Wedding Dance
Amador Daguio
SYNOPSIS/ SUMMARY
There was a couple named Awiyao
and Lumnay. They were married for a long time but Awiyao her husband
has to marry another girl named Madulimay because Lumnay cannot bear a
child. On the night of the wedding of Awiyao and Madulimay, Awiyao went
to his and Lumnay's house where they used to live to personally invite
his ex wife to join the dance but Lumnay refuses to join. Lumnay is the
best dancer in their tribe.
They
had a heart-to-heart talk about their separation, and on their
conversation they found out that the couple still had a thing on each
other. They still love each other but they have to separate because their
tribe’s custom is--every man in that tribe should have one (or more)
child that would carry his name and if his wife cannot give him a child
he can marry another woman. It's a man's necessity to have a child.
Lumnay
can hardly let go of her husband. The two both agreed that if Awiyao's
second marriage did not work, he will go back to Lumnay's arms and this
was sealed by the beads that Lumnay will keep. Then Awiyao goes back to
the wedding because someone is calling him already. After being fetched
by others, Lumnay decided to go to the wedding not to dance or to join
the celebration but to stop the wedding. She decided to break the
unwritten law of her tribe, but when she is near all her guts to stop
the wedding suddenly disappeared. She did not have the courage to break into the wedding feast. Lumnay
walked away from the dancing ground, away from the village. She went to
the mountain instead and in the mountain is where she diverted all her
bitterness in her and she partly reminisce their story of Awiyao.