It Turns out There's Love
72 - ONE CONDITION

Fariz had first stunned the body sitting on the chair. Zafira was still standing next to her husband, picking up spaghetti from the bowl container, putting it in the dish and thrusting it in front of the man after putting a spoon and fork on the plate. Then he walked around the table, sat in front of Fariz, opposite each other.

Fariz glanced at the tea cup on his left side that had been placed by his wife. Without waiting for long, he immediately tasted the warm tea. For a moment he was silent. One sip, then one more sip and then a few more sips. Until finally the man's voice clucked enjoying the aroma and sweet taste of the girl's tea.

This isn't the first time Zafira has made him warm tea. He had tasted the girl's tea a few times before. This morning was very special for him. And the taste of the tea was even more delicious than usual. Although Zafira only put a little sugar in the tea mixture but on the tongue Fariz feels very fitting and delicious. The special pleasure was created because for the first time, he tasted tea made by Zafira as a married couple.

"It's all like a dream. I used to expect Zafira to serve me warm tea every time I woke up. Today my hope is realized. Thank you, God. You have opened up a way for me to live with the girl I love" Fariz sipped the warm tea again until she was left without a drop.

His head looked up when he spilled the tea into his mouth. The man seemed unwilling to let even a single drop remain in the glass. His heart was so happy that it did not feel like a glass of tea water so quickly moved to his stomach.

Zafira gawked to see Fariz had finished the contents inside the cup. She thought, maybe she had made the wrong amount of tea for her husband? Should we use a bigger glass, measuring 500 milli or even 1000 mili?

"So soon your tea is over. Do I need to make one more cup?" he asked in surprise at the man.

"no need. I was just enjoying my wife's tea for the first time. If that made me my best friend. But today that made her my wife. It feels so much different. More delicious and scrumptious," the man joked smilingly at the sticky girl who still let her wet hair down.

"Start again" said Zafira shaking his head, not serving the husband's praise.

"Let's have breakfast" the girl continued.

After each of them recited the prayer in their hearts, they immediately held a spoon and fork on the plate.

They both started breakfast. Fariz took a spoonful of spaghetti and put it in his mouth. Start chewing slowly while turning your eyes to the right and left trying to assess the taste of spaghetti made by the wife. Very delicious. Fariz continued to taste the spaghetti with the old chew. Yes, the spice felt permeated all the way to his noodles. The taste of ground meat is no less delicious. Sweet, savory, salty taste right on his tongue. Zafira is very good at cooking. Cuisine made by hand is not inferior to spaghetti served in five-star restaurants.

The two ate breakfast with each other silent. Fariz kept stealing glances at his wife who seemed to be calmly enjoying her breakfast.

"Look at your cooking. I like it so much" the man praised again.

"Hmm," Zafira simply replied with a mutter as she was sipping the noodles on the fork, moving them to her mouth.

Fariz was so pleased with Zafira's change in attitude. This is a good start for their family. Although he knew, Zafira could not yet give an inner living for himself, but for the other obligations of a wife, Zafira still fulfilled it well. That's what makes Fariz more convinced by this marriage. He believes that someday this marriage will bring happiness for himself as well as for Zafira.

And Fariz never lost hope of breaking the heart of the girl who had been the first love would even be the last love for him. The wait will never end. There will always be patience in the wait.

"Thank you" Fariz said, breaking the silence at the dinner table.

Zafira immediately looked up at the man before her who was still busy chewing the food in her mouth.

"For what?" he asked curiously.

"Serving all my needs,"

"Yes, equally. No need to thank me. It's my duty to do that,"

"Yes thank you for doing your duty well, even though for that one I have not got it..,"

"Uhuk, uhuk, uhuk," suddenly Zafira choked. His face and ears became red. He understood Fariz's direction so well that he was surprised.

Fariz reflexively stood up to see the wife who suddenly coughed. Anxiety was drawn on the man's face. His hand quickly grabbed the glass of water and gave it to Zafira.

"Hurry up for a drink, please,"

Zafira, who was still coughing, without being able to say a word, immediately took the glass from her husband's hand and drank more than five sips of water. After feeling relieved, he put the glass back on the table.

"Are you all right?," Fariz still stood watching Zafira.

It seemed that Fariz had mispronounced so much that Zafira suddenly coughed. He also did not intend to continue discussing the obligations of Zafira that one.

"Let's continue with your breakfast" Pinta Fariz sat back in the chair.

The two returned to eating spaghetti without any conversation. Fariz continues to steal a look at Zafira, unbeknownst to the girl.

A few minutes later, the girl said something.

"Fariz, today we go to my mom's house and stay there. I miss mom and dad. I want to take the rest of my clothes. Yesterday mom brought only one suitcase of my gear. You want to not?,"

"No way," interrupted the man short.

"Huh? Not want? Why?," Zafira put a spoon on the plate, staring at the puzzled man in front of her.

"Yes, I don't want to. Except..," Fariz deliberately stopped his sentence with the intention of making Zafira curious.

"Except what?," Fariz's goal succeeded. The girl seemed to ask quickly, with a face so curious.

Fariz did not answer. He still wants to make the wife more curious about the unfinished sentence. Only her lips showed a smile that Zafira was hard to understand.

"Fariiizz?" Zafira was visibly riled up. The girl was annoyed to see the smile on her husband's lips.

"Unless you're at home, you let me sleep in one bed with you," Fariz said casually as he resumed his incarnation.

"What?" Zafira's eyes fiddled, her mouth open, staring at the man who was chewing his spaghetti.

"Sneaky ground!," Zafira snorted while thrusting a fork at his plate.

"Yes if you don't want to. You can go to your mom's house but by yourself. I'm not coming. Later oma, mama, papa and Zafran will definitely ask you a lot. Where's your handsome husband? Why not come along? You're still newlyweds, why did you leave your husband alone at home?" Fariz bowed with laughter, continuing to eat his breakfast.

Zafira's face started to look upset. He still stuck a fork in the plate whose contents had only been spent in half.

"You are indeed the smartest to take a chance in narrowness. I just found out, it turns out that you are sneaky as well!," he was annoyed, unwilling to look at the man in front of him.

"While you're gonna say I'm sneaky. But I'm the most loyal man" Fariz defended himself and Zafira couldn't fend off the man's words.

Zafira was silent a thousand languages hearing the words of her husband. He was well aware, Fariz was indeed a very loyal man. Evidently from their childhood to adulthood, Fariz never had a lover. Although not a few girls who pursue even expect him to be a husband. One of them is Wilda, a girl who had a muscle match with Zafira a few years ago. But Fariz was never interested in serving the girls. His time is spent waiting for one love from his own best friend, Zafira Mutia Wibawa.

"So what about my offer? Do you agree?" Fariz had spaghetti on his plate and drank some water.

Zafira thought for a moment. If he doesn't accept Fariz's offer, then tonight he won't be able to stay at her house. Even if he was desperate to go there by himself, there would be many questions that would attack him. And certainly, all the family, especially his mother, will blame him. The girl knew that all her family loved Fariz very much. Fariz is not only considered a friend and also the husband of Zafira at this time, but has been considered as a child, grandson and brother by the four people in his house.

"All right, I agree. But there is one condition from me and you must obey it. You can't stick too much with me. I know you're good at taking chances in narrowness. So you should keep your distance while sleeping in bed with me later," the girl gave a condition, which immediately greeted a nod of the head and a satisfied smile from the man before her.

"Alright, I agree to your terms. Now finish your breakfast. After that we get ready. I will take you to your mother's house soon" said the husband happily fulfilling his wife's wishes.

Fariz was so excited to take his wife to stay at the house of the mother. This time, he had a chance to get close to his beautiful wife.

He smiled inwardly as he looked at Zafira who was still finishing her breakfast. The man's goal worked. Although the wife proposed a condition that she must obey but at least she had a chance to sleep one bed with the beautiful girl.

The offer he gave to Zafira did sound sneaky. Willing to drive him as long as the girl wants to sleep in one bed with him. Whatever offer he gave, the important thing is that the girl agreed. The man smiled triumphantly.

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