Possessive Love
Crying the Death of Papi

Aretha and David were already on their way to Aretha's birth parents' residence.

After David gave Aretha some understanding and a little calm, she was finally able to become aware of the decree God had laid down and she could not resist it. Although it was heavy, but he tried to remain sincere.

Along the way, Aretha cried incessantly. David did not try to stop him, because he thought it was natural, so he preferred to let his wife cry, while it could calm his heart a little, why not?

David only focused on his steering wheel, although occasionally he glanced at his wife. However, it did not make him fail to focus on the road which at that time seemed busy with vehicles passing by, moreover it was still working hours.

Unforgettably. Before leaving, David had already told the driver and the nurse who had taken his children to school so that they would immediately take Arkana and Aruna to his mother's house.

Right in front of Aretha's parents' house. The yellow flag was flying there. The courtyard of the house was also filled with some filial people. David stopped the car there.

At once Aretha was increasingly sobbing to see the crowd in her parents' house. It was a dream for him.

"Darling, let's go down" David asked.

"Mas ... a-I." Aretha's hand covered part of her face, then she shook her head as if she still did not believe what was in front of her eyes, while her tears were increasingly rushing down her cheeks. It really made David not have the heart to see it.

David hugged Aretha back. "You must be strong, for the sake of mami" he said, stroking his wife's back. "Pity mami, dear," he added, who also had no power to hold back his tears. However, as quickly as lightning David wiped it back, for the sake of not wanting to look weak in front of the wife.

David gets out of his car and opens the car door for Aretha.

"Come on!" David extended his hand to his wife. But Aretha is still the same. She still sobbed while looking at her husband's face.

"Come, honey," take David once more.

Finally Aretha was willing to follow the request of her husband. He grabbed David's hand and got out of the car. His body instantly became limp as if it felt no retracing. It feels so heavy to step foot in there. However, David still led him by wrapping one hand on the waist of the wife.

With a shaky step and a little help from her husband, Aretha walked into her house. It seemed that some people were watching his arrival from the beginning. They were seen staring at Aretha's face.

Aretha and David continued walking until they arrived at an already crowded room with some of the more dominant people dressed in black clothes. They seemed to be sitting in a large circle there, while in the middle, there appeared to be a person who was stretched stiff helplessly covered by a white cloth. In front of her was Carmila who was sobbing crying over the lifeless figure before her at that moment. Yeah, who else if not Antonio Grissham—the father is Aretha.

Instantly Aretha drooped weakly finding such a heartwarming atmosphere. "Rep!!" his screams no longer held the wound in his mind.

All eyes were on him. Even with Carmila who increasingly sobbing see the cry of her daughter. "Papi ... don't leave Rere, Pi ...."

"Darling ...." Again David grabbed his wife, trying to calm her down. However, Aretha kept on screaming for her papa.

The woman could not see the sight. It was all too painful for him. In fact, when he remembered that he had not had time to give happiness to the papi, but his papi had already left him. His heart was broken and broken. In fact, more than that.

"Papii," called Aetha once more in David's arms.

Of course it makes David as her husband very hurt. Yes, the thing that hurt her the most was to see Aretha—the person she loved so much looked devastated.

"Darling, God loves you more. Believe that this is best for him. Don't be like this. You must be strong. Look mami! He's alone. Mommy needs you, baby. Come on ... rise!"

As hard as David survived, by looking at Aretha like that, his tears finally fell as well. He was completely powerless to see the sadness of Aretha at that time.

On the one hand, he wanted to calm his wife. However, on the other hand, he also has no power to hold back his sadness, plus see the wife who increasingly makes him unbearable. For the second time, he cried because of the figure he loved so much, after a long time, several years ago he also did it for the departure of a woman whose name had once been engraved in his heart.

At once Aretha lifted her head from the chest of David's field, then from a distance she looked at the mother who was looking at him while crying, and then she looked at him, accompanied by two middle-aged women on the right and left side who Aretha knows as her maternal neighbors who try to calm down.

"Mami ...," she's still in the same position. She was getting hurt watching her mom cry like that. However, he also could not do much, because in reality he was in his weakest position. Somehow it would have been if he didn't have a husband like David, who had never been bored and did not give up to make him bounce back from the pain that even up to that second was still in him. In fact, the longer the pain is felt.

David raised Aretha's body to his feet, and brought her before the mother. With a swift Aretha immediately buried her face in the lap of the mother. There, he came back crying.

"Your father has calmed down, son," said Carmila Lirih as she stroked her daughter's head, though she herself may have been much more wounded than her husband at the age of half a century.

However, Aretha is getting sobbing sedan. She knew that her mother was also sad and hurt, but in such a situation alone, her mother was still trying to calm her down. She was a really great woman for him.

"Just pray for your papa. He must be happy there," Carmila said with tears still streaming down.

"I-I'm sorry, Mi. B-in fact, I have not had time to give happiness to papi, but papi has already left," said Aretha stammered amid sobs.

"You're wrong, son. Papi said, You are his pride. Papi is so happy to have such a strong daughter like you, son. So please don't let her down because of your crying right now. Papi didn't like it" said Carmila, then who made Aretha increasingly powerless to stop her crying.

"Wake, Son. Look at your papa for the last time" Carmila pleaded.

"Mrs ...."

Suddenly Arkana and Aruna's voice broke in the room, causing Aretha to reflect to stop her crying, though her tears still flowed down her cheeks.

Aretha lifted her head from the lap of the mother, then looked back. Arkana and Aruna who were standing there were accompanied by her nurse.

"Mama, Mama why?" arkana and Aruna asked together, when they realized that their mother's face was covered in tears.

"Here, dear," David asked his two children.

Arkana and Aruna went straight to her papa, then sat on the lap of the man next to each other while still staring sadly at her mother.

"Papa, why's mom?" asked Aruna while raising her head to look at the papa.

Children their age still do not understand the meaning of losing someone they love. They only know how sad, when their favorite toys are lost or taken by people, which of course they can get back, because it is widely available in the market.

"It's okay, honey," replied David.

"Is it okay to cry? Oma as well," looked at Aruna who always had a myriad of ways to ask.

"Yes, Pa," said Arkana who also heeded the words of his sister.

Aretha still looked at her two hearts. Instantly he remembered the mother who always tried to be strong in front of him even in situations that had hurt him, while himself? He can't pretend to be strong at it. However, for the sake of her children, it seems that she really should make her mother an example. He cannot be weak in front of his children. Even for the sake of his papi who clearly did not like to see himself crying.

Aretha immediately wiped away her tears, not wanting to see her two children grieving from seeing her cry.

Aruna immediately ran to embrace her mother, as if she felt the sadness that Aretha was feeling at that moment. Arkana also wants to go to her mother. However, as fast as lightning David held him back.

"Arka here alone is equally papa," said David who immediately got a nod of the head from his son.

"Jeng ..we are so sorry, too," said Maria, who had just arrived at the venue with Kris. The woman seemed to directly hug Carmila by showing her sad expression. He really didn't expect the iron to go that fast, and it left him in a deep shock, when David told him two hours ago.

In the arms of Maria— friends and his besi, Carmila spill all the sadness that was felt at that time. Truly losing her husband was the saddest thing for her.

While Kris seemed to approach Aretha, before saying condolences to Carmila.

"Pa. Papi, Pa. ..," said Aretha again crying. In fact, he had forgotten that Aruna was still sitting on his lap back then.

Seeing her grieving daughter-in-law like that, Kris immediately hugged her like a real child. "You're patient, son. You still have Dave, mommy, papa and mama too. You're papa's son. Your papa must be happy there" he said, stroking Aretha's back.

Soon, the Aretha family came from out of town. Oma and her uncle's family were present. Again Carmila dropped her cries in the arms of her in-laws, the mother of her husband. The atmosphere became more and more intense in an instant.

Not only them. In fact, friends and relatives of Aretha and David were also present there. Also with some business associates and employees in his papal company seemed to have been in that place.

After everything began to stabilize, then the process of taking care of Anton's body until his body was delivered to the final resting place not far from his home.

***

After delivering her papa to her final resting place, Aretha and her mother were seen sitting next to each other on a long sofa in the living room accompanied by her husband and in-laws. Richard and Rendy and his wife are still there.

Aretha seemed to be leaning against her mammoth chest. Again he cried. It is not easy to let go of someone who is very loved, as is the case with Aretha.

"Already, Son. We don't have to be in grief. God loves papi more. Papi must be happy there, honey. As long as we're here happy too" Carmila said, wiping Aretha's arm.

Aretha wiped her tears, without commenting.

Mami always tried to strengthen me, even though I knew she was fragile. And it just makes me more hurt to see a mami who pretends to be tough.

Precisely what Aretha was worried about now was the mother. I don't know what her mother's life will be like, after her papa is not home to accompany the woman who has been nine months pregnant.

Not only her mom, the others also motivated Aretha, strengthening each other, although they also felt very lost.

***

The departure of her papi made Aretha more locked themselves in the room. At that time he seemed to sit leaning on the bed while staring nanar in any direction.

"Honey, breakfast first" said David who was then seen bringing food into the room. However, Aretha did not answer anything.

"Honey, come on dong .. don't keep going like this. You should eat. If you don't eat, how are you going to take care of your mom, huh?" david said to advise.

"I have no appetite, Mas," replied Aretha still with the same gaze.

"Yes, I know. But, at least eat a little, do not leave your stomach empty. You haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon. I beg you," David replied pleading.

"You love me, aren't you the same? Are you the same Arka and Aruna? So did your mom?" ask David. "If you love, eat for us" he added.

"I'm confused, Mas. It feels very heavy to be sincere," said Aretha.

"Everything is the same. Just do it slowly, not too forcefully. Any time everything will come back to God without us expecting, and we must be ready to face it, and then try to make it happen. Regarding loss, it will always be like that plot," explained David trying to open the heart of Aretha to be aware of God's destiny line.

"Mommy?" Aretha slightly gasped as she recalled her mammoth. " His mom, have you eaten?" ask him to Aretha.

"No, yet" David replied shaking his head. "Mommy is just like you, has not wanted to eat, has not wanted to go out of the room as well. Only you can make my mother rise again. If you continue like this, mommy must be the same. Come on, don't make your mom worse" David asked.

Hearing David's statement, Aretha went straight to her mom's room. The mother who was still sitting was leaning on the bed with tears dripping down her cheeks. Perhaps, that was the place he felt most secure to hide and bestow all his grief.

"Mami" called Aretha softly as she approached her mother.

As fast as lightning Carmila wiped her tears, then forced her smile, when she realized Aretha's whereabouts there as if she did not want her daughter to know that she was crying.

"Mommy, already dong .. don't cry constantly. He said the papi would be happy if he saw us smiling happily" Aretha said as she landed her body next to the mami.

"Mommy is not crying, son," replied Carmila who of course Aretha knew that it was a lie.

"Mommy breakfast first. Let me bribe," said Aretha who at that time deliberately brought food for the mother.

"Have you eaten, son?" ask Carmila.

Aretha smiled. "We eat together" he replied, who immediately got a smile from the mother.

Aretha also began to give a mouthful of rice that immediately received a welcome from her mother. They eat in turn. The happy smiles they throw at each other, although it seems a little forced in the midst of destruction that is difficult to forget in a short time.

"Mommy, Mami will stay with me and David?" aretha asked, after they had finished their breakfast. He seemed to be holding his mother's hand.

"Why should mommy stay with you guys?" carmila asked around then, even though she knew the intention of her daughter to invite her to live together, none other than because Aretha was worried about her.

"Mami .. David and I won't let Mami stay here alone. Therefore, Mami wants to stay with us. I beg you" said Aretha begging.

Carmila once again smiled at him. "No, Honey. After all, here's going to be bi Reni who accompanies mami. You don't have to worry" he refused.

"Different, Mi .. I can't leave Mami alone," Aretha said looking confused.

"Until now my mom won't leave this house. So many memories in this house. Memories with papi, you too, son. Mommy doesn't want to just leave all those memories." Carmila's eyes began to glaze back, when she managed to look at the memories with her late husband and Aretha as a child.

"Mommy ...." Aretha hugged her mother full of.