Just like the previous posts, I have a hunch that I'll be facepalming myself when I read this post once again in the future lmao. My fangirling is rather chronic. :(
So without further ado
Vanila Coklat
Short Short #1
No words could describe the feelings felt by Amir the moment his fingers intertwined with Zara's. Her small hand fit his perfectly and the warmth felt from her touch travelled through his veins and reached his heart. He gave her an attentive look as she excitedly told him how amazingly beautiful the flowers in the garden were. He nodded in agreement, but silently told himself that for him, she's far more beautiful than the millions bulbs of flowers that were surrounding them in Keukenhof Garden at the moment. With his source of happiness by his side in this small town of Lisse, he smiled as if he was the happiest man on earth. Well perhaps he was.
He waited with a smile as she carefully opened the picnic basket as they sat under a shady tree after a long walk around the garden. She handed him a small box of sandwiches happily. He took a look at the cute, unevenly cut sandwiches prepared by Zara the rookie cook and almost broke into a laughter but suppressed it hard enough, afraid of offending her. He found it cute that although she was yet to master the skills of cooking, she would not let that to hinder her from trying to serve the best she could. She made him love her even more.
"Thank you." He reached for her hand, squeezed it tight and planted a kiss on her forehead, surprising her. She laughed lightly albeit a bit puzzled over his act. She just brushed it off with a smile and placed her head on his shoulder and she was able to smell the perfume he had on.
He took a bite of the sandwich and complimented his wife's cooking skill with exaggeration, the same way he often see his Daddy did to his Mummy. Lucky Zara didn't fall for such a trap and warned him through a light pinch on his cheek that resulted in giggles between the two afterwards.
"I have no idea why I'm suddenly curious as to who your first love was."
Amir almost choked on the food upon hearing such a random statement of curiosity by Zara. It was weird but he was suddenly blushing, and nervous.
"I... can't remember" He stuttered. He had to let out a chuckle to put a disguise on his nervousness. Zara took it as one of the teasing she often received by Amir the menace, and pretended to be sulking. She even pushed him lightly and moved inches away. He had his mischievous smile on and pulled her closer, and parked his chin onto her shoulder. Now it was his turn to breathe in her perfume.
"Sayang..."
She decided to stretch her 'fake the sulk' game to be longer so she chose not to answer him.
"I don't think it's that important to reveal who my first love was because it was all in the past. What matters now is the present, and the future. Have my words, Zara, for you are my love now and until the very end. Do you want to know how much I love you? I want you to count the raindrops that have fallen from the sky so that you'll know how much my love for you is."
Zara couldn't hold it any longer and burst into fits of laughter.
"Ya Allah, how cheesy can you get, Mr. Playboy Wannabe? Please, save the cheesiness for the sandwiches. You must be crazy for wanting me to do an impossible thing that is counting the raindrops. Go and count them yourself."
"You're killing the romantic mood, Zara." Amir pouted briefly and Zara playfully pushed his face away from hers.
"...and consider yourself lucky because of your kind of reasonable justification on the present and future thing, I've decided not to probe into the matter further."
Amir let out a relieved laugh and after a few seconds, he made his way to lie down on the mat with the back of his head rested on Zara's lap.
"A five minutes nap, please"
Zara nodded as a signal allowing him to do so while playfully touching the tips of his hair. She traced the temporary creases on his forehead with her finger and watched him closed his eyes slowly with a smile on his face. It was probably then she perfectly understood the true meaning of bliss.
Amir was slowly drifting into a brief slumber but didn't take off that smile on his face. Zara 's curiosity earlier caught him off-guard and truth was, it was not that he didn't remember. In fact, he can perfectly remember who she was. It was just that he didn't feel like revealing that to Zara just yet. Amir was slowly pulled into a dream full of memories between him and his first love. Flashes from the past visited his slumber with the details of her face, her voice, her haircut and even the nickname that he gave her back then, the one she loathed so much:
"Ecah!"
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