Chapter 25

Agus entered the courtyard of the rental house filled with grass. it looks like his face is so pias. The man twisted the doorknob of the rented room and walked into the house.

Agus sat on the floor. Hugged his legs together, and hid his face between the knees. Slowly, it can be seen that the shoulders are shaking, because of crying.

"Assalamualaikum!" said the newly arrived Salam Dinda.

Agus woke up immediately, wiping away his tears quickly.

"Wa'alaikum greetings!" replied Agus.

"Baby, have you gone home?" Dinda looked surprised when she saw that Agus was already in front of the house.

"Yes, Dinda. Just now the work in the workshop was not too much. So I can go home quickly." Agus lied to Dinda. He didn't want Dinda to be sad' if he knew he had been fired from where he worked.

"But you're not sick, are you?" Dinda looked worriedly at Agus. She was about to touch Agus's forehead, Agus quickly shook off Dinda's hand.

"No baby, I'm fine!" retorted Agus smiling warmly.

"Thank goodness!" said Dinda returning Agus's smile.

Dinda took out the food from the plastic bag she was carrying. "Just now I bought your favorite food, soto Lamongan! Surely you haven't eaten yet, right?" said Dinda glancing coquettishly at Agus.

"Wait, I'll prepare it. You just wait here." Dinda walked towards the mini kitchen in her rental house.

Agus looked sadly. Tears fell again. "I'm sorry Dinda, I've made you suffer!" said Agus full of regret.

"Baby, come here, I have prepared everything here!" shouted at Dinda from inside the room.

"yes!" replied Agus stammeringly. He wiped away the tears that fell before catching up with Dinda.

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Doctor Firman lay on the bed. His gaze looked at the ceiling of the room. But his mind was wandering far away. Thinking of the night when Dinda came to his apartment.

"Why do I feel like I've done that with Dinda. But dinda said nothing happened between us."

Doctor Firman rubbed his hair in annoyance. He didn't remember the events of that night at all. But a little memory is blurred, actually stating that something has happened between himself and Dinda.

Doctor Firman woke up, sitting on the edge of the bed. Picked up the mobile phone that was on the bedside nightstand. His finger swiped gently on the phone screen.

[Din.]

Five minutes, ten minutes, the message was unrequited. Only a blue flick sign indicates the message has been read by the owner of the number.

Doctor Firman took a deep breath then took it out roughly. it can be seen that his face is so upset. Though he just wanted to know the truth of what happened that night. Is it the same as what he thought. If so, Doctor Firman feels very guilty.

"If only that night I didn't drink much, I must have known dinda's purpose here." Doctor Firman regretted what he did.

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Agus walked the streets of Surabaya hoping that someone would give him a job. Graduates from well-known universities in Surabaya do not make it easy for Agus to find a job. Moreover, Agus's age is not possible. Nowadays large companies want workers who are young and full of innovation.

Agus sat on a bench in the city park. After a day of going around looking for work. The scorching heat, made him choose to rest for a while.

"Is there no more work for me!" Agus said to himself who was already desperate.

For quite a while Agus was silent. His mind ventured into the past. When he was still healthy his body and his life was full of fun.

"Mamy Doli!" Agus remembered the woman. The owner of a famous entertainment venue in an alley in the city of Surabaya. It was at the entertainment venue that Agus used to meet Pram as a person who offered prostitution services for the same sex. Because Agus used to work in that entertainment venue.

It was in Agus's mind. Should he go back to that entertainment venue and work as he used to again. But what about the disease he suffered from. It will definitely get worse. So what about Dinda? On the one hand, he has no other choice, especially now that finding a job is getting harder and harder.

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Dusk has been replaced with darkness. Agus spurred his vehicle through the bustling streets of Surabaya. Until finally he arrived at a fairly famous entertainment venue in the city of Surabaya, Dinasty Club, wrote on the signboard in front of the place.

Agus stood in front of the two-story building for quite a while. Staring at the crowds of visitors who came. There was a doubt whispering in Agus's mind. But the devil continued to push him intoxication.

The pounding music vibrated the chest welcoming Agus's arrival in the room filled with colorful lights. Everyone in the room danced as he pleased. Let go of all the troubles that bother the mind.

The person Agus was looking for did not find it. But he did not give up hope, at this time Agus needed Mami Doli to help him just like before.

"Hey!"

Agus was taken aback when someone patted him on the shoulder. Agus immediately turned his body.

"You!" Agus looked in amazement at the beautiful figure standing opposite him. The tight red dress she wore, added to the beauty of the figure.

"Agustin, how are you?" the red lips said spoiledly.

For a moment Agus did not answer. He still didn't expect what he saw at this time.

"You?" Agus pointed to the figure of the most beautiful man he had ever seen who was in front of him. A faint smile from his lips was able to hypnotize anyone.

"Is this you?" Agus repeated his sentence.

"Yes, Agus, this is me Maria!" The man in women's clothing put on his smile.

"Let's just chat on top, come on!" invited Maria to take Agus's hand to the top floor.

Agus followed Maria upstairs. Because the atmosphere upstairs is more relaxed than downstairs. Agus was still amazed to see his friend's change, really no one would have thought that Maria was a man.

"Sit down Gus!" Maria pulled the chair in front of him for Agus. Then he sat down right beside Agus's chair.

Agus silently did not answer. His eyes didn't blink at all looking at Maria who was so perfect once a woman.

"Why can you change like this?" asked Agus curiously.

Maria smiled spoiledly. Makes her face even more adorable.

"Pretty huh?" retorted Maria hand-in her face.

Agus nodded. "You have surgery?" asked Agus.

"So what?" retorted Maria seemingly pleased to make Agus curious.

Agus squeezed Maria's large breasts. It feels very chewy. Maria surged, shocked.

"Amused, Agus!" Maria's protest covered her chest with her two crossed hands.

"That's why answer my question. You have surgery?"

"Of course I have Agus surgery. Where there may be men with breasts," Maria replied.

Agus shut up again. But his eyes didn't blink at all looking at Maria.

"I didn't expect that you would be so brave!" Agus shook his head.

"I don't want to be a hypocrite who only tortures myself, Gus. Indeed, this body is a man but in my soul is a woman. I also love men like a woman. The more I forced myself to be a man the more tormenting I became." Maria cried. He seemed to be tormented by his circumstances.

"I don't care anything people tell me. For me, I will do all the things that make me comfortable and happy. Don't care about what they say." Maria wiped away her tears. He didn't want to look hurt in front of Agus.

"Life is a choice and every choice has its risks," Agus replied with a small smile.

"Yes, I know." Maria nodded. "Oh yes, what's the matter you came here. I think you've been happy with Pram," Maria said.

Agus just smiled slightly and did not answer. He has closed all the stories of his past with Pram.

"I want to see Mami," Agus replied.

"For what?"

Agus's face turned sad. "I need a job to get on with my life," Agus replied in a weak voice.

"Work? Didn't you first Pram already give you a good job. Where is Pram?" Maria stared curiously.

"We've separated and I don't want to discuss it anymore," Agus replied shortly and clearly.

"Agus, my God, Agus!" A fat female voice shocked Agus and Maria.

"Mami!" Agus stared at Mami Doli who emerged from the door.

The red-haired woman with a tattoo on the part of her wrist squealed Agus for a moment.

"What's the matter you are here? Surely you miss me, huh?" said Mami Doli spoiled after letting go of Agus's embrace.

"Yes mam, but there is little interest too," Agus replied glancing at Maria. A sign that he could not possibly say that in front of Mary.

"Well now that you have met Mami Doli, I'm leaving first. There are customers who ask to be satisfied." Mary left August.

"Say, what happened to you, Agus?" Mami Doli looked sadly at the sight of Agus's increasingly thinning state.

"I need Mam's job?" replied Agus in a limp voice. "But a good job, it's not what it used to be. Whatever I will do as long as..."

"Wait!" Mami Doli stared curiously.

"Tell you, Agus. Where is Pram? What exactly has happened to your life." Mami Doli looked sadly at the changing state of Agus. The body was thin, and looked unkempt

Agus cried. "I'm sick with HIV, mam!"

"Gosh!" Mami Doli held her chest in surprise. "HIV?" She said with rounded eyes.

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