TIME (For A Taste )
THE CHAPTER 79

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“Create drinks for yourself aja.”

Reiji's voice, heard when Malia was about to take another cup inside one of the cabinets in the pantry, made Malia's hand to take the cup after she opened the cabinet door.

Malia glanced at Reiji who was beside her, who was also looking at her.

“Oke.” Malia said briefly.

Reiji also did not speak.

Just flat on his face, even though there was a very thin smile on Reiji's lips.

“I don't know what it's like for you.... But at least I think fried rice is worth eating.”

Reiji's voice was heard again, where Reiji was scooping the fried rice he had finished making onto the plate.

“This.”

Reiji smiled faintly at Malia, putting a plate of fried rice on the pantry table near Malia stirring sugar in the tea in her cup.

Although it feels like Malia still feels a wedge in her heart about Reiji and her past in relation to the feelings Reiji once had on her female best friend, Reiji makes Malia one of her favorite foods, but with Reiji makes Malia one of her favorite foods, making Malia also showed a smile that was as thin as Reiji.

“Still.” Malia.

“Sama-sama.” Reiji Sahut.

Malia glanced at the fried rice that was nearby now.

Something is strange according to Malia. Just a plate of fried rice.

‘Why just one plate?’ malia asked in her heart. “K—“

“But if you think it doesn't feel good, yeah throw it away.” Reiji said, just as Malia was about to speak.

Reiji looked only at Malia, then closed the teflon pan where there was still half of the fried rice he made which Reiji then closed with a glass lid.

“You didn't eat yourself?” malia asked in a flat tone of voice. Making Reiji who was walking towards their room paused his steps, then turned to Malia.

“Later..I want to jog first.”

Malia moved her head once.

“Oh.”

Malia's Response.

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“Rei ..” call Malia when Reiji has left the room and has replaced his slipper with cushioning shoes, aka jogging or running shoes.

“Ya? .” said Reiji who then turned his eyes to Malia who was now in front of him.

“Temenin me breakfast.”

Malia.

“Part of you do not jog on an empty stomach.” Malia said again. Reiji smiled faintly, then nodded. “Udah I ready sweet tea angel same your fried rice at the dinner table ...”

Malia spoke again, then immediately turned around and walked towards the dining table.

Reiji followed his wife.

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“If you think it is not good, or do not like it, do not be forced to eat—“

Reiji made a sound when he and Malia were sitting together at the dinner table, and Malia seemed to be bribing a spoonful of fried rice into her mouth.

“Later to buy chicken porridge or other food for your breakfast –“

“This has not yet entered my mouth, Rei.”

Malia cuts Reiji's speech, with a spoon hanging in the air in her handrails.

Reiji was silent.

And Malia proceeded to stuff a spoonful of fried rice into her mouth. Reiji did the same with Malia.

“Enak.” Malia made a sound after swallowing her fried rice. “Ga can only be eaten.”

Reiji turned to Malia as a single word of praise came out of his wife's mouth, then smiled.

And Reiji's smile was no longer as thin as before.

“Thanks..” sahut Reiji.

“You’re welcome.”

Malia also pulled the corner of her lips.

“Truly delicious, or just want to big my heart?”

Reiji who was a lot of silence and spoke thus, now looks relaxed than before, and already wants to mince words with Malia.

“I'm telling the truth. In fact, it seems you are better at cooking than me.” replied Malia, then returned to bribe fried rice into her mouth.

“Fried rice only Which ..”

Reiji.

“Eumm .. Rei ..”

Malia paused her breakfast.

“Ya?.” Reiji said after a brief glance at his arm that Malia was touching at the moment.

“Are we going to be all right? ..”

Malia asked, with her hand touching Reiji's arm, while looking at her husband.

Reiji slowly sighed, and then he spoke while asking Malia.

“You still doubt what I said about my feelings to Irly?”

“Iya ..” replied Malia quietly, nodding slowly as well.

Reiji took his breath back. “Remove negative thoughts in your brain, Which ..”

Reiji said, with his hand now touching the back of Malia's hand that was touching her arm.

“Do not overthinking.”

“Ya maybe you are right.” Sahut Malian. “I overthinking about your past ...” Malia continued. ‘Too overthinking to your past with Shirly in the end reminds me of my past story with Irsyad.’ Inner Malia.

“What have I told you about me and Irly, about my feelings that have not been there to him, even from the time we have not been betrothed it is the truth. And I hope that with me being honest with you, I can reap a little bit of your trust in me.”

Reiji clasped Malia's hand later.

“I love you now, Yang .... has even started to love you from the moment we started the approach as a couple to get married ..”

Malia bit her lip.

“So please trust me.”

Reiji tightened his grip on Malia's hand.

“At least don't question how I feel about Irly, who no more just thinks of her as a friend, as you and Avi.”.

Reiji stared deeply at the Malia Netra, who then nodded slowly.

“Do I need my left chest?”

Reiji.

And Malia chuckled a little later.

“Lebay bang.” Malia.

Reiji also grunted amusedly. Then smile meaningfully at Malia.

“We are fine, and will always be fine, as long as you trust me, Yang.”

Malia who had chuckled and threw a small plash at Reiji then smiled when Reiji again spoke seriously but with a shady look, with a smile at the corner of her lips.

Malia nodded softly, and her little bitterness had turned into a smile.

“Eh yes Rei, later you have a flight schedule?..” asked Malia after Reiji removed her hand from Malia's hand, and they continued eating.

“There. Afternoon but. Why?” Reiji answered, then asked Malia.

“Ga anything anyway, I was hoping you would go to the house of mama sama papa ..”

Malia answered casually.

“Ya come on.”

Reiji responded positively to Malia's call.

“But you work?. Previously wanted to ngajak nginep also met Avi who had returned from Jogja.”

“I'll be able to leave from there, Yang.”

“Ga distance you become? ...” Malia said while asking.

“It wouldn’t matter, my love (That's no problem, my dear ) ..”

“Sok sweet really you, Rei.”

Malia throws a small tease at Reiji over her husband's babble, smiling amusedly.

“Emang I've been sweet from the first too right? ...”

Malia smiled at her husband's words.

Then the two did not chat again until they finished the fried rice on their plates.

“Oh yes Rei, by the way you off duty today or tomorrow?..” asked Malia who had placed fried rice on her plate.

Reiji answered while about to stand by already holding the plate following the spoon and fork he put on it, following the cup of sweet tea that has also been toilet filled.

“I aja ...” said Malia while reaching for Reiji's used tableware and drinking utensils, which she then put together with her used utensils and drinks as well.

“Let me bring the cup ...” Reiji had come to stand like Malia and picked up his two cups and Malia.

Then Reiji and Malia both walked to the sink and put down their food and drink, and Malia was ready to wash it.

“Let me wash ...”

Malia volunteered, as Reiji seemed to take over to wash their food and drink. Reiji nodded as well.

“Then wash me ga?”

Reiji joking.

Malia turned her head and snorted amusedly at Reiji.

Reiji's hand stretched out to gently shake Malia's hair. His heart is normal now.

Reiji's heart was not as angry as it was last night, when Malia threw the charges at him.

When Malia said the things that made Reiji feel so upset

And that frustration was still perched in Reiji's heart, when he who eventually fell asleep in the multipurpose room woke up when the morning had come.

But now, the anger and resentment had evaporated from Reiji's heart, because Malia had not looked as good as last night. Although the conversation about the matter that made them quarrel last night was tucked away while Reiji and Malia were having breakfast.

Malia asked about their relationship going forward how.

And Reiji assures me that everything will be fine.

Reiji, who tried to convince Malia with his words, at least made the burden that squeezed in Malia's chest, also began to yawn.

Malia thinks she should not doubt Reiji's past feelings for Reiji's best friend.

“You've had a shower, haven't you, Rei?...”

“If you want to shower me, yes I really do not refuse if you have to take another shower.”

Malia snorted amusedly at Reiji's voice, who gave her smile.

“Basic.”

Malia muttered as she grunted amusedly once more, and Reiji pulled over the corner of her lips, then gently ruffled Malia's hair further washing her cutlery and drinking her marks and Reiji had breakfast.

“So want to go to the house mommy equally papa?.” asked Reiji who is now back sitting in his place earlier, on the dining table chair.

Malia did not answer Reiji.

Reiji watched Malia from where she was sitting.

“But you have a flight schedule today, Rei?” malia.

“Yes I said earlier, if I can leave from there,” said Reiji.

“It's really nothing, if you're a bit far away to go to the airport? ..”

Malia made sure and Reiji shook his head.

“As I said, My love. Ga issues.”

“Ya already so so just to the house mommy same papa today.”

“OK Boss!”

Reiji said as he lifted his thumb at Malia who had finished washing the dishes.

Malia turned to Reiji with a smile that now looked more natural.

“But tomorrow on till here again, you go directly to the house of mommy equally papa huh?..” pinta Malia.

“Your wil is my command, My love (Your request is an order for me, My dear )” said Reiji.

Malia smiled again, after hearing the Reiji's speech.

‘Maybe I should never doubt Reiji...’ Inner Malia.

*

REIJI

“By the way, Rei ...”

I was on the walk in closet with Lia who was putting a few pieces of clothes into a medium-sized traveling bag to carry because Lia would stay at her parents' house turned her head muttering in response to Lia speaking to me.

“Hm? ..”

“Semalem where do you sleep? ..”

Lia asked while putting her clothes in the bag. Though as far as I know, there are still Lia clothes that were deliberately not brought from her parents' house when we moved here.

But her name is also female. When I reminded her that Lia shouldn't have to bring her clothes because she still has a supply of clothes in her room in my in-laws' house, Lia replied,

‘Be careful...’

Just in case you know.

“In next room.” I answered Lia's question asking where I slept last night.

“Sorry to me, Rei..” said Lia, who then stood facing herself to me, after she finished putting our clothes into the bag. His face and eyes look sincere to me.

I have also finished preparing the luggage that I will bring to duty this afternoon.

“Sorry for what, Which?..”

I asked, looking at Lia who was standing facing me.

“Sorry for making you sleep in the next room.”

Malia replied with a faint smile.

I also smiled amusedly while shaking her hair again.

Lia revealed her sweet smile as usual.

The smile I like, the smile I adore. And of course I hope, his smile like that no longer fades like last night.

I also kept showing my smile. And my hand that had been gently shuffling Lia's hair, I've now placed it in one part of her jaw line.

I put my face on Lia's face then.

Lia unmoving.

I also put my lips on Lia's lips.

Lia's not avoiding.

My lips that were only attached earlier now I have firmly glued on Lia's lips.

I gently sip her upper and lower lips alternately, Lia softly returned my kiss.

Yes, continue that.

Don't refuse dong's sustenance?.

One round before leaving for the house of in-laws, can you?.

*

Reiji and Malia have been in Reiji's car to drive to Malia's parents' house. Reiji's face that was so tangled last night and this morning still looks sad, now it is fresh and fresh. One round of intimacy with Malia was like the hope she had before leaving.

“Udah ngabarin mom with papa if we want to go there?” ask Reiji.

“Udah,” Reply Malia.

“You want to buy something first not to be taken there?..”

Reiji offers Malia a hand to bring her in-laws home.

“Hmmm, can deh.”

Malia also agreed.

“What do you buy?...”

Reiji asked again.

“Roti-rotian aja deh...” Malia replied with her choice, according to the likes of her parents.

“HB?”

“Iya can ...”

Reiji nodded, and pointed the wheel of his car at a bakery in question.

“You to car only first, Which...”.

Reiji who was standing in front at the cashier, after he and Malia arrived at the store a bakery that is well known by the people of Jakarta, Jakarta, asked Malia to wait for him in the car after some of the bread they had chosen had been neatly packed in two cookie boxes.

The amount of bread Reiji and Malia have chosen has been calculated, and Reiji will make the payment.

Malia nodded, then walked away from Reiji with two plastic boxes filled with bread each as a hand to Reiji and Malia's parents.

Malia had gotten into Reiji's car first, and had her seatbelt fastened after putting a plastic bag of bread in it in the rear passenger seat. Malia's eyes were fixed on the windshield in front of her, waiting for Reiji to come out of the bakery they were visiting.

Malia's eyes then squinted, with her body that she slightly pushed forward to confirm her vision, as Reiji exited the shop. Where Reiji seems to collide slowly with a man, then Reiji and the man are both seen apologizing to each other.

‘Ga possible!’

Malia cried out in her heart.

‘Irsyad?!’

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Seriate...