Give Me Love

"Hello ... yes Mom?"

"Now, Mom?"

"Well, Bella wants to go out with Bella's friends first, Mom."

"Ugh, mom... Well, Bella is home now."

Bella pressed the red button on her cellphone then turned to Kiara, "Ra, I'm back, okay?"

"Well, where are you going Bell? We want to hang out first, right?" asked Kiara confused

"It's not Ra, my mom is getting sick. I was told to go back right now, there's something I want to talk about. Seriously, he said." Bella answered explaining.

"Well... how come your mama is talking so seriously that she's telling you to come back quickly like this?" Kiara asked curiously.

"I don't know, Ra, just pray for my mom that I don't ask for things like the other day."

"Yeah, okay sip. Cheer up friend." Kiara said while raising her hands in the air and forming a heart sign.

"Thank you friend," Bella replied then did the same with Kiara.

They were always like that, always cracking jokes when they were about to part. After that, Bella quickly left the class that had finished from ten minutes ago. He had to cancel his plan to hang out with his squad. Luckily the roads weren't that congested today. Arriving home, Bella found her mother sitting in the living room watching television, and when she saw Bella, she motioned for Bella to sit beside her.

"In one month you will turn twenty-one, right?" Sellin asked his daughter.

Bella sat beside her mother excitedly because what was on her mind right now was that her mother would celebrate her birthday this year with great joy.

"Yes ma'am, mama wants to have a festive birthday party at a five-star hotel for Bella, huh? Like when Bella's seventeenth birthday was? Wow... this time Bella wants a Cinderella theme... so it's like when Bella enters building later, Bella uses a golden carriage in the shape of a pumpkin." Bella said with her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm.

"Bella dear, do you want the Cinderella theme? Okay, I'll tell your future mother-in-law later if you want to use the Cinderella theme."

Sellin's words made Bella frown, "In-laws? Is that the EO for Bella's birthday, ma'am? Can't we just use Mrs. Rina as usual?"

Hearing Bella's words made Sellin stroke his daughter's hair slowly. Bella really doesn't know what her mom and dad have been planning for the past few months.

"Bella, mama and papa talked about a few months ago. Mama and papa agreed to match you up with papa's business relations whose son has just returned from America. He has just finished his master's degree ... there the plan is that he will take over the company owned by him. His father is in Jakarta. How about you, don't you want it? Tonight, the plan is for our family to have dinner with his family."

Bella couldn't say anything. What's in his brain right now is, what can he do to thwart this unreasonable matchmaking event.

"Bella... do you want it? You try to get acquainted with the Alexander family's son first. His mother says he's handsome, he's Korean too. Just like the boys you watch until dawn."

Her mother's words made Bella angry, "Yes, ma'am ... her mother must have said she was beautiful, it's impossible for her mother to say her child is ugly. Anyway, Bella doesn't want to, period."

And what sounded next was the sound of the door slamming from Bella's room. After saying her disapproval of the arranged marriage, Bella chose to run to her room and closed the door with a loud slam that made her mother startled and stroked her chest. Mrs Davidson stepped slowly and knocked on Bella's room. He tries to persuade Bella to agree to an arranged marriage that is possible for Bella so suddenly.

But without Bella knowing that her mother and father had planned this about six months ago. They meet with Alexander's family and plan to match their son.

"Bella ... open the door, dear. I want to have a good talk with you ... I don't want you to misunderstand what mom and dad mean this time. All of this is for your good, dear." Persuade Sellin.

"But ma... Bella doesn't want to get married so soon. Bella is still young, still wants to be free, still wants to have fun with Bella's friends."

"Yes, that's why the door is opened first... let's talk first!"

Ceklek

Bella opened the door to her room and showed a furious face. Sellin entered the room and sat on the sofa in Bella's room.

"Here, let me explain first so you don't misunderstand. Mama and papa can't match you with random people. His name is Stevan Alexander, the only son of Alexander Company. If you don't know Alexander Company, you can search on google because if mom explains it now, it won't be finished until next year. Don't look for his account on instagram, because he can't possibly create a useless account that you used to scroll every day." Sellin said at length.

"The point is he's a good boy and his handsome doesn't beat the Korean boys you like to watch all night," added Sellin, ending his speech.

"Did your mother tell you?" Bella replied. "Now it's like this, ma... Bella is only twenty-one years old, and that's not even until next month. Bella is still in her 5th semester and soon she will be busy with KKN. Even when she goes to campus, sometimes Bella still likes to be late, especially when Bella is late. already have a husband. Have to get up early in the morning have to take care of him first, make breakfast with things that Bella knows will be very troublesome. Mama doesn't feel sorry for Bella, do you? Bella's youth will be wasted just because she takes care of the same household someone Bella doesn't know."

"Yes, that's why tonight, Mama and Papa will let you get to know him. I guarantee you you won't regret it. Okay, I'm going to the room first. I want to get you a dress that you will wear for tonight's event."

"BUT MAAA...."

Blam

Sellin slammed the door and ignored Bella's frustrated screams that came out of the room.

"What should I do with this? If my friends knew that I was going to be matched, I would definitely be teased by them... I would bear the title of Siti Nurbaya. Should I just follow my mom and dad's wishes? doesn't match what mama said... I'll think about how to thwart all of this," Bella thought because what Bella had in mind right now was, the man she was betrothed to is just a geeky-looking man who was out of date and also remembers that man. graduated from a famous university with students with high IQs in America, Bella thought the man must be wearing thick glasses because the literature he was reading was too thick. Then Bella shuddered at the thought of what if the man wore braces, she hated men with braces so much.

"Ok Bella, you have to focus! Cheer up!" he said as he clenched his fists to encourage himself.