BECAUSE OF YOU, MY DESTINY.
Under the Mango Tree
"Well, Mah, which Chika cake? why haven't you come yet? I'd like to see what's rich?" Chika pouted draped her hands together on her chest.
"Please baby, be brave again." Stella persuades her son not to sulk.
"Mama mah that, play the secret of everything. Chika is really curious."
"Who's playing with secrecy, Chika?" Alvin came down from the upper room just joined in the living room.
"They are, Om. When they do not know what the cake looks like? what is the decoration like? Chika wants to see." Adu Chika on Alvin and immediately sat on Alvin's lap.
"Well, you freak, buy a cake in secret everything. The one with the cake is also kept secret. Who the hell is he until Kaka closed his education? which shop did you order?" ask Alvin curious.
"She's your future. We'll match you with him." Stella teases her sister for wanting to know whether to refuse or not.
"She's the woman you're going to marry me?" Alvin was surprised, he didn't want to be matched.
"Yes. Would you marry her? she's beautiful, well, Solehah, hardworking, and definitely very special." Stella said sure.
"So, no, no! I don't want to be in a match like that. This is not the time of Siti Nurbaya. I still love him anyway, you know that." Alvin disagrees more precisely with rejecting this matchmaking.
"You have to, Vin! Until when will you wait for Riana to continue? Mama wants to immediately draw a grandchild from you before Mama is gone" said Maya.
"Why gini?" inner Alvin.
"Why do you want to match me? and why did Mama come out like Ka Stella? I told you from the beginning that I love Riana, Mah."
"You can't refuse, Vin. We talked about this with his family. One more week you have to marry her, we have proposed to her for you" Maya replied.
"Well, what the hell? why did Kaka and Mama play my soul mate? I don't want to." Pekik Alvin immediately left the place.
"Alvin, you have to accept it otherwise you will regret it." Stella said no less seriously.
"I don't want to..!" reject firmly.
****
Yanto Residence
"Teh, there's something you want to talk to me about."
Riana who was recording groceries stopped and looked up at her Father's face. "What's up, sir? you can't just talk, Teteh must be horrified."
"Father has betrothed you to your friend's son, son. And in one week you'll be married." Yanto is sure.
The deg...!
"Married? one more Week? why didn't you tell me first? I'm not ready yet and I don't know who I'm going to marry?" Riana actually felt uncertain, her heart was still waiting for the person she loved through the sosmed.
"Mr sure this is best for you. They are from good families and their children are good. They already know us and it won't be hard for you to accept him as your husband."
"But, Sir. I don't want to get married." Riana tried to be as smooth as possible, her eyes glazed to feel pain in the heart that she herself did not know the meaning of the pain.
"Your friend, please Tea, marry the man of our choice. It's for your own good, too, because a lot of people hate you for fear that you're flirting with their husbands." Ani Yang from earlier listening now chimed in and even begged.
"Well," said Riana to tears of disappointment.
"So Mama please accept it, son!" riana's parents clenched her hands together.
Riana could not resist the wishes of her parents. Slowly Riana nodded despite her heart refusing. His mind says, "O Allah, again like this. When the heart wants to ascertain who the man is why there are obstacles."
Riana was already inside the room looking out the window looking at the flower bed. "Why is it like this?"
There's a message going into the messenger. Riana immediately opened the message out of curiosity. However, his eyes widened to see who was sending the message. "Ka Vino."
Riana's hand immediately trembled, the man who often exchanged messages with her again sent out a message. "You're back, ka."
Slowly Riana opened her message.
📨 My beloved Assalamualaikum, sorry if I just contacted you again. I miss you and I want to see you. Can we meet now also under the mango tree near the pak Mamat rice field.
Riana frowned, she was confused and asked, "Where do you think Vino knows the Mango tree Mr Mamat?" That place is not far from his home. Only a few minutes walk to get there.
Riana thought for a moment and she decided to meet him because she was curious about who the person who had been exchanging messages so often and all this time she was waiting. Is that person the same as the one in his dream.
📩 Waalaikumsalam, I'll come see you, Ka.
****
Riana had already reached where they had met, her heart was pounding, her entire body was nervous, and she kept squeezing her fingers.
Riana was already sitting under the mango tree near the rice field of Mr. Mamat. Riana looked at the green rice fields enjoying its beauty and enjoying the breeze of the morning.
"Assalamualaikum my favorite."
Said someone softly right in Riana's ear. Just contact Riana's heart increased gurgling.
"Wa waalaikumsalam," said Riana. He closed his eyes to regulate his heartbeat so as not to pound too much. He recognized that voice.
Alvin was already sitting next to Riana. "Open his eyes! Time doesn't want to see me." Alvin looked at the beautiful face before him. That handsome, sturdy young man could not turn his eyesight away.
Riana slowly opened her eyes, instantly her eyeballs immediately collided with Alvin's eyeballs. "Ka Vino." Lirih Riana's.
"Yes, it's me. Your Vino Ka," Alvin stared back at Riana lovingly.
"No way." Riana did not believe it without any proof.
Suddenly Alvin pinched the wrath of Riana's cheek until the girl squealed in pain.
"Aawww, why even pinch the hell, sir? sick to know." Riana frowned in annoyance as her hand rubbed her cheek.
"Let's believe that this is not a real dream and this is me, the person who has been exchanging messages with you through social media from your 12th grade." Alvin reveals who he is.
Riana looked at Alvin seriously. His eyes were teary, he was moved and angry at the man who had managed to steal his heart until now.
"Why did you show up after what happened?" riana asked with tears.
She was already convinced that the man was Alvin, because Alvin and her late husband were often present in her dreams simultaneously. In the dream, Vino points to Alvin's face as the person he's been waiting for and loved all along.
"Hey, hey, don't cry. I'm sorry I was late to learn of your father's accident. At that time I was also in big trouble until I had to intervene alone solve the problem and my phone was left behind." Alvin wiped away Riana's tears and explained the reason until he no longer contacted Riana.
Riana remained pokus staring at the face that was in front. "Are you really the owner of an account called Vino?" ask Riana to make sure.
"Yes, it's me. I have proof." Alvin immediately took his phone and showed him his FB account and showed him the chat that was still there.
Riana looked down embarrassed, and her face blushed in embarrassment as she recalled where she had expressed her feelings.
Alvin smiled, then he took Riana's hand and held it. "I'm late enough, now I won't. I will fight for you and will keep my promise to ask for you. Riana, will you marry me?"
Degs... Riana sculpting...
