Candle Skin

In the beautiful times, I had a wife. Her name is Nadya. She is a simple woman, just like her name. 

I married Nadya when she was 19, which is too early to marriage in this day. Usually, marrying at such a young age for modern society means that the girl has been pregnant. The pregnant girl must be matched to the man who impregnated her to hide the family disgrace. Modern society, especially modern girls, tends to choose to marry at an older age. They will finish their education at university and then work before finally getting married and having their own family. That's one of the things that made my marriage with Nadya a little different; besides, we are from a really different culture.

Nadya lives in a slum village called Luzbell Village, while I live in a big modern town called Seiraah. Uniquely, the town I live in is directly adjacent to the village where Nadya lives. Luzbell village, where Nadya lives, is a slum, but access to education is very lacking in this village. In Luzbell village, someone entering university was really rare. Meanwhile, in the town I live in, a modern town, studying at university is necessary, you don't have a bright future if you're not attending a good college. In fact, the value and self-esteem of one family are decided by the universities they children studying at. Not surprisingly, in Seiraah, parents are seriously working on getting their children to enter the best universities. They are more ambitious than the children themselves.  If a child enters a prestigious university, his parents become king and queens in this town. All things like that... I wouldn't say I like it. I am so lucky to have a wife like Nadya, who is far from such actions; I think she will become a good mother.

Nadya is a good woman. She is innocent, shy, and pious. I formally introduced myself to her when she was 19 years old. That is the same year when I married her.

We have a pretty big age gap. I was 29, and she was 19 when we got married. Actually, I had glimpsed Nadya long before I introduced myself to her. At that time, she was about 14 or 15 years old. I saw her for the first time on a shabby street on the border of Luzbell village and the Seiraah town. Just then, I was about to get into my car when my eyes caught sight of her appearance. Among the passers-by, she was so easy to recognize because of her physical appearance. She was carrying a rattan basket full of something. I don't know what's in the basket, but I can see asparagus sticking out of it; she must have finished buying a food stock. I saw her figure from four meters away.

At that moment, I was so astonished by her beauty. She had skin whiter than most people's skin, her skin like a candle, so white and pale. Her eyes are brown with very thick and long eyelashes and her eyebrows curved like arrows. Her nose is sharp and long, like a Caucasian nose. That nose was rare among Asians like us Her lips are small but round, and her chin is so long. The curve between her nose and chin is also very unique and mesmerizing. Her cheeks are neither thin nor chubby. Her hair is long, black, and wavy. Her face clearly showed that she was less than 20 years old, but her body is young and thick, looked healthy and sexy. I can feel the sensual aura of her gorgeous body. I guess her height is 176 cm which is 12 cm different from me, who has a height of 188 cm.

She is beautiful, enchanting. A unique beauty, I called her beauty "fairy tale beauty". Is she from another country? She looks different from a common girl in this country.

 After a while, she finally realized that I was staring at her. That girl, Nadya, whom I didn't know her name at that time, saw me too. While I looked at her with a look full of admiration, she smiled at me. Her cheeks weren't red, maybe that's her "Candle skin" uniqueness, but I could sure that she was shy when I looked at her. And behold, even her gaze is so different; her gaze is gentle, delicate, and winning. I swear she looks like a little fairy who get lost in the human world.

We stared at each other until Nadya walked away; that's when I came back to my senses. How could there be such a beautiful girl in a slum village like this village? The girl was not well-dressed. She wears really simple clothes, a sign that she was a resident of this Luzzbell village. At that time, in my heart, I was captivated by her beauty. However, I never had the chance to know her more because it was my last day in Seiraah before I finally returned to utopia.

That girl, Nadya, eventually became my wife. However, before I tell you my love story with Nadya, I will first tell you about Nadya's background.

Nadya was orphaned since her childhood. I don't know precisely when Nadya's parents died; what I know is that they died when Nadya was still a child. Nadya's father and mother died due to an accident that taking their lives. They left little Nadya alone in this cruel world. Then, Nadya was raised by her uncle and aunt, who also have their own biological child. The presence of the biological child makes it quite tricky for Nadya's uncle and aunt to take care of her because the uncle and aunt also have children of their own that need to be financed. They are not rich people, just simple villagers who work at someone else cornfield for a living.

All the misfortune that Nadya got in her childhood made her only experience education up to elementary school. Her foster parents, namely her uncle and aunt, did not have the money to send her further. This makes Nadya become a low-educated girl. Fortunately, Nadya can still read and write.