
It didn't take long, Salwa was out of the ladies' room. Sean took Salwa by the hand, leading her back to her seat. Sean felt there was still someone watching him, but he could not be sure yet and found evidence of who the prankster was making him such anxious. Not that he was afraid of being attacked, but he was only worried about Salwa. His wife must be in safe condition.
As Sean and Salwa return to their seats, the sacred process of chanting the sacred promise between Catherine and Abust is complete, and the procession awaited by the jomblowans and jomblowati will take place soon. The girls had gathered to fight over the bouquet of flowers that Abust and Catherine had thrown, making them crammed into each other with their hands ready to catch.
As originally planned, Abust and Catherine threw the flower right in Leon's hands. Everyone in the fight looked disappointed, but Sean and Salwa applauded Leon's success in getting the bouquet.
The flower bouquet was over, which meant the wedding procession was over, and Catherine and Abust were now officially married. They walked while holding hands welcoming the invited guests.
Sean and Salwa, close relatives, congratulate Abust and Catherine. Hand in hand, the two of them walked closer to the happy couple.
"I'm glad you finally got a good match, at least you're not messing around and bothering Salwa anymore." Sean said the circus that immediately got a pinch on the arm and threw a sharp gaze by Salwa. What kind of congratulations, Sean should pray for Abust and Catherine's happiness, not even make fun of her.
Sean only chuckled while rubbing Salwa's head affectionately. Salwa then greeted Catherine and hugged her.
"Congratulations, may you both be happy and never be separated forever" Salwa said sincerely, followed by a nod by Abust and Catherine.
"Thank you, the best prayer is also for you" Catherine replied later. They took off hugs and threw happy smiles.
Sean and Salwa passed by, they again sat down at the place all while enjoying the dishes available on the table.
"Mas, I want to go to the bathroom again." Salwa said while holding her stomach, she has been urinating lately, but today the routine is becoming more frequent , in fact, almost five to ten minutes once Sean had to take his wife to the bathroom.
"Are we going back to the hotel?" Sean asked then, not having the heart to see Salwa who was back and forth to the bathroom who had to walk a little far from her seat.
"I want to see the party, the decor is very beautiful. I like it" Salwa said innocently.
Sean again rubbed Salwa's head, he just realized with the words of his wife. Perhaps Salwa unconsciously said her desire to make such a wedding, because their marriage was not celebrated at all and could be said to be done secretly. In his heart Sean promised to make a surprise party for his wife after the birth of his son and celebrate their wedding anniversary.
"Well, let's take it to the bathroom."
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Milly had been waiting for her turn to congratulate Abust, and now it was time to come face to face with her only son. During the wedding procession, Milly's tears unceasingly fell, she was moved with a soul-stifling feeling. If only he had not been foolish to abandon his only child, he would have been the happiest parent to witness his son's marriage to the woman he loved. But that can only be regretted. Even Abust never thought it existed in his life.
Milly was in front of Abust and Catherine, eager to embrace her son and congratulate a father on his newly married son. But he did not deserve to do it, even he had never built a household relationship with any woman. He was just busy changing partners until he was no longer young. He only realized that the importance of having a partner who can accompany him until old age. Because only a wife who wants to accompany a man until his old age comes later.
"Congratulations on your marriage, may you be happy." Milly extended her hand to Abust, but Abust refused to accept her. Catherine who felt uneasy seeing Milly's hand floating in the air immediately greeted the middle-aged man's hand kindly.
"Thank you" Catherine said with a friendly smile. That was all that Milly could say, even though the pain in her heart was ignored by her biological child but it didn't matter. He did deserve it, because he only planted seeds and did not want to care for and take care of it, so he felt he was not entitled to Abust. Milly finally passed leaving Catherine and Abust feeling disappointed.
Yang Pou Han who came with Lie's assistant took turns congratulating Abust. And it was now Catherine's turn to refuse to look at the man's face. He was so sick of seeing his face, his fake smile that once brought him to his knees and obediently looked so disgusting.
"Congratulations, I didn't expect you to pick it up. But you won't lose because he's so good in bed."
"You.," Catherine wanted to slap Yang's spicy mouth, but she had not yet hit him, Abust had already blocked his neck which made many people hysterically look at him.
"So your rotten mouth, I can blow your head up here." Abust snapped right in front of Yang's face, but the man even chuckled with a very annoying face. He showed his palms facing forward, then said, "relax."
"I'm just testing you, seeing you angry like this I'm sure you really love her, take good care of her. Don't let anyone insult her."
Abust took off her clutches from Yang's neck, "You don't have to worry about that, before anyone intends to insult her, I will cut off his tongue so that no one will dare to insult and belittle my wife again."
"Good." That corrected the position of his tie and suit after the grip of Abust which made his clothes look a little messy. He then patted Abust's shoulder and passed without greeting Catherine.
"Sorry," Catherine said in a soft voice. Abust turned his head, clasping Catherine's fingers tightly. "I'm the one who should be sorry for making you see him again."
"No, I should have been self-conscious. I'm too dirty for you, I don't deserve to be with you at all. Even now I can't afford to stare at the invited guests one bit." Catherine lowered her head, her tears dripping slightly from the corner of her eyes. Abust touched Catherine's chin so she could see it, looking into the depths of her eyes.
"Catherine, everyone has a past. And your past is no worse than mine. And if you want to accept me with all my past, why can't I do it for you? It's not that you're a woman that you feel dirtier than I do. We're the same, we've done forbidden things that married couples should do, so you don't have to feel dirty or inappropriate, because we're both the same. Now, forget about our dark past, we look to the future with each other hand in hand to create the future of our family into a happy family filled with love and affection."
Catherine smiled at Abust's words, not expecting Abust to think that she could think that mature. He was very grateful to be reunited with him until it ended in the guarantee as it is today.
When love is tested by the past, all we need to do is make peace with it.
The past holds a lot of memories, but that is no reason not to keep moving forward.
The past we can remember on one condition, these memories can empower us, not bring us down!"
Leon was still carrying a bouquet of flowers in his hand, he was looking around for where Yeyen was. His eyes swept all over to look for the figure he wanted to meet, then he could smile when he saw Yeyen was talking to his partner who did not know who it was.
Leon tapped on the goblet-shaped glass with a spoon, pleading for attention to everyone.
"Consider everything." Everyone who was conversing with the other fellow guests focused their attention on Leon. They whispered about what exactly Leon would announce.
"Today is the wedding day of my brother and best friend, Abust Arthur. Ahh, definitely the best prayer from me for the both of you. And on this important day I will also announce something no less important."
Leon took out a ring from his suit pocket and walked lightly closer towards Yeyen, everyone who saw him pushed by himself to give way to Leon to meet his heart adoration. The man with a face full of confidence stepped closer and closer to where Yeyen was standing.
"Yeyen," called Leon to the woman who was talking to his friend. Yeyen turned her head, then smiled at Leon. The girl simply observed the movements of Leon approaching her, without thinking about what Leon would do to her.
Leon suddenly crouched down with one leg in the bend and made one knee as a pedestal, his hand holding a red box made of velvet that can be ascertained that the contents are rings.
"Leon, what does all this mean?" Yeyen looked here and there, somewhat uncomfortable with the attention of everyone who was fixed on the two of them, especially when Leon was acting strangely in front of him. As Yeyen knew, the man was always apathetic to her, and even he would be a very annoying man by making Yeyen have trouble doing things because Leon always gave her unreasonable work. But today, the annoying man suddenly knelt down in front of him carrying a ring, what would he do with the ring?
Yeyen gaped, gasping at Leon's words. No, it's not possible. Leon must be kidding. With all this going on between the two of them there was absolutely no sign that Leon liked him. Even Yeyen felt Leon was acting so annoying that the man hated her.
"You're kidding, aren't you?" yeyen said with her eyebrows raised upwards.
"No, I'm serious about what I'm saying, do you want to accept me?" Leon still displays his smile when Yeyen is still confused with what answer he will say. Seeing so many pairs of eyes staring at her, as if demanding a "yes" answer from her lips made Yeyen even more cornered. Especially now that there is a former superior, Sean, who was holding his wife, watched the silly scene of Leon kneeling in front of him, making Yeyen even more nervous.
Yeyen cleared her throat for a moment, controlling her emotions and regaining her consciousness. His gaze was fixed towards the ring that Leon was holding and then turned to Leon's face.
"Leon, can we talk about this somewhere else? There are too many people here." said Yeyen with a little wheezing.
Leon smiled, it seemed like the girl in front of him was embarrassed if his love story was revealed by an outsider. But that's what Leon wanted. He wants to show everyone that he has conquered the heart of a beautiful girl in a romantic way.
"You can answer it now, in front of a lot of people. I will accept your decision."
There was no other way to avoid it, Leon was already chuckling with his stance. So there was nothing Yeyen could do but answer him.
"Leon, we've known each other for a long time. And all this time you never told me how you felt, and I thought that you didn't like me. So I decided to accept another man's proposal. And we will formalize our relationship next month. So, I'm sorry I can't accept you."
Leon's face turned sour with an unexpected answer coming out of Yeyen's mouth, he belatedly expressed his love for the girl. Leon was too busy weighing his feelings, so eventually Yeyen had taken people first.
"Who's the lucky guy who got you?" leon responded to Yeyen's reply, though bitter and a little embarrassed at being publicly rejected, but he tried to mature by taking heart to accept Yeyen's decision.
"He's here, with me." Yeyen turned her head towards a man wearing a dark blue suit stelan with a bow tie around his neck. The man smiled sweetly with his gentle gaze directed at his lover Yeyen. Leon straightened his body, he had to sincerely see who his competitors had stolen the start from him. The man walked over, out of the crowd of invited guests. With a calm demeanor and a smile that did not fade from his lips, the man extended his hand towards Leon.
"Hans, I'm sorry I got his heart first" said the man introducing himself. With a little laziness Leon shook the hand of the man named Hans was trying to become a man of dignity.
"Congratulations, you're a good match."
Leon let go of his hands and turned towards Yeyen who looked down overwhelmed with guilt. " I hope you're happy with your choice."
With an attitude that he tried to toughen up, Leon walked over by reinserting his ring box into his suit pocket. Hope there will be another love that he will find in the future.
Salwa who saw the heartbreaking scene was in disbelief, she could see the man again. The man who used to help her selflessly that she had not been able to say thanks in person.
"Mas, it's Hans" Salwa told Sean, who saw Leon's failure to win Yeyen's heart.
Sean nodded, he had never met Hans in person. He was jealous of the man when Salwa told him all of Hans's kindness openly, but at this time, when his mind was clear, he realized that Hans had helped Salwa a lot when he could not take care of his wife. Sean felt he owed the man a lot.
"We'll see him later" Sean revealed a promise to Salwa.
Leon again sat down on the chair he had previously been sitting in, gulping down the red liquid with a fruity taste in it. He put the glass down with a little hard.
"Stupid, slow, useless" said the girl sitting next to Leon. Leon turned his head towards the strange girl.
"You again? Are you talking about me?" Leon snapped at the girl who had argued with him before.
"You think?" say the girl without sin. Leon cleared his throat for a moment, then gripped the girl's arm, not accepting if he was said to be stupid, slow and useless. But unexpectedly, the girl actually turned Leon's hand to the back of Leon's back before Leon managed to grab his arm.
"Well, you're crazy." said Leon rudely, to which the girl replied hiss.
"You're useless, how can Sean raise two useless men like you as sisters." the girl let go of Leon's hand that had twisted backwards.
Leon held onto his still-painful arm, looking dejectedly at the strange girl.
"You crazy woman, why around Sean there are always a lot of strange women like this, whether sean can not find a normal woman who can be his partner." leon said with a grumble but said clearly and loudly.
"What did you say? Basic useless."
"Crazy woman."
"Stupid."
"Crazy."
"Slowly."
When Leon was about to recite the words scorn, suddenly Abust's voice interfered with him.
"Fang Yi, Leon you guys are so compatible, you better get married."
"So, this crazy girl is called Fang Yi." Leon glanced at her with a look of disdain.
"What, what do you want." Fang Yi snapped with a face that wanted to fight back. But before it all ended in a quarrel, Sean immediately brokered them.
"If you fuss, then I will forcibly marry you right now."
"What.." cried Leon and Fang Yi together.
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The chapter is long, yes.may not rumoh because of the extension... โบ๐๐