Married to a Duda Man

#43# Dinner

The atmosphere of the dining table felt so quiet and awkward, only the voice of Mela's mother who occasionally asked and filled the silence at the dining table, he said, while Wilden himself only answered as necessary as a form of courtesy to his mother-in-law.

"Mel, get your husband some soup."

"Yes Ma," Mela just obeyed her Mama's words without much protest.

While at the very end of the table, it appears that Mela's father Ronald Holland was just silent without putting on his warm expression at all. There was no intention to say hello to his daughter-in-law who joined the dining table.

"When are you going to start your koas Mela?"

Finally after a gripping silence, now Mela's father spoke up, ignoring Wilden who ate his food in silence.

"Five more days Dad."

Mela simply answered her father's questions accordingly, with an occasional glance at Brother Wilden who just put on his calm face as if not troubled by his father's antipathy.

"Dr.Reymon is a dedicated doctor, you are lucky to be guided directly by him."

"Yes Father, Mela also did not expect if Dr.Reymon chose Mela to be his personal assistant during koas."

"Maybe he saw from your achievements that you can count on."

After his dining room atmosphere returned to silence, only the sound of the clang of spoons and plates clashing at the dining table made the atmosphere even more awkward.

"Mel, have you asked your husband's permission during koas?"

Mama Mela's question made Mela blink for a moment.

"Not Ma." Mela uttered it in a voice slowly realizing her mistake.

"Ck, you're how the hell is Mel. You must remember that now that you are married, everything you will do must get approval from your husband." Reina Holland just nagged Mela who forgot to ask permission about her internship practice to Kak

"Let's forget Ma."

"Don't repeat it again."

Mama Mela again grumbled slowly considering the forgetful nature of Mela.

"It's Ma, after all Wilden has certainly agreed with Koas Mela. Isn't that Wilden?"

"Yes Dad."

Mela's father's words were only politely influenced by Wilden. Wilden certainly understood the meaning of the words of Mela's father as if to say that he did not accept rejection.

"Wilden, can you come with me?"

Mela's father who had finished eating immediately interrupted Wilden to follow her to the back garden. No matter what he was going to talk about, Wilden simply obediently and rushed to follow his Father-in-law without much protest.

Mela held onto Brother Wilden's wrist with her apologetic gaze

will the attitude of Mela's father who is not friendly to Sis Wilden and Wilden just put on a thin smile that hints that he is okay, he is okay, before the end of his return resume his steps following his Father-in-law to the

back garden.

The dim atmosphere of the room again became a witness to the inertness of a pair of people in his silence. The window of the room that is still open seems to occasionally fly the curtain of bone white mosquito nets slowly, spreading the cold atmosphere of the night that feels piercing the skin.

Mela remained silent, sitting on the edge of the bed without knowing where to start a conversation. While on the other hand, Wilden was still silent not far beside Mela.

No one opens the sound at all, while the cold night air further freezes the skin, make Mela occasionally rub both her hands and hug her own arms to dispel the cold that felt through her nightgown.