Stealing The Wife's First Kiss

"We start everything from the beginning, whether there is or there isn't a marriage contract. That was my fault. I should bear the risk. I hope we can help each other. Try to start things off in a better way". (Hendra)

Both froze long enough. The minute in the hour hand might've shifted more than 60 times.

Suddenly she let out her sorrow. The soft sobbing couldn't be stopped anymore.

_What is Aruna thinking about??_

Hendra wanted to get closer, looking for her face.

But she chose to hide. Softly pulling the shirt of the marriage contract husband, she immersed herself on Mahendra's chest.

She struggled to swallow her sad voice.

She was greeted warmly by the blue-eyed man who managed to get rid of a lot of selfishness because he fell in love.

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Love is a feeling that is bestowed by God to every human being. Something that is present and introduced to humans even before they are present in the world. Like a mother's love that goes deep into her fetus when they haven't met face to face yet.

And other sources of love, like love from each family member or love that comes from close friends, including love that changes its meaning to 'falling in love' when that feeling greets the opposite sex.

The blue-eyed man has been through a lot in life, until he's now 28 years old. But the life journey he's going through didn't give him a chance to find love. Warm family or close friend, he didn't have.

His first fall in love was with someone who gave birth to himself into the world. Unfortunately, this love incised such a heavy wound. Too heavy to turn into beautiful dreams at the end of the night. But when the eyes opened, the dream would burst into ugliness.

The wound couldn't be healed yet, but his nightmare was slowly disappearing in the presence of the sweet-smelling girl.

The scent of her breath greeted him all night long and her warm body melted the heart that was said to have been frozen for years.

He didn't believe that this was called 'falling in love'. His brain didn't accept it. In the end, the blue-eyed couldn't deny it anymore. Making crazy hypotheses, even reading journals beyond predictions.

At the end of his search to align the feel with the logic of the brain, he found agreement in scientific explanations that came from the journal of American Anthropologist, Helen Fisher, that described the obsession feeling of falling in love.

Fisher's explanation represented him who surprisingly became a stalker. How come? Fisher described the obsession in the mind when she was in love like someone stayed in the head.

The girl named Aruna stayed in his head ever since that kid dared to tell him to wait for more than 2 hours and he ended up under the tree in front of the lobby of the Tripusakan campus, Design department.

Her first annoying greeting was still clearly engraved : "I don't want to walk side by side! Slow down". This girl talked through handphone because she didn't want to have direct contact. Her round brown eyes and hair leaped into the air when Aruna's hand was grabbed by force. The first woman who dared to ignore the presence of the Angel Face. (Casual Style, Chapter 5)

In an experiment by Fisher, the feeling of romance that is being experienced causes brain activity that is rich in dopamine to spike.

(Dopamine : chemical compounds in the brain that play a role in conveying stimulation throughout the body)

Fisher mentioned, the fluctuation of that brain activity is the same as the feeling of happiness that comes after consuming cocaine.

And now the scent of the girl in his arms was really intoxicating. Hendra inhaled it deeply. Aruna's scent could affect his whole world. This man seemed to have smoked cocaine every time he was allowed to hug this tiny body at night.

No need for hot nights. Hugging and inhaling it was more than enough.

Like finding a treasure that was buried for a long time and then bringing it back. 22 years ago was the end of the feeling that he could no longer dream of. But with all the impossibilities about trauma being a weakness, he seemed to have had a miracle when this body adorned his nights.

In the Guardian report that he read, when someone began to fall in love, somehow we were so excited that it caused our hearts to beat fast, palms to sweat, and stomach to feel uncomfortable as if a butterfly tickled.

The CEO also felt the same way as the Guardian explained. His heart was beating fast without control.

Love is madness.

When someone fell in love, they might very well be inspired to do something out of the ordinary. This was at least believed and proven by the professor of psychiatry from the University of Pisa, Donatella Marazziti.

Yes, Hendra was consciously infatuated. After he understood these journals deeply, Aruna was driving him crazy. That was obvious because he'd experienced it.

Donatella Marazziti's research that he studied, no longer described the possessive behavior that other people had accused him of.

But it was more extreme, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Mahendra was so compulsively obsessed that his logic broke every time he faced Lesmana's daughter.

Including Marazziti's report that he studied, explained that the OCD group and someone who was in love had significantly lower levels of serotonin than the normal group.

And Hendra found that the level of serotonin in his blood was always lower for everything related to the woman named Aruna.

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The tiny body who was limp in sleep, now lifted and buried in the arms. The CEO's forehead approached several times, enjoying the face with eyes closed and the scent of alluring breath.

Before finally being embraced and then getting the most comfortable hug.

_Aruna is mine.. Even though her heart is running somewhere.. But she'll always be the most valuable addiction.. I'll make her mine forever_

***

"Good morning, Grandma..". Greetings from the personal secretary of the Wenceslas family's grandson surprised the middle-aged woman who was busy setting the dining table.

"Oh, Surya.. Let's eat first, you must not have had breakfast yet".

"Where's CEO Hendra, Grandma? He has an important schedule today. And I lost contact with him since yesterday". Surya was restless, observing the watch on his hand.

"I think he hasn't woken up yet?". Grandma answered while pulling Surya to sit at one of the dining table chairs.

"Sorry, there isn't much time.. May I enter CEO Hendra's room to wake him up??". Surya realized that this morning's meeting had been perfectly prepared by the client. Wenceslas's first client who was associated with the government after nearly four decades they didn't take this kind of cooperation.

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"Hen.. Hen.. Wake up". Mahendra's secretary disturbed his superior's leg so that he'd wake up immediately. He used a low voice to reduce the risk of waking up the woman who was being embraced by the CEO.

When Hendra's eyes opened, he smiled slyly asking to be beaten. He pointed two fingers towards Surya : 'see with your own eyes, the joy of being married'

Then this damn boss tightened his hug to the woman in his arms. Also approaching his little wife's loose hair to show off the scene of inhaling the sweet scent of Aruna's hair. 

"Damn". He muttered a curse. He scratched buck roses petals then threw it at the head of the ignorant superior swiftly.

Ignorant, why?! Because yesterday, in a short time, Surya as a single man was asked to prepare a birthday gift according to an article on Google: "please try to be as similar as possible. Don't protest too much. Do it as I want", with excessive self-confidence. He dared to threaten, too.

On the other side, Surya was rejected by many birthday service providers because it didn't fit their classification.

Even Magic Letter rejected it because it was too sudden and the property that was requested was hard to find in short time.

A stupid struggle to follow the words of the CEO who was smitten by love. Fortunately, this reliable secretary was able to get the number of buck roses collector from the cold town of the slopes of Mount Semeru, Batu, Malang.

The buck roses were flown straight from there. Unfortunately, after arriving, he didn't know how to arrange it.

The main house assistants were also confused. Until Surya had to muster the courage to ask Aruna's veiled-girl friend to take part.

That girl was very good at commanding. She commanded the main house assistants, including himself being victimized, to arrange buck roses in neat rows according to color: "Oppa, jedaelo hae" (Oppa, do it right) (Oppa: nickname for older man used by female in Korean)

"Dalpaeng-icheoleom neuliji masibsio" (Don't be slow like a snail). The girl named Dea once again used strange language when she was annoyed, either an insult or something?! It was certainly difficult to understand.

.The ignorant smile was still there and the owner didn't want to get up from the bed.

"Stop throwing flowers. My woman will wake up later". Slow mouth movements and threatening eyes. He deliberately didn't want to get up and showed off the scene of enjoying hugging his wife's body.