I Love the Light
Women should have self-respect

Dania went into her house with her face bent. The woman immediately threw her body on the sofa right next to her papa Denis. It makes Denis and Bella cross-eyed and squinting.

"Why are you, Dania? come - come your face bent so." asked Denis while stroking his daughter's hair.

"Most also because ignored the same Gilang," said Bella with a smile smirk, to make the face of Dania more sour.The middle-aged woman was actually very bored with the attitude of her daughter who she thought was too obsessed with Gilang.

"Darling! you can't be so ah!" denis stared intently at his wife.

"What can't? I'll tell you the truth. Try asking him. I must have been right, '" Bella didn't care about Denis's stare at all.

"Why the hell, Mama as rent and like disagree me with Gilang?" Dania opened her voice in a very upset tone.

"Who said I disagree? mama will definitely agree if there is no element of coercion. This is what you see, if Gilang is very forced to be engaged to you. You're the only one who doesn't know yourself, and still imposes the will" said Bella relaxed.

"Father! look mama!" Dania sulked with a face that wanted to cry.

"Darling! why the hell would you say something like that?" Denis again rebukes Bella while hugging her daughter.

"Do you think what I said was wrong? didn't you? You don't keep defending like what this daughter of yours is doing, right, Mas. Instead he was showing that he did not have self-esteem," said Bella who was not at all sympathetic to see her daughter crying. Somehow the middle-aged woman thought that Dania's cry was only 'drama'.

"Bella!" denis snapped in a slightly raised voice.

"Why? do you want to keep defending Dania?"reply Bella with a cynical look on her face.

"She's not just my daughter but your daughter as well. Is it appropriate for a mother to say that her child has no self-esteem?" denis Protest.

"It is precisely because I am a good mother that I want to tell her that a woman must have self-esteem, not like she who ignores her pride for the sake of her obsession with Gilang,"

"Isn't it that if we want to have someone, we have to fight for it? now I'm fighting again, Ma," Dania opened her voice between sobs.

"May struggle, but must be in an elegant way, not in a cheap way. What do you think you've been doing all this time, not embarrassing? early in the morning you came to Gilang's house to see the man. After that you always call him, even if your phone is never picked up, your message is never answered. As long as you're engaged, never once did she come here to see you, never once did she ask you out for a date or just a walk and lunch, but you still thick face by still intending it. There are times when we stop fighting, if what we are fighting for, does not give us hope. As a woman, we have to have principles and self-esteem" Bella said at length without pause, and in a fiery tone.

"Mama doesn't love me. Mama doesn't want to see me happy," Dania's crying becomes more and more.

"You're wrong! it's because you love you that's why you want to remind you. It is precisely because mama wants to see you happy that is why mama can say that. That affection sometimes doesn't have to be shown with me always supporting whatever you do even if what you're doing is wrong, like you did." said Bella as she glanced at Denis. "Mama doesn't want to be like that. If you're wrong, you still say it's wrong" Bella said as she stood up and walked away.

"Pa, why did you get to be like that to me? she really doesn't love Dania," Dania whines while shaking Denis' body.

"No! my mom does not love me at all. If he loved me, he should have supported me with Gilang. Only my father loves me. Darell is just like my mom who likes to say I have no self-esteem" Dania said of her younger brother who is now replacing Denis at the company.

"Already, already! you don't cry anymore. Obviously both Mama and Darell, they both love you" Denis said.

"Well, Gilang and I have been engaged for a long time, when did we get married?" dania asked after her crying subsided.

"Why ask papa? you should have asked Gilang directly. Who wants to marry you both" replied Denis.

"Oh, Papa ah. Papa dong who nanyain om Gavin and aunt Jelita when to marry us. I want to get married as soon as possible to Gilang, Pa."

"But we must not impose our will, Dania. You see, everything that is not forced is not good" said Denis gently.

"I don't care! anyway I want to get married to Gilang soon." cried Dania. "I want to quickly stay at Gilang's house, to keep Gilang from being teased by the goddamn maid!" he returned by slipping a swearing aimed at the Light.

Denis scrunched his forehead, trying to digest his daughter's speech.

"Who do you mean fucking maid?"

"There,Pa. Called Light. She's the new maid in Gavin's house. He was very young, and seemed to have the intention to tease Gilang. Just imagine, just working, he had dared to deliver lunch to Gilang's office. He said Aunt Jelita told him to, but I don't believe it at all. I'm sure that it's just his alibi, to cover up his bad intentions" Dania said with a cynical look.

"You can't su'udjon like that, honey. Maybe it's true that Aunt Jelita told him to,"

"Ih, Papa why so rich mama anyway. There's no way I'm feeling wrong, Pah. It must be true that the woman would tease him Gilang," cried Dania with pursed lips.

"Yes, Dad was wrong. Sorry yes!" this is Denis' weakness. He could never be strict with Dania. He always fulfilled whatever his daughter wanted.

"So, papa would you like to talk to Gavin so as soon as possible marry me to Gilang? yes, Pa, please!" Dania whines while cupping her hands in front of Denis

"Yes, I'll see Gavin later, and ask him when you're getting married. Because papa also actually wants you to get married as soon as possible," concluded Denis, who made Dania smile widely and immediately embraced the papa.

"Thank you, Pah! Papa is the best" said Dania. Then the woman stood up and ran straight to her room.

"Keep you spoiling him! without you realizing it was you yourself who plunged her into the abyss of sadness" chirped Bella who suddenly reappeared.

Tbc