BXBX NOVEL Chapter 301: Sensitive Topic
"Ratio?...What ratio?" Nina asked while keeping an eye on my hands in case I tried something again.
"The ratio of the size difference between your waist and hips, Nina." I said as if it were a matter of fact, which made Nina's cheeks flush and shake her hips a little, not expecting to hear what I just said.
I then continued saying, while feeling the deep curve between her hips and waist, "I just thought that the difference between your waist, that's as slender as a stalk of bamboo, and your wide hips, which seem to be holding two large packages in the back, is a little too big."
"That's why I wanted to slide my hands down and measure just how big the difference is between your waist and these baby-bearing hips of yours that could surely safely deliver a dozen healthy babies..." I said as I lowered my hands a little until my hands partly touched her well-toned butt that had a beautiful curve of its own and gave it a pat, which made the flustered Nina tremble.
"S-Shut up, Kafka!...Stop telling someone who doesn't have any children at all that she has hips that can produce healthy babies, especially when you're a baby yourself!" Nina cries out in a fluster while bopping my head with her fist. "Do you know just how embarassing it is to hear a kid say such a thing that I've only heard the neighbourhood aunties say to me all the time!?"
"Oh...So I'm not the only one who thinks that you have quite a wide and strong pelvis, Nina, that looks like it's meant to hold a couple of tiny versions of you."
I said with a look of approval on my face, which made Nina cover up her face because of how embarrassed she felt right now, seeing as to how she was even being teased by a child about her rather wide hips that swayed from side to side every time she walked.
I then realised something she had mentioned and looked up and asked her,
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"Nina, did you just say that you don't have any children?"
"Why are you asking that, Kafka?" Nina frowned and immediately looked at me with a wronged look on her face when I mentioned children in front of her. She then continued asking in an indignant manner, "Is it really that surprising that someone my age doesn't have any children?...Do you also think that I shouldn't be childless at my age just like my aunties do?...Tell me, do you?"
I seemed to have a very vulnerable spot as Nina got very worked up at the mention of this topic, as she seemed to be tired of people pestering her about kids. But instead of calming her down and saying that it was not like that, like anyone else in this situation would do, I simply looked up at Nina, who was waiting for my reply, and said while shaking my head like it was a pity,
"I really do, Nina...I really do think that someone like you should already have a bunch of kids right now and you should probably be busy taking care of them instead of spending time with someone like me...What a pity it is, indeed."
Nina was already upset when I brought up a topic that she wasn't the most fond of because of her complicated family situation and the endless nagging she got from her relatives and friends to bear a child, almost as if she were a failure of a woman if she hadn't had a child or two by this time.
The worst part was that, just like any married woman out there who was brimming with motherly love and a sense of raising a young one, she too wished to have a child of her own and dreamed of the day where she could see her child playing around the lobby of the hotspring while she gazed at the sight with a tender smile on her face from the counter.
But because of the situation she was caught up in that was related to her marital relationship, she couldn't really see that day coming any soon and actually saw it moving farther and farther away from her.
And now that she even heard me mocking her for not having children anymore, she couldn't bear it anymore and felt her pain of not having a child get even worse. She even felt tears forming in her eyes that hadn't appeared in a long time, and she felt like she was running into a room since she didn't want anyone to see her crying figure.
She was also a little upset with me, as she thought that I would support her and wouldn't treat her like everyone else did, and she was genuinely disappointed that I shared the same mindset as the other men in this world, who treated women as someone whose only purpose was to take care of their man and their children.
But before she could express to me how sad she was to find out that I was the same as everyone else, when she thought that I was a shining star that was born to be different from the rest of the crowd, since Nina wasn't someone who held her thoughts in and always expressed them to whoever it was in question, no matter who they may be, she immediately realised that she misunderstood what I said and that I truly was different from the rest in a rather abnormal way, when I finished what I was trying to say.
"...I mean, just think about it for a second, Nina." I said as I looked up at Nina's shimmering green eyes, which looked so heartbroken at the moment. "How could someone as gorgeous as you, who not only has a ravishing face but also a killer body to match it, not have a bunch of children when you're already married?...Like what the hell is your husband even doing?"
"...If it were me in his place, I can promise on my life that you'd already have an entire legion of children waiting back at home and one that's already cooking up in the oven, getting ready to see the world outside one day." I said while gritting my teeth and sighed as if I were frustrated by how such a glorious woman like Nina was wasted on her husband, who hadn't explored her true potential.