THE WOMAN ON MY WEDDING DAY

PART 3 CURSE ONE NIGHT

"I Marry and control you Ivory Hermawan bin Pramudia with Laras Rismawati bint Alm. Haridduan with dowry a set of prayer tools in cash pay.” 

For a moment Ivory stared doubtfully at the guardian sitting across the table where his palm shook coldly. She was still wearing the same clothes as her clothes when saying kabul ijab with Asha a few hours ago. 

Then, with one breath he uttered the kabul as if he did not want to repeat it a second time. 

"I accepted the marriage and marriage of Laras Rismawati bint Alm. Haridduan with dowry a set of prayer tools in paid cash." 

"Huh?"

“Sah!”  Greet the two witnesses who were in the hotel room, the room located right next to the wedding room of Ivory and Asha. The loudest striking sound was the voice of a woman still wearing a bridal dress, sitting behind two witnesses of the marriage of Laras and Ivory. 

The kabul was very quiet and a little tense, attended only by a pair of guardian brides, two witnesses of marriage, Ivory's father who was silent in the corner on a wheelchair, and of course Asha herself, a beautiful woman with makeup still on her face. 

When Laras kissed the hand of ivory that had been officially as his wife, it was, Ivory did not turn his head at all let alone kiss the forehead of his second wife as he did earlier when Ijab kabul with Asha in the hotel hall witnessed by their relatives, relatives and close friends.

And there was no exchange of rings as usual, considering that the marriage was carried out suddenly and hastily. 

Ivory's back was wet as soon as he pulled her, the face of the foreign woman who became his second wife due to a mistake made that night seemed to be puffy behind her white veil. 

The kebaya he used seemed a little loose, because the white kebaya belonged to Asha whose size was larger and taller than Laras.   

Without the slightest smile Ivory moved from his seat when the kabul ijab procession was declared complete, greeting the guardians and witnesses with a truly forced smile. 

Asha and Ivory exchanged looks for a moment, a gaze that held millions of feelings, whether regretful or hurt, all blending in so much. No one had time to think about how they both tried to accept the household they would live in front of later, the household that had started with a mistake from the beginning. 

The marriage contract has been carried out smoothly, without reception and celebration like all afternoon they did. The very simple marriage that took place after the magrib, in less than half an hour, was really not a marriage. Arranged at the request of Asha, Ivory's first wife.  No laughter, congratulations and welcome. A second marriage of Asha's husband on the night of her bride. 

When everyone had come out of the room including the ivory family who did the wedding with a feeling of consternation, even the Ivory mother herself did not want to see it, she said, The barrel inched from his seat approached Asha who was sitting in his place without moving a little from the beginning to the end of the short procession. 

Inside the room were only Ivory, Asha and Laras.

“Mbak Asha, forgive me..”Laras grabbed the henna-colored fingers, then kissed her back-to-back. In an instant the back of Asha's hand had been soaked by Laras' tears. 

Asha unmoved, almost expressionless, stared fiercely at Ivory who was standing not far from the two of them. 

“Thank you asha for saving my life and my son.” Laras cried so much while hugging Asha's hand.

 “Now what do you want, Asha?” Ivory asked in a bland voice, spilling his objections from earlier. Asha did not say, he did not speak at all until then the ivory came out of the room while slamming the door hard. 

Strangely enough, Ivory even felt unnatural to be responsible for the incident.

As he remembered that night, he with 8 of his office friends held a party for the release of his bachelor, where soon he stripped off his single status and married Asha, his lover for two years. Asha herself is the assistant to her boss where she works as a manager. After steady marriage, Asha quit her job and focused on becoming Ivory's wife. 

On that night, they partied all night, until Ivory could not remember if he had drunk too much. Perhaps because Ivory was too drunk and too high a night to go home, he ended up staying at the hotel where the bar was where they were doing the party. 

The last thing he remembers is, there was a woman named Laras, the hotel clerk who worked as a waitress in the hotel bar, she faithfully accompanied them drinking and partying , deliver the food and drink they order. 

And when he woke up in the morning, he found the woman sleeping in a blanket with him, even naked as she was. 

“What happened to me..?” Ivory jumped from the bed while picking up any cloth that could cover his body. 

The woman woke up with an equally surprised look, her eyes red. Frightened, he pulled the blanket over to cover his body. 

“Bapak..bapak..all night forced me to...to sleep with mr.” The woman replied in a stammer as she began to cry in fear.

“Hah!”

“Friends of the father told me to take the father to this room, but the father forced me to serve father.”

 “I did what to you?” Ivory grabbed his trousers strung over the sofa chair, and put them on nervously. 

“Father all night fucked me..”His answer was soft, his tears came out pointing at the red stains on the sepray, his index finger trembling.

“It..that's what?” ask ivory dumbfoundedly. 

“Father has taken care of me...”.The crying gets louder. 

Ivory shook his head trying to remember what happened but even though he hit his head, he still forgot what happened between the two of them. 

“Why...why don't you reject it? Why don't you fight back? I was just drunk.I forgot.I really didn't realize I had done that to you.”.

“Father threatened to get me fired if I refused father.”.

The incident was really tried to be kept secret by Ivory after agreeing with the girl with Laras, that they would forget the incident. Fortunately, the plain-looking Laras just complies. He completely disappeared like a ghost, never to meet again with Ivory. 

Up until three weeks ago, this woman appeared in her office and told her that she was pregnant with the results of the incident that night by bringing the results of the testpack and pregnancy information from the midwife. 

Of course Gading undaunted not kepalang, because in less than a month he will be married to Asha's fiancee. 

Finally Ivory told the barrel to abort the content, by giving twenty million money to Laras. With fear Laras back to obey the will of Ivory.

After a few weeks, everything seemed to have been resolved, Laras himself never appeared again, Ivory thought the problem was finished. 

He never thought, the woman instead came to his future wife on her wedding day, and destroyed all her happiness. 

That one-night mistake was like a curse to him.