The Story of Aira
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Whose heart is unhappy, when something that has been waiting for months finally comes to pass. Even the word happy, as if not enough to describe what Arlan was feeling right now.

That morning Arlan headed to the dining room for breakfast. There Aira was arranging dishes for the two of them.

"Morning, dear.." Arlan's hand coiled around Aira's stomach, then kissed her cheek.

"Morning, mas.." reply Aira. "Let's have breakfast" said Aira.

The two of them then sat side by side and ate the breakfast that had been served.

"Today we went to the store, right?" ask Arlan in between her eating activities.

"I'm home, okay?" reply Aira.

Arlan put down her spoon, she looked at Aira.

"You haven't been to the store in a long time. Chika tanyain you keep. He's having trouble dealing with buyers to know.." Arlan's reason.

Though Arlan only wants Aira to accompany him to work. Because lately, Arlan always misses his wife every time she works. So he just wants to go home. There is so much to do in the store.

"All right.., all right.., I'm coming." Aira broke up.

Arlan and Aira arrive as the employees are preparing to open the shop. Some are cleaning, some are rearranging items that are messy the rest of the night, filling empty shelves and storefronts.

When everything is ready, Aira asks permission to go down. But Arlan forbade it.

"Can't say that Chika needs me" said Aira.

"Look baby...!" Arlan shows the CCTV connected to his laptop. "The shop is still empty.

So here it is" he said.

Aira according to. She does feel that lately her husband is a little spoiled.

Bored, Aira got off the sofa and went to the window. He saw a green bean cart down there. Right across from the shop.

"Yes...!!" call Aira.

"Heeem.." reply Arlan.

"Here, me!" aira said without looking at her husband.

"What, honey...?" ask Arlan.

"Buy yuk porridge...!!" Aira pointed at the porridgeist down there.

"OKAY. I'm gonna ask the kids downstairs for help." Arlan pulled out his phone.

"Yet.., mas!" sentak Aira's. "I want you to buy it" he said.

"Mas is busy, baby..."

"Just a moment..." Aira pleads.

Finally Arlan himself went down. Aira watched her husband down there waiting for the porridge of her order. Shortly after, Arlan returned.

Aira really enjoyed the porridge, occasionally she fed her husband who was still busy with his laptop.

"Mas...., I'm down huh?!" Aira asked permission to leave again.

"In a moment, I'm going down too. Patience is yes." he said.

After Arlan finished his work, they went down together. Aira went to the cosmetic counter. He was quite satisfied to see it. It turned out that the store clerk had not forgotten what Aira taught back then.

"Sir, there's a facial foam tester as well." reports the Chika.

"That's all you can share with your friends here" Aira said.

"Couldn't you..?" ask Chika.

"Yes.." reply Aira.

"Thank you, ma'am..."

After that, Aira went around again. This time he went to the ice cream box. Arlan saw it, then approached it.

"Why? A lot of it's over?" ask Arlan.

"I feel an empty avocado...?" said Aira.

"Times?!" Arlan could not believe it. Then go in search, and there really isn't one.

"Bro...!!" Arlan called his employees.

"Yes, sir..."

"Evacant avocado?" ask Arlan.

"Oh, there's a sir. Excuse me." the clerk picked up the ice cream basket. Apparently there is still one carton, it has not been removed.

"Oh, thank you.." Aira's eyes looked very sparkling.

After the employee left, Aira took a pack.

"One yes, my mother?" Aira showed it to Arlan.

"Take it as you like, baby." Arlan kissed her cheek.

"You?" Aira was feeding her husband as well.

"Yes oampuuun.., make a baper..."

"Sweet the hell they are..."

So did the reaction of the officer who saw the romantic drama near the ice cream box.

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"Yes...!!!" aira exclaimed in her bathroom.

Arlan rushes to open the bathroom door that is not locked.

"What dear...?!" Arlan was panicking.

In the bathroom, I saw Aira standing by the door.

"That's...!!" Aira pointed towards the wall.

There's a lizard in there. And that made Aira very horrified and disgusted. Though usually she was ordinary, she would throw him out on her own without the need to shout calling her husband.

"Huh...!!!" Aira went outside when the lizard fell due to water watered by Arlan.

Not enough with the drama of the lizard in the bathroom. This time it happened again in the kitchen.

"Mas Arlaaaan...!!" Aira shouted back.

Arlan slightly ran towards the kitchen. He saw the wife standing in front of the refrigerator whose door was open, while covering her nose to her mouth with her left hand.

"Why?!" ask Arlan.

"You once, please clean it up. I can't stand the smell" Aira said as she pointed at the refrigerator in front of her.

Due to a lot of unexpected events at home, Arlan so bad luck coming to the store.

Arriving at his room, Arlan landed his body on the sofa. Massaging his temple that feels a little dizzy because of thinking about his wife's unusual behavior.

Arlan suddenly remembered about Aditya, his wife's best friend. Recently Aditya told me that his wife had given birth to her baby daughter. Arlan called Aditya.

"Princess is just a nyidam anyway, Lan. Ask for fried rice, too. Until I ask the president for a prescription. Yeah, well, the time I flew in there was just some fried rice."

"Haha...!" Arlan laughs. "If Aira. Keep a little bit of disgust."

"Is there morning sickness?"

"No."

"Tells?"

"What's late?!"

"Come to the moon, Lan...!!!"

"Why didn't I think? Try me later to ask."

"The husband is insensitive!"

"Not insensitive, just not thought." so denied Arlan.

"More attention to Aira. Like he's having symptoms."

"I'll take him to the doctor right now then. It was yes. Thanks, bro."

So enthusiastic, Arlan to not say hello to Aditya.

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"Honey..., where are you?" Arlan continued to shout as he arrived inside the house.

"What's up, ma'am? Why yell?" sahut Aira while opening the door of her room.

"Come with me, we'll go to the doctor" he said.

"Mas Arlan is sick?" Aira touched her husband's forehead.

"Here come...!!" Arlan pulled his wife's hand.

"Wait, mas. I'm testing again." Aira looked into the room.

"What test?" Arlan narrowed his eyes.

Aira did not reply, she went back into the room because the alarm had gone off. Arlan.

"Look at mas!" Aira showed a testpack with one red line.

Arlan accepted it, then hugged his wife.

"We can try again. Don't be sad." Arlan tried to strengthen his wife.

"I'm a little disappointed too. But we still have a lot of time, baby." that's what Arlan said, but he's not able to express it in front of his wife.

Her night...

"Young...!!!" aira shouted from inside the bathroom.

Arlan who was in the living room smiled.

"There must be this lizard again." inwardly.

"Mas Arlaaan...!!"

"Yes baby...!!" Arlan rushed to his room.

"Oh Allah, Aira...!!!" Arlan was surprised to see Aira fall in the bathroom, and her hands were bleeding.

"I'm bleeding, mas. It hurts my stomach..." Aira was in real pain at the time.

Arlan immediately carried Aira. No matter the blood that hits his hands and clothes.

Arrive at the hospital...

"Sorry, the fetus in the womb of Aira can't be saved."

"Fetus?!" Arlan was surprised, because that afternoon the test results were negative.

"As I suspected, the possibility of this pregnancy has not been felt. His age is also very easy" said the doctor.

"We have to do a curette to clean the womb of Aira" he said again.

"Do your best for my wife doctor...!" pinta Arlan's.

"We must try our best."

Arlan was completely in shock. He continues to blame himself for being insensitive to his wife, as Aditya says.

"Son Arlan...!!" the voice of Aira's mother is heard.

"That's...!!" this time it was his mother's voice.

"Mother.., Arlan failed to be a good husband." Arlan's tears broke in the arms of his two mothers.

"Not anyone's fault, son." replied Aira's mother. "All will is Power."

"Yes, Lan. Patience is..."

After the curette process, Aira was transferred to the hospital room because her condition was stable. Meanwhile, Arlan's parents see a doctor who handles his daughter-in-law.

"It hurts...?" ask Arlan. Aira nodded.

Arlan clasped Aira's hand, then he put it on his cheek. Sometimes he kissed her.

"Just for a second, son. Later also the pain disappeared." said his mother. Aira nodded.

Shortly after, Arlan's parents arrived. Arlan's mother kissed her daughter-in-law's forehead.

"What's the doctor saying, ma'am?" ask Arlan.

"Nothing serious. The mother-in-law's condition is very healthy" he said. "Only, the content is still weak. Not ripe yet." she said as she rubbed Aira's cheek.

"But you can get pregnant again, right, ma'am...?" ask Aira.

"Can dong. I've registered you for a consultation every two weeks" said Arlan's mother again.

"Thank you, ma'am" said Aira.

"Together, son." she replied.

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"I think there's something missing in me. Empty, sick, it's so tight. Although a new blood clot, but it is a candidate for our baby.

I, who was not prepared at first, was now the one who suffered the most from losing my future son.

How could you not be aware of your presence, son...??

I'm sorry, honey...!!

I didn't know you were here with me...

Sorry...!!!"