TIME (For A Taste )
THE CHAPTER 90

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“Yang, today we have lunch outside aja yuk?!”

Reiji sparks an idea and solicitation to Malia, after having argued due to a phone call from Shirly to Reiji's mobile phone.

“Back we stopped by Irly's place. Wanna?. Yes? ...”

While Reiji was not aware of the face of disbelief on Malia's face, he invited her to go to meet her best friend.

“I've made a deal with me just now. Betes. You also said that you did not want to go anywhere today..” responded Malia to Reiji's invitation to him.

“Ya have invited you to join us for maksi with us.... Abis was hanging out together for a while as he could, right? before I take you to Shirly's apartment..”.

Reiji chimed in on Malia's remarks that indirectly rejected her invitation.

“Temen I will not be comfortable if there is you and he is alone.” Malia said.

“Stop bye, if so.” Timpal Reiji who looks upset after hearing Malia's words.

After that, Reiji and Malia became like two magnetic poles that repel each other.

Not together doing little things together, as often for a while.

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“You so go see your friends?”

Reiji approached Malia who was sitting in front of the dressing table.

“That's really you should have just me before you left...”.

Malia stopped her polishing face and glanced at Reiji from the dresser mirror.

“Trus now so you want to ban me?...” Malia said later.

Reiji sighed. “I have no intention of disallowing.... Just ngingetin aja.”

Reiji responded to Malia's speech which seemed a little cynical staring, as well as cynical in speech. “Ngingetin, what is love?” malia hatch.

“Depends on how you perception.”

Reiji responded to Malia casually.

Indeed Reiji basically had no intention of insinuating Malia.

Just expressing what he thinks and indeed Reiji is often outspoken about his feelings. But Reiji just said, there was no intention of insinuating at all.

Other than herself, she was thinking, if Malia did not ask herself before making a deal with her friend.

‘Padahat before he made a deal I bacain chat from Shirly who said to ngajak Lia too..’.

Reiji.

‘Gue just haven't answered that Irly's chat. Eh Lia even agreed with him.’

“So you said that I want how do I want? Cancel my agreement with me?” Malia makes a sound as Reiji is busy.

Reiji sighed then. “As far as you are Li..”.

Then Reiji turned around.

“Later if I forbid, I was wrong again..” muttered Reiji.

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“I leave first Rei...” said Malia who will still go this afternoon.

“I anter yes?...” bargain Reiji.

“Ga. Thanks though. You want to go to Shirly's show, right? Friendly so loh.”

And a subtle rejection that came out of Malia's mouth, but included questions that seemed to insinuate Reiji.

“Yuk ah, I go first..”.

Malia quickly passes from Reiji's presence and leaves their apartment without giving Reiji a chance to answer Malia's insinuation about Shirly.

Makes Reiji so grunt annoyed by it.

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REIJI

My weekend actually began with a calm Saturday morning.

It was still so quiet that I decided on another book that became one of my favorites in the multipurpose room in my apartment and Malia.

Which I think is more suitable to be called a reading room, because my books, in addition to the action figures statues of my collection that dominate the multipurpose room in our apartment.

But Lia called it a multipurpose room, because there was space for her Yoga activities in the room.

So well, I just follow what Lia said.

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After a little bit of a fuss when Lia came home very late to the apartment, the next day I tried to be ordinary.

Just a little mouth fight in my opinion that need not be exaggerated. Throw away energy.

And fortunately Lia also did not seem to want to discuss it anymore, even though her attitude I felt a little taut to me.

But I let.

Instead of me protesting later, my moody wife was bad mood again.

So I better shut up and just act normal. Minus promised Ria to Lia.

This weekend I had scheduled before, although not from far away.

But I just want to spend some time alone with Lia in a fun moment.

The mind of a normal husband with a beautiful wife whose body is good and does not like to spread the shape of the body's makeup, it is, it makes me imagine that this weekend I could spend curled up in a blanket with our bodies equally innocent.

But the plan is a plan.

In fact, there are things that trigger my quarrel with Lia, even though only a little mouth bicker.

But yes it is, Lia sensi really if she is not happy. What a mistake it seems to be in Lia's eyes if she is like that even though it is far from her PMS schedule.

And again, and again, Lia why is it so nice to bring up about me and Irly that I even destroyed and the fragments I flew into space until without any rest there is even a little left of my special feelings for Irly inside this heart.

But Lia still doesn't seem to believe me about it. At that time he said he would try to believe, without any more want to talk about my past and Irly. But it's not really what I see and feel.

Yeah like this morning. I, who was reading, heard Lia calling my name from outside the multipurpose room exclaiming. When I was sitting in front of the television after breakfast, he was in the room. Now that I was enjoying the quiet reading time that I rarely had, Lia called out to me at will.

I'm not saying.

Until then I heard Lia's voice getting closer.

Tartly. Lia's way of talking that I caught in my ear. But I still relaxed in response.

I don't know what Lia wants to call me actually, because she knows she's taking a seat next to me.

I asked him if he was looking for me, but he asked me if I bought a new book. I said no, and told her I was rereading one of my favorite books.

And just as I was about to recommend one of my favorite books I was rereading, Lia quickly cut into my words.

But then Lia softened, and told me to continue reading with her self who was about to rise from her place beside me.

But just for a moment, because after that Lia's toughness and sincerity to me leveled up, and it came from Irly's phone call that went into my phone.

Just a phone call that I was reluctant to pick up because I was busy reading, instead making Malia into blingsatan ga because.

“Kalo because I you don't want to pick up her calls, don't be so stupid like this!”

So said Lia with her voice rising up while putting my phone roughly on top of the open page of the book that was on top of my lap, after I changed my sleeping position to sit when Lia was floating me in our multipurpose room.

I began to feel annoyed by Lia's true attitude. But I kept my emotions stable by still casually responding to Lia's attitude by telling her to talk normally.

Which is why I also do not know who the caller or sender of the incoming message to make my phone vibrate, besides I still want to enjoy my free time reading a book, and, I'm also just keeping Lia feeling, not focusing too much on the phone.

I read the book, because Lia was ogah-ogahan responding to me from morning.

Maybe it's because I asked him a little bit more when he came home so late one day.

It's not that I suspect Lia how, but I'm worried.

But in fact Lia became annoyed with me. It's becoming more and more today. And in the end I said while asking Lia.

“Ga anything if I received Irly's phone?...” as I said.

If Lia does, I'll call the loudspeaker from Irly, so that Lia doesn't think anything.

But instead of getting an answer, Lia instead asked me back with a slightly silly question.

“You are still in contact with him?...”

Geez, me and Irly are still friends, of course we're still in touch.

Friendlies. Point.

Besides, I'm not the only one who's friends with Irly, there are still three other boy friends of mine. But then Lia popped a question that sounded like an allusion to my and Irly's friendship.

“Friends but friendly?”

So said Lia with a face romance that seems underestimating.

Really, I was bothered by Lia's words.

But I tried again not to get emotional.

I don't feel like my friendship with Irly is what Lia is accusing me of.

So Lia's innuendo was I broke. “Please deh Yang, I've already explained to you about me and Irly. I'm sure I told you who is the woman I love now?.... I have to prove it to you again? Come on, please, please, don't think macem-macem again.”

And I talked a little long, begging Lia to trust me. But...

“Where do you think macem-macem, if on a weekend only he called you?.... Want to ask you where else?” Malia nyinyir's.

Jeez! ..

I was completely inexhaustible with Lia's attitude that was impressed like this blind jealousy.

Yes, if Lia is jealous, I'm happy. But she's also blindly jealous of Irly.

Just as I was about to follow Lia by holding my phone, the flat object shook again. And there's a chat message from Irly.

A chat message that I then immediately read where the chat message was an invitation to gather in his new apartment.

Maybe Irly wants a little dive with us her boyfriend.

Coincidentally.

“Nih, Irly send a message.... I'm bacain let you not suspect.”

That sentence that I made after I read the chat message from Irly, while following Lia who had come out of our multipurpose room.

I read Irly's message out loud in front of Lia to make her realize that she doesn't need to be suspicious of me. Even Irly also told me to bring Lia along.

But Lia flinched without comment. Just sitting quietly as her eyes stared at the television in the living room, with Lia sitting herself on the sofa. Makes me a little upset about being ignored like that when I'm seriously talking.

Questioning which part of Irly's chat message is wrong and what is there to suspect from Irly's message that invited me and Lia came to just gather at Irly's apartment because she will officially return to live and settled in Jakarta.

I was still waiting for Lia's response, but she kept ignoring me until the phone rang.

And Lia immediately grabbed it without caring for me who was still standing nearby. It makes me a little more upset.

“Message from whom?.”

I just asked him about the chat message that went into Lia's phone and he read it immediately.

“Temen.” Lia replied briefly by glancing at me.

“Oke, I believe. I won't ask who your friends are chatting you, and what the contents of the chat.” And in the end, I'm gonna talk to Lia.

I'm really pissed off. And either Lia realizes it or not.

After sneering, I immediately turned around and went back towards the multipurpose room.

Until some time I was in the room, but Lia did not come after me to talk. At least to ease the tension between us.

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And well, I relented again, despite the rest of the resentment in my heart over Lia's accusations, including her attitude towards me.

I took her out to lunch, and then I took her to Irly's place, so that Lia could see for herself how my friendship with Irly was.

There will be other friends, who I am sure will bring their partners. Abbas also said he would come with his future wife.

So I tried to approach Lia who still seemed cool to send a message on her phone with her friend who knows who.

But the rejection I got, because he said he had made a deal with his friend.

I didn't give up right away, so I proposed that Lia's friend just go with me and Lia.

I'm also curious, curious - if I can, with every friend Lia has. But still, Lia refused.

“Temen I won't be comfortable if there is you and him alone..” Reason Lia.

And me?.

Annoyed again.

It got even more upset after I went into the room, and Lia was dressing up.

Lia kept making her deal with her friend, without asking me any more.

I reminded her, but Lia again accused the charges if I was insinuating her.

I gave an explanation, but Lia even asked tightly if I would allow it or not.

So I just resigned. While neutralizing emotions. I wanted to ban him, because I wanted to spend my time with him today.

But if I keep Lia away, I think that until tomorrow she'll keep coming to me.

So yes, I leave the decision to him. If Lia still wants to go to the appointment place with her friend that's it already, I want to say what.

But if Lia doesn't leave, I'll find a way to please her. Eased its originality. Unfortunately Lia still did not cancel the appointment with her friend.

Even my offer to drop Lia off, she refused.

With a closing sentence before he disappeared behind the apartment door, and left.

“You want to come to Shirly's show, right? Friendly so loh.”

I don't know what Lia's words mean, which was clear after that I took a deep breath and then I exhaled a little rough.

Receive and understand Lia's attitude towards me. Recalling the advice of our parents, if marriage was not easy.

Problems will come and go, even in the marriage of couples who before marriage already love each other.

While Lia and I, married because they were betrothed. Even though I loved him for a long time. I love Lia now.

But Lia?.

I don't know.

Lia hasn't been fully open to me.

Just saying she loved me, but I still felt Lia was still keeping her distance from me. There was something he kept in his heart, which he seemed reluctant to share with me.

Hhh... My journey ahead in my marriage and Lia will not be easy.

Will we be okay, Lia?...

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