The Temptation of the Former

I Love You

Johan blinked his eyes, he felt something shackle his body. When his consciousness began to recover, he saw his body covered in a blanket that was quite thick. He changed his position to sit, his body felt so sore from falling asleep on the sofa.

For a moment Johan just realized, if he fell asleep on the sofa apartment. He just remembered, last night he waited for Jihan to come home until he fell asleep.

"It's waking up."

Johan looked back when he heard Jihan's voice. He was immediately stunned when he saw Jihan who was using an apron, her hair tied up with sleeping clothes still on her knees which added to the charm of Jihan this morning. For Johan, the beauty of a woman is when she comes down to the kitchen.

Johan drowned in his own daydream. He fantasized if only he and Jihan Married would he see this kind of sight every morning, have breakfast together, and even take a bath together.

His daydreams ran out instantly as Jihan patted him on the shoulder, "Kok was daydreaming." Johan instantly regained his senses as Jihan patted him on the shoulder.

"Oh sorry, are you cooking?" ask Johan.

"Yes, but it's all done. You can have breakfast before you go home.

"Yes, thank you" Johan said, looking up at Jihan.

Jihan returns to the kitchen, while Johan goes to the bathroom next to the kitchen to wash her face. Jihan arranged the food she had cooked earlier onto the dining table.

The fragrant smell of Jihan's cooking was so appetizing, Johan who had just finished from the bathroom, immediately sat on the dining table chair. Jihan poked the rice onto Johan's plate, Johan was very happy because Jihan treated her very well, already like her husband.

The menu that Jihan cooks is also diverse, it is like a lunch menu. There is Nila sweet sour sauce, vegetable soup, capcay and also potato paste. Johan was confused about which one to eat, because everything looks very good.

"What side dish do you want?" jihan asked when he saw Johan was confused.

"I want to try everything" Johan said, smiling at Jihan.

Jihan also spooned various kinds of side dishes made on Johan's plate, after completion, Johan immediately ate the food on the plate.

His eyes widened as his sense of taste felt the results of Jihan's cooking that was so fitting on the tongue. Johan is a typical person who does not just eat food, he only eats the cuisine of his mother while at home, while while in California United States, he prefers to cook alone.

"It's a nak" Johan said as he chewed his food.

"Really, thank God then," Jihan said as she glanced at Johan who was eating so voraciously.

"I want you to cook for me again" Johan said.

Jihan was stunned for a moment after hearing Johan's words just now. Cooking food for Johan again, seems to be an uncertain hope. Jihan does not know if she can still feel eating with Johan again, be it tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the month , next or the next year.

"Eat after that, you have to go home," said Jihan then back to spooning the food on her plate.

Johan glanced at Jihan whose face looked sad, he knew it seemed like the words he said earlier offended Jihan.

"I'm sorry for bringing you this far in uncertainty, I hope you won't disappear again from my sight" Johan said.

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After breakfast, Johan said goodbye to go home, because he had to get ready to go to the office immediately. Jihan drove Johan to the front door. Before coming out the door, Johan looked back where Jihan was.

"I'll say thank you for the breakfast" Johan said.

After Johan's departure, Jihan returned to her room, she saw the watch in her hand that had shown at seven in the morning. Fortunately, the distance from the apartment to the office was only fifteen minutes, so he did not have to worry about being late.

~

Meanwhile, Vita was in her apartment. Since returning to Indonesia, he has stayed in his apartment more often than at home.

Vita stared at the screen of her phone with a photo of Johan and herself during a graduation event at the brand's campus first. Vita's tears flowed along with the crumbling of the heart because Johan who still did not open his heart to her.

Somehow he had to try, he had told people to burn down Jihan's house, and that made Johan even more concerned about Jihan. Vita tries to think hard, at least there must be another way to make Johan his whole possession.

Unrequited love is so painful, but already know the pain is still in the fight. A struggle that would only be an endless empty hope.

But love is always like that. The brain seems to not function when the heart has spoken, Vita is not a stupid woman but when it comes to love she seems blind.

Vita laid down her tired body, thinking about what she should do next.

The sudden movement of Vita who is now sitting in his bed because of an idea that suddenly appears in the head. The idea this time was quite reckless but it was what he hoped would bring Johan to his knees in front.

~

Johan had just arrived home, he was walking quickly about to go up. But suddenly the voice of his mother who was currently sitting on the sofa of the family room stopped his steps.

"Where have you been all night not coming home?" maria asked as she looked at Johan who was standing on the threshold of the stairs.

Johan stepped closer to his mother, he immediately dropped his body on the sofa. Maria looked suspiciously at Johan who was silent without speaking.

"Mother ask you again .. Where have you been until you haven't been home all night?" mary repeated her question.

Johan breathed heavily, then turned to look at his mother sitting next to him. The mother who had always been on her side was no more.

There is now Mary who always urges him to obey the match between himself and Vita.

Johan had always complained to his mother, but now he was afraid to talk, because his mother did not take his side anymore.

"If you know, I love Jihan, will you support me" Johan said.

"Jo, why daydream, let's answer, where have you been all night not home?" ask Maria again, breaking Johan's daydream.

"I was staying at the office, there was some work I had to finish, sorry I forgot to say goodbye to my mother" Johan told a lie.

"Huh, I think you're running around, fortunately your father is not at home, otherwise you're in interrogation," said Maria.

"Yes ma'am, sorry .. I went to my room first, I had to get ready to go to the office" Johan said.

"Yes go," said Maria as she patted Johan's shoulder softly.

Johan put his feet up on the top floor. I don't know how many times he hasn't told his mother the truth and it makes him feel uncomfortable. But he has no other choice, he loves Jihan and the support of his parents he has yet to get.

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