Zenaya's remorse
Chapter 52: "Two with you."
The atmosphere inside the Reagen apartment still looks dark and quiet, although the morning has come before. Zenaya was still engrossed in his sleep, while the Reagents who had been awakened since then were still reluctant to move from there.
His eyes looked at his wife's face with love. The man's knot smile expanded as Zenaya moved and squeezed herself into his arms.
Reagents happily clutched the wife's innocent body under a thick blanket, while occasionally softly kissing her shoulder.
Initially, Reagents thought her domestic life would be very difficult. Especially since they started that sacred bond with something wrong.
The reagents understand Zenaya's hatred. However, sometimes he envies seeing the household life of others or his family is so harmonious. Imagined if he could also feel the same way as Zenaya.
The hope that had once felt impossible, slowly began to change in a better direction as Zenaya gradually accepted his presence. The mental burden that had been borne by the woman was eroded over time.
Even so, the Reagents still had to hold back. He did not want to re-awaken the fear that existed in Zenaya if it was too rushed.
It was unexpected that his patience yielded good results. Everything feels perfect for that man. Zenaya was no longer afraid of him. Their relationship is no longer just tied to the rope of marriage.
More than that, they had each other, much deeper.
Memory Reagents suddenly roll in during school days. The times when Zenaya was still his secret admirer.
Faintly Reagen was actually aware of the foreign girl's behavior. How did he react when they faced each other, how clumsy it was when they collided accidentally, or when Reagents suddenly caught the girl's gaze.
However, the Reagent who did not have any feelings for him naturally ignored Zenaya. Until finally the bet happened.
Somehow the first thing Reagen thinks about when asked to choose a girl is the figure of Zenaya. Because only that girl who never tried to find attention in a tacky way, like other girls.
At first Reagen doesn't care about Zenaya's disappointment and anger, when the girl learns of a hoax over a fake relationship that she and her friends made. However, as time goes by a new Reagen realizes that he has feelings for the girl.
His feelings get even greater when Reagen learns that Zenaya is his childhood friend whom he met in an orphanage decades ago.
The little nameless girl he met only once. The little girl who cried because of her past actions.
Reagents laugh in the smell. If you recall, the man always hurt Zenaya in every first meeting they had.
The flower crown that was destroyed by accidentally stepped on it, ridiculous bets, and dark events a few months ago.
Since childhood, Zenaya always cried because of her.
Reagent tightened his embrace on the wife. "I'm sorry" whispered the man gently, stroking Zenaya's stomach affectionately.
"I love you. I love you guys" he said softly.
"I know" Zenaya answered in her sleep.
Reagents flinched then chuckled. " I thought you were still asleep."
"I am still asleep, but your voice is too close to my ears" Zenaya said without opening her eyes.
Smiling reagents. "Come, wakeup. You'll be late." Reagents are back. Sometimes he kissed the wife's face, ears and shoulders.
"A dope a day won't get me fired. I want to sleep all day." Zenaya yawned small and then infiltrated deeper into the arms of Reagents.
"Don't do this, you can lure me again" lamented Reagen.
Hearing the husband's warning, instead of moving away, Zenaya wrapped the man's legs with her feet.
"Zen!" exciting Reagents.
There is no lawfulness. Zenaya apparently fell asleep again. The man could only exhale his breath.
...***...
"Zen, me ... loh?" Grace who had just entered the workspace of Zenaya was shocked when she found no one there. The room was still dark and closed, a sign that the owner of the room had not yet arrived.
Grace glanced at her watch. "Where is he?"
The woman sniffed her shoulders before finally closing the door of Zenaya's room and leaving from there.
"I eat alone" the woman murmured later. In his hand was a box of fancy provisions that he had just brought from home.
...***...
Zenaya who had just stepped out of the bathroom, glanced at the sharp Reagents. The man seemed to focus on eating his food voraciously.
Without saying thank you, the woman sat in front of her husband and drank the milk the Reagents had just made.
A ignorant smile was imprinted on Reagen's handsome face when he found that Zenaya's vexed look was still there. "Who told you to tease me" he said humorously.
Zenaya was embarrassed. He was just a fad of snuggling himself in the arms of his husband. He thought the Reagents would only pose a threat for having lured the man. However, the husband actually proved his threat.
Given this, Zenaya's face turned red. He started first last night, he was the one who lured the man.
In order to eliminate his embarrassment, Zenaya ate the sandwich made by her husband in a hurry to choke.
Reagents laugh little. The man took a glass of water for Zenaya and helped her drink. "Slow down."
"Shut up!" sahut Zenaya ketus.
Hearing that, Reagen even hardened his laughter.
...***...
As long as they are married, only this time the two are shopping monthly together, because Zenaya is the one who has been doing it alone.
The woman deftly sorted out what food ingredients had run out without the need to take notes. The woman can also find out which food ingredients are still fresh and not.
Reagents are of course dumbfounded. It was like finding another side of his wife.
"I just realized that I don't know you at all" muttered Reagen.
Zenaya stopped his activities that were sorting out fresh meat. "What are you talking about?" ask the woman.
Reagent shaking. "No." The man was embracing the wife's waist. "From now on you have to shop monthly with me. Don't be alone anymore."
"okay."
Finished shopping, the two stopped at a simple roadside tavern they passed by. One of the menus that Zenaya read attracted her attention.
Without awkward the woman ordered two portions of heavy food and a portion of a snack for herself.
"Why see me like that? Are you afraid my body is getting fat?" ask Zenaya while squealing.
Reagent shook his head. "Fat, skinny, black, white, any woman is beautiful."
"I can't believe there are men who don't look at women physically" said Zenaya.
"A lot of guys do that, but I'm not one of them." Soft smiling reagents. "I just wanted to ask. What if my body turns old? Maybe my head will be bald, or maybe I will be in a wheelchair because I am no longer able to walk. Are you leaving me?"
"Of course not. I will age with you too. Unless I'm a vampire" Zenaya replied without a second thought.
The two throw laughter at each other.
...***...
Alex learns of Zenaya's absence in the hospital. The man originally wanted to apologize for his actions last night if he met with Zenaya. At once asked the situation of the woman who had to go home alone to the apartment.
However, when Alex arrives at the apartment and accidentally finds the togetherness of Zenaya and Reagen who just got out of the car, the guilt evaporates instantly.
Alex thinks Zenaya didn't come in because of illness. He also understood that the woman was avoiding him by not coming to the hospital. But his estimate was wrong. That woman looks very fine. She even seemed very happy with the foreign man who became her husband.
"You've never laughed like that to me, Zen," Alex murmured coldly.
Without thinking long Alex got out of the car and entered the apartment.
"I didn't think we'd meet here" Alex said suddenly. The man stood behind Reagen, Zenaya and a security guard who helped carry their groceries.
Zenaya. Unconsciously close yourself to the body of the husband.
"Rey, how are you?" alex asked, extending his hand.
"Very good. I'm sorry I can't return your hands" Reagen said, raising his arms full of plastic groceries.
"Ahh, I didn't realize it." Alex laughs. "Zen, how are you?" The man then extended his hand to Zenaya.
Zenaya flinched for a moment, before finally retaliating Alex's hand at a glance, so as not to make the Reagents suspicious.
"From what I heard, you didn't go to work? Wh why? Are you sick?" ask Alex.
"Yes, I'm a little unwell" Zenaya replied expressionlessly.
Hearing the look on Zenaya's face and her different tone of voice, ignited the resentment in the man's heart.
The elevator is open. They use public lifts because there is one security who goes upstairs.
"Ahh, so it looks." Alex nodded his head.
"Tomorrow Zenaya will return to work." Reagents are making a sound. His eyes looked at his wife while throwing a smile.
The man tried to ignore the sweet smile that Zenaya had pointed at Reagen. Not to mention the behavior of the woman who embraced her husband's arm tightly.
"What's wrong with you?" Realizing the change in behavior that Zenaya showed made Reagents can't bear to not ask questions. "You tired?"
Zenaya nodded her head.
"It seems you're still not feeling well, Zen?"Alex looked towards Zenaya. "Looks like you need to take your wife to the hospital, Rey," Alex proposes, turning her eyes to the man.
"You want to go to the hospital?" ask the Reagents to Zenaya.
"No. I just want to get to bed quickly and go straight to bed" replied Zenaya.
The elevator stopped right on the floor where Alex was staying. "Then excuse me. It's nice to meet you guys, Rey, Zen. I hope you'll get well soon and get back to work like before." Alex bent his body.
"Thank you, Lex," said the friendly Reagent. While Zenaya refused to look at him.
The man came out of the elevator.
His smile was still plastered until the elevator door closed again, and took the couple away.
"That smile is just for me, Zen, like you used to do to me!"
