An Inner Lent to My Wife's Cousin
Your Marriage is Illegal!

I took the phone that was stored in front of the television and put it in my pants pocket. As per my promise with Muhlis, tonight I will come to his house to discuss important matters related to my relationship with Nana. I don't know what he meant by suddenly discussing this, but I'm also curious about what he's going to say.

"Where are you going, sir?" asked Yani who was folding clothes in front of the television.

"You go to Muhlis' house."

"Lately you've always been going to Muhlis' house."

"Yes because he's a friend of the father, a place of work. Me and Muhlis will be familiar because we almost always meet every day," I answered a lie. Though I'm the same Muhlis rarely involved in conversation since he was involved in my marriage and Nana. It wasn't me who dodged it, but Muhlis who dodged me. Every time I try to get close to him, he always has a reason to stay away from me.

Although Muhlis seemed to be away from me, but I still tried to approach him so that our friendship was not broken just because of my second marriage. But I also kept an eye on Muhlis. Only he knows the secret of my relationship with Nana. If my secret were exposed, I would have directly accused Muhlis because he was the only one who had my secret key. If Nana were to dismantle it, it would clearly look impossible, because she would definitely be affected.

"Not staying there anymore? If not, I lock the door" said Yani.

"No, just want to talk to her for a minute" I replied and went out of the house.

Since I did not have a motor, I decided to walk to his house which was quite a distance from my house.

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"This time what do you want to say about my relationship with Nana, Lis?" ask me after we both sit under his house. His wife and children were at the top watching a television show.

"I want to ask you first about your knowledge of the science of religion. Do you know the law to marry a woman who is still the husband of a man?" ask her with calm and flat intonation.

I grinned confusedly, not knowing about this discussion. The law about marrying a married woman is I don't know. But if both the bride and groom want to carry out the marriage and know about the terms of religious marriage, isn't that legitimate?

"No, what's wrong with that?" my question is not to understand.

Muhlis sighed violently then looked at me with a very serious look. "You know, if a man marries a woman whose status is still clearly the wife of another, then the marriage is illegitimate and unlawful."

Deg~

The explanation from Muhlis made me freeze for a moment. Ja-so .. Marriage and Nana is illegitimate and unlawful? This serious?!

"You're serious, Lis?! Do you know where the law came from?"

"From Nico's ustad, I also happened to search the internet about the law to marry women who are still married. And what Nico says is the same as what the internet is. Almost all say that the law is illegitimate and illegal if it's done."

"Ck! Precisely because of the age of ustad Nico is young, but he knows and understands about studying religion! It's not like we're superficial about our own religious science!" muhlis was upset with me.

I still don't believe in this. That means my marriage and Nana's illegitimate. And we have both committed the grave sin of my second marriage. Then my relationship with Nana all this time means including adultery? Then what is my purpose in marrying her if we just want to avoid adultery?!  Arrhghhhh!!! Damn it!!!

"You don't believe it, you can ask the same other or search on google to youtube-youtube if necessary if you still don't believe it" continued Muhlis.

"So the inner living that I always give to Nana––"

"That's zina, Her. You've been adulterous all this time" Muhlis cut me to silence.

"Moreover about me being the guardian for your marriage. I just found out if your marriage remains invalid if it is not the guardian of the bride's own father. You know if Nana's father is still alive, and we continue to carry out the marriage and lie to Mr. Penghulu" Muhlis explained to make me dizzy. Especially this? Is it so stupid that I don't understand the terms of marriage?

"I want to ask you, Her. How can the prince marry you to the status of Nana who is still married?"

I gulped at Muhlis's question. Actually, I did not intentionally tell her my plans about how I faked Nana's identity to make us get married. I don't think Muhlis should know any details about this. He may say we are crazy because we have done various ways just for us to get married.

However, if it has been pushed like this, inevitably I have to answer honestly to him. And right, after I explained everything, Muhlis looked at me in disbelief while shaking her head.

"Oh Allah, Her .. Where is your brain, huh?! Can you do that just to marry Nana?! Where's brains?! You are crazy!!!" Right, he said I was crazy.

"If there were no wife and child in the house, I would have been screaming emotions at you, Her!" hiss Muhlis held back the sound of his words so that no one could hear him above his house.

"You know, my life was unsettled after meddling part of your plan. My heart felt uneasy after I returned from the city with you, but I didn't know exactly what it was. And after finding out, I understood that the point of this problem was in the events of that time."

"I'm asking for help as a family, Her. Please stop your relationship before your secret is revealed. Do you know what impact it would have if your relationship were exposed?"

Yeah, I know the impact if everything's going to be uncovered. The family will certainly be disappointed and Yani will feel sad if she knows about this. Not to mention me and Nana will be the fruit of the lips in this village if the news has widened widely.

Muhlis came towards me and patted me on the shoulder. "As a family member, I do not wish that the person whom I have regarded as sodara would fall into the valley of blasphemy. Therefore, before the smoke is smelled by people, as much as possible you turn off the origin of the fire. Because there's no smoke, there's definitely no fire. If fire spreads everywhere, you can do nothing but put it out. That is if you succeed. You know what I mean, don't you?"

Yeah, I know what that means. If the fire has spread everywhere, as well as my secret that has been revealed to the people, as much as possible we try to explain the purpose of our actions to them. However, if it does not work then we just resigned to the situation and received spicy talk from those who corner me and Nana.

Then should I stop continuing my relationship with Nana? How did Nana respond herself?

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