"Hey, Chahaya! What are you doing with a maid?" A guy's voice breaks the unbereable tension between Ara and Prince Chahaya.
His voice also breaks the brain fog that has been clouding Ara's head.
'Oh my Lord! This guy is Prince Chahaya?! THE PRINCE CHAHAYA?!' Freaking out, Ara turns as red as an overripe tomato and she pushes him away from her.
"Chahaya, please. Behave," said the other guy.
"Gee! Chillex, mate! As the future king of the new kingdom of Indonesia, don't you think you have other more important things to do?" responds Chahaya.
'Wait a minute! This is the future king. That means..He's Prince Surya? Holly Lord! What have I gotten myself into?' thought Ara.
She is hitting her own forehead while silently cursing.
"She seems a bit crazy. Look at her, hurting herself!" said Prince Chahaya.
"Leave her alone, Chahaya! If Intan sees this, she is not going to be happy!" said Prince Surya.
He walks away to proceed with his own business after saying that.
But little did he know. Princess Intan really did see the whole thing. She seems to have misunderstood the situation and she surely does not look happy at all.
"That little c*nt!" She hisses.
Then the Princess marches forward to confront her lady-in-waiting.
"You, freak! What do you think you're doing with my future husband?!" she yells at Ara as she pulls Ara's hair to get her to face Intan.
Shocked, nothing can come out of Ara's mouth. It is like her throat has been dried off and her lips sewn shut.
"I..Ah..I...I didn't..I did not do anything, Princess." Ara tries to defend herself to no avail.
The Princess does not take her words and she proceeds to slap Ara across her face. The slap was so hard that Ara falls back to the floor. Prince Chahaya who has been standing there and watching in shock, is now even more flabbergasted.
"You've gone too far!" Prince Chahaya pulls Ara back up by her hand.
He wraps his left hand around Ara's shoulders to stable her. Ara herself is in a completely terrible state. Her right cheek is red and throbbing hard from the smack that she just received. Her hair is a complete mess with strains covering her face.
"I've gone too far? Don't you think you should be ashamed of yourself? You were caught redhanded, cheating on me with this.. this lowly servant!"
"First of all, you do not insult her like that! Second of all, YOU are the one that should be ashamed! I do not belong to you! I can court whoever I want to court!" Prince Chahaya, who is now very upset, shouts back at Intan.
"You...You yell at me? Did you just yell at me? How could you?" Princess Intan is very horrified with what she just experienced.
She turns around and runs back to her chamber.
Ara and Prince Chahaya stand there like two pieces of mannequines for quite some time.
"Are you okay?" he finally says.
"I am okay. You can let me go now." Ara has found her voice back.
"Intan is mentally unstable. Don't mind her."
"I should go back to find Madam Bintang." Ara says. Her voice is so weak that Prince Chahaya cannot barely hear her.
Ara frees herself from Prince Chahaya's grip and walks away from him, stumbling here and there.
"Intan, that crazy woman!" He whispers to himself. His face shows that he is not at all pleased with Princess Intan's antique behavior.