Love of a Substitute

Perceptibility

I took a deep breath before facing the Mother-in-law.

Hhhhuuuuuhhh, I heard once I exhaled a long breath, Bang Dev glanced at me, besides grinning I could anything else. The man just shook his head, but the thin smile did not disappear from his lips, making me grow dag dig dug not careless.

"Oh Bang Dev, you're so handsome," I hissed in my heart.

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I begged for mercy on the figure of the woman who had given birth and raised me. We cried together without words.

"Dear Kayla, it should be Mama who apologized to you for putting you in this kind of situation."

I looked at the face that had also been soaked by those tears.

"Mama?"

"If you were born into a family, maybe no one could threaten you yesterday." I'm shaking.

"Your father left us a lot of debt, our lives were also pas-passan even often lack, but you are the one who got the impact, rich people like them easily threatened just because we have a lot of weakness, but you are the one who got the impact, they've paid off our debts son, but Mama feels that Mama has pawned my daughter this whole way to a fake marriage just to save them from embarrassment."

I clasped Mama's hands tightly, I shook my head and I wiped the tears.

"Mom don't think that way, even though I also feel compelled at least there is a price they offer for my services to be a substitute bride yesterday, I will be fine Ma, Ma, they also promised to finish my tuition until I finished so Mama no longer need to work too hard, it's only one year I don't matter Ma, Ma, we're gonna get some money and I'm gonna graduate well."

I convinced Mama to accept the reality, to grieve my fate is also of no use now.

I was tired of crying too, it's better to look ahead to what in my brain is thinking about saving a lot of money from the salary that Bang Dev and his mother will pay for my services to be a wife for the next year.

I also want to get out of poverty line, maybe this is my destiny, I am really determined now to raise a lot of money from my husband and in-laws, there's a price they have to pay for my services in the next year.

Nothing is free for this cruel world. I smiled obliquely at the thought of many things I would go through later, definitely not easy but with the compensation money would make things go smoothly.

A few days I have passed playing the role of wife and daughter-in-law of a Governor, tomorrow I will return to my routine as a student, as well as Bang Dev will return to become a lecturer at his teaching campus.

Living in a house with the mother-in-law is true, as people say I feel it, feel like a stranger, alone is not considered much less appreciated.

How not, I am someone else to them I am not a dream daughter-in-law, I am not from among them, even so, I also need to know myself about the reason why I was there.

Luckily my father and mother-in-law were only one day on the roof with us, because they had returned to live in the Governor's official house, at least for these two days I was freed from that fierce mother-in-law.

My daydreams ran out when Bang Dev's voice called out to me.

"Are you ready? Come on, I got another job!"

"Yes, I'm ready" I replied when Bang Dev called me to go home to his apartment.

That's where we're going to stay for a year on the marriage contract.

Back we dissolved in silence as the car continued to run and Bang Dev was driving at a moderate pace.

"Oh about that you take it easy, I'll lock my mouth tightly anyway you don't teach in my campus so why should you be afraid of being discovered?"

"From tomorrow I will teach there."

"What?"

"I don't need to explain why, do I?"

"Heh, it's none of my business anyway" I replied slowly.

I don't know why Bang Dev wanted to transfer teaching to my campus, so far Nika also never said that Bang Dev would move teaching there.

Again, it's none of my business.

"Bang Dev, can we stop by the minimarket for a second?" Bang Dev looked at me.

"Hmm... don't want to? It's just that I need to buy a sanitary pad," I said again slowly as I squeezed.

"Alright," replied the handsome man who had now become my husband.

I got out immediately when Bang Dev stopped his car not far from the minimarket, I ran small while drizzling down enough to wet my face.

Quite long queue in payment, because it is crowded visitors at hours like this. After getting a turn, I immediately pay for my groceries that only buy pads. Of course I don't want Bang Dev to wait long.

But when I came out, it was raining hard.

"Oh how is this? I'll get wet, but there's no way I'll take shelter if Bang Dev will wait a long time." I mourn the current situation, I was confused in the midst of some people who also decided to take shelter first because the rain was really heavy.

If I break through the rain of course the clothes I am wearing right now will be translucent.

I wear an ivory white dress that is long past the knee, the material is cool and falls and if I am exposed to rain my clothes are quite able to display the curves and invisibility coincidentally my interior is all black, it could be shameful of seven derivatives if that happens.

But if I stay here, I'm afraid Bang Dev will be angry because it waited long enough for the rain to stop, where the car parked far enough away.

"I can't make Bang Dev wait too long, what if I'm left with what I'm going home with? It's been the night I'm scared to be alone."

I went back to mumbling to myself, I finally decided to just leave instead of I would be left here alone better through the rain.

"I'm really fucking shit, it's forced." I muttered again while protecting my head with the grocery bag. I through the rain that was still heavy, I ran a little towards Bang Dev's car, I resigned my clothes wet now.

I'm sure the people who were there must have been looking at me because of course the curves of my body and interior were clearly visible.

"I'm ashamed, no-no this heavy rain is unlikely they will clearly see my body," I just kept my head down before reaching Bang Dev's car.

But I felt someone walking towards me while I was busy with this strange thought in my head, I suddenly felt that person put something on.