Trial Marriage Husband : I Am CEO's Plaything

The weekend has come after a long wait. This morning, Lisa was still lying in her bed, feeling bad and depressed, still haunted by what happened to her last night. She peeked from behind her heavy eyelids, looked at the clock and then closed her eyes again. Since today is the weekend, Lisa doesn't need to get up in a hurry. She doesn't need to work on weekends like Rangga.

When the clock showed 11, Lisa finally woke up and took a bath. Then she went down to the ground floor, looking at Rangga who was sitting holding a calendar in the living room. The man flipped through his calendar excitedly.

"Hey, are you not working today?" Lisa suddenly asked. She appeared from behind Rangga, making the man gasp.

Seeing Lisa had just come down from the second floor, Rangga smiled and walked over to her, showing her the calendar he was holding. "Finally, you've woken up! Look, I'm choosing the day for our wedding. How about tomorrow? We go to church and the party follows? The most important thing is that we have to be declared as a legal couple first hehe," Rangga sounded so happy, like a child getting a birthday present.

Lisa was pretty shocked after hearing the man's words just now, looking speechless. Her brain could not process what Rangga had just said. As soon as the man showed the calendar, he immediately circled the date in question.

Yesterday, Lisa mentioned marriage in front of Rangga. And not just that, she invited Rangga to get married! For an instant, Lisa regretted what she said yesterday. She shouldn't be too hasty in saying that she wants to get married. The risk is great if she is not ready!

Lisa froze where she stood, didn't know made her tongue go out to say something but her heart suddenly felt uncertain. Between happy and restless.

"Umm... yes… But I... I'm nervous..." Lisa said spontaneously, responding to Rangga's words.

"Ah, you don't need to be nervous! I can't wait to get married to you and make you my wife!" Rangga couldn't hide his joy in front of her.

Lisa pursed her lips and looked at him blankly. Seeing the man on tiptoe with joy made her regret that she asked him to marry in the near future. But Lisa must accept this consequence. She was the first to say 'let's get married' yesterday, so she could only surrender and go along with it.

Lisa did her best to hide her regret from Rangga with a smile. "Hehe, I'm happy that we're finally going to get married..."

When Rangga heard her words just now, his face became even happier.

In her entire life, Lisa has never seen him look so happy as he is today despite the fact that the two of them grew up together up to high school.

In the afternoon, Lisa prepares everything she has to bring and wear to go to church tomorrow. Their wedding can wait. After all, the most important thing is the legal status, right?

The only thing Lisa hasn't prepared is to tell her mom that she's getting married tomorrow. She wanted to wait until everything was prepared before she told her mother. She didn't want to surprise her mother, who was easily sick, so she had better wait until she and Rangga finally arranged the wedding.

Lisa can only tell this to her best friend whom she hasn't contacted for a long time— Andien. Without thinking, she immediately grabbed her cellphone and made a call.

At the same time, her cellphone's screen showed a call from Andien. 

What a coincidence!

"Wow, I've just wanted to call you. I want to tell you that—" not finished with her sentence, Andien immediately interrupted, "Lis! I've got into trouble again!"

Lisa was shocked hearing Andien's voice, which sounded very worried and panicked. "What's wrong, Ndien? Are you okay?"

"My father… He died last night... My mother was at home alone and constantly in shock until she passed out. Now I have to go back to my parents' house and help my mother for some time. I might leave for a long time, I don't know. Anyway I have resigned myself from my job," Andien said in a voice that sounded sad and confused. Lisa could faintly hear the faint crying from the other side.

Lisa listened to her best friend talk about all her worries. She hasn't contacted her best friend for a long time but suddenly heard such sad news once she called her. 

Lisa understood how Andien's family was. Her younger brother is addicted to gambling, so her parents have to struggle together to support their small family. Now that Andien's father is gone, of course her mother cannot bear the financial burden alone, especially when the younger brother is addicted to gambling.

"If you need help, I can take care of your father's funeral. You just have to say it and I'll send some people to your parents' house," Lisa offered without a doubt.

Andien was silent for a moment, not knowing how to answer. In fact, she cried from across the phone before she finally said, "No need, I can do it alone. I don't want to bother you, I just want to talk to you about this all, and it makes me calm..."

"But you're my best friend. I can't possibly let you have a hard time without help!"

"It's okay, I can do it. Thanks a lot for the offering. Thanks a lot for listening to all of my complaints and grief," Andien replied softly.

She forces Lisa not to involve herself in her family matters. In this case, Lisa has no right to force Andien to accept her help. She was only able to calm her best friend over the phone.

Shortly before Lisa was about to hang up the call, Andien quickly said, "How is your relationship with Rangga? I hope it's alright..."

"We..."

Her tongue suddenly went out. She doubted whether she should tell Andien the truth or not. If Andien weren't mourning this time, it's obvious that Lisa would have told her.

But Andien is also her best friend, she doesn't want to hide her marriage to Rangga from her.

"So... Rangga and I will get married tomorrow..."

"Wow, congrats, Lis! May you two last for life. I'm sorry I can't come to your wedding ceremony," Andien replied regretfully.

"Hey! It's okay, you're still mourning your dad anyway. I'm so sorry… I'm sorry I can't come to your father's funeral," Lisa replied in a sad voice.

"Thanks, congratulations once again!"

Then the call was closed. Lisa felt mixed. Andien is more like her sister than her own biological sibling, Bella. Sometimes, Lisa feels that Andien is her sister from another mother. That's why when she heard the sad news just now, her heart broke for Andien.

***

The next day, Lisa woke up anxious. The call from Andien yesterday made her restless and worried. When she got out of bed and grabbed her cell phone from the nightstand, she checked a text from Rangga.

In the message, Rangga told her that he had urgent business at the office so he had to go to the office early.

Knowing this, Lisa immediately went downstairs and looked for Mrs. Sumiyati. "Ma'am! Where is Rangga? How come I didn't see him around?"

Mrs. Sumiyati lowered her head and said, "Mr. Rangga has already left because there is an urgent matter at the office. Earlier, he told me to ask you to meet him at the church at 9 this morning."

"9, huh?" Lisa's thoughts began to take her to the past. When Oscar asked her to get married, the plan failed miserably. Suddenly, her heart ached at the memory of that painful incident. 

After breakfast, Lisa's cell phone rang. It was a call from Vira, her junior in college.

"Hello, Sister Lisa! Congratulations on your wedding to Mr. Rangga! We wish you happiness throughout your life and be blessed with children soon!" Vira said happily from across the phone.

Lisa is happy to hear prayers and kind words from Vira, but her memory travels back to the past about her two children who both died before she could see their faces.

'Have children, huh?' Maybe it was impossible because Lisa had lost her two children before. Not to mention that her womb began to weaken, the doctor told her that it was difficult for her to get pregnant after the second miscarriage.

There was silence during the call. Vira then thought that she might have offended Lisa. "Uh, sorry... I didn't mean to offend... I'm just happy to hear this good news..."

"Hey, just relax.. Thanks for the kind prayer, Vira," Lisa replied politely.