TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 225

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REIJI

“Sorry, Rei. I'm actually – really again ga mood.”

Lia's answer that I really did not expect she would tell me after I had even opened the thing that I had wanted to make a surprise for Lia.

It's the smell of – the smell of Lia replying to me like.

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Yeah, I didn't think badly of Lia. How could I not think like that if,

“I really this loh, already prepare a set spot for our candle light dinner now as well as the hotel room. I worked from last afternoon before going to your office.  Did I pay you a keel? Don't you love the money?.”

Even after I said that to Lia, her decision had not changed. Though I intentionally embed the sentence, ‘Ga dear money?’

Because Lia who I know, Lia is a follower of ‘Sayang’.

Which is like a woman in general, who would choose to go to a store that was outside the complex to buy cooking oil because the price in a distant store was different 500 silver with the store next door.

“I appreciate that, Rei.. But I also really want to go back to the apartment.”

But in fact, my sentence that nudges Lia as a follower of ‘Sayang’ has no effect at all.

Even Lia said she would replace the money wasted on the surprise I had planned for her tonight.

It wasn't Lia once.

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“You ain't a nelfon?”

The thing Lia asked me after a moment of silence enveloped us in the car I was driving in.

I who was daydreaming held the crap gasped, and became unable to understand Lia's words in the form of the question.

“Nelfon, who?.” I also asked Lia who answered my question straight away.

“Hotel side.Tell them if you cancel what you ordered there,” said Lia. “If I was yesterday, cancellation at the restaurant because I also paid in full in advance, I get a discount compensation for the room, If you do not use the room as well, if you do not use the room, so who knows what return per cent of them-“

“Ya later I contact them.” I answered flat on Lia's answer which is quite detailed. “Kalo until the apartment.”

I added my words in response to Lia's long speech.

Where what Lia said was I already thinking.

But I didn't do it right away, because to be honest, I was still thinking --- well, hoping maybe.

If Lia's refusal is a prank. Then when the car I was driving was about to get out of the hotel area, Lia then said, I'm kidding, Rei. Yuk in?

But no, Lia was serious about her refusal. There was no prank or anything until the car I was driving arrived at our apartment building. Lia was even quiet during the return trip.

And yes, I am the same.

I followed her into silence like Lia on our way home until we reached the apartment building area where I and Lia lived.

To be honest, yes I was feeling arrogant also due to Lia's attitude which I assumed was avenging my absence yesterday on a series of things that he had prepared yesterday.

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The awkwardness was created later between Reiji and Malia after the two had entered their apartment unit.

“Abis you are clean, can we talk?..”

In the end, Reiji gave up.

Thinking, to end the awkwardness between them and Malia.

So Reiji took the initiative to talk to Malia first, then finish what should not develop between himself and Malia.

That is, strengthening the ego.

Where in this case, it was Reiji who suppressed his ego despite Malia's attitude from starting to avoid him to seem disrespectful of his efforts openly, enough to make Reiji feel annoyed at his wife.

But already, Reiji did not want to make his relationship with Malia who was already relatively friendly to be cold again as before Malia opened her heart.

So Reiji pressured the ego he had also lost, to apologize to Malia again.

“One more time I'm sorry about me who yesterday screwed up the plan that you have made in such a way.”

As soon as Reiji took a stand, without regard for his own ego to go first and once again say sorry to Malia.

Which then welcomed Reiji's apology to Malia was by the concerned.

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Then the day passed, and Reiji and Malia were no longer stiff and awkward with each other over the slight conflict of heart they had experienced.

As for Reiji himself, from the moment the surprise he prepared failed miserably just as the event Malia had prepared for him - his attitude had softened on Malia the same night.

Although she felt that Malia, who rejected her sincere desire to correct the mistake, was a reply to her disbelief, Reiji did not let herself dissolve in emotions.

Reiji was acting like he used to be with Malia.

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Like Reiji, Malia is back to normal.

At least that's what Malia appeared in front of Reiji who she had thought would raise her childish attitude, from starting ‘hide yourself’ to not appreciate Reiji's efforts.

But in fact Reiji did not raise Malia's childish behavior at all, until Reiji took a stand and apologized earnestly to her - making Malia have no choice but to agree, if Reiji and his problems regarding Reiji's absence at the small events Malia prepared for him are considered over.

‘CK! How can I read Rei's story chat?’

But the truth is, there is still something stuck in Malia's heart.

‘If Reiji still kekeh ga ngaku if he has a lie to me about the reason he did not come, it feels useless if I ask about the truth. I'm not sure he'll be honest with me about the actual facts, even though I'm some of what I got from Mr. Raka.’.

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MALIA

Actually there's still something stuck in my heart right now about that day, when Rei's birthday was a complete failure.

Rei did apologize to me again, but that was it.

Rei did not rectify the reason why he had arrived at all did not take the time to come, lying about his flight schedule.

And I undo the intention to discuss if I actually got different information about his work schedule that day from Mr. Raka.

I still have my own consideration not to ask Rei about it frontally. Naive may be, but I still want Rei to expose his lies to me.

What still makes me curious is actually up to this second, why Rei has remained dishonest to me to this day.

It occurred to me that I was paranoid about the lies Rei had been doing while Rei had always been honest and open to me.

Although for these two days there was nothing strange about Rei's attitude, but there was still a wedge in my heart. But in that very moment, I thought that if I had just settled my suspicions on Rei.

Better not to remember –remember that Rei's lie.

Besides I also finally remembered my papa who once said,

“Sometimes the husband has a little secret they keep from his wife. But that doesn't mean they're out there. Saved by yourself, with much consideration. Because it could be, the little secret they keep is related to something that his wife does not like. Well, rather than fussing over a small problem, the husband sometimes hides some things behind his wife so.”

Then my mama chimed in,

“Too smell perfume that is not usual husband or we wear sticky on our husband's shirt, it should be suspected.”

Where I had never found a fragrant perfume other than the one Rei was wearing or the one I used to wear, on the clothes or on Rei's body.

But I found a brown receipt and a flower on the back of Rei's car as I waited for Rei who was outside the car in an SPBU.

Just the stroke, I didn't see the physicality in the back seat.

Well, I smiled knots later.

Thinking, maybe Rei wanted to be romantic today by buying me those two things and hiding them in the back of this car.

But.....

Until Rei and I reached the apartment until bedtime, the flowers and chocolates I found the receipt never reached my hands?.....

Even until the next day, and until Rei bailed to go to work - the two things I was waiting for, I never received.

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