The Wedding

Chapter 6: Wedding of the Year

"Where's she?" I asked Omira in a rush. After Nadya sent a message to me, Omira sent another message telling she saw Nadya in front of my boarding us. 

Omira was also our classmate. Long ago before I got the chance to know Nadya and Tessa better, I get the chance to know Omira. She was a beautiful, wise, and graceful lady shown from the way she talked, behaved, and dressed up. Omira was close to Aqila and Eliza although she would sometimes hang out with others. She was clever and a bit silent as if she always thought before she talked. 

The first time I knew Mira was when she sat beside me. I forgot to bring my textbook on that time and she shared it with me. There was a time when I felt so tired waiting for the next class to begin, so I visited her boarding house and waited there. Mira was a bit silent. When we crashed to her place, she would do chores or studied; she was not a chatty person so I was forced to keep my mouth shut and studied too. It was nice though, Mira 'taught' me to keep studying so I would not waste my time gossiping or doing useless things.

Mira, her short name, lived in the same neighbourhood with Tessa and I. She planned to move back home because she would be graduated soon, yet, she waited until the graduation was over so she could move all her stuff. 

"She's in my boarding house. Did you know what happened to her? She looked... terrible," explained Mira while we were walking to her boarding house. Moonlight helped us to see our paths in this neighbourhood where the neighbours tried to save the earth but not not switching on street lights. "She cried all the time but didn't say anything. I don't know what I supposed to do to her." 

Oh gosh, did something bad really happened to her? We quickly walked all the stairs to get into Nurul's boarding house. When I arrived at her place, my heart melted. The place was still the same like I visited her place two years ago. It was a nice place with a balcony showing the view of the city. I used to spend sometime looking outside from the balcony, just to admire the classic beauty of Jakarta where there were so many buildings and rooftops. Mira's room still smelled the same like I remembered, a soft smell of vanilla mixed with citrus.

Well, indeed, something bad must have happened to Nadya. I found Nadya sitting on the floor, leaning to Mira's bed with her head down. She looked up when she heard us coming, but her eyes... the way she looked at me... I would never ever forgot that. It was empty, helpless, and excruciating. She was tormented physically and mentally. Nadya's face was puffy, eyes were red, lips were dry, and body was weak. 

Thanks to Mira, I could take Nadya to my boarding house. Mira was wise and sensitive enough to see the conditions and not pursue more questions, especially when she could see the shock in my face looking at Mira for the first time after a few months I did not see her.

"Are you nuts? Are you insane? Are you out of your mind????" I screamed at Nadya as  soon as Mira left my boarding house. Tessa was still on the way home so I welcomed Nadya first. "You literally saw him with another woman and you said to me it was not the first. Aren't you hurt by him?! Do you forget how you felt when you saw him with another woman? You were crying in front of me, didn't you remember???" I tried my best to make Nadya made sense of her decision.

Nadya was a smart lady, but how come she did not realize the situation? I was so mad that I did not even greet her properly. I saw her grieve but I still could not believe she kept this thing from Tessa, Quinn, and I for so long. I acted like I was her boss and I was ran out of breath for yelling at her. Nadya sat on the chair and put her bag beside her. I sat in front of her and looked at her. She did not say anything, not trying to defend herself nor explaining the situation. She looked at me and I felt bad out of sudden.