Marry me, Brother
Marry away

"Tante," said a tomboyish girl, the girl got up from her chair and smiled at Tika's arrival.

Ms. Tika returned the girl's smile, but she could not hide her sadness, her aging face looked sad and her eyes were reddish.

"Sorry aunt bothers you these nights Rum" said Tika, staring at Arum, the tomboyish girl who is her daughter's best friend.

"No bother to tan. If Arum can know what's going on, tumben auntie ngajak Arum meet outside?"

Ms. Tika looked riled up, she took a few heavy breaths. "Do you know the wedding plan for Ega and Indhi?" Ask later.

Arum blinked his eyes quickly, it indicates he was nervous, he did not even dare to look at the face of the mother of his best friend.

"So what they said wasn't a joke?" Imbuh Bu Tika because he never got an answer from Arum.

"Anu, uh, that's auntie," Arum grew nervous, he didn't know what else to say.

"Say there's what Rum, auntie knows them so well, there's no way they're suddenly planning to get married?" Urged by Tika's mother, he looked at Arum sharply, hoping that the girl would answer his question.

While Arum is still in a dilemma, on the one hand he does not want to reveal the truth according to Indhi's wishes, but on the other hand Arum feels that Tika must know the truth.

"Arum will talk, but Arum hope auntie will be fine!"

"Speak Rum!"

Arum regulates his breathing, he feels guilty for reneging on his promise, but Arum thinks this is best for everyone.

"Actually, Doctor Ilham was the son of that woman's aunt, the woman who had slashed Zean's sister to death!"

Ms. Tika gaped in disbelief, and as soon as she closed her mouth, her tongue felt like a joke, his lips and body trembled violently considering how Indhi was devastated by the actions of the woman Arum mentioned as the mother of Doctor Ilham, the man he hoped to be his son-in-law.

The memory of Tika mom returns to the past, when her household was destroyed by the actions of a married woman. The woman was firmly present in the middle of the marriage of Tika and her husband, Tika mom recalled when she saw the affair directly her husband, but Tika mom was only able to say one sentence 'let's separate' when she saw a girl who was almost the same age as Indhi and the girl was the child of her husband's affair.

Years passed, he reunited with the woman, the woman who was none other than a suspect in the murder of Zean, a crossbred man who became Indhi's future husband, but who would have thought if fate seemed to revolve in its place, when they came back, he did not expect that Doctor Ilham was the son of the woman from a previous marriage, before the woman harassed the house of Tika.

"Maiam!" Eram bu Tika while clenching his hands on the table.

"Tan, is aunt okay?" Arum seemed worried, he was a little sorry for telling all this to Tika.

"Tante is fine Rum, thank you very much for telling auntie" he replied with a made-up smile.

"Rum" Tika opened her voice again. "So the girl you said looked like Indhi, was she?" Ms. Tika hung up her sentence, she was unable to continue her words.

"Yes aunty, she's Doctor Ilham's half-sister, which means she's also Indhi's half-sister, too" explained Arum, making Tika's mother feel sad, but he cannot escape reality because that is the destiny line that God has written for him and his family.

"Then what made Indhi decide to marry her brother, she could have canceled the marriage right Rum?"

"Indhi felt aunty's heartache, since the beginning of Doctor Ilham knew the dark history between his mother and aunt's family, Doctor Ilham also knew about Brother Zean. Indhi did not accept the treatment of Doctor Ilham, he decided to avenge the pain that Doctor Ilham gave by marrying sister Ega, because Indhi thought at this time only sister Ega can help her."

Bu Tika lowered his head weakly, he did not expect that his daughter was suffering so much, but the middle-aged woman also still did not accept if Indhi and Ega were married, how could a brother and sister get married, what will others think of them?

Bu Tika returned home after his long conversation with Arum was over, he demanded Arum's promise to keep their meeting secret from both Indhi and Ega. Now that Tika's mom was in her room, she was sitting on the edge of the bed, she glanced at the nightstand and grabbed her picture with her two children, in her swab gently a portrait of their warmth, she said, ms. Tika smiled bitterly as she touched a photo of Ega, the adopted son she had considered to be her own biological child.

"What should you do, son? Do you have to let you get married? But you're mom's son, how can you let you get married?" His murmuring while crying, it was not easy for Tika to take such a heavy decision. It is not selfish that he is still afraid of releasing Ega as his son.

The clock on the wall kept turning, the sound of clinking as if echoing in the cold room, Tika's mother was still weighing the permission requested by her two children, her heart felt one-sided. In her eyes Ega is indeed a very ideal son-in-law, but not Indhi who she hopes to be Ega's wife, and vice versa, Tika hopes if not Ega who will become Indhi's husband.

Almost midnight when Tika finally made her decision, in the removal of tears from her twilight face, she came out of the room and went upstairs, right where her two children's room was.

Ms. Tika knocked one by one her son's room, it didn't take long, the two children came out almost simultaneously, they were waiting for their mother to call, judging by their neat appearance, make sure they are waiting for their mother's decision.

"Follow mom!" Tika said softly, he went down back to the ground floor, Indhi and Ega threw eyes at each other before they followed the mother's steps towards the family room.

Mom sat on the single sofa, while Ega and Indhi sat on the sofa that was on the other side, they sat next to each other and looked down at each other.

"You sure you love each other?" Tika asked, staring at her two children in turn.

Ega raised his head, he looked at Indhi and then reached for the girl's hand. "Mafin Ega ma'am, Ega loves Indhi very much" Ega replied loudly, because basically he really loves his sister.

"Then Indhi?" Tika looked at her daughter.

Indhi turned towards Ega, he looked at Ega intensely, as their beads clashed, Indhi seemed to find the answer to his mother's question, ega's gaze that was cast on him really made him sure he wanted to marry Ega even though love had not grown in his heart.

"Yes ma'am, Indhi loves Ega's brother," he answered lying, but soon Ega was in his heart.

"Well then, marry me, I bless you."

SERIATE.....