Sweet Story In Spring, Trouvaille

Cravings

Mr. Karno let out a long sigh, he realized that his boss only understood a few vocabulary words in Indonesian, then he also looked for sense.

The old man now moved his hand in front of Mickey as he said.

"Give me your phone."

Mickey who felt Mr. Karno pointing his phone immediately shouted.

"oh.. batagor, siomay, rujak?" the driver understood.

"What name?" ask Mickey

"ba-ta-gor." said Mr. Karno back driving, he knew where to buy the order of his new employer's wife inu.

"ba-ta-gol" said Mickey lisp.

"Si-o-may" said the man again.

"Si-o-may" turns out Mickey pronounces the name of this almost perfect food.

"Ru-jack"

"lu-jakh" and go back to the lispy Mickey.

"Ba-ta-gol, si-ou-may, lu-jakh" Mickey repeated.

Mr. Karno chuckled inwardly realizing how funny Mickey had been repeatedly chanting the names of the food. He did not think how Mickey would go through the cravings of the young mistress if the names of Indonesian food alone he did not know. Secretly he admires Mickey's sincerity, from the first moment he meets he can see that this young man loves Joelin very much.

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The sun was almost setting in the western horizon, Joelin had finished bathing and preparing dinner. Now he is sitting on the sofa in the living room watching television. It feels so good to see the Indonesian broadcast back. He had just asked Mickey to order some food that made his saliva come back almost dripping.

Imagining spicy and sour food alone is enough to make it tasteful.

"Appa you for a long time, but mommy was very hungry" said Joelin while stroking her stomach.

"What's? Are you hungry too? All right, if you go home, don't share the food with her, okay?" he's back to monologue.

"Darling, I'm home." Looks like the one you've been waiting for has arrived.

Joelin immediately got up from her seat and ran after Mickey.

he immediately hugged Mickey.

"Joelin, careful. You don't run around, it's a danger baby, what if you fall?" mickey's nagging without being able to return Joelin's embrace. Naturally, both his hands were full of pockets containing Joelin's order.

"I'm hungry." whined Joelin spoiled after taking off her embrace.

Mickey was suddenly anxious to see his wife who was now acting like a cute cat who asked to be petted by her employer.

"Let's eat." Mickey said.

"There's ba-ta-gol, si-ou-may and lu-jakh" said Mickey lifting Joelin's plastic order aloft, before stepping into the kitchen.

Joelin tailed on her husband's back while pulling the tip of the man's suit. In his heart he chuckles amusedly remembering how Mickey called "batagor. siomay and rujak".

"a really big blanket." - Joelin, she was still smiling to herself while walking behind Mickey's back.

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Mickey looked at Joelin who was devouring his orders like a starving man.

"Dear pants" said Mickey. The tangam is now landing on the soft lips Joelin cleans the chili sauce that sticks there.

"aaaaa" said Joelin thrusting condong at Mickey.

Mickey accepted Joelin's mouthful, but the look on his face turned undefined.

"Darling, stop eating." ask Mickey while holding back the spicy and sour taste that suffocates him.

"why?" joelin asked, not understanding.

Mickey struggled violently to swallow the spicy and sour taste in his mouth. As soon as the food escaped his throat, Mickey gulped as much water as possible.

"Why you, baby?" ask Joelin to worry .

"Are you sure you want to eat that?" Mickey asked, pointing to Joelin.

"Yes. It's delicious." replied Joelin casually.

Joelin nodded in agreement.

"Gosh, is this food?" grumpy Mickey in the heart who is now choking on the spiciness.

"Why? Slow down Mike dong." said Joelin thrust a glass at Mickey.

"Geez, is my wife some kind of machine for weird food?" murmured Mickey in heart.

With hesitation Mickey tasted siomay and Chicken noodles. Although both are still relatively spicy, but Mickey's tongue can still tolerate both menus.

"Is cravings this weird?" murmured Mickey inwardly as he watched Joelim who was eating to the four of you excitedly.

Mickey who was not finished with how to eat Joelin then decided to eat the food that had been prepared by Joelin before he came home earlier.

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Joelin stroked her stomach, her gestational age has now entered the fifth month. His stomach had already begun to bulge, he looked at Mickey who was sleeping peacefully by his side. While glancing at the clock on the wall, Joelin realized it was still two in the morning. But he was so hungry that he woke up. Is this the effect of his hot activity with Mickey before going to bed a few hours ago, until he went hungry like this?

Suddenly Joelin felt a very unbearable nausea. The woman rushed to the bathroom spewing fluid from her stomach. Mickey who heard a noise from the bathroom finally woke up as well. He swiftly put on his bokser and rushed over to Joelin. Without a sound Mickey patted Joelin's shoulder.

"When it's been over a month he's not nauseous." Mickey's mind.

After spewing out a lot of fluid, Joelin rushed up to the bed. He was very weak now, but his nausea was gone. Only leave the tormenting hunger.

"Why you?" mickey asked, sitting next to Joelin.

"Hungry."

"Would you like to eat something?"

"Fried rice cheese and spicy cheese."

Mickey was silent, he was thinking hard where should he look for these foods? it's already three and a half hours in the morning. Even if it was during the day, he still needed someone's help. It turns out that taking care of a cravings woman really gives its own sensation and challenge.

"Mickey, ayok masakin." Joelin's whine roused Mickey out of his mind.

"What's? Cook it?" murmured Mickey in heart.

Mickey immediately grabbed his phone. After asking Joelin to type the name of the food, Mickey immediately looked for a tutorial to make a dish. For his own fried rice, he already knows because Joelin often cooks it while in Korea. Mickey just had to draw a sprinkling of cheese on it. While rujak, Mickey just found out that it turns out rujak is a type of fruit salad, typical of Indonesia that is served with sweet, sour, and spicy taste at once.

Mickey is currently struggling with a millstone in his hand, trying to smooth out beans, chilies and brown sugar. While Joelin is cool slicing the fruits. He smiled happily, as it turned out that it was not in vain his intention to buy ingredients made rujak yesterday.

After feeling the seasoning being kneaded was already quite refined, Mickey immediately tasted it.

"Not too spicy, it feels right for me, will Joelin like it?" his mind remembers the spicy flavor Joelin ate a few weeks ago.

"Darling, try tasting" said Mickey thrust a little sambal at Joelin.

"Enak." praise Joelin after tasting chili sauce made by Mickey. A satisfied smile was engraved on her beautiful face.

"I thought he was going to tell me to add chili." Mickey's inner voice passed from there and moved his work into a bowl.

Mickey is still fixated on everything that just happened to him. He had just become acquainted with a new kitchen tool called ulekan, also with a recipe for Indonesian specialties called rujak.

"Don't daydream about Mickey." tegor Joelin, who is now sitting at the dinner table.

The man finally walked over to Joelin, complete with spices in his hands.

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"You happy?" Mickey was now stroking Joelin's head while lying on the woman's side.

Both were covered in blankets. And Joelin was smiling from then on without replying to Mickey.

"I felt his movements." said Joelin then with sparkling eyes.

"really?"

Joelin was happy. At the age of the womb is already in the fifth month, initially Joelin did not know that the tickling sensation in his stomach came from the movement of the baby, until finally this morning at check-up, the first time, the doctor explained this to them. While returning from the hospital, all day Joelin looked at her abdominal skin that occasionally moved to create subtle waves due to the movement of the baby.

"You have to feel it" Joelin said as she moved Mickey's hand to the plain surface of his stomach under the blanket.

Mickey's heart was pounding, his eyes were fully rounded as he felt a gentle movement behind the wife's abdominal skin.

"I love you so much" said Mickey, then landed a soft kiss on Joelin's forehead.