The End of Hope
88 Eps. Question When

Morningtime.

Ares entered the courtyard of the house, when Dinda had just parked her car there. He stepped past Dinda, who had just gotten out of the car, just like that. He looked at Dinda indifferently, while Dinda glared back at his sister's gaze.

"Where are you from?!" ask Dinda ketus.

Ares stopped his steps, he turned around and looked at Dinda as if she was innocent. And he said, "you yourself, where are you?" Ares asked back.

Dinda smiled wryly, as she replied, "I? From nganterin's sister's son. Raya, it has to be school, so she goes home, changes clothes first" said Dinda.

"Oh, so he's gone to school? Nice one!" sahut Ares's.

"Yes nice dong. Who else would have done it if not me? His father is not responsible." He said while stepping away.

He left Ares after nudging his brother's shoulder with his elbow. Arez shook his head, he followed Dinda's steps, holding his sister's hand.

Then he said, "don't be careless when you say, who's not responsible? This brother has taken care of the children up to that big, said no responsibility. Think about talking!"

Dinda, whose hand was held by Ares, looked at her hand, then brushed her brother away in annoyance. He turned to face his older brother while shaking his waist.

"Yes, where does the big brother come from, is it natural that I say, big brother is not responsible? The child is left that way, mending if the child is easily arranged, the child is fussy. Hence, just look for the baby there, take care of people!"

Ares laughed amusedly at Dinda's behavior, saying, "heard yes, if I marry, it's the same as repotting people as well. What's the difference between mending and not getting married."

"Sheep not my nicotine, don't make mama cepe!" sahut Dinda's.

"You're asking a married man, you haven't been married, when did you get married?" ares said while sneering at his sister.

Dinda pouted, she actually did not like others to ask her like this, let alone that it was her own brother, who knew how she was in her condition. He was tired of having to keep answering "when?" questions?" because he had resigned about the couple, even now he asked his parents to be betrothed.

"Mama.. This brother, bummer!" screeched Dinda while walking towards Rasti's room. There was already Yoni there, who looked as if he had been, in Rasti's lap. The woman sat leaning on the head of the bed, rubbing Yoni's head gently.

"What, you guys are all grown up but still fighting!" hendras said annoyed.

"Why Yoni, ma?" ares asked who appeared together in the room following Dinda.

He approached Yoni and lifted the little boy from his grandmother's lap, then carried him affectionately. Rasti looked at Ares with a long sigh, he said,

"Your son, yes, usually, wakes up no one, no cry. Already, take it to the bath, keep on breakfast. If today you have to babysit Yoni again, you can't just take him to the office there."

Ares came out of the room wiping his face with his palm, looking as if he was frowning, thinking, how can you bring Yoni? The agenda of the activity is a field review today, if bringing Yoni will be very risky at the project site later. He is helpless, but he is responsible enough to keep doing what he has to live.

Shouldn't that be how humans are? There was no choice for him but to carry out what was already an obligation in his life.

Man dwells on the earth of God for a while, like a guest or a traveler who comes to visit His earth. As a guest, you must follow the rules of the host. So does the man who lives on the earth of God, so he must follow the rules of the owner of man, the earth and its contents.

Every human being has a dark side in him, which makes him unable to see the light, and unable to see the truth about the rules of the ruler who owns the universe. Yet God always gives a speck of light in his heart, even if it is small, the man should be able to find the bright spot, and follow it, so that he does not get lost in living it.

So as with a reality, the answer to the question, why is there always light in the dark of the night? Why did God create stars in the sky? God's purpose in creating stars, other than to adorn the heavens, is to cast devils, who love to steal the word from the heavens. In addition to creating stars as a decoration of the night sky, stars can also be used as a guide, a determinant of a season, as a lesson for humans and therefore, the sky becomes very beautiful. Does God not love beauty?

Now the family is in the dining room, enjoying breakfast, Dinda, Ares is getting ready for work. Yoni has also been cleaned, dressed and ready to follow his father on an adventure. He was having breakfast and asked where his sister and Naya were. Dinda, Rasti and Hendra looked at each other as Ares answered lightly, to Yoni's question.

"Sister is in school. If aunt Naya, umma, who is she? Papa is not familiar. Don't ask me about Aunt Naya anymore, do you?"

"Yoyo wants to go to school too, Yoyo wants to go to school too, like big brother!" yoni said with a whine, after finishing his breakfast and preparing to put on his shoes.

"Ah, do not go to school is also okay, later also pinter himself," Ares replied.

Ares' words made both his parents shake their heads.

Hendra said slowly, "You, Ares, if you talk to the boy carefully. You have to educate your child well. Who said school was not important? The future of your children will be filled with intense competition between people who are getting smarter. Education is important!"

"Ares, where were you last night? All busy, you're gone. Yoni cried looking for his papa, you called not appointed" said Rasti.

Overnight, after the completion of the Maghrib and Isha prayers in the mosque, he chatted and asked Mr. Ustadz some questions, but then he chose to stay in the mosque, because he suspected Naya would stay there, he said, but he did not think that it turned out that Naya actually came home after putting her child to sleep. Guilt suddenly appeared in her heart.

'Oh, so Naya's coming home? I thought he'd stay'

"I'm at the mosque, ma," Ares replied calmly.

"Why not go home?"

"Egypt."

"Are you sleeping, not because you forgot about the kids or because of anything else?" rasti asked again, still curious.

"Yes, ma. I overslept, the time of revival." answered Ares accordingly.

"Oh, yes. Yesterday there was mama Mala here, send greetings to you."

Making everyone who heard him speak, become annoyed. Since Ares showed no interest in Naya, he asked nothing of her.

"Oh, yes. My phone." said Ares suddenly, without much talk he immediately went to his car to pick up the phone and it turns out the phone is not on because it runs out of power.

The man took the phone charger in his bag and immediately charged up on his phone, then prepared some food to take to the office as a food supply for Yoni, as usual. All of them prepare themselves.

As the day was getting late, and all the preparations were done, Ares said goodbye to his parents to go to the office, and Yoni went with him.

Similarly, Dinda who has prepared to go to the shop where she works, representing both her parents managing their family business.

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Naya is back to work as usual. He repeatedly looked at the screen of his phone, hoping Ares would reply to the message he sent last afternoon. There was a bit of disappointment as he felt Ares was ignoring him. Though the message that Naya sent was to answer Ares' wishes, which he had said a few months ago, when they were in the cafe. But Naya remains prejudiced that it is likely that Ares has not read the message.

Perhaps, after he left his phone overnight in his car, many other messages were more important, which seized his attention than messages from Naya.

When he saw Rama, who was waiting in line to pick up food in the cafeteria, Naya asked, "Rama, today there is Pak Ares not in the office?"

Asked like that, Rama knitted his brows at Naya, and Rama replied, "why, tumben you asked Mr. Ares?"

Bumbling, Naya shook her head and said, "it's nothing, it's just nanya."

"Do you miss?"

And Naya shook her head again, she solemnly said no, sniffing her shoulders. He didn't lie, he didn't miss. It just takes one answer and one certainty.

Naya just thought, when will a beautiful relationship be built again in her life, again feel the heaven of the world and the warmth of a family bond? He is just an ordinary person who really wants to be loved in a simple way.

It is an advantage to have a partner who does not demand anything from his partner and he is quite happy just by seeing his partner is fine.

Rama sees Naya expressionlessly, when Naya no longer says anything to him, until he finishes lunch that day.

However, before leaving, Rama said to Naya, "Sir Ares went to the project today."

Rama's statement made Naya understand, why Ares did not answer his message, and again think clearly that everything will be fine in the end.

The sun still shows the ferocity of the heat, when it continues to roll, some humans mark the time of the sun with the term afternoon. The hot atmosphere still stings the city, even though it is near the time ashar arrived.

In a place.

Seeming a great busyness was underway, the construction of a magnificent building was, suddenly, heard the sound of a slashing cry of a little boy. There were many people looking at the state of a small child crying quite loudly. Everyone was confused because the child could not be touched by anyone else, who intended to help him.

And the boy was Yoni, he fell accidentally, while playing. Ares left it to a mother, who had a small stall near where her project was. At that time, the mother Yoni had visited, was busy serving buyers, and that was when Yoni fell. Ares had told the mother about Yoni's phobic condition towards strangers, and she advised him not to approach Yoni, just keep an eye on his son. When she fell, she could do nothing.

Somehow Yoni could have fallen there, it just so happened that no one had witnessed it. As soon as he finds out Yoni has fallen, the woman appears to run for Ares at the project site and informs him of her son's condition.

"Sir Ares. Son, Sir! Father fell, he's crying now!"

"God, buk, how can you?" sahut Ares while giving some pictures to colleagues next to him. He hurriedly followed the mother walking towards the direction Yoni was in.

"Where do I know, sir. Sorry I was busy too!" answered the mother while walking in a row.

The two men approached Yoni, who was covered in blood on his legs and shoulders.

In a hurry Ares immediately grabbed Yoni's dirty and bloody body, he led him to the car to clean his son's wound and intended to give him first aid on the wound, but soon Yoni fainted, ares was forced to take her to the hospital at that time.

Ares drove his car very quickly to the nearest hospital. After arriving there, Yoni immediately received treatment in the emergency department. Shortly after treating the young boy, a doctor reported that there was a serious infection in Yoni's wounds that required further treatment and he had to be hospitalized to deal with the infection in his wounds.

Ares wanted to call someone, and that's when he realized, not bringing his cell phone that was charging at his parents' house. He forgets to take her, but he really needs a cell phone to tell his family about Yoni.

'Allah what if Yoni were to be cared for for many days, who would take care of him here, and who would take care of him later, would I have to take days off from my own project, do I have to leave my job just for Yoni? O Allah give me the best way out of You, for You are the only place I complain'

Yoni has now been transferred to the treatment room. Ares saw his son still asleep with an infusion tube in his hand. This opportunity he used to leave Yoni for a while, borrow the hospital's phone, and contact his parents. Ares needs a place of strengthening of the heart when he has to take care of and live everything on his own.

He also contacted Raya so that the child would return home without waiting for him and could use a taxi or motorcycle taxi online.

Ares sat by the side of the ward, watching his son lying weakly there. He's pensive. At that time he thought back to his wife, Nindy. Although this is not the same place, at least this is a hospital as well, where he used to see his wife had to die after giving birth to Yoni by force. Yoni was born before his time. At that time the fetus in the womb of his wife was only seven months old, which requires the baby to be put in an incubator after birth.

His memory rotates like a slide of a replayed film. That afternoon he received a call from his wife who turned out to be Raya. At the time of the incident, Raya was still around ten years old. Raya reports that her mother fell in front of her house because of a motorcycle that hit her. Raya is just a child who has not understood the circumstances and situation at that time. Ares is aware that his wife often has preeclampsia, making her pregnancy very vulnerable. No witnesses or anyone saw how Nindi was hit and run there. The little boy only told me what he saw.

Raya told me, when she was in the yard, she saw Nindy walking closer to the food vendor on the side of the road, who was on the side of the road, suddenly a high-speed motor approached and crashed into Nindy as well as the nearby street vendor. Raya is playing Nindy's cell phone, so she only sees her mother who is covered in blood, she does not know clearly how the real incident happened. What else can be expected of a child? While the merchant who had an accident with his wife, apparently died at that time.

As soon as Raya calls her, Ares leaves the office and catches up with Nindy, who has been helped by several passers-by and taken by ambulance, to the nearest hospital from her home. Ares was so shocked to see Nindi covered in blood in the ER room and at that time the doctor asked for approval for his next action, seeing the state of Nindy, there was little chance he could be saved.

With a heavy heart he replied, "save the child ... "

It turned out that Ares' request, heard by Nindy, who at that moment slowly opened her eyes, and then smiled faintly. Ares had seen Nindy's tears drip, before finally the woman's eyes never opened again for good. And the most painful thing is to accept the fact that his wife gave birth to his child in a state of lifelessness.