
4 months later......
Today Beverly is 5 months old.
"Drink!" Henry gave Beverly a glass of pregnant milk.
"Thank you, Henry. Ever since I was pregnant you served me. You cook every day" Beverly felt guilty.
"It's okay, Bev. I'm your husband, it's appropriate that we help each other in this household" Henry watched Beverly drink her milk.
"Bev, what if you just quit your job?" Henry's Pinta to Beverly.
"can't. I love my job" Beverly refused, handing the milk cup to Henry.
"Then, later if our child is born, what about the milk? You want to suck it in with the neighbors?" Henry grumbling.
"It can be pumped, then put into the pacifier" Beverly gave the idea.
"Bev, that's not a good idea! You work from morning until afternoon. What about our children who need milk? The longest office gives you 3 months of maternity leave. I need you to stop working" Henry asked.
"No, I don't want to quit my job" Beverly refused.
"You're so stubborn, Bev!" Henry let out a rough sigh, then he stood up to his room.
"Henry!!" Call Beverly who's still sitting at the dinner table.
Almost every day, Henry always persuaded him to stop working. However, Beverly always refused because she reasoned to love her work.
"I'm confused!!" Beverly touched his head. Soon he decided to follow Henry into the room.
"Henry?" Beverly went into the room and sat down next to Henry. Henry did not answer his call.
"Henry, do you want me to quit my job?" Beverly asked, again Henry did not answer.
"All right, I'm gonna stop working. Provided-"
"As long as what?" Ask Henry quickly.
"As long as you want to pick strawberries in our neighbor's yard!"
"Geez, Bev! But all right," Henry agreed.
*****
Today Jasper is 4 months and 2 weeks old. He can also spell the word ma-ma.
"Pronounce again, baby!" Pinta Alula to her son.
"Tell me this, pa-pa!" Kai's orders to Jasper. Jasper only looked at his father and did not mention the word pa-pa.
"He doesn't want to!" Alula cried to her husband.
"Look! She'll be talking pa-pa!"
While Alula was still watching her son's body, her phone rang.
"Yes, hello Bev?" Alula replied as she looked at Beverly's name on her phone.
"Al, let's stay at Chelsea today! We have to spend Quality Time before Chelsea gets married" Beverly said.
"Geev, Bev. I asked Kai for permission first, right? I'll call again" replied Alula.
"All right, take Jasper? Anyway we only stayed 4! Don't take Kai!" Beverly's orders to Alula.
"Alright Bev."
"Yes already then, bye Alula!" Beverly disconnected the phone.
"What's wrong?" Kai asked when Alula had kept her phone on the nightstand.
"Emmm... Kai? I'd like to ask permission to stay at Chelsea's with Beverly. Can I?" Ask Alula carefully.
"Honey, there are no parents at home?"
"none. Yesterday Chelsea said her parents were going to the United States to invite their brothers who were there. So, can it? I'll bring Jasper!" Alula asked for permission.
Kai did not seem to answer.
"Dear, I beg you! Just one day, after all it was at Chelsea's house and safe," Alula persuaded back.
"Can I come?" Please Kai. He really did not want to part a day with Alula and her son.
"No. It's just for the three uh the four with Jasper," Alula replied quickly.
Kai looks back. He looked at his wife's hopeful face.
"alright. As long as it's early tomorrow when I pick you up, you should go home!" Answer Kai back.
"Thank you, baby," Alula hugged her husband.
"Well, I'll get ready!" Alula immediately took the bag. He included all the equipment Jasper felt would be needed there.
"Darling, don't be naughty in there?" Kai held onto Jasper and kissed his entire face. He really did not want to part with his son.
"Kai, just one night!"
"Yes, honey. Still, tonight I'm gonna be lonely."
"Take Alden and Nino to stay here?" Alula Pinta.
"Alright, I'll tell them to come here."
"Don't drink wine!" Alula warned.
"Yes, honey. Even thinking about it I didn't," Kai kissed Alula's forehead gently.
"Then, let's get me and Jasper! It's late in the afternoon" Alula pinta told Kai.
Kai immediately took the bag containing the needs of his wife and child there. They walk to the family room to say goodbye, because Kai and Alula still live in William's house. They asked them to stay there until Jasper was 7 months old.
"Mom, Dad? Alula and Jasper are going to stay at Chelsea. Soon Chelsea got married," Alula said goodbye to William and Sofia who were watching TV in the living room.
"Darling, can Jasper not be taken? Mommy's going to take care of her tonight" Sofia said.
"Alula will bring Jasper, Mom. She was still nursing," Alula replied gently.
"Daddy's grandson, come here baby!" William took Jasper from Alula's hand.
"Jasper don't take it, Al? Daddy couldn't part with this puffed up child," William smirked his granddaughter's round cheeks.
"Mom, Dad? Just leave it, right? Just one today," Kai asked.
William and Sofia exhaled slowly. As if not willing to part a day with his granddaughter.
"All right, then. Just so you have to really take care of Jasper huh Al? Don't leave him alone in there!"
"Yes, Mom," Alula smiled, finally her mother and father-in-law allowed Alula and Jasper to stay at Chelsea's house.
After getting permission, Kai immediately drove Alula and Jasper to Chelsea's house.
"Darling, just don't be too busy chatting! Don't let Jasper out of your eyes!" Kai advised his wife.
"Yes, honey. Just calm down!"
A few minutes later, they finally reached the grounds of the Chelsea house. Alula sees Beverly and Henry driving in front of their car.
"Bev?" Call Alula while holding Jasper. Kai followed her from behind.
"The son of aunty's beloved bully!" Beverly immediately took Jasper from Alula's lap and kissed her face.
"This is the same uncle Henry!" Henry took Jasper out of his wife's hand.
"Al, why is she so adorable! I want to bite his cheek!" Henry said as he stroked Jasper's cheek.
"Don't get bitten by my brother!" Pinta Kai to Henry.
"Bev, Al? You guys arrived?" Say hello to Chelsea who just came out from inside his house.
"Jasper baby!" Chelsea took Jasper's hand from Henry. Everyone seemed to be very anxious with the puffed-up baby.
"Let's go in!" Take Chelsea.
"Darling, then I'm home!" Kai said to Alula.
"Be careful on the road, baby? Don't speed!" Pinta Alula to her husband.
"Yes, honey. I want to carry Jasper first," Kai took Jasper from Chelsea.
"Darling, papa will miss you. Don't be naughty, honey?" Kai kissed Jasper like he was going to be apart for a very long time with his son.
"Darling, tomorrow we meet again!" Alula reminded.
"alright. Jasper, you with mama? Don't misbehave! Papa's home! Chel, Bev, my brother come home first!" Kai said goodbye to the others.
"I'm going home, too" replied Henry. Then he said goodbye to Beverly and the others.
Kai approached Alula and kissed her hair.
"The wind is still the same, as it used to be when he was a girl," Kai muttered.
Then Kai and Henry got into their cars. Kai looked at Alula and Jasper from his glass. Alula moves Jasper's hand as a wave to her father.
*****
Upon arriving home, Kai invites Alden and Nino to sleep in his house. However, Nino suddenly could not be contacted.
"Kai, where do you think Nino is going? He's not usually like this. Last afternoon I was still in touch" Alden asked Kai. Now they are both sitting on the edge of the pool behind Kai's house.
"Oh, I'm surprised too" Kai gulped down the mineral water he had in his hand.
"That's one piece!" Kai complains as he remembers his wife and child.
"Calm Kai! It's only been a day, isn't it before you got married to Alula that you're used to without her?" Alden gulped down the coca-c*la he had in his hand.
"Yes, but that was before. Now I'm used to being with Alula. It felt like half my soul was gone," Kai held onto his chest.
"Oh yes. You know that already? Arabella sentenced to 8 years in prison?" Alden looked at Kai's face.
"Yes, I know."
"You feel sorry for him?"
"Of course not. He deserves to get that. He's already harmed Daddy and slandered my wife," Kai spun back his old memory.
"Yes. He's too much."
Before long, Alden's phone rang.
"Yes, hello? Whahuh? Nino's drunk and rampaging at the club?" Alden yelling.
"alright. I'll be there soon!" Alden closed the call.
"What's wrong?" Ask Kai.
"Says Nino's rampaging at the club. Let's go over there!" Take Alden to Kai.
"Come on!" Kai stood up and followed Alden from behind.
"Let me drive" Kai told Alden.
They direct their car to the biggest nightclub in Birmingham.
"No, what the fuck are you?" Alden asked as he found Nino lying on her back in the Bar's chair.
"Come on Kai, let's take him home!" Alden wakes Nino up, and Kai breaks him into the car.
They put Nino in the passenger seat.
"Why can he get drunk like that?" Ask Kai to Alden.
"I really don't believe in love. Love is just nonsense!" Nino was raving in the back.
"What's wrong with that kid?" Kai asked as he glanced at Nino from the rearview mirror.
"You remember Odelia?" Alden looked at Kai.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"She's getting married" Alden replied later.
"Has a matter of fact" Kai knows that even though Nino changes women often but his love is only for Odelia, his first love as well as the woman who hurt him.
"Women deserve to be hurt by Kai! All alike! I can't believe love exists" Racau Nino returns.
"No. Alulaku is different," Kai murmured as he continued to drive. While Alden, occasionally turned to Nino who closed his eyes behind. The smell of alcohol was so bad in the car.
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