I Found Love With You

77. Nauseous

During the first trimester of her pregnancy, Sadiyah did not feel nausea or dizziness in the morning like the women who were pregnant young. His appetite was not disturbed, even more eating. It's just that, Sadiyah must resist the desire to crave like most women who are pregnant and want to indulge in her husband. Sadiyah could not casually express the desire to eat the imagined and desired food because she did not want to trouble Mak Isah and Atep, the son of Mak Isah who was busy studying and working.

“Neng want to eat what? If Neng craves something, do not hesitate to say the same Mak or Atep. If Mak or Atep can buy it, we'll try."

“Dad doesn't want to eat weird. Eat as usual. What is at home, must be eaten.”

“Usually pregnant women want to eat strange. If Teteh wants to eat something unusual, just say the same Atep. If Teteh wants food from a cafe in the city, Atep will buy all Atep lectures.”

“No need, Tep. Teteh eat only.” said Sadiyah. Though at that time he wanted to eat a special egg martabak with duck egg stuffing and chopped beef. Sadiyah suppressed her desire because she did not want to trouble Mak Isah and Atep. Moreover, he does not believe his children will realize if his wishes are not fulfilled.

“Don't hesitate, Tea. Atep will be angry if Teteh still feels hesitant at Atep.” threatened Atep.

“Ya already, if you go home from college, just buy a martabak egg on the front road.” pinta Sadiyah.

“Teteh sure only want martabak eggs only? Not with the chocolate cheese martabak?” atep asked with a wry smile.

“You are often tempted so. Teteh would be tempted.” protest Sadiyah who seemed tempted by an offer from Atep.

“So all the chocolate cheese martabak?” Sadiyah nodded her head in excitement. “Special chocolate cheese?”

“Ateeep..” Sadiyah yelled annoyed as Atep kept teasing her. She did not want to gain much weight due to pregnancy with twins although she was convinced that getting pregnant with twins was different from pregnant with only one baby. His stomach will look bigger and surely his weight will increase more.

Sadiyah was grateful because during the first trimester what many people said was troublesome did not apply to her. He felt fine and rarely felt sick in the morning. His appetite was not reduced even increased. The opposite happened to Kagendra. Every morning Kagendra experiences nausea. Likewise, with his appetite declining drastically. In addition to no longer being able to enjoy his wife's processed cuisine, the nausea experienced by Kagendra every morning further reduces his appetite.

Kagendra's weight dropped drastically. With a height of 180 cm, the ideal body weight of about 72-73 kilograms, now only about 65 kilograms. Over the course of a month, Kagendra lost up to 8 pounds. This made her mother and sister worried. Mother always tried to make Kagendra's favorite food but the artificial cuisine of the mother is only a little eaten.

That morning, Alena came to visit when Kagendra was vomiting in the kitchen sink. After eating two spoons of oatmeal for breakfast, he did not have time to go to the bathroom because nausea suddenly attacked.

“Aa why?” Alena immediately threw the backpack she was carrying onto the sofa and placed a bushel of rice, vegetables and fried chicken on the dining table. Then he approached Kagendra and helped with his nape.

Kagendra regurgitated two spoons of oatmeal that he had eaten until the sour and bitter liquid came out.

“Aa why vomiting like this?”

Alena took eucalyptus oil from a P3K box attached to the kitchen wall and rubbed it into Kagendra's nape, chest and stomach.

“Aa does not like the smell.” Kagedra protest when Alena doused eucalyptus oil on her body.

“Then do not like the same smell but do not make Aa nauseous again right?”

“Hmm..” Kagendra nods his head.

“Mau Lena kerik his back?”

Kagendra. The look on his face turned even more sad because he remembered Sadiyah who liked to kerikan if nausea or body ache. Tears began to pool but he wiped them off violently, he hated the very fragile state he was in.

“Aa to room first.” says Kagendra.

In the bathroom, Kagendra washes his face. Tears began to force to come out but he held on with all his might until his chest felt so stifling. The mirror before him displayed a different figure of Kagendra, a pitiful adult man with a tyrannical and dull face. Kagendra hated her figure like this. He smashed the mirror before him and fresh blood instantly seeped out from his knuckles.

Alena who heard the sound of objects breaking from the direction of the bathroom in Kagendra's room immediately ran and found Kagendra who was vomiting in the sink. Glass was strewn across the floor. Blood pouring from Kagendra's right hand dripped on the floor in blood red. Kagendra's feet were exposed to broken glass until the bathroom floor was decorated with blood-red footprints.

“Why is it like this, A?” Alena hugged Kagendra from behind. “Don't be like this, A!” alena's tears wet Kagendra's back. “Aa must be strong and patient. Don't be weak like this.”

One minute Kagendra let Alena cry. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't keep crying in front of her sister. Let him cry in his solitude.

After successfully stopping her crying, Alena held onto Kagendra's injured hand.

“Aa stay here first. Don't walk yet. Lena grab a broom first to clean the floor. Remember that! Do not walk first, later the wound deepens.”

“Lena wear sandals. Not going to break glass. Not like Aa who's barefoot. Don't be so strong. Aa's body is made of meat instead of iron, if exposed to broken glass will bleed. Don't like to hurt yourself.”

“Iya..iya...basic chatty.”.

After Alena passed, Kagendra began to clean up the mess he had made. The pieces of glass that he could pick up with his hands he gathered into one. Alena came back with a broom and a pengki.

“Do not be picked up equally by hand. His hands will get hurt. Aa this is really nice.” Alena's nag.

“Not going, Len. You're being so chatty?”

“Lena is chatty because Aa is hard to say. Why so stubborn?”

Kagendra only chuckles in response to Alena's protests.

Alena cleaned Kagendra's wounds carefully and applied antiseptic ointment so as not to infection.

“Not nauseous anymore?”

Kagendra shook his head. “Every morning always nausea and vomiting. I don't know why either. Maybe due to stress, Aa's body reacts like this.”

“How long has nausea been like this? Have you been to the doctor? What did the doctor say?”

“It's been almost a month, every morning Aa nausea and vomiting.”

“Haaa... It's been a month sick why not tell Lena?”

“Why should report with you?”

“Basic breeze.” Alena thaws.

“Aa is indeed annoying. Wife alone to run away because it can not stand the annoying attitude Aa. Aye right?” Kagendra said sambal laughed.

“Mean stops being a shitty person.” said Alena crested.

“Hmmm..”

“Oh yes, so what pain doctor says?”

“It doesn't hurt anything. Probably because of fatigue alone.”

“Mual and vomit every morning like a young pregnant woman only.” seduce Alena.

“Maybe this is a punishment for Aa. The pain that Aa felt must not be comparable to the pain Iyah felt because of Aa's annoying behavior. Aa is a dickhead. Aa don't deserve to live happily without Iyah.”

“Don't think like that, A. If Aa really repents and regrets the mistake that Aa made, Aa has the right to get forgiveness from Teh Iyah. Tea is a very good woman. She must have understood and forgiven if Aa explained what had really happened.

“But many say that the woman may forgive but never forget. Possibly

Iyah will forgive Aa but she will not forget that Aa is a jerk.”

“Hehehe..iya sih.” Alena's reaction makes Kagendra's spirit back down.

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to be continued...