Towards True Love 2

Is This Love?

"There were things you didn't know back then and I knew them." What else escaped my knowledge? I can only stare at him for Rio to continue the conversation.

"You want to know?" I immediately nodded as I was shrouded in curiosity.

"Will it be what our parents met at the time?" My head was shaking because I really didn't know. "They want to talk about a match between us. But unfortunately we just went from there. That's why you don't know anything about that matchmaking."

Both my eyes are breaking. "So ... Our meeting they've planned?" I really just realized it. Why did I used to be so innocent and assume that meeting was common.

"Yes, and I already know. Even I was ready to take you on at that very moment if your father asked me to." Rio's gaze was getting more intense.

"It's terrible that Abi .. didn't tell umi," I lamented as I waved a pinch on the back of her hand. But in that instant Rio grabbed my hand and kissed her lovingly.

"Abi didn't want you to run away right then and there. Because abi knows you're still with another man." Rio knows everything about me. Even to the smallest point of my life. But I don't know anything about him.

"May I ask you something? And can Abi answer that honestly?" I looked into his eyes.

"Ask whatever it is .. abi will answer it honestly. Because there's nothing you need to cover up for."

I took a little deep breath and then started trying to treat my curiosity. "When did Abi love Umi?" I don't know why I'm so interested in asking this.

"Since Abi heard all the father's stories about you. Every night, I'm always looking at your face. Your name every time you remember you, there is a rush of joy that appears in my heart. Since then Abi knows that you've pulled me before we even met."

Why is it that the longer I look at him the more I realize his charm that I have been ignoring? She's so perfect. I fell further in admiration.

"Name …." She flicked her thumb and index finger in front of my face that was drifting away enjoying her good looks.

"Ah yes ... Why Abi?" I asked because I woke up from a daydream with surprise.

"What is Umi thinking? Why is Umi daydreaming? Is there something still in your heart?" ask again. I'm trying to find something that's stuck. But I didn't find it. For me to know clearly how she feels about me now, that's enough.

"Can abi ask you now?" My heart pump's like it's moving fast. There are a lot of bad things in my past that I can't explain clearly to her. I was worried that she would ask him and ask me to say honestly like I had asked him to answer my question.

"Is our arranged marriage still a problem for you? Don't be unkind to me. I'll accept any answer Umi's as long as it says according to your heart."

Alhamdulillah .. I can be a little relieved. He's not trying to expose my shameful past if it's to be recalled. But now Rio turned curious about how I felt about him after a long time with him.

Have you faded the anger that once peaked because I couldn't accept an arranged marriage between us? I closed my eyes to ask my heart for a moment. A third of the minute I opened my eyes again, that face always pushed me to keep my eyes open. Even if for an instant I would not be willing to waste my time letting that face disappear from my sight.

"I ... a-I .. I've always wanted to see your face. When I was closed earlier. And when I opened my eyes again, your face made me calmer." The word came out of itself from my heart. I didn't even put it in my mind at all.

"Since when?" Rio grabbed back my gaze as I was embarrassed to realize my words.

"I don't know for sure. Lately that kind of feeling keeps coming."

"See abi's eyes …." I dropped my retina bias back into her light brown eyeballs.

"Did what you said come from your heart?" Rio really wanted to make sure of it.

"Yes. Is this what you call love?" I asked back.

"If abi does not know for sure .. something can be felt slowly. Thank you for fighting to grow that feeling. I promise, not only in this mortal world do I love you. But also in heaven. I will keep asking you to be the angel of my eternal love." A drop of clear circles hatched between the corners of my eyes. The strands of his love can tear down the hardness of my heart that had rejected him.

Our conversation ended with a stomach-filling ritual. Yeah, Rio pampered my stomach there. But not a single grain of rice in any form that I can swallow. Again, only grass-based food that I can eat. Fortunately, the foodcourt in this place provides various types of food with complete. So I don't have to gawk just watching my husband filling his belly.

Satisfied with the affairs of the stomach, we continued down the row of stores that juxtapose various items.

We went to the clock shop we used to visit. This time Rio did not ask me to help him choose a watch as a gift to others. Rio instead asked me to choose a new clock for myself.

I don't want to waste this golden opportunity. Considering my watch is outdated and it should be museumized. The rubber plate that used to be pure white and now reincarnated into a bit brownish is a sign that this clock is worth keeping as a memory.