
"Oh, what's the pain?" lia asked as they were on their way to the hometown by train.
"It hurts, does it still hurt?" ketus Bu Sumi did not like Lia to ask so much.
"What does Lia mean hurts? a kidney? the liver? or tumors?"
Sumi's mom glares at me."Huss! Lia, how did you swear your father was so sick?"
"I'll ask buk, not nyubahin."
"Udah ah Lia, I want to sleep. If it has been up to wakein ibuk ya." said Bu Sumi fix the position of sitting most comfortable.
Lia chose silence, she felt like there was something her mother was hiding. Even Lia felt that it was something that did not satisfy her heart.
'I hope this is just my feeling. Not a bad feeling.' thought Lia trying to think positively.
****
A few days before Ms. Sumi came to Lia's boarding house in the city.
At the residence of Mr. Subekti, bang Tan returned to visit because again Bu Sumi was late to pay the debt.
The man with a mustache about 45 years old sat across his legs and sucked his cigar. To his left stood two burly thugs who were usually in charge of executing.
Ms. Sumi and Mr. Subekti are sitting on the other side of the living room sofa. Their faces were very nervous and nervous.
"We're sorry, boss... We have not enough money to pay our debts. Please give us two more days." pinta pak Subekti pleaded.
Bang Tan sucks his cigar and breathes his smoke right in the face of Pak Subekti and Bu Sumi. Until the couple coughed.
"Listen to Mr. Subekti and Ms. Sumi. I have often given you leeway. And repeatedly you're late to pay."
"This once! I beg you." Mr. Subekti is welding with his hand held in front of his chest.
"Can't sir, can't ya can't."
"Please help us... Have mercy on us. We'll pay it off, we promise." this time Ms. Sumi begs with a clear face.
"I've been eating your promise, Miss Sumi."
"We really don't have money at the moment" said Mr. Subekti puzzled. Because Lia just last week sent them money. It was also impossible for her to ask Lia for money anymore.
The other two children were not expected to be. Lisna is married and completely hands off regarding the debt caused by her. Because it used to guarantee the certificate of home, Sumi was forced to pay for it by relying on Lia.
"That's it. I'll assume your debt is paid off, if..."
pak Bekti and Bu Sumi seemed sparkling to hear it, their spirit seemed to appear immediately heard the boss would eliminate the debt.
"If, you marry your daughter to me." continued bang Tan with a thin, sly smile on his face.
pak Bekti and Bu Sumi looked at each other. Then look back at Tantoro.
"Thank you the coach of Tantoro? Yasinta?" pak Bekti mentions one of his girls who works in a supermarket.
"Not."
Ms. Sumi and Mr. Bekti looked again.Their hands shook and the faces both looked very tense and sweaty.
"What Farah?" asked Bu Sumi very softly and carefully.
"He's still a schoolboy.... I beg..."
Tantoro chuckled, his laughter was very wide and loud. The couple in debt were increasingly confused.
"You still have another child. The most beautiful, but she's not here..."
"Let me remember what his name is..."
"Li-Lia?" ask Mr. Bekti with stammering and increasingly tense face.
"Yes, right. Lia!" firmly Tantoro with a sharpened gaze.
"I want Lia. Leave him to me, and your debt is paid off!"
"But-but... Lia..."
Tantoro stood up and pulled the collar of the front shirt of the Subecti pack. "He why? No like? I don't give a shit. As long as she's my wife, I take your debt, this house will be yours again."
Tantoro took off his grip.
"I'll give you a week to think about it. During that time, the interest on your debt continues to run. But I won't bother." continued Tantoro again stepped out of the house.
"I'm looking forward to the good news."
****
"Where is this sir?" Sumi looked very anxious."If Lia is taken by Tantoro, we have no source of money in the future.
mr. Subekti was twitching his pulsating head. "Brother is confused too. Right now it is Lia who keeps giving us money. From Yasinta it is only enough to eat two weeks. Farah went to school, and Agus couldn't be expected. Lisna raised her hand."
"True sir, your workshop effort is also quiet lately, right?"
Ms. Sumi was getting more agitated, "So how does this pack her solution. I don't want to live hard. Shameful with friends arisan ibuk, shame with neighbors, also with other siblings mother."
"We're dead-end buk." Mr. Bekti rough mendessaah."We can only sacrifice Lia. To save this house. If this house gets taken, we'll have nowhere to stay."
Ms. Sumi massaged her chest over and over again. His face was hard to imagine their lives.
"It's not hard to live, sir."
pak Bekti rubbed the pungung wife to be stronger and be patient again. "Tomorrow we'll pick up Lia. Take him home."
"Let me sir, dear the fare. Let my mother persuade Lia."
****
Arriving at home, Lia found her father lying on the guest sofa with a thick blanket. Lia was sad and concerned.
"Sir?" Lia touched his father's arm.
"Lia? You home?" pak Bekti got up and sat down while rubbing his eyes.
"Sir, sir, he said he was sick and even slept here?"
"father only had Lia's fever, he went to the doctor yesterday. I was waiting for you, he said already on the road." explained Mr. Bekti softly.
"Well, did you take your medicine?"
"It's a son."
"Well eat?"
"It."
"Yes, you moved inside." suggested Lia help Pak Bekti stand up and pack him into the room.
"No papa Lia, you can walk alone."