Why We Married?

The We Deserve Better

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Mother and Father raised their heads in unison looking at me.

I threw the papers along with important documents on the ownership of assets and property of the Yuaga family which I received as much as 32% of the proceeds of selling themselves to their firstborn.

"Him!" My mother was surprised to find the defiance she first saw in me.

He stood in a face of shock that he could not hide even leaving spoons and forks strewn across the floor.

"Are you both proud of me!" I said while pointing at that beam. "Do you consider me a filial son now!"

Father threw away his face for holding back his feelings while Mother stretched out her hands to reach me.

"This is what you want. This is what you have been chasing so far as to sacrifice the happiness and future of your own child. This is what's in your head."

"Darling!!" Mother approached me.

But I brushed off his hands that wanted to embrace me.

"What's in your head when you rob me of my happiness and play religion in the name of marriage!" I was angry with a thunderous voice, "don't you two know that better than me because I was raised by both of your hands."

The father walked towards me with a bent face, while the mother could no longer hold back the tears that had just kept welling up in her eyes.

"Why should you sell me to a family of conglomerates to get a shortcut to wealth. Why are you doing this to me!?"

I cried as I was in sorrow while neighing. And both my parents immediately clutched my frail body in their warm embrace.

"I've been surprised since long ago, where maybe the family of a conglomerate class Archie Yuaga who has a noble background, married an ordinary girl who had nothing like me. After all, the cliche reason that you married me to Archie for wanting to protect me from dangerous people was just a pretext for me to believe that I was really in danger!!" I don't stop being hysterical.

"Darling, it's not like that!" Mom rubbed my back.

"Why are you doing this. Why?" I screamed loudly.

You speak a thousand languages, your mother ceaselessly calms me. As for me, as usual all I could do was protest. Continue to decorate about my unfair life until my body is tired and exhausted.

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"Ten years ago, we actually canceled your wedding plans!" Say Father.

I was shocked and astonished to look at Father.

"What are you saying?" My toot.

Though I had just been soothed by the fatigue of running out of energy, but after listening to the words of the Father just now, my chest immediately returned to turbulence.

"If you want to know what really happened, fine. We will say!!" Mr. stand sambi mondar mandir.

I silently watched with my eyes.

"From the beginning of this contract, Mother and Father never agreed to this plan. Remembering anything related to the Yuaga family is always related to disaster!" Said Father. "We don't have enough money to pay for your hospital and college!!"

Hospital and college costs are estimated at 200 million per month. Kampusku is the most classy private elite university in southeast Asia but also accepts talented students such as kak gima and kak roland who pay tuition fees half the normal price. And the hospital where I was treated, was an elite private hospital with the most adequate equipment in Indonesia, even the economy class alone was pegged at 7 million a night.

"But marrying you to the Yuaga family is not a good choice, considering you still have a future to live your own life!" Mom continued, "when Mom saw you growing up and being a good person, and hanging out with friends your age and introduced Dimas to both of us in this house. I realized it was the wrong choice to marry you to someone you don't love and take away your happiness for a treasure we can't give you."

"But there's one thing we can't stop!" Saying Father.

I waited while glaring at Father.

"The fact that you're in danger is indisputable. And if you're married to Archie, then you'll get equal protection under talented guys like Hendri!" Continue Mr, "Anya, if only you can take care of you, maybe the events of a dozen years ago will not happen. I can't take care of you with just these two hands."

He raised his hand, showing his helplessness to me.

I swerved to the point of being speechless. And looked at the look of his two tired eyes.

"And that's not the only reason we agreed to marry you!" Mom suddenly interjected.

"Reason?" My speech.

They both look at each other.

"A few months before your wedding. Archie suddenly came to this house!!" Reply Father.

"The son of the conglomerate came to this house and begged not to cancel your wedding plans, even the child to his knees before Father and Mother for hours so that we would grant his request!" Connect Mother.

I'm poignant.

"At first we thought it was a drama that the boy made out of guilt that he did to you during the incident that happened in the campus warehouse. But at that time, anyone will know and understand how much and truly the conglomerate boy loves you. Even in each of his words implied a clear meaning, if he would sacrifice his entire soul and body to marry you!" Say Father.

"Father and Mother are selfish and do not think about the impact that will occur if the terms of your marriage are fulfilled and Archie recovered from his trauma. But clearly, when you see you and Archie love each other in the scope of a harmonious household even if only briefly. But Mom and Dad believe that Archie really loves you more than anything in the world, Anya!!" Continue Mother.

Mother held onto both of my arms and gently rubbed my face with her warm touch.

"You can hate us, you can be mad at both of us. But whatever happens, we'll still consider Archie our only son-in-law willing to sacrifice everything to protect you." Said Mother.

"Well!!" He knelt beside me holding my crown. "You then or now, you always see you like a fragile child. I always thought of you as a kid who ran around holding your fingers to catch butterflies."

I held her hand that touched my hair.

"Father always thought to bring you into the cage so that no one could hurt you. That's what we both thought, and Archie Yuaga is our only hope!!" Say Father.

"I'm sorry we. Sorry for for forcibly taking away your happiness and replacing it with suffering. Anya. Forgive us!!" Just keep mum all of a sudden.

I immediately grabbed the bodies of my Mother and Father and hugged them both tightly. All I have in my head right now is to accept this painful reality even though I don't want to.

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"How are you?" My toot.

He did not immediately return my greeting but rather scratched the back of his neck and awkwardly smiled timidly over his new appearance.

"Jan look at the cave like that ahh!" He threw his face away.

"It looks pretty funny, yeah!" I laughed giggling.

Two days later, I accidentally visited Arya in the courtyard where she was languishing to see her condition. Because after the incident on that day we never met again even when Arya was given severe punishment for her actions.

Arya looks different with a plain face full of acne and plontos hair that is close to bald, her aura is also different after wearing a prisoner's shirt. I also understand why he is awkward to show himself like this to me, because after knowing Arya for many years he is a man who always pays attention to the details of his appearance, even for nail-cutting days.

"Thank you for the pizza, tar will eat cave with the kids in the dalem!" She smiled behind the transparent glass that was blocking us both.

I nodded with a smile. "I can't bring anything other than food, the wisdom in this place is very strict!!"

"Lu already brought food aja cave already very seneng really. Thanks!!" He lifted three boxes of pizza in front of me.

"Yes, masama!" My reply.

"Lu pakabar?" Ask.

The smile on my face instantly faded, "I'm not all right!" I answered frankly.

Arya confronted me from behind the glass that separated us, and suddenly bowed her gaze because she could not bear to see my pathetic tempang.

"After everyone's gone from my life, I'm never okay!" I said, "Laila, you, Libiru. And now Archie!!"

I fixed my seat position and took a deep breath.

"I've never been better after losing all of you. I'm totally ruined!!" My next.

Long we were silent in that feeling until we spent the duration of the meeting on the limit for visitors. But to the end neither I nor Arya dared to raise our heads each for fear of seeing each other.

Until my visitation time was up and we kept silent without ever talking again.

But when Arya was cut from before me to go back into her holding cell, Arya suddenly highlighted the officer and stood up again in front of me.

"11 years away!" He said excitedly.

I was surprised even nearly jumped.

"in 11 years the cave will be free. So wait for the cave until that day!" He said with teary eyes.

I could no longer hold back the tears that I had been holding back, until they finally spilled and wet my face.

"Gua promised Laila to take care of you. So please do not give up and stay until the day the cave is free!!" The screech.

Two officers on guard removed his arms, to force him into a holding cell.

"Wait until that day, and the cave will not let anyone hurt you. The cave promised Laila, His. The cave promised!!"

Braakk....

Door tightly closed. And Arya had completely vanished from before me behind that iron door.

I smothered my own face in tears, and curled up alone in silence.