Marrying a Woman of Mother's Choice

Mange Assuro (Coming to Apply)

"Tenri can what, Daeng? If the decision to marry the child of Daeng siga has been decided since we were children, then Tenri can only accept it" said Tenri with his head slightly lowered.

"If so, then we can set the wedding date as soon as possible. I'm glad you want to marry Reno, Tenri." replied Mr. Reno.

The conversation went well that day, the wedding date has been set. December 22nd, coincides with Mother's Day. As a gift from Reno to his dear mother. Regarding the determination of the date, in fact his own father who set. Given that Reno loves and loves her mother so much that the two children can be happier.

Tenri, a shy girl, quiet but at the same time a person who has a stand. He graduated from undergraduate education, currently he works as an educator at one of the high schools in Makassar. Neither Tenri nor Reno, both have never met and it has been stated that their meeting is only at the time of the ablution.

The family from Reno had returned home, Tenri cleaned up the leftovers that were served to the guests. Having just moved to the kitchen, the figure of Tenri's best friend appeared from the door.

"Assalamu Alaikum, Tenri."

"Eh, Alaikumsalam. Come in-ki Olla." Replied Tenri who immediately lifted the dishes used to eat earlier.

"Who's here, Tenri?" ask Olla curiously.

"Family of Daeng Siga." Reply Tenri calmly.

"What are they coming to your house?"

"They came to propose."

"Applying? Who's asking, Tenri? You want to get married?" olla asked curiously and followed Tenri in and out carrying the plate.

"I."

Tenri's short answer made Olla continue to search Tenri with questions.

"Married to who-ko later?" Olla with its distinctive Makassar logic, stopped the activity of Tenri who was still holding a plate.

"The child is Daeng Siga."

"Ihh .. You're so short the way you talk. Don't you be curious, Tenri."

"Later there was an invitation. I am inviting."

"That's not the case, Tenri. Why so suddenly?"

"Awhile I'm telling you, help me finish these plates first."

Olla was forced to delay her curiosity in order to help Tenri clean up all the remaining food traces. After everything was settled, Tenri invited Olla into his room to tell how her origin was until Tenri would soon marry a man she had been betrothed to since she was a child.

"So Reno's name?" asked Olla in a slightly loud voice.

"I mean in Jakarta work? But parents are both in Makassar?"

"That's how."

"Have you met him?"

"Not yet."

"WHAT? Iih ... You could be married to someone you've never seen before." Olla's eyes glared at Tenri's confession that she had never even met her future husband.

"We've met, but it's been a long time."

"When?"

"When we were both one year old."

"God ... Can you remember at that age, you are!"

"Hehe .. pray, may he be good. At least he's handsome." Seloroh Tenri joked. Because he knows that Olla is a person who is easily captivated by outward appearance only. The handsome is Olla's priority.

"My curious."

Tenri simply smiled in response to every comment of her best friend, Olla. He himself did not know how to describe the figure of Reno to his best friend, because he had no shadow at all about the figure of Reno.

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Meanwhile, in a different place Reno is waiting for his father's return home. From far away he had seen his father's troupe walking, his heart pounding faster.

"Thank God, it's all done. Tenri accepted my father's proposal." That sentence came out first from his father's lips as soon as he entered the porch of the house and found Reno sitting there.

While Reno himself does not know whether he should be happy or sad, because both feelings are not at all on him. Most men will probably feel relieved and happy because the proposal was accepted. But unlike Reno, he came and returned to Makassar only to visit his sick mother. Not to marry a woman named Tenri who has never met him at all.

"Thank God." Reno replied briefly.

If anyone is happiest because the proposal was accepted, then it is none other than Reno's mother. She was the one who really wanted Reno and Tenri to get married. Even it is the last will if destiny says otherwise at his age.

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Seriate. In this story there may be less understanding because there is an additional bit of typical Makassar dialect. But for readers who come from Makassar, of course they know it. Thank you for reading this story.