Hidden Husband
HH CHAPTER 2 - Responsibility
Megan remembered, the crying man had spent the night with her.
"Hey, stop crying!" scold Megan while throwing a blanket. "At least put on some clothes!"
However, the man flinched. She kept crying in fear.
"Ish, troublesome!" Megan finally got out of bed for being impatient.
"Don't approach me!" yelled the man.
Megan stopped, it seemed like the man had indeed experienced trauma. To be sure, Megan doesn't think.
"Is this your first time?" ask Megan.
The man was still crying but he had to be strong, he should not fall because there were women who had raped him.
"What's my fault, miss? Why are you doing this to me?" ask the man.
"Basic lebay! You were lucky to spend the night with a top artist like me" Megan walked up to the closet and picked up the bathrobe to cover her innocent body.
"How could I have been lucky, I would have offered my virginity to my wife one day but you destroyed it all" the man protested.
"Now that my future is ruined, I feel dirty..."
Megan frowned deeply once, she had just found such a plain old man. He seems to have to speak more patiently.
"We're talking very well, don't cry because I'll definitely take responsibility" Megan said in patient fashion.
Hearing that, somehow the man felt relieved. She wiped her tears and pulled the blanket to cover her body that had been touched by Megan.
"What's your name?" megan asked when she saw the man had calmed down.
"My name is Sulis" he answered.
"The length of Sulistiyono" said the man again.
"Your name is very lonely" commented Megan. His mouth was allergic to saying the man's long name.
"I'm from the village, I just graduated High School and went to the capital after getting a diploma. I applied to work at this hotel and was accepted as a housekeeping employee. It's an achievement even my mother in the village to make a celebration but you destroy everything" explained the man again sad. He thought of his mother, the only rice field they had until it was sold for her departure to the capital.
His mother's wish was that he was an only child and his father had already died by the time he was five. His father left a patch of rice fields that his mother had been using for farming.
Now that his mother's search eye was gone, the man would work hard in the capital and would send money every month to his mother. He didn't want his mother to stay in the fields.
She was raped on her first day of work.
"I'll call you Theo, that's your new name" said Megan, who declined to give the man's name.
"How old are you?"
"I'm eighteen years old" Theo replied.
"Geez!" Megan let out her breath. It turned out that he slept with young leaves, they were ten years different.
He had to resolve this matter quickly and not get leaked out to anyone.
"How much do you need? I'll pay you if you shut up" Megan said later.
Theo felt disbelief Megan would ask like that. "Say you will be responsible" he demanded.
"I'll give you money as a form of responsibility, your job is to just forget everything" Megan replied. He was sure Theo would accept it.
But unexpectedly, Theo asked for something surprising.
"Please marry me" pinta Theo.