Will Not Be Substituted

Flashbacks

Moonlight, a girl in glasses was staring at the door of the reading room in her house. After gathering all her courage, the girl who was familiarly called Caca turned the door handle and pushed her.

“Yeah, busy?” Caca loosened his head from the outside. He saw his father reading a book there.

“Now, Honey. Login!” ask Banyu to close the book, after marking the last part he read.

“What's up?” banyu asked as he took off his glasses. He looked at Caca sitting on the sofa beside him.

Caca's eyes move to the right and to the left. He twisted both his hands. Confused where to start a conversation.

“Why, Ca?” ask Banyu when his daughter doesn't talk. He ‘pun pulled his daughter's left hand, grasping it so gently.

“Caca want to say what? Don't be afraid of Daddy,” said Banyu calming.

“Ehm .... “ Caca cleared his throat.

“Yah, yesterday emm ..” The girl again hesitated to say a sentence that she had been compiling since.

“Why the hell, Ca?”

“Dean invited me to marry,” said Caca. The girl gulped her saliva where she saw the change in her father's expression.

“Who?”

Caca nodded with his eyes closed.

Banyu sighed. “Ca, you guys are young, especially you. You're 19 years old. Is not thought through carefully?.”

“Not the age of marriage is 17 yes, Dad?, mama used to marry also age 19,” protest Caca. He knows very well how the love story of his parents in the past. His parents always told him their sweet stories.

“But ‘kan when Dad was working, Ca,” kilah Banyu.

“Dean has also helped his papa in the company, really, even he said, Dean will manage his papa company after graduation,” bela Caca.

“For the campus also does not prohibit students from marrying. Temen I also have married but still in college,” he continued.

Momentary silence.

“We love each other, Dad. Please, can ya?” Caca put his hands together in front of his chest. Begging his father wholeheartedly.

Two days ago, Dean proposed to her. The man asked Caca to get married. He said Dean was afraid of losing quickly to others. The man was afraid of losing Caca. Therefore Dean wants to tie his relationship with Caca to a more serious level.

“Aren't you guys dating for four months?” ask Banyu. Yes, Banyu knows everything about his daughter's son. As a parent, he always tried to keep his children open with him. However, there are still limits to the secrets they can keep for themselves. And for girlfriends, Banyu always asks them to be honest. Banyu was afraid that they had a wrong relationship and they fell into a dangerous hole.

“Didn't mom and dad know for only two weeks? And you guys are now happy ‘kan?”

Banyu condemned his daughter's cleverness in flipping every remark. But what his daughter said was true, he and his wife knew each other in the two weeks before the wedding.

“By yes, Yah?” Caca put his face to a wound. His mainstay is with the father.

Clucked. Banyu did not expect his daughter would beg like this. And with a heavy heart Banyu said, “Yes already, you told Dean to come here. Dad wants to talk to him.” Not Banyu's intention to agree to his daughter's request to marry young. He just wanted to see his daughter's boyfriend.

“Truly, Dad? Yeeey thanks, Dad. I'll tell Dean.” The girl hugged and kissed her father's cheek. Then get out of there and immediately contact her lover.

Four days later, Dean actually arrived. He brought some of Caca's sister's favorite foods. The man had indeed been close to Caca's brother, he had met them often.

“Dean!” caca exclaimed when she saw her lover sitting in the living room of her house.

“Hai”

They hugged without hesitation. Caca then told a housekeeper to make drinks and snacks for Dean. After that he called his father, told him that Dean had come.

“Goodnight, Om, Aunt,” greet Dean while greeting his girlfriend's parents' hands.

“Sit, Son Dean,” tell Orange–ibu Caca, gently. The woman's sweet smile was etched so clearly.

Dean nodded. Reply looked at Banyu seriously.

“What is the reason you want to marry my daughter?” banyu asked starting to interrogate.

The young man smiled. “We love each other, and I want to protect Caca with a legitimate bond, establish a relationship without fear of rules. I want to make Caca happy, and I'm very unwilling if Caca marries another man,”. He looked at Caca sitting beside him, glimpsing.

“Can you guarantee Caca's life in the future? You guys are too young, and you haven't graduated college.”

Is Banyu too wicked to ask like that? Of course not ‘kan?, a father would want his daughter to have a beautiful future. Banyu would have wanted his daughter to be happy.

“Om don't be afraid, I'm a potential successor to my papa company. I'm sure in two years the company will be transferred to me. So that your daughter's happiness is assured.”

Trying to get what you want is Dean's principle from childhood. And now he's trying to convince his future in-laws that they're giving their blessing for the relationship, and Dean will do it at all costs.

“Caca doesn't just need your money to be happy. She also needs another one, are you willing to give it?” challenge Banyu.

Dean grins. “I explained at the beginning, Om. That we love each other. Without needing to be asked if I can give you what Caca needs, of course I will answer able. I'll try to obey everything Caca wants.”

“Kata Caca you have helped papa you in the company, is that true?” ask Banyu to make sure.

Dean nodded surely in response.

Sighs long. Banyu look at a pair of lovers who are still far from the word worthy of marriage.

“Ca,”

The girl looked up, looking at her father.

“Yes, Yah?”

“If father does not ngizinin you married this year how?”

The expressions of the two humans both changed. Dean's face turned flat and Caca turned sullen.

“I want to run away if Daddy has no blessing,” said Caca mean it. The girl felt bad. For what his father interrogated his lover, if in the end refused.

“Bad evil if not my blessing,” continued the girl again with teary eyes.

“Ca, try deh you thinkin again, same you also.” Banyu stared at the two young subjects in turn.

“I've been thinking about this maturely, Om. Even if you want me to buy a house for your daughter I am very capable and capable.” Dean looked at Banyu flat impressed. From then on he answered what needed to be answered, but in the end it was doubted, making Dean feel so upset.

“It's not just about money and shelter, Dean. It's about your welfare. About sacred relationships that cannot be made playfully.”

“We love each other, Dad. We can understand each other, if that's what you're afraid of,” Defend Caca again.

Banyu scooped his face in frustration. Why did his daughter turn into a dissident like this. Usually the girl would listen to every explanation of Banyu to take one decision. But, now? Even the girl was very firm with her stance.

“We'd better talk about this with Dean's parents too. Maybe they have a good solution,” said Orange. This woman could not bear to see the seriousness of the two couples and the chaos of her husband. In his mind, he thought about how to get his daughter and her lover to understand the meaning of Banyu. And getting Dean's parents involved might be a big help.

Staring at his wife in the shade, Banyu agreed to his wife's proposal. He asked Dean to take his parents to his house.

Just one week later, Dean's parents visited Caca's residence. How surprised Banyu and Jingga, when they found out that Dean's mother was their friend in the past. They had not met for a long time, because the Caca family had stopped in Singapore. And they only came back when Caca was about to enter junior high school.

Banyu began to discuss the request of their two children. He said he had little objection if they got married this year. He said they were still too young to build a household.

But, it turned out that the response from the Dean family was very different. Kean, Dean's father, supported the couple's decision. For him as long as Dean and Caca are still living with them won't matter. There are still parents who will advise them if anyone makes a mistake. There would still be mediators if the two of them were to fight.

Sighing heavily, Banyu tried to nod in agreement. Maybe this is best for them. Given today very many young couples who get pregnant out of wedlock, because they do not get the blessing of their parents. Banyu did not want that to happen to his daughter.

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