Chapter 8.1 (2/2)
”Eh, then kiss me now on the cheeks. We're friends, right?”
She glared at him and frowned. ”Are you fooling me, Husband?”
”Of course, no,” defended Johann. ”Come on, Wife. Kiss me now. So I can leave.”
To end it all, she kissed him on the cheek. He said it's just a friendly kiss. Fine. After kissing him on the cheek, she went back to eating. Although she was caught unprepared and startled when he kissed her back on the cheek too.
”Take care later on yours and your cousins’ escapade. Bye-bye!” he said while leaving. She heard the car's engine and his departure.
She found herself touching the cheek that Johann had kissed. She wiped it off since there are some saliva left.
Yuck!
Then, she remembered their accidental kiss which she should have forgotten.
She grimaced. Double yuck! Why did she suddenly remember that?
Sapphire can only shake her head and finish her food. She cleaned the table after that. She also washed the dishes although she was not supposed to do that. Ugh, her husband had gotten away with it! To be fair, she would make him wash the dishes in the evening.
After some time pa.s.sed, she took a bath and fixed herself. Her cousin Lavender will fetch her so that the two of them can go together at the spa. Since she has no car for herself here because Johann's house has no parking s.p.a.ce, and since she doesn't like riding taxis, she made her cousin fetch her.
By nine AM, her cousin came for her.
“The house of the two of you is so cute. Simple and small but I can sense the homey feeling,” the other girl commented while driving.
”Yeah. His bungalow was somehow okay. Only if he didn't make me clean the toilet room,” she still complained about that.
Lavender laughed. ”Is it true? About the text where you said that Johann taught you ch.o.r.es?”
”h.e.l.l, yeah! The first week of our marriage was him teaching me to do the house ch.o.r.es! Can you believe it?”
”Well, it's about time that you learn doing those ch.o.r.es, Saphi. Among us cousins, only you don't know how to move inside the house. You have been spoiled too much by Grandma.”
She pouted. ”That's not my fault.” It's not her fault that her Mom was so busy to fall in love and didn't have time to teach her those things. On the other hand, her cousins are rich and social like her, they have been taught how to keep a house clean. Her Aunts were the one who taught her cousins when they were still teens.
Sometimes, she envies them for they have mothers who can teach them things like those. She also wanted to learn before but she wanted her Mom to do the teaching. Until she reached her current age, she never expected that her husband will be the one to do that.
Haley and Crystal have already been waiting for them at the expensive-looking spa when they arrived there.
”So, how's the new wife?” Haley greeted to her.
She shrugged. ”Just fine.” She kissed her youngest cousin on the cheek as greeting. ”Fortunately, you invited me to spa! I badly need this for all the ch.o.r.es that Johann made me do!”
Crystal Jane laughed. ”As if you have been slaved around by your husband.”
”Well, I feel like it.”
The ma.s.seu started to accommodate them.
”How about Johann? How is he being a husband?” Haley asked again.
”Cheeky. He always convinced me to do house ch.o.r.es. He won't let me turn on the aircon in the afternoon. Always topless!”
Her cousins giggled.
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TN:
beso-beso – act of lightly kissing the cheek as greetings
pandesal – Spanish for salt bread, Filipinos most common breakfast.
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