
...The MAB by VizcaVida...
...|44. Rain and A Desire|...
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Outside, heavy rain fell mixed with wind and lightning. Louis had just arrived and parked his car in the basement of the apartment, then rushed up to his unit.
After entering the house, he saw some lights were still on. He also sees Angel sleeping on the couch, probably exhausted waiting for him to come.
The clock had also pointed to the number nine over thirty minutes when Louis had just arrived home after the main house met his mother, then went to Robert's house for a while to talk, and now his heart felt bitter to see his excellent wife, unwanted by Jenita, his mother.
Louis walked closer, then gathered on the sofa to look closely at Angel's sleeping face.
In his eyes, Angel is so beautiful, although he has only noticed it lately after the woman became his wife, not just a secretary who accompanied him for four years in the office.
Long watching, Louis finally reached out his arm to move some of Angel's hair that fell covered his face, behind his female ears. Then, Louis very gently kissed Angel's cheeks and lips in turn. Then he rubbed the soft and white cheeks of Angel's attentive.
“You are not wrong, but mama can not accept you, I feel failed to be a husband.” whispered Louis in front of the face of Angel who fell asleep with a soft snoring along with a breath that blows. What Jenita said came back ringing in Louis' ears and memory.
I will not accept anything related to Angel, including the child she contains later.
Suddenly Louis' chest felt so painful. However, the child that Angel conceived later was his son as well. He got up, then went to lie down beside Angel, hugged, and kissed the top of his wife's head many times because he felt sad, until Angel was surprised and opened his eyes to look at her face.
“Honey? Already home?” angel asked looking up at Louis's face which was a few inches above his face.
“Iya, darling. Have you eaten?”
Angel squirmed, tightened up and returned Louis' warm embrace. “Not yet, wait for you to come.”
Jesus, why didn't Angel follow her words this morning? It's even been half ten in the evening, and he missed his dinner time.
“Why not eat first, just sleep?”
“Neasy eating alone. Appetite is also not there because you think that you are not coming.” said Angel with a raucous voice typical of people waking up.
While Louis, condemning his own stupidity why not contact Angel to tell his whereabouts, earlier.
“Other times if I go home malem, don't let me not eat dinner again because wait for me, okay?”
Louis approached Angel's face and kissed her lips at a glance. “Now come eat.” take him, get up from the sofa and walk ahead of Angel to the kitchen. But his steps stopped at the dining table because there was already presented a simple menu made Angel for their dinner.
Since marrying Angel, Louis began to adjust and eat food provided by Angel at the dinner table. It didn't take long until he got used to it. Angel's cooking fits on his tongue, even Louis always wants to go home and eat at home even though the menu is very simple and does not meet the table like when he lived in his mother's house first.
“It must have been cold. Let me angetin first—”
“I'm it. You wait there, while looking at my skills warming up food.”
Angel giggled amusedly. Does warming food now fall into the category of a skill?
“Good. I'll wait for a warm meal made by my husband.”
Louis's laughter exploded when he knew what Angel was saying. He ran over and kissed Angel's lips a little rough. “Punishment for already daring to laugh at husband's own hard efforts.”
Such surprising kisses, Angel was no longer surprised and was getting used to replying.
“Punishment accepted.”
For a moment, all the burden of trouble that Louis forged on his shoulders was gone when the kiss resumed until finally he himself decided to end so that Angel could soon have dinner.
“You've eaten, baby?” ask Angel.
“But.”
“Tuh, you haven't eaten either, have you?.”
While waiting, Louis opened the pantry and looked for the usual chocolate in Angel's drink. There's no brown glass on the table there which means, Angel doesn't make warm drinks for herself. There is only a cup of coffee that may have been cold. Louis wants to make hot chocolate for Angel. He wants to make a romantic impression for his wife in the middle of heavy rain out there.
“You make coffee? Let me make it.” exclaimed Angel had almost jumped down from the seat and was about to catch up with Louis.
“Nah, well. Let me make it myself.” said Louis quickly while lifting one arm as a sign to keep Angel in place.
Seeing Louis forbid it, Angel decided to sit back on his chin while staring at the wide back of the husband who was still wearing work attributes. Now Angel knows what it's like to wait for the arrival of someone who is in his heart, in addition to his parents. And she, always waiting for Louis to come home, smile, and kiss him.
“I Love You.” whispered Angel to herself with a wide smile and a blushing face. He swore there would be no other man in his heart, other than Louis.
Almost twenty minutes passed, the food was served on the dining table with a pair of chairs facing each other. A bowl of meat soto is heated which reflects inhaled smoke, a new bowl of rice taken from a rice cooker, two cups of drinks with different tastes, several pairs of tableware, and so on, and of course a pair of human children who are kasmaran.
Louis looked affectionately at Angel, not forgetting the package with a smile as he took the rice with a barrel and put it on his plate.
Memories of meeting Jenita back terbesit. His heart was again in pain.
“Indeed, who did you have an appointment with? So, how long is the night?” ask Angel who has taken over the rice barrel and filled the plate.
“I met mama.”
Angel was surprised and let his arm float in the air for a few seconds. Louis found his mother? What does this have to do with the coming of the Gita?
“Oh.” reply Angel briefly. “How's mama doing, the?”
Louis took the broth and poured it over the rice. “Good.”
The atmosphere turned a little awkward, and both Angel and Louis now ate their dinner which was a long time ago.
“There are important things that mom says to you?” angel said with a slight hesitation. He was afraid that the question offended Louis who incidentally is indeed the son of Jenita who is still the property of Jenita, although Louis was an adult and is now the head of the family.
Louis swallowed the rice and put a large spoonful back in his mouth. “No. I on my own initiative who came there, not the mother who asked.”
“Then?”
Louis raised his face. There's no point in hiding, or he'll have to endure the consequences if until Angel hears it from someone else. He should try to be honest even if it hurts.
“Initially, my mom and I talked about Gita. I want to hear the reason mom did that abomination to Gita.”
Louis looked back. She is agitated when she has to say about how Jenita is doing with their relationship. Louis did not want to make Angel sad even cry. But the truth ...
“But after that, we again clashed when talking about our relationship.” he continued raucously. Louis's voice was even muffled by the sudden sound of lightning striking. But Angel could still hear and see clearly the sadness in the words and look on Louis's face.
In a gentle gesture, Angel grabbed a free palm of Louis on the dining table. “We must be patient. We reassure mama slowly.” said Angel resembles a whisper. He also felt pain when he knew Jenita was still reluctant to accept him. Even Angel thinks if his decision to accept Louis' proposal at that time, wrong.
“Yes, it should be like that. But impossible, dear.”
Their eyes meet. Angel smiling. In Angel's heart whispers to herself, does she have to prove with a great sacrifice that she can be sincerely accepted by Jenita?
“We try, until it works.” said Angel tried to encourage Louis not to be depressed and increasingly burdened with the bonded relationship they had decided.
“In what way? Mama is stubborn beyond—”
“Nothing is impossible if the hand of God moves.” said Angel stopped Louis who tried to calm down and not raise the voice. “Trust me, God will help us. Believe me, God will make mama melt on us.” he continued, clutching tightly Louis' palm to whiten.
And I'm willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to make you happy again without hurting your mom and yourself, my husband.
Angel added the phrase to his heart. Because he did not want Louis to know, how much he wanted to be recognized by the mother of her husband. Although later on, he had to sacrifice himself and his own happiness.
Angel will be willing. []
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Confused ending want to be made Happy or Sad, because the chapter has a lot of 😁.
Some stories have been happy, want to make the end of the onion again, but pity Louis. How'this?