HAPPIER
CHAPTER 24

"What do you mean Sky? Are you crazy?" Bery asked a little snapped at me after making it out of his father's care room and now we were in the garden of the Hospital not far from his father's room earlier.

"You don't mess around, don't give false hope to my family. And anyway, you what the hell am I my future husband? You don't think how my parents feel when they know the truth?" Bery was really mad at me this time. His eyes bulged, his face bent, his hands folded on his chest.

I don't really know either, I don't know what drives me to justify Bery's mother's guess.

"How important is it to be sorry from your parents?" I asked without caring about Bery's anger towards me.

"More important than getting air for me to breathe." Reply Bery steady.

"That important?" I'm still trying to make sure.

"Yes!"

"Married to me." I said without hesitation.

Bery looked straight into the depths of my eyes, I looked at him sincerely, there was no doubt here, I wished he could see my steadfast earnestness.

Bery shook his head while chuckling. "Are you in love with me, Sky? How much do you love me until you marry me?" Ask me to look at me cynically.

"You're afraid no man will accept you, right? While I was also afraid that no woman would accept my past. We have the same fear, right? Then let's get married! You don't have to be afraid of me and I don't have to be afraid of you. That's fair, isn't it? Everything makes sense, doesn't it?

Bery shook his head a few times. "But you don't have to marry me, Sky!"

"Keep who? What is Rangga the duren?" just pissed. I clasped my hand firmly restraining the emotion that suddenly slipped into the chest.

"Or don't tell me you're still expecting that jerk in your past?"

"Kiy! Stop it, please! You've gone too far." Again and again Bery yelled at me.

"Wait.waiti.." Bary seems to think. "Do you know where my father's condition is to forgive me? Nindi?" Ask guess.

I'm shaking.

"Don't lie, Sky. Only Nindi knows about this other than Anzi and my parents." He wants to know the truth.

I am confused, I know it from Brother Nindi, but it is not Nindi who told me, not directly. I just accidentally heard him when he told me.

"Die? Are you suddenly mute? Answer brother!"

Huuuu's sister again, but soon I will be her husband.

"I heard it when sister Nindi told me the same story." My answer is no lie.

Bery nodded in understanding then threw his face staring towards the nearby lohan fish pond.

For quite a while we just stood still, each one busy with his own thoughts.

Suddenly Bery's phone rang.

"Yes deck." He said after sliding the green button on his phone screen.

Bery's eyes rounded and then looked at me.

"Okay, brother get there."

"Sky, come!" Call mom after looking at me.

I also walked closer to them. I breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Bery's father who had begun to sober up. I was almost hanging to see Bery run straight here after getting a phone call that I was sure was from Anzi.

"Is this your future son-in-law?" Asked Bery's father weakly looked at me then last his eyes looked straight at Bery.

Bery nodded, his tears kept falling and slightly sobbing even in a soft voice.

"Yes dad, he's Sky, Bery's future husband. Daddy's getting well soon, you want to see me get married, don't you?" His voice smiled but instead his sobs were increasingly heard.

I was happy to hear her admitting myself as her future husband, even though I knew she was forced to do so because she didn't want to disappoint her parents again.

His mother kept stroking his back, bracing. Bery looks very fragile, I want to pull him into my arms right now, unfortunately not halal.

One hand his father took my hand into his grasp, he looked at me with a gaze I could hardly understand. Like a look of plea, resignation and I don't know anything else.

"Son Sky, I'd love to see this father's only daughter get married. I very much want the hand of this father to be held tightly by a good man of Bery's choice in front of the ruler witnessed by the inhabitants of the earth and sky where the man will promise to look after and love him, loving him without limits, accepting all his shortcomings and advantages, will not leave him no matter what happens and never ignore him even though he himself has given up. That's my last hope, son. Will you live up to the expectations of this frail old man?"

A single tear then escaped from the old man's netra, my heart trembling tightly grasping his hand. So much hope that he would put on my shoulders.

Bery looked at me with a sad look, as if putting all the decisions in my hands. I know, he had no other choice and no longer had the strength to resist let alone negotiate with his mother's father.

I stared at the beauty of her face, the few seconds I turned my gaze to the woman who had given birth to her, a smile full of warmth emanated there. Then look back at the man who just asked me to take over his duties and responsibilities for the daughter he loves.

Again he tightened his grip, flowing a sense of a father's plea for the happiness of his beloved son as if he wanted to say that he believed that I could.

"Bismillah..I am ready!" My heart skipped like it was about to jump out. I don't know if this decision I made was right, but I gave it all to the owner of this life. May this good will be the path of our goodness and blessings in the future.

"Thank you, son!" Bery's father told me. I just nodded my head and then returned my gaze to Bery who was also looking at me.

May he not be angry with my decision, may he accept it with sincerity. I know, it's hard for him. It's not easy for me either. Not to mention I do not know how to explain it later to my parents, especially Umi who had rejected the idea of matchmaking that wanted to be arranged for Nindi at that time.

Maybe it has gone like this, suddenly Brother Nindi asked me to follow Bery to the airport. I who initially refused finally changed my mind and caught up with him. And it turns out that this big thing is what awaits me.

I don't regret this decision, I did have time to think about the idea of Nindi at that time. I understand Bery's worries so much that he's afraid of connecting with any man.

As a man, it would be a lie if I did not want the chastity and purity of the woman who would later become my friend and mother of my children. However, seeing myself as a sinner, Bery never looked at me with a hint of fear in his eyes at me who was a murderer.

I have too often come across judgmental gazes from people who know my case. It was very disturbing, as if I was unworthy to set foot on this earth.

Everyone has a past, what is different is only their good and bad in the past. But what determines the future is not the past but what and how we are.

I kill because of the honor and dignity of the woman who brought me into this world, not because I am a murderer.

Bery lost his chastity not because he was a prostitute*r, but because of his stupidity. Hasn't everyone ever done anything stupid in their life?

I sincerely accept it, am I doing it out of love? I don't know, I don't understand what love is. But if the sense of wanting to protect and seeing him always happy can be called love, then yes.I will say, I love him!

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