Linger

Extendible

"Gavin?"

Gavin, who was busy looking at his laptop screen, turned to Kalea. As of tonight, they are still sleeping in separate beds. And Gavin had no objection at all to staying asleep on the floor mattress which actually kind of made his body hurt.

"Do you need anything?" tanyakanya.

Instead of replying, Kalea, sitting on the bed, patted the blank next to her, making Gavin think hard to digest what he meant.

"You want me to go up there?" ask to make sure. Not willing to interpret the code that Kalea gave themselves, for fear of being wrong and making their relationship more tenuous.

Kalea nodded, then shifted her seat slightly to the left to create more empty space.

"You sure?" ask Gavin again.

"Yes, Gavin."

Then, Gavin closed his laptop and dumped it on the mattress as he rushed up to the top of the mattress.

"I think our baby wants you to stay here with me," explains Kalea, who finds Gavin still looking confused as she suddenly asks the man to get on the bed.

Gavin lowered his gaze, glued to Kalea's flat stomach. It still feels like a dream. He still could not fully believe that inside that belly, had lived a human baby.

"Can I touch your tummy?" tanyakanya. His gaze rose, precisely nailing on the Kalea boba bead.

Kalea nodded without hesitation. So, Gavin stretched out his hand, touching Kalea's flat stomach from behind the nightgown she was wearing. There was still no movement, but by touching it, Gavin already felt his chest rumble violently.

"Am I really gonna be a Daddy soon?" he asked, with a straight look toward Kalea's stomach.

"Yes." Yeah." Kalea answered slowly. His gaze went down, but his focus was not fixed on his own queen's belly, but on Gavin's burly hand touching his belly.

For a long time, they were both silent. Until then, Kalea opened her voice first and made Gavin not only pull his hand from Kalea's stomach, but also draw his gaze to be sprinkled into his wife's face.

"Please be my husband, Gavin." Kalea said again. Repeating what he had previously said, in a voice that was more loud and certain.

Gavin still did not answer. In fact, he did not know what to answer the words with.

Until finally, Kalea added another sentence that increasingly made Gavin speechless. His feelings are mixed. Between happy and sad to be one. Between wanting to hug Kalea tightly, or keep a distance so as not to hurt the woman more.

As their gazes grew more intense and the beads of their eyes chased each other, getting deeper and farther away, Kalea reopened her mouth.

"I don't want this child to be born without a father. Please remain my husband until this child is born. After that, you are free to return to Irina, who has indeed been your home since the beginning."

But the house I really want to go to is you, Kal. But Gavin did not say it directly. It could only echo the sentence inside his chest with a stern feeling.

Finally, Gavin could only nod his head. Choosing a silence and keeping a meeting all the things he wanted to honestly tell Kalea inside his head, and probably never going to make it.

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Throughout the night, Kalea felt restless because from within her there was a strange urge to blend into the arms of Gavin who was now lying next to her.

He is not sure if this is the desire of the baby, or he is just deceiving himself into thinking that this is one form of cravings, when in fact he is the one who wants the hug.

"Do you need anything?" the question is always the same, which unfortunately this time Kalea can not answer easily.

To say that she wanted to be hugged by Gavin while their relationship was still in the gray dot was not something easy.

"Say me, Kal. As long as it's about the baby, you can tell me to do anything." Gavin tried to convince.

And in the end, Kalea could no longer resist the urge so strongly from within her. He gave up, he gave up. With a very slow movement, he tilted his body to face Gavin, looking at the man fixedly.

"Our son wants to be embraced by his father" Kalea said in a very soft voice. Still cool wrestling with yourself even when a thin smile has risen adorning Gavin's handsome face.

"You want Papa to hug, honey?" Gavin stretched out his hand, gently rubbing Kalea's flat stomach without knowing that it had succeeded in making Kalea's feelings more mixed.

Then, without saying anything else, Gavin pulled Kalea's body slowly into his arms. Clutching the body of the woman he loved, anchored the kiss on the top of his head as the ladder moved slowly evaporating the naked woman's arm.

"Here you go, Honey." His whisper, further tightened the embrace as he felt Kalea's arms stretched out to return his embrace.

"Papa will do anything for you, darling. So promise me that you won't hurt Mama, okay? Please don't make Mama sick again, just make Mama nauseous to not be able to eat, huh?"

And other dialogues kept coming out of Gavin's lips as his arms hugged Kalea's body tightly. He was sure that the baby growing inside his wife's belly would understand everything he said. Gavin was sure, their son would not make Kalea any more trouble after this.

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