Rainbow for Aqila
Invitation

Who wants to get hurt? Who wants to feel pain? Who wants to suffer? No one in the world chooses to live like that. The destiny of every human being has existed before birth in this mortal and cruel world. Destiny that determines how the servant becomes a devout or destructive creature on the earth of the creator

In the middle of the hospital patient bed with various equipment around her, lay a weak hijab girl with a pale face and tightly closed eyes

The destiny Aqila lived like this, fighting, fighting and fighting. Because actually life is more meaningful about how hard our struggle to live a world full of drama and games

Struggling to earn his rights as a child and brother who is less cared for, struggling to forget the love and pain when the person he is interested in chooses his brother, and now fighting to live against the disease that lays in his body for the sake of family, friends and men who promise to bring a lot of color and happiness like a rainbow. But is the promise real? Or just a sweet fruit to make himself believe

"We will do chemotherapy until the size of cancer cells in the brain shrinks and can be immediately operated on for removal"

"Can't these cancer cells disappear completely?" Papa Arya still feels restrained to believe that this disease can not be cured

"Cancer disease is not fully cured especially already including malignant conditions such as Aqila today, we can only control it to shrink and not spread to other organs" explained Dr. Diana, he understood the feeling the patient's family would want the best for his daughter

"Would these cancer cells ever come back?" This time Devano is surrounded by curiosity and fear to ask

"May, even patients with benign or early-stage cancer that has been declared cured can return and spread to new organs"

All of them who were there nodded weakly, they will definitely give their best to Aqila

"Why hasn't Aqila been aware of the doctor?" A mother's feelings of worry for her daughter are natural

"After chemotherapy the patient was exhausted so we wait a while, Aqila did not faint but may be tired and in pain because it chose to close her eyes rather than continue to feel it all"

After asking a few questions, Papa Arya, Mama Intan and Devano walked out of the room of Diana's doctor towards Aqila's room

"Go back to Devano's office, do not delay work, or your wedding date is also postponed" said Papa Arya firmly, pushing his eldest son's shoulder when Devano was about to enter Aqila's room

"Mom..." Devano did not accept the words of his father, since that night he was sure his mother must have told his father about it, and it is certain that Papa Arya had found out who the woman was

The door of Aqila's room was closed tightly leaving Devano silent at the door, if his papa said such a thing, does not mean that his marriage has been approved by his father

Devano smiled and looked at his sister who was lying from the window curtain slightly open

"Sorry Brother Devan Aqila, Brother Devan repeatedly hurts you, but you actually give happiness to brother. Seeing your face smiling and happy, you can feel it, because it heals quickly, yes?, do not ever think to go" said Devano by wiping the window of the hospital

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On the campus corridor which was quite quiet, men with high stature walked hurriedly towards the lecturer room until at the end of the corridor, he hit a woman who seemed to be in a hurry too

"If the road wilful dong!" The woman who was hit by the man was angry while collecting her book that had fallen

"Lo is also wrong" Rian certainly does not accept himself to blame, for women who currently wear all black clothes are also wrong

"Don't blame anyone else, obviously you hit it first" said the woman looked into Rian's eyes without any fear

"Lo..."

"Had I hurried, not to miss layanin lo talk" without waiting for Rian to finish his words women with shoulder-length hair had run like a hurry

"WAIT!" Rian held the dark blue polpen that had fallen, but it was too late because the woman had already disappeared at the end of the corridor

"Rani Permayanti" said Rian read the name on the polpen, written with white paper and taped with elongated tape on the polpen body

"We must have met" said Rian put the object in his bag and continued his steps more slowly than before

"Assalamu'alaikum" Rian said a greeting after knocking on the room that read 'Lecturer' which was the reason he was in a hurry

"Wa'alaikumussalam"

The lecturer's room was quiet at that time, only Bu Maya was there, maybe another lecturer was taking a break because he happened to have entered lunch

"Did Maya call me?" Rian frowned with a look of wonder, because Bu Maya is a lecturer in the faculty of art not business

"There is something important that I want to discuss with you" Bu Maya replied with a look full of seriousness

"What mom?"

"It's about Aqila" hearing her sister's name called, Rian put up her ear to hear what explanation Bu Maya would say

"Do you know your sister has stage three brain cancer?" Rian nodded his head but then stopped and looked at Bu Maya

"Kok mom knows? Who would tell? Aqila's? A renata? Or Naufal?" Ask Rian

"Aqila never told me that mother and Naufal who took her to the hospital when she was unconscious for almost an hour, from there the doctor said that he was diagnosed with stage three brain cancer"

Rian was silent for a moment, digesting word for word that came out of the mouth of the famous lecturer in the art faculty.

"Then?"

"You already know that the disease affects other parts of his brain, such as thinking and memory" Rian again nodded because he had heard the doctor's explanation of it

"Wouldn't Aqila take some time off? And focus on the treatment?" Ask Bu Maya attentively

"My sister why mom?"

"Aqila is often like a dazed person in class, other lecturers also often say that even though in class she is known as an intelligent and active student"

Rian was silent for a moment and rubbed his face rough, he would discuss later with Aqila and her parents

"Thank you for the information ma'am" Rian replied politely

"Sorry Rian is not the mother who intends to interfere in your family affairs, but is it true that Aqila will marry Naufal?"

"Certainly ma'am, the invitation hasn't been scattered maybe..."

"Assalamu'alaikum" a man entered the lecturer's room with a breath of breath

"Wa'alaikumussalam Naufal, what's wrong?" Yes, that man is Naufal

"Naufal wants to do this buk" he said putting a beautiful blue paper with shiny plastic wrap

"Just talked about" maybe for those who do not know Bu Maya considers that the teacher is friendly, even though if in the art faculty Bu Maya won the title as the most killer teacher

"So bener? Do you promise to make her happy?" Maya remembers Naufal's words in the hospital the day they learned of Aqila's disease

"What promise?" Rian asked for an explanation but Naufal looked at him with a stern look

"Hi brother-in-law" Naufal showed a smile that actually made Rian annoyed, even though one faculty and one class in fact they were not close, so it was strange that Naufal suddenly became his sister-in-law

"Don't do that, I'm disgusted by her horror" Maya and Naufal laughed at Rian's reaction, probably because they often saw the man being cold, firm, and determined, and sometimes mischievous it's weird that Naufal behaves like that. It might not even be just Rian, but other students as well

"Hopefully Aqila did not choose the wrong soul mate" her inner self then retreat after saying goodbye to Bu Maya, ignoring Naufal who also looked at her

"This invitation is special, because Naufal has not loved other guests, just me" Bu Maya laughed at that and nodded despite a bit of hesitation

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