Marrying My Brother's Fiancee
EPISODE 131 HEARTS AS LIGHT AS COTTON
"Dad...how are you today?" Sarah appears at the door of the father's nursery while holding Rae, while Raka is behind them carrying a lot of tentengan, cakes, fruit and bread.
"Dad's feeling better, son..." Welcomed the wide smile of the father who was leaning on his hospital bed. He was like writing something on a small notebook, then immediately closed it when he realized that many had entered his room.
"Dad is well, tell the doctor, I'm ready to go home..." The half-sobbly voice made Sarah instantly sour.
"Look at your grandfather, Rae. Still sick but just wanna go home..." Sarah swings her mouth at little Rae who is in her cradle, as if Rae can understand her words.
"Eh..granddaughter dear grandfather..."Sarah's father looked cheerfully at the baby whose eyes were twinkling funny. His outstretched hand stroked Rae's calm-looking cheeks. He doesn't act like he used to when he saw strangers, maybe he's getting used to seeing Sarah's father.
"Today Rae went to see his grandfather, let him be excited..." Raka chimed in, took Rae from Sarah, so Sarah could check on her father.
"How did you sleep today?" Sarah asked, holding her father's hand.
"Dad sleeps well tonight." Sarah's father replied with a smile.
"It should be so..." Suddenly someone slapped in from the front door.
Sarah's father was stunned to see the two people standing behind the arrival of Sarah and Raka.
"Mom and Dad wanted to see Dad..."Sarah whispered half a whisper.
Sarah's father lost his words, he did not expect this iron came to visit him to the hospital.
Raka and Sarah have told the true state of Sarah's father from her return to how her father suffered from Myeloma Multiple.
There was nothing Sarah was hiding because she thought her in-laws were her parents. They also have to know, whatever the reaction of papa and mama Raka to his past, he accepts.
"May Mr. Winarta recover quickly..." Papa Sarah extended her hand with a warm smile.
"The kids were slow to tell me if I was in the hospital, so we were slow to visit." Mama Raka chimed in kindly.
"I...oh..thank you..thanks...sorry to trouble." Sarah's father said he was not ready for this meeting. Shame and low self-esteem spread in his heart, as a father he felt unworthy to come to them in this state.
"We're a family, there's no troublesome word for each other." Papa Raka smiled at Sarah's father.
He was stunned, all the shadows about the frightening encounter and perhaps igniting prejudice due to his sudden arrival after such a long time, evaporated just like that.
The husband of his daughter's family is really so friendly and well-come. He feels treated very well.
"Don't have too many negative thoughts when the pain affects the body's immune system, you know. Think well and stay excited. If it heals, you should go home. Sarah and I will cook a good meal..." Mama Sarah added again.
Indeed, Sarah's father had not many words but infinite gratitude, Sarah had found a family as good as them.
After nearly half an hour of light talk, they never once asked where and where Sarah's father had been. It all flows like a family meeting and the meeting is so much fun.
Father Sarah's body may be in pain and pain from the tip of the foot to the whole body but her heart is happy in the midst of them, especially in the company of Sarah, the child she always misses day and night
"We seem to have to go home, I have an appointment in an hour." papa Raka interjected with a sorry look.
Papa and Mama Raka say goodbye to go home, because papa Raka has an appointment with his colleague.
"We're still here.Today I have a full body CT-SCAN schedule." Said Sarah.
"I'll accompany Sarah..." Raka.
"Alright, mama's coming home first, Rae can come with mama first, so you can concentrate on taking care of your father."
Mama takes Rae home first, while Sarah and Raka stay.
"Darling, papa wants to talk to both of you..." Suddenly his father said, when everyone was gone, except Raka who was always next to Sarah.
His father's face looked more gaunt, even as the body looked older, after a week of treatment.
Sarah and Raka looked at each other, then sat facing the father's bed. Waiting awkwardly as his father's face looked serious.
"Dad probably didn't have to lie about the disease that I'm suffering from now, maybe you know better, without dad saying it again." Sarah's father smiled faintly.
"Dad.should have said from the beginning..." Sarah lowered her face sadly.
"Yesterday the father had given the father's medical history sent by the doctor who handled the father in Canada before. I've sent you an email to Dr. Pram, so as not to complicate the diagnosis of the father's health data."
Sarah nodded her head slowly, while Raka stared next to Sarah.
"Sarah, I just want to tell you the truth, the beginning of all the suffering you have to accept. All the fruits of your father's fault know this self. Even if your father thinks over and over again, your mother's suffering is also due to taking away the sin I've committed." Papa Sarah glared.
Her voice was weaker than usual, she had been acting strong all this time in front of Sarah.
"Your father was a proud man*n, who did not know himself..." Sarah's father uttered the sentence bitterly, then flowed a dark story in his past with Sarah's foster mother. All the things her father told her without leaving any part, even a confession of how he had an illicit relationship with Sarah's mother.
Sarah's father did not try to defend himself for the mistake he had done.
Even up to a photo that makes him like being chased by demons under the threat of Sarah's adoptive mother.
She was too afraid of the disgrace, she was too afraid to destroy her own sister's household. But he made the grave mistake of handing over his only child to the one who had ruined his life.
Tears of regret at the end of her long story, Sarah was just stunned in place, hearing with a thousand feelings that were so hard to express.
He didn't know what to say, and if his disappointment and wounds were burning, who would he spill over to?
Sarah had no way of judging her suffering for decades without her father.
"Dad's sorry, I don't know this sorry word is enough to pay for everything. Regret is of no use anymore." Her father's tears drenched his own cheeks, he cried without a sound.
Sarah turned to Raka, her husband was silent, but the eyes were warm, as if to say, Sarah knew what to do.
"Dad..." Sarah moved and sat carefully on the edge of her father's bed.
" Thank you for your honesty..." Sarah said while holding her father's fingers, without the slightest emotion.
"Sarah doesn't want to know, whatever happened in the back, we've both passed through it even in a different path of suffering. All Sarah knows now is that my father has returned." Sarah wiped her father's tears. Hugged her. The hearts of the two father-daughter men were as light as cotton.
An honesty once again proves, he is able to end a mistake even though it may be painful to hear.
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