You're My Antidote
Behind A Surprise

Two days before his birthday, the King was really stressed. The pile of work that he could not ignore made him unable to think how to celebrate his wife's birthday effectively.

There was not much time left for him to prepare something impractical. Even the idea does not exist.

"What do you think I should do?" asked the King to look.

"Yes, Sir?" Moses, who had been looking at the file across his desk, looked up and looked at him in confusion.

"Friday will be." added the King who did not give any clarity to Moses who did not know what happened on Friday. "My wife re-knows. So what should I do." explained the King with a stir.

"Oh." sighed Moses who next seemed to think. "Romantic dinner maybe, sir."

"Too ordinary. I even have a romantic dinner with him every night." snorted the King. For him to have dinner together by sharing complaints and giving each other support is quite romantic. What's more every dinner, he always serves it himself. Starting from buying ingredients, cooking to serving them beautifully.

Yep.. Although it does not have candles and flowers.

"Why is your expression like that!" rebuke the King on the flat face of Moses which this time equipped with a thin smile. "You're mocking me!"

"No Sir. How could I dare." Moses looked down inside.

The king clucked at the attitude of his assistant. Previously they rarely worked face-to-face like today. And the new King felt that Moses was quite annoying. "Think what I should do! don't go home until you get the idea. And call the driver to take my wife home."

"Good, sir."

Moses left his room. The king also rose to drive his wife to the car. Because again today he can't go home in time. He still has a meeting with an overseas brand that will advertise in his company at dinner time later.

"Let's go baby." take the King so near the wife's table. Rani has also cleaned up her belongings including provisions for dinner that the King cooked an hour ago.

"Mas is just a meeting, right? not working in the office?"

"No." said the King. "Finished the meeting later I went straight home. Let me take the work home as usual."

"Don't forget to take the vitamins! do not let the process of rising to office actually make mas sick." a message from the wife that is always the same in recent months.

"Yes Iaaang" he said pulling his wife's waist fat. Sprinkle a kiss on the top of the head. Forgot if they were still in the office and watched Dini whose smiles blushed by herself.

"Such sweet Mr. King" said Dini when the King cleared his throat when aware of the position and returned his wife. "But please appreciate my being single dong, sir. It makes me envious."

The king did not respond and just glanced and asked about something else. "Why haven't you come home yet?" the tone is back flat. But somehow his assistant returned his own smile.

"Duh dad. I'm not good with Mom if you pay attention to it."

The king was astonished by Dini who started to dare tease him. Because he knew, Dini was not serious about what was said to him.

While Rani was already laughing loudly seeing her husband in the subordinate seductive. Lucky darling.

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"Where? did you get an idea?" ask the king on his way home after the meeting. Moses was in charge of driving him home because his driver stayed at home to be ready if his wife was going to leave.

"Aren't flowers too common?" ask the King to disagree. Many people use many such methods.

"But you can make that ordinary thing amazingly memorable." denied Moses is still focused on the wheel.

"Continue!" pinta Raja is starting to look interested.

Then Moses suggests distributing the people in the office one rose stalk which is then handed to Rani one after another when Rani comes to the office.

"It just so happens that you have a breakfast schedule with the Minister. So you and Mom can go separate ways."

Finally the burden felt lifted. At least one problem is solved. But maybe he will revise Moses' idea so that it can be more memorable.

The next day, accompanied by Moses, the king had to go home almost two in the morning to prepare for any surprise. Contact florist to order the freshest red roses. Emphasize a few things so that they do not mistakenly wrap the flowers into a beautiful bouquet. It was rather Moses who was busy preparing everything and the King just sat down and made sure everything was in order. There would be no mistake that would make his plan fail.

The invitation to breakfast was the King did not attend and only Om Rafi came. The king prepared himself. Because the surprise he prepared was the first time he did it in a lifetime. Making his heart beat uncontrollably even though he tried to divert by asking his right as a husband to his wife until almost dawn. In fact, the feeling came back when he stepped foot in the office lobby.

"It's all ready, isn't it, Sa?"

"Already, sir."

"The lunch?"

"Beres sir. The special car you ordered is already in the basemant."

"Thank's, Sa." The king patted Moses on the shoulder sincerely. Thank you for Moses' efforts to help him with everything.

Minutes by minutes the King was nervous. Many times he saw the clock on the circular watch in his left hand. Waiting for his wife to arrive at the office.

Her nervousness exceeded when she came to propose to Rani. But no more nervous than when he uttered the kabul ijab that united him and his wife in the sacred bond of marriage. Legal in religion and state.

"Mother has arrived at the loby sir. I'm going to the elevator now." reported Moses who he replied with a nod. Moses also became part of the man who would give the flowers he had prepared for his wife.

"Bu Rani would have liked it, sir. So you don't have to worry." Dini encouraged him sincerely. No more teasing expressions like a few days ago. Maybe because he knew he was nervous to death.

Each moving clock hand brought a stronger thump to his heart. Every moment that felt so long.

In front of him, the monitor screen where Rani used to work, now broadcast CCTV footage that an hour ago Moses setting there. Helping the King to monitor where his wife is. How the woman's expression each received flowers and read the message she slipped among the beautiful flowers.

Haru, happy. That's what the King saw from the image that is not so clear because of the angle taken from above.

When Rani gets out of the elevator and receives flowers from Lura, the King gets nervous. So also with the next flowers until the last flower of the Early that makes the King stand from hiding and welcome the wife with a big smile. Complete with the largest bouquet in his hand that he immediately placed on the table once Rani ran towards him which the King immediately caught and hugged tightly.

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