Jovian Alton (Life-Life Bodyguard)
The chicken Cordon bleu.

Early in the morning Jovian had turned on his car engine. Walking back and forth to enter some of the items that she also brought Kiana, until neatly arranged in the trunk there.

After that Jovian closed it, and went back up the wooden stairs to get inside, joining all the family members who were already sitting on the dining table chairs respectively.

He pulled up the chair that was located right beside Kiana, sat down and immediately received the plate that Leni had filled with brown rice.

Can't say fancy. This breakfast meal looks so simple. There is only fried tempeh, vegetable bean sprouts equipped with pieces of tofu, tomato sauce, anchovies, also boiled carrot leaves that are never absent from the dining table there.

Because it looks like it's one of Jovian's favorite menus.

"Would you like to try? Besides being delicious, this is also healthy." Jovian brought the vegetables into his plate, along with the sambal and anchovies.

Kiana stared without giving any answer.

"Do you want to make an omelet?" Leni looked at her future daughter-in-law.

But Kiana shook her head with a smile, and took a little negligence as well.

"I think my tongue has to be upgraded. Trying new food, .. anyway all this time I've been eating too much fast food, and it's not healthy."

Hearing that Leni smiled.

"Could indeed? Eat leaves and salted fish? Mommy forgot not to order daddy or fish."

Kiana nodded.

"Usually when I try I like it right away. I can eat!"

"Persis Papi." Leni kept looking at Kiana, watching the girl who started to enjoy her breakfast.

Everyone was silent, including Jovian who seemed to be very curious about Kiana's reaction when the girl ate a simple meal made by her mother. But suddenly Kiana's face looked very red, she shook her hands in the air, then grabbed a glass of water in front of her.

"Uhuk uhuk uhuk, .. spicy!" He was strangled with teary eyes.

"Slow down!" Jovian patted Kiana on the back.

"Warm water." Jonathan said, asking Leni to get it immediately.

"Let me just." Jovian immediately ran towards the dispenser, carrying a new glass and filling it with warm water.

While Kiana still coughed because she felt the heat in her throat area.

"You don't usually eat spicy?" Jonathan asked.

Kiana simply replied with a headband, as she was unable to speak due to the heat that continued to be felt in the area of her throat.

"Well, have a drink." Jovian immediately gave the warm water to Kiana.

Kiana immediately grabbed Jovian's hand that was still holding her glass, then sipped slowly until it was half gone.

And after the drama choked on the chili in the morning. Everyone resumed their breakfast, including Kiana who only ate with sprouts and anchovies.

***

Jovian turned off his car engine after feeling long enough. Then he went back inside, sitting with Kiana in the living room that was just carpeted. Jonathan and Leni were silent, both of them staring at Jovian as well as Kiana alternating with gazes that somehow meant.

"Are you really getting married?" Lenny began to speak.

She looked at Kiana fixedly, who Kiana answered with a soft nod, then turned to Jovian to give a more definitive answer to her mother's question.

"Maybe it won't be long. So you should come, ask Kiana directly to her parents for me!" Jovian answered.

"That's for sure, we'll come if Kiana really wants you to get married. Indeed, Mami and Papi should ask later in front of both parents, ... is it true that Kiana will marry you?" Leni looked at Jovian.

"Kia? Jovian is very mature, 3 years away even his age will enter the head of four. Will you not regret it? Your future is still long, and there may be many things you want to make happen. Because when you're married, you'll be tied to Jovian, who definitely limits your wiggle room." The woman asked again, as if to reassure Kiana.

Or even trying to make Kiana realize, if only the girl was under pressure. Whether it was from Jovian himself, or from both of his parents.

But things that Leni did not expect she got. Kiana smiled widely, nodding with a face full of confidence.

"Aren't you under pressure? Jovian told me the beginning of your closeness was your parents' request? Is that really so?" Jonathan asked.

Kiana nodded again.

"Maybe Papa knows who can control me. Papa knows also who is the man who is really right for me." Reply Kiana.

The two seniors turned to each other, staring at each other without any expression.

"You don't believe me?" Jovian looked at his parents.

"Of course these last 2 years we know you how." Squeak Leni. "Mami don't want to bring up, but don't you ever let Kiana down, or make this marriage just a moment's escape."

Kiana looked back at Jovian as Leni said that.

"At least we can stop him if his intentions are not good, Kia!" Jonathan smiled at him.

"really. Looks like Om has to convince Om's feelings first! I don't want my husband to have completely dispelled his feelings for his past."

Jovian sighed.

"I'm missing you guys. One against three, .. I told you this time I'm serious, Mam!"

"Really?" Jonathan squinted his eyes.

"Yes, .. my God, why are you?"

Jonathan finally laughed, then he patted the shoulder of his second son very tightly.

"Then next week Papi and Mami follow there." Jonathan told Jovian.

"Why not now? Departing together?" The man gave a suggestion.

But Leni immediately rejected him with a headband.

"There are still some things to take care of and resolve. Take it easy, next week Mami and Papi will come, .. or maybe Javier will also come home and come with us later."

Jovian.

"All right then. But we have to go home today, because Kiana still has to go to college, .. and she shouldn't be allowed too long."

Jovian immediately got up, as did Kiana, Jonathan and Leni.

"Thank you Mami Papi already want Nerima Kia well, sorry ngerepotin, can not help too. Eat live eat, .. want to help cook fear even make a riot." Kiana chuckled to herself.

She was embarrassed and funny at the same time.

Leni gave a smile, she did not reply, but instead immediately approached and hugged Kiana quite tightly.

"Why indeed? You're not a prospective housekeeper who has to master everything." Leni rubbed Kiana's back.

"Maybe Kia is far from the word dream daughter-in-law. And Kia would like to tell you this with Mami and Papi now, so that your expectations are not too high, .. Maybe Om Jovian's money will run out just to hire a janitor or buy food outside."

Leni laughed hearing that, she pushed both of Kiana's shoulders until their gazes met each other.

"Patient with his attitude. Don't give up easily, and if something happens that's related to Jovian, then tell Mami, not to your parents, okay?"

Kiana nodded.

"Kiana pamper." The girl hugged the woman in front of her.

"Be careful, as soon as we get there to formalize Jovian's proposal."

Kiana nodded. Then he turned to Jonathan, and the old man hugged Kiana no less tightly, closed his eyes while giving some advice and messages.

"The fire can't speak anymore. But thank you for accepting Jovian, .. behind his insensitive nature, also sometimes stubborn and annoying. But he's a good man, as far as Papi knows, and hopefully this will be Jovian's last marriage, may you have even greater patience so that past events don't happen again."

Jonathan let go of his embrace, they looked at each other and smiled.

After that Jonathan turned to his son, hugging tightly as he hugged Kiana, and giving him a long enough advice.

"If you let go of Eva just like that. Promise this time not to let go of Kiana. She's very young, .. pity to be a widow." Jonathan laughed, but he immediately rubbed the corner of his eye that averted tears.

The man was moved.

"will not. No matter how hard she asks for farewell, I won't let go of Kiana."

"Fire hold your word!" The old man with his hopes. "And after marriage, there is no way that you will continue to work as your wife's personal aide. So go home and take care of the tea and vegetable garden, .. Papi is old and will you let us take care of it? We are very old." Jonathan again.

"There's Mang Darman!"

"He who works in the field, who keeps an eye on you."

Jovian nodded, then he hugged his mother, and after that they actually left, accompanied by a wave of Leni and Jonathan's hands, as well as the tears of both.

***

Brugh!!

Jovian just threw his body on the sofa, lying on his back with the arm he put on his forehead.

"I guess the trip this time is longer huh!?" Kiana sat herself on another empty sofa.

"obvious. You asked to stop how many times? I'm tired of myself." Jovian said without changing his position.

"Yes sorry. I want to pee until here! Not funny Om, ... especially if you do not persevere in the car how?"

Jovian just sighed.

"Om want to eat? Want me an orderin? Or do you have a stock of cooking ingredients?" Ask Kiana.

"Don't just rest, I'm sure you're tired too."

"Tired. But not as bad as Om Rasain."

Jovian did not answer again.

And it makes Kiana immediately go to the kitchen, open the refrigerator, and check the materials available there.

Kiana was silent for quite a while. Thinking of the time when he only found eggs, a couple of packs of chicken breasts, potatoes, purple yam and some cheese town, also milk in the fridge there.

"I made chicken Cordon bleu only once!"

Kiana brought 2 packs of chicken breast, potatoes, and one box of cheese. He placed it on the kitchen table, then the girl painstakingly opened almost the entire drawer in search of bread flour. One of the materials he desperately needed.

"Ah thank goodness." He said when he found what he was looking for, in a cupboard that seemed to be devoted to a wide variety of flour.

With her remaining energy, Kiana immediately executed the ingredients she had prepared.

First Kiana took the potatoes out of the package, washed them clean, then cut them with a small elongated shape, after which she soaked them with salt water.

Then he worked on the others gradually and painstakingly, so that his cooking this time did not fail.

About 1 hour more spent. Finally Kiana finished, and put two dishes containing chicken Cordon bleu, as well as pieces of fries on a small dining table, which only has two chairs there.

His gaze was fixed towards the sofa, where he could see Jovian clearly from where he was standing at the moment. The man was large, wearing only a home shirt and black jeans lying in a position that did not change in the slightest.

He was so tired, he thought.

"Omm?" Calling Kiana, she immediately approached and shook also patting her arm.

"I made Chicken Cordon bleu. Let's eat before I get home." The girl sat in the remaining area.

He looked at Jovian who was still silent, lying on his back while hiding his face behind his sturdy arm.

"Omm?" Kiana called again.

And it seemed like it worked, Jovian started to put away his face-covering hands, then blinked his eyes.

He growled, stretched out his two hand muscles and changed his lying position to sit down.

"What are you doing?" His voice sounds so raucous.

"Chicken Cordon bleu."

"She can't cook. But that?"

"Just some I can. The rest is not so!"

Sayu Jovian's eyes stared at Kiana for quite a while, making the girl who was currently sitting nearby look a little nervous.

"Come on. Later it's cold, and the Mozarella does not melt anymore."

Kiana got up, grabbed Jovian's hand for him to take her to the minimalist dining table on the other side of the apartment. However, Jovian held her back until she staggered Kiana and immediately sat on her lap.

"Where are you going?" Jovian asked in a low voice.

"Eat. I'm eating us home, .. uh means I'm coming home!" Kiana laughed while closing her mouth. "Cock us yeah?" He kept laughing at his ridiculousness.

Jovian did not react. His facial expression even looked flat and felt so cold, with the fingers starting to move, getting rid of the children's hair, tucking it in the earlobe.

Kiana stared back at Jovian with an ever-increasing pounding every time they stared at each other like that.

"Stop making my rich heart explode, Om!"

Kiana almost got up, but Jovian's hand held her waist until Kiana could not change anything.

"Oc, …"

"Thank you." Jovian smiles.

"No! Don't say that before trying it, sometimes my cooking …"

"Not for the Chicken Cordon bleu. For the love that has grown in your heart."

"This is without me planning to know, .. suddenly I've been struggling with this, but never before." Kiana tried to relax.

Jovian smelled his smile.

"Let's eat. Cobain my cooking, delicious not to be eaten."

Kiana was about to get up again, but Jovian still held her back, with a faint smile that the man kept showing.

"Omm?"

"Open the key!" He's saying.

"Key?" Kiana's confused.

Jovian.

"What keys?"

"Key his hand." Kiana lowered her gaze, staring at the twisting of the burly hand on her waist.

Then he turned to look at Jovian, as if looking for an answer inside the sharp bead there.

"Sun means?"

Jovian chuckled loudly.

"If you want to tell me, don't guess!"

He immediately brought his face closer, then pressed his second lip for a few seconds.

"It."

"That's not enough."

Kiana held back her smile, with a face that was already flushed red from holding back the sense that she had to somehow explain.

Both of Kiana's hands scooped Jovian's face, rubbed her firm jaw, then showered Jovian's lips with a wet kiss.

"I'm sure that's enough."

Jovian laughed loudly, even so tight, Jovian's head looked back and his eyes were closed.

"Can we eat now?"

"All right."

"Please!" Strangled the girl as Jovian never let go of the hand wrapped around her waist.

"Hem." Jovian muttered, he looked back at Kiana, and kissed the girl's cheek briefly.

"Ah I'd like to stay the night like this!"

Jovian shook his head, while pushing Kiana's body slowly, until the girl actually stood up.

"No way, danger!" He gave a warning.

Jovian stood up, then pulled Kiana towards her dining table, sitting filled with dishes that were already available on the dining table.

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