The Macau Love Story
13 (return to macau)

I, who was grabbing clothes for her from the closet, immediately scanned her appearance. One hand dried her wet hair, and the other closed the bathroom door.

Silently for a moment, I gathered up the courage to ask what was still stuck in my mind and heart.

"Mas, really love me?" askaku.

"I have answered that question many times, don't make me answer for Nayla's umpteenth time" he replied as he approached me.

My hand reflexively stretched out clothes to her and she accepted with eyes staring at me"

"The reason I love you still does not make sense to me" I said slowly, my eyes were fixed on the fingers of the Pandu mas moving buttoning shirts.

"Why doesn't it make sense?" I love you for no reason"

I shut up, putting together the right words for me to say.

"Why Nayla?" askanya repeated with her distinctive flat tone.

"Because,,"

My words were cut off by the words of the Pandu mas who suddenly interrupted.

"Because of our brief meeting?" so your ego says that it's impossible?"

My heart in there suddenly rippled. I forgot that he had strong instincts, he was also a man with a good mind reader. The proof, he could always guess what I was thinking, and what was inside my heart, even though I hadn't said it yet. One more, with that instinctual ability, he became a great gambler.

"Sometimes you'll know, without me telling you"

"Why?" askaku

"It's only been a few days that we've been living together that you already know what I'm like, don't you?"

"What do I know from you?"

"Ask your heart what you already know about me" he said, wearing socks.

"I know about Alvin and Sonya"

"Not that one" he made me frown.

"What?" ask me for wonder

"About my nature and attitude towards you, I'm sure you feel it"

Pandu's words are true, I know by itself the nature of him. He was caring, loving, gentle, and never violent.

"Long again" he said, making me a split second to highlight his neutrality.

"Mas sure I'd know the real reason why I chose to marry me and love me?"

Her body language that answered my question with a nod, made me even more confused.

"Then don't fuck another woman when we're apart"

After saying that, I immediately moved from before him, and I immediately felt my wrist held by him, then pulled until my body was attached to him, and I looked up to meet our net.

"Give me your trust" he said with an unmoved eye. "Your trust will not be in vain, I assure you"

Some of my brain remained focused on staring at him, and some digested what was said earlier.

"Alright, I give that confidence to you" I said trying to calm down "What consequences do I have to pay, if I can't keep the trust I've given?"

"My life" Mas Pandu's answer gave me goosebumps.

"You can take my life to change your faith" he continued, with a pair of eyeballs moving as if looking for something in my eyes that followed the movement of his black bead.

"I prepare breakfast" I said, cutting off our eye contact, then releasing his hand that was coiled around my waist.

Not ready for breakfast that I made, know-know mas Pandu already sitting in a dining chair complete with a backpack containing a laptop and notebook. The man was immediately busy with the phone in his left hand.

"Same mother Nuri hasn't woken up yet?" ask Mas Pandu as I arrange breakfast on the table.

"It's still six, even though waking up must also be busy helping mom clean up first"

"Well, it's only been two days here that you've known Nuri's habits, so don't keep asking me why I love you. One day you will know" he concluded and started eating breakfast.

"Why didn't you just tell me?" askaku while watching Pandu mas biting my toast.

"I want you to know for yourself"

Hearing the answer, I silently looked at Pandu mas, my lips reflexively pursed, then propped up my chin with one of the backs of my hands.

"Mas not angry I keep a taste in my childhood man?"

Mas Pandu smiled with my question, seconds later shook his head.

Strangely, he should have reacted angrily or jealously, upset probably, but he didn't.

"Mas not jealous?"

"Jealous" he said with eyes focused on food and then fed a fork containing pieces of sausage.

"Why is the reaction normal?"

"There's no point in being jealous, angry, let alone glaring at you?"

her answer led me to smile, but I held her back as much as I could.

After finishing breakfast, mas Pandu drank tea, and grabbed a tissue and rubbed it in his mouth.

"The question and answer will continue next time!"

I nodded before then saying "I'm taking it all the way down?"

Before actually getting out of the dining room, Mas Pandu hugged me and then kissed the tip of my head.

"Thank you for breakfast"

"Sama-sama" I replied in response to a kiss on my cheek.

"And dessert~nya"

"Dessert?" my forehead frowned

Instead of answering, mas Pandu back to kiss the other cheek.

"Let's be fair" he said in the eyes.

This time I got it, the dessert he meant.

"I'm sure you want to go down" he asked while wearing shoes.

"Yes"

Mas Pandu took my hand out of the unit. While waiting for the elevator door to open, he kept looking at me with his hands out of the link that locked my fingers. Got his ignorant gaze, I felt like I wanted to run away from the face of mas Pandu.

"Be careful" I said.

"Titip mom, if there is anything, just call me" said Pandu, his hand outstretched, rubbed the top of my head, then turned to the cheek.

My head nodded before I kissed the back of his hand, and Pandu got into the taxi he ordered.

Why is it so hard to part with him. That's the whisper of a heart that keeps ringing in my ear.