
Still flashback
"I'm sorry, son." said Malik, amid tightness that squeezed the chest.
Love nodded. The tears have spilled unstoppably. The girl continued to hold Malik's hand tightly, implying her unreality if the father had to leave so quickly.
"Father-" Malik's breathing was still stingy, so what he wanted to talk about it had to be paused.
"Dad... Don't talk too much first. Love forgives Dad. Dad nothing wrong. Love dear Daddy. It should be Love that apologizes to Dad, Love is much wrong with Dad." said Love with tears that increasingly become.
Rahayu was also crying deeply. Between ready and unprepared, she must be sincere if the Khalik will take her current husband. Kidney disease, which was cured thanks to kidney transplant surgery a few years ago, has recently returned. But Malik asked him to keep this matter a secret to his children, in order not to cause excessive anxiety to make things only focused on him.
Zayn is currently working on his own company. Love has just started her studies. So unwilling to bother parents and the brother who helped the cost of his college, making the girl took the initiative to find extra pocket money by working in a restaurant. And because that's what makes Malik not talk about the problem of his disease.
Malik's eye glances towards Keanu. Slowly his weak hand was raised, as if to be greeted by Keanu.
Keanu was stunned for a moment. Alternately he turned to not understand Rahayu and Love. It felt awkward to welcome Malik's hand, but Keanu finally welcomed him as well.
"Son, I have my son Love" Malik told Keanu.
The man chose silence. Although still ambiguous with the sentence, but Keanu did not really care about it.
"After I find the right man for Love, I can go in peace" Malik said, staring expectantly at Keanu.
"Dad...."
The cry of love is hysterical. The girl had a bad feeling that her father would leave her forever.
When the girl rushed to embrace Malik's weak body, Rahayu quickly pulled it to give her husband a respite.
The middle-aged woman looked even tougher than Love. Although actually his heart was the one who felt the worst when imagining being left behind by the husband who had been accompanying his life.
"Please take care of Love." Malik spoke again to Keanu.
Once again Keanu was made stunned by Malik's words. His mind suddenly did not care if his words were the last message requested by Malik to him.
"Keeping Love? I mean-" The man didn't think if Malik's intention was to keep it in the sense of marrying him. Aah, I hope not!
"Son.." said Malik, his hand felt tighter and tighter with Keanu's hand.
"Yes, sir." said Keanu in a soft voice.
"I-I-I-"
"You don't worry. We will take care of love. We love love love as our own children."
Suddenly Ratih appeared right behind Keanu, when he came out to call a sister for Malik. And immediately chimed in the last message signal from Malik.
Rahayu nodded in agreement as Malik glanced at her. Actually the most blessed by him is to leave his daughter when he himself has not been able to marry her to a good man who will be the protector of his life later. Somehow when he saw Keanu who was also in this place, Malik felt that the right man to accompany Love.
Malik's small smile briefly rose, before finally the man again felt difficulty breathing.
"Dad... Please hold on, Dad. Hold on for the love. Hang on for mom's sake, for brother's sake." Love is hysterical.
"Suster!!!! Sister!!!"
Until the girl screamed loudly when she realized the nurse who should have come never arrived.
"Patience, Son. Relax..." Ratih directly embraces the shoulders of Love. Give him the spirit of rigor with love. Then lead him to step back a little from the father.
While Rahayu herself also sobbed increasingly so. His body suddenly felt limp to stand up. Soon he found a handle by propping one of his hands against the wall. It was as if his life-strengthening muscle had disappeared with the pain that Malik was currently suffering from.
Keanu, the only man in the room, quickly led Malik to call out a prayer of kindness right beside his ear in his breath. The man believes that this is when God will take Malik back. He immediately remembered his late father. When his papa breathed his last, Keanu was not next to him. So now he does not want to repeat his regrets. With sympathy for Malik, the man did so only on humanitarian grounds.
A doctor and a nurse arrive while Malik is on the verge of his last term. Although the doctor had tried his best, apparently God was willing to do something else. Malik breathed his last breath. To God the Creator.
The sound of crying was getting broken. Especially Love. It was the most hysterical to find out that his father was completely gone. While Rahayu suddenly drooped limp and barely conscious. Ratih immediately approached Rahayu to help her sit on the sofa in the room.
While Keanu remained fixated without being able to do anything. He knows what it's like to be left by a loved one to face the Creator. Although he used to be in frequent conflict with his late father, however he remained his father.
Ratih looks busy fanning Rahayu's body that has fainted. The middle-aged woman did not expect that her visit here would be a witness to the departure of her beloved Love.
Love hugged his father's body, with the sobbing of his weeping. Seeing the girl who was so, Ratih intruded Keanu to lift the body of Love so as not to overlap and roar in Malik's body.
Keanu instantly complied without many words. He quickly pulled the shoulder of Love so as not to cry near the body of his father. Instantly Love hugged Keanu tightly. The girl continued to cry, spilling her heart's sadness behind the chest of Keanu's field as the pedestal of her head.
Keanu. His feelings suddenly became somehow as the girl hugged him. The voice of Love is heard quietly calling his father. Until it made the man a little full and slowly rubbed the girl's back gently.
Frankly, Keanu was confused on how to contact the other Love family to tell this news. Lucky Rahayu quickly regained consciousness. He became calmer as Ratih gave him some water to drink and continued to accompany him calmly.
"Mom, please call the family of the other mother." pinta Keanu to Rahayu.
Rahayu spread her gaze throughout the room. He just realized that his eldest son has not arrived here. Soon he tried to contact her. But it was missed and it could be that his son was still on the plane heading home.
"So how, Jeng?" Ratih asked, after seeing the phone that Rahayu contacted was not answered.
Rahayu just flinching. Her eyes were empty and she looked at her husband who was covered in a white cloth on his body.
Keanu soon took his own initiative. He took off Cinta's embrace from his body, so he could move on to help manage the administration of Malik's body back to his home.
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