Long River

Fiesta

"Eh, aren't your hands still on the bandage?" Leka diverted the conversation.

"That's not important, but if you can warm my body tonight, my wounds will probably heal quickly."

Leka lowered her head and her heart refused. He then raised his head with a confused face. "Sorry .. I can't."

Aska looked at Leka gently and cursed her. "Can I just kiss you?" He brought his face closer to his wife, but she turned her head back.

"Bang ...."

"A little bit." Aska.

"We'd better ...."

Aska immediately released a hug. "You'll be fine with me, don't be afraid. I'm not gonna force you." He looked back at Leka. "I'll wait for you until you believe me. I'll listen to you. I'll do what you want. Leka, I will make amends for all my mistakes with you, because I .. love you."

Leka felt guilty. I don't feel her tears falling. Her husband is now trying to hold back feelings for her while he himself cannot reciprocate them. "I'm sorry."

Aska hugged him. "It's okay. I'll wait for him until you're really back to what you were. Maybe what I did hurt you so much that you don't trust me anymore. Let me wait for you now. Trust me, my love is only for you." He kissed his wife's head.

They then slept side by side. Aska tidied up his wife's sleeping blanket on his back.

Aska must be patient. Compared to his wife filing for divorce, his condition is now much better. There's Leka and there's Runi in that house. Love thing, he felt his wife will take it back for a long time and forget other men out there including Candi. Yes, Candi. He will show off Leka as his wife at the party later.

Leka had not slept but was ashamed to open her eyes. She was dizzy, no longer wanting to sleep with her husband. Though it is a basic need that must be met as a couple. If she no longer wants to sleep with her husband, how will her future married life be?

Zack went back to Lydia's bed. He tidied up his blanket as usual. I don't know why he missed his old days with his sister. Cheering, playing together. Maturity makes each of them change and move away. It was like losing her sister slowly.

Zack sat by the bed. Lydia's brow was wiped softly, and then she let out a kiss. Your dear brother.

That morning, Leka again struggled with pots and fryers. Wait a minute, the cooking is done. Back he checked Runi who was still busy drinking milk bottles accompanied by his Baby Sitter, but Aska had not yet come down.

Before long, Aska was pulled down from the 2nd floor to greet his wife downstairs.

"Why did you just come down?"

"This morning there was a meeting at the office, and the report I didn't finish yesterday because I didn't want to go overtime. I'm going with you." Aska looked towards the dining table. "Ah, bodo very! I'm hungry." He went to the dinner table and sat there. "Come, here. Accompany me to eat," he asked.

"But Bang, aren't you afraid of being fired, haven't made a report this morning?"

Aska laughs. "The company has my Papa, there's no way they're gonna fire me, right?" He scoops the fried rice his wife made. "I haven't eaten this in a long time."

Leka just nodded her head.

"Your feet are size 38 huh? I forgot to buy it for you yesterday. I'll bring you today, okay?"

"Not Bang, just long time. I have kok!"

"No, the old is nothing good, I saw. Already, just believe it. I'll buy you a good one." Aska started chewing.

"The party is just a moment Bang, it doesn't need to be very good!" Leka's style of speech has started like a Jakarta person.

Aska smiled. "In fact, you have to look perfect at the party later, so that people know what kind of Madam Aska Gilang Irfan is."

"Don't make me groggy Bang" lamented Leka who imagined how difficult it would be to socialize.

Aska laughed again. "Yes, just shut up. I'll hold it."

Leka started to bribe her food. "Bang asked for dong's wrench."

"Make what?"

"I'd like to take a walk in the same park as Runi."

"No, it'll be the same with me, Saturday Sunday, right?"

"For a long time Bang, wait for Brother ...." Leka frowning.

Aska glanced at Leka. The fear of loss makes it so overprotective (overprotective).

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"Honey, Daddy's coming tonight. Do you want to cook or order food?" Chris came to grab his wife's arm and kissed her forehead.

"Mmh, in the fridge there is an ingredient for meat soto anyway. Let me go home quickly, let me cook."

"Want me help? Last time we cooked it both."

"May ... but can you go home soon?"

"That's what I'm gonna try."

"Ok, pick me up at five?"

"Ok honey." Chris pulled out his chair and started scooping the fried rice for breakfast while Reina sat next to him waiting her turn.

Back in silence when Kenzo came to breakfast at his parents' house back that morning.

"Oniichan the plane's noon?" tanya Aiko ventured, but it made her foot in Tama's kick. "Of ...."

"I'm delaying Monday because Nena's coming from America."

"Miss?" Arya, Mariko, Aiko and Tama asked simultaneously.

"Eh, why?" Kenzo looks confused.

"Oh, no."

"It's okay."

They all answered. Kenzo looks confused.

The nena? Goody. How to turn this dice into a six?

"Jo, you want some jam bread?" ask Mariko with a smile.

Evening changed the night. The air looks bright. Stars are scattered in the sky of this city. Aska, who had come home from the office, showed the shoes she bought. Plain silver low heel sandal shoes that look elegant.

"Looks expensive?"

"Yes Bang."

Leka changed clothes and dressed up while her husband took a bath and changed clothes. When he came out of the bathroom, Aska was stunned to see the beauty of his wife who was getting soaring. Like a magnet, he came to Leka with awe that did not stop. Seeing him as an angel who is lost in the garden of the heart. "Mc ...."

Leka who had just stood up, was shocked by the arrival of her husband who immediately embraced her waist. "Eh, what's wrong?"

"There is less."

"What?"

"Stor kiss." He kissed his wife's lips.

"Eh, Bang ...." Leka moved backwards.

"I'm sorry, I can't stand to see it."

Leka just shut up and looked down. It is wrong how.

Aska leaned over, picked up the new shoe box next to her, and took out a shoe. "Here's my brother."

Leka. Like the story of Cinderella, her husband put on his wife's legs one by one. Leka's legs are yellow skinned so beautiful wrapped in shoes that silvery white.

"Good right?"

"Thank you Bang."

"The baby, slept last night!"

"Eh?"

Aska laughs. "Handering ...."

But not spared, Leka's heart beat. "Oh, how's Runi?" He tried to divert.

"No, he's at home. It's an adult show."

Leka opened her closet and took out her bag.

"Oh, I forgot to buy you a bag. That bag is an ugly bag, you don't have to wear it. Leave alone. We go to a party without bags."

Leka. She put her bag back in the closet, but when she turned around, her husband was right behind her. "Open Bang ... Why is it so nice to surprise the wife." It caresses the chest.

Aska laughs. "Who's ngagetin? I just asked to get his shirt straightened."

Actually Leka does not know, what to do because Aska wears expensive batik clothes with green and gold dominant, but neat. Even so, she tried to fulfill her husband's request so that he felt appreciated.

"It's neat Bang ...." She aligned the collar of her husband's neat shirt.

"Yes?"

As Leka glanced at her husband, it turned out that the man was observing her face up close. Leka suddenly awkward and took a step back.

"Oh, sorry." Aska tried to restrain herself with her admiration for making his wife uncomfortable. "Let's go." He opened the door and let Leka out first and she followed behind.

"I saw Runi for a moment Bang ...."

Aska grabbed Leka's hand. "No, he'll cry if he doesn't come."

With a heavy heart, Leka followed where her husband was taking her.

The car journey takes 45 minutes to get to the destination. Along the way Aska occasionally glanced at his wife who dressed up very pretty. At first glance people will not think, that his wife is a village because she was smart to dress up at that time.

"Well, Bang, my makeup? I'm just following you on the viral video."

"No, it's very classy. I didn't think you'd be so smart and so."

The car entered the grounds of a magnificent mansion. Aska showed his invitation card to the security guard there so he was directed to a more protected parking lot. They came down and came to the main door of the house. Leka, as her husband requested, hung her hand on Aska's arm that was touching me.

"Oh, you've come."

"Candy?" Leka's surprised.

"Didn't your husband tell you that this party was hosted by my friend's father?"

Leka glanced at her husband who only gave her a smile.

"Come, in. Just this way." The temple led in front of entering the house.

The house is ceilinged on the second floor decorated with a large crystal lamp in the middle. The large and magnificent house was filled with many invited guests who came. Even the guests are there until the back garden.

Leka slightly panicked to see so many invited guests with their sparkling appearance made her hold on tight to Aska. "Bang ..." whispered.

"Let's see me" Aska whispered to his wife. Leka. "I'm the best and you're the prettiest. Nothing beats us both here."

They then came to one of the walls where a middle-aged man was sitting in a wheelchair in his expensive batik shirt. The remnants of his good looks were still clearly sculpted on his face which had crawled old with almost all white hair. He smiled at the guest who had brought the temple to face him.

"This is Mr. Chris' son, sir, with his wife." Candi introduce.

The man was a little surprised to see Aska, because it did not look like Chris, but he immediately understood. "Oh, your wife is so beautiful" she said as she made small talk.

"Thank you."

"What about your father's business, it seems like the more the day is growing rapidly huh? He said he'd like to build a third factory out of town?"

"Oh, that's right. The plan is outside the city specifically for local consumption, so that in Jakarta for foreign markets."

They chatted for so long that Leka was bored from not understanding. He lowered his hand from Aska's hand and waited.

"I'm sorry, there are dishes to taste. If you want to eat first, let me drop off."

Because of the polite attitude of the temple, Leka according to.

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