Figurant Wife
The painful truth
"Me-married?" The Calista.
"Yes, I'm married." Answer Dio firmly.
"What?" Calista nodded in disbelief. "You don't joke, Dio. I don't want to joke right now." Calista Pinta.
"And I'm not kidding. I said seriously, Cal. Sorry, I'm married." Dio said, showing a ring on his ring finger.
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Calita was surprised to not expect. He stepped back because of his surprise. "No, this is impossible." Calista Lirih. His spirit that had been passionate to meet Dio now sirnalah already.
"I'm sorry, Cal. Unbeknownst to you, I'm married to the woman Mama chose." Dio.
Calista stayed in place. The information that Dio had told him had really shocked him to the point of being unable to move and speak.
"Can we talk quietly?" Dio Pinta.
Calista was still silent with tears flowing down both of her cheeks. Dio asks Calista to sit on the sofa. This time Calista agreed because he needed an explanation from his former lover.
"Why did you get married, Dio? How come?" Ask Calista.
Dio sighed before answering. Finally he began to explain the beginning of marriage. From the start of his mother's request to urge him to get married, he who struggled to come to Calista to invite the woman to get married but Calista always refused until finally the time determined by his mother arrived. The time when he has to bring Calista back and if not then he must marry the woman of his mother's choice.
Dio tried not to pity to see tears fall on the cheeks of the woman he once loved so much. "I had to do it at first. I could not refuse my mother's request. All this time Mama always freed me to do whatever I wanted without asking for anything. And that was the first time my mother asked me. As the oldest child in the family, do you think I could refuse my mother's request? Mama even gave me a chance to bring you back but you always refused." Obviously Dio.
Calista could not resist the rate of her tears which were now flowing profusely soaking her cheeks.
Seeing Calista who was still silent made Dio again continue his explanation. "Do you know that even when I'm married, I still expect you to be my wife? So much love for you that I ignored my own wife. I just thought of it as a figurehead in our household relations. I hurt her heart with my treatment. I did all of that for you. But after the many sacrifices that I made to wait for you to return, you can't come back either. You're too selfish with your education to ignore me who also needs the certainty of this relationship."
"I'm sorry." That's the only word that came out of Calista's mouth.
"I know it hurts a lot for you. I am too. But I can what? I can't do anything but accept my destiny." Dio.
Calista was silent while covering her face. Dio who saw his ex-lover crying sobbed tried to hold himself in place.
"Just like you, Cal. My wife used to cry in silence because of my bad attitude towards her. And right now I don't want to make her cry anymore because of you." Dio.
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