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Bella sat pensively on the edge of the big bed in her room.
Leo's words to David earlier, made Bella think clearly if her husband really prioritizes Jessika.
"What are you forgetting, we've been in trouble for a few months with Jessika. We didn't even greet each other, and you? "
He really felt sad, how could he have Leo's body, but his heart?.
No, not exactly yet.
"Sorry to make you uncomfortable" Leo now sits himself next to Bella.
"It's okay, I'm used to it" Bella smiled wryly at Leo.
"I just want the mystery of Mr. Eko's disappearance to be revealed immediately, there is no intention for anything else" Leo learned that his wife had misunderstood.
"I'm tired, I want to sleep" Bella lied, her eyes were hot. Ready to launch the clear liquid, for some reason he was so sensitive.
Leo breathed his coarse breath, again he became a bad husband.
But just as she laid her body, Bella suddenly felt nauseous.
As fast as lightning he headed for the bathroom in the room.
Spewing out all his entrails, Leo panicked as he followed his wife into the bathroom, massaging her nape, hoping to ease her vomit.
"Huek huek" seemed like everything he had eaten earlier, came out without any leftovers.
Bela rubbed her mouth, she looked limp. Leo carried his wife's body to the bed.
"You're okay, you're pale Bell" asked Leo in a panic.
Bella just shook her head, "it's okay to be this ordinary".
Bella's words just now inevitably made her like hit, this month she was busy to the office. Even when he came home he found his wife sleeping.
Tomy's absence in their company, obviously makes Leo have to work extra.
"I'm sorry bell" he murmured inwardly.
In his heart he wants to change himself to love his wife, but in reality the effort is not as easy as the wise words as he read on various social media portals.
"I'll bring you some warm ginger water, wait a minute" Leo said
Bella simply replied to Leo with a nod.
You can imagine, how we feel when we have become a wife, but clearly there is still a partition that seems to be a separation wall.
"This drink while still warm" said Leo who has brought a glass of water given warm ginger, and also honey. Hope to reduce nausea experienced by Bella.
*****
Upon David's return from delivering Jessika, he sat in the living room with a cigarette.
Too bad, angry with Jessika who incidentally did not make a fatal mistake.
Tomy also explained, but David is still David.
"You've come home" said Mr. Edy who suddenly appeared from behind.
"New pa nyampek"
"Don't bother with trivia, Tomy's just doing his job"
David was silent, smoking the cigarette deep.
"Papa now even confused how to bring all this to Mr. Sis"
David grinds a long cigarette into an ashtray.
"I want to marry Jessika soon, I don't linger long anymore" David said seriously looking at his papa.
"David, you know the people here still mostly think Jessika is the thief. We have to clear the name first, papa does not want to make bad dynamics in society. Moreover, you are a son of papa"
"There are some RTs that still can't accept it"
"You understand what papa means"
Living in the village is so complex, bad things like theft of goods are certainly a public consumption quickly.
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Jessica
The next morning Jessika is shocked by the number of calls on her phone, a number she does not know.
27 Unanswered calls
1 messages
+62857904902xx
"Jes, it's Bella. Can you accompany me to buy rujak soto, I want that food. And he wants to be with you"
Jessika scrunched her forehead, then immediately replied.
"Well miss" he replied, then rushed to take a shower.
"Where do you want to smell" mbok yah who emerged from the kitchen, staring fully in his granddaughter's search.
"You sent his wife Leo Wek, ngidam rujak soto said"
"Loh Den Leo and his wife come here" he asked while leaning his body on the wall, and began to be interested in chatting about this.
"It's the same with David yesterday" he said while wearing his white shoes.
"You went with Den Leo's wife?"
"Not yet to know Wek, mas David seemed to be craving tuh. Yes, I left first. Assalamualaikum" he said while reaching for the already wrinkled hands here and there.
"Walaikumsalam" replied Yah mbok.
After typing a message to Lek Soleh, if today he could not help to pack vegetables.
"Lek I didn't come, wanted to send Den Leo's wife to the city" he said via WhatsApp.
"Ok nduk, find a widow if there is a nduk😁 package" replied the weathered bachelor man.
Jessika just giggled and intended to reply, soon after she put her phone into the mainstay sling bag.
Bella
Since last night he had trouble sleeping, keeping him awake until almost dawn and spending time surfing social media.
She looked at Leo beside her who had fallen asleep, she was hungry at night but could not bear to wake her husband.
He was also the first to come home in the village, embarrassed for sure.
He scrolled his phone, as his fingers scrolled through his Instagram.
A photo of food that was so tempting, making salivary clear in his throat he swallowed himself.
glug
He clicked on the info about the food, "Rujak soto typical of Gandrung city" the caption below the photo.
He was in a village close to the location of that place, it felt like he wanted so much right now.
In the morning he could no longer resist the feeling of visiting the place.
"I'm taking it, Jessika can't bring a car" said Leo who was somehow worried.
"No, I don't want to be with you. Want to eat the soto rujak same Jessika, both just continue to eat there"
Leo had heard the story if pregnant women crave strangely strange, is his wife at this time also so?
"Yes I don't know if you bring your own car" Leo refused firmly.
"I have an idea" Bella said as if she had an enlightened lamp from Albert Einstein.
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David was surprised, so early Jessika was at his house. He hasn't even had a shower yet.
But Leo explained that Jessika's arrival was due to Bella's wishes, on behalf of pregnant women who were cravings.
"There really is like that" David said in disbelief.
"Eatya brother David married, let's know ngadepi wife who is pregnant continues to crave" said Bella rolled her eyes lazy.
"Let them David, let Tomy be the driver" said Mr. Edy who arrived to appear, but had heard their chat.
"What?" Leo and David spoke.
How could her papa ask Tomy to drive, while she whose husband is forbidden to come along.
So with David, his jealousy last night was gone now he had to hear if Tomy would take his sister-in-law with her lover.
"Okay I agree" said Bella.
Making Tomy who was standing there instantly pale.
Of course, on the spot got a sharp glare from the two handsome men in front of him.
"It doesn't want me" he said in his heart.
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Tomy has turned on the GPS on the dashboard of his car, Jessika and Bella are in the passenger seat in the back.
"You're not sick anymore, are you Jes"
"It's pretty much used to non"
"Sorry because I haven't had time to greet you, because it just came directly." Jessika said paused to remember the face of David who accused.
"Father, um anyways it's like brother David is still bucin with you"
Jessika was just embarrassed to hear Bella's words.
Their journey lasted 2 hours. The town was a small town, a district of the village of P.
Molor 1 hour from the usual time, due to an accident involving a truck loaded with pineapple with a pickup.
The tail density snaking up to meters, making them have to be patient.
Demi Rujak Soto's.
They arrived at the classic dining area, with a predominance of wood and wide windows on the building.
...Soto Emak Isun...
That's the nameplate in front of the building, just like the one on Instagram.
Bella ordered two servings of rujak soto, Jessika to astonishment.
Food from lontong with spices consisting of peanuts that are mashed with peppers, chili, brown sugar and other spices.
As well as the soto soup complete with topping meat, chicken, also crackers.
Lezaaaate.
Appetizing.
"What's up, miss?" Jessika asked doubtfully.
More precisely surprised, the two servings were a lot of gaes.
One portion alone is as high as Mount Raung, right, the strength of pregnant women is amazing.
"Let's go, it's a pingin"
While Tomy refuses Bella's invitation to eat, she prefers to find safety.
"Stay away from her!!" david's word before closing the car door when they were about to leave earlier, clearly a warning that he must always anticipate.
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When they go home they want to find an alternative road, because the road they passed earlier was clearly still a traffic jam.
"After this, where is the lady" asked Tomy, who suddenly became the driver.
"Emm What a nice road here is Jes?"
"Wow I know less non, sorry I rarely walk the road" he grimaced, because in fact he never walk the road.
"To the store by aja Tom"
"Neither miss"
With the power of technological sophistication, he easily found the place his boss' wife wanted to be.
They are now passing through the asphalt road, with the edges of which are planted with sengon wood.
They are crossing an alternative road, which will pass through to the provincial road later.
"It's so cool that Jes, I feel at home in the village" Bella smiled at Jessika.
"Yes, I thank you for not inviting me. I've never even been on this road"
Bella wondered if Jessika's life was really difficult, so for the road alone did not have time.
They chatted with each other in the car, fun to not assume the existence of a flat human who was in front of the wheel.
But they arrive surprised, because Tomy stepped on the brake suddenly.
Ciiiiitt
The squeaking sound that caused the tire stamp on the asphalt.
"Jeez, Tomy you're the reason" Bella was upset that Tomy suddenly stepped on the brake pedal, suddenly.
"You're okay miss" Jessika panicked, let alone knowing that Bella was two-bodied.
"For a moment, miss" said Tomy then opened the car door in a hurry.
Because long ago, Jessika finally came down to want to know what really happened.
He stepped forward, towards where Tomy was crouching.
He rounded his eyes as soon as he saw a man who was resting on the asphalt road, it seemed like Tomy had almost hit him, or had even hit him.
But when the man stood up, Jessika was very surprised to see the figure she had been looking for.
"Sir Eko!"