My husband is not the CEO

The Forty Five

"Hello Car, I'm in front of your apartment!" Jane's voice sounded so loud that it deafened Caramel.

Caramel who put a cell phone to her ear spontaneously kept it away in order to save her eardrum from Jane's voice. Caramel was confused from the morning Jane could not be contacted and is now suddenly in her apartment. Anyway Jane's in the apartment instead of in the woods why you should yell while talking to Caramel.

"Gapain you're suddenly coming to my house?" Caramel pulled over her car so that her concentration did not waste because of driving while calling.

"Emang if you want to go to the house you have to make an appointment first?"

"Not that, I was WA you same Kayla no one is active on where the hell you guys are."

"You're here right now, I'm the same Kayla has hilariously huffed."

"Gosong fuck, cloudy gini!" Caramel pursed her mouth to disconnect the phone, she stepped on the gas spinning back down the road to her apartment. Meal plans with Rafka must be postponed for Jane and Kayla who are said to have been bored under the cloudy sky, they are indeed more.

Caramel sends a message to Rafka to go straight home without waiting for her at the office. His desire to eat is gone when he gets a call from Jane.

From a distance Caramel could see Jane and Kayla waving at him. They were carrying a large package that had no idea what it contained. Caramel is also not curious about it, they are always crumbling, visiting the Caramel apartment alone is like an excursion to Binaria.

"What do you bring?" Caramel stops the car right in front of Jane and Kayla, she bows her head through the window.

Jane and Kayla put the big plastic bags they had brought into Caramel's car.

"Gue put this away first." Tukas Kayla's.

"Where are you going?" Caramel was confused to see his two best friends were excited to bring a lot of stuff.

"My car missed out on Grand Indonesia." Answer Jane.

"Well that you really have a car as big as gaban that can be missed, still sane is not my best friend?" Caramel opens the car to touch Jane's forehead.

"Gue same Kayla back to GI, bye!" Jane pushed Caramel back into the car by force.

"That's so weird!" Caramel yells annoyed at Jane and Kayla already running away from her car.

Caramel exhaled loudly as she stepped on the gas towards the parking lot, she wanted to get to her apartment and lay down. His stomach was also kicked asking to be filled immediately when as Caramel remembered, there was no food at home except raw materials in the refrigerator. That means Caramel has to cook it first. Why the mood of eating always comes but not with the mood of cooking. Caramel wishes Rafka had come home so she could have the man cook for her.

"Nothing is there?" Caramel was in a daze looking for Rafka's car in the parking lot, but nothing.

Caramel painstakingly lifted Jane's goods that were entrusted to him, it was not too heavy just that his large size made Caramel a difficulty.

"The child brought a bed what the hell." Caramel grumbled into the lobby, heading straight for the private elevator to get to her apartment faster.

Some people who passed Caramel misfocused because his face did not look blocked by the large plastic bag he was carrying.

Caramel was shocked when suddenly there was the hand of someone taking over the item in his hand as he passed through the corridor.

"Raf—"

"I'm the one who brought it."

Caramel is shocked when someone he thinks Rafka is Rama. Anyway why Rama is still here when this morning they said they would move. Caramel who was a little relieved because they were no longer in this apartment again so back scared and worried.

"No need!" Caramel took back the plastic bag. "Why are you still here, instead of moving?"

"I'm here because I want to say happy birthday to you." Rama looked straight at Caramel.

Caramel was glued, she didn't even remember that today was her birthday.

"I hope you're always happy with Rafka."

Caramel's gaze weakened, slowly his emotions stabilized again hearing Rama's speech that was not as usual. Rama no longer talks about his feelings for Caramel.

"Let me help you once." Rama took over the heavy plastic bags. "You're pregnant again, it's not good to carry heavy things." Said again.

Eventually Caramel suppresses his ego, although he hates Rama but eventually he lets the man carry Jane's stuff to the front of his apartment.

Caramel walks first to open the door for Rama to place the item near the entrance.

Rama waited patiently until Caramel finished pressing the password at the door and took a step and placed the large plastic bag near the entrance. Rama just wanted to meet Caramel and then say birthday after the last few years he never did that again. At least Rama has one chance to congratulate Caramel before he moves out of this apartment and loses the chance to meet Caramel.

"Thank you." Caramel.

"If I go back first."

Caramel nodded, closing the door before Rama did more than just say birthday let alone nobody else here. Caramel is only on guard if Rama does something he does not want.

"So today is my birthday?" Caramel pointed to herself, "oh!" He complained when his feet tripped over Jane's belongings. "What the hell is this, I really saw it." Caramel kicked the pouch that had tripped him.

"But why did Rafka not say yes, did he not forget too?" Caramel was talking to herself because there was no one else here. Caramel put down her briefcase and threw herself onto the sofa after turning on the AC and television. He does not like the quiet atmosphere, the sound of the television can drive away his fear alone in an apartment this big.

Crewman!

Caramel touched his stomach that sounded embarrassing, he was hungry since coming home from work. Damn Jane called him so he didn't eat as much as his favorite Rudi's mom. Now Caramel doesn't know what to eat. There's no way he's eating carrots anymore, the doctor says raw food isn't good for him.

"Rafka long ago, his office has moved to Cairo ah." Caramel restlessly got up from her seat stepped onto the dining table and opened the hood of saji. Surprises! there's nothing there.

Caramel's last hope was to open the refrigerator looking for something that could be cooked to fill her tummy. Caramel took two eggs and sausages from the refrigerator.

"It's really good." Caramel inhaled the scent of a ceplok egg that he fried using margarine mixed with a piece of sausage. Smelling the aroma of fried eggs alone makes him happy especially when chewing and swallowing it.

Margarine-flavored ceplok eggs have moved to the top of the plate plus chili sauce and warm rice. Fortunately, there is still rice left in the rice cooker that can accompany eggs and sausages to finally unite to fill the stomach of a Caramel.

"Why can a fried egg be this delicious." Caramel praises her own cooking, whether the eggs are delicious or because Caramel is starving so that any food tastes good on her tongue.

The sky began to darken when Caramel had finished off a plate of rice and two boxes of Buavita as well as the rest of Nutella. Caramel actually eats whatever is on the table and sleeps with his head attached to the dining table. Drowsiness attacks him after being full until no night begins to come and Rafka who never goes home.

"Happy birthday Cara .. happy birthday Cara .... "

The birthday singing of a familiar voice in Caramel's ear made him wake up from sleep. Caramel opened her eyes raised head— was shocked to see Rafka carrying a birthday cake with candles on it. Jane and Kayla are next to Rafka with cakes and balloons bearing happy birthdays. Danu was behind not to be outdone carrying a bouquet of pretty flowers.

Caramel hugs Rafka who carries a cake in her hand, she does not expect that Rafka the robot can also make a surprise like this. It was fitting that Rafka forbade him from going to the office because Rafka was planning this surprise.

Rafka puts a colorful cake of Danu's choice on the dining table so that Caramel can make a wish before blowing it. Actually Rafka was upset because the cake was not as he wanted, not brown with the simple look of the cake is actually full of color like a birthday cake for small children. Apparently Rafka wrongly gave trust to Danu.

"Make a wish dong first." Jane said.

Caramel put her hands shut her eyes and made a wish and blew out the candle on the cake.

"Happy birthday dear." Rafka kissed Caramel's forehead in love.

"Thank you, yeah." Caramel's eyes were wet from crying, she couldn't hold it anymore when Rafka came just now.

"Huh you guys are not good at lying, use saying the car miss where there is." Caramel hugged Jane and Kayla tightly, she was moved by their preparation giving her a surprise.

"Thank You Nu."

"No hugs." Rafka pushed Danu who stretched out her arms to hug Caramel.

Danu grinned to replace the hug with a regular handshake, "it's important to say thank you to me, if not me who else can get a cake as beautiful as this." Her speech.

"Of what the hell, bagusan also our cake Kay." Jane sneers at Danu's choice of cake.

"That's why he bought the balloon wrong." Kayla pointed at the balloons number two and seven that Danu was carrying.

"I swear I don't know your twenty-eighth birthday, anyways Rafka didn't say the hell." Danu defended himself that this was not just his fault.

"I'm not saying you should buy a balloon, I'm just asking you to buy a cake."

"Yes, I was wrong." Danu resigned, "when to eat it."

Caramel laughed at their commotion, "although thanks for much surprise, I swear."

They cut the cake and ate it together. Jane also opened the plastic bag that had been left to Caramel. Jane and Kayla gave Caramel a dozen dasters, she said she would be in desperate need of them after her belly grew.

"Gue thought what a heavy thing." Caramel took out all the negligee, she had never worn a negligee before but she would wear it every day.

"Gift from me." Rafka gives a frame with several photos of herself and Caramel with handwritten birthday greetings and arranged in such a way as to form a beautiful display that is pleasing to the eye.

"You're so sweet, I can get diabetic Ka!" Caramel hugged Rafka again for umpteenth you still do not believe that the man he once called strange could also give her a sweet surprise like this.

"Not her sweet time." Sahut Danu's.

"So you guys worked together to make this surprise?" Caramel sees them in turn.

"Yes, I was the same Jane already wanted nyamperin you here because Rafka said that you don't work, uh suddenly Rafka phone he said you want nyamperin him to the office, we're freaking out so ask you to come home." Kayla.

"Just I feel weird how Rafka can't make me go to his office, keep you guys suddenly on the phone and the funniest thing is Jane's car left behind in the GI, I swear the hell that's weird." Caramel rubbed her wet cheeks with tears, laughter and tears into one.

"But you didn't expect it, did you?" Alleged Jane.

"Not at all because I don't want it today to be my birthday."

They laughed considering how excited it was to prepare a surprise for Caramel. They almost failed and almost got caught but thanks to the idea Rafka finally the surprise was still implemented according to plan.

Rafka ordered food for dinner together, they ate a lot after spending energy since last afternoon. Jane and Kayla are willing to leave their children at home for Caramel. Although they have a family, their friendship is still harmonious.

Caramel will record today as her best day, her first birthday after marriage. At this age Caramel will get a big gift that is the baby who is still in his stomach. Caramel feels the luckiest woman because she has Rafka in her life that had fallen in recent years. Rafka makes Caramel remember how it feels to be loved. Rafka makes the flowers in Caramel's heart re-bloom.

For Caramel, Rafka is like fireworks that come unexpectedly— meletup expel the chaos that had enveloped his life. Caramel doesn't know how she should thank Rafka for loving her so patiently.

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Caramel twirled the picture frame of the gift from Rafka, she sat cross-legged on the bed reading Caramel's happy birthday on the frame. He felt familiar with Rafka's handwriting, he had seen similar writing before but where.

"Not satisfied to see it?" Rafka came out of the bathroom wagging her wet hair.

After finishing two pizza boxes and two packs of fried chicken KFC Danu, Jane and Kayla go home leaving the trash piled up on the table. Rafka and Caramel take care of it before it's too late. Rafka had just finished her bath while Caramel was already sitting sweetly on the bed in her favorite pajamas.

"It's so good." Caramel smiled at Rafka who had given her the gift.

What because I was ever diem-diem read Rafka's notebook yes, so this writing feels familiar.

"Put this down." Rafka took over the frame in Caramel's hand and placed it on the nightstand. "come to sleep, you must be tired." he laid Caramel's body.

"Thank you for today" said Caramel again, no matter how much he said thanks.

"Together." Rafka kissed Caramel's forehead and covered him with an arm.

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Caramel and Kayla 👆

Caramel and Jane 👆