January 16, 2021
Sindangan
It was the sixteenth day of the Marriage Game.
Neoma woke up to the faint sound of the waves crashing on the beach. The sea breeze filtered through her bedroom’s screened windows; this gave her an early chill which made her wrap her cotton blanket tighter around her body. The quietude calmed her senses. She heard the rustle of the leaves blown by the wind, and the beautiful chorus of the birds chirping, as if signaling that the glorious sun is soon to rise.
She was charmed with all of these. Everything was different from her life in the city. It was free of demands, expectations and manipulation. Nevertheless, she still preferred to work, to prove herself that she was way more than just a physically frail beautiful woman and most importantly, to show her fat
