Juan And Mentari

J&M - Part 7

Despite his disbelief, Iwan again asked Mentari the same thing, "Tari, do you still want to marry me?"

"I ...."

"How do you still want to continue this marriage?" ask The Penghulu.

Iwan looked back at Mentari and gave him the freedom to choose.

"I'm .. I'll still marry you" replied Mentari.

"May my decision be right, Lord," Mentari said in his heart.

The ijab procession finally began. Penghulu who became the guardian of Mentari also shook Iwan's hand. "Brother Iwan Mahendra Bin Handoko, I marry and marry you to Mentari Raisya Putri Binti Suhendra the deceased with a gold dowry of 50 grams and twenty million rupiah paid in cash."

"I accept the marriage and marriage of Mentari Raisya Putri Binti Suhendra deceased with the dowry paid in cash." Iwan said his words with one breath.

"How's witness? Legitimate?

"Well." Right."

After all the witnesses said SAH, that was when Mentari saw Juan staring at her from the outside. He was smiling, but the look in his eyes showed great sadness at having to lose him.

"Juan," said Mentari as she stared at her ex-lover.

"Darling, let's kiss the back of your husband's hand!" rahatih to his daughter. However, Mentari was still silent, her eyes kept staring out of the house and of course it made Iwan come looking in the same direction.

"Who is that man? Why does Tari keep looking at her?" inner Iwan.

"Sister," called out to the Star while nudging her sister's arm.

"I_yes, Bi. What's up?" mentari asked stammered, he looked at his sister with a question mark.

"Sister is told to kiss the back of Kak Iwan's hand" whispered the Star.

"Yes" replied Mentari. Before he kissed the back of Iwan's hand, Mentari again saw Juan outside. However, the man was no longer there.

Somehow because of seeing Juan, Mentari regretted the decision he took.

"Sorry, I'll let you back for a second." A farewell dance to everyone at the venue. He chose to run into the toilet.

"I'll excuse you for a moment, Mr. Iwan, Mr. Handoko." Pamit Ratih's. He followed his daughter to the toilet.

"Dance, Darling Dance, open the door, boy!" rahatur. He keeps knocking on the bathroom door.

The sun still smothers its own mouth with its hands. He did not want the sound of his sobbing heard by others, especially the mother. She was sure that if her mother knew, she would be saddened by this marriage and would be sadder than she felt. 

"Dance, open the door, baby!" tell Ratih who's getting panicked.

Mentari kept trying to hold his stuff.

"Dance baby, what's up, son? What's going on?"

After feeling a little calm, Mentari washed his face with water. She didn't want her mother to know that she had just cried.

Criet.

The door opened and Mentari came out of the bathroom with a sweet smile. "What's up, Mom? Why did you follow Dance here? Dance is okay, okay."

"Right, son, are you okay?" Ratih looked at his daughter closely.

"Yes, Mom. Dance is okay" Mentari replied lying.

"Then why did you run to the bathroom, son? You sick?" search Ratih.

"Ti_tdak, Mom. Dance does not hurt. Dance just ... kebelet earlier," replied Mentari who again lied. 

"You're not lying, Mother, are you?" 

"All right, I'm staying, son. If there's something to tell mom."

Mentari. After her mother left, Mentari went back into the bathroom. She was crying back there.

Almost half an hour Mentari was inside the bathroom, lamenting her wrong decision. He turned the water tap to wash his face again. After that he cleaned the remaining water on his face using a tissue.

The sun takes a breath and then exhales it. Take another breath, and exhale it again. He did that many times to slightly reduce the sadness he felt. After feeling calm and able to control the emotions in his heart, he looked at his face from the reflection of the mirror before him. Mentari tried to smile, even though it was very difficult. Even though last night he was sure of the decision he took, but, as soon as he saw Juan's face earlier, made his heart shake again. But, it all happened. Now she was the wife of another, abstaining for her to think of a man other than her husband.

After feeling that there were no more tears dripping, Mentari stepped out of the bathroom. However, his steps came to a halt when someone held his shoulder from behind.

"Are you okay?" the sound shocked Mentari.

"Mas Iwan." Mentari rubbed his chest. "You almost made me hang, Mas," said Mentari.

"Why have you been in the bathroom so long? Are you all right?" ask Iwan. He also worried about the state of the woman who was now his legal wife.

"Yes, Mas. I'm fine" Mentari replied with a smile.

"Why do your eyes look so big? Have you been crying?" asked Iwan, he looked down staring deep into the bead of the wife.

"T_ti_no, my eyes were only slightly exposed to dust. So it's juicy and looks puffy." For the umpteenth time Mentari came back to lie.

"really? Then are your eyes okay now?" ask Iwan again. It seems that the man was very worried about her.

"Yes, my eyes are fine now" replied Mentari. There was a feeling of guilt in Mentari when she saw Iwan worried about her situation.

"Come on, back to the venue, everyone is already waiting for us!" bring Iwan.

"Yes." Yeah."

Mentari and Iwan left the bathroom and walked to where their wedding was held.

****

The Rangga apartment….

Rendi and Nino immediately stopped their activities when they saw the gloomy face of his best friend. Before Juan came, they were busy with their laptop screens. Both of them are doing their jobs there. After putting the laptop on the table, Rendi and Nino approached Juan who looked glum.

"Juan, what's wrong?" ask Rendi. He patted his best friend's shoulder.

"Today the dance officially belongs to someone else" replied Juan. "And this is all my fault, if I don't attach much importance to my ego, now Dance must still be by my side. Now, I've really lost her."

Juan smiled wryly, he laughed at his own stupidity.

"Juan," said Rendi. He was concerned about the fate of his best friend's romance.

"Tomorrow I'll go back to America. And it's likely that I will stay there for a long time" Juan explained.

"Then what about your parents, have you discussed your decision with them?" ask Nino.

"Papa and Mama basically agreed, because from the beginning they did tell me to make a career there and come back after I had success" Juan replied.

Juan packed his clothes and put them in a suitcase. Rendi and Nino could not say anything more, they could only support the decision taken by his best friend.

"You're sure that by staying away from Mentari, you can forget how you feel about her?" nino asked. It is not that he is not sure of the decision taken by his best friend. However, Nino has been very unhappy with the character of his best friend. Want thousands of miles even millions of miles he went away, his best friend's heart could not easily turn away, moreover, Mentari is the only woman who managed to melt her heart from hundreds of women who pursue her love first.

"It would be hard for me to forget about Dance, but that doesn't mean it can't, right?" juan replied, asking.

"You're right, hard doesn't mean you can't. I don't really have to part with you so soon" said Nino.

"Why amused to hear that from your mouth" Juan joked.

"It turns out I am also amused when I imagine it," said Nino again.

Juan, Rendi and Nino, the three of them laughed again together. For a moment, Juan could forget his heartbreak.