Aira's Choice Man

The Eps 59

Five months later.

"It's a nightmare." Aira closed her eyes while taking a breath as Winne pulled the back of her dress. "I'd better wake up soon."

"Everything's gonna be okay, Mareth." Winne's voice sounded very calm, but Aira was not fooled at all especially when she ventured to open her eyes and stared at her reflection in the mirror.

"I look terrible." Aira whined in the mirror. The beautiful light brown bridesmaid dress should look beautiful instead of looking like the seams will be torn at any time.

"All will be well." Winne said again this time with less confidence.

It's so sad, really. Aira felt like crying because of the disaster of this dress, and she was trying to find excuses. Aira fluttered her hands and became very worried because her usually inconspicuous chest was now poking at the top edge of her dress.

"Try to calm down, I still have to zip up your dress." Aira could feel Winne's trembling hands. "Pull your breath and hold."

Aira did as Winne said but the damn zipper seemed to still refuse to cooperate.

"This one doesn't make you look fat." Winne tries to calm Aira down. "The color is very attractive. You're gonna look great." Winne's still trying. "I think you look amazing, once your hair is set up, and you wear high heels. You just need to lose a little weight. You should have looked__" Winne didn't go on with her words because Aira looked at her as if she was swearing from her eyes.

"So you're basically saying I look fat?"

Winne grimacing. "Maybe you could try the corset." Winne's proposal again. He looked up with a guilty look.

Kei who had been standing up since observing Aira seemed to be weighing. "Look, we're all depressed. But you look beautiful and this dress is__fitting once." He nodded with a heavy heart. "Slightly__tight." Further. And Aira groaned in frustration.

"If I wear this dress, I won't be able to eat at Airez's party. And if my dress is torn, it'll be a disaster."

Kei shuddered in horror at the thought of that. "We have to open the stitches again. A little stitch on the chest and waist." Kei was following along grimacing now. "You have to work harder at the gym." Said.

"I've been very diligent in exercising." Aira.

Winne looked at him skeptically. "Maretha, I can barely even close the zipper. This dress is gonna rip and Zora's gonna kill you if she finds out."

Aira began to bite the tip of her thumb again at a critical moment. Airez and Zora's wedding is two weeks away. What can you do to lose weight in two weeks?

Aira panicked as she could barely fit into her dress. This is no ordinary dress, this is a bridesmaid dress. What's more is the bridesmaid dress of Zora, her future sister-in-law. Aira should start a diet.

"Try to relax." Kei. "If you go on a strict diet and actually run it__well, maybe you can drop a lot in the first week." He shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm not going on a strict diet." Aira immediately shook her head. "It won't last long. When I am nervous, I always want to eat. And this marriage makes me nervous, plus a dress that is small__ oh God, why am I not disciplined dieting?" Aira groaned again.

Each morning Aira resisted the temptation to sleep longer and forced her lazy legs to step fast on the treadmill. Aira always asks for a healthy menu rich in fiber on Polly. If it was lucky, that action would exert a slight influence on its body weight.

It's eight in the morning. This may not be the best time for introspection.

But Aira was sitting in the kitchen, looking uninterestedly at the plate filled with toast with strawberry jam that her housekeeper had prepared this morning. Tears slowly rolled down her cheeks.

He and Erigo quarrel for the first time. Maybe not a hundred percent quarrel. Aira just woke up in a bad mood. He doesn't know what the cause is. Lately Aira felt chaotic and unbecoming. His stomach was nauseous, his body was tired, his appetite disappeared until he became very tasteful and irritable. Plus the pressure about her brother's wedding day is six days away.

This morning he nagged Erigo, scolding him about some of the things Erigo had done that had upset him lately. Actually things that don't matter. Only saia Aira could not bear and nagged her husband.

A housekeeper most likely complained to Erigo in the studio until her husband was now galloping furiously into the kitchen.

"So you feel better now?" Ask slowly while pouring a cup of coffee.

The smell of coffee makes Aira nauseous again.

Aira just muttered indistinctly without actually saying anything. He doesn't know what to say.

Erigo sat down near Aira. "I'm sorry if I did something that made you angry." Say it while touching Aira's cheek with the back of her index finger.

Aira looked at Erigo. "You didn't leave me?" Ask.

"Why should I leave you? I'm the one who lost." Erigo replied with a smile.

Aira suddenly cried. "I thought you were gonna leave me after I nagged you, and I got so fat."

"It takes more than a scolding to make me go, baby, and you're not fat." Erigo reached out his hand clasping Aira's fingers. "To be honest, I've been wondering why you've never been mad at me and always told me." Erigo showed off a mischievous grin as he teased Aira.

"You can be angry if you don't like something I'm doing Aira. We will fight, then make up, then fight again, then compromise. After you exploded this morning, I realized I had to leave you for a while so your anger would subside and we could talk about it." Erigo looked at Aira with an understanding look.

"I think I'm too depressed because I want to lose weight. At first I felt tired and hungry, then suddenly I had no appetite." Aira started crying again. "I don't know what's going on, I've been running around a lot lately."

"Anyone will be depressed if they try not to be themselves. You're so beautiful Aira. You just need to take the dress to the tailor and loosen it up a little bit without having to make your body suffer from diet." Erigo. "And you're my wife, Aira. No matter how much you nag, I'll stay by your side, 'cause I love you."

Aira suddenly felt nauseous again. "I'm gonna puke." He said as he pushed back his chair, removed his hand from Erigo's grasp and stood towards the sink again.

Erigo then patiently carried Aira into their bedroom and laid her on the bed. Pulling a blanket over Aira and saying, "I'll have Polly prepare the porridge so you can eat." Erigo swept a pinch of hair from Aira's forehead. "I'll come back and be with you."

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Erigo goes down to the kitchen and finds Polly the housekeeper cleaning up the leftovers of breakfast that even Aira did not touch.

"Polly, can you make some good porridge for Aira? I think he's not well."

Polly smiled kindly looking at Erigo. "Mr Erigo, I thought Miss Aira wasn't feeling well because of something else."

"Another thing? For example?" Erigo looked a little confused.

Polly smiled again. "I already have three master children, and I very much recognize the symptoms that the mistress is experiencing. The lady is not well. Nausea, sometimes dizziness, with a down-going appetite. I think Miss Aira got those symptoms because she's pregnant."

While Erigo was gaping, Polly cheered cheerfully. "I've been looking forward to something like this." Her speech. "Call the doctor and try to check. While I'll make some good food for the lady."

Erigo looked at Polly seriously, feeling a little confused and trying to digest the words of the middle-aged woman. Understanding appeared in Erigo's eyes. He stared at the calendar on the wall and realized that his wife had been late for the month for at least two or three weeks. Most likely Aira also did not realize it because she was too busy thinking about Airez's wedding.

Erigo wasted no time, he galloped up the stairs to the bedroom where he left Aira.