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"I'm on my way, I'll be there soon" said Aphrodite. He turned his gaze at Jordan who was now standing while looking at him.
"I'll excuse you first" he said, who was embraced by Jordan. Aphrodite left Jordan alone. Aphrodite turned then on her wrist in an empty taxi that passed the road.
"She said Laura? Was the Laura she was referring to the Laura I knew?" Jordan was silent in his daydream.
...*...
Aphrodite asked the driver to stop right in front of the restaurant where Laura worked, today he will learn to cook there. Aphrodite got out of the car, grabbed her groceries and paid the taxi fare with a few hundred thousand bills. A moment later Aphrodite stepped inside the restaurant, as the restaurant closed early today, so there was no one else but Laura inside there and Aphrodite who had just entered through the front door. Laura who was preparing the kitchen then turned to look as soon as her ears heard the sound of the door opening. Lauda stopped his activities.
"You've arrived" he said, as he walked over to Aphrodite to help her carry all her groceries.
"Yes, by the way I've got all the ingredients. Sorry if I'm taking too long because some ingredients aren't in some markets."
"Not a problem, I understand that some materials do not exist. If only the restaurant supplier faster to send the ingredients, it will be faster for us to cook. But since they're going to deliver the materials tomorrow, so we can't possibly wait until tomorrow." Laura put the plastic bag on the table and took out one by one the materials inside. "You must be tired, you better drink and rest first."
Laura took a drink of water for Aphrodite and poured it over. Aphrodite took a slow gulp and sat down on one of the chairs.
"If you're not tired, we're just starting to learn how to cook. Okay?"
"All right." Aphrodite nodded her head. Meanwhile Laura is now busy refurbishing the kitchen before they start cooking.
...*...
Francisco approached Aphrodite, the man had just finished his bath and was now clad in his bath kimono. He embraced Aphrodite's body from behind making the woman who was standing in front of the large mirror in front of him gasp in shock. "Frans, you surprise me" said Aphrodite, looking at Francisco in the mirror.
"I love the smell of your body" murmured Francisco, closing his eyes, breathing deeper into the fragrant fragrance of Aphrodite now standing before him. Aphrodite was speechless with a confused look on her face, noticing Francisco acting strangely tonight. Aphrodite was agitated, for some reason if there was something behind Francisco's sudden attitude like this.
"French? What's wrong with you? Why are you acting like this, makes me restless." asked Aphrodite. Francisco changed the position of his head, thrusting his chin at Aphrodite's shoulder.
"There's nothing. I just want to," he said. He looked back at Aphrodite through the mirror. Aphrodite tried to be ordinary she was again busy wetting her hair because she had just finished bathing.
"Honey.." Francisco muttered softly after a long silence accompanied their togetherness. "Hm?" Aphrodite answered him with a murmur.
"Because we've known each other more and our marriage has been long enough, how about we…"
"No!" Aphrodite cut quickly, her met face clearly visible in the mirror. Aphrodite understood where Francisco was going. Francisco changed his position, standing straight while looking at Aphrodite with a look of surprise. He scratched Aphrodite's shoulders and turned the woman's body towards her, Francisco watching Aphrodite more closely made the master more wrong behavior made him. "I-I'm not ready yet." said Aphrodite.
"Haha...What are you thinking?" Francisco chuckled at Aphrodite's spontaneous speech.
"Huh?" Aphrodite wrinkled her face not understanding.
"I want to take you on vacation again, to the place you want to go. Why did you suddenly tell me you weren't ready? What the hell are you thinking? Haha.." Aphrodite's face turned crimson, oh shit. His brain was thinking of a no-no, he's dead lice now. Francisco must have thought that he was thinking about something no-no.
"I-I.." Aphrodite was stumped at what to explain. Francisco suddenly drew his face closer to Aphrodite, staring at Aphrodite's two beads. Aphrodite was glued to her place.
"Don't you be thinking about…"
"No! Don't say!" Aphrodite turned her face the other way, silencing Francisco's mouth with both hands. "Don't say anything about what I just said. Let's just say you didn't hear it" he said. Fransisco only smiled wryly, and he took his face away from Aphrodite.
"Well, I'll pretend I didn't hear it. Now can you come out for a second?"
"Eh?" Aphrodite turned towards him. Francisco just kicked him out of there?
"I want to get dressed, or do I need to get changed in front of you?" Francisco took off his kimono slowly.
"I-I'll go." Aphrodite hurried away from there leaving Francisco alone and not forgetting to close the door. Francisco chuckled softly at Aphrodite who was now disappearing behind the exit. He stopped his silence and fell silent in his daydreams.
"True..I can't force it, I'll be patient any minute," he murmured softly like a whisper. Francisco released the kimono he was wearing making his body now without a thread covering his body. The man grabbed the clothes Aphrodite had prepared earlier and put them on.
...*...
"I must be crazy, why would I think of such a thing? And can I say something like that to Francisco? He's misunderstood, isn't he. stupid." Aphrodite cursed his stupidity. He really did not think that his brain could suddenly think of such a thing and in the end spoke a slut that made him embarrassed half to death.
Aphrodite left her place, preparing a table for her dinner with Francisco. It is better to keep busy than to keep thinking about what just happened.
Fransisco walked out of the room in the same pajamas as Aphrodite, the man descending into the dining room for dinner together. Francisco and Aphrodite are sitting at the dinner table, enjoying dinner time together.
Silent. Aphrodite made no sound at all and continued to focus on the food she was enjoying. Francisco who felt their situation was quite ambiguous then looked at Aphrodite with a confused face. When they saw Aphrodite quickly turned her eyes the other way.
"You why?" Fransisco asked who managed to make Aphrodite choke. Frantic Francisco grabbed a glass and filled it with water and thrust it at Aphrodite.
"Eat slowly," he said.
"I-iya.." said slowly.
...*...
Aphrodite was still silent, she still could not forget the truly embarrassing incident. He is currently sitting with Francisco in front of the television, watching a show that is being aired. Again no sound was heard from each one, only the sound from the television they could hear filled the entire room. Francisco yawned, he was getting tired and sleepy. He turned his head towards Aphrodite who was sitting beside him, the woman was still busy watching the flaming television screen in front of him.
"It's night, how about we go to sleep?" He said, Aphrodite flinched.
"Eh? T-bed?"
"Yes, we have to rest so that tomorrow can have the energy to go to work. Come on!" Francisco got up, grabbed Aphrodite's hand.
"I-I'm still not sleepy, you go to sleep first." Aphrodite.
"But-but…"
Without warning, Francisco lifted his body. Aphrodite gasped in shock as the man suddenly just carried her.
"F-frans."
"Because you won't listen to me." Francisco turned off his television and took Aphrodite into a room to rest, Aphrodite asked to be let down but her words were not heeded by the man who became her husband.
Fransisco sprawled Aphrodite's body on the bed, Aphrodite speechless as the man's face was very close to his. They looked at each other, just a few centimeters away their noses would touch.
Francisco swallowed his saliva with great difficulty, his heart throbbing incoherently and his mind began to drift everywhere. Aphrodite was still silently staring at him wordlessly, to be honest right now her heart was also pounding violently. Moreover, his mind just kept turning around in the incident a moment ago.
"Why have you been quiet since? Is it because you keep thinking about what you just said?" Francisco. Aphrodite hurried to turn her face before her mind was drawn closer to the things she did not want. Her face flushed.
"N-no." He stammered. Francisco hurried to get up from his position, distancing his face from Aphrodite. He smiled looking at her. "Then because of what? Why do you shut me up without talking?"
"B-not for nothing, I-I just.." Aphrodite hung up her words.
"What only?"
"I just don't have a topic for us to discuss" he said.
"really? You sure it's just that?"
"What do you think it's because?"
As Francisco climbed into the bed, Aphrodite spontaneously moved away to the other side of the bed. "It's because of what else? There's no reason for me not to talk to you, nor are we marahan."
Francisco lay down beside Aphrodite, with his sideways position and his hands holding his head. Aphrodite pulled the blanket, lowered her position slightly so she was not leaning against the pillow. Meanwhile Francisco was still watching him while smiling.
Aphrodite drowned her face slightly between the blankets she was wearing.
"Are you quiet like this because of that?" Francisco raised his eyebrows that made Aphrodite not wart.
"Not," he said. Francisco brought his body closer which made the lapel pajamas he wore move to show the chest of the field of Francisco. Damnit damnit! Now Aphrodite turned to look at him. "Have it, I don't want to talk about such a thing. I just want to sleep." Aphrodite turned her back to Aphrodite.
"Yes, you're right. We better get some sleep now so we can go to work tomorrow." Francisco pulled out the blanket. The man hugged Aphrodite from behind.
...*...
Jordan sat down and looked out the window. At the moment he is in the restaurant, he is enjoying his lunch time with a cup of warm sweet tea. He had just finished eating and was still enjoying the rest of his time.
"Did Aphrodite and Laura know each other?" Jordan murmured, somehow the incident some time ago really bothers him. The incident when he met Aphrodite accidentally, and he heard Aphrodite mention Laura's name.
"If indeed they knew each other, and if indeed Laura Aphrodite knew was the same Laura. That means, I can find Laura's whereabouts through Aphrodite."
"But what if it turns out that the Laura Aphrodite knows isn't the Laura I know? It just so happened that their names were the same."
"I have to make sure of it first. But how?"
Jordan has been crying ever since his encounter with Laura, who disappeared after all these years. His life is really only filled by the figure of the woman who became his idol. He could not even focus on working because he was too often approached by the figure of Laura and curiosity that reappeared in him.
He wanted to know where Laura was, how she had been for so many years that they had not met, and why she had been hiding from him. He wanted to know everything, everything he had not known all along.
Jordan grabbed his cup and gulped it down slowly, he had to calm himself down for now.
...*...
"Aphrodite, I'd like to ask you to represent our division for tomorrow. Can't do that?" Said Mario.
"Okay sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity once again to take the plunge. This got me a lot to learn, about the projects we're discussing."
"I chose you because you are a person who is always focused on working and always listening well. That's quite profitable for our division."
"I just work as hard as I can."
"alright. Thanks again for being willing to come along. Then you can go back to work."
"Okay sir, I'm sorry." Aphrodite walked out of Mario's room, stepped into his study to continue his unfinished work. Arriving at her study, Tina was already waiting for her with a curious look on her face.
"What did Mario tell you?" He asked as soon as he found Aphrodite who had just arrived in his room.
"There's nothing, Mario sir just asked me to come with him tomorrow to represent our division."
"You're elected again? Wow great. I'm proud to be your friend." Tina smiled happily.
"Yes, that's it. I'm also happy to be chosen, because I can learn more."
"Ah.. I also want to be like you, I also want to be chosen by you to come and learn a lot. From now on I will focus more on improving my performance so that later I can follow in your footsteps."
"spirit." Aphrodite cheered him. Tina nodded her head while smiling.
"Well, let's get back to work." Aphrodite sat in her chair.
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