Got Married With A Kid / True Story

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Hi. I am Yassin. 20 years of age. Yassin is just pseudonym by the way.

This story is about me marrying a kid! Ok. Let's start now?

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I really hated fixed marriages but unfortunately, it's in our family's tradition to be married at a young age.

So there's no escape for me.

The fact that I was college student who was about to graduate that year and was still single makes me really grateful.

I was so grateful that I didn't even imagine that the day where my worst nightmare will come true, or so that's how I thought.

The college I was studying in was an out of town university, so I was faraway from home.

One day, my grandfather called. He told me to go home. I can't say no to him.

No one in the family can say no to this respected old man.

He's very respected elder, and no one dares to rebel yet and say no.

Right after the day he called me, I went home- sacrificing my attendance in college. That will be a lot of absences.

Anyway, that's how respected grandfather is.

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It has been two days since I got home but grandfather isn't saying anything yet.

It was making me anxious.

While waiting for the reason why I got called home, out of the blue, grandfather's silence felt like a calm before a storm.

I don't know what will he say but all I know was I was anxious at the moment. I can't stay still.

Wew,

But right now, I'm sitting in front of him.

I feel like he'll say something that will terrify me.

And then, right there, he finally said something. Something that felt like the sky felt down the earth, on my shoulders.

"You will get married." Grandfather said in Maranao dialect.

I didn't fully grasp what he just said, because I was not fluent in the Maranao dialect at that time.

I was kind of confused and at the same time I kind of have an idea but..

"Yassin, you will get married. You are in the golden age to be married now." Grandfather said in the Tagalog dialect again, the dialect I'm used to.

I was so surprised but more than being surprised, I was more shocked to have finally understood and learned what he meant.

I wasn't able to say anything. I can't say anything to him.

I was intimidated. I was feeling mixed emotions inside and I was more on the part that I can't accept what he just said.

That was it.

I felt like the Sky was in my shoulders.

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Days have passed by and I was still shouldering the worry that grandfather gave me.

And it even looked like more storms were coming in to ruin my life even more because the worst news came to shock people.

Breaking News: The girl turned out to be 14 years old.

Yes. No other than my future bride.

She's freaking 14 years old, a kid.

Allaahu Akbar!?