HATE Before LOVE
Suddenly hug.

"Mother just go home, rest at home. Let Elif take care of me." said Elif after Yanuar's operation went well and was transferred to the VVIP treatment room at Ardan's request.

"No, no, let's just let Mama. You knew your father before he fainted was in a position of anger at you. I was worried that your father would wake up and see you would make him explode again for no reason" Zehra said in a jaded manner. But she also could not let Elif always be a place to vent her husband's anger.

"Yes, sister, let me be with Mom and Dad" said Adit.

"No, no, you go home too, son."

"Are you okay?" ask Elif again.

"Yes. Son Ardan, please take Elif and Adit home."

"Of course, Mom. Don'worry. I will go back in time and explain everything to Mr. Yanuar so that he is no longer bad to think" said Ardan.

Elif, Adit, Ardan and Teddy leave the hospital. Not even time has turned out to be rolling at night. It was a long day for Elif. He doesn't know if his decision is the right one in the future. His life will turn out well. Whether his relationship with his father will improve or vice versa. He could not guess what would happen to him tomorrow.

The figure of Ardan today has become a savior for his father. But do not know next, whether Ardan will continue to be a savior in his life or even backfire in Elif's life.

Adit fell asleep leaning on Elif's shoulder, the boy was also so tired. Teddy drove without a sound. Ardan first sat in the seat beside the steering wheel and closed his eyes. The Elves were just staring blankly at the streets they were going through.

Not for an hour, they reached the front of the house. Elif was quite surprised because Teddy without asking him directions but knew they had arrived.

"How does Mr Teddy know my house?" elif asked in a slow voice so as not to wake Adit.

Teddy did not answer. He just put on a flat look and made Elif keki.

"Dit, wake up, we're here." Elif woke up his sister. Adit stretched his muscles, rubbing his eyes.

"I thought I was sleeping in my room, I was sleeping comfortably."

"Yes, but my shoulders are cramping, you're heavy." Elif said.

The brothers got out of the car. Ardan stayed inside, he just lowered his window glass.

"You go in first" Elif told Adit.

Adit nodded, then approached Ardan, "Bang Ardan, thank you for today, yes. Brother is our savior."

"Savior?" Ardan.

"Yes. May you always be healthy, Bang. Teddy's brother."

Ardan laughed, stuck his hand out the window and scrambled Adit's hair. "Go inside, continue your sleep."

Adit nodded then went inside the house.

Ardan, who had been reluctant to get out of the car, suddenly opened the door and got out. He stood leaning against the body of the car, both hands entered the pants. Although he was tired, the man was still handsome.

"Is there anything you want to say?" ardan asked as he looked at the megar-haired girl in front of him.

"Thank you for the help sir, uh, I mean, for your help everyone" Elif said.

"Yes. My play was very all out in front of your mother. I hope you can do the same in front of my parents tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?"

"Yes, tomorrow morning Teddy will pick you up. Before the office, we'll go to my parents' house first" Ardan said. "We must explain to them this romantic relationship and convince both." Connect Ardan. "After work hours, you and I will return to the hospital to meet your father and explain it so that it is not always bad to think of you."

"B-good sir, uh, good."

"Honestly when your mother told me everything about how your father's attitude towards you made me think, why would you sacrifice so much for him?"

"Because after all, my father is my father."

Ardan grunting. "The classic reason of a devoted child."

Instantly Elif raised his head, inexplicably he did not like Ardan's response that underestimated Elif's reasoning.

"What if I wanted to be filial to my parents even though my father was always rude and never loved me? Do I have to let my father get sick and leave us just because of his attitude towards me? Should I not care about the health of my own parents? Should I be careless when my parents are not treated by the hospital? I can't be like that. I'm not that kind of person. If it is in this way and it is the only way I can dedicate myself to my father, of course I do. Regardless, you'll either change for the better or not at all." Elif held back her emotions to not break. He knows where he stands. There is Adit in the house who will definitely suspect if Elif yells upset, there are neighbors who will definitely be overwhelmed by what happened. "People like you will certainly never know what I feel like all along."

So he held her back, but a puddle of tears could not lie how much he wanted to cry.

Ardan said nothing. He is unable or may not be able to think and have a big heart like Elif. He sighed. His hand came out of his pocket, lifted up and rubbed Elif's cheek, of course making Elif surprised and about to retreat, but Ardan quickly pulled her and hugged her.

"You're a good girl. Cry if you want to cry. But you have to stay strong and firm." said Ardan gently as he rubbed Elif's back to provide calm.

"Todd!"

"Sorry Sir." Teddy immediately sprayed the disinfectant liquid into the car.

Ardan and Elif's hugs are over. An awkward feeling enveloped Elif very suddenly, even though Ardan seemed ordinary.

"Thank you for today. I'm going in first."

"Elif,"

"Yes?"

"Tomorrow, there will be no more you and me."

"Eh, yes."

"Come in and rest."

Ardan and Teddy left the place. With Ardan back in the back seat. His mind floated with the fragrance of Elif even though he knew that the girl had not taken a bath all day. In addition, his heart felt sorry for what Elif had been living. The fierce figure, sometimes cynical, brave and always deft in everything turned out to be so longing for the affection of the father figure that he never got.

"Ted, can you live a life like Elif? Are you going to sacrifice yourself for someone who's always hurt you?" ask Ardan.

Teddy, who was asked a random question, said he did not know what to answer and respond. He is also not sure if his boss really wants an answer or just lets out what he thinks.

Then from the rearview mirror Teddy saw Ardan begin to close his eyes.

Teddy took a slow breath. It turns out it was just a matter of asking. Fortunately, I haven't bothered to find answers.

***

The sound of birds squealing, cocks crowing each other into the morning sun marker began to illuminate the sky. Every routine activity is back at the beginning. Elif had been in the kitchen since dawn, preparing food for Adit because of course the restaurant would not be open for a while, and his sister would remain at home.

After finishing the kitchen, Elif rushed to prepare himself before Teddy came to pick him up. A neighbor, a middle-aged woman with white hair yet still so healthy, came.

"Yes, Oma?" Elif opened the fence, that's how the people there called the woman.

"Did you hear your dad was taken to the hospital yesterday in an ambulance?" ask Oma.

"Yes Oma."

"Patience to you, son. Then how's the condition?"

"Medium of recovery, Oma. After yesterday's surgery, I've been transferred to the treatment room."

"Alhamdulillah, it may be noon Oma same mothers here want to see your father in the hospital. Can you?"

"Bby dong Oma. I'll write down a little while before Dad's treatment room."

Elif then entered the house, quickly inscribing the name of the pavilion and room where Yanuar was treated. Then he returned to Oma who was waiting for him on the terrace.

"Later Oma told the other mothers."

"Thank you Oma. Give my thanks to the other mothers."

"Of course, son." Oma patted Elif's shoulder.

There was still an Oma on the terrace, a red sports sedan that was clearly in stark contrast to the surroundings, suddenly stopping right in front of the Elif house fence. A man with black glasses, formal clothes that are attached perfectly to his athletic height, came out of the sports car.

"Who is that, son?"

Elif didn't know what to answer. Should he lie to his neighbors?

"Good morning, dear." Ardan opened his glasses in an affectionately elegant style without being contrived. He then greeted Oma politely even to the point of bowing his body slightly to greet the woman's hand.

"You who?" ask Oma.

"I'm Ardan, Elif's future husband."

Okay, looks like Elif really has to lie to everyone. If Ardan hadn't been the one to help him pay for all his father's surgeries and treatment, he would have been blacklisted for the people he hated most in the world.

All his life, Elif never lied to his mother or to anyone else, except when his heart ached and sad because of his father's treatment but he kept smiling and saying he was fine.

And now because of the charade that the man in front of her made, and the ridiculous Mutualism Symbiosis deal that she made, Elif has now become a big liar.