Do You Love Me?

“Zi ... sorry, Zi. I-I made a mistake, Zi. Sorry, Zi ...."

The tears were in both of her cheek didn't dry, but now the tears continued flow down the woman's eyelid. In front of her, someone whose she reluctant to see, a man who was also cried too, knelt down while he holding her fingers.

The girl, Zia, was standing with the corners of her lips bleeding. "T-this is not the first time you do it, Za ..." said Zia while she holded back the pain from the corner of her torn lips.

"Zi ... I'm sorry, Zi. I was wrong, I was stupid, I ... please don't leave me, Zi. I-I can't be alone, I-I can't live without you .... ”Eza was still kneeling, no matter about his prestige or anything, he was crying in front of Zia.

Eza probably the one and only one a man who has cried in front of Zia. He was also the only man who dared to kneel down without caring about his pride. He ... threw everything away to get Zia's forgiveness.

"I-I'm scared," Zia squeaked softly, but it still was caught by Eza's ears.

“Zi-Zia! Just for this time, please forgive me. I will definitely change, Zia. I won't repeat my mistakes again, Zia. I promise! Please ... Give me a chance ...." Eza stared closely at Zia's eyes who tried to avoid him, he stood up and immediately grabbed her cheek which felt moist from the tears.

“A-are you alright, or ... sick? Where you feel pain? Let me cure that."

Eza's hand was checking Zia's skin, but Zia hurriedly brushed it off. "I don't need it."

“I'm… sorry, Zia. Just this time, I beg your pardon. I really made a mistake, Zia. I ... let me punish myself! "

A moment later Eza immediately beat his body. Starting from his head, his own arms, then his stomach. “I-I'm stupid, Zia. I know I was wrong. You can hit me back, it's okay if you hurts me more than this, it's okay but ...."

"... Please don't leave me, Zia."

Eza pressed his forehead to Zia's forehead, dispensed his trebling to Zia and tried to convince her once again. His hand guides the woman's hand to beat his chest.

"Za, don't be like this, Za." Zia pulled the hand while Eza forcibly held to beat Eza's chest, but the man still didn't stop.

"No, I won't stop until you forgive me."

Zia's tears continued fall, along with Eza who still didn't stop cried.

"I love you, Zia. I-I ... I love you. Don't leave me, Zia .... "

"I ...."

... -toxic- ...

"So what happened?!" asked Naya impatiently, waiting for Zia's story and continuation. "Don't say you forgive him again!" threatened Naya while she squeezing roughly the towel she used to compress Zia's wound into warm water.

Zia was silent, did not answer. She let Naya kept treating the wounds and bruises all over her body while the woman's lips didn't stop grumbled.

"I can't stop thinking that if you still forgive him again, you are really the dumbest woman that I've ever known!" Naya grumbled.

"Nay, please. What's wrong with me if I give him one more chance? " asked Zia, who finally opened her voice.

Naya stopped her movements and then looked at Zia seriously. “Zi ... how many times that you forgave him and gave him once more chances? But ... what he did to you? He just repeated the same mistakes again and then apologized again! Just like that, the cycle continues until Al and I get married and have grandchildren! "

Zia didn't deny what's Naya said to her. Indeed, this is not the first cycle for Zia. But she also couldn't deny that her feelings were still same to him. "I still love him." Zia looked considered something.

"Yeah, love. It's really hard to be find a difference from stupid people and someone whose crazy because of love!" Naya snapped annoyed.

"What's wrong?" Gwen, another girl that had arrived, immediately joined the conversation. She walked over and took the apple slices on the table. When Gwen saw Zia, she couldn't hide her horror gaze. "Again?" she asked incredulously.

"I still love him," Naya had sneered at Zia, without stopping her activities and made Gwen pat her innocent forehead.

"Love? Zi ... how many times that I ever said, your relationship isn't healthy! Why do you still in that relationship? " Gwen now spoke up. "Eza's now is not same as Eza that you knew before."

Heared Gwen's words, Zia shook her head. "No, no. Eza's still same as before. I still have the same feelings for him," she avoided Gwen's opinion.

Naya rolled her eyes lazily when Zia answered Gwen's words. "Yes, Gwen. It's useless for you to talk until it's bubbly and this girl didn't want to hear!" she said, made Zia speechless.

Gwen shook her head, didn't understood what Zia was thinking about. “Zi ... listen to me carefully. Even if he made a mistakes and then he promises to never repeat it, and then if he kept repeat that, it means he never changed. "

"But he already promised that he will change." Zia still can't take the advice that Naya gave her.

“It won't last long. Didn't he promise to you before that he wanted to change? " Gwen still responded to Zia without raising a littlekit also the tone of voice.

"Yes, and after he promises to you, he will make mistakes again and again." Naya added. "He won't be change, Zi."

"Why can't you two strengthen me or support me?" Zia wa furious. Her tears flowed again, she brushed off Naya's hand, which still wanted to compress the bruises on her face.

"It's not like that, Zi ...."

“You are my friends, aren't you? You are my best friend, aren't you? I just want to believe that he can change, can't you guys really support my relationship with him? ”

Zia was really emotional. "I'm tired Nay, Gwen. I'm also depressed in this relationship. But the problem is ... I love him, I can't let him go. "

"Like Naya loves Al, are you willing to let Al go just because I say if you two didn't match even though you felt comfort with him? You will not, right? "

"Er - Zi ... I don't mean like that, Gwen and I justㅡ"

"If you are really my friends, please support my relationship. Please believe that he can change this time, I need your support, not nagging all the time! ”

Brakk!

"Zi ...."

“Let her go, Nay. Let her calm down first. We shouldn't interfere yet." Gwen stopped Naya's steps who wanted to knock on Zia's door, after the door slammed hard by that girl. "She needs space to think. Just leave him alone first."

Naya looked back at the door with a guilty look. “Zi was right, Gwen. I shouldn't kept judging her like that," she said sadly.

-To be Continue-