The End of Two Semesters
Chapter 12 – Wedding Dress

“How, Ar?” santi asked by showing a beautiful white dress, which had wrapped her body perfectly.

Although in her pregnancy that will enter the sixth month, Santi's stomach still looks small, does not look too bloated. Indeed, his posture is like that, tall and perfect, no wonder because he is a model who is quite famous. So, being six months pregnant her stomach does not look too bloated.

“Ehm .. perfect,” Arya replied with a smile that appeared to her in awe of Santi's beauty.

“But, my stomach, Ar? There are brides who have bloomed like this?” santi. “What will I use only stagen to be able to hide my distended stomach?” coined.

“You want to kill your son, San?!” aryan hatch.

“I'm ashamed, Ar,” he said with a lowered head.

“Nobody knows you here, Santi. Most Mbak Sri and Mbak Tati only, continue this homeowner who contracted us?” arya.

“But how about penghulu tanya?” ask Santi.

“You don't have to worry about that. I'll take care of everything! Just don't be weird! There is no show wearing stagen, and hide your distended stomach. It's enough you tortured your son from yesterday, Santi!” Arya.

“From yesterday when? Tau tau!” santi Tukas.

“Mbak Sri said you from yesterday mukulin your stomach. What the hell do you want? Poor your son!”

“This child troubles my life, Arya. I was left to go my lover, then restrained by papa and asked to marry a paid man papa? And then this kid hurt my life, he made me unilaterally cut my contract by some agency. What's he living for, Arya? Even if he lives, he cannot be happy, he is not recognized by his biological father, he becomes an illegitimate child. So, it's better he disappears from this world,” said Santi who increasingly digresses with a blank look.

“You realize you didn't say that? Your son deserves to be happy Santi! Don't think about anything, focus on your pregnancy, I promise, I'll give you the capital to return you open a boutique. You use your skills as a designer again, you can do it, Santi. Don't be like that, don't give up, there must be a way out,” said Arya.

“Capital open boutique not one two million, Arya! Tens of millions, even hundreds of millions! Where do you want to get money from?” said Santi.

“I have savings, hopefully it is enough for your initial capital after we get married. Let's just say it's my wedding gift to you. Outside of the dowry. Think of it as a delivery or resignation from me. Capital to open your business,” said Arya.

Although Arya told her mother Santi and her parents, the money given from her mother Santi to open Santi business, but in fact Arya had prepared a budget for Santi's working capital. How you gonna do it again? Santi often asked for work, while in three months Santi will give birth. Which company will accept Santi to work for? Women who are pregnant and a few more months will give birth are certainly difficult to find a job. Therefore, Arya took the initiative to open a boutique from her own savings for Santi, and the money from her mother Santi will be given later to Santi when the time is right.

“Your style! Where did you get that kind of money?!” santi asks who does not believe in Arya.

“Who wants a while? Your people want?” said Santi.

“I? Didn't you refuse?” arya.

“But you asked for just one year, right?”

Arya actually does not want to mess with the wedding. He asked for only one year, because he knew, Santi did not want this marriage. Arya just wants to help. Instead of being together often, but there is no bond, it will endanger him and Santi. Later it will certainly cause slander, and it could be Santi to be the subject of gossip people.

However, Arya understands Santi. He just wants his girlfriend back to him. Arya is the same, she still hopes Naira, loves Naira, but it is impossible for her to be with Naira, especially her father Naira has made fun of her mother.

Arya did not understand, why she was so sympathetic with Santi. Seeing Santi with the current circumstances, makes Arya remember the story of her mother, when her father left her mother with a state of being pregnant.

“Santi, don't discuss this, huh? I know you, but I know you're a good woman. You just fall into the wrong company, if you are not a good woman, you definitely do not become the best graduate, do not become a famous model, do not become a very famous boutique and salon entrepreneur. You just fell in the wrong time and place, Santi. Please don't ever talk about our temporary marriage. If you want, I'll throw away our covenant, and I'll be your real husband without a deal like this. Just two semesters, and as long as we're together, we can't sleep one room during marriage. I have no problem marrying a woman who is pregnant out of wedlock, I do not mind love, you do not love me, I do not love you, I do not love you, I only saved the innocent child that was in your womb. That's my only goal. I don't want any child like me, and I don't want you to feel what my mother feels, Santi,” Arya said, holding Santi's hand.

“Before I met you, I felt I was not worthy to marry another man other than the one who had made me like this. I did choose the wrong place to protest to myself that was too obedient when confined to papa. I'm like this because I want to protest to papa, why I'm an adult but still followed by papa's man. Even I studied abroad two of papa's bodyguards kept me. I wonder, why am I not given the slightest freedom by papa? What's wrong with me hanging out with my peers, enjoying a wonderful childhood, a wonderful adolescence, a wonderful high school. I was only focused by my father to be the best and greatest. My life was just going to the stand, the modeling lessons, and I don't know what else you've arranged. I felt like I wanted to be free, and after I met Fadli, I felt my world change, he was able to take me free, flap my wings wide, and something unexpected happened, I gave everything to Fadli until I was like this.” Santi tells a little challenge of his life to Arya.

“Maybe Fadli was disappointed, because the first time I did it with him, I was no longer a virgin. And, that's because I .. I was tainted by papa's confidant. Yeah, I wasn't desecrated for being raped by her. We like each other, we love each other. It happened when I was in High School. I'm tired of being restrained by papa's name, I'm desperate to establish a relationship with papa's trust driver. He was young, he was handsome, handsome, unmarried, and said he loved me very much. I feel my teenage years are taken away, deprived of the freedom of friends, I go home to school with a driver and two bodyguards, finally my driver who saved me, I can enjoy having a girlfriend in high school time, I can enjoy having a boyfriend in high school, and we had that relationship quietly behind my dad, until I gave it up. After two years of the relationship, she left without saying goodbye, she only left a letter, if she wanted to get married. I was really messed up, then when I was in college I started to secretly hang out with friends, changing girlfriends, until I finished my studies abroad, I was still the same, I was, although there are two papa's men, I can already pay him more, so that I can be free. It's been a long time in my life, Ar. You are a good person, you should not marry a dirty woman like me,” Santi said with teary eyes after telling Arya everything.

He did not expect to be able to tell Arya everything, even though he only knew Arya a few days ago. There has not been a month, but it can be invited to have a good conversation, and Arya is also a good listener when Santi tells everything.

“Indeed, good people should not marry bad people. Instead it will even be able to complement each other to be better, right? I don't care what your past is, Santi. I just want you not to be alone while going through all this. I will accompany you, you do not be afraid, you are not alone,” said Arya.

“Thank you, Ar. Although while you were accompanying me, at least you had saved me from my papa restraints. I don't know why you could be like that to me. I didn't know what was wrong, so I wasn't given any freedom at all to hang out with my friends. My friend is just that, and that's what passed the papa selection to befriend me, Ar. Crazy papa to the extent with me,” lamented Santi.

“You girls, your dad didn't get you wrong like that, because he loves you so much, Santi? Then what about your mother?” ask Arya.

“Mama. I miss my mom, she understands me. My mom always made me feel like a free person. Mama sometimes secretly lies with papa, so I can go watch with friends without bodyguard, sometimes mama who take me out, then she meets me with friends, and then she meets me with friends, my mother was waiting for me where we promised. My mom always knew what I wanted. In fact, my mother once told me, my mother would make a very beautiful dress when I was getting married. But, I let my mom down, I got pregnant out of wedlock, which made me feel very disappointed, and I was not willing to make a dress for me,” said Santi.

Arya saw the Halimah gown that is still worn by Santi. No matter how angry a mother is, she still loves her child. Halimah still loves Santi very much, the proof is that she is willing to drain all her savings for Santi, and give the dress she made to Santi.

“If you knew it was a dress from your mama, San. You must be so happy, your mama gave you that dress. Your mother also gave money to you, to her future grandchildren. I don't know how I'm gonna tell you all this. You will be angry or how I do not know,” muttered Arya.