Married By Contract

For me, summer is quite a pleasant season, where I do not need to carry an umbrella wherever I go, and I can use a hat to protect my head from the hot sun. Even though it was scorching hot, it does not matter because I was looking for a room has air conditioning. It was a cafe, library, or of course, my room. Following my name, namely Summer, I like summer. If someone is new to me and knows my name. They will feel that my name is very unique. There are so many endless questions they ask me, whether I am from abroad or maybe my parents are obsessed with my name. My brother has a name like a name in general. Not like my name. Yes, my only older brother is named Hakim. He is very protective of me. So that has one of the reasons why I have not dated yet.

From starting elementary school until I am working, many people are surprised by my name. I am still getting the same question as before. But this time, it was already familiar to my ears, and I did not need to explain my name at length anymore. And I have an answer to that. I repeat every time someone asks again about my name. Think all you want about the meaning of my name. That is my answer roughly. I am currently 30 years old. For me, it was still a fairly young age to get married. But not with my parents. They always urged me to get married, especially to my mother. She is so obsessed with marriage because, She has afraid her daughter not find a mate. Even though I have an older brother who is now 40 years old, not married and he was abroad. So he survived my mother has terror about marriage.

The most annoying thing right now is my mom always arranges blind dates without my knowledge. She has always trapped me in situations that make me unable to refuse what she has planned before. If I had known, I would have turned him down head-on. Having a lover is not on my main list of life at the moment. I am pursuing a thriving career, and I am enjoying my single life as well. It was not that. I do not want to date, or I do not have a dating passion. It was just that I do enjoy my solitude at the moment. For me, marriage is quite important. It was just that. I do not want to rush into it. However, my mother kept acting up. She always said that she would set me up with the child of her social gathering friend.

That is always present in our conversations. One day, my mother and I were arguing about the match she would do for me. Out of annoyance, words came out of my mouth that I should never have said, I already have a boyfriend, mom! Stop matchmaking me! I said while looking annoyed at my mother. I saw my mother getting silent while looking at me. I think, this time, she will stop pressing me to do an arranged marriage. But it seems my words became a blunder for myself. I thought my mother would be quiet and calm, but she was not. My mother immediately smiled when to find out what kind of person I currently dating. And I realized. It looks like I am only making my situation worse now. My mother indeed not talk much about matchmaking with me anymore, but she asked me to introduce my boyfriend to her soon.

In my heart, I said, how do I want to introduce him, even though I do not have a boyfriend? I muttered. Day after day, my mother kept on raving about why I had not introduced my boyfriend to her yet. Eventually, my mother started to suspect me. We started arguing again after a few days we did not argue about matchmaking or marriage. I even made up a story again that my boyfriend has an Important position in a company, and it was hard to find the right time. My mother was increasingly suspicious of me and started looking at me with eyes full of suspicion made me stutter a little and feel awkward.

In The end, my mother told me that if I did not bring my boyfriend this weekend, I had to fulfill her wish to accept the arranged marriage she has previously planned. At that time, I was so speechless. The weekend is only four days away. Where can I find a boyfriend in such a short time? I thought. The next day I asked my best friend named Emil.

I told her what I just experienced. Emil suggested me for looking someone through a dating application is currently being used by many people. I did not like Emil has suggestion, but I had no other choice, so I did as he said. I started downloading the application and trying to understand how to use the application.

While I am using the dating app, I think it looks like I am going to do a drama. Even if necessary, I will pay him to pretend to be my lover in front of my mother so that my mother will stop setting me up with other people. While I browsing the app, I also got a message with the account name . he sent a short message via the chat column in the application with the words Hi. I replied briefly by saying. Yes. Finally, we started replying to messages even though it was short. I tried to open a conversation that was quite long, but in fact, the man just kept replying to me briefly.

I asked him to meet me at a coffee shop near my workplace. The man agreed to meet. I only sent the meeting location and time. The rest I intend to discuss when we meet. That afternoon I arrived first at the coffee shop because it was close to my workplace, so it did not take much time to get there. I see, it looks like the man I was about to meet does not seem to have come yet because, in The tavern, no men are sitting alone.

I also looked for a place first and ordered a cup of coffee, to accompany me while to wait. A few minutes passed, and the man did not come. I started to feel bored, I tried to contact the man again through the application, but there was no reply. I decided to try waiting again. Finally passed, and I was getting annoyed and felt very angry. I think it looks like I have been played. I decided to leave until I started cursing myself.

When I was about to leave, suddenly, someone grabbed my hand from behind, so I turned around and was shocked. I was even speechless and just stared at someone who was right in front of me. Are you Summer? he asked me at that time.