LOVE THE RECEPTIONIST

54. Dirga Proposal

Moanaliza and Leon looked at each other when they saw three pairs of shoes in the neatly arranged Monaliza house, plus the sound of conversation of people in the living room were brightly lit.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

The sound of conversation inside the house suddenly stopped, when the sound of knocking on the door. The sound of footsteps rubbing against the plank floor was heard approaching the door.

"Mona, son Leon are you back?" bianka's mother said when she opened the door.

"Yes ma'am" said Monaliza as she grabbed the back of Bianka's mother's hand and kissed her, as did Leon.

"Who's the guest that came, ma'am?" asked Monaliza while trying to bend her face looking from behind her mother's shoulders into the house, but blocked by a door that did not open wide.

"Come in, you two must know the guest Mother," Mother Bianka entered first and was followed by Monaliza and Leon who just took off their footwear.

"Sir Dirga?!" Monaliza said quite surprised, as well as Leon who stepped behind her.

Dirga who was named just nodded flatly, while his parents reviewed the thinly-lipped smile they stared at the arrival of Monaliza and Leon.

"Sit down" Bianka's mother invited Monaliza and Leon to sit in the plastic chair she had provided in the simple and narrow living room.

"Monaliza, you must have known with Mr and Ibu Surya, parents of son Dirga, right?" bianka's mother said, just as Leon and Monaliza had sat down to join her and her guests.

Leon who heard Bianka's mother's call to Dirga was the same as the call to him just swallowed his saliva with difficulty to cause his son up and down.

"Yes Ma'am" said Monaliza, smiling at the parents of her boss as a form of greeting.

"They came here to propose to you for their son Dirga?" continued Bianka's mother again conveyed the intention of the arrival of her three guests whom they had spoken before.

"M-applying?" Monaliza. He gasped as did Leon, both of whom looked at each other in disbelief.

"Yes that's right" Bianka's mother said again.

"But Bu-" Leon tries to protest Bianka's mother.

"No son of Leon," Bianka's mother immediately cut off Leon's words, thus making the young man not continue his words.

"You don't have to take responsibility for what you never did for Leon" said Bianka's mother, who recalled talking to her, Monaliza and Leon the night before.

"What do you mean by mother?" Said Leon did not understand as he looked at Bianka's mother's face questioningly.

"Son Dirga explained everything to Leon's mother. That the child that Monaliza conceived was actually her child," said Bianka's mother staring at Leon flatly.

"But, Monaliza's lover Leon Bu and Leon love her," Leon said in a sad tone.

"I'm sorry, Leon, I can't do anything. Monaliza can only marry Nak Dirga, the father of the baby she is carrying." stressed Bianka's mother.

Leon swallowed his Saliva, Bianka's mother's statement just made his chest pain more and more, dashed was his hope to get Monaliza who had been a spirit in his life. All of Leon's body suddenly limp, his strength seemed to disappear from him.

"I'm sorry to go home, ma'am" said Leon weakly, he felt unable to stay there any longer.

"Yes son Leon, be careful on the road," said Bianka's mother felt sorry, she knew the young man was hurt, but she could not do anything about the reality.

Leon stood up, suddenly he wanted to fall making Dirga reflexively catch his body.

Dirga did not comment, only staring at the departure of Monaliza who drove Leon home through the front door of the living room.

"Mona, did you accept your boss's proposal?" leon asked when he and Monaliza were already in the house.

"I think that's Leon's best path" said Monaliza expressionlessly gazing into the darkness of a starless night.

"Mona, don't do that. I love you so much, I can't see you belong to another man" muttered Leon softly, he grabbed Monaliza's hand and clasped her tightly.

Monaliza looked at Leon in front of her, a young man who had been faithful to accompany and fill his days since he sat on the bench of SMU, and not long ago has officially become his lover. Monaliza always felt comfortable at the young man's side, even Leon's love for her did not diminish even though she knew her crown had been snatched by another man to make her pregnant.

"Leon, I'm sorry. Maybe our relationship is quite up here," said Monaliza, the words almost did not come out of her mouth because she realized it would hurt Leon.

"No Mona, I don't want to" said Leon quickly, he increasingly tightened his grip on the fingers of his lover.

"Your mother, she doesn't like me very much Leon. After all you've been betrothed by both your parents. So we'll take care of our story," Monaliza tried hard, even though her heart was not willing to let go of Leon who was so good to her all this time.

Monaliza's memory of Leon's mother makes her resolve to end her unresolved love affair.

"I just love you Mona, I just want you, not another woman" Leon said.

"Go home Leon. I'm so tired today, I want to calm down and rest, and I'm pregnant with another boy."

Leon stared at the lethargic face of Monaliza who asked her to go home. The last words of her lover made her heart even more broken. The gaze of his eyes decreased looking at Monaliza's stomach that was still flat.

"Are you not loving me anymore, Mona?" ask Leon in despair.

"Leon, our status is different, and your mother doesn't like it very much. We were even friends for a long time, until we finally decided to become lovers, and you know how I feel, but your mother still doesn't like me."

"Now come home Leon, we both have to calm down, respectively" said Monaliza closed the conversation.

"Well, if that's what you want, I'll go home now" Leon stared for a moment at Monaliza's face. Slowly he lifted Monaliza's hand into the air and kissed the back of the hand with his lips and looked back at Monaliza's face that did not react anything with her flat face.

"Please promise me not to accept your boss's proposal, Mona" Leon asked expectantly.

Mona stares into Leon's deep pupils, trying to gain the strength to respond to his lover's request.

"I can't promise Leon, I'm sorry." said Monaliza at last.

"Does that mean you're going to accept the man?" leon asked with increasingly chaotic feelings.

"I think Mom's words are right. The man who has possessed me, let him marry me take responsibility for what he has done" said Monaliza who felt bitter at her own words.

"Mona, why is this so painful I guess," Leon muttered almost inaudibly.

"I'm sorry Leon, maybe it's my destiny. I had to accept Mr. Dirga to be my husband,"

Not felt, the grip of Leon's hand immediately detached from the fingers Monaliza, Monaliza's speech made all the joints in his body feel lax. He slumped down and sat on the floor helplessly.

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