Trapped On The Bride's Night
3. Liability

The wedding will be held soon. Tonight, Jeno will make a holy pledge of marriage to Aura, the daughter of her Papa best friend.

Although Aura was a year older than Jeno, but the young man had loved Aura since they were teenagers. Merely, to get close to Aura, Jeno did not dare. She was very appreciative of the girl, making it difficult to express feelings that her fear was still unstable.

At the age of 25, who would have thought if Jeno was finally given the green light to marry Aura. His prayer as if answered, Aura like cursed not to have a lover until finally Jeno can marry him without having to date first.

Isn't this one of her rewards?

"Why does his kabul's hijab have to be night, Pa? Why not from the morning continue the reception?" Jeno asked her father.

"Your grandmother wants it so, tonight it will be at the Aura residence, tomorrow afternoon the reception at the Hotel." Mama Jenifer told me.

"Well, it's a horror, isn't it?" papa Beno chirps over the conversation of his son and wife.

"Yes, yeah, yeah." Jeno breathed a sigh of resignation at the utterance of the Father.

"Well, who can't wait to get married." Abel-Kakak Jeno- comes with his favorite potato chips. He's in the middle of a two-body right now, making him look 'filled'.

"yeah, dong. I'll marry Aura soon. Turns out my prayers were granted by God, brother."

"What do you ever pray for?" abel's lips.

"Yes, I have!"

"This abbis doain I followed ya. I want to get Grey," said Sheila, who chimed in. She is the youngest child aka Abel and Jeno's younger sister. Sheila has loved Grey Orion Lazuardi–adik Aura– for a long time.

"Oh, you went to college!" sahut Abel and Jeno compact.

Those in the room laughed at the conversation of the three brothers.

Their laughter paused because of the arrival of the old woman who respected all. The Grandmother had already come and entered the room where they were gathered.

"Are you ready, Jen?" mother Rosita asked her grandson.

"Udah, Grandma," Jeno replied.

"Yes already. Let's go to deliver the bride and groom" said Ms. Rosita with a happy look.

All the shadows about last night's events, shimmering in Jeno's memory. It should be today that she and Aura already bear the status of husband and wife. Dear thousand dear, the girl disappeared last night. Even until Jeno's extended family decided to go home at a very late time, there was no sign Aura had returned. Looks like Aura won't be home all night.

They had all contacted Aura, but it turned out that the girl's phone was left in the room. Aura disappeared while intending to be dressed by MUA who had been waiting for her in a special room decorated with–that's the news that Jeno heard.

"Why didn't Aura refuse this marriage from the beginning? Why wear a fuzzy show and disappear on the night of the bride? Did he not think, this action made our family so embarrassed!" 

Ms. Rosita has been nagging so early, of course, still discussing yesterday's problems concerning the main subject of the failure of the contract event that Jeno will pledge.

"Patience, Ma." Papa Beno tried to calm his mother. He also glanced at the son who looked careless for failing to get married last night. "Not only are our families ashamed, the Sky extended family must also be ashamed of this. We never know why Aura disappeared so suddenly last night, so we have to ask her later" he continued.

Jeno at the end of the room still seemed silent, she did not even sleep all night, thinking of Aura escaping from their sacred event. Yes, that's what Jeno thought, including all her family.

"What is my grandson's lack? Why was he left on the wedding night?" Rosita's back windy.

"... fortunately the place of the meeting and reception are separated and those who are present there are only relatives last night. If this happened at the hotel where the guests and relations had arrived, our family would be even more embarrassed."

The old woman breathed a rough breath.

"Well! How'this? Reception at the hotel later this afternoon. It is unlikely that the show will be cancelled. Everyone must have prepared for Jeno and Aura's wedding. Many business relations are willing to come from outside the city, even abroad. If the bride is not there. What do you want to say?"

"Udahlah, Ma. We can stay there later and welcome the guest. Let's just say Jeno and Aura really have done last night's contract. We'll do a re-account if Aura comes back," said Mama Jenifer trying to give a suggestion and a way out.

Hearing his daughter-in-law's statement, Ms. Rosita was just wide-eyed.

"What do you mean? Jeno and Aura will be married next time, right? Nah! Mama is not going. With Aura running away like this, it was the same as not accepting her marriage to Jeno" Bu Rosita said sharply.

"There's no doubt that their marriage will never happen at any time. Aura has already trampled on the pride of our great family!"

"Enough!" Jeno who had been silent since, now raised her voice while upholding herself. "You all think about shame! No one thought about how I felt!" fierce as it passed away.

"Jeno!"

"Jeno!"

The young man ignored the call from Grandma and her parents, he left with a sense of arrogance.

...***...

On the other hand, precisely at the Aura family residence. The girl sat on her parents' sides.

There was Oma, and on the right were her two younger brothers–Cean and Rion.

Aura bowed her head because now right across from her was Rayyan who seemed to be attending the trial in the middle of her extended family.

"I've heard everything from Aura" Papa Sky began his talk.

Rayyan who had since looked down now raised her face to look at the charismatic middle-aged man.

No words came out of Rayyan–'s lips as if he was deliberately waiting for Papa Sky to say more about the discussion about him with Aura.

"I want to hear from you, why did you do that to my daughter?"

Rayyan let out a short breath before finally making a sound.

"If I am allowed to be honest, then the answer is that I also do not know why I and Aura can end up in the same room–"

"Breng sek!" Apparently it was the speech of Cean who was at the end there, he snorted, there was a furious glint in both of his eyeballs, he said, he could not accept that his twin sister had been harassed like this by a young man named Rayyan who had only been in the family Pavilion for the past week.

Everyone there turned their gazes to Cean, but Mama Yara gestured for her son to remain silent and listen to this negotiation until he actually found a bright spot.

"I know my answer does sound like a man. I don't deny that. But even though I was not aware of what was really going on, I was ready to take responsibility for what I had done" Rayyan said.

"What responsibility can you give?" Papa Sky is back on Rayyan.

"I am ready to marry Aura as my form of accountability. That's if I'm allowed."

Hearing that, Aura muttily shook her head firmly in her position. He did not want to marry a foreign man like Rayyan even though they had a brief acquaintance the other day.

"I don't want to, Pa, Ma" said Aura.

All eyes were on the girl.

Oma Indri started to raise her voice now. "Aura, if Rayyan is ready to marry you, that's better, dear. He wants to take responsibility .." he said. Oma Indri understood the condition of Aura now, not necessarily there was a young man who was willing to accept the state of Aura what it was after all this happened.

"I don't want to, Oma. I don't want to!" pekik Aura hysterical.

Aura rose from her seat, then darted away accompanied by a sobbing that sliced the hearts of all her extended family.

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