Sekar (The Owner of Hearts)

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Vast

Days change, months change. Her gestational age stepped on the eighth month. He turned his body to the right and to the left saw his appearance in the mirror. White and black shirts will accompany her script hearing today.

His big stomach did not dampen his spirit at all in the face of his script trial, instead he seemed to get more excited.

"Didn't work?" ask her to Harsa who has been waiting for her to sit in bed while playing a mobile phone.

"No, it's been taken care of by Adit. Just a meeting with the red plate company" said Harsa with eyes busy staring at the flat object.

She stood right in front of her husband, making Harsa look up at his face.

"I'm not pretty?" flirtatious while rolling her eyes as she used to do when teasing her husband.

Harsa just smiled knots at him, then got out of bed to get out the room. Again she was only able to sigh in the cold manner of her husband.

"Patience son." he muttered softly with his hands gently stroking his already bloated stomach.

The campus looks pretty quiet this afternoon, there are only a few students working on assignments and preparing for the trial.

Some of his friends had gathered waiting for him in the lobby in front of the room where he would fight later.

"God.gila..! Just this time there is a trial court pregnant gede gini..! My spirit, my dear..!" flowers then hugged her.

Harsa chose to sit in one corner of the lobby while opening the laptop to finish the job.

After fighting for about an hour in the room, he finally walked out of the room with a cheerful face. A hug from his friends greeted him as he walked out of the room. Like other students, he captured the moment of his trial by taking pictures.

"Mas." she said as she looked at her faithful husband who was escorting and waiting for him during the hearing.

Harsa glanced at him, then looked back at the road ahead.

"Thank you, mas." he said gently with a smile and then kissed Harsa's cheek.

And again her husband only responded with a faint smile. Don't ask how he's been feeling all along? He always felt happy when he met his friends, but returned sad when with Harsa.

For seven months Harsa had not touched her, even asking her to do 'other things' to make her husband happy.

Once he asked about it, but only responded to smiles and answers origin of Harsa. Then her husband tried to shift the subject.

In fact, he never hesitate to send an article about the importance of having sex during a big pregnancy. But her husband did not respond to that at all. Until finally he chose to give up and shut up, then try to think about other activities.

She was thinking negatively, her husband was playing with another woman. The result is no evidence that shows Harsa cheating. He is still free to open Harsa's mobile phone, he is also still free to check all of Harsa's accounts and nothing suspicious.

"Mas, can I work after giving birth?" he slowly asked while looking at Harsa.

He breathed slowly, though,

"I want to do my job, really work."

Harsa glanced at him, then looked at him as their car stopped at a red light.

"What do you want to do? The office is staying milih, you want to be whatever is left to choose."

Harsa's words made her mood more erratic.

"I want to work somewhere else that people don't know me" he replied slowly with his head down.

"We will see later if it's born, the important thing is that you are born first." said her husband who was only able to make her nod and cry in silence.

"Yes" he replied quietly, then threw his gaze at the window beside him while occasionally wiping away the tears that still welled up in his eyes.

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Harsa

After he finished cleaning himself, he saw Sekar had been lying on his back. Sekar's stomach already looks very big, especially his wife has a body that is still fairly thin among pregnant people.

He felt sorry for Sekar who looked difficult to carry the body and more easily tired.

He knew for a long time he had not touched Sekar, even he understood his wife was trying to lure him in various ways. But for some reason, after his wife's pregnancy he considered the 'happy activities' that he used to love so much, now it is no longer his priority. Even the desire was arguably faded, not because he was afraid to do during the pregnancy Sekar, but really he did not think of 'it' at all'.

He crawled up, lying beside Sekar while occasionally staring at his wife who was still on his back.

Vast

As she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly felt her husband's firm hands holding her from behind and stroking her stomach. Harsa then sat down and kissed her stomach from the side.

"It's healthy, son.." murmured Harsa quietly, then her husband lay down next to her.

His eyes opened again and his lips smiled. But suddenly he thought for a moment, did Harsa all this time just want a child from him? Because every warm act of her husband during her pregnancy only focused on her womb, not for her anymore. Or is it just him overreacting?

This honestly forces him to remember his difficult time accepting the presence of Harsa's love in his life. No one knows how hard it is to open his heart again to receive the love of his life after the breakdown of his relationship with Nanda. The past left by his father was still very deep in his heart.

Struggling, he fights back against his trauma and cold sweat when Harsa comes to his boarding house and sleeps in one bed with him. Honestly he had wanted to reject Harsa at that time, but he saw the persistence and warmth of Harsa that was able to make him melt.

But what he feared happened, all the warmth was lost in the age of his new marriage is very early.

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