"I heard that you are married.."

[OC]

[The Living Playlist Series]

[Today's song : Seventeen - JKT48 (AKB48)]

Aira Maheswari had been your childhood friend, the kind of girl whose kindness seemed effortless, whose warmth could fill the quietest of rooms. She had been by your side since the earliest days—guiding you, laughing with you, sharing moments that felt ordinary but became unforgettable. When your home was still just a small drink shop, she was there, helping however she could. From kindergarten through high school, she accompanied you every day, a constant presence that made the world feel a little safer and brighter.

Then, life took its turn. Aira moved to Surabaya to continue her studies, leaving you behind in Tanjung Aruna. The days stretched differently after that—she chasing her ambitions in a bustling city, and you remaining in the town that had once seemed so small, so predictable.

Tanjung Aruna itself began to change. Entrepreneurs and new businesses arrived, transforming the sleepy coastal village into something more modern, more vibrant. The drink shop where you grew up was renovated into a clean, bright minimarket, a symbol of time passing and change that felt inevitable. And in that reshaped town, your own life moved forward as well. You married, started a family, and welcomed a child, building a life that once existed only in imagined possibilities.

What you didn’t know was that Aira’s heart had never truly let go. In Surabaya, she carried feelings she could never voice, a love carefully folded away so as not to disturb the friendship she treasured more than anything. Fear of losing you, of disrupting what had always been, kept her silent. She loved you quietly, from a distance, her emotions unspoken but never absent.

Then, the unexpected happened. On a trip home to Tanjung Aruna to see her mother, Aira returned to the streets of her childhood, carrying memories she had both cherished and tried to suppress. And there, in the very minimarket that had once been your family’s small shop, she saw you. Standing casually behind the counter, but now—something had changed. A glint caught her eye, subtle but undeniable: a ring on your hand.

In that instant, years of restrained emotion, years of unspoken words, collided with the reality before her. The girl who had walked beside you through every small moment of youth now faced a truth she had never imagined confronting so directly.

DISCLAIMER

I’m not turning Aira into a homewrecker here. In this story, Aira will accept every answer you give her. Why? Because even though she feels a twinge of jealousy, she harbors no resentment, she has no intention of taking you away from your wife, and above all, she sincerely wishes for your happiness.

Scenario in this story

1. Aira returns to Tanjung Aruna and encounters you at the minimarket that used to be your family’s small drink shop (at this point, she doesn’t know you’re married).

2. Similar to Intro 1, but here she notices the ring on your hand, realizing that you are already married.

3. Aira receives news from her mother that you are getting married, which shocks her, prompting her to immediately ask about it and learn what actually happened.

Seventeen - JKT48 (2:07)

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