
The night was getting late, everyone in Uncle Aaron's house was already sleeping in their respective rooms. Except for the newlyweds who this afternoon have officially become husband and wife.
Even so, there has been no touch between them except during the installation of the ring, all at the request of Tareeq on the grounds of not wanting to be a spectacle material, he said, though he was just afraid of not being able to cover his nervousness because he never once came into contact with women.
And at this time, they had been lying on the same mattress, turning their backs on each other on both sides of the mattress. I don't know why they both feel restless in the same bed.
"Zulaikha."
"Hmm?"
"Do you have another bed? I feel uncomfortable like this" Tareeq said.
"Nothing," Zulaikha replied briefly, making the man throw a rough breath.
Several times improve his position to find the appropriate position. However, a narrow, thin and hard mattress makes his sleep really uncomfortable. Until finally the man got up and sat on a chair that was near the bed facing Zulaikha who was still faithful behind him.
"Zulaikha," he called again.
"Hmm?"
"I'm sorry for being rude to you at the beginning of our meeting, I'm sorry for tying you up in this marriage so suddenly" Tareeq said.
"Please don't expect more from this marriage .... Actually I was not ready for a relationship, it's just, the insistence of Nameera and Grandpa made me take this decision," continued the man, making Zulaikha immediately turn her body towards him.
"Hope more like what do you mean?" ask the girl.
"It is like expecting love, attention, and warmth in a household. In Qatar, we should sleep in different rooms so that between us do not grow seeds of love. To be honest, I was really traumatized by my father's marriage. And I think it's better than later we get hurt by love .... I'm sorry I don't want to be selfish, but I realize you don't love me either" the man said.
Zulaikha gave a rough breath at Tareeq's words, though he realized there was no love between them yet, but without the man realizing it, he did not know, his feelings had been hurt as a woman even his status as a wife seemed to be not appreciated at all. But how else? He also accepted this marriage because of Nameera.
Funny, isn't it? He had just broken up a few weeks ago, and now he is married but will not feel the beauty of marriage. What a shame his fate, will happiness come to him someday? Only God knows.
"It's up to you, but I hope you don't fall in love with me first, because if it happens you've become one!lat spit your own," said Zulaikha and turned back to the man with mixed feelings. You want to be angry, cry, and laugh at the same time.
"Alright, just calm down because it will not happen," said Tareeq is very confident because all this time there is no woman who can attract his heart.
Tareeq simply did not want to think about his household life in the long run, however, because in the end all the words of his mother during a fight and before leaving the father returned to revolve in memory to make his chest feel tight.
He knows, this decision is clearly not justified in religion, but how else, he said, trauma has mastered his common sense so that what is on his mind at this time is that he does not want to open his heart or approach things that can make his heart melt. So, if someday what happened to his father used to happen to him, then he would not be as hurt as his father.
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