The End of Two Semesters
Chapter 47 - Blessing the One I Love

Santi unceasingly questioned his status to his mother. He also relentlessly blasphemed his mother and solved the attitude of his mother who covered up the reality.

“Why?” Wail it with tears. “Why is mom covering up my status? Why didn't anyone at home tell me I was just a pick-up boy?”

Halima could only cry, she was wrong to cover it up, just because Hermawan would not want Santi to know who her real father was. Arya and her parents were silent to the events they never expected that Santi was not Hermawan's biological child. Sometimes Arya rubs Santi's back.

“Nothing to explain, Santi,” said Halimah in a soft voice. “For papa you remain a child he loves very much, you are the pride of papa, son. Our much loved son.”

“If I had known, I wouldn't have done this to papa ..” Santi pilu. “I won't fight it, but now, look what I've done? I even paid for all papa's kindness by being an ungodly child.”

“Quiet yes, Dear?” Arya rubbed Santi's shoulder and hugged her. “Pray, may papa be safe and his leg need not be amputated. May you still be given time to make Papa happy and correct all the mistakes you have made.” Arya said by continuing to calm Santi.

Santi's presence in the hospital is not just inviting people's curiosity there. Nurses, nurses, and even patients take turns to get acquainted with their favorite models, which are only their faces that they can see on the glass screen.

As a public figure, people feel entitled to know Santi's private life. They not only ask why Santi is in the hospital, but also other critical questions that still leave their curiosity, because it has not been completely peeled off in the gossip show that ever appeared on television.

The atmosphere in the corridor of the hospital, where Santi waited even became like meeting fans. Santi must serve the signature questions and requests. Many journalists also came to ask Santi for information. Arya swiftly accompanied his wife, he knew his wife was in a mess, coupled with the large number of Santi fans, and the reporters who wanted to know about Santi, making Santi uncomfortable.

“I'm sorry, my wife is being hit by a disaster, so please don't be like this,” Arya said.

“Please, please help me,” pinta Santi overwhelmed. “I'm having a tryout. Please give me the privacy to be in the middle of my family, give me time for myself, to go through these difficult times with my family.” Santi cupped his hands together in front of his chest.

“Iya, we ask for help, we are affected by a disaster, it's good later in the future if you want to ask others,” said Arya.

Arya with the help of Mr. Rozak managed to condition everything. Reporters and fans went one by one. Since Santi in Jakarta, he rarely went out of the house unless he went to his mother's house, or invited by Arya. Santi also had to wear a face mask, or a mask to cover his face so that people do not know. Lucky she had long been a vacuum in the world of intertain, because she was pregnant out of wedlock, so only with a face cover only people did not recognize her, except those who already knew Santi once.

Santi sat back on the waiting bench, leaning his head on Arya's shoulder. Arya rubbed Santi's head, calming Santi that maybe her heart was still very messed up.

Doctor Yanuar, the doctor who handled the Hermawan operation came out of the operating room with a visible facial expression there was a glimmer of hope Hermawan was fine and the operation went smoothly.

“How, Doc? How is my papa? Is papa okay, and the operation is running smoothly?” Santi asked with a trembling voice, because he was scared, his father was all right.

“Pak Hermawan's leg operation is running well, and smoothly,” explained Doctor Yanuar relieved. As soon as he came out of the operating room, he looked smiling. “However, Mr. Hermawan still has to go through his critical period. He is still unconscious from coma.”

Santi hugged his mother as soon as he heard the good news. After that she alternately hugged her mother-in-law, then her husband, as if to share the relief because one ordeal has been successfully passed. His papa operation went well, now just past the last and toughest test. Waiting for her papa to come to her senses from the coma, and fulfill Naira's request which she finds very heavy.

Indeed, his marriage with Arya should be finished, no longer need to continue, because there will certainly be a heart that is hurt, namely Naira. However, with the seriousness of Arya who wants to forget Naira, and the perseverance of Arya who seriously love her, make her believe, and do not want to part with Arya, let alone her already in love with Arya, let alone her, because of Arya's unrelenting kindness and concern for her.

The man has been moved to the treatment room. Santi waited by his side. He sat beside his papa bed, holding his papa's hand tightly, unceasingly praying. Hermawan seemed to sleep with a weak condition. Still unconscious from his critical period.

“Wake up, Papa ..” whispered Santi sadly. “Give me a chance to make amends for all the mistakes. Give me time to treat papa as a real papa.”

Santi kissed his papa's hand with tears. She brushed her hair with all her love. Hermawan's face looked pale, his eyes closed tightly. Santi could not bear to see the condition of his papa is sad. The bandages appear to wrap some parts of his body. Blackened blood clots appear to permeate the bandage.

Even so, Santi can feel the suffering of Hermawan when he had the accident. How unbearable was the pain his father had to endure.

“I'm sorry, Papa.” Santi whispered while wiping away the melted tears on her cheeks. “I'm really a child who does not know himself, if papa siuman later, I will devote my life to devote to you, Pa,” lirihnya.

When Hermawan finally regained his consciousness, Santi was the first one he saw. She faintly saw her daughter sitting on the side of the bed, holding her hand tightly, and Santi's head lowered as she whispered an incessant prayer.

After a few hours of waiting, Santi felt his papa hand that was originally still, now began to move slowly in his grasp. Santi simultaneously raised his face, saw his papa's eyelids twitching.

“Papa ...,” call Santi relieved at once touched. “It's me, Papa ... Thank goodness papa was conscious.”

Then Santi rose up to the door, stuck his face out, calling his mother, husband, and father-in-law happily, telling everyone the good news.

“Doctor ... Sister ...” Call her by running to the nurse's room. “Papa is awake,”

“Mama, papa is awake, Ma. Papa is awake, Mas,” he told his mother and husband with a happy face.

Half-run Santi back to the side of his papa bed. He looked at his face with mixed feelings. Santi wiped his tears well, when Doctor Yanuar reported the good news, his papa was fine, just left for treatment and recovery of his health. God has disturbed his prayers. Giving him the opportunity to accompany his father through critical times.

“I don't know, if papa left me, I'm with whom if papa left, while Arya, will soon leave me, ” Santi's mind by looking at his papa with a soft, sad look, then alternately looking at Arya who was in front of him, on the left side of his papa bed.

Hermawan moved his mouth weakly, facing towards Santi. “Do not cry, Santi,” whispered Hermawan shriek. “I would have lost my life even once, if you had come back to me.”

“I will never leave you again, Papa,” Santi said sobbing. The palm of his papa, then placed on his cheek, so that his papa can feel tears flowing on Santi's face. “That's the best papa of my life.”

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For several days Hermawan was hospitalized to recover his condition. His leg surgery showed good progress. Hermawan still had to use a wheelchair for mobile aids while waiting for the cast to open.

During Hermawan's hospitalization, Santi did not leave immediately. He accompanied his father until his condition improved. Even with Arya, he also faithfully accompanied his wife who was accompanying the recovery of his father in the hospital. She entrusted her mother-in-law and the baby sitter she hired. Sometimes Arya also took the time to take care of Anin when she had a long time at home.

Hermawan had told Santi at home because he was having a baby, but Santi still wanted to accompany him in the hospital. He did not want to miss a day not to accompany his father.

“Pity Anin if you stay here, San? Papa there is mama here,” said Hermawan when finished being fed porridge by Santi.

“Let me replace thousands of lost days,” Santi said solemnly. “I want as long as possible to be next to papa. The most precious moments of my life, which I have wasted all this time.”

Santi no longer wants to lose the moment of closeness with his papa like now, which he feels peaceful when together, not like in the past, always wants to stay away from his papa who is very restraining himself. Now that Santi realized, his papa did all that because his papa did not want himself to fall into a wrong relationship that would harm himself, it turned out to be true, when he opposed his papa, he said, his life is not okay. She is pregnant with her boyfriend, but she does not want to take responsibility.

“If I had known papa's authoritarian attitude, and papa's purpose was to restrain me, I would never have opposed him. Everything you do is for my own good, not because you're evil with me. Now, I'm going to dedicate my life to my mom and dad, who else would I devote my life to if not to my parents? Husband? I may soon change status to a widow, I no longer have Mas Arya, my spirit figure, I only have a mother and papa in the future, also Anin. And they should be happy in my own way. I must please them, the people I love, the inner” of Santi.