TIME (For A Taste )
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Malia immediately cleaned herself up after she finished chatting with Reiji on her phone.

Malia previously spent her instant noodles a little swollen, because it was delayed to eat because her phone sessions with Reiji a little bit longer, even the instant noodles that Malia made were almost cold.

But Malia did not throw it away, because it did not have the heart to throw food, let alone there is still so much. In addition to his stomach was rumbling, and he was lazy also to boil the instant noodles again, then start the process of provision again from the beginning.

Nor did he think of any other food for him to eat other than instant noodles. So Malia spent the instant noodles she had made earlier before receiving a phone call from Reiji, even though the instant noodles in her bowl were a bit swollen and not hot anymore appetizing.

“White also yes, no Rei here.”.

Malia was already lying on her bed in a room in her apartment and Reiji.

'Before bed check stove doors, balcony windows, yang.'

A chat from Reiji went into Malia's phone.

Malia snorted amusedly reading the chat from Reiji who had just logged into her phone.

'The apartment door is automatic as well as the key times.'

As soon as the reply chat from Malia, respond to the chat from Reiji.

'Yes, even if it's not wrong to check' – Reiji.

'Iyaa – Malia.

'Nyalain tivi ga?' – Reiji.

'Engga' – Malia.

'But tetep checked too' – Reiji.

'Iyaaa' – Malia.

***

MALIA

Although it feels sure that I have turned off the stove after making instant noodles earlier, but still what Reiji asked me to do in his chat that shortly went into my phone made me walk towards the entrance of the apartment, to the pantry and to the balcony connecting door for me to check and in fact all the uda is okay, safely under control.

The apartment door is locked, yes as I said with Reiji, if the apartment door will be locked automatically if it is opened and it is closed again. It can only be opened using an access card and password.

The stove is safe, even the pantry is clean, because I immediately wash the bowl plus a fork spoon including my drinking glass after I finish eating. The balcony door was not opened when I came, but I checked and I made sure it was locked according to Mr. Reiji Shakeel who was chatty.

Including tivi in the living room that doubles the relaxing room I also tengokin, even though it is clearly not on fire. Too much to worry about it was the same person I was alone in the apartment.

So long as Avi and I want a vacation to Thailand where Reiji is on overseas duty and his schedule is congested if not wrong, so he could not accompany us both to the country that has the title as the Rice Barn in Southeast Asia.

That's a long repetition from Reiji who said, you guys will be like this, I see. Not this, not that.

Even Avi and I almost went to Thailand, if not Papaku and Avi which is the Reiji Papa also makes me and Avi finally able to vacation to Thailand.

But yes finally there are cowboy cousins Avi and Reiji who eventually accompany us in case.

I think that if Reiji was not CEO tajir twisting, he had hired a bodyguard to keep me and Avi to Thailand at that time.

And certainly in front of the apartment door there are also lines of bodyguards whose bodies macem The Rock.

Hah, so amused himself.

After all, if Reiji is the CEO of cake in online novels, we will not live in a minimalist apartment like our apartment, but in a luxury Penthouse or Mansion.

Halu!.

Haha!.

'Udah checked all?.'

Chat from Reiji when I went back into the room, and was back in bed.

After I got back to my phone I put on the bed.

'Udah.'

Short reply.

'Yes already, if so, tomorrow I might get to Jakarta around eight or nine nights' – Reiji.

'Yes' – Malia.

'I don't forget to buy' – Malia.

'Yes Nyah' – Reiji.

'Prepare for a gift for me if all your deposit is nothing I forget' – Reiji.

'Essum!' – Malia.

'Essum is also same wife herself' – Reiji.

'Bah ah, I want to sleep' – Malia.

'Okay my wife' – Reiji.

'Nitey nite and sweet dream' – Reiji.

'Take care ya Rei' – Malia.

'I will' – Reiji.

'Love and Miss you' – Reiji.

I could only smile without being able to reply to Reiji's last words in chat.

And for that, I always say sorry for Reiji in my own heart who can't say, yet,

Love you too, Rei.

Love's.

One word, but it can cause a complexity in feelings.

Your past. Do you have ‘someone’ in the past?.

It made me think back to Reiji's question, as we chatted on the phone earlier.

Oh Rei, why do you have to ask a question that ignites my memory to remember the person I've been waiting for three years.

Irsyads.

One name from the man who filled my heart space for the past three years.

Which made my heart feel uncertain in those three years. No, not three years when my heart started to be erratic because of it.

From my last year of college, I realized that. My feelings for Irsyad.

Love's.

I love that man.

Irsyad, my senior brother in college first.

Who went on to study in England, to pursue his goals, which I have not known for the past two years.

The one who was already in the hunt left, without having a chance to express my feelings. Even until the last day he was in Jakarta.

Where indeed, I did not have the courage to tell Irsyad about my feelings for her.

I was determined to forget it, when the ruler declared SAH, after Reiji said the phrase Ijab, with my name in it.

I haven't remembered Irsyad since I married Reiji.

But why the phone chat about some and Reiji's stuff, so I made up about Irsyad and I remembered it in my head.

Which I should not remember and remember anymore, because Irsyad should have been in the pile of the past. Even though my former senior brother and I were in college, we never had any relationship, even though we were quite close at the time.

I should've wiped Irsyad out of my heart, considering it was something I really wanted.

Ought to. And usually, I always get what I want all this time except Irsyad. She was a wish I could not reach, until I was eventually betrothed to Reiji by both of our parents.

I have many desires in life, except for Reiji. What I never wanted, even imagined to be my husband.

But after I thought about it, I'm just an ordinary human being who has plans and desires.

However, there is a God who determines the destiny of man, right?.

So if I just let go.

It doesn't matter what I want.

Oh no, who do I want.

God has already predestined Reiji to be my husband.

The good thing is that I accept it with the air, because I also promised Reiji to open my heart to him. For Reiji to be able to quickly get into it and completely wipe my race off on Irsyad.

So that my wish for Irsyad is completely gone.

Hope that I should have lost, considering now I'm someone's wife.

I should now focus more on Reiji, and on our marriage.

I should have attached that importance.

It's about what and who I got this time.

Yes, should ....

****

The day changed, where the night had also come back.

Malia has arrived at her apartment, but she has yet to find Reiji's whereabouts.

It was only 7.30 pm, because Reiji said he would arrive in Jakarta at around 8/9 pm.

Not to mention after parking the plane, Reiji also could not immediately waltz home.

Pretty much the responsibility of Malia's husband with his profession as a Pilot.

So there's a chance that Reiji will get to the apartment around 11, or maybe midnight.

Made Malia was weighing whether she should cook or not for her husband. ‘Rei's phone must be dead by now,’

Malia Monologue in her heart.

‘Gue send a message only time yes, ask him want me masakin what do you want?’

‘Later to fit him right, surely he immediately activated his phone...’.

Malia.

‘Ya I sent a message to mendingan.’

Malia immediately grabbed her phone from her briefcase.

'Rei, bales cepet fitting you read in chat yes. You want me to masakin ga?. I was in the apartment.'

Malia sends a chat message in an app to Reiji's contact number.

And after that, Malia rushed to her room and Reiji, to put her bag in there, then went to take a bath.

****

Malia's plan is to wait for news from Reiji, and then she'll cook something for Reiji.

“Am I masakin aja yes, don't wait to hear from Rei?”

Malia muttered as she was about to enter the bathroom.

“Gue makes spaghetti easy..”.

Malia mutters again, while stepping her feet towards the pantry in her apartment and Reiji.

“OK, abis shower directly I made this spaghetti!”

Malia took out a pack of dried spaghetti and instant seasoning from the refrigerator, then placed it on the pantry table.

“It looks the same chicken wings also deh ah!”

Then he re-opened the refrigerator and took a pack of freshly prepared fried chicken wings.

Reiji was actually less fond of instant foods like that, but Reiji understood Malia's limited cooking skills, especially Malia was also an office worker, who could only provide time to cook home-cooked meals, only on weekends.

Malia and Reiji had talked about it before, when talking about the division of their duties since moving to the apartment.

Other instant foods can still be Reiji tolerir, except for instant noodles that are limited by Reiji for Malia to consume.

“Spaghetti, chicken wings, cooking oil,” Malia delivers the items she has lined up on the pantry table. Then he rushed to the bathroom afterwards, taking his cell phone with him.

****

It's almost an hour, and Malia's just finished with her bathing ritual.

If there is no Reiji when he takes a bath, it feels like Malia can feel calm pampering herself.

Malia can linger soaking in the bathtub which also doubles as a shower cubicle that is tailored to its function by the developer who built the apartment building in accordance with the concept of each apartment unit in the building.

And because Malia and Reiji residential apartments are minimalist apartments, so every room is not too big, but made to look spacious.

*****

REIJI

At 20.05 WIB, the plane I was driving from South Korea had reached the International Airport located in Tangerang City, Banten.

After the plane I landed and I parked it well at the airport, and after that I checked all technical forms after the flight, I immediately pulled out the phone I had stored in my little Nav Bag thirty minutes later.

Then I turned on the phone, which I usually turn off during the flight.

And the corner of my lips was interested, when after I turned on my phone, there was a chat from Malia.

I think Malia's chat will be beep,

'Rei, can-by I forget ga?.'

But apparently, Malia asked if I wanted her to cook something.

Duh, the attention of my wife.

Make me want to spit up soon to the apartment.

And I also messed up as I walked towards the area where the invitation for the flight crew had been waiting for me and some of the crew who were on the flight with me, and did not bring their private vehicles.

'Go to Yang, later pesen online only.'

I wrote a reply message to Malia, which was not long after Malia's reply came.

'Tell him, I've been doing spaghetti with chicken wings.'

Make my smile come out again.

'Yes, I'll give you a gift like that later.'

And I flirted with Malia in my next reply.

It's just that the message was unrequited, until I got into the pickup car, and then I slept all the way from the airport to the apartment.

Maybe my wife's been focused on making spaghetti and chicken wings, which is the instant.

Even so, I was still happy, Malia was still watching me, taking the time to make food for me even if instant, even though she had been working from morning to evening.

But I do, sometimes I still feel sad.

Because I haven't found any warmth by the time I get back to the apartment from Malia.

The warmth of Malia's love that wasn't there for me.

Hhh Malia, is it so hard for you to love me?.

****

Malia tried to open her eyes, as she felt a peck around her face. He then blinked, as the kisses became more real he felt raining down on his face.

“Rei .... Have you come home?” malia said in a slightly hoarse voice, as she did fall asleep on the long sofa in the living room in her apartment and Reiji.

But with the size of the sofa that is adjusted to the living room of his apartment and Reiji who also doubles as a relaxing room.

“Kok sleep here?...” reply Reiji who rested on the side of the sofa near Malia's head.

“Abis cook me to sleep while watching tv, uh even pules ...” Malia said again while rising from her position.

“Yes, keep sleeping in the room gih.”

Malia answered Reiji's words with a slug.

“I'm ready for food first for you.”

“Ga please, I can take it myself kok ..”

Reiji smiled as his hands stretched out over the top of Malia's head.

“There you go to room only and sleep first .... I can take care of myself really, Which ...”.

“Lifting you aja gih that rest first, any spag -----”

Malia had not been able to continue her sentence, Reiji had already silenced his wife with a kiss.

Not only a short kiss, but it was wrapped in ga*rah that was not restrained, because Reiji could not stand if a day did not wrestle on the bed with his wife.

“Rei ...”

Malia's soft voice that sounded sexy in Reiji's ear further added to Reiji's ga*rah only. “I dapet ...”

Reiji whose lips were now on Malia's neck stopped the action.

“Heu? ...”

Reiji looked at Malia as he was studying Malia's words just now.

“I again hitch ...” said Malia by pulling the corner of her lips. “Red cross ...”

Then Malia stood up from her seat, and stepped into the pantry to remove the spaghetti she had boiled but had not mixed the seasoning from the refrigerator, and heated it later.

While Reiji and his little sister were instantly lethargic, looking at Malia who was downhill towards the pantry from where Reiji was now sitting leaning on the sofa that Malia was sleeping on, with Malia's shoulder that seemed to shake a little, because in reality Malia was giggling.

‘Apes!’

Reiji cursed in his heart.

‘For his on-on continued to know his wife again dateng tuh month .... here ...’

Reiji looked lethargic and pity at something that already hurt inside his pants.

Kessiiiaaaannn ....

****

Malia feels satisfied giggling after seeing the lethargic face of Reiji when he said that he was coming this month, now, kala Reiji has started to spice it up on the sofa in the living room and the lounge of their apartment.

And it's true that Malia is coming this month, which she only found out when she took a shower when she got to the apartment, after work.

And I don't know what Reiji did in the bathroom, because the duration of Reiji Malia's bath was a little longer than usual.

And Malia had finished processing the spaghetti and the bolognaise sauce she had mixed with the spaghetti that had been served in two dishes.

Here chicken wings in a different container, which Malia has also heated briefly in the microwave and has also been served on the dining table, along with drinking water for her and Reiji.

Malia returns to the living room that doubles the lounge, waiting for Reiji to finish his bath, to eat together. Malia also felt her stomach was hungry again when she had filled it with bread and milk.

But then her eyes saw Navy Bag Reiji, following her husband's cell phone on the sofa.

Malia who was uncomfortable seeing something that was not in place, then took Nav bag Reiji following her husband's cell phone, for her to take into the room.

Reiji only brought a small suitcase filled with clothes instead when he entered the room with a lethargic face because the wife was not able to be invited to ulala beibeh, because it was coming the moon.

But Malia's attention was seized, when Reiji's phone shook and rang softly in his hand, and saw a call coming into her husband's phone.

It was not strange if there was a call that went into her husband's phone, it was just that the name of the caller that went into Reiji's phone made Malia frown a little.

Shirley.

And the time in the upper left corner of Reiji's phone made Malia look down, because she felt unnatural for the call from Shirly.

‘Ngapain him this hour call a man?’

****

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Noted: For those of you readers of this novel who follow also the second sequel of Not Just Friends, namely ‘Heirs of The Adjieran Smith’, please be patient with the updates, please, because the author is pursuing the target word in this work, and one other work othor who has been contracted.

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