My High Maintenance Potential Husband
He stumbles, he stutters, he wails, and he falls down on his own. This guy, Thodius, is such a handful.
He's a poet and a singer. But despite being a rapper, his voice is more blurred than blurred lines. Husky and unclear voice is all that he spits out. Which I peculiarly think is one of him charms.
Also, as mighty as he might look, he doesn't have a very good stance, in other words, he doesn't have balance in his body, in which reason he stumble or fall down most of the time.
We'd eat together, and he whines and asks me to feed him, with smudges on his mouth, I'm obligated to wipe off his face. We'd do chores together, and he'd sit down the whole time after messing up even worse for all I can remember. We'd hang out, and he'd lose various belongings which I end up looking for for his sake.
When he showers, he'd ask for soap, shampoo, lotion and all. After he bathe, he'd ask for the towel. When he shave, he'd ask for the shaving cream. He walks out of the bathroom while rubbing his hair carelessly with water drops flying all over the place, in which I clean after him. He'd walk in his room and ask for his clothes with a smile on his face. Sits in front of the mirror and asks me to fix his hair for him. Then, when he leaves, he always forgets to carry his umbrella, that I had to always remind him.
Hmmmm, now, at this point, people will be asking what our relationship is, or even made up their minds on us being a married couple. Actually no, Thodius is my boyfriend for seven years now, and my mom forced me out of the house three years after we became a couple and told me to live on my own and not come back unless I show her a grandchild. Talk about moody.
Since then, though, I've been spending my days staying at Thodius' apartment. I guess my mom wants to send me off and marry. Since I'm already 34 and only has Thodius as my love experience.
If you think he's too bossy to always depend on me, you are wrong. This, too, is his charm I peculiarly fell for. His warm and innocent smile after messing up hard.
It's not really that I let myself look like a maid, or that I spoil him too much, it's just how and who he is and I don't want to change any of those so that I'll have a better life. Actually I enjoy doing things for him, it makes me feel useful, not that I feel useless though, just a feeling that makes me feel alive.
If many wonders how and in what situation did I lay my eyes and fall for a guy like him. Here's why.
One day seven years ago I landed a job at a company he works in. As I settle down, I always notice him messing up, like switching paperworks and passing different projects, tripping over while carrying towers of papers, spilling coffee on his desk, panicking over small matters, and other silly things. His every action sends a smile on my face. And yet another day, he heard me giggle. Upon seeing me silently laughing, he cracked into laughter as well, that was the start of our seven years.
He quit his job and became a singer. Instead of stopping him, I supported him, besides, I was his biggest fan when he sings.
Then the day he finally asked me out came.
I was the one who picked the meeting place, a cafe where he first bought me a coffee. He's always late so I flooded him, "Come on, let's meet now!"
"Thodi-thodi, where are you?" I asked on a call. "Liriyah, I'm already here, where are you?"
I smirked. "Thodi-thodi, you look lost. Look behind you."
He smirked "Don't tell me when I look back, you'd be looking at me?" he said as he turned around. "Bleehhh~" I teased inside the cafe, looking at him, surprised, outside.
We went to a cinema to watch horror movie, he treated me lunch and went shopping with me. While on our date, someone asked us to play some event, said they only approach pairs both wearing caps.
Mudflat race ehy. We were asked to wear our caps and write our surnames on them.
"Be careful, Thodius, the mud's slippery." I said, worried for his trashy balance.
As I said that, though, it was I who slipped. "Liriyah, you okay?" he asked, followed by he himself slipping as well. After that, he held my hand and walked ahead of me. "That is why every women needs a man by their side." he uttered, then he looked back at me smiling, slightly wobbly. Look who's talking.
Then one of the staff noticed something. "switched caps?"
"Ah?"
"Huh?"
We both uttered, then looked at each other. Our caps were switched. "You want my surname now, huh?" he commented, "Rather than my cap, you should've asked for my heart instead." he joked.
The crowd broke into laughter. Then the race started. He continuously slipped and his outfit got loose little by little. It was hard trying to keep up from other pairs.
"Ahhrgg, you're such a handful." I said while I help him wear his outfit properly. He annoyingly threw mud at me while I fix his pants. "Should we just live together then?" he said loudly while laughing.
"Ohhhhh~" The whole set echoed.
I blushed as I cover his mouth.
And a few days later, the same show aired on a certain TV channel, in which my mother always watch. Which made her hotseat me from time to time and finally kicked me out of the house few years from then.
As for the day he asked me out. I didn't get the clue that it was him actually asking me out, so I only got to answer him the day after the show was aired.
And today, he's supposed to take me home from work, but he told me he forgot to take his car with him and is only riding in his manager's.
I should've went home on my own. I texted back, "You really are high maintenance."
Then someone answered behind me, "You sure right I am. But I am more on the intentional side than incidental." I saw glimpse and glimpse of who I expect to see as I turn. "This marks the seventh year of the word 'Us' between Thodius and Liriyah, and I ask, Will you please take this certified handful guy as your high maintenance husband?" he asked as he knelt down before me.
"I can't wait for the song you'll write about this, so... "
I looked at his shiny eyes and giggled, "Yes!"
(I might finally come back home now... right?)
