Love, Maybe
Chapter 24's

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Felix felt the weight on his shoulders getting heavier. The young man smiled faintly as he glanced to his right side and looked at Jane who had fallen asleep while leaning her head on his shoulders.

After finishing playing the piano earlier, Felix shifted the chair facing the balcony fence and invited Jane to have a light chat while staring at the sky that night looked bright and filled with stars.

Slowly, Felix tilted his body and tucked one of his hands to hold Jane's back and the other hand he slipped between the girl's legs. Then Felix got up while raising his wife's tiny body carefully. Felix takes the sleeping Jane to their room.

She put Jane on the bed slowly. After positioning Jane's head on the pillow as comfortably as possible, Felix had just been about to get up when Jane's arm suddenly lifted around Felix's neck, holding him back to move even further.

“Don't go,” shriek Jane. Slowly, the girl's eyelids began to open. Felix looked at her with a bit of shock as it turned out that Jane wasn't really asleep. “Do not go anywhere,” Jane added slowly.

Felix smiled faintly and one of his hands was raised to the top of Jane's head, rubbing it gently and removing the strands of hair that covered his wife's pretty face.

“I'm not going anywhere, Jane,” Felix's distinctive soft voice resonates in Jane's ears, making an instant smile created on her jelly face.

“I love you, Felix,” Jane murmured softly as her eyes stared intensely at Felix, letting second by second roll and their breath unpretentiously accompany her locked gaze. “Thank you for being my husband.”

After saying it, Jane's eyelids closed again, which made Felix laugh without a sound. He thought Jane was going to be. ah, never mind, maybe his wife is really tired today. Felix doesn't know that Jane has gone the extra mile to prepare a surprise that failed today. Jane's head shifted slightly to the right and her grip on Felix's neck loosened, indicating that this time the girl had actually fallen asleep.

But Felix was reluctant to get up, he still wanted to look at Jane's slumbering face. His gaze turned soft, and his fingers again tucked between Jane's hair and then down to the girl's smooth cheeks. Slowly but surely, Felix's face moved forward. Felix closed his eyes as his lips came into contact with his wife's forehead.

“I love you more, Jane.” Felix said slowly.

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Mark drove his car in a hurry, splitting the streets of Jakarta which began to be quiet as the night got late. Occasionally his eyes glanced at his phone lying on the dashboard, as if waiting for a message or call to come from someone. His heartbeat raced fast every time he remembered the message someone sent him last night.

‘He will arrive in Indonesia tomorrow night, ten.’

The contents of the message were the reason Mark immediately drove his car to the airport after Felix's birthday party in the cafe was dissolved. The message was also what made Mark all day feel happy and restless. But Mark's not his name if he can't hide his heart's concerns with his cheerful nature, so that none of his friends know about the arrival of someone Mark is very much looking forward to in Jakarta today.

Mark arrived at the airport an hour later, and he ran inside after parking his car. For a moment his steps came to a halt in front of the board listing the arrival and departure of the plane. With a breath of breath, his gaze rolled reading one by one the writings that were there, finding out whether the plane he was waiting for had landed or not. After finding the answer, he ran back.

Mark stopped his steps at the door of his overseas arrival. He waited with worry. Either because of her who had just run or because of the anxiety that had plagued her earlier, cold sweat began to wet her nape and hands. Mark was still trying to catch his breath when the arrival door opened and one by one the passengers started arriving. His body instantly steadied, his eyes watching every face that walked out of it, hoping that his lens would catch the face of a girl he recognized among those people.

His heart was pounding every time he saw a young woman walking past him. Honestly Mark could not help his pleasure when he found out after so long, the girl who was missed so much was going to return to Indonesia. But at the same time, Mark also felt restless, thinking that the girl was not among the people who came out of the door.

This feels like deja vu to him, reminiscent of what happened a year ago, when he ran inside the airport to the departure gate, hoping he could find the girl and prevent her from leaving. But Mark was late, and the girl went far away leaving him without a chance to say goodbye. And Mark doesn't want the same thing to happen a second time.

The last passenger just passed by and Mark hasn't found the girl yet. Instantly his shoulders sagged and his heart slipped. Mark turned around and stepped over with a shunt.

‘Again I lost it,' Inner Mark.

The sentence continued to ring in his mind before being interrupted by a light pat on his right shoulder, followed by the voice of someone calling out to him.

“Mark?”

Mark knew the voice. Suddenly he turned his head and found a beautiful girl standing right behind him, looking at him with a look of doubt printed clearly on his face. Slowly a smile appeared on Mark's lips. He recognized this face, a face that was always neatly tucked away in the corner of his heart.

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Drrt...

Jane frowned and her head that was set on a cushioned pillow began to move restlessly, feeling annoyed by the sound of her mobile phone shaking violently on the nightstand.

Three minutes passed, and the rectangular object was not yet still, either, making Jane who initially ignored and tried to go back to sleep felt unable to stand it anymore and decided to pat Felix's shoulders who was still asleep next to him. Compared to Felix, Jane is more sensitive to the sounds around her while sleeping. It took several claps until Felix's eyelids began to open slowly.

“What's up?” asked the newly awakened Felix in a raucous voice.

“There's a phone coming in, please pick up for a moment. I'm so sleepy,” Jane said with eyes still closed.

Understood, Felix reached out his hand past Jane to pick up the phone lying on the nightstand next to where Jane was sleeping. Jane hugged the body of Felix who approached her, looking for the most comfortable position to go back to sleep in the arms of her husband. Felix picked up the phone and put it in his ear without seeing who was calling.

“Halo,” Felix replied in a soft voice, still sleepy.

“Did you guys stay up all night? What time is it?”

Felix's eyes were about to be closed again suddenly rounded when he heard the voice that spoke just now.

“P-Papa?”

“You should have brought Aiden to my house this morning, and it's almost ten. What are you guys doing, huh? Now I'm at your apartment door. Open door!” he exclaimed and immediately turned off his phone.

Felix reflexes wake up sitting down, making Jane who is leaning on his chest come up. Jane was shocked and asked half in panic. “What's up? Wh why? Aiden crying?”

“Jane, wake! Just now Papa called and he said now he is at the door of our apartment,” Felix said as he gently shook Jane's shoulder so that his consciousness was gathered.

Jane rubbed her eyes lazily, “Terus why if there is Pa – what?! Papa is at the door?!”

Felix nodded as he rushed down from the bed. Jane also comes down from the bed and asks, “What time is this?”

“Jam ten,” Felix replied as he opened the closet to look for his clothes.

“Yes,” Jane grimaces. “You take a shower first, I'll bathe Aiden. After that you dress it up and I'll change to go take a shower,” Jane orders while walking towards the door of the room.

Felix nodded and grabbed his towel. The bathroom door was almost reached when he remembered something. “Wait, Jane,” he turned back and looked at Jane who was now also staring at him from the doorway of the room. “Then who will open the door for Papa?”

Jane was silent. He closed his lips while scratching his head in confusion.

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...- Winny...