Contract Marriage

Chapter Twelve: The stain

It is just a day after the party of Tio’s company anniversary. No, Vita hasn’t been out of the house. Not because Tio forbid her to, it’s just she had a cramp, a very bad one. She didn’t know what to do. She have nothing in the house. Not prepared, no supplies. And Tio is off to work since the morning. She will not expecting him at this lunch time at home. He never come home for lunch, he spend so much time in his office.

Vita refused to get out of the room. All she did was layed down on the bed for hours. A maid came to offer her breakfast, but she refused. Then the maid came back to asked her what she wanted and they will make it for her. But again, she refused. That got every maids to worry about her. But Vita make one request, just not to tell Tio anything.

She lays in bed, wrapped in soft blanket. The heat temperature is setting to her desire. But somehow, it gets her to sleep.

And when she wakes up feeling thirsty, she get out of the bed, despite her stomach cramped. She walk down the stair and to the kitchen where every maid doing their jobs. Even when they have nothing to do, they still do something.

There is four maids in the kitchen. Seeing their Ma’am come to the kitchen, they stopped whatever they are doing.

“Ma’am, do you need anything?” One of them asked Vita.     

“Can I get a glass of water, please? And warm.” Vita bite her bottom lip nervously, looking at her.

“Absolutely, Ma’am. You can sit down while I get the water for you.” She said, gesturing to the seat. Vita, who haven’t learn all of their names, just take a safe action and sit down on the seat. She put her right hand on top of the table and the left is on her stomach. She didn’t really do it openly.

The maid come back over not even a minute later with a tray on her hands and the glass in it. She put the down the glass in front of Vita.

“Thank you. Hmm.... Can I take this to the room?” Vita motioned to the glass in her hand. She don’t know why she is being awkward, but she just haven’t really talk to them since she got here. And it was over two months ago.

“Absolutely, Ma’am.”                

Vita unknowingly nod her head, get up from the chair and make her way back to the room where she sulk in there for hours.

The not so dark room, where she just had opened the blind curtain and left the lace curtain, because she doesn’t want a bright room at this moment.

She make her way to the bed and sit down. She gulp down the warm water slowly, after that she put the glass on the nightstand on her side. She sleep not on the window side, she just never like it and Tio, like a good husband he is, he give her that privilege.

Then suddenly, her stomach feels like someone is messing it up in the inside. This is probably the worse period she ever had after the first one she got it.

She hurriedly go to the bathroom, locking the door after she walked in. Then she sit on the closed toilet bowl. She doesn’t want to piss or poop, she just feels hurt in the stomach. She sit there, holding on to her stomach, silently begging for it to stop.

After a couple of minutes, doing nothing in the bathroom, she decided to go out. She walks slowly to the wall beside the door of their bedroom. She don’t know why, she just feels like wanting to sit anywhere she can spot on.

She just settled on the floor when the door barged open harshly. She look up at the same time Tio look down. He give her a weird look, still holding the door handle.

“What are you doing down there?” Tio asked, stilled. One of his eyebrows lift up, still trying to figure it out what the hell is she doing on the floor. Is she tired of sleeping on the bed? He wants to ask that directly to her, but decided against it.

“Nothing?” She answered, but it come out unsure like a question.

“Get up.” He demanded.

“I can’t.” She shakes her head. Tio grow confused even more. He didn’t like seeing her sitting on the ground for no reason. He have all the furniture to be use, not to be left out.

He bend down, his hand left the door handle and reach Vita. He wrap his hand around her and bring her up.

“Ah.” Tio stopped when he hears her. Something is definitely wrong with her. He hold himself to ask her and brought her to the bed.

“What’s wrong?” He asked again. His eyes looking at hers directly and in a kind of nice way.

“I’m on my period. Why are you back? Do you need anything?” She answered, but followed by questions. She fires him with questions so she could hide her shyness. She felt embarrassed talking about period to him, even though he is her husband.

He fortunately caught what she said. Now he understand why she is being so weird. He didn’t questioned her any further and just let it go.

“I am going to change my suit. I have a meeting with a new client. Can you get me the suit?” He asked, but then he remember her condition. “Honestly, I’m just going to get it myself.” Without waiting, he walked to the walk-in closet.

Tio is gone after changing. Which make her blushed until now is that Tio gave her a kiss on the head before he had to head out again.

She had nothing to do, so she decided to clean up a bit. She clean up the room area, then she go to the walk-in closet. She have guessed that Tio will leave the suit just like that on the square seat in the middle of the walk-in closet.

Walking closer to the seat, she take the clothing piece by piece, putting them on her arm. The suit jacket, the pants and the last piece is the white shirt. But the shirt got her attention, she held the shirt open, looking from side to side and there, she found a stain of pink lipstick. She is sure that it was a lipstick even though it didn’t looked like a lip.

Suddenly she felt her heart being squeezed. It’s squeezing the hell out of her. She couldn’t breathe, she feel like it’s hard to breathe. The happiness she felt just a while ago is gone, until it replaced with sadness. She can feel her eyes getting watered, but she didn’t let it fall down. She gathered all the clothes and put them in the dirty bin.

After she is done cleaning the room, she walked back to the bed. She couldn’t get rid of the heavy feeling in her heart, unless it just getting heavier.

She curled up on the bed with a blanket. The first tear finally fall down after trying so hard not to. She just couldn’t help it to think he was with a woman before coming home.

Please, don’t let it be what she thought it is.

Before the tears getting dry, she drifted to sleep. Her mind get put down deep to sleep and her body adjust.

She believe she fall asleep for hours, she couldn’t remember the time she was drifted to sleep. But when she open her eyes, she felt something wrapped around her waist. Gaining her conscious, she looked down to her stomach. It’s an arms, but to whom do they belong? She started to panicked.

She stop moving, feeling breathing air hit the back of her neck. She slowly turn her head around. “Tio.”

“Hmm.” He hummed, letting out a breath through his nose. His eyes is still closed, his eyes just felt heavy for him to wake up. He was exhausted after the meeting and throw himself to bed right away. So basically, he still have his suit on besides the jacket.