Love Above the Heart
the Arrival of Erick -

The sound of knocking on the door woke Gia from her sleep. Gia stared at the clock on the wall of the room, showing it at 19:40 p.m.

"God, I slept for a long time" murmured Gia inwardly.

Gia moved and wanted to open the front door, Gia thought Lyra had gone home to work. But this is too soon. Usually Lyra will come home at 21:30 pm if she enters the afternoon.

Gia opened the door and brought up a man she knew very well.

"Erick?" Gia was flabbergasted by Erick in front of her contract.

Gia remembers Erick who is about to get engaged to Micah. But that was not what Gia wanted to ask right now, when she saw Erick in front of her eyes that were different than usual.

Erick looked at the silent Gia, he was silent without a sound. He entered Gia's house without permission.

Gia followed Erick who had preceded her to enter.

"What's wrong?" Gia's question didn't understand Erick's attitude.

"Sit. I want to talk!" Erick replied, ruling as if he had the power in this house.

Gia according to him, he was sitting on a chair. Erick who was still standing then headed towards the door and closed it. Gia was even more astonished by his behavior.

"What do you want, Erick?" Gia asked a little panicked.

"Gia, let's go!" Those words escaped Erick's mouth.

"Whatchu mean? You agreed to the engagement, right?"

"Yes, I had to, baby. Can you understand my current condition?"

Gia fell silent, she looked back at Erick carefully. His body was so thin that even Gia had never seen Erick this thin. Her usual hair neatly combed with undercut pieces, now looks crumpled and shabby without a sideline. His cheeks seem more and more thin the effects of his weight that seems to decrease drastically.

Erick looks chaotic with sunken eyes and there are dark circles around the oriental eyes.

His handsome face seemed to have no aura of happiness emanated.

Gia was so sad to find the man she loved like this. What really happened to Erick, Gia didn't even know. Gia felt stupid not knowing what Erick had gone through.

"Why are you like this, Rick?" Unknowingly Gia was shedding her tears.

Erick drew closer to where Gia was sitting, he stood while cupping Gia's cheek with both hands. Staring into Gia's eyes intensely.

"Don't cry!" Pinta Erick.

Hearing Erick's trembling voice, Gia drowned her face in the wrath of Erick standing before her. His hands were coiled possessively around Erick's waist.

"I'm sorry if you're like this because of me!" Finally Gia cried sobbing while leaning on Erick's stomach.

Erick stroked Gia's head. He tried to calm Gia down. He wanted to explain everything to Gia. He does not want Gia to misunderstand the circumstances that Erick believes Gia already knows now.

"I'm not getting engaged to him! I'm just gonna marry you!" Erick is full of emphasis.

Gia looked up at Erick without letting go of his embrace,

Erick wiped away the traces of tears with his thumb on Gia's smooth cheek.

"Sit down!" Gia said to Erick while releasing the link of his hand on Erick's waist.

Erick said, sitting next to Gia. He was silent to open the conversation. Starting from the beginning so that Gia understands why Micah ended up being her future fiance.

"A few months ago, Micah came to my house. I don't know if she knows where my parents' house is, it doesn't matter."

"He was very good at taking my family's heart. He secretly approached them all to take heart, it was all without my knowledge!" Erick.

Gia silently listened to Erick's explanation.

"Until the end, when I couldn't get my mother's blessing, I chose to ask my papa's blessing. Out of my control, papa's getting dropped with his condition." Erick's speech was interrupted. He took a breath in remembering his father.

"Papa, papa's in the ICU. And everyone blames me. I don't know what to do. I want to escape from reality. But I'm also not a disobedient child who will leave my papa while he's sick."

Gia stroked Erick's shoulder from the side. Tranquilize.

"After my father regained consciousness and began to improve, he spoke to me to marry whoever was chosen by my mother, at first I did not know that my mother already had a candidate for him to introduce me."

"And that woman is Micah?" Guess Gia.

Erick nodded weakly.

"I have no choice but to agree with their decision, Gia! Papa's health is at stake!"

"Then why are you taking me away?"

"Because I've blessed us, baby. Although the others don't."

Gia was flabbergasted, looking at Erick beside her. Gia really doesn't understand.

"Papa is getting better now, but he's catching my grief. As a man, I know how I feel. Papa told me to go marry you. But in front of mom, papa seemed to throw me away. Papa has already approved of us."

"Papa was sad to see me, papa said that papa has long harbored it, but papa also can not oppose mama. After all, papa as a husband should respect his wife's decision."

"Why did you become like this?" Gia asked as she watched Erick's appearance from head to toe.

Erick smiled wryly and he held Gia's hand.

"I'm sorry, not getting any news you made me a fool. And the situation at home made me worse. Right now, I'm forced to take anti-depressants from the doctor." replied Erick who instantly displayed his gloomy face.

Gia was shocked and did not believe what she heard. He immediately let go of Erick's hand. He stood up to calm his mind.

"Sorry baby. I really can't without you! This is also what drives papa to bless us! Because papa regretted his decision when he saw my condition!"

"Are you doing stupid?"

Erick looked silent and lowered his head.

"Jawab be honest, Rick! What else are you doing?" Urged Gia. Gia's voice began to rise.

"I get drunk almost every night" Erick said, throwing his eyes away.

Gia looked at the ceiling of the front room, it felt like she was willing to curse at Erick right now.

"What else? What else are you doing?" Urge Gia again on the sidelines of her anger that is almost peaking.

"There's nothing else"

"Don't lie!"

"There's no Gia!" Erick's voice is getting weaker.

"Well, if you don't want to be honest, now leave this house!" Said Gia while pointing towards the door.

Erick got up from his seat, he approached Gia who was behind him. He flipped Gia's body to face her.

"I'm sorry" Erick said as he held two sides of Gia's shoulder.

Gia's tears came back to see clearly Erick's present face. He realized a little Erick like this because of it.

Erick carried Gia in his arms. Gia was roaring in Erick's chest.

"You tried to kill yourself, right?" Guess Gia.

"Sorry" Erick replied as he drowned his face on Gia's shoulders.

Gia banged on Erick's chest. He knew Erick very closely. He knew Erick was going to do something stupid, but he didn't expect Erick to be so reckless.

Gia realized that because it was impossible for Erick to take anti-depressants if he did not do things that were out of bounds.

Gia releases Erick's embrace with a slight push on Erick's body.

"say the same as the real me!"

Erick nodded weakly.he slightly bowed, leaned against the wall while scrambling and then grabbed his own hair.

"I didn't intend to kill myself, I just swallowed sleeping pills along with alcohol, I needed those drugs to sleep. I can't sleep every night. In my head there is only my guilt for you and the pressure from my family. It all feels like it's going around in circles."

There was no answer from Gia's mouth.

silent mood.

"I'm sorry Erick!" finally, Gia broke the silence, she felt guilty. One drop after another his tears fell down again.

"Then, what's your plan? You want us to elope?" Finally Gia gave the only idea in her head.

Erick smiled at Gia's words.

"It looks like my madness is contagious with you!" Erick.

Hearing that Gia so joined the smile on her lips even though her tears were still wet on the cheeks.

"Prepare to come with me!" Erick said again.

"You really want to take me eloped?" Gia's a little shocked.

Erick shook his head.

"I'm not that coward! I've got a green light from papa even if it's just behind mom, but papa promised to help us."

"What the hell do you mean? I'm so confused!"

"We're going to see my family one last time. This time papa will help open the minds of mama and others."

"If it turns out they stick to the establishment, we will still get married. Under your parents' blessing!" Erick.

Gia understood now what Erick meant.

"Then your engagement?"

"It's papa's business, he's the one who's gonna cancel with Micah's family"

"But Erick, isn't the invitation already spread?"

"Well! that could be Micah dear"

"I don't understand!" Gia replied while scratching her non-itchy head.

"You don't know what Micah looks like, I thought you were the first and last person to receive the invitation!"

"That means Micah tricked me?"

Erick just shrugged both of his shoulders while raising both of his eyebrows anyway.

"It sucks! You sneaky!"

"Why are you getting angry?"

"Keep I should praise him for deceiving me? Fooled me? He's a sneaky Erick! It was as if he was waving a war flag with me!"

Erick laughed out loud until he held his stomach to hear Gia's statement.

"You're not as innocent as you look, baby!" He said with pride.

"Not that, he acted as if he didn't know me when we decided to do business. It turns out he knows who I am. But he twisted the facts in front of me!"

"Give me, he's not important. Prepare yourself now, you're ready to face my mom and my sisters?"

"The servant is ready to be reviled, sir!" Gia's reply made Erick pull the corner of his lips.

"Yes, I went to the room first to finish my stuff. We're back in the village tomorrow!" Said Gia again with a cry.

"Okay, I'm waiting to be explained. This is a bad laugh!" Answer Erick.

"Not good how?"

"It's not good if it's not legitimate. hahaha"

"Issss" Gia leaves Erick, who is also out of the house.

Before long Gia had been out to meet Erick on the floor, giving him a drink.

"Udah?" Erick asked while receiving his drink from Gia's hand.

"Huum"

"We're getting married, baby!" Erick said in a happy tone.

"You're happy, aren't you?" Added again.

"I'm happy but I haven't calmed down yet to face your parents"

"No matter what, whatever their decision we will stay married. I don't want to think about their feelings anymore. They never thought about my feelings either" Erick replied in an indifferent tone.

Erick turned his gaze toward the front of Gia's rented gang. He saw the familiar black Porsche Panamera. Before long, the man who was very familiar in his view was descending the luxury car.

Gia closed her eyes when she saw Arga coming down the car and walking towards her contract.

"Death me! Why did Arga come here?" inner Gia.

After the last conversation Gia and Arga at that time, Arga once said he would go to Jakarta to take care of his work. For the past 4 months, Gia has never seen Arga again. Although sometimes Arga often informs Gia through messages. But Gia was too focused on her business to forget about Erick back then. Gia also indirectly avoided Arga. So since then, this is the first time Arga visited Gia's contract again. Maybe he just came back here now that his business is done in Jakarta.

"You're still in touch with him?" Erick's question awakens Gia from her memory of Arga.

"I haven't heard from him in a long time" Gia replied honestly.

"meaning? You guys are in touch but you're lost contact, are you?"

"No! That's not it!" Answer Gia quickly.

Before long, the person they were talking about arrived in front of them. With a very forced smile emanated from Arga's face.

"I'm sorry if my arrival interrupts your time" said Arga.

"Would you like to come here?" Ask Erick without further ado.

"Obviously I don't want to see you!" Reply Arga provokes Erick's emotions.

"oh Arga why is your answer so!" Inner Gia spoke.

"You healthy, Gi?" Ask Arga to Gia. He was indifferent and ignored Erick who was in front of him.

Gia got up from her seat, approaching Erick who was standing in front of Arga. Gia stroked Erick's arm. Just in case Erick and Arga have to get involved in the commotion again.

Gia tried to calm Erick if only now Erick had felt the emotion of seeing Arga.

Erick, who received the treatment from Gia, decided to move on.

"Talk about what you want to talk about! I'm waiting for you, Gi!' erick said firmly while entering the house.

Gia looked at Arga clumsily.

"Why, Ga?" Ask Gia.

"I'm sorry I didn't know he was here"

"Huum. What do you need?"

"I just want to look at your situation."

"I'm fine, Ga"

Gia turned her head inside the house as a code for Arga to end this conversation.

"Okay, I'm home!" Arga said trying to smile.

Gia nodded.

"I'm sorry, Ga!" Gia entered the house leaving Arga who was still in his position.

Arga went back to his car. He felt confused by Erick's presence on Gia's side.

"It's in vain that I'm here so late from Jakarta!" Arga said to himself.

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Seriate...