Back To The Present

Bia sighed after thinking back about the wedding that never happened. Then she looked at Alex and asked the stupid question as Alex called it.

"Alex, it's been six months, do you think he'll come back?", Alex couldn't answer her question.

"Sorry Alex, I'm asking the question that I've already knew the answer. I'm a little tired so.. nite nite Alex".

Alex walked closer to her, cover her with blanket and said, "Don't think to much, nite Bia".

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The Present Time, in Akira's House.

Bia couldn't sleep so she found her way to the kitchen. She was cooking one of Akira's favourite food, it's lasagna. Then she realised something that Akira has far too many favourite food or he just simply likes eating. In her dad's restaurant he said lasagna, spaghetti, paella, pizza and steak are his favourite and that covered almost all the menu in the restaurant. Many times he came to the school during the lunch breaks and brought some of his favourite sushi, tempura, okonomiyaki, yakitori, onogiri, fried rice, biriyani rice and many more. And for breakfast he said his favourites are dim sum, prawn mee, curry me, char kuey teow, thosai, chapati, paratha and everything that available for breakfast. And don't start mentioning about dinner because he loves that night market and he called it food paradise, he could eat 20 sticks of satay or 20 sticks of lok lok (skewered hot pot) as his appetizer and for the main course we'll walk to the thai restaurant opposite the market. You won't go hungry if you go out with Akira. She smiled and said "My man surely knows how to enjoy the food".

"Who's that man, honey? should I kill him?", Akira hugged Bia from behind and made her jumped.

"Stop doing that Akira, you startled me", Bia bit his hand playfully.

"Who else loves food more than anything in this world?", she just rolled her eyes.

"Now, let go of me. I need to clean up the mess I made here", she tried to push him but failed, he is so strong maybe he got all the strength from all those food, Bia thought.

"Don't move, let me hug you a little longer. It's a rare opportunity to have you here. Leave everything there, I'll do the cleaning up and I'm so happy to have you here and for the bonus, you even cooked my favourite lasagna, you and the lasagn smell delicious, hmmm".

"Perv", Bia said that but she know that Akira won't force her to do anything she doesn't want to do.

"And a handsome one, right?", he still hugging her, putting his chin on her head.

"Alex is enough to make me crazy because he is so vain, please not you too".

"Only with you I'm behaving like this honey".

"Really? And I saw you are so close with all the pretty doctors and nurses, hmm?", Bia turned around and said, "Enough hugging, now clean yourself up than we can eat", then she freed herself from him, made way to the kitchen sink and started cleaning the mess.

"Honey, I'm so happy that you are jealous"

"I'm not", she didn't want to face him.

"Yes, you are.. show me your face".

"Stop, shoo, shoo, I give you 15 minutes to get ready, Kim is waiting for me in the boutique and I'm hungry now".

"Yes, mam and wait for me, don't eat all the food.. what a beautiful day", Akira was whistling a happy and went to his room.

"Whatever.. beautiful day?", Bia looked out of the window and it was dark and gloomy outside, she could hear the thunder and saw the lightning in the sky.

It was 3pm, when Bia and Akira left the house. Once they reached in front of the boutique, Akira got out of the the car quickly and opened the door for Bia.

"Akira, I can open the door, you don't have to do this all the time".

"It's nothing.. Honey, I'll fetch you tonight so we can send Alex to the airport".

"Sure, bye", Bia have him a peck on his cheek.

"Honey, I'm your darling not your students so this is how you kiss", Akira grabbed her waist, pulled her closer and gave her the French kiss. Bia didn't expect this action so she tried to push him away but somehow she didn't hate it. 'How shameless am I' she thought.

"Hmm, Akiraaaa.. everyone is looking at us", she said it breathlessly and started pinching his stomach.

"Ouch, ouch, sorry honey.. I won't do it again, okay.. don't be mad at me, wait honey". Bia just left him standing on the road. Then se turned around and said, " Don't follow me".

"Okay, bye honey", he shouted so she could hear him.

"Love you, honey".

"Me too", Bia said that without even thinking because she's still mad at him. Akira smiled when he heard her answer. 'Well, she's not that mad after all' he thought.

This was the second time for Grant to witness the kissing scene between Bia and that guy, Grant didn't know Akira's name.

'You really moved on my little daisy and why can't I moved on just like you? For me, no one can replace you from my heart, if only you give me the chance to explain everything. Will you come back to me?' Grant said all of that in his heart. Grant was following Bia this past few days, the exact word was stalking not following.

He was not allowed to visit Bia in the hospital and he couldn't go into that guy's house and acted like they knew each other. So the last resort was stalking her. Waiting outside that guy's house for the whole day was the longest day in his life. Grant's imagination went wild beyond control. Many times Grant almost marched to Akira's house to take Bia out of that house and carried her on his shoulder the cave man way.

After the long wait in front of Akira's house, Grant was so happy when he saw Bia came out of the house. He saw her looking better compared to the other day. Then he continued to follow them, the happy couple didn't even realised that they were being followed.

But Grant was wrong because Akira knew that Grant was watching his house for many hours. Akira was also aware that Grant was following them. And Akira kissed Bia on purpose. "I'm not a saint, sorry Grant.. she's mine." Akira said while looking at Grant's car through his rear-view mirror.