The sound of a horn interrupted her train of thoughts. She just cannot believe what happened back there in the office. She just wanted to change her card since its edges are already chipping and the letters are fading - but lo and behold - she got another thing coming. She glanced at the passenger seat of her car, eyeing the blasted document. A document indicating that she's a married woman - married for 5years already to a man she doesn't know or heard before. But how can she be married if she haven't had a boyfriend nor dated at the least; a result of having four brothers older than you that are all overprotective.
"Hah!! I bet they will all have a seizure if they found out about this." She muttered to herself while remembering what happened an hour ago..
"So, you only want to change your card?" The lady behind the desk asked her. "Yes." She promptly answered.
"You will not change any data or your status?" The lady continuously asked while eyeing her at the rim of her glasses.
The questioning baffled her as if she is making a mistake or that she must do something that she ought to do. It is supposed to be easy isn't it? Everybody says so but she is experiencing the complete opposite.
"Yes, I only want a new card, I do not intend to change any of the data especially my status." She answered confidently.
"Hmmm..then why marry, if you will just let your status be single?" The lady in front of her muttered.
"I'm sorry?" She asked her. But the lady continued on talking while eyeing her up and down without letting her know if she heard her or not.
"I know that you were fairly young back then, when you got married based on the data here, but dear child, your husband will not be happy if he will come to know that you are not carrying his name, what's with men being possessive of everything that they know belongs to them. My Charles is one of those men, been married for 25years and all that." She chuckled after the long speech.
She felt her jaw dropped several inches and her brain became muddled. It took her several seconds to snap out of the trance-like feeling that she was in after what the woman said.
"I beg your pardon? It seems there was a mistake, I am not married yet, I am single." She emphasized.
The woman was taken aback of what she said. "But dear, it is said here that you are married for the last five years. It's not a mistake, for the system is directly connected to the statistics office. It clearly shows here that you are a married woman and it has been filed at the registry."
"What?!" She was near shouting and almost jump over the table just to see the monitor.
"No, this can't be true." She said mostly to herself. Her eyes wide and mouth agape, the woman must have sensed something was wrong, ushered her out of the chair and into a pantry and offered her a glass of water.
"Here, drink this dear. It will help to calm you." The kind woman directed the glass into her lips. She only come to know that her throat were dry and lips parched after she finished the whole glass in one go.
"Feeling better?" The woman asked her calmly.
"Yes, thank you very much Ma'am."
"Call me Jessica, dear. You are about to faint there at my desk. What happened?" She pried slowly.
She almost blurted out again that it is impossible for her to be married when she shut her mouth completely, the cautious side in her won. The lady may be kind and all but she doesn't want a stranger to know about this situation.
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The Marriage Contract
Romance"How can we use non consummation of marriage as a reason for our divorce with your looks?" he asked. It took her awhile to respond. "I don't know. Maybe declare that you are gay?" She answered, a serious look on her face. "What?!!" His booming voice...
