UNEQUAL
21

. Tio entered Raisa's room and then hugged her two younger siblings.

"I'm sorry for the brother who can't take care of you. If you'd noticed you, it probably wouldn't be like this." Tio cried tightly to the two.

"Sister already knows. But brother didn't tell me." Said Raisa patting hard on Tio's arm.

"Why are you crying now? I'm still here. If I'm dead, no wonder you're crying so hard." Arisa's timpal suddenly turned cold.

"Silence you're stupid. You think cancer is easy to cure?" Shouted Raisa.

"Who is cancer?" Dad asked suddenly to surprise his three children. The three looked at him along with a messy face. Dad swerved quickly over and grabbed them.

"You why? Who is cancer? Who died?" The three were speechless to see the father asking in a high tone full of worry.

Arisa turned her face then casually smiled at Raisa.

"How are my actions and Tio Rais's brother? Can you live the story? Less is more like that." Arisa gave a flick of code to Raisa and Tio who looked confused.

"Rais said there was drama work at her college dad, but she couldn't cry, so my sister and I helped her. What do you think? Is Aris a good fit to be an actress?" Arisa turned to look at the father who was panicking to be a little calm because of her words.

Father frowned to find the difference in faces between his daughters. Then the father grabbed Raisa's face, felt her forehead, cheeks, even her neck to make sure that her daughter was okay.

"Dad... Rais is fine."

"Fear of father. I have always been afraid of this disease. Especially if it's on my kids." Father's words began to tremble and seemed to ignore Arisa's reason. Arisa smiled and passed from Raisa's room because she felt she could not bear the pain in front of her father.

Arisa coughed when she came out of the room, until entering her room, Arisa was still coughing.

"Come on me, Dad." Tio ran after Arisa to her room.

Dad frowned to follow. But when hearing Arisa's cough that stopped, the father felt relieved and came back out of Raisa's room.

Tio again found Arisa who had fallen on the floor with a grimace of pain. His face grew pale, Tio frantically grabbed Arisa.

"Aris. Brother please don't be stubborn. We're going to the hospital okay?" Arisa shook her head while muttering softly. Tio didn't hear it that much.

Whether it was a very sick pain, now Arisa returned unconscious. Tio grew even more frightened as she moved Arisa to the bed. His mind has gone everywhere. If you ask Dimas to go to his house, the house person would want to know why Dimas often checks Arisa.

Tio tried to get back to Marcel. The two talked seriously from a phone call.

"I'm sorry Tio." Marcel said a heavy sigh.

"alright. How else. If there isn't, maybe I should find a donor who's a good fit for Aris here."

"Actually my heart suits him Tio."

"You crazy? Although I want Aris to stay alive, but that doesn't mean I have to be selfish with this. Even if your heart meets the donor criteria for my sister, I don't want to lose you."

"So?"

"I just hope my sister is okay now. If I could I'd like to take his place."

"Tio. And if I had found it, I'd have told you."

"Alright Marco. I'm counting on you."

"Who are you calling fucking Marco?" Marcel's shout made Tio keep his phone away.

"Ahaha I could laugh when I want to cry now."

"I'll go home if I find a heart that suits your sister."

"Thank you Marcel."

"okay alike. I hung up on you, I still have something to do here."

"OK okay. Sorry to bother you."

The phone disconnected, Tio turned her head and looked back at Arisa sharply. Tio squealed and moved out of Arisa's room.

Tio ran down the stairs.

"Where are the nights like this?" Ask dad suddenly.

Tio stopped and turned around to find his father sitting on the sofa in the middle room.

"I have business with Seno father." Answer Tio.

"Is it because you've taken Aris out of the country and she skipped college?" Tio surprised. You just think there?

"I-iya dad. Sorry."

"alright. If you're going home, don't be too late. But if you want to stay, don't go home too late."

"Be good, father." Tio rushed past and there was the sound of his car slowly getting away.

"Where's Tio?" Ask your mom with a cup of coffee in her hand.

"To Seno's house." Answer father.

"Mas... haven't you felt weird about Tio's attitude lately?" Ask my mom who is sitting next to me.

"What weird?"

"It's like she's hiding something."

"Maybe your feelings." I grabbed the coffee and started sipping it.

"The feeling of a mother is never wrong."

"Tio is an adult. He can certainly bring his own problems."

"Mas no matter how mature a child is, he definitely needs his parents. Whether it's an opinion, support or just advice."

"You should have said that to yourself."

"What do you mean, mas?"

"Don't you forbid bi Ina to take care of it again right? Though you yourself were busy taking care of Raisa until now until you forget that your daughter is not one." Dad pointed at Arisa's room. Mama was silent, without a word she was about to leave.

"Where are you? I'm not done talking." Said my father stopping my step.

"What else? You want to talk that I'm not a good mother to Aris, right? It was me who had ignored him for a long time and was only focusing on Raisa. You don't know how scared I would be if Raisa came back like that. Didn't you hear the doctor's words at the time? Aren't you there too? Rais's cancer can be active at any time if he doesn't take care of his health." Mama said with the tone getting higher.

"You don't think if Aris were also-"

"Aris has a strong immunity. He doesn't get sick easily and there's no sign of active cancer cells in his body."

"But now the hull is bad, right?"

"That's because she didn't keep her diet."

"Yes because an 8-year-old still needs his mother's attention. And now you shouldn't forbid bi Ina to take care of it."

"Mas.you seem to blame me completely. But did you also think that Aris needs you too. You should understand that when I'm busy taking care of Rais, you should also take care of Aris. You're busy working until Tio has to be a father to Aris. Tio was still Junior High. Tio you even demanded to be a useful heir, but you alone put that heavy burden on his shoulders. He must be a son to you, a brother to Rais, and a father to Aris." Broke back my mother's tears by turning to look sharply at my father.

"Don't keep blaming me. Think about your mistake of not being a good father to Aris. You thought I wasn't hurt when I heard the rumor that Aris wasn't Yugito Syahputra's real daughter. People don't believe Aris is my son because you don't want to attend his school as a father. And keep bi Ina and mang Ujang who took raport Aris. Sometimes Tio takes your place. Tio became precocious because of your ambition." Mama gasped in annoyance with a half-screaming voice. Without waiting for my father to speak again, I entered the room and closed the door.

Dad breathed heavily against his body. Then he turned to look at Arisa's room.

Dad got up and walked up the stairs, taking a deep breath before reaching for the doorknob. After gathering courage, the father opened the door and approached Arisa who was sleeping.

"You're asleep?" There's no answer. I just thought that Arisa was asleep. I didn't know that Arisa was unconscious.

"I'm sorry dad. If I can't make you happy. I'm sorry dad, you're being a lonely kid." Dad gently stroked Arisa's hair. Dad kissed Arisa's forehead before passing her back out of the room.

. Tio knocks on Dimas' house and is greeted by Gilang.

"Dimas exists?" Tio asked in haste.

"There-there's sir." Reply Gilang then brought Dimas to Tio.

"What's wrong?" Asked Dimas when he saw Tio's agitated face.

"What's Aris again?" But Tio still did not want to answer.

"Tioo.." Dimas was getting upset.

"In America, there is no liver stock. Marcel said that to me." Tio said after a few long sighs.

"So you're saying that there's no replacement heart for Aris yet? And you're telling me to find a suitable donor?" Tio nodded in response to Dimas's question.

"If you haven't found out in the near future, what will happen to my sister?" Tio increasingly panicked to look hopefully at Dimas who was also worried about Arisa's condition.

"Pacify yourself first Tio. I will help you to find a suitable donor for Aris."

"Pendonor what?" Asked Mom who was suddenly already behind Dimas.

"Aris why? She sick? What pain is Dimas? Why do I need a donor?" Mom started to glaze over while maintaining the tray she was carrying. Tio and Dimas exchanged lyrics and sighed heavily.

"Mother promise you won't bring this up in front of Aris?" Mother nodded in doubt at Tio's question.

"Aris cancer ma'am." instantly the tray dropped and the glass shards scattered everywhere. Hearing the illness made the mother remember Rama.

"My boy... Ariss.." - Sheen mother then fell unconscious. Tio and Dimas rushed to hold the mother's body so as not to hit the broken glass below. They know, I love Arisa as much as my own son. What else after Rama's departure. The trauma of losing a child to cancer makes the mother weak. Gilang, who heard from behind the room, quietly cried hearing the fact that Arisa had the same disease as her brother.

"Mbak Aris... Why should you? Ma'am promised to stay alive" muttered Gilang touched and rubbed his chest slowly.

- connected.