14 February
CHAPTER 13

Debate between Fay and Adikara, her father. Regarding the date of the wedding they could not avoid again, Adikara wanted her daughter to marry on November 28 in accordance with the Javanese date that she had calculated with the elders, he said, however, the date was rejected by her eldest daughter, Fay and Kendra chose February 14 as their wedding date.

"Well, me and Kendra didn't mean to postpone our marriage. But, I can't take permission anymore" Fay refused. "In addition, Kendra's leave is over. Not to mention in late November his boss will return home to California, so Kendra must replace him." explained Fay.

It is not without reason that the two rewind their happy day to February 14. In addition to this date is a very historic date for them, in that month Kendra's work schedule is not as crowded as previous months and Fay was able to take permission.

Adikara shook her head, "But Fay, according to the elders, your marriage should not be past the end of the year" Adikara said firmly.

"Dad still believe in things like that?" Fay did not expect that his father, who is a fairly famous textile businessman, still believed in things that smelled of myth. "For prewedding photos and meetings with EO only, we are still troubled to manage the time. I'm still in the hospital weekend, while Kendra sometimes has to be late." Fay put his spoon and fork on his dinner plate, it felt like he was no longer appetizing because of the debate.

Fay looked into his father's eyes fixedly, really he did not want to oppose anything his parents said just... "Well, it's an event of our lifetime, please we want to prepare everything carefully, even though we're both busy." he got out of his seat and went back to his room.

Ratri, Fay's mother immediately gave the code to her husband to stop his debate. "Let me talk to her later" she said, calming her husband.

In the room, Fay recounts the debate to Kendra over the phone. "I'm tired, Ken," he said sadly. "Every day my father would talk about this." he grabbed a tissue from his desk and wiped his tears.

"I'm sorry, Fay" he said guiltily. "I shouldn't have rushed to propose yesterday. This was all out of my plan, I thought that two or three months after the application, we could have a wedding but it turned out that I got a promotion and Mr. William applied for a leave of absence. It's been three years that he didn't take time off until the company allowed him to leave for a month and a half." explained Kendra, he changed the phone call to a video call.

"Fay, I will get a bonus of Rp.500,000,000 if I can complete all the projects before the end of this year" said Kendra. "I'm not more concerned with work than our marriage. But providing a decent place to live and setting up a spare fund for our household, that is my duty as a head of the household. I rewinded a few months of our marriage to make the most of our lives after we got married. This opportunity didn't come twice, Fay."

Fay is very familiar with Kendra's thoughts, Kendra always has a careful planning, especially about financial issues. "Yes I understand, Ken."

"You don't be sad, I'll talk to you later. I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding."

Fay smiled nodding, Kendra always has a way to make Fay's heart calm.

Kendra was relieved to see her lover had started smiling. "So how's the operation going?"

"Lummayan was exhausting and tense, when the consul asked me a lot, but I was very happy to see the surgery to remove the tumor directly." Fay excitedly told in detail the atmosphere in the operating room.

While Kendra, while working on her report, she listened to all the stories told by her lover. "Fay, are you planning on taking a surgical specialist?"

"I will always support you dear" said Kendra to give encouragement to her lover.

In the middle of their conversation suddenly Ratri came. "May I come in?" ask Ratri from behind the door.

"Of course, ma'am" he said, Fay switched to his phone. "Yes, I want to talk to you."

Kendra nodded. "Okay."

"Bye honey." Fay turned off his phone.

Ratri sat on the bed with his eldest daughter. "For video calls same Ken huh?" he stroked Fay's head gently.

Fay nodded. "Yes ma'am, as usual Kendra asked about today's activities."

Ratri cleared his throat before he started a conversation with his eldest daughter, he tried to string the words so that his son would not be offended by what he would say. "Son, actually, I don't mean to believe in myths. It's just, we're worried about your relationship."

"I mean mother?"

"You have the courage to open your hijab in front of Kendra, when Kendra comes home or when you make a video call. You know, when you were dating, you weren't wearing a hijab, but now you are, son. It's Istikomah, Kendra it's just your fiancee, not your husband, he has no right to look at your letter." Ratri exhaled his heavy breath.

"To be honest we were worried when you said you wanted to follow Kendra to Jakarta to do prewedding photos, and especially you would stay at a hotel instead of at home in bude. For this reason we force you to get married, at least first marriage agreement, for the recipe please arrange as you want."

Fay rounded his eyes, he did not expect that his parents were so worried about his relationship with Kendra that they had been dating for more than 4 years.

"Mom, I'm dating Kendra, it's been over 4 years and we haven't kissed at all, we're very committed to doing it the first night of our wedding."

"But son, the devil is everywhere, especially people who want to marry a lot of temptations."

"Please, mom. Trust us, nothing will happen. Everything will go according to plan." Fay continued to convince his mother, until Ratri finally allowed his daughter to hold a wedding according to the date they wanted and allowed Fay to come to Jakarta to do a prewedding photo session there.