The Substitute Woman on the First Night
Candour

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In the car driven by Delano, I kept thinking about what the last words of Mas Denis meant. He left Keisha for a while with my mother. Even in front of the house, she also brought a baby sitter to live in my mother's house. Fortunately, when Mas Denis rebuilt his mother's house after a fire, he deliberately set up a room downstairs if one day there was a housekeeper who would be hired to accompany my mother.

"Why are you, Lissa?" Delano asked when he saw that I was only staring out the window.

I also looked. Looking at Delano who also momentarily looked at me while dividing his gaze towards the front. "I'm okay, No."

"If there is nothing, then you are daydreaming. Must have something to do with Denis, huh? What's the matter with him until he comes to see you?"

Delano asked me that because it was when Mas Denis left to coincide with his arrival to my mother's house. They also had time to cross paths, although the two did not reprimand each other. Even I also had time to see there was a body gesture from Mas Denis that seemed to show his dislike after seeing Delano come to pick me up. Moreover, she must have known that Delano and I were going to dinner just from seeing what we were wearing tonight.

"I'm actually sorry, No. He seems very sorry because he felt that he was the cause of Mira's death."

"But isn't that true?"

"No, No." I don't agree with what Delano is saying right now. I know he hates Mas Denis so much after learning about his treatment of me, but somehow I disagree if Delano blames Mas Denis too much because I think this is already an inevitable fate and not his fault.

"Why are you still defending him after what he has done to you? Even you were able to switch roles with Mira as well because of her unreasonable desire, right? He only wants a virgin woman to be his wife, so why not a woman who is no longer a virgin? Does that woman not deserve to be loved? Is that woman too low in her eyes?" There were a few words that Delano spoke with great emphasis, especially when he asked Mas Denis principles that made no sense to him. Instead of thinking about Delano's response to Mas Denis, I'm more interested in wanting to know how Delano thinks about it. Is he any different than Denis?

"I'm not defending Mas Denis, No. But after hearing your words, I became curious, if you yourself how? Does that virginity mean so much to you?" I stared curiously at the two eyebrows that had been raised finished asking him. Questions that made Delano look nervous. However, I had a hard time reading from the look on her face about what she was really thinking right now.

"No need to talk about that anymore! By the way, the dress you are wearing tonight is good. You look so pretty." He praised me, like trying to shift our conversation and it didn't make my intention to want to know go away.

"No, don't switch the conversation! Answer my question!" I folded my hands in front of my chest and pulled the corners of my lips and looked at them with two eyes.

"alright. I have no choice but to answer, right?"

"Yes dong. I want to know what you think too. Are you different from Mas Denis or are you the same?"

"But earlier I'm sorry, Lissa. Actually I'm ...."

Hearing my words, Delano seemed to take a deep breath. Then, blow it very slowly. His forehead even looked sweaty, even though in his new car it actually felt cold to me.

"I used to think the same way as Denis. Virginity is very important to me. Even I once had a desire to marry a woman who was a virgin and I was the only man ever to touch a body-"

"Already, No! Right you said, better discuss the others." I leaned my body deeper into the car seat. Shifting my eyes no longer looked at Delano and chose to look out the window.

Stupidly I forced Delano to be honest in front of me, when he might have the same principles as Mas Denis and it would hurt my feelings. "Oh my God, I'm feeling even more inappropriate for Delano. He's a graduate, I'm just an ex-convict. She wanted a virgin woman, while I was not who she wanted me to be, "my inner self while holding back the tears that had already made both my eyes feel foggy. Of course I didn't want to cry in front of Delano, let alone that I was the one who forced him to tell the truth.

"Why did you cut my conversation, Lissa? I'm not done yet."

"It's okay, No. I already know and hear very clearly earlier," I replied without turning my eyes to still see the luster of the city lights of Jakarta which is quite beautiful. However, that beauty was not enough to make both corners of my lips smile because my heart was like it was pierced by such a sharp sword.

"But that was before, Lissa, before I understood that it didn't matter as long as I could be with the woman I love. No matter what her past was, no matter what her status was, as long as I loved her, I would accept her flaws."

The almost gaping wound in my heart instantly healed just like that upon hearing the line of words Delano spoke. I could no longer hold back the tears from dripping and let it slip away until both of my cheeks began to be showered with the clear fur. "Is that true, No?" ask me to try to ascertain what I just heard.

"Yes, Lissa. That's what I wanted to say before you cut it."

"Thank you, No. Thank you for accepting this imperfect me."

"There is no need to thank you because when I love you, I must also be ready to accept all your shortcomings." Delano said that with a smile. It makes my heart flowery. Especially when he rubbed the tears on both of my cheeks with one hand.

"I'm grateful, God. Behind all the trials and bad things that happened in my life in the past, you gave a man like Delano," I muttered so deeply moved by his words.

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...Good afternoon, Bestie. Sorry yes yesterday was not updated because Author had dropped because it was still sick. Let's read, One Night Destiny because the story has continued as well. Waiting for his comment there....