Bonds Without Love
ITC #62

"Sorry, this is the only snack we have." Said Sonya's mother when serving snacks and drinks on the table.

Bisma smiled and helped Sonya's mother put the snack along with the drink. "It's okay, this is more than enough."

Erina smilingly looking so kindly at Bhishma to her mother, Erina really felt lucky to be the wife of Bhishma, that man was perfect for human size.

"Why are you smiling? love has made you crazy, hasn't it?" Bayu's question ruined Erina's mood, then took a snack and ate it.

Bisma and Sonya's mother looked at Erina because of Bayu's words, they only shook their heads when they saw Erina throw a snack at Bayu.

"Shut up and shut up!" Erina's voice is irritated.

"They are childish." Sonya's mother said to Bhishma, then chose a seat near her daughter-in-law. Because there are so many things that Sonya's mother wants to ask Bhishma.

Bisma nodded in understanding it, she had no sister or sister, even her family felt she did not have it, seeing Erina and Bayu make her happy.

"Mother, don't say that to strangers, after all just Erin's childish sister, I'm an adult, you know?" Bayu Protest.

"Yeah, you said grown up? you just happen to be taller than me, but you're much younger than me!" Erina's voice doesn't accept.

"The age does not determine someone mature, the proof is that you are still childish" said Bayu relaxed and returned to eating snacks.

"Haish, I'm married, why do you still call me childish?" Erina again lifts the protest.

"Ho, you're proud of that mother's blessingless marriage?" Tanya Bayu said Erina.

"You stop! don't make our guests uncomfortable!" Said Sonya's mother mediating.

"It's okay, mom. I get it." Bisma said to her mother-in-law, then spoke to Erina.

"Erin, please get us the stuff that's in the car, here's the car keys." Bhishma said to his wife, they happened to buy something on the trip and she forgot to take it.

"You think brother Erin is your maid? take it yourself!" Bayu's speech prevents Erina who will take the car keys from Bhishma's hands.

Bisma cleared her throat slowly. "Ah, okay. Erin, let me take it myself."

Erina quickly snatched the car keys from Bisma's hands.

"Don't listen to Bayu, I'll get it." He said, then gave a sharp look to Bayu.

"You should have stood up for me, huh?" Erina asked, more precisely as a sharp innuendo to the person who had exasperated her many times.

"You better take care of your business, Mas Bhishma told me because I'm his wife, what right do you have to say something like that?"

Bayu nodded casually. "So having a wife means I have someone to ask for?"

"Yes!" Erina's screams did not take it. Bisma quickly stood up and approached his wife.

"Don't fight, let me take it, sorry I told you to." Said Bisma who reclaimed her car keys from Erina's hands.

Bisma did not want to be the reason the two sisters had a fight. Bhishma felt that Bayu's words had a point too, he married Erina not so as to have someone who could be asked.

"Bism-"

"Sit down, you must be tired of traveling here." Bhishma's speech cuts off Erina's words.

Erina grunting. "You're the one driving, you should be the one who's tired, let me take it."

Bayu turned his eyes to watch the drama in front of him, then he moved from his seat and took the car keys from Bhishma's hand.

"I'm the one who took your stuff, you two must be tired, but what do you want to take and where do you put it?" Bayu asked with his expressionless face.

"You're pretending to care now, huh?" Erina asked still in the same tone as when they were arguing earlier.

Bayu grieves. "Don't be overconfident, where maybe I care about you, I just don't want to make my mom mad."

"Who do you call your mother? mmmm ..." Erina stopped her words when Bayu put a piece of kueh into her mouth.

Erina could not say anything more because her mouth was full of the cake, Bayu smiled looking at her sister's cute face, then Bayu spoke to Bisma.

"Isn't your wife too noisy, the stranger who married my sister, what do you want to take in the car?" Ask Bayu.

"Oh, the parcel in the back seat." Answer Bhishma.

Bayu nodded in understanding, then walked away from the living room. Erina swallows a round of kueh in her mouth and intends to protest against Bayu, but it is too late because Bayu has already left the house.

"Haish, that brat hasn't changed yet." Erina's grouse is upset. While Bisma and Sonya's mother just smiled in response.

"You two sit down, there's something I want to talk to you about." Said Sonya's mother.

Meanwhile, Bayu who was in front of the house wiped the corner of his eyes slightly watery, Bayu did not know why he was suddenly whiny, but knowing Erina was married made him feel a little sad.

Bayu remembered his childhood, when he ran to fall and his knees spewed a lot of blood, then Erina helped Bayu treat his wounds and after that Erina vomited because she could not smell the blood.

Bayu also remembered when Erina and their parents quarreled until Erina cried, when Erina still had time to think about Bayu's tuition and gave money with a smile, even though Erina was sad.

"That idiot is finally getting married, I think he will forever be stuck with his delusion of marrying a Korean man." Mumbles Bayu.

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At night in Karawang or where Bisma's mother-in-law and sister-in-law live, Bisma sits in the dining room with Bayu. The women were preparing dinner for them.

Actually, Erina is from a wind town, but since Bayu works in Karawang, their mother follows Bayu and settles in Karawang, that's what Bisma knows from their conversation.

Bisma is grateful that her mother-in-law received it, but has not been able to breathe a sigh of relief because it seems that Bayu still has not received her presence, even Bayu looks not like Bhishma.

"Why did you marry Erin's sister?" Ask Bayu while eating apples.

Bhishma gulped at the way Bayu ate his apple, as if to tell him that Bhishma could have been crushed like an apple that Bayu ate and Bhishma could not have imagined it.

Oh come on, Bhishma was not at all afraid of that nineteen-year-old man, Bhishma was only worried that Bayu would keep Erina away from her. It's more terrifying.

"I love your sister." Answer the bisma. Because it is impossible that Bhishma said that actually the marriage between them occurred due to arranged marriage.

"Love my brother?" Tanya Bayu repeated the words of Bhishma, then went back to biting her apple.

"Does love still happen in this cruel world?" Bayu spoke again with his mouth still chewing the apple.

"Wood, don't bother my husband." Erina suddenly interrupted them. Bisma smiled at the arrival of his wife, while Bayu just rolled his eyes lazily.

"I'm not bothering him, you're the one who's overdoing it." Answer Bayu casually.

"Oh yeah, you know that this house only has two rooms, so you can't sleep together during your stay here"

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Nur Alquinsha A's.