The Substitute Bride

Chapter 15 (The Day of Emotions)

Tami broke three eggs and put them one by one in a bowl and then shaken them with grated cheese, cooking cream, and a pinch of sea salt. His two eyes were so seriously following step by step that a young chef was directing at YouTube. After performing the dawn prayer he went straight to his mother-in-law's house to pick up groceries to make breakfast. I guess-banging on the house-in-law in the morning blind-nobody ever did it, except Tami. It turned out that owning a house that was only five steps away from the house in-laws gave him quite a lot of advantages.

This was the fifth time he tried to make an omelette, but none of it worked. And certainly not the ingredients or recipes of the chef are to blame because he is the suspect.

Vegetables, kitchen spices, even cooking utensils are scattered here and there. The kitchen is like a ship ransacked by pirates. Tami had been struggling for almost an hour and a half in the kitchen, but none of the cooking was completed. In addition to the taste that is not good, omelet and fried rice made also smell of smoke that is not delicious because of the burning.

A morning with perfect chaos! Tami grumbling. He is almost fed up with the fishy smell of eggs if he does not remember his mission.

"O Allah, I would be single for life like this." Tami snorted in frustration.Even making a dish that was that easy she could not do, then how could she dream to captivate her husband? That's impossible.

Tami squatted on the floor. Half a shelf of eggs is wasted just to make one breakfast menu. Her tears almost fell if she did not raise her head to the kitchen ceiling. If an hour and a half ago the spirit of the pool was a hundred percent then now only half is left. Maybe even a quarter.

How do you fight, Tami? Ah bad, the new age is starting to be discouraged. Didn't you risk a lot of heart just to succeed this mission? This is your first step towards happiness. The word mah result is a back business, which is important first effort. Where was the tough Tami back then? Tami who did not hesitate to drag his parents to school and humiliate him in the field for having dared to peek at you while changing sports clothes.

Uh, wait a minute. What does it have to do try to drag school thugs into the field just as making omelets that fail miserably. Not connecting his heart.

Tami inhaled the air slowly. Trying to gather back his spirit that had been scattered on the floor.

"Bismilbornrahmanirrahim. This is my struggle, O God, because life is a struggle. If the woman in the time of the prophet struggled with wooden refracting tents in her hands to fight against the Roman army, then Tami struggled with lifting a spatula to make an omelette." Tami exclaimed excitedly.

He promised it would be the last time he tried. The sun has begun to show its rays indicating the time to cook is getting thin. Even if the failure again greeted him this time, he was ready with plan B. Her mother-in-law would have been happy to accept her and Alvin as her dinner table visitor.

Tami is back making omelette material. This time Tami really focused all her attention only on the egg-based food.

Unknowingly all of Tami's movements had been noticed by someone nearly ten minutes ago. There, behind the kitchen door. With his two brilliant eyeballs, Alvin was watching all the actions of Tami. The sound of the girl's cry had stopped her steps on the stairs. Then quietly set the pace, then watch behind the whitewashed door. Perhaps his magical wife had destroyed his own masterpiece. And sure enough, there is no need to explain how the kitchen is. Everything is scattered everywhere.

A few minutes passed, and the girl seemed to jump in joy. His lips hummed happily. Perhaps this time the cuisine of the girl was successful and quite worthy of being made into the breakfast menu this morning. Alvin decided to go back to the room. While Tami, the girl was busy admiring her homemade omelet.

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Alvin was ready with his clothes and briefcase on his way down the stairs. The man was not surprised enough to find his wife on the last rung of the stairs with a smile so bright. Alvin was glued to his place, as if glue was firmly stuck to both soles of his feet. That smile, a smile that seemed to produce a powerful bang on his left chest. He had seen a similar smile.There is no need to guess who the owner of the smile was. The smile that once made his heart flowered in love, but now bears a gaping wound. But the smile thrown by Tami on the steps was able to stir his soul, making all his nerves tremble smoothly. The vibration seemed to flow up to his abdominal cavity and flew dozens of butterflies there. Alvin thought that maybe the girl had a magical little elf so that whatever her behavior was able to deliver an electric shock to her body. His magic now drew both corners of Alvin's lips and formed a bow.

"Oh, Mas Alvin why even mandet there, anyway? Tamek knew Tami put on a sweet smile mulu." the girl grumbled and climbed the stairs.

One rung of stairs under Alvin's feet, Tami stopped.Then put on her charming smile again while extending her right hand forward.

"Mas, let's have breakfast. Tami had prepared a special meal" he said with a friendly face.

His jet-black eyeball is able to drain the instantaneous warmth to each of Alvin's nerves. Tami twitched her palms as if asking the man before her to immediately grasp her fingers. And like being exposed to magic fairy magic, Alvin obediently extended his hand. I don't know why, but Alvin wouldn't mind linking their fingers. Share the warmth this morning through their fingers.

This should be a happy moment for this halal couple, but unfortunate as if they do not want to stay away from it. Tami's graceful steps turned out to rest in the wrong place. As a result Tami immediately tightened his finger link on Alvin's fingers and brought the man down with him.

For people, walking normally down the stairs must use the soles of the feet. But this morning, a pair of grandchildren Adam and Eve set out to make a new way to go down the stairs, not with the soles of the feet but the back as a substitute.

"Ooh.duh...duh..." Tami grimaced in pain while trying to wipe the back that was painful.

For two minutes Tami was busy with the pain that hit her back, then immediately turned to the side to see the real victim. Beside him Alvin was silent with a shriveled forehead. Tami's? She is a woman so she can realize what she feels without having to keep it. But for a guy like Alvin it's not a normal thing to do. Perhaps the degree of self-esteem will be reduced by half if realized. Counting thousands of coins may be easier than busy measuring a man's level of arrogance.

"Eh, sorry-sorry, Mas. Tami didn't mean to make you fall down the stairs."

Tami shifted her body and tried to stand up. The tight grip of their fingers he divorced. With a thousand steps Tami ran up the stairs even though the pain in her back was still so pronounced.

"A just left it?" ask Alvin alone.

Alvin helped himself to wake up. The girl may feel so guilty that she leaves her alone still lying on the cold floor. Thought Alvin. With a slight grimace of pain, Alvin forced himself to step towards the dining table.

"What part of it hurts, Mom? Back, huh?"

Tami asked with a face that was so worried, somehow gone where the pain that hit his back a moment ago. After placing the First Aid Kid box on the table, his steps continued to be arranged towards the refrigerator. The ice cube became his goal.

Alvin was confused by his wife's behavior. Maybe his wife graduated from nursing school only part of the theory, while the practice may be that the girl is blessed with such great luck or the lecturer alone who can not bear to see his face so passing it is considered the right decision.

Checking the state of the victim should be the first procedure that is done before deciding to do treatment to him. It is not possible for medical personnel to treat before diagnosing. But what Tami did was just the opposite. At least helping the victim is the right action rather than leaving him in a location with a fairly alarming condition.

Tami placed a bowl containing ice then prepared to do treatment.

Three minutes had passed but none of the help was done. Tami even looks like the wrong person behind Alvin's body.

"Why?" ask Alvin tease.

He knew his wife was nervous at the moment. Though last night was not playing he was in tears asking that they could sleep in the room.

"Engh, it's Mas" Tami looks misbehaved. "Can not if the clothes are opened a little, Tami want to check if there are bruises or not. Take it easy Tami will not hurt Mas really, Tami is not a doctor".

Tami arranged her voice to sound a little convincing even though she herself seemed hesitant to hear her tone.

Alvin stood up and turned to face behind, facing Tami. And the girl seemed to hold her breath. In his heart Alvin cheered triumphantly. With a slow movement, Alvin opened one by one the buttons of his shirt. No need to be asked where the direction of the two eyeballs Tami, the floor became a better view at this time.

"My back is what Tami needs to look at. I think the floor is fine, so you don't have to pay attention to it." Alvin whispered in such a subtle tone of voice.

Hearing the sentence that slid smoothly right in her ear instantly made the fine fur on Tami's body stand up straight. Cold heat is felt immediately spread from the tip of the foot to the crown.

"Eh, yes. Here Tami check." Tami tried to shake off her nervousness. His best excuse was to consider the man before him as a patient. Not a man who was pushing the door of his heart to increase the speed of his blood flow.

Tami prepared to conduct an examination before realizing any errors in her sentences and actions. Alvin came to the conclusion that his wife was really nervous at the moment.

Both senses of Tami's vision had been circulated to the front of Alvin's body and his forehead shriveled by a thousand.

"Nobody's been hurt or bruised, Mas. His head was rummaging about trying to check from all sides.

Alvin held back a laugh at his wife's behavior. Both of Alvin's palms cupped Tami's face and then bowed slightly so that their position was parallel considering the height of Tami who stuck only to his chest.

"So when I fell the feeling of my back landing on the floor, not my face, Tami" she reminded.

"Yes, yeah. Tami forgot." he said as he patted the jidat. "Sitting next to the chair so you don't get tired."

Tami then checked Alvin's back. In some places it looks bruised due to friction with the end of the stairs. Tami bandages small chunks of ice cubes with a small towel and uses them to compress in order to cool the blood vessels around the bruised area.

Though Alvin just undressed in front of him, how can he be a dazed person. Last night he desperately let out crocodile tears to get Alvin ready to room with him.

Last night.

Come on Tami, think of something. Your mother-in-law has already helped half of your plan, now how do you perfect the other half. Do something that will make Alvin willing to stay in the room with you like before. That way your time with you will be much more. The likelihood of your mission succeeding will also increase.

A few minutes Tami tried hard to think what she should do and tears became a pretty convincing answer. Based on the story told by Karina, Tami knew that her mother often used tears to melt her father's heart. Maybe that's why Tami has a rather crybaby nature and often carried away feelings. Although his mother warned that tears were not a good thing to get what he wanted, but Tami thinks there is currently no other idea she can think of so she made an exception to this one.

Missing words to his mother and mother made his chest tight. He tends to be sensitive when he thinks of the two great women in his life.

"Tami sleeps downstairs, Mas." Tami's voice rang out, and she tried to bite her lower lip.

Doggone.

Alvin tried not to panic when Tami's black round bead suddenly glazed over .He is usually nervous when he has to face tears.

"Is it okay to sleep in the lower room? But I think you're strong enough to sleep on that cold floor" Alvin said.

But for Tami the guyonan was really annoying. That was not the answer he needed after trying hard to find something that could make him sensitive and shed tears.

What sin is your servant, O Allah, until given a husband who is not this understanding. Her little heart.

It seemed that tears alone were not enough to smooth out his plan. Tami threw her body to the floor and stomped her feet in annoyance. Alvin panicked at his wife's behavior.

"Hikss, Mas Alvin is evil. I hate Tami so much that I don't want to sleep in Tami's room?" Tami whines while divorcing tears. The boy who lost his leg candy.

Alvin knelt down to calm his wife. A housework I never thought of before.

"Well, didn't you say you wanted to sleep downstairs? How come now even crying and why Mas evil anyway?"

Tami's tears fell more and more like a leaking dike hearing Alvin's question. She felt that there was not the most annoying creature she had ever met except her husband.

"Hiks. All men are the same, no one understands the feelings of women." exclaimed Tami as if condemning all races of men in the world.

"What?" alvin was confused.

"Tami was just forced to say that, because surely Mas Alvin did not want a room let alone bed with Tami. Instead of sleeping on the couch, Tami sleeps in the lower room."

"Well, why are you crying?" asked Alvin who still did not understand Tami's intentions.

"Ih, basically a man. Why the hell doesn't anyone know the code is a girl."

"You know my wife's dong what the code means." Alvin pinches the puffy cheeks of Tami. The girl tried to shake Alvin's hand with an exasperated feeling.

"Nih Mas, Tami told you, yes. If women say it doesn't mean it's the opposite. Sometimes she conveys things in an indirect way. The woman uses feelings so as a man, Mas must be able to understand the implicit meaning of the words of women."

"Oohh." Alvin is ooh ria while muttering. "So you want, what?"

Tami snorted annoyedly. After explaining at length it turns out that the man did not understand also what it meant. Inevitably he must also express his meaning. Although he had to lower his ego a little as a woman he was willing to do it for the success of his mission.

"Well, Tami, we'll just sleep in the room, Mas. Tami will not merkosa Mas Alvin kok, at most only Tami a little godain." Tami rolled her eyes.

The husband just watched. Tami's tear-filled eyelashes really messed up that beautiful twinkle. This time there was a woman who said that to him.

"Why so messy? Something wrong on my back?" ask Alvin.

"Huh?"

Tami raised her face that was so serious looking down. There was a clear look of shock on his face. I don't know how much Alvin noticed his reflection on a fairly large mirror hanging on the wall. Perhaps the man has come to the conclusion that the girl he married is a bit sane.

Absolutely disgraceful!

"No, there's nothing wrong" Tami replied in a panic.

Well, if caught mesam-mesem because nginget last night can fall my shares." His inner.

Tami lowered her head and focused on compressing the bruises on her husband's back. The nervousness that ensued should be put to an end immediately.

"Well, it's done."

"You don't want to be treated?" Alvin offers after successfully buttoning the last button of his shirt.

Tami, the plain girl or maybe the old loading more precisely, nodded. Then sit on the chair. Although Alvin did intend to treat Tami's bruises, but seeing the innocence of his wife he so demeaned his intentions. Alvin lowered his head and whispered something right in Tami's right sense of hearing.

"The book must be opened first if it wants to be looked at." Alvin happily teases his wife.

And sure enough his guess, the girl jumped straight out of the chair. Instantly a red tinge spread across his cheek.

"Not so, my mom. Nothing seems to be bruised either." said Tami trying to convince.

Alvin raised his eyebrows up, as if to tell him that he did not believe the girl's words. Slowly Tami fumbles around the table looking for the existence of the first aid kid box. Alvin took a step closer to Tami and the girl instantly set a thousand steps after successfully finding the whereabouts of the box.

"Tami go upstairs, Mom. Wanna change into a suit of service."

After saying that sentence Tami immediately ran up to the room. He did not care about the pain felt on his shoulders as a result of hitting the wall. Looking at the mischievous smile that rose on Alvin's face alone he felt as if he had already lost half his life. Alvin, meanwhile, enjoyed the morning moment with a double win as his heart blossomed after successfully teasing his wife. Only one thing he does not enjoy today is an omelette with a strange taste made by Tami.