Maya Adisti
Shopping

Akash and I got out of the car, and from here I could see Nia busy dressing the model. Maybe because he heard the sound of the car he turned his head. Nia waved her hand at me.

"May! If you have any guidance, say dong. A Agung nagging! Yesterday also your motorbike was towed by people. We tried calling but your phone number is off!" nagging Nia after me and Akash got into the distro.

Nia looked at Akash in surprise, I understood. "Nia, this is Akash, my husband."

"What?!" Nia pulled me into the storage room.

"May, are you serious?" ask Nia again.

I showed you the brightly lit henna and the ring in my hand. "So Nia, when I got permission yesterday, I actually got married."

"Do you invite us, May? So sudden! You're not pregnant first, are you?"

"What's up ?" ask A Agung who just came out of the warehouse.

"This is A, May secretly married. The guy who yesterday found out she was her husband" said Nia.

"really?" The expression of A Supreme looks like it is probing.

"Yes, A. I asked Akash to hire someone to tow my bike. I'm sorry I didn't tell you first, my phone is broken. I'm here to tell you that I want to quit my job."

It is hard to say this to both of them, throughout my life A Agung and Nialah who have helped me a lot in difficult times.

"You're not covering something up, are you, May? It feels weird, isn't that the guy you gave coffee to? How did you meet me in person for marriage?" A Great holds my shoulder.

A Great is like my own brother. He knows me well, maybe this time he understands something is wrong in my life.

"The story is long A. Anyway, the point is that. Like I said," I replied.

"Alright May. If it's your decision I can't do anything, but play here often. If there is a problem with our story, you can come back here again at any time," explained A Agung.

"Thank you for A." I walked open the locker and stuffed some of my stuff stored there into the bag I was carrying.

When I finished I paid my respects to Nia and A Agung. Long time Nia hugged me, I promised her I would come visit her often to the distro or to the boarding house.

I went back to the front, I saw Akash standing there waiting to put his hand in his pocket.

"It's over?" tanyakanya.

I'm nodding. Akash pamit, he greeted Nia and A Agung. We also returned to the car. I opened my bag and put my cell phone in there, dead. I haven't charged the battery in two days. It is only fitting that A Agung and Nia find it difficult to contact me.

Akash cars continue to drive, in downtown Akash turn the car into a mall famous for its branded shops. He took me to a shoe store. Choose high heels, wedges and slippers each one pair.

"Try May!" akash's orders.

"You want to buy me all this? Don't do it, my shoes are still good" I said.

Instead of answering Akash took a pair of sneakers and handed them to me.

"Try!"

I thought I was sitting on the couch and trying it one-on-one. Finished choosing the size of Akash paying for my groceries and carrying all the paperbags. Akash and I walked back to the clothing store.

Seeing Akash pick me a knee-length dress-dress, skirt, blazer, and blouse I pecked annoyed. He seemed busy talking and choosing with some shop employees, while I sat down while folding my hands on my chest.

"May Cobain!" Akash told me to follow one of the servants who held a lot of clothes in his hand.

"Acash. If you're asking me to turn into someone else, I don't want to."

Akash asked the store clerk to keep the clothes he was holding in the fitting room, he pulled my hand after the clerk came out.

"I don't like this way" I said with emphasis.

"May I don't make you someone else. I'm just helping you so you can put yourself in. Where are the clothes worn during meetings, to parties or out of the house," explained Akash.

"Meeting?" many wonder.

"Yes Maya, you will accompany me at some meetings. There's no way I'm gonna let you look like this all the time. What do my business partners say?"

All right, I'm giving up. I obeyed Akash's will again because the reason he gave made sense. I'm getting curious what exactly is this guy doing?

The next thing I did was go in and out of the fitting room and walk back and forth in front of Akash until he found the clothes he liked. This part is really exhausting.

Not only that, Akash also took me to the bag shop and mobile phone shop. Worse, he took me to an underwear store. There was a pretty heated debate there. Until Akash pulled me into the store a little rough.

Why would Akash think of buying me a new interior? Whatdoes thatmean?

"Take it." Akash handed me some paperbags because his hands were full.

"Akash I'm tired" I complained.

Without answering, he led me into a restaurant. He chose a few menus. I waited while twitching my sick leg. No need to wait for long food to come. No more words, Akash and I were busy charging for energy.

"Maya, get your phone" said Akash.

I opened the bag and handed over my phone. I saw him dismantle it, insert my sim card and memory card into a new phone and turn it on. He called his own number on the new phone and then saved my number on his phone.

"Save my number." Akash gave me that new phone.

"Should I change the phone?" my many. Akash didn't answer my question, he went back to eating his food.

***

Late in the afternoon, Akash and I arrived at the apartment. It turns out that one house with a stranger is bad. You want to be so afraid of being wrong, want to be so awkward. Especially realizing that I was just hitching a ride. Bored I decided to soak warm water in the bathtub, eliminating fatigue after walking all day.

I came out of the bathroom in a t-shirt and hot pans. I saw Akash playing his phone on the living room couch. Shopping bags were not far from him.

I grabbed a paperbag with sandals and shoes and took it to a closet near the entrance. When I opened it my gaze was immediately fixed on the red high heels stored on the top shelf. I grabbed it and flipped through those high heels.

I don't know what happened when my eyes suddenly warmed up, my breathing felt tight. These three days I feel very emotional especially when I see Akash. I am looking for the benefits of this marriage. I don't care about Akash and all his interests, but deep down I feel sad.

The marriage I was supposed to do once in a lifetime with the person I love was just a dream. The truth is I have to live life with a stranger who loves someone else. Just now I realized that my heart was lonely, it felt like there was a very cold empty space inside.

I glanced at Akash, from the first day I met him the man had never shown any expression other than being upset. He never explained who he was, or maybe not?

He never asked me all about me either. Let alone being friends, it seemed like he had even put up a huge barrier between us. I put the high heels back into the closet and then cleaned up the item we had bought quickly.

I closed the closet door slowly. After that I walked back to my room. I saw Akash looking at me.

"Clean up everything else Maya, too" he said.

I ignored him, I went in and closed the door and threw myself in bed. I spread my eyes across the room. There is no comfort in this room, there is only quiet as I feel now.

The shadow of my mother's shady face flashed through my mind, I changed my position sideways to the window and the balcony door. I want to wake up, smoke and call my mom but my eyes are so heavy.

Just as I was sleeping I vaguely heard the door of the room opened from the outside, maybe Akash went in to pick up his belongings, but as soon as he heard the door of the house that rang the door of the room was closed slowly.

"Mom, I miss you" I murmured in my heart.

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