My Patient Husband

Chapters 12. Heart to heart

Mato let go of his embrace. " I Love you." Said Mato without a voice to Felisha. Which was only replied with a sweet smile by Felisha.

Mato waved his hand as he walked towards the boarding gate. Mato did not wait for a reply to the words "i love you" from Felisha because he knew that Felisha must still be very embarrassed to say the sacred sentence.

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Felisha POV

It has been almost two weeks this Mato brother followed the service trip of Mr. Maruf, Mato was in charge as an assistant lecturer. He follows wherever Mr. Maruf teaches. They went to several universities in Java and Sulawesi to do the teaching and learning process conducted by Mr. Maruf. It's been almost two weeks since Mato never had a chance to make a video call with me. He can only send a short message through one of the social media.

Tonight I feel so bored waiting for a phone call from Mr. Mato. I tinkered with the phone and sent him a short message.

"Have you gone home yet? I wait until ten o'clock if I can't call my brother send a message just don't papa." A short message I sent to Mato's social media and sent but not yet opened. I think Mato's brother hasn't returned to his place of stay yet. Still busy as it seems.

I got up from my seat, I kept my phone on the table and rushed to the bathroom to clean my face, then did regular activities by wearing skincare as usual before going to bed. My lyrics on my phone screen that lights up indicates an incoming message but it turns out that it is not from Mato but from Telk***el. I breathe deep air and I breathe softly. Really testing patience. After wearing skincare immediately I climbed on top of my bed and lay down my body and looked at the ceiling of my room which was plain white while waiting for drowsiness and messages from Brother Mato.

The clock has shown at 10:30 p.m., but there are no signs yet of a message notification from Mato and I have not felt drowsiness. I closed my eyes trying to force myself to fall asleep but again there was no drowsiness. I grabbed my phone and opened the yucub app to watch one of those up-and-coming yucubers because of the emetv, I watched until I felt a heavy drowsiness and fell asleep.

Sayup-sayup I heard the morning Adhan reverberate, I opened my eyes slowly and collected my life to rise from my sleep which I felt very sound last night even though it was a bit late. I saw the alarm clock on the table showing at 4:00 in the morning.

I got up and rushed to the bathroom to clean myself up and worship, after which I performed the dawn prayer. When I was about to open the face I was wearing suddenly my phone rang indicating there was an incoming call. I immediately went up and grabbed my phone to see who called this dawn and it turned out that Kak Mato's name was on my phone screen. I smiled at the caller's name. I swipe the green icon to answer the video call from Mr. Mato with enthusiasm. After the video call connected I saw the face of Brother Mato who was staring at me fixed and smiling sweetly.

"Assynoltom..." Said Mato

"Wa'alaikum..." Answer me

"Sorry baby last night I came home late at night so I decided not to return your message so that at dawn I called by chance today I went to work a bit bad luck." mato explained at length.

"Yes no papa sis, I could see Sis Mato." I said shyly I felt my cheeks heat up, I'm sure my cheeks are red now. I saw Brother Mato smiling widely displaying his neat teeth. My aaahhhhh was fascinated.

"I miss you, baby. You don't think I'm the same?" Said Brother Mato and only I replied with a shy smile. Aaahhh Mato always made me like this.

"You've video call now. time is still missing."

"Different dong darling, now I can only see you alone without being able to hold your hand."

"I also miss Mato, so the spirit of his work let me clean up and come home here." My speech. I saw Mato again smiling, displaying his neat teeth. I looked at him, he was so handsome.

"Why baby? how do you see me like that?" she asked when she realized I was looking at her deeply.

"No papa, brother Mato is in good health right there?

"Alhamdulillah healthy baby, doain I keep healthy. Let it work out." Her speech.

"Sure brother. I always doain brother healthy, work smoothly, mopping up and come home here healthy safe. Aamiin..."

"Aamiin.." she replied.

"You also take care of your health, baby, do not be tired, do not sleep late at night if there is no task to be completed."

"Yes." Yeah." My answer.

"Are you not the same as me?" suddenly tanyanya. I just answered him with a soft nod that was almost invisible. "Are you not the same as me?" reworked. He was not satisfied with the answer I gave him.

"Sweet brother." I answered at last without daring to look at him.

"Honey to not use it?"Ask not excited.

"It's a real shame." Answer me

"Love isn't the same as me?" ask again.

"Dolent brother isn't the same as me?" ask me to come back and not answer the question. Honestly, I am still confused by how I feel about him, whether it is still just love or love.

"I'm so happy, but I still doubt how you feel about me even if you say you love me." Answer

"Sister doubt how I feel?" I don't believe his doubts.

"Yes, because you've never shown that you're serious with me, baby. I mean you still seem to doubt me like I'm not serious about being in a relationship with you. The proof is I've never heard you call me by the word dear." Say it with a flat face expression.

"Not that, brother, I'm still not used to it. I also actually still wonder how can brother Mato like me, put my heart the same as me who is nothing, no plus, no value, whereas I see a lot of beautiful girls who try to get close to Mato, ranging from beautiful students and achievers on campus to sister coworkers who are also no less beautiful and smart. I won't be able to compete with them, brother." I said explaining at length with a sad face.

"I see you as nothing like those who might just admire you for being physical. You see me as usual when you meet and cross paths. You are so indifferent to your surroundings that you do not realize how amazed I am with your figure that does not look adoring when you see me.

"I was curious about you at first and found out for myself about you. But after I tried to get close to you I saw someone always following you. And I asked one of the students who seemed to be the same age as you, who was the one who was always around you, he replied that he was your girlfriend Muza.

"At that moment I gave in, accepting that you already had someone you loved. But my feelings for you never went away until I heard the news that you and Muza had nothing to do. "I don't think I've lost, I believe I have a chance this time. And I didn't waste that chance, I approached your two best friends Rufi and Lita. I think I can get more information about you than the two of them. "I really felt very lucky when I had the chance to approach you again.

"And it's even more fortunate that you're willing to accept me as the special person in your life. I could say nothing more when you accepted me. I hope I can make you comfortable and happy, baby.

"I love you Derisha. Love you more than you see." Brother Mato looks teary and looks down when I look at him.

I really could not say anything when I heard Mato's words, I was touched until my eyes glazed over. I wanted to run and hold her tight but what power it all revealed when we were far away and could only look at each other through video calls.

We both hide each other's faces. But Mato quickly returned her eyes to look back at me. And it looks like he's fine now. I looked up at Brother Mato.

"Thank you for loving me, brother. I am lucky to know my sister. Hopefully I can be as you wish, can love you for who you are. Thank you brother." I said with eyes still trying to hold back the water that was going to come out of place.

"Beloved together. I love you Derisha." Mato said it calmly and I could no longer hold back the pace of my tears that just fell. There is a sense of happiness and also longing to be mixed into one. Haahh.

"Don't cry baby, I can't see you like that without me beside you." Said Brother Mato and I immediately wipe away the tears that still came out without warning even though not as much as before.

I smiled amid the tears that still left traces on my cheeks. I smiled gathering courage against the shame and said. " Love you to my brother." And it was successful to make Brother Mato smile widely with sparkling eyes.

"Thank you, baby, thank you. Love you so much." Say it again and again.

I managed to control my feelings. I looked at Mato's bead that never took his eyes off me and the smile that never faded from his lips since I said that I love him too. We kept quiet with no one to speak to and again we both smiled as if a burden had fallen away from our shoulders. A feeling of relief was seen from our faces.

After almost 3 hours, we immediately ended the video call because Lita and I had a lecture this morning while Rufi she had a lecture later at noon.

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