Married by Accident

Married by Accident
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The apartment is not the first destination after leaving the hospital. Kelana wants to go to her papa's house, more precisely to her mama's music studio. Kelana has to make sure that her mama's music studio doesn't change. All this time Kelana has been trying to make the shape of the room remain as when her mother was still there. Even when the azalea flowers Karalyn planted suddenly withered and died, Kelana planted new flowers in the same pot.


Kelana got off first from the car after arriving at the yard followed by Renjani and Adam. The first person to welcome Kelana was Ratih—the woman put on a sad face made up and asked Kelana for news.


"Papa, Kelana's coming!" Train half yelled calling Wira.


Moments later the hero came in from behind. He saw Kelana from top to bottom making sure her son was okay. But seeing the arm slings on Kelana's arm, worry came back to haunt her.


"Papa needs to talk to you." Pungkas Wira's.


"No need." Kelana breezed away leaving Ratih and Wira in the living room. Moreover, what they can talk about again Kelana did not want to hear anything from Wira.


Kelana's jaw hardened seeing that the music studio door was completely broken. Even the hero didn't fix it. Kelana pushed the door with her feet and circulated the view all over.


Not much has changed, only two violins lying on the floor. Looks like Valia put it down right away after playing the violin. Kelana bent over to check her violin.


"Where's Kelana?" Adam bows his head through the door, he does not dare to step in for fear of getting angry. At a time like this Kelana could have killed people with just a look in her eyes. Adam doesn't want to get into trouble with Kelana.


"As per first plan." Kelana stepped out.


"You go back to the apartment first, let me take care of this."


Kelana nodded faintly and then stepped away. Renjani does not understand what Kelana and Adam are talking about but she does not dare to ask. Renjani just follows Kelana like a chick following her mother.


While leaning his head when he got to the car, he closed his eyes trying to remember his good memories with Wira when he was a child. Kelana used to swim with her papa and then went to the shopping center to buy toys that Kelana wanted and cooking ingredients for Karalyn. They'll eat Karalyn's cooking together afterwards. But such memories are not stored in Kelana's brain because after Karalyn died and Ratih and Valia were present, Kelana and her papa relationship deteriorated. Those little beautiful memories were blown away by the ugliness of the Hero.


Until now when Kelana wanted to remember those beautiful memories, she felt very difficult. All of that turned into soap bubbles that would disappear in the blink of an eye.


When he opened his eyes when he heard the car door open, his eyes turned sharp to see Wira getting into the car. Where's Renjani?


"I'm sorry Papa, Kelana." His voice was low, guilt was so visible on his face.


Going to throw a gaze out the window, sorry for what? I'm sorry that Wira has broken the door for Valia's sake or because she has forced Kelana to make a song. Or the infidelity that Wira did back when Karalyn was alive. Or the Hero who always demands Kelana to be the perfect violinist.


"I'm sorry for all Papa's treatment so far, Papa just doesn't want you to be a spoiled child, that's why Papa's always been so hard on you, Papa rarely praises your performance because Papa wants you to be a great violinist."


Holding back the tightness that was squeezing her chest, Kelana looked at her papa.


"Did I ever have the chance to be a spoiled child when other kids were always escorted to school while I wasn't, I've been missing that chance ever since Mama died and Papa's been doing this atrocity with me? can I still be called the daughter of the Radiaka Hero? even the reporters realize that our relationship is getting worse, Papa is the one who feels the most right."


"It's all for you, Kelana."


"Get out." Kelana said coldly while throwing her face away. He did not receive any apologies from the hero. It's too late to apologize now.


"I'm gonna move all of Mama's instruments to the apartment."


"Why?"


"Because the door's broken." Sindir Kelana's.


"You don't have to move it, Papa can fix the door."


"Papa don't bother doing that, now Papa's out."


Wira obeyed Kelana's word to get out of there.


"May Papa be happy with them, from now on I assume I never have Papa." A cold smile ended his sentence.


Renjani rushes into the car when she sees Wira coming out. Yana and Dayat also entered. Unasked, Dayat runs the car leaving Wira's yard. Dayat understood what Kelana wanted just by looking at her facial expression.


The hero still stood rigidly in place after Kelana's departure. He did not expect Kelana to say such a thing to him. The hero felt empty, Kelana's sentence continued to ring in his ear. Wira deliberately educate Kelana hard so that after adulthood like now Kelana can face the cruel world with full courage. But Wira forgot one thing, he never gave affection to Kelana.


Too late to regret it now, Wira sat in her spacious courtyard. Now he thinks whether he really has done his best for Kelana or vice versa. Their relationship will never be the same as it used to be. The hero who makes the distance between himself and Kelana even further.


******


Renjani opens the curtains so that sunlight enters the room. Going to lay down on the bed, he wanted to calm his current chaotic mind. Kelana can face complicated problems before because he has more energy when playing violin. But now even he could only touch the violin without being able to play it. It's like loving but not having.


"Where do you want to move all of Mama Karalyn's musical instruments?" Renjani sits next to Kelana's body.


"Yana's room." Since Yana has moved to the next apartment then Kelana can use Yana's former room for her mama's music studio. "It won't be the same anymore."


"Although it doesn't look the same but you can keep all your memories with Mama here." Renjani touched Kelana's chest. "Even if the studio changes, but the memories in your chest never change, they're yours."


Kelana looked at Renjani amazed, before she had never thought like that. The sentence Renjani has a point, no matter if the studio changes memories Kelana and her mama will always be the same.


"We can repeat those memories."


"I don't have many memories."


"Try you think again, there must be things we can do now to repeat those memories."


"I'll think about it."


Renjani smiled seeing the light back on Kelana's face. He raised the blanket to the waist Kelana.


"I work first." Renjani takes the laptop on the table. He did not know what he would do but rather than do nothing better he busy himself looking for a novel script or just read the buyer reviews Meet Sunshine.


"Wait." He straightened his body.


Renjani who was about to get out of the room stopped and turned around.


"What do you need?" Renjani returns to Kelana.


"Thank you Re." Kelana kissed Renjani old forehead, "i'm lucky to have you."


Renjani was fixated on hearing that sentence, her chest rustling like sand swept away by the waves. This was the first time Renjani had heard someone say such a thing. Even Renjani's parents never said that having Renjani was good luck.


"Why?"


Renjani eyes widened and then her lips pursed which actually provoked Kelana laughter. Renjani had imagined Kelana would say romantic sentences like in movies. But Renjani is not destined to hear such a sentence.


"That's really you!" Renjani pushes Kelana's chest softly.


"I'm telling you the truth, even the hospital's bland porridge, you're finished."


"Know ah." Renjani walks away leaving Kelana.


Renjani makes a glass of coffee to accompany him struggling with a laptop. Renjani read the comments of readers of the novel Meet Sunshine. Renjani smiled widely knowing all buyers liked the printed version of the novel. Renjani will not go wrong choosing a novel to publish let alone follow the journey of Meet Sunshine since it was first written in the online novel application.


Renjani sighed heavily, if the number of buyers did not increase, Asmara Publishing would not be able to survive. Opening your own company is not as easy as Renjani's shadow. All the money is gone to pay the employees. Now Kelana will also be on holiday for a long time. Renjani can't use Kelana's money constantly.


Renjani opened an online novel application where she used to read novels. Finding a good story like Meet Sunshine is quite difficult for Renjani, especially if he reads physical novels more often in the library. Many novels are popular but Renjani does not necessarily like them.


"It's like finding a needle in a haystack." Renjani's complaints were dramatic after about half an hour of reading a synopsis of a popular novel but nothing of interest to her.


Finally Renjani decides to contact Manda. He asks Manda to read the novel online in hopes of finding the right one for them. Renjani and Manda have similar novel tastes.


"Ohhhh!" Renjani again sighed loudly, he dropped his head on the table to make his coffee glass shift. His head felt dizzy thinking about the production costs that were not cheap.


The sky is getting dark but Renjani has not found a script that she finds interesting. Many times he saw the order data that also did not change. Renjani wants to give up instead of spending more money to realize her dream. Renjani must suppress his ego for Kelana who is currently also in trouble.


The sky rumbled, pitch-black clouds slowly moving over the city of Jakarta. Renjani pouted, compared to the sky, the cloudiness in her heart was much thicker.


******


The sound of lightning striking woke Kelana from her sleep. Looking at the window, the sky was dark, which meant that he had been asleep for a long time. Kelana almost never took a nap but this time he slept until the sky was dark.


"Where's Rere?" Kelana got off the bed stepping out of the room looking for Renjani.


He walked to the kitchen to drink a glass of water because his throat was very dry.


"Where does Rere keep my drugs?" Kelana took one loaf of bread and applied blueberry jam with great difficulty because she could only move one hand.


"Aah!" As he growled, he gave up on applying jam. Kelana directly devoured the bread with the messy jam. Kelana had to eat something before taking the medicine but she did not know where Renjani kept the drugs.


Kelana's anger slowly subsided after seeing Renjani in the living room. Renjani stuck her forehead on the table with the paper strewn around her.


"Re." Sitting on the couch, "are you sleeping?" He got rid of the hair that covered Renjani's face.


"Hm?" Renjani raised her head, "are you awake?" He was confused looking around, he only slept for a while but the sky was suddenly dark.


"Where's my medicine?"


"There's in the nightstand drawer, I'll take it for a second." Renjani gets off the floor to take Kelana's medicine.


A little while later Renjani returned with a box of medicine and warm water.


"Sorry Kelana, I overslept." Renjani dispense drugs Kelana one by one, in total there are 5 drugs that Kelana should drink three times a day. "What did you eat?" Renjani held out a hand rubbing the stain on the corner of Kelana's lips.


"Eat bread."


"Oh so you're the one who fell for jam in the kitchen."


"Yes, it's hard to smear jam with one hand."


"It's my fault."


Kelana took the drugs in Renjani's hands and swallowed them one by one and then sipped a glass of warm water to the toilet.


"You still want to live with me?"


Renjani frowned, "why is it all of a sudden?"


"I'm disabled now."


Renjani gawked and laughed, she did not expect Kelana to think like that.


"Your hands are still healing." Renjani moved to sit next to Kelana after cleaning the medicine box.


"If you can't heal, you still want to be with me?"


"You have plenty of money, too." Renjani embraces Kelana's stomach from the side of spoiled sagging.


Kelana laughed, she knew Renjani was joking about it, even if it was true Kelana would never regret marrying Renjani. That means Kelana has to work hard to make a lot of money.


"I can't leave you alone because of this, when my leg was broken and you took care of me until I healed, I have no reason to leave you."


Kelana looked at Renjani, may she ask Renjani to always be with her. They want to forget their one-year marriage. Kelana wants to go through year after year with Renjani.


"I don't know if your words can be held."


"Can't you, is there a word that can be held?"


Kelana clenched her teeth with Renjani's answer. A second later Kelana grabbed Renjani's lips and pulverized him.


"Promise."


"What promise?" Renjani's eyes twinkled staring at Kelana after getting a kiss.


For not leaving me. The sentence was already at the tip of Kelana's tongue but she could not pronounce it. When he swallowed the sentence again, he felt it inappropriate to say it to Renjani. Kelana has promised to only ask for Renjani time for one year. They have to keep that promise.