"Where is the sauce pan?" Aruna threw the same question.
"Sauce pan!!... sauce pan…" someone was panting for the sauce pan. He was confused while checking all the cabinets and cupboard around the pantry.
The one who panted word 'sauce pan' was searching everywhere in his elegant pantry.
Finally he found it! he lifted it up triumphantly and handed it to his wife. Without wasting any time, she turned on the water faucet and put some water in the sauce pan, boiled it and left it a while before she put the water in the freezer. Hendra watched all what his wife did attentively and he was stunned.
"Hehe" he chuckled and scratched his hair behind his ear. The scene was unbelievable. That modest woman who made him crazily in love, had her simple ways to face things she faced and solved it an unpredictable way in his eyes.
Why did she not ask him go to the mall down there to get some water, instead?? That what many women would do, wouldn't it?
He walked around the table in the pantry where his wife was sitting. He pulled a chair and sat right in front of her. She tapped her fingers on the tabl composing music.
It was not bad piece of music though. What very good was her face expression, cheerful and happy. Mahendra remembered days back, she hardly showed up her cheerful and happy face. On the contrary, she always looked gloomy and sad, especially on the first moment of their married life, she was often caught froze and depressed.
And that happiness radiated to him as well in a way that he could not comprehend. Suddenly she got up from her chair and ran to the refrigerator to check the water that she predicted would have turned cool. She smiled cheerfully.
She picked two glasses, poured some water in those crystal clear glasses and walked lightly to where Hendra sat down. She handed one glass for him and another one was in her hand. as she sat down on her chair she put her lips on the lip of that glass. Hendra watched them all.
Suddenly he recalled something, and that made him chuckled. She glanced at him reflectively.
If only she knew what made him laugh, she would pout her lips in annoyed.
He was taking his memory to the time when he was forcing his love to her. What a sickening moment, when he forced his love to her, every kiss he gave was not responded. Aruna was like that clear glass where he wanted to drink its water. But as the lip of the glass, she gave no response no matter how hard the drinker crushed the lip.
Hendra analogized Aruna's lips were like a glass lip that never kissed him back. One day he got his first somatosensory sensation in a hospital where that girl was hospitalized. He was so much happy to get that chance. Unluckily, that fun was over when she requested to allow Damar to visit her. And he choked her angrily.
He was so grateful all the bad times were passed. He even more grateful she could be this happy. He was almost crazy to try so many ways just for the sake of making her happy, none worked well. He really believed this moment needed to be thanked.
"Come over here," He whispered after he came on to the present moment.
"Hmmm??" That innocent looking girl put down her glass, moved around to her husband.
And he stretched his arms and pulled her in his chest, hugged tight. For her, he was a really sweet husband since last night until now. It was uncounted how many times she had been hugged like this.
Then, he made a confession: "I love you".
"Yeah I know," Her voice sounded flat. It looked like she had heard it many times.
"Why are you like this? Expressionless?" He was a bit annoyed hearing to that response.
"You almost choked me!" she punched his arm.
"Oh!?" the word choke scared him a lot. He loosened his hug and asked for apology again and again.
"You can hug me, but I am a normal human who need to breathe. I am not a doll you can squeeze as you like," Aruna nagged him. He nodded and looked at her. She took another sip of water from her glass again.
"Bang!?"Aruna suddenly pointed him with her fingers shaping pistols with her both hands. "Gotcha!!" she laughed.
"Got me with what?" Hendra did not really understand.
"Gotcha with my love bullets," Her reply made someone looked dumb instantly. And she burst into laughter, the laughter echoed in the whole room.
Mahendra felt so much happy with the warmth shared by his wife. He was hoping all his time would be the same like today. He was really on the moon in a simple way.
***
"Goshhh!! Damn!!" A woman with glasses slapped that luxury car in front her. She was really upset because that car turned in a sudden without any signs. As a matter of fact, it was not totally the car's fault, that girl, Lily, was just learning to ride her beautiful pick motorcycle for the last three months.
In between Dea's busy activities in preparing her wedding, Lily asked her to teach her riding a motorbike. For Lily, Dea's marriage was a bad luck for the administrator of Magic Letter because that would mean no one would do run all errands so easily like Dea and also to use that two-wheel motorbike for free.
A man of athletic stature got out of that car. Instead of responding Lily's anger, he walked at the back pf his car to check the back part of it, and he found out his car got scratches from the bump of Lily's motorbike tire.
The girl wearing helmet of the same color as her motorbike and glasses of swimming goggles was wondering when that man stared at her.
"I followed the standard procedure of driving a car well when turning my car.," he walked toward Lily, "Now look! It has got scratches from you!" He was angry at Lily.
"Why are you angry at me??" Lily got confused. It was supposed to be her to be upset.
"You car turned recklessly! so my motor is not wrong!" this straight forward girl was quite good to argue with anyone. Her debate skill was much in Magic Letter, especially since she got along with Agus and Damar. They were able to upgrade her skill much.
" I turned with the standard procedure, slow down the speed, turn on the sign lamp far before I turn, and turn slowly. It was you who could not control your motor speed. So, it is your fault!" the man did not want to be blamed because he felt he was not at fault.
"I don't care! It is your fault!" that girl insisted that she was innocent.
The debate of the two was inevitable. Both claimed to be innocent, and especially Lily, she refused to pay the compensation. She, on the contrary, asked for the money to compensate her loss. The man said that it was he who suffered from the big loss. His car was a luxury car, an of fantastic cost for a repair.
When Lily did not believe what that man said, he opened google site and showed her the current pi]rice of his car. Lily gaped in awe and realized that even she sold her new motorbike, it would not cover even one-fourth of the repair cost.
Lily said: "Ughh… that is really bad. Okay, I will not sue you for the repair of my motorbike," She walked slowly to her motor, and in a second, she escaped, leaving that athletic stature man left in shocked for being fooled.
"Hey! That girl?! Crap! My bad day..!" the man being a victim of Lily's recklessness lamented his stupidity.
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The door bell of Hendra 's mansion was echoing until the pantry. Hendra stood up and checked hrough the screen to see who was coming. He frowned when he saw the visitor was a woman with a pink helmet and odd glasses. Aruna caught that expression and she knew that the guest was not the one he expected to come. Aruna jumped in joy and ran to the door. She ran passed her husband and opened the door. "Lily!.... thank you."
Aruna smiled widely and pulled her best friend in. Lily was starlet when she caught Aruna's husband expression. For Lily, Hendra got negative impressions. Some incidents that had been through related with that CEO of Wenceslas Group were not encouraging ones, such as when Hendra and his guards rummaged Magic Letter to look for Aruna's cell phone, not coming other unimpressive ones.
_How could this over protective man was with Aruna again?_