariel stepped closer, somehow, Joel just froze in place, even when Ariel hugged her tightly, Joel just flinching in place.

"Please let me be like this for a minute, just five seconds" Ariel said.

His heart was eager to return the embrace of the lover he missed, the other side of his heart still continued to wonder what really happened to make him think Ariel had done something else with Bram.

"Sorry," said Ariel.

"I'm sorry I hurt your heart,"

"I'm sorry,,"

After saying that, Ariel took off her embrace and left Joel's house.

Joel's body staggered back as if he had lost all his strength until he almost fell down when his back hit the door. He went back into his house, took some water, and gulped it down. Now, he felt an incredible emptiness in him.

"I don't want to keep going like this" complained Joel.

Joel ruffled his hair in frustration. Think back to what happened and why it happened. Until the sound of knocking on the door came back after a few minutes and Ariel left.

"Is Ariel back?" joel muttered hurriedly to open the door, hoping for Ariel to return.

"You,,?" hiss Joel as Bram's face appeared in front of him.

"Where is he?" ask Bram.

"Who do you mean?" joel replied asking.

"You know exactly who I mean" Bram replied upsetly.

"If what you're talking about is your lover, you should know better where she is" Joel said.

"Enough with that" bram growled.

"He's even better than you when it comes to problems, and doesn't assume as baselessly as you are" Bram snorted.

"Are you still unconscious? Someone desperately wants your relationship to break down and do everything they can to destroy your relationship?" said Bram evaporated his emotions.

"You're one of them" Joel replied.

'BUDDY,,,!!!'

Bram raised his fist right against Joel's face, and immediately grabbed Joel's collar violently before Joel could fight.

"You've shown me your breng*sek side, and still you're better than me?" hardik Bram's.

"Curtain, aren't you the same? You want to kidnap her when she's sick" recalls Joel.

"A groundless accusation, and a real fool. How can I be in two places at once? the day after I set it home during a fight with you, I returned to my crotch a few days due to the fake marriage documents the old man had made,"

"I came back here just as she looked better after she said she was sick until you took care of her and said your relationship was getting better again,"

"Another thing you need to know, someone put an aphrodisiac into my drink without me noticing, I realized that after drinking it,"

"I'm a fool, I admit it's because I can't remember who that woman is, and she's also the one who asked the bartender to contact Ariel to pick me up,"

"You're not a stupid doctor who doesn't know what happens next, are you?"

"But Ariel managed to knock me unconscious and take care of my wounds because of her guilt, but did you know she was shaking when she was near the opposite sex?"

"At that moment the old man came back to make things messier and at the same time you broke his heart,"

Bram pushed Joel roughly. His hands clenched tightly as if he wanted to hit Joel right then and there, but he tried to hold him back.

"When he needs your support the most, you make the situation worse,"

"The old man even posted all the news about him without any agreement, the thing I can't avoid here is that the old man is my own father,"

Joel felt all the weight fall right over his head. Her heart was shaken violently at what Bram had just told her.

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To be Continued