
'What was his name?' Axell asked himself. Axell recalled the name he mentioned during the Kabul ijab procession. He realized one thing, that the girl he married now was none other than...
His own class.
"Boy, why dumbass? Welcomed, your wife's hand!" Resty's mother's words resuscitated Axell who was silent from earlier.
While Dira who felt his hands never welcome was choosing to look at her husband's face. And it turns...
"Sister Axell."
"Dira." Call both at the same time. Seeing the reaction of the two made both parents Dira and Axell smile. As they had expected before. That Dira and Axell did know each other, only that they were not familiar with each other.
"Boy, pray fast and kiss your wife, Dira!" Tell Marvellyo's father. Axell was silent for a moment, somehow the nervousness that had disappeared was slowly approaching him again.
Axell was really nervous at the moment. He knew his status was now the legal husband of a girl named Dira. And even now he is free to touch the girl. Don't just touch it, even if Axell wants to do even more than Axell is entitled to.
But, why did Axell just shut up.
That's what Dira is thinking right now. Not just the same nervousness that Axell felt. But why was this man beside her just silent. Dira knew this marriage occurred because of the matchmaking that has been agreed on by both parties.
Just like it seems, Axell also accepted this marriage because of forced. However, they have now become husband and wife. Then why did Axell refuse to kiss her forehead? Does he want to marry the girl of his family's choice? So he refuses to come in contact with her? Let alone to kiss the forehead, received a helping hand Axell did not go. That's what Dira is thinking.
Wrongfully. That's not what really happened. In addition to nervous Axell also felt still can not believe what really happened.
Seeing his son who was just silently pecking from earlier, Marvellyo's father finally patted Axell's shoulder slowly and immediately made the man realize.
Axell then welcomes the size of Dira's hand and allows the girl to kiss the back of her hand. And now it's Axell's turn to kiss the girl's forehead.
"Brother Axello, love and love your wife, take care of her and protect her, you are her refuge now. Sister Andira has become your full responsibility." Said the pengulu sir who advised Axell and replied with a nod of the head.
Degs...
Responsibility?
Hearing the word responsibility made Dira realize one thing. He knew, after he officially became the wife of Axell, then his parents would give up his entire life to Axell, Axell took full responsibility for him and Dira was no longer the dependents of his family.
And all of a sudden, without excuse Dira's tears dripped on her own. Dira quickly wiped away the tears before anyone else saw her crying.
Mother Resty then approached Dira and Axell and handed him a glass box containing a pair of rings.
"Darling, put this on your husband's finger!" Pinta mother Resty on her daughter-in-law.
Dira received the ring given by Mother Resty and nodded her head, "Well, mother." Dira replied slowly but can still be heard by Mother Resty and Axell.
Dira then put the wedding ring on Axell's finger. And now take turns with Axell who also did the same.
A series of events after events has been completed. Many invited guests have returned home from papa Pras house. Only the Axell family remained who had not come home because they were still talking.
"Darling, take your husband to the room to rest! You know, you two must be so tired." Mama Diva.
"Darling, it's true what Mom said. Rest first, it's night.* Papa Pras' speech justifies what mama Diva said earlier.
"Good, ma, pa. If so father, mother... Dira said to rest first with Axell." Dira said goodbye to them all.
"Yes, honey. Rest." Answer Mother Resty. Dira nodded his head then stood in follow by Axell. Dira walked slowly up the stairs leading to his room with Axell walking a step behind him.
Chequek...
Dira enters the room in the follow Axell. The girl sat in front of the dressing table to clean up the rest of the makeup that almost all day stuck on her face. While Axell sat on the sofa and took off the tie that was still faithfully wrapped around his neck.
It was the awkwardness and silence that they felt after entering the room. The two of them were silent without saying anything.
A notification of the incoming message on Dira's phone that he put on the nightstand. The girl then walked over to her phone and saw the contents of the incoming message.
📥 Mom Diva.
Honey, if Axell takes a shower, get him a change of clothes. Mama's got it ready in your closet on the left.
It turned out to be Diva's mother who had sent him a message. Dira immediately rushed to walk to the closet and opened the left cupboard like what Mama Diva said earlier. And sure enough, when Dira opened his closet, it turns out there are already many clothes that are foreign to him and neatly arranged. Dira then took one shirt and knee-length shorts not to forget and the interior for Axell to wear.
"Sister Axell, if I take a shower, I'm ready." Said Dira slowly.
Axell stared at Dira for a moment. The man gasped at what Dira had just said. Dira prepares a change of clothes for him. "Yes, thank you." Answer Axell
Axell then rushed into the bathroom to clean his body that felt sticky after a day of events.
Chequek...
Finished with his bath activity, Axell came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. His burly hands were busy drying his hair with a small towel. The man had forgotten to bring a change of clothes in the shower.
Dira, who was still sitting at the dresser, turned her back to Axell, accidentally saw clearly the upper body of the man who had now become her husband from the reflection of the mirror.
This was the first time Dira saw a scene like this. embarrassed by what she saw, Dira quickly turned her gaze in the other direction. Why didn't he wear his clothes in the bathroom. Didn't he have it ready before Axell went into the bathroom.
"No shower?" Axell asked who had finished drying his hair.
Dira stared at Axell's face for a moment, suddenly the two's gaze met. Quickly Dira broke off eye contact by lowering her head.
"It's also a bath, brother." Dira replied, who immediately walked to the bathroom, did not forget he brought a change of clothes that he had prepared when Axell took a shower earlier.
After the shower, Dira came out wearing clothes. The girl's gaze fell on Axell who was lying on his bed in the suit he had prepared earlier. Dira walked towards her dressing table to dry her wet hair.
Ngigwgg...
The sound of a hair dryer that Dira wore to dry her hair took Axell's eyes off the phone that she was playing from earlier. Axell secretly watched Dira. Axell is still hard to believe, The girl he thinks is mysterious has now become his wife.
Actually Dira had finished drying her hair, but somehow the girl was reluctant to move from her place.
"Do you mind if I sleep in bed?" Ask Axell slowly. Dira stared at Axell's face for a moment through the mirror reflection and then shook his head slowly.
"No, brother. Axell can sleep there." Answer Dira.
"Yes, sleep, it's too bad!" Axell said, now closing his eyes.
Dira was silent for a moment, he hesitated to sleep in bed with Axell. But Dira quickly dismissed that feeling.
'Just sleep, right.'
The girl walked slowly to the bed and lay on it. There was no movement from Axell, Dira thought that Axell had slept first. Possibly,
Dira could not sleep tonight, he could only stare blankly at the ceiling of his room. The world is so narrow, he thinks. The girl recalled where she had thought that she was betrothed to om-om first.
And it turns out that he was wrong.
It was not the om-om she was betrothed to, but her own upperclassman. The girl also chuckled amusedly herself remembering that.
"Big!" Said Dira to himself while shaking his head slowly.
"Lo hasn't slept?"