TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 73

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REIJ***

I have finished my work today in its entirety.

After saying goodbye to the crew who had been on duty with me, I immediately set foot into the airport parking lot where I parked my car.

Because it's just a domestic trip and back home, so I brought a car. And today Lia and I used each other's cars to work. Lia's car, which had been stored in her parents' house, was delivered to our apartment.

Though I think with my car alone is enough, let me take Lia to work, if possible. Or one of them. Or if I'm not going to pick Malia up, I'd be happy to let Lia take my car.

But well, the sometimes stubborn Lia still asked for her car to be brought to the apartment.

Yes, I just follow it as I wish. Than snatching. Bed vitamins can be lost. Hehe.

Lia said my car wasn't suitable for girls. Hahey.

And again, if Lia says it anyway, just in case we have each car that we bring to the apartment.

Who knows if there is a sudden later, so no bother.- Kalo said Lia.

Mm. yeah, too. And today, I happened to have to stop by the airline office for a regular meeting.

So it is not possible to drive Lia to go to the office, pick up - nor can I, because I will be up around seven or eight at night in Jakarta. And Lia's working time is only up to five in the afternoon.

So Lia left for the office by driving her own car, and I used my own car.

I always tell Lia my schedule, even though Lia rarely asks about it. But I kept telling him, though not always.

But at least, I always report about what time my assignment ends, if I can't pick her up when I get home from work. So if Lia said she wanted to suspect I was a macem, she could calculate the travel time from the distance between the airport to our apartment.

Hah, anyways want to macem-macem how. I'm still focused on making Lia really fall in love with me.

Boro-boro want macem-macem, I am even though it is known humble by my colleagues, but for the stewardesses of kesentilan, I am known jutek.

It was from the time I had been holding the title of Captain, long before my match with Lia.

Where I have fortified myself, not to serve the insignificance of some flight attendant who tried to attract my attention.

Even though I was dating one of them. Which is not centil but. I just tried to get my attention, until he told me how he felt.

Which then either because of pity, or a fad of wanting to have a partner, yes I just accept him to be my girlfriend. Even though I don't have any taste for him.

And after two months, she gave up on her own in the end, because I-I admit I'm so ignorant and impressed by my stupid time as a boyfriend.

I was decided by him, and I'm still a fool.

Until my former flight attendant then asked to return, which of course I ignored.

Okay, enough discussion of the former.

I rushed to get in the car, and drove back to the apartment, where I was sure that Lia was already there and waiting for me to arrive.

I don't know if Lia is always waiting for my return or not. Because Lia also rarely asks me if my duty hour has ended at the airport.

Oh, never mind, I don't mind it. After all this time outside of that, Lia has carried out her role as a good wife for me, in accordance with her promise.

Whether Lia waits for my return or not, I will definitely go home to her.

Because Lia is my heart, and that heart is my dream home.

From that heart I have love, and love always knows where it should go.

And my love is Lia, so I'll always go home to her.

Elah.

Instantly I miss Lia's pink lips.

I set foot more eager to reach the car and go home to the apartment.

Until the vibration of the phone in my pocket, made me pause. Maybe Lia called me.

It wasn't Lia.

Unknown number, I ignored it.

I refused even, because I was lazy to pick up a number that I did not keep on my phone.

Then the notification tone of the incoming message sounded on my phone. Which makes me step back. ‘Ji, it's me, Irly. I just called you.’

That's the written message that went into my phone. Then I immediately dialed the unknown number that went into my phone earlier, which turned out to be Irly, my best friend.

“Ir!” my broom, when my call was answered.

And Irly's cheerful voice as always, answered my greeting.

“New number?...” ask Irly on a phone call.

“Iya, forced to buy a new number, because I forgot to nyetting,” replied Irly, which I understood the point by forgetting nyetting.

“Lo in Indo?...”

Soon my question was asked and Irly agreed.

“New dateng this afternoon, there is a similar business my sodara. That's why I called you!”

After that I asked Irly a few more questions, which sodara, until then Irly asked an area in Central Jakarta.

Where Irly is confused, because he does not yet have an Indonesian online taxi account and so on, plus confused if the usual taxi naek, he said, because he had forgotten to ask about the area of his brother's house that he wanted to meet it.

“Kok malem-malem, not from this afternoon?”

One more question came out of my mouth.

“Gue new nyampe noon directly beberes apartment that I will stay later. New sleep want maghrib mengendusin, and I have already promised to go to my sodara house to make nginep there this malem.” cerocos Irly.

“So if I take a taxi, what is the benchmark?”

Then Irly asked me. “Udah aja deh, share loc to me place lo now. I just anter lo to the house of sodara lo.”

“Serious want my anterin?”

“Iyaa...”.

“Ngerepotin ga?”

“Alah pleasantries!”

And I heard a crunchy crack from the phone.

“Eh by the way you to Indo again, Argan who is in Canberra?. Lo titipin same temen lo again?..”

“This time I invited,” Irly replied and the answer was happy for me.

Makes me even more excited to meet Irly soon, so I can meet Argan soon.

A five-year-old boy who has been close to me since he was born, but we haven't seen each other in a long time. The boy who called me, Papi.

Ah the Irly, not saying the cake she brought Argan. So I can prepare something for that adorable little boy.

Uh but I'm still at the airport, I can turn on something I can buy and bring for Argan.

Okay, I pending a bit to the parking lot, and stepped quickly to visit the store that is available complete at the airport.

Just choose what I want to buy for Argan.

If I remember Argan I get excited. Ah yes I immediately remembered also to Lia, my encouragement to go home soon, if my task was completed.

I wanted to contact Lia, but I decided to just write a chat, because I had already walked into a store, and picked something for Argan.

‘Yang, I came home late. You eat first, do not wait for me, fear long.’

A line of chat then I sent it to Lia.

Although I think Lia must have had dinner first, seeing that time was eight o'clock at night.

But until after I finished transacting at this snack shop I was entering, my chat message to Lia still ticked two. Maybe Lia's asleep.

So I put my phone back in my pocket, and hurriedly went to the parking lot where my car was, uh, in the first place, then I went to Irly's apartment to pick her up and Argan whom I had imagined if the boy would have gone to me, and asked for a sling enthusiastically.

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‘There is a problem at the Airport?’

Reiji was checking his phone while he was in a house in Central Jakarta.

The chat message in the form of a reply to a message from Malia was only Reiji had read now, because when he heard the chat notification in an application it read, it read, Reiji had reached the usual apartment area, where a woman and a five-year-old boy were waiting for him.

So Reiji delayed reading it, until he reached a house to take Irly to his brother's house. Reiji wants to contact Malia by phone call, but finally just another chat message that Reiji sent to answer Malia's question in the chat, because the boy named Argan was back to him.

Even Reiji postponed to reply to Malia's chat message, because the five-year-old boy named Argan asked Reiji to open the ice cream package he was holding. Only five minutes later, Reiji replies to Malia's chat message, as Reiji watches over Argan who eats her ice cream until she is drunk, and Reiji hugged her by preparing a tisue to wipe away every ice cream smudge on Argan's face.

‘Oh.’ Reply to a chat from Malia after Reiji answers Malia's question from the previous chat.

‘Sorry yes, Yang, I didn't go home in time. Irly called me suddenly. Kasian because if alone muter-muter find address.’

‘Iya.’

‘Kalo already sleep aja, do not need to wait for me.’

‘Iya.’

‘Love you.’

Reiji smiled for a moment, then put the phone back in his pocket, and again noticed the boy named Argan, who had almost finished his ice cream, while the mother, was being invited to chat inside the house, together with the owner of the house who is the brother of Irly.

Reiji had indeed been invited to join in earlier by Shirly and her brother. But because he wanted to contact Malia, so Reiji did not rush himself to join the house.

After all, it feels like Reiji is hesitant to join in with Shirly who is chatting with the brother of her late parents, who had just moved to Jakarta after a long stay in Batam there, according to Shirly's story on the road.

“Ji!..”

“Why?”

Reiji immediately turned his head and looked up slightly as the voice following the figure of Shirly approaching him on the porch of the house, sounded and appeared near Reiji.

“Yuk yuk?...” invite Shirly. “Udah prepared treats tuh.... Eat a malem instead.... Yuk?...”

“Duh, so it's not good for me,” said Reiji.

“Look down!”

Shirly.

“Yuk?...”

Shirly invites Reiji again to enter the inner area of her brother's house.

And Reiji finally agreed to Shirly's invitation as he woke up from his seat with a cradle and a boy named Argan who had been with him since the five-year-old boy enjoyed the ice cream he brought from inside the brother's house the mother.

Reiji's friendly treatment was obtained, from a married couple who lived in the house. “By the way, you guys don't get married, let Argan have a full family?” the woman who was the wife of the owner of the house said while looking at Reiji who was carrying Argan, also looking at Shirly.

Reiji and Shirly look at each other.

**

MALIA

Me, me,

It felt upset after reading a chat from Reiji, about why he came home late.

Although it is actually common, Reiji will be a little out of date from the estimated time, if there are business or technical obstacles at the airport after he finished driving the iron bird in the sky above.

For that I never protested, let alone thought things out.

But after one photo following a note with ambiguous writing for me I found in a pile of Reiji stuff, my brain was either worried or what, about how Reiji and Shirly were in the past. Including what the two have felt for each other.

But the reason Reiji came home late tonight really made my heart uncomfortable.

Either annoyed that Reiji was with his sa-ha-bat, or because I was annoyed to have prepared a surprise, with martial arts back home cepet continues to cook, or because I was upset, to repay my husband for our one-month wedding celebration.

Where I cooked a special today even though it wasn't cooking a special-special menu very, yes it was to repay the kindness of Reiji who had given the Candle Light Dinner a surprise last month, because today, today, in exactly two months Reiji and I became a couple.

But what I have done and prepared today is in vain, because my husband is with his beloved sa-ha-bat if the muters themselves find an address.

Hmh!.

Indeed, Shirly is a toddler who can not name the same taxi driver for example?. It's also possible that he used a old-fashioned phone whose screen is still monochrome, right?. Must have an android or ios that has a digital map.

‘Sorry yes, Yang, I didn't go home in time. Irly called me suddenly. Kasian because if alone muter-muter find address.’

So Reiji chatted to me, and I just snorted cynically just read it. And my answer on his chat then only ‘oh’ and ‘iya’. In the last chat that Reiji sent me it read, ‘Love you’, which I did not reply to.

Lazy.

And pissed.

You know, I went to hang out together with the same friends of one of my divisions earlier.

Instead of bothering to cook like this, make my nails scratched by a knife, although it does not mean the scratches as well.

I want to get angry and call Reiji and then taste it.

But should I do that?.

Out of jealousy?.

I don't know, I don't know what I'm feeling right now, which I'm obviously upset about. That’s it!.

Makes me more curious about the past stories of both. About whether there was ever love between the two, even though Reiji admitted that he and Shirly had never dated.

But why do I feel like saying, Reiji is more attentive to Shirly than any of his other friends.

And why, Shirly often contacts Reiji, and why should Reiji whom she asks for help?.

But maybe there is a special story even though there has never been a special togetherness between Reiji and Shirly that is still unfolding, even though from that story never created togetherness, just like I had a story with someone in the past.

A special story, without any manifestation of togetherness. It's sad and sad at the same time.

Is that how Reiji and Shirly have been in the past?. For God's sake, the curiosity about them now bothers me.

At the same time, the waves of my past, now hit me. Makes me think back to my story, with someone I wanted to forget and the dream of being with him I buried when I decided to accept my match and Reiji.

But about this Reiji and Shirly, getting my thoughts raging back. Makes me think of my past with Irsyad.

Oh my God, do I doubt Reiji's confession to me now?. Or am I doubting my marriage to Reiji and Reiji?.

Hhhhh,

I better immediately check my condition through the testpack that I have purchased at the pharmacy earlier.

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Seriate....