Guardians of the Heart #2
Chapter 39
My chest choked, my throat heated up, my eyes began to tear over hearing every single lyric she sang softly with eyes looking at me lovingly. I silently stared as if hypnotized by his voice and guitar quotes, as well as everyone present as if enjoying the Lieutenant's solo game intended for me.
I bit my lips hard to hold back the tears that I couldn't seem to hold any longer, hearing him sing a song that he had only mumbled with emotion has made my heart feel warm and filled with love.
The Lieutenant gave me a sign with his head asking me to come forward, at first I hesitated until Arga pushed me gently making me shyly walk over accompanied by his singing. Had I known it would be like this, I would be wearing my best dress right now instead of jeans, a T-shirt and a thick jacket. But it seems that she doesn't care what I wear as proven by her keeping my eyes filled with affection with her mouth chanting a love note.
The Lieutenant stood up when I got in front of him, still looking at me and the smile that adorned his handsome face he continued his singing until it was done perfectly, a quiet atmosphere enveloped us as if everyone was waiting for what else to happen next.
The Lieutenant put the guitar on the chair he was sitting in, his hand now stretched out to make me welcome the speech with a shy face and slightly trembling hands. For a moment I stared at our hands clasping each other before our eyes stared at each other with a smile on each other's faces.
“I never proposed to you personally correctly.”
The Lieutenant started talking, making my chest flutter start to realize what this event was.
“Then let me ask you one more time now, here, in front of friends and companions who bear witness to the journey of our love both.”
I was further shocked when the Lieutenant suddenly knelt before me with his hand still holding my hand.
“Keyza Maharani, will you marry me and then live with me for the rest of your life? Sharing joys with me, filling and loving each other until this old body and soul leave the body and then reunite in the paradise of Allah?”
My heart rippled at his proposal, and finally with a choked throat and teary eyes but a big smile graced my face I nodded as I said.
“Iya, I want.” Who can immediately applaud and boisterous greetings from the friends present.
The lieutenant now stood up and pulled something out of his pants pocket, not a ring like someone proposed but a gold necklace with two heart-shaped pendants surrounded by small diamonds. In the first pendant engrave my name “Keyza”, and in the second pendant engraved the word “His Heart Owner Yudha” makes me laugh with a heated throat holding a happy cry.
A big smile adorned his face before he finally put the necklace around my neck, then gave me a kiss on the forehead which again made the friends who came cheering boisterously. He then took out the identity necklace of his soldiers hidden under his clothes, and now I could see the same pendant as mine hanging there just white and plain without diamonds surrounding it.
I read the inscription engraved on his pendant and came back laughing, “His Heartkeeper Keyza” that is written on his pendant
“You always wanted my identity necklace, so I purposely ordered this for you.”
“And that makes Lieutenant have to wait two weeks this.”
I looked at Arga who was now standing not far from us.
“So you know?”
“That's it, right she's joining this.”
I can't believe I heard the Lieutenant.
“So you two... who planned this?”
“Not both, but they all follow.” The Lieutenant looked at Kak Yoan, Yuni, Mira, Agus, Bang Kamal, Rendy, Kang Adit and the others who were smiling widely because they managed to surprise me.
“Yoan told me not to call you this whole time.”
“Hah! Brother Yoan!?!”
“Hahaha.. sorry, Key, let it be more deg-degan,” said Kak Yoan with a big smile on his face.
“Agus and others helped masang these lights... and thanks to Adit who has made this place temporarily closed to the public tonight.”.
“Sama-sama.. that is the point of many friends and acquaintances,” said Kang Adit with his trademark smile.
“And I do his duty with the curhatan of you who are afraid of Lieutenant leave you.”
“Chiih! So you are WA-an with Mas Yudha?”
“Yes, send me a spit-cepet because my skin is hot hear your whining continues.”
“Who is whining? No, don't cry Arga, Mas.”
“Quietly I know that Arga.. true.”.
“Iiih...nyebelin!”
“Hahaha.”
The Lieutenant hugged me who was pouting because he trusted Arga more than I did.
“But Arga was right, all this time I was afraid..Fear that Mas Yudha left me like I used to be, afraid that suddenly Mas Yudha came to me not to marry me but to decide me.”
“It won't happen!” Excited the Lieutenant as he looked at my face with confidence.
“How am I not afraid, my message no one replied to, phone also not picked up.”
“Sorry, Key, it's my fault.” I looked at Kak Yoan who was looking at me with a smile of guilt, “Anytime you WA she will contact me frantically for wanting to reply to her but I always forbid her, hehehe, Key, hehehe... sorry.”.
Brother Yoan smiled and made me laugh and then nodded as a sign that I had forgiven him, I looked back at the Lieutenant who seemed to look much more handsome tonight.
“So all this time Mas Yudha is in Bandung?”
The Lieutenant nodded, making me smack his arm and making him laugh instead.
“Hahaha... but not only because Yoan prevented me from contacting you, for two weeks I was busy.
“Uuuu..”.
The screams and ridicule heard from everyone made me smile in embarrassment and the Lieutenant just laughed in response.
“But not only because of that, I am also busy preparing for our wedding... next month.”.
“A-what? A wedding?"
“Iya, our wedding.”
“Bu-next month?!”
“Iya, next month insyaallah you will legitimately be Ny. Yudha Duke Pratama.”
I looked at him who was smiling widely with round eyes in disbelief. Even until now when a bridegroom dress me up from 6am, I still don't believe it. I'm getting married!
And what's even more unbelievable is that my whole family already knows it! Yeah, everybody knows that except me! The newlyweds knew that they were getting married less than a month before H day.
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