Chapter 2

      The next day, early in the morning after breastfeeding her baby, she let her baby playing in the living room. Her six-month-old baby was laying on the mat, full of squishy toys, after squeeze and bite a silicon hello kitty toy in her hand, she flips her body, rolls to front and back, searching for her mother. When she saw her mother, she smiles showing her gums, and try to crawl towards her mother. She tries so hard to commando crawl style with her tummy but she only ended reversing with that style.

    Rosa who just sitting on the sofa a few steps away from her daughter laughs seeing her baby's frustrating face. "Come on, you can do it." She sits on the floor a few steps ahead of her baby and claps her hand to cheers her baby.

    Her baby cry asking for help but seeing her mother didn't move from the spot she push her hand and her knees try to crawl forward like a crab crawl but fall again. However, she had moved forward, realize that it was one of the techniques that can move forward, the baby push again her hand and knees and fall again. 

    Her mother can't stop laughing at her baby's new technique to move but she never stops cheering her to come forward. When finally the baby can touch her mother's knees, Rosa quickly lifts her up and kisses the chubby little cheek many times, it makes her baby giggle. 

"My baby is genius! Hahaha... Good girl! Good girl!" 

Then she lay her baby on her laps and gently rub her baby tummy and chest. "Does it hurt? Your brother didn't make a unique crawl like that when he was a baby. He always makes sure he didn't get hurt when doing something. You must learn to be careful too, ok? Don't hurt your little chubby body."

    Seeing her mother babble so much, her hand touches her mother's mouth and squeeze it tightly.

"Hey! You don't like when I was lecturing you!"

    When her hands move with Rosa move mouth, the baby giggles, feeling funny at the vibration on her little hand.

"Ahh! It hurts! Please let go of me! Mia!"

    A laugh echo in the living room, her sister's morning face looks so pretty. Even though she at her almost forties, she still looks young mature lady. She had white skin like Rosa, but her long hair is straight and red. "Your daughter is indeed genius. She knows how to keep your mouth seal."

    Her daughter let go of her hand and look at her aunty with big eyes. She was bored she wanted new friends and explore the new environment. Rosa saw her baby anticipating face and she stand up holding her baby and put on Olivia, her half-sister's hands.

"Hey!" Olivia's hand shaking while holding the baby. Her half-sister has peaceful and loving marriage, but she doesn't want to have a child.

"Mia wanted to play with you. You can walk around while holding her, she will be very happy." Rosa adjusts her baby on Olivia's arms. Make sure her baby is comfortable in her half-sister's hand.

"I had to make breakfast for my husband."

"Oh, he's back already?"

"Yes. He came home at ten last night, you had sleep early yesterday." Olivia feels much confident after the baby had relaxed in her arms. But she does feel awkward.

"I will prepare it, what you want for breakfast?"

    They slowly walk to the kitchen and Olivia watches Rosa make an omelet, bread toast, and a soup of potato for her baby. After she had served the table, a tall man with a beer belly comes to the dining room. He was once very handsome but after he married her half-sister, he still looks handsome but his stomach shows how much her half-sister likes to pamper him with food.

    He had a big smile on his face when he saw his wife playing with a baby in her arms, he comes near her wife and greets her wife with a deep kiss on her forehead.

"Honey look, Damia likes to play with me." Proudly she announced it.

Olivia's husband smiles warmly and his hand squeezes gently on the chubby little cheek. "Yes, she does." Then he takes a seat beside her and looks at Rosa who also had sits at the dining table. "Morning Rosa, do you sleep well?"

Rosa smile showing her gratitude. "Yes. I did. Even Mia had a good sleep too."

"Let's eat, today Rosa makes us breakfast." Olivia gives back the baby in Rosa's arms and serves her husband food on his plate.

"So, have you thought about it?" While eating, Olivia's Husband asks. He is a businessman and straightforward person, so he doesn't like to beat around the bush.

    Rosa glances at her half-sister angrily but smile at her brother-in-law, her baby who is in her lap, was munching a potato on her little hand sloppily.

"Well, I need to know first what kind of business it is and get more detail about the business. I am not really good with it, but if it has some potential, I will try my best to make it work." Rosa is twenty-five years old now. Five years ago, she and her husband were poor but they both had the same passion for making money.

    She had been working hard built a business together with her husband, they didn't get married yet at that time. They work hard until they manage to own some restaurant and small hotels. After success in making money and can live with comfort, her husband proposes to her and they get married. She was only twenty years old when she gets married and has a son at twenty-one years old. It was their first anniversary that she caught her husband cheating with his new secretary.

"We can look at the place this afternoon, you can learn all about it there."

"Have you told your friend?"

Olivia's husband sigh and sip his coffee before continue. "He is not here for few more days, but I assure you, I had been discussed with him before to find a suitable manager for his cafe. He doesn't mind about it."

    Rosa nods while wiping her baby mouth. Her daughter pushes her mother's hand and greedily looking at the plate in front of her, she wants more food.

    The truth is Rosa is not confident with her working skill anymore. She had become a housewife for five years. After she gets married, her husband didn't let her work anymore. She had used to be independent, and she refused to quit working however after she found out she was pregnant, her husband persuades her again to stop working and she finally stops working as her husband wants.

    That afternoon, Rosa wears a long sleeves black jumpsuit, she didn't bring much of her cloth so, her clothes were prepared by her half-sister, a fashion designer. She had her own brands and some boutique in several countries. Her half-sister was very happy looking at her jumpsuit on Rosa's body. She usually designs for tall modern women, it's her first time designing a cloth suitable for Rosa which is short and easy for breastfeeding mothers. 

    Rosa is short and thin, however, she had a quite big hip that she gains after she had delivered two kids. It makes her body look more like a lady with a shape. Her chubby little daughter is wearing a matching jumpsuit, but it was pink in color with a black word on it 'My Mom Rocks!'.