
Yonna explained everything to her parents without her covering. The woman looked down in embarrassment with the Crystal feathers that fell on top of the two hands clasping each other tightly to her thigh bag. His heart ached, his pride seemed to be stripped away to nothing.
Repeating the old story as if grabbing mud to cross his own face. How shameful she must tell her parents if she is a wife untouched by her own husband. A wife who is so disgusted to see let alone considered there by her own husband.
Maya looks at her daughter sadly, as a mother her heart is also sliced to listen to her daughter's sad story. Maya realizes that there are many things she doesn't know about her daughter. The marriage that he had thought was fine had apparently brought quite a deep wound to his daughter's heart.
Maya shifts her seat closer to the princess. Grabbing the back of Yonna's neck gently for the woman to lean on her shoulder. Letting the beautiful woman cry to blow away all the claustrophobic stuff on her chest.
“Young man, you come with me!” Robert stood up from his seat carrying Bara to his study room on the lower floor not far from the living room.
Bara followed the old man's footsteps in silence. There were many things Robert wanted to ask the man before making a decision that might change his daughter's life.
“Ma, sorry. I didn't mean to hide any of this from you. I am ashamed to have to tell you how embarrassing my meaningless life is,” sobs still sound so heartbreaking.
Maya raises her daughter's face. He wiped away those flowing tears with love. The love of parents who never break even though their children have grown up.
“There's nothing else you need to cry about, son. Let the past be a memory, what remains now what you have and a long future. Look at you right now, you are no longer the Alice you once were, you also have a handsome son accompanying you. You are no longer alone. Sorry if all this time as parents we are not sensitive to what you are experiencing.” Maya took a long breath.
The story of his daughter's life is much more complicated than breaking a tangled thread.
“All decisions are in your hands, Bara came here with the good intention of proposing to you. Mama knows you must still be reluctant to stay home again especially those who are still in touch with the Apsara family. However, he was Noah's father. The boy deserves to know who his father is, don't let his life lack affection. Sometimes what can be given by a father we can not give as a mother,” explained Maya gives the best advice for her daughter.
He is not pushy, instead giving Yonna time to think for herself what is best for her and her child.
Yonna fell silent she looked back at the stretch of parcels that Bara brought earlier. Among the arrangement of items for her, Yonna saw a collection of children's toys arranged in a closed corner with other gifts. Until it was not seen by him.
What Maya said entered his mind. Maybe Bara is not the man he hopes to be his life partner. But he might be a good father to his son. Seen from the affectionate gaze that Bara gave to his son.
Yonna wiped away her tears, coinciding with Bara and Robert also coming out to them. Sit in the back place.
“Papa had also listened to everything from Bara's mouth. Now the decision is in your hands, because you are living it all. We as parents just want what's best for you."
Robert looked back at Bara and Yonna in turn before resuming his words. There was a huge stone pressing down on his heart at this moment.
"But if Papa can give input, marry him, live happily with the son you have. Maybe this is the destiny God gave you. Sometimes we can decide who we marry, but we can not determine who is our soul mate in the future,” said Robert with his breath sounds heavy with his shoulders bowed withered.
Yonna was stunned again. He looked into Bara's eyes, looking for what he wanted to find in there. Of love? Of loyalty? Or firmness holds a commitment to live a relationship called marriage. I don't know..Even the woman couldn't hope for much.
Perhaps that smile would also be etched beautifully back into that little face, if he knew himself to be the same as his other friends. He has a daddy that he's been dreaming about.
“But how will I explain to Noah about his dead Daddy coming back to life? Doesn't this sound like a joke.” Yonna smiled bitterly at what was on her mind at the moment.
“I know this sounds like an imposition to you. But I want to make amends for all the mistakes I've done, give me one chance to start all over. Marry me and we raise our son together!” Bara opened her voice.
Yonna closed her eyes for a moment, regulating the heartbeat that kept pumping quickly. Then he opened his eyes again with the answer he had locked in his heart.
“Alright, I'll marry you. But with one condition.”
“What are the conditions, whatever it is I will strive to fulfill it.” He answered without a second thought.
“Terms, this wedding is held tomorrow in private without the presence of both your parents and your sister. I don't want to be the gossip of people who know who I am,” said Yonna who was able to make all the eyes in the room wide.
“Alice!”
Both of his parents called his name. But Bara is still calm to listen to what his future wife wants. I don't know what's in Yonna's mind, Bara doesn't care about it. Provided that the woman agreed to marry him, that alone was enough for him before this woman next to him changed her mind.
“But what if my Mom and Dad ask, I can't hide you from my family. Surely I want them to know who my son and wife are.”
Bara plans to come home from Lombok to tell his parents about who the woman he will marry. But the busyness he had to do made himself had not had time to say it and now Yonna actually forbid it.
“Just introduce me to my new identity, if they finally find out. Let them know for themselves. I just don't want to face so many questions right now. Give me some time and space to calm down for a moment. Do you know, coming back into your family is enough to carry a burden on my heart especially meeting your sister again. I don't want to appear as poor Alice,” Yonna obviously made everything go quiet again.
“Alright, I will obey your wishes. But I can't guarantee that I can cover it all forever. In the end, both my parents should know. If you're not comfortable with them, I'll take you to live in our house, there's only three of us in that house.”
“No need, I want Noah to get to know his Grandpa and Grandma from next door Daddy first. So it doesn't matter if we stay at your parents' house first. Didn't Mama Jelita used to say, if her children are married she prefers her children to live together in one big house side by side,” replied Yonna quickly.
Bara squinted his eyes at the woman who had just agreed to marry him. As a lawyer, his instincts are sharp.
“Alright, I hope there's nothing you're hiding from me.”
“There isn’t any!” yonna replied with a faint smile.