WRONG MARRIAGE

Bet Girl

"What's going on, Mom? Why crying?" Elnara was surprised to see her mother as she pleased in the living room. 

Just now Elnara wanted to convey the good news that he was appointed as the chairman of the senate on campus, but he was not. Once home from college, he was greeted with a sight of roaring tears.

Linol, Elnara's mother did not reply, still as unwilling. His shoulders were shaking violently.  He looks very frustrated.

"Mother wants to marry me to a one-child widower, handicapped anyway. Even notoriously cruel," replied Afsa, Elnara's twin brother who had since folded his hands on his chest with a haughty look. "Of course I don't want to.  And mother cried out of frustration at my rejection."

"Really, Mom?" Elnara approached Linol who was sitting on a chair. He looked at his mother's sad face with shade.

"Mother's debt to the Ghazanfar family cannot be paid off. Our economy is difficult. I'll be prosecuted if I can't pay it off." Linol explained things that his daughters did not know at all, things that only parents knew. 

It started when Linol wanted to open a big factory because he was obsessed with being a big boss to get rich, but instead went bankrupt. Debt with fantastic value can not be paid off.

"Did you know about this before?" lirih Elnara's.

"No. Your father didn't know, even until your father died a week ago, this was unknown to him." Linol sighed. "The only way to solve this problem is to marry Afsa to the Emir of Gazhanfar. That's the Emir's request that the debt be repaid."

"I don't want to. Just get Elnara married to the handicapped widower!" hardik Afsa loudly, staring at Elnara with disgust. 

Since long ago, everything about Elnara has always been a great competition for Afsa. There was nothing about Elnara being made envious of Afsa. Even in college, Afsa always considers Elnara as a rival, not a twin. 

They had similar faces, it was almost difficult to distinguish if not Linol as the biological mother who distinguished her. Identical twins. But the nature and temperament of both are far different.

"No. It's not me who should be in that position" Elnara refused.  Be married?  Should he see a unique eggplant that could have made him scream when approached?  No. gabe.  Elnara wasn't ready for that. 

"For so long you have always had the upper hand, both in the eyes of father, in the eyes of the dean, in the presence of friends, then why do you not want to replace my difficult position?" hardik Afsa with widened eyes irritated.

Seeing the stubborn Afsa, who denied the order to get married, Linol ran out of sense. He said, "El, you're the only one married to the Emir."

Suddenly Elnara was surprised to hear lightning in broad daylight. Always like this, Elnara became a barrel prepared to hold garbage. Anything that Afsa dislikes, will be thrown to Elnara.

"No, Ma. El does not want. El doesn't want to get married." Elnara of course refused, considering his young age and he also still wants to spread his wings to reach the ideals. His father's grave was not dry. Only a week Elnara was left by her father and even the mourning period has not gone away, she is already faced with a severe problem that erodes her future. 

Elnara watched with her own eyes as her father was hit hard by a sports car.  Elnara also saw the perpetrator's face clearly.  The sadness is still clearly felt, impregnated and will not disappear. 

"Already! Don't argue! I don't want any more objections. El, be the bride for the Emir!" tell Linol this time with a domineering tone. 

Elnara could only be silent, looking down miserably.

Linol was fully aware that Afsa, who in fact was born thirty minutes earlier than Elnara, would do great defiance when she refused something, while Elnara would definitely succumb and surrender. Facing Elnara would be much better than dealing with Afsa.

Elnara thought hard, looking for a way to escape the marriage order that might take her future badly. Married to an unknown widower at a very young age, it was a bad shadow for Elnara.

Looks like he had to run away from that house, run away somewhere. Yeah, that's a great idea.

"Here you!" Afsa pulls Elnara's arm, casting a shadow on Elnara's mind.

"Where are you going?" Elnara rebelled, but was defeated strongly by Afsa's spirit. 

"Follow it!"

"Afsa, what are you doing?" Elnara turned to Linol, who was silent and did nothing.

Afsa drags Elnara into a room. Not Elnara's room, but the guest room. 

"Be here until your wedding day!" Afsa locked the door from the outside.

"Afsa, don't do this to me! I don't want to get married! Afsa, get me out of here!" Elnara screamed while beating the door, but for free, Afsa paid no attention to it. Not even Linol showed up. The woman chose to look for the safe part.

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Chapters 2.  Forced Marriage

With a face that continues to look sullen, Elnara sculpted when the makeup artist moved the makeup tool to her face.

Since then the tears kept dripping, incessantly falling on Elnara's delicate cheeks.  How not?  The house was filled with people preparing for their wedding.  

“El, don't cry!  Your makeup's busted.  Look at her mascara being so ugly!”  Linol started to get annoyed at Elnara who just kept crying. 

If it can be held, Elnara also wants to hold back the tears so as not to melt.  But whatever the power, his heart was completely numb on the wedding day with a completely unknown foreign man.  His future is collapsing.

Ah, he remembered that the man was a handicapped widower, meaning that the man did not have any strength due to the physical flaws he had.  If the man had approached him the first night, he would have punched the man hard so as not to be of any kind.

“This you did for mother's sake, so that your mother would not be prosecuted.  You don't want your mother to go to jail for cheating, do you?” Linol pressed the cotton wool against Elnara's face firmly so that the moist face was dry from the tears.

“I'm scared, Mom.”

“Fear why?  You want to marry a human, not a zombie, then why fear?”

“I don't know the guy.”

“Later if you are married you will also know.  Don't cry anymore!  The people out there are waiting.  Don't make me shy!” Linol.  

“It should be Afsa who is married, not me.  He's my brother.”

“Already, don't discuss that anymore.  Come stand!”

Elnara had to stand up following the pull of her mother's hand.  He glanced at Afsa who was standing at the side of the door, still in the room.  The girl's chin looked up, staring haughtily with a skeptical smile.

Huh, he looks very happy to see his twin in this suffering position.  As if victory was on his side.  Why did Afsa become such an enemy?  He was the only brother of Elnara.

Afsa didn't want to get out of that room.  He hides there, fearing the Ghazanfar family to learn that Elnara has a twin sister who is actually his real bride.

“Remember, don't cry anymore!  Don't be shy in front of the Emir and in front of everyone!” whisper Linol to Elnara.

Afterward, Elnara finally stepped through the red carpet to the chair that had been provided.  Witnessed by the guests who have been waiting since.  

Elnara was sitting side by side with a man who did not know who, what his face was like, how, even the slightest about the man, Elnara did not know anything.  She was not willing to look at the face of her future husband, who had the heart to invite the girl who was still sitting in college just to care for her disabled self.

What kind of man forces a young girl to marry into her widowed status?  Huh!  

A bit of woe is conveyed by the judge to both brides.  Until finally the big white hand shook the hand of the judge to pronounce the holy promise of marriage.

“I accept marriage..”

“Watsiiiy!”  Elnara sneezed, stopping the Emir's speech.

A small laughter rang out in the corner of the room.

Elnara was still in a lowered position while holding onto the tissue Linol had just given her.  His mother sat behind Elnara's chair.

Back the Emir raised his voice for this sacred event.

“Watsiiiy watsiiiy watsiiiy!”  Elnara didn't stop sneezing.  In his heart, he hoped that sneezing the temple would curse everyone who was there to fall asleep.  But it must only exist in fairy tales.

The sneezing sound of Elnara, which was much louder than the Emir's, made the man stop his speech.

“El, why sneeze keep?” whispered Linol while pinching Elnara's waist.

Duh!  It hurts!  Looks like Elnara's efforts will only be in vain.  Her marriage will not be able to be annulled.  Her mother threatened this.  It could be unfortunate if he ended up being deforested and overturned in the fish pond behind the house.

“Perhaps there is a nagging upil in the nose, can it be cleaned first?” the Emir said with a domineering voice and full of decisiveness.

Elnara was silent and still down.  Not answering.  It's good that he's discussing upils at this moment.  Not funny!

“This may be a groggy effect, so the innards are cold and sneezing continues.  Understand the newlyweds,” as well as the judge with a knotty smile.

Making the entire room respond with a thunderous laugh.

Why are they laughing?  Thought funny?  Elnara was very upset, but helpless to fight the situation.

Until finally the witnesses said one word ‘sah’ for the wedding.  

Elnara's body felt weak.  Sudden frustration in seconds.  The marriage proved that he had given up his soul for the handicapped widower.  

Sadness mixed with frustration made him lose control until his consciousness was lost.

“Eeeeeh..”.

The mothers on the front shouted hysterically at Elnara's staggered body and collapsed.  Fortunately the Emir quickly caught the body.  

Guests rushed to help lift Elnara's body.

***

The first thing that appeared in front of Elnara was the face of a foreign figure.  Angel-like faces in holywood movies are handsome and make you unable to sleep when you first see it, a sharp nose, dark eyes, exotic faces with coarse fur around the jaw, and even, and a firm look.  

Is this already in the grave?  Why is there such a handsome angel?

“Cap up and change your clothes!” 

Elnara was surprised, the figure she thought was the angel speaking.  It means he is not in the grave.  He looked around, who was in a foreign room right now.

Wait up!  Elnara remembered something.  It seemed like he had seen the face of the man earlier.  Isn't that the face of the man who ran his father to death?

Elnara returned her gaze to the face of the man sitting near her bed.  Right, that man was the cause of Elnara's father's death.

Still very clearly recorded in his memory how the gripping incident some time ago, his father who was walking on the side of the road then hit by a sports car very fast.  Elnara ran over to her father, who finally breathed her last in his lap with a drenched blood.

With both eyes of his head, he clearly saw the perpetrator in the car holding the steering wheel.

There were no witnesses, except for her.  Elnara was confused, she was just thinking about how she could bury her father quietly.  In the midst of frustration and confusion, the, Elnara could not demand anything from the perpetrator because there was already a wet signature on the paper stating that the victim's family declared peace and there were no charges for the accident.

When did Elnara sign the letter?  And he just remembered, he signed at the hospital.  The letter was between letters issued by the hospital.

“Why are you here?” peekik Elnara looked resentfully at the man.

“This is my home.”

Elnara surprised.  He sat up.

“Come up and change your clothes immediately!” repeat the man.

Elnara looked towards her own body that was still wearing the bride kebaya.

Looking at Elnara who still looked puzzled by the look on her sour face, the man then, said, “Don't argue, my wife!”

Surprised, Elnara almost replied, but the man had already passed out with his wheelchair moving electrically.

My wife?

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