My husband is not the CEO

Fifty Seven

The morning breeze quietly shook the leaves and flowers until it gave off a soothing aroma. The flying birds danced cheerfully as if to encourage the humans down there.

Some leaves of trembesi trees that began to turn yellow were exposed to gusts of wind littering the deserted school grounds without residents. God governs the earth with great, even fallen leaves occur because of His will as well as human encounters. Although it must pass the path that is not smooth but eventually God will still bring two people who are destined to be together from the beginning.

The three-story building with a sign that says Pelita Nusa High School has changed a lot. The school building opposite the Cahaya Bangsa High School has gone through many changes, the two buildings that face each other are both making developments to show their abilities.

But for two people who are now in front of the gate Pelita Nusa, as much as any changes that occur he has put a deep impression. Although there is not much interaction between them but still the place becomes the beginning of a love story for both.

"Wanna get in?" Rafka turned to look at Caramel who was standing beside her. They have been standing in front of the gate of Pelita Nusa long enough, there are no students wandering there because it is a holiday.

"Maybe?" Caramel raised her eyebrows next to.

"We ask permission first." Rafka pulled Caramel's hand closer to the unlocked gate, she saw a middle-aged man who was busy sweeping the courtyard. "Excuse me sir." Sapa Rafka to the gardener who is still the same since he went to school, has not been replaced by anyone.

"Oh yeah, what's up?" The gardener moved to stop his activities in order to see the face of his interlocutor more clearly.

"Sorry to interrupt, we may go in for a look no, I am a Pelita Nusa alumni but maybe you don't know me already." Rafka smiled faintly, usually the students who could not be forgotten were those who were the smartest, wealthiest of all class mates or the most naughty students and never absent from the Counseling Room. Rafka is not from that group. He was just an ordinary student who was shy and not good at getting along let alone popular.

"If you may know, what year?" He sees both of them, first Rafka and then the woman next to Rafka who is pregnant. Apparently they are a married couple who want to reminisce to the High School period by surrounding the campus that has now changed a lot.

"2008." Of course it has been a long time, long before Pelita Nusa developed rapidly as it is now. "I just want to get around here without interrupting your work." Rafka added to convince the gardener. Rafka had forgotten the name of the gardener, either forgotten or he did not know.

"Rafka right?" He opened the gate wider and allowed Rafka and Caramel to enter the school area anyway this is a holiday so that their arrival will not interfere.

"Hm?!" Rafka raised her eyebrows slightly surprised as it turned out that the gardener knew her name, he was sure there was no name tag attached to his chest. "Yes right, sir."

"Which I may not remember, you are the one who likes to come in the morning and go home at the latest, I often see you sitting there." He pointed to a chair under a trembesi tree facing directly towards the opposite school gate.

"Oh." Rafka swallows her saliva with difficulty—misbehavior. It was his place while waiting for Caramel to come out. Rafka will not move before seeing Caramel out of the blue gate of the Cahaya Bangsa campus.

Caramel noticed the change in the look of Rafka's face, a red hue so visible from the husband's face. What Rafka is doing in that chair every time she goes home from school.

"I know you like to pay attention to that Nation Light kid right?" The gardener was grinning, happy to tease Rafka.

Rafka smiled misbehavior, how is it possible that at his age of three he could misbehave such seduced behavior. If it doesn't concern Caramel maybe Rafka will remain consistent with his flat face.

"It seems you know a lot." Rafka smiled again and glanced at Caramel who was looking at her with a questionable expression.

"I can understand the feeling of you who only dared to pay attention from afar because she already had a boyfriend, you who are patient now she must have been happy with her husband." He is wise like Mario Teguh who is giving words of pearl to a broken hearted person. "If after all it's just a love story of the past, now you are happy with each other's partners." Added.

Rafka cleared her throat to neutralize her slightly hoarse voice, "sorry sir, that woman is now beside me."

"really?" The gardener's eyes were rounded in surprise because it was unexpected that they could truly be a couple.

"Yes." Yeah." Rafka nodded her grip on Caramel's hand.

Caramel smiled widely, he returned Rafka's grasp with his other hand. It turns out they were talking about him. Caramel was upset because Rafka had once noticed another woman. But for Rafka there was no other woman in her life except Caramel. Even if Rafka cannot have Caramel, he will live with his kses to the end.

"Congratulations to both of you, love is indeed a miracle that must be guarded with all your heart." The gardener lets Rafka and Caramel walk around while he continues his unfinished work.

"If you can't walk, I'll carry you to the top floor." Rafka said as they stepped through the corridor on the first floor which was the study room for the 10th grade.

"I can do it." Tukas Caramel is full of confidence, he has replaced high heels with sneakers that make it more comfortable to walk for a long time though.

"Grade 12 was the most exciting time for me."

"Why?" Caramel turned her head, they climbed the stairs towards the second floor. Of course their goal is the top floor because from there they can see all corners of the school.

"You want to guess?" Rafka smiled meaningfully.

Caramel frowned, why do you like to play guessing now my robot?

"Because there's me?" Caramel tilted her head unconvinced by her own words. Isn't Rafka's world just about Caramel? "OK if I think the twelfth grade is the most fun because we can walk confidently and head up without fear of the upperclassmen, but you're not the kind of person you are."

"true."

"Hm?"

"It's because there's you." Rafka stopped his steps in the middle of the stairs connecting the first and second floors.

Caramel held her breath as Rafka leaned against the wall. Caramel was unable to think clearly as Rafka put away the distance between them. Rafka lands a soft kiss on Caramel's lips. At first Caramel was surprised but seconds later he was lulled with Rafka's tenderness, he closed his eyes automatically returning the unexpected kiss.

Caramel didn't expect them to do this in the school building when they were no longer in school. I don't know, it's weird but even stranger Caramel enjoys it. Caramel was limp, he could not stand up straight with his own feet. But he realized that their position was in the middle of the stairs, not funny if they fell down there.

Caramel's hand swerved into Rafka's arms, she held on tight so as not to fall. Caramel didn't forget she was pregnant.

"You won't fall." Whisper Rafka in the middle of their friendly kiss. He held Caramel's body with one hand.

I believe you, Ka. You're always honest, you never lie to me.

"I love you, Caramel." Rafka rubbed Caramel's wet lips.

Caramel was astonished, was this the first time he heard Rafka say that sentence? The sentence is so smooth captured by the earlobe to enter the middle ear and then converted into vibration by the eardrum. Ah it turns out he still remembers the workings of the ear taught by IPA teachers first. But strangely the process that sounds complicated it actually makes Caramel's heart so quickly melt until his body is limp like jelly.

"I am too." Reply Caramel finally after a long time glued in front of Rafka.

Rafka smiled, she still could not take her eyes off the beautiful face of the wife who now looks flushed.

"Do you like watching me from there?" Caramel pointed to a trembesi tree that had very leafy leaves on one side of the school grounds. They arrived at the fourth floor to enjoy the beautiful view of the school from up here.

"Yes, I have to make sure you get home safely." Rafka answered without seeing Caramel.

"But I'm back with Rama."

"You ride the motor."

"You like to bike."

"Yes, that's why I can't take you home together."

"You can." Caramel turned to Rafka holding out a hand to pat Rafka on the shoulder several times. "Now."

Rafka shook her head, "I have to make you sit comfortably in the shade."

"With BMW?"

"Yes." Yeah." Rafka nodded, "that's all I've got."

"That's all?!" Caramel won't take it if Rafka says it's just for cars worth more than 2 billion.

Rafka chuckled at Caramel's expression which was extremely adorable to her. From a distance he saw the gardener who was plucking the grass chatting with someone, occasionally they laughed. Now Rafka understands why he likes his activities to pay attention to Caramel from afar because sometimes something looks more beautiful when viewed from afar. Rafka used to think Caramel was so happy with Rama that he was happy behind his pain. Seeing Caramel's laughter from afar makes Rafka come to dissolve into it— without consciously ignoring her own feelings.

"What's here?" Caramel sat on one of the chairs as they descended from the top floor towards the back garden of the school.

"Yes, even though the chair is no longer the same but the position does not change, I used to wait for you here." Rafka sat next to Caramel. "If I could be a little patient and wait for you longer ...."

"Udah is." Caramel leaned her head on Rafka's shoulder, she just wanted them to focus on their lives in the future rather than lamenting the past that has happened.

"You're laper?" Rafka held onto Caramel's belly, which was seen moving just now, and now she can see the baby's movements more clearly.

"Where might I be a laper, we just ate half an hour ago." Caramel raised her head.

"But you do eat heavy for almost an hour."

"Let's go home, I'll make good food for you at home." Rafka getting out of the chair. "You wait here, let me bring the car here."

"But not for long." Caramel is possessive.

"I will run away so as not to make the princess wait for long."

Caramel held back a smile, look at this stiff robot now turned into Romeo. Rafka Robot Romeo Pradipta's.

"That's not Joni?" Caramel turned his eyes to see two men chatting up ahead, the gardener and one other man. Although he had only met once but Caramel knew very well that the man was Joni— their new neighbor in the apartment.

"Joni?" Rafka frowned, Joni who?

"Joni our next-door neighbor, how does he know the gardener?"

Rafka did not answer Caramel's question, he approached the gardener to thank him.

"Sir, thank you for letting us go around this school, my wife and I excuse you first." He said politely.

"Oh yeah, Rafka, you're the same." The middle-aged lung man smiled broadly ushering in the departure of Rafka and Caramel.

"Wait a minute, baby." Rafka half-running leaves Caramel in front of the school. He parked his car at the restaurant where they had lunch.

"From the back is good." Unknowingly Caramel smiled looking at Rafka's back that was getting further away.

"Dad know him?"

Caramel overhears a conversation between Joni and the gardener not far behind her.

"He's an alumnus here, wait a minute Daddy wants to finish this first keep going home, your wife is home."

"Yes, Anna's the same mom's cooking for lunch, Dad's a little sneak."

"Yes-yes."

Oh it turns out Joni's son pack the garden, the world is very narrow.

Rafka's car docked and stopped right in front of Caramel. At first Rafka was about to go down and open the door for Caramel. But before Rafka got off, Caramel first stepped in and got into the car. Caramel is not the type of woman who requires her partner to open the door for her. Sometimes Caramel is spoiled but he can still open the door himself.

"It turns out Joni was the gardener's son." Tukas Caramel got in the car.

"Oh yeah?" Rafka plumes the gas leaving the school area which momentarily takes them back to the past. "But why would Joni live in such an expensive apartment?"

"You mean?" Caramel turned her head looking at Rafka completely. "It means that the gardener's children should not live in that apartment, you know the amount of their salary each month, can be higher than our salary, do not underestimate the work of people."

"Of course I can, I just feel like they're a little weird."

"No, you feel it only once." Caramel flutters her hands, saluting Joni and Anna who can live in expensive apartments like Kempinski at their young age.

******

"Oh ahh!" Caramel screeches to feel pain in the finished part of her foot when she opens the shoe.

"What's wrong?" Rafka panicked to see Caramel grimacing and sitting on a chair near the entrance. "Why Cara?" Rafka crouched on top.

"Not knowing." Caramel held tightly to her toes which felt very sore.

"Let me see." Rafka let go of Caramel's hand, surprised to see Caramel's hand covered in blood.

"I'm stuck in my nails." Caramel closed her eyes when she realized that her toenails had almost come off because they were stuck when she opened the shoes just now. Why am I always fucking? really this is more creepy than the intravenous needle that penetrated his veins some time ago. Caramel won't see it.

"I'll take the medicine first." Rafka rushes to run to pick up the P3K box to give first aid to Caramel's wounds. Rafka is not a doctor but he is quite good at treating wounds especially when Caramel is injured.

"It hurts a lot." Caramel closed her eyes tightly, she was afraid that her nails would completely detach.

"You calm down."

"Tomorrow I have to go to Bandung to control the goods that are ready to be packed." Caramel clenched her hands full of bloodstains.

"I'll drive you." Rafka gives an antiseptic to Caramel's nails preventing it from getting infected.

"Aren't you working?"

"There's no way I'm gonna let you go alone under these circumstances, you're gonna have a hard time walking, it's gonna hurt for a few hours and it could even be until tomorrow."

Caramel leaned his head against the wall, he broke out in a cold sweat and endured the pain. He dared to look at his feet after Rafka wrapped his index finger with a bandage.

"I can be with Jane."

"I'll take the ice cubes first." Rafka again ignored Caramel's words. He took the ice cubes and wrapped them in a cloth bag. "It can help reduce the pain."

"I should have been more careful when I opened the shoes earlier."

Rafka silence. Inwardly he wanted to nag Caramel who let his toenails not be cut to length. Caramel should immediately ask Rafka to cut her nails so that nothing like this happens. But Rafka could not nag a man in pain, he could not blame Caramel. Rafka actually considers himself less attention because it does not immediately cut the nails of the wife. Caramel used to cut his own nails but now Rafka has to.

"I'm sorry I paid less attention to you." Lirih Rafka while cleaning up the P3K box he used just now.

"Hm?" Caramel did not understand Rafka's intentions.

"Let's move into the room, I'll cut your nails." Rafka helps Caramel stand up.

"I can walk alone, I'm not paralyzed anyway."

Rafka again ignored Caramel's remarks, he still helped the wife walk up to the room. He also gave a glass of water for Caramel to be calmer.

"Still sick?" Ask Rafka.

It still hurts so much. "Udah ain't." Caramel shook her head giving Rafka an empty glass.

"Thank God." Rafka breathed a sigh of relief, he placed the glass on the nightstand. "I'll cut your nails."

"Thank you, yeah." Caramel saw Rafka sitting on the floor to cut her nails.

"This is me cutting your nails."

You can do anything, Ka.

"Keep me what?"

"Hm?" Rafka looked up, "you've worked hard, even though I didn't, but I know getting pregnant is not easy, thanks for being the best wife and mother for me, for our child." Rafka stood with her knees peeling at Caramel's forehead. Not forgetting to kiss Caramel's stomach, the way Rafka showed his affection for the baby in there.

Sorry to make you wait so long. Lately in the workplace is busy, has been trying very nyicil nulis but it was not enough for the completion of one chapter. Finally, after the holidays can also write chapter 57. Hope you like 'em 'em

Happy Eidhul Fitri Day to those celebrating ️

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Stay in love with Caramel and Rafka until the end of the '️