11 Propose

Next day, I wake up a little bit late. Well, there's nothing much to do anyway. When the restaurant business is still prosperous, usually I'm going to the market early in the morning to get the freshest ingredient. But now, if I even get one customer it would be a great day for me.

Lazily I wake up from the bed and stretch my back. Feeling how the hair start grows on my chin makes me goes to the bathroom to bath and shave. When I open the bathroom door, the view inside the bathroom make me stunned and standing in front of the bathroom door without doing anything like my feet were nailed in the floor. Its Ming Er that currently using the bathroom and not locking the door. Although she's pregnant, her naked body still shows a smooth and flat belly besides round butt and protruding chest. Surprisingly when she saw me standing in front of the door, she didn't angry or screaming. With a low and gentle voice, she's saying,

"Ben Ben, can you close the door?"

While covers her private areas with her hands.

Her voice awakened me, which hurriedly close the door. Damn! I forget that I now live with someone else here. What should I do if she decides to leave this restaurant because thinking I'm a pervert? With mixed up feeling and confused mind, I go to downstairs to calm myself. When I arrived in downstairs, I'm stunned again, where's the rundown restaurant yesterday? It's now clean and tidy. The table also free from dust. The spider web is no longer seen in corner and roof. The chair and table arranged in an orderly manner. The dirty curtains and tablecloth also already put down and removed. Did she do all this cleaning?

While waiting for her finish her bath, I decided to make breakfast for us. It's the same porridge, like what I made last night because I still don't have any ingredient. I'm finished making the breakfast when Ming Er walking down from upstairs. She looks calm and composed and no sign of angry at all while greeting me

"Good morning! Mmm…smells good. Can I get some?"

"Good morning. Sure, here's your bowl"

I handed her a bowl of porridge, she sat at the counter and start scooping the porridge.

"Mmm, although I already eat this last night, it's still good"

"Ming Er…..are you not angry?"

"Me? Angry for what?"

"That bathroom….."

"Oh, it's okay, that's an accident. I know you didn't do that intentionally. Besides, I should lock the door…but the lock is broken"

"Sorry…I'll fix that right away"

"Ben Ben, if you can't fix that, it's alright, I just stick a paper written 'occupied' in the door"

"Since I'm living alone, when the lock is broken, I've not repaired it. But now, you here, it's must be fixed"

"Um, but if you can't fix it don't push yourself to fix it. Can I have more? Since I'm pregnant I'm getting like with something sour lately"

She shows me her empty bowl again. I smile and give her second serving.

"Ming Er….are you really sever your ties with your parents?"

"Ben Ben, are you trying to send me back to my parents' home?"

"No, that's not what I mean. But you know, sometimes in anger people said something that they will regret later"

She sighed before answering,

"I also don't want to sever ties with my parent. But before they cast me away they said don't ever come back if you do not bring the man who impregnates you as your husband. That's impossible, right? I can ask a man to pretend to become my husband to my parent, but I don't want to lie to my parent. Maybe I'm just destined to live as a single parent"

"What if there's a man who wants to marry you without a need to pretend as your husband?"

"Nah, that's impossible. No man wants to marry a girl that already carrying someone else seeds in her womb. Isn't that equal to wearing a green hat for that man?"

"Hmm, what if that man doesn't mind with whatever happens to you in the past, willing to accept whoever you are, don't care if you already pregnant with someone else, and will love that child, like his own child?"

"Oh, I would like to meet that man. But that also like searching a needle in the haystack. The chance to meet that kind of man maybe one per million or even billion"

"What if you don't have to search that man?"

"Mmm? What's that mean?"

"That man is already in front of you. Ming Er, will you marry me?"