My Old Star
#96 Oranges
Arfan went outside from the bathroom in a deathly pale state, too much he took out this morning. He went back to the dinner table intending to ask Mentari to make him hot tea, but without being asked hot tea was already served on the table.
"Drink first brother!" Mentari gave a glass of hot tea to her husband.
"Believe me, dear" Arfan received the glass of hot tea and drank it. Her stomach felt warmer.
"Are we just going to the doctor, brother, maybe last night catch a cold so it feels nauseous this morning."
"Don't need to, baby, just rest for a while later will also be healed."
"No, we have to go to the doctor, is there not a game later in the afternoon. Brother should accompany the children to play."
Vijaya's grandmother smiled at the two grandchildren who may not know anything about pregnancy when they should have learned about it, "That means you love your wife very much!" Vijaya's grandmother chimed in on their debate.
"I mean grandma?" Ask Arfan and Mentari simultaneously.
"What happens to you is not cold but morning sickness."
"Mother shouldn't the Mentari have experienced it?"
"Morning sickness usually does occur during a mother's young pregnancy, but sometimes the mother does not vomit nausea but her husband who experiences it, this is called sympathetic pregnancy." Grandma Wijaya explained.
"Is this going to last long, Grandma?"
"Depending on honey, it can be up to three or four months of age. Arfan will be very sensitive to certain smells so you two should be able to maintain each other's mood so that there is no commotion between the two of you."
"It turns out I was lucky, brother, because the brother who had to experience it was not me."
"I'll do anything to take care of you both baby, so even this I'm willing."
Grandma Wijaya was very moved to see the scenery in front of her, it turned out that the choice was not wrong. Arfan who is very difficult to be approached by a girl now looks very fond of his wife.
"If you were all still around, you would be very happy. Cash is my job to look after Arfan because he has found his happiness with the girl he loves. If my time comes to catch up with you then I will leave quietly." Grandma Wijaya thought about the face of Arfan's parents and also Vijaya's grandfather who had returned to the creator. The old woman shed her tears.
"Why are you crying?" Mentari saw a clear grain dripping on the face of the grandmother who was actually very beautiful when young first. Her beauty scars in the past were still left on her half face.
"Grandma's just flickering baby, then grandma's going to the room to clean it up." Grandma Wijaya left them both and went into her room.
In the room, Grandma wrote something that she then kept for tomorrow she handed over to the Wijaya family lawyer.
"Sister, we'd better take a break or sister's gonna eat something I'm gonna make!"
"No dear, later. I don't want to eat anything right now."
They headed to the room so Arfan could rest, Mentari opened her laptop to write her thesis back because she had to hurry to finish it all before she was completely overwhelmed carrying her own body as her stomach was getting bigger and bigger.
At midday Arfan woke up to a ringing alarm that he deliberately set so that he would not be late to come to the club. He was looking for the existence of Mentari who was not in the room.
"Where is he?" Her thought.
Arfan then rushed to clean himself up and prepared to leave.
The sun came into the room in a neat condition when Arfan was preparing, "Let's take our lunch first, I've been cooking with aunt!"
"Darling you've been tidy, where are you going?"
"Well there's no match today, brother, I want to be your supporter." Answer Mentari cheerfully.
"Do I have to let you come?"
"Of course, there is Siska. I want to see your team compete. Not necessarily also at the national level later I can come watch!"
"I will obey Brother!"
"Then come on!"
They go to the club after lunch, and say goodbye to grandma if they're going home tonight so there's no need to wait for dinner together.
Siska informs him that she will be leaving with Arman directly to the match location so that they do not go to the dormitory first to pick up Siska.
By the time they reach the club, the children are ready and about to enter the bus. Sania and Steven also did not miss joining the group, only Ilyas' mother was left at the club.
"Are we late Tom?"
"No Fan, you guys came just in time. Let's hurry up!"
They all got on the bus and went to the venue, today all hoping that their club can win the tournament this year.
Sania brought a lot of fruits that she placed near her place to sit with Steven to later be given to the children after the game. Arfan suddenly approached Sania and asked her for an orange, for some reason Arfan wanted to eat the fruit when he usually did not like to eat it.
"Sa.. That give it to me!" Arfan pointed the bag of citrus fruits at Sania.
"This is for Fan's children, where can you ask for it!" Sania pranks Arfan by not giving it away.
"If Sania gave it to me, I want it so much!"
Sania thinks that if Arfan is so weird today, it's not unusual for Arfan to ask for a meal with a can.
"All right I'll give you!" Sania gave the plastic bag containing the citrus fruit to Arfan.
Arfan sat down again near Mentari, he was enjoying the fruit as if it was very tasty. Even Arfan spent a lot.
"That's for kids, why are you eating so much?" Sania is upset because Arfan does not remember his foster children.
"I'll buy them dinner Sa, the most important of which is this fruit for me!"
"Bas weird, trance you Fan!"
Arfan no longer cares about the ramblings of Sania, because by eating the fruit his stomach feels very comfortable. To not have the heart to see her husband behave like that.
They arrived at the match site, all the troupe entered the match hall. Mentari along with Sania and Steven occupy the VIP audience seat so that Arfan can still monitor them.
Zaki comes in a wheelchair and is pushed by Marryana into the field. Sania was surprised to see the incident, even they looked very close.
Sania's heart was pounding very fast, there was no way she still had feelings for the man who had once thrown her away even though Zaki had changed a lot by now. Sania has a perfect life with Tomi.
"Sania's sister okay?" Mentari asked who saw Sania's face turn sad.
"I'm okay Mentari, I'm just moved because our team has managed to reach this point." Sania advised Mentari not to suspect him.
"I'm also very proud of them, brother, they try very hard and work very well together."
Siska and Arman arrive just before the match starts, so Mentari is unable to tell Sania about her pregnancy and Arfan's strange attitude today.
The game went pretty hard today, both teams fought each other to win the title, no one wants to lose. Engineering and strength are displayed in the middle of the field.
Arfan watches over his wife and makes sure she stays safe with Sania and Steven.
"I love you Mentari!" arfan said softly by looking straight at his wife.