Chapter 20

Freshia Ava's POV

Since childhood, I have never lacked love from my grandmother. She always tries to give the best and fulfills all my wishes. Financially, my grandmother was also a well-to-do person, although not to the point of being called an upper-class person. But what is certain is that my life has never been difficult.

However, all of that still couldn't fill the empty part of my heart because of the absence of a parent figure in my life. It wasn't a big problem for me and I never cared about it because my grandmother was always by my side and always distracted me when my feelings of sadness and loneliness came suddenly. But now that figure is gone and that is the hardest blow in the nineteen years I have lived in this world.

I am never alone because I always have friends around me. However, the empty part of my heart was also not fulfilled. Amara is the closest person to me and I consider her my own sibling, however, she still has her own family and life.

Simon is my closest male friend, but now I feel distant from him because I feel he betrayed me when he didn't tell me the truth about his life. His engagement was the beginning of the rift in our friendship and after that, I couldn't trust him anymore.

Martin, my closeness to him used to exceed my relationship with Simon. We were so close that other people thought our relationship was more than friends. But in reality, there was never a romantic relationship between us because we never expressed our feelings for each other.

Even so, we still enjoyed our closeness until finally, he had to go abroad after graduation to take care of his family business. However, when yesterday he reappeared in front of me, I felt that he was no longer the Martin I knew before. He was a different person and I felt unfamiliar with him.

When I felt lonely in my life, as well as the problems that had recently befallen me, I met a man. We are always brought together by fate through meetings that are accidental and never imagined. The more I got to know him, I started to feel a different feeling of comfort. The empty part in my heart before, slowly began to fill. I realized that now I was starting to hope for a romantic relationship with him. I like Eros.

That night I planned to shop for food ingredients to stock in the refrigerator. I just opened the door to my apartment unit and found Eros who had also just come out of his unit.

“Good evening, Freshia. Where are you going at this time of night?"

“I want to go to the supermarket to buy food supplies. Are you alone?”

“Incidentally, I also want to go to the supermarket to buy carrots for Freya. Then let's just go to the supermarket together."

"In that case, okay," I said happily.

We walked together to the supermarket which was located in the shop in the apartment lobby. Indeed, this supermarket is intended for residents who live in this apartment to make it easier for them to fulfill their daily needs. Therefore, it only took five minutes for my unit to reach the supermarket. When I got there I immediately pulled the trolley from its place and started walking around. It feels good to have someone beside me. As simple as shopping together and discussing the products to buy with Eros like this, is one thing that really makes me happy.

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Eros Robinson's POV

Coincidentally, when I was going out to buy my rabbit carrots, I saw Freshia who had just come out of her apartment unit. It turns out she was also going to the supermarket. Indeed, nature also approved our meeting. Without further ado, I immediately asked her to go with me and she accepted my invitation.

After almost twenty minutes of wandering around the supermarket with him, we decided to return to the floor of our apartment unit and I offered her again to have dinner together. She seemed to think for a moment before finally agreeing to my offer, but she said that she would cook tonight. It seems that I was wrong in giving her the rules to forbid her from bringing men into her apartment unit, which actually made things difficult for me because Freshia couldn't invite me into the unit of her own accord. But it doesn't matter as long as no other men come into the unit and I can still invite her to eat together in my unit.

After that, we immediately went into my apartment unit with me still carrying Freshia's purchases because she said so as not to waste time, I would arrange the purchases after returning from my unit. I just obeyed her.

I put the groceries in the kitchen and she told me to wait at the dining table. I obeyed again and sat quietly at the dining table. This was of course very beneficial for me because I could see her beautiful body moving here and there, looking busy preparing dinner. She said previously that the dish she mastered best was special chicken soup, a recipe from her late grandmother. I agreed, leaving the choice up to her because I would definitely enjoy whatever the woman I adore served her.

For some reason, seeing her busy in the kitchen of my apartment made my heart warm. It feels so good to have a special person always there with us. Cook together, tell each other what happened that day, and do whatever activities you can do together. Oh, it's so fun. Suddenly, the feeling of wanting to belong completely came back to me. I can't wait for that time to come. Without realizing it, my hands clenched into fists to channel the desires within me that were passionate but could not be fulfilled at this time.

Almost twenty minutes passed, and Freshia was seen carrying a large bowl containing chicken soup as the main dish for our dinner that day. After putting down the bowl, she returned to the kitchen area to get a plate of omelet that she had also made earlier. Then for the second time, she returned to the kitchen area and now brought two plates of rice that I had cooked in the rice cooker.

"Enjoy your meal." She said before we started our meal that night. I just smiled.

"How does my cooking taste, Eros?" She said again after I put my first spoon into my mouth.

I chewed my food for a while, swallowed it, and then answered her question. During that time, she seemed to be waiting for my answer by continuing to stare at me. Made me almost choke because I was embarrassed. Luckily I can still hold it in.

“It's delicious, it's delicious. Your grandmother's recipes are the best, Freshia.” I said which made her smile broadly. Then after that, there was no conversation between us until the food on our respective plates was finished.

“Thank you for such a delicious dinner, Freshia.”

“My pleasure, Eros. Just consider this a reply to your dinner yesterday. Even though I don't cook much."

"Your cooking actually warms my heart. This is the kind of comfort food you will always miss.”

Freshia's gaze at me after that turned sad. "Then I can cook this more often for you so that your longing can be relieved, Eros."

“Of course, I will look forward to it. Thank you, Freshia.”

Afterward, Freshia said that she was sleepy. I immediately took her to her apartment unit and brought her shopping. Arriving in front of the unit, I immediately went into the unit for a moment to put the shopping items in the kitchen area. Not long after that, I said goodbye to returning to my unit. With her eyes already looking withered, she still forced herself to take me to the front door of her apartment unit. That woman is really funny.