Holy Marriage
For Anna
Alan searched for a place to sell cendol on the internet, but did not find it. He frowned. So that means he has to ask people on the streets just to find cendol? Oh God.
“Liatin a sign on the side of the road, if there is a writing cendol, yes have stopped,” continued Anna and answered with a nod of the head by Alan. Anna is testing Alan's love for him, how serious is Alan?
Alan walked towards the door and turned his head when Anna called out.
“Plis, must dapet ya cendolnya. Maybe this is the will here.” Anna pointed at her stomach.
Well, if you've used a weapon stomach alias fetus, Alan can not dodge anymore. Women are most able to prank their husbands on the pretext of a prospective fetus asking, even though it is actually the will of the mother.
Alan came back again and stroked the surface of Anna's stomach. “Ntong, don't ask for anything weird after this.”
Anna chuckled at Alan's words.
Alan kissed Anna on the forehead before she left the room.
To get out of the hospital, Alan had to pass through a long hallway, down the elevator which of course must queue, then pass through the spacious lobby that connects to the terrace, and then pass through, then to the basement which also has to travel a few meters away, then he can exit the hospital portal to the highway.
It felt like Alan was like a bagger when he had to pull over the car and ask the cendol on everyone on the street. She even asked the mothers who were hugged by her husband when he stopped at a red light. Of all that, there was no information he got.
Alan kept trying to find. And he increasingly felt like an idiot as his eyes had to glare to the left right looking for a cendol inscription. Alan began to get frustrated because he had been around for almost two hours but did not find what was sought. Even so, he did not want to return without a spoon. Because that is the struggle of a responsible husband, who is able to understand the condition of his wife while pregnant.
‘Don't want to do it’. The words just glanced at his mind, making him smile at himself.
Alan answered the phone via cordless earphones while driving while Anna called him. He was sure, Anna would have been impatient waiting, maybe his wife would have been nagging. And he was ready to thicken his ears.
“I'm on the road. Haven't seen the cendol.”
“But you're okay, right? You've been almost two hours you're not back and forth.” Anna's voice sounded anxious.
“Mm... Yes yes, I'm not pa-pa.”
“Ya. You be careful, yes.”
“Oke.”
Alan bobbles head. Geez, he had suudzon that Anna would nag, but in fact Anna called because she was worried about him.
Alan let out a rough sigh, even until that second he was still unable to recognize Anna's nature.
Alan turned his car back to the hospital in despair. All the reasons he had arranged in his head so that Anna was not upset if later he did not bring a cendol.
Oh yeah, he still has Rina. He almost forgot his pretentious housekeeper. He planned to call Rina so that Rina would find a cendol and drive her to the hospital, but her intention was to stop as soon as the muzzle of her car almost passed through the portal and she saw something that widened her eyes.
Oh, my God, didn't he see wrong? Across the street in front of the hospital was written the word he had been looking for, cendol. Alan bobbles his head, after going around in an uncertain direction, it turns out the cendol is in front of the eyes.
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