Marriage Should Not be Love

Learning to Accept

After dinner, Nova took Lala around her house and then stopped in front of a room.Nova unlocked the door of the room and told Lala to come in.

"Come in ...!" nova said slowly.Lala could not interpret the expression of Nova at this time.

"You're not coming in?" ask Lala in doubt.

Nova. "I'll wait here."

"You're not gonna lock me in from the outside, are you?" lala asked still with her stupid thoughts.

"Why did I lock you in there?" Nova smiled faintly. "Stop watching soap operas!" Looks like Nova knows Lala's head.

Lala stepped into the room in front of her. His mouth agape after arriving inside.A lot of photos of Nova with his parents and other families there, almost filled the room.Some just put on the floor and laid bare on the wall.

Lala looked at the photos one by one.The wedding photos of her parents, photos of Nova as an infant, school, to High School.Also there are complete family photos with Oma Rusdi and the man who may be the late husband of Oma.

Nova looks very happy from these photos.There is almost always a smile in every photo of Nova.Lala's eyes stop at a photo, and, where Nova was flanked by his parents.Perhaps this is the last photo taken before his parents died.Badan Nova looks fatter with a loose smile.Very different from Nova who is now thin and rarely smiles.

When viewed from these photos, it looks like they are a happy family.But this is just a photo, what looks is not necessarily the same as the reality.

After a while Lala came out of the room.Nova was still faithfully waiting for him outside the room, then Lala walked up to him.

"Did you find my wedding photo with my first wife?" fashion Nova.

"Let's sit in the park." Lala's just gonna open her mouth but Nova's already talking.

Lala just followed Nova from behind.They sat in the garden gazebo behind the Nova house.

"Have you seen those pictures?"

Lala nodded.

"They are my Mom and my Dad." Nova breathed. "I'm not good at talking, so you're the one who asks, what do you want to know about me?"

Somehow Lala was just nervous now.It must be very difficult for Nova until he covered it tightly.

"Why aren't you being honest about who you are?" Lala finally braved herself.

"It's not that I was dishonest, but no one asked that before" Nova said lightly. "People made friends with me without asking who I was there.I enjoyed it .. and that's the thing I don't get here."

"Lantas, why do you work at Plaza Z as a regular employee if you're the owner of Hotel X?"

"What do I have to apply for if I only have a high school diploma?" Nova asked back with her flat face.

"I mean, why would you want to work even as a subordinate if you already have a lot of money?"

"I don't have any friends, and I don't have any activities either.So I'm a prank."

"Where might you just have a high school diploma? Aren't you in college?"

Nova. "Not until graduation."

"Why?"

"Mama Papa's death at the same time messed up my life ... My life is useless." Nova is seen bowing her head, then she is silent for a while.

"I don't think I'm ready to tell you that yet" Nova said, holding back her tears.

Lala sat closer to Nova and grabbed Nova's hand. He felt sorry to see Nova like this.

"I'm sorry ... I should have known this wasn't easy for you.I'm really sorry for you."

"What's that?"

"Take me and never doubt me."

Lala was silent at Nova's request. "How can I not doubt you if you were not honest with me from the beginning?" ask Lala lirih. "It's not about you being rich or poor, it's about Nova's honesty."

"Therefore I invite you to stay here.Then you will understand by yourself, I never intend to lie to anyone." Then both are silent. "We'd better go back to the room, it's night."

Arriving in the room, Lala immediately changed her clothes with nightgowns, as did Nova.

"Do I have to sleep on the couch? there's no carpet here." It's just Nova mode, because if she wanted she could have the maid get her a rug for her.

"As for you, this is your home."

Although a little awkward but finally Lala and Nova sleep in the same mattress.

Nova began to bring her body closer to Lala's body, her hands began to hug Lala's body.No rejection from Lala made Nova more courageous move.

"Can I ask you again?" whisky Nova.

"Emm .. I ...." Lala couldn't answer.

"We've done it before, what else are you afraid of?" Nova begins to kiss Lala's lips slowly and Lala does not avoid her. "Am I not your husband? And you also already know who I really am.Are you still doubting me?"

Lala was still silent, but she also did not reject Nova who kissed her lips again, which was later interpreted as a green light by Nova.

Finally they went through a long, tiring night for the second time.As Lala wanted so as not to get pregnant first, then Nova threw her seeds outside Lala's womb.

* * * *

In the morning, Oma was waiting for Lala and Nova at the dinner table for breakfast.

"Good morning Oma?" greet Lala

"How was your first night sleeping here? Did you sleep well?"

"Yes .. that's how Oma is," Lala hesitated to answer because she slept almost early last night because of Nova. Nova was silent.

"Nova ... because you already live here so from now on you have to take care of the company as well as the farm."

Nova remained silent, as if he had not listened to the words of Oma Rusdi.

"Don't just shut up!" exciting Oma.

"Later Lala has no friends if I go," replied Nova flatly.

"We can ask Vania to accompany Lala, you don't mind right?" Oma turned her head towards Lala who was enjoying her breakfast.

"It's okay Oma," Lala replied despite not understanding what they were talking about.

Already hotels, companies, farms continue especially? Lala was astonished by herself, but she did not intend to ask him.

"Later Oma, I still want to be with Lala first." Nova only drank a cup of coffee and a piece of bread.Lala had memorized, always like that almost every morning.During being his wife, Lala had only seen Nova several times a heavy breakfast meal.

"Not that Oma doesn't like the two of you continue, Oma also wants to immediately have a grandchild, but Oma desperately needs help to take care of the company." Oma Rusdi spoke at length.

Lala and Nova just looked at each other hearing the word "grandson" come out of Oma's mouth.