BECAUSE OF YOU, MY DESTINY.

Sleep Together

Riana helps Laras cook for dinner, Laras is so happy to get a ghost like Riana. This middle-aged woman had always liked Riana and intended to match her with one of her children.

"You are very good at cooking, yes" praised Laras seeing Riana processing food.

Riana responded with a smile. "This is nothing compared to my mother. Mama's a lot smarter than I am." Riana replied courteously and gently.

"You're wrong, Mama's not as smart as you are" Bambang chirped up to them and then picked up a drink in the refrigerator.

"Who said you weren't good at cooking?" answer Baras sewot.

"Papa said, Mama if cook like salty, sometimes mostly sugar." Reply to Bambang honestly.

"Father! Then why would papa even want to eat mama's cooking?" sahut Laras upset.

"Because papa loves you," he concluded mengombali the wife.

Baras blushed in shame. "Aaaaa, so sweet" said Laras.

"Lebay," Vino's turn is mocking his mother's behavior. While Riana smiled at the warmth of the Vino family, then she poured food into the container that was already available.

"Issh, biarin," Baras replied while serving food that had been poured by Riana on the table.

Vino and Bambang were already sitting first at the dining table. Both of them were already impatient to taste the cuisine that was in front of him.

Not long after that Iqbal joined them.

Laras serves Bambang, and Riana also serves her husband. While Iqbal was holding his own when no one was serving him, then he thrust the plate towards Riana.

Vino wrinkled his forehead looking at the Kaka. "Why, Bang?" ask Vino.

"You ask me to serve Riana, I also want to pour rice on my plate." His reply was relaxed regardless if Vino was already staring intently.

"So, no! Just take it yourself! He can only get me rice for me!" His orders while taking the plate Iqbal held and then put it back.

"Loe charity so Adek," Iqbal.

"Here, let mama pour it! So find a wife to not be a mosquito!" Ledek Laras while pouring food onto Iqbal plate.

"Ledek teruus, my pain is single." The thief while inserting mouth food greedily and chewing it irritated.

They chuckled at Iqbal's annoyance. Iqbal himself rolled his eyes carelessly looking at the two couples different age.

****

Jakarta

Alvin laid his body on his king-size mattress. His eyes continued to stare at the ceiling of the room, a single tear drop suddenly shot out from the corner of his hazel eyes.

"Why love you this sick? If I knew you weren't my soul mate, I wouldn't love you this big. You're the first woman to break my heart, you're the first woman I ever wanted to be my best man. Can I live my days without you? Am I able to forget you? And am I capable of obtaining a replacement for you?"

Alvin kept talking to himself, he didn't feel any pain in his stomach. Pain in marriage overcomes the pain of another. Eating does not want, sleep is not good, the body feels lethargic, the mind is erratic.

"May I be able to forget you," he said, closing his eyes in an attempt to sleep.

****

Riana had already laid down her body in the room that Vino occupied. His heart suddenly thumped unsteadily considering that this was his first night after marriage. Now he has to sleep with a man in one bed.

There was the sound of someone opening the door, and Riana immediately closed her eyes trying to sleep.

Vino looked towards the bed, the young man smiling amusedly saw his wife pretending to be asleep. She knew that Riana was nervous and agitated because she also felt the same way.

Slowly his feet stepped towards the bed, Vino sat near Riana, his hands outstretched rubbing his wife's head, his eyes constantly staring at the wife's beautiful face. "I know you haven't slept, I wouldn't do anything without your permission. I'll do it if you give it to me yourself."

Vino eroded the distance between him and Riana, his pale lips peeking at the head of the wife soulfully. " I love you because of God."

Vino keeps whispering the word love as if there is no boss. In silence Riana was filled with the sincerity of Vino. But, his heart still could not accept Vino. It was quite difficult to replace someone who had once come to his heart. "I'm sorry."

Slowly Vino let go of his kiss and walked over to the drawer, picked up something there and drank it and threw it in the trash. Afterwards Vino lay down beside Riana staring back at the face of the woman he loved. His hand stretched out again rubbed the spotless pure white cheeks. "Good sleep my wife." Vinopun closed his eyes following Riana to dreamland.

Riana opened her eyes looking fixedly at the face of the man before her. "Actually you are handsome, kind, even from a distinguished family, it is not difficult for them to love you. But, somehow I find it hard to like you even though I know for a long time that you like me. I am even attracted to him who I never knew who he was and how he looked, when there are you who always show your love for me. I hope I can return your love soon, I will try to love you my husband."