When Love Should Determine
Chapter 24

Larissa's gestational age is seven months. As with pregnant women in general, Larissa also experienced a time called cravings.

For days, Larissa wanted to eat young mangoes. It's just that it's not the season of mangoes, so it's very difficult to get it.

Larissa continues to imagine eating the green-skinned fruit. For days he had trouble sleeping because of it. Sometimes he suddenly drooled as the desire came across.

Seeing the condition of his wife who continued like that, Hamzah long felt sorry too. He decided to find a fruit that has a large seed in the middle of the flesh even though he had to look into the middle of the pedestal.

After breakfast, Hamzah takes Larissa around looking for a mango tree. Perhaps if he is lucky, he can get it even if only one.

They went around for a long time, but they never found the fruit. But they did not give up. They continued to search to the middle of the pedestal.

Almost all the corners they have come, but they do not get it too. They finally gave up and decided to go home exhausted. The weather is also not good. From morning drizzle down non-stop. Because it was rainy season.

With a heavy heart, Larissa also according to be invited home. But when he was about to get on the bike, he felt something telling him to look to the right side, and he did it.

Vaguely Larissa saw a fruit similar to the fruit she wanted hanging there. She also patted her husband's shoulder. "Entik, it looks like it's a mango. Correct, right,

no?" tanyanya while pointing towards the tree in question.

Hamzah looked at the tree his wife had pointed at. "Yes, right. It looks like it is a mango. Comeing! let's look there" he said.

Larissa was happy, her eyes twinkling. "Come on!" quickly answer.

Hamzah turned the engine back on and drove it to the tree. Once there, it turned out to be a mango tree. Larissa is getting excited about it.

Hamzah climbed the tree and picked three mangoes, after asking permission from the owner of the tree whose house is not far from there.

Larissa received the mango with sparkling eyes, impatient to eat it immediately. They returned home immediately after thanking the tree owner. Along the way home, Larissa had imagined would make the young mango as a sambal.

Arriving at home, Larissa immediately peeled and washed the fruit,

then he grated rough and set aside.

Furthermore, Larissa makes seasonings from a mixture of roasted and ground peanuts, cayenne pepper, and fish petis. All the ingredients are kneaded until smooth and given a little water. After that, he mixed the young mango that he had grated earlier. Plus a plate of rice that is still steaming warm and grilled fish, Larissa also immediately ate the food.

Larissa looks very greedy when eating simple food. He even finished three rice dishes. As long as she was pregnant, she had never eaten this much.

Hamzah also ate with Larissa. However, he could not focus on his own food. He looked at Larissa who was enjoying her food. He smiled, it turned out that making his wife happy was not difficult.

Larissa ended her meal by sipping a glass of water. Then he leaned straight against the wall.

"You don't want to add any more?" tawar Hamzah's.

"No, that's enough. I'm already full" Larissa replied with a breath of gasp from the satiety.

Hamza smiled at his wife's behavior. Then he helped clean up the rest of their meal after he finished eating.

"Entik, thanks!" larissa said after Hamzah finished cleaning up the leftovers.

"Make?" hamzah asked with a frown.

"Because you have obeyed my wishes. Now I don't drool anymore" Larissa replied in embarrassment.

Larissa nodded. He immediately went into the room and rested without asking much. Hamzah is going to the beach.

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The more days Larissa's stomach gets bigger. He often walks casually in the morning to help facilitate the labor process later. Sometimes Hamzah accompanies him when he does not go to sea.

In addition to a leisurely walk in the morning, Larissa also took classes for pregnant women. There she learned a lot about pregnancy, as well as how to care for a newborn. In addition, she also performs pregnant exercises.

Various benefits that Larissa can get from taking this pregnant mother class. Moreover, he did not have to spend money to follow it.

In addition to the various benefits above, Larissa can also tell each other and share experiences with other pregnant women. So that he does not feel bored at home all day. Of course, she had obtained permission from her husband to take this class.

Larissa's pregnancy is now nine months old. Counting the days until the delivery period. Larissa is getting more active in light exercise. Even when he did not have time to walk casually in the morning, he did it in the afternoon accompanied by Hamzah.

Just like this afternoon. Larissa asked her husband to accompany her on a leisurely walk. Hamzah happily complied with his wife's wishes. He was also relaxed at the time.

They immediately stepped out of the house. The plan is they will take a leisurely walk in TPI (Fish auction place). In the afternoon like this, there is no longer used to auction fish. It is used as a place of relaxation for the residents. Moreover, there is a bridge called BOOM LOVE where the place is very cool.

In the middle of the road, as they passed in front of the coffee shop, there was a visitor who greeted Hamzah. "Hey, Hamzah, where are you going?."

Hamzah looked at the man who greeted him. "In company of the wife leisurely walk" he said.

"Beautiful is also your wife. Tukeran, yuk!" knock the other visitor in a joking tone.

"Nak!. This same experiment, will you?" hamzah replied while showing his fist. Of course with a joking tone as well.

Laughter came out of their lips. While Larissa only reviewed a thin smile in response to the chatter.

During this pregnancy, Larissa does look more beautiful even without makeup polish. Many say if the child they contain is female because of this.

Sometimes Hamzah gets upset about this, because from the beginning he really wanted a boy. He once expressed his frustration to Larissa. "Encus, don't use powder, so you don't look beautiful. I want him to have a son."

Larissa endured the laughter of seeing her husband's annoyance. "Entik, whether you use powder or not, if God has predestined the born of girls, what can we do?. Cook yes, we want to give back what God has given."

Hamzah was speechless to hear his wife's answer which had a point.

"Some, yes, want a boy or a girl, it's the same. Most importantly they were born safely and without any shortage of anything. Do you really want a boy but born disabled?."

Hamzah could not answer his wife's question. And since then, he no longer questioned the gender of their children later.

Larissa's daydreams crumpled as Hamzah patted her shoulders gently. "uh, yes, what's up?."

"We're on our way, yuk!" bring Hamzah.

""Come!" sahut Larissa's.

They also continued their leisurely walk. "They're who?" ask Larissa after a while of walking.

"Friends!" answer Hamzah briefly.

Larissa nodded her head and did not ask again. Choose to continue their leisurely path.