BLESSINGS OF LOVE
Towards 1

"When do you come home?" asked Mega through a video call to Soraya's mother.

"Darling, patience. Mama will be home next month. Later Mega pick up mama well," Soraya replied with longing as she looked at her youngest child's face.

"Mama, don't forget Maya's hand?" the firstborn is different again who was asked even the goods ordered.

Soraya nodded as she replied, "Of course you remember, there's already, you've bought".

"Where? look dong, Ma..," pinta Maya with spoiled.

"Day, if you see now it is not a surprise anymore, dong" Soraya replied with a smile.

"Well mama..," Maya pretended to be pouting.

"So bad, I'll bring you, too" Mega interrupted tightly.

Maya throws her lips to her sister, and her sister Mega sticks out her tongue.

"Come on you guys, if you say anything it must be a fight," Soraya reprimanded her two children.

"Basar brother fret!".

"You know too!".

"Have...where are your papa? how was it not visible from then on? is papa not home yet?" soraya asked her two children.

"Papa was there, from earlier in the bathroom. Papa's been coughing up lately, Ma," Mega told me about his papa.

"Oh, papa catch a cold again tuh, usually your papa is difficult to manage always do not want to wear a jacket," said Soraya look upset when she knew her husband was not feeling well anymore.

"What the hell.papa is okay, papa is fine," said Mario who suddenly stood behind his two children.

"Does he say cough again?" asked Soraya worriedly.

"Ah, it's okay. In the usual wind, later I rub my chest using wind oil also healed. Just rubbing his papa chest away in New Zealand," Mario pretended to his wife.

"Yaaahhh.papa pretentious," his two children immediately protested.

Soraya only chuckles to hear her husband being protested by her two daughters.

The four of them continued talking long distance while laughing happily unceasingly.

When the video call connection was over, Soraya opened the photo gallery on her phone.

There is a picture of her two children and her husband, a photo taken a few months ago when her husband and two children followed her on vacation to New Zealand.

Soraya has graduated to S3, and now she is studying for another year in New Zealand.

This education was like a kind of certification that would confirm him to be a professor of English grammar.

While looking at the photos of her two children, Soraya stroked her cellphone which showed her two children.

Memories of the past are recalled, especially memories of giving birth to their second child.

Fifteen years ago when Mega was born, the little baby was convicted of not being able to survive long.

Her lungs were wet due to the effects of cigarette smoke that Soraya inhaled accidentally, because her husband was a heavy smoker at the time.

While in the womb, Mega fetus must compete with myoma that also grows together in the womb Soraya.

Early in the seventh month Soraya felt heavy bleeding, still remembering how she was in pain but Mario could not be contacted.

Fortunately her sister-in-law came while carrying her husband who was then drunk to unconsciousness.

Myoma stuck in her womb, the doctor at that time stated there must be a removal of the uterus.

Because if not removed, Soraya threatened to die, because the disease in her womb will continue to make her bleeding severely.

It was not her husband who signed the family's letter of approval for the act, but her brother-in-law Jimmy, who at the time, was not aware of what was supposed to happen.

Robert's brother-in-law, who is also a doctor, asked Yasmin for an explanation as an obstetrician who handles Soraya.

Jimmy was then asked by Robert to immediately sign the approval letter so that Soraya and the baby could be saved immediately.

And the crazy Mario only found out the next day that his wife gave birth when he just woke up from a hangover.

Soraya was really sad, hurt, scared and angry.

Not sad at his condition but sad to see his little baby who was rubbed weakly in the incubator tube.

Soraya was angry with herself and her husband, even whispering and threatening Mario at the time.

"If my baby dies, then you too will die in my hands".

Mario apologized and he was sincere when something happened to their baby, then Soraya did something to him.

A great guilt plagued his conscience, he was saddened to see his infant son suffer at such a small age.

Soraya resigns from teaching at Junior High School, having to look after her baby.

But Soraya spent almost two years living at her mother's house, planning to divorce Mario.

But Mario is persistent, he does not want to divorce Soraya and continues to try to change himself into a better person.

Finally Soraya relented too because her two children were always looking for Mario, not even separated from Mario.

Mario invites himself to be together again, the incident along with Wongso's mother died and his house was sold.

Soraya used the money as a cost to continue Strata 2 studies in English.

After graduation, he tried to apply for a job as a lecturer at a High School in the city of Depok.

And after a series of interviews and tests, he was finally accepted to teach at the High School.

Years passed, until when the children were teenagers, Soraya got the opportunity to continue Strata 3 studies in New Zealand.

Incidentally there is a fast and solid program to achieve a doctorate in the country, one year and a half only.

Yesterday his dissertation was accepted and has been declared graduated, for one month this must complete several revisions while awaiting graduation.

Next month Soraya will be able to return to Indonesia and reunite with her beloved family.

While in the house of the large family of Maliangkay, as usual every Sunday after returning home worship must gather together.

Robert and his family, Mario and the two girls and Jimmy the handsome who is still loyal to be single.

"Sweep and Mamih are getting older, when are you getting married, Jimmy?" asked Papih Hansen when eating together in the dining room at his house.

"Yes right, but Oom Jimmy is a lot of fancies. My college friends have a lot of greetings for Oom Jimmy" said Annabella, her second child Robert and Rosalinda.

"Kok her friend Anna can tell with Oom Jimmy?" ask Mamih Regina.

"Oom Jimmy does occasionally like to pick Anna up to campus, surely Maya and Mega have also been picked up by Oom Jimmy right?".

"Yes, Oma...Oom Jimmy often picked up Maya and Mega, then we were on a dinner treat," said Maya while spoiling her uncle because she happened to sit next to the uncle.

"I've never been treated like Oom Jimmy" William said, winking at his uncle.

"Bang Willy will ride his own motorcycle, so it is impossible to be picked up and treated with Oom," Annabella told her brother.

"Okay, later in the afternoon we watch and then eat with Oom, let you all go," said Jimmy who had been silent to listen to his nephew struggling with each other's attention.

"Well, that's fair. Of course I'm coming, hahaha!" william was happy.

Annabella and Maya are equally happy with the invitation of her beloved uncle.

Only Mega was silent, indeed the child was very quiet and rarely spoke if not necessary.

"Mega didn't go with Oom Jimmy?" ask Mario to his youngest son.

Mega glanced at Mario, then said, "Take dong of course".

Mario embraces his son and sniffs his son's hair.

Then while eating, all the topics must be Jimmy who is thirty years old but has no intention of getting married.

"My friend has a younger brother just graduated from college from America, maybe if introduced to Jimmy can be suitable. You know as far as I know my friend's sister is a beautiful and modern woman," said Rosalinda trying to provide candidates for her sister-in-law.

"Oh no, thanks to Rosa, I don't want to be betrothed. Later there will also be alone, just relax," said Jimmy who became embarrassed.

"When his friends my wife his family are famous people all. It would be appropriate if you would try to get acquainted," Robert added.

"It's quiet, later I also bring a beautiful girl here," said Jimmy began to regret because he had been sacked about marriage.

"Mamih already wants to have a grandson from you, it's very difficult to feel, mumpung Papih and Mamih are still healthy, still alive. Wanting to see her youngest child get married and give us grandchildren," Mamih Regina complained over lunch.

"Had, just calm down, Jimmy would be getting married soon," Jimmy said again, shaking his head in a dizzy manner with his family's chatter.

In the afternoon Jimmy took all his nephews for a walk, of course all his nephews were very happy to be invited by his cool uncle.

Jimmy was lacking anything, tall, white skin, handsome, dressed always neat and fashionable, but very difficult to get a life partner.

"Oom" whispered Mega who was sitting next to Jimmy as they watched the movie in the cinema.

"What?"ask Jimmy.

"Oom don't want to be introduced to his sister's friend Mamih Rosa," said Mega whispered softly in his uncle's ear.

"Why?" asked Jimmy while feeling amused at his heart.

"Later complicated like Mamih Rosa," said Mega again.

Jimmy wanted to laugh out loud, but he tried to hold it in while saying, "OK".

Then Jimmy grabbed his nephew's shoulder and ruffled his hair while feeling amused by his nephew's statement.

Mario coughed in the bathroom, and his batik voice sounded stifling if anyone heard it.

"Rio, have you been taking cough medicine not all this time? already from weeks ago I noticed you were coughing constantly," Robert asked Mario as his sister came out of the bathroom.

"Have bang, already various types of cough medicine brands I drink. But still this way, maybe cough medicine now does not fit me," said Mario while drying his mouth with tissue.

"Old cough like that is not true, tomorrow you are X-rayed to the laboratory. Soon I make the introduction, later if there is a result you go to my clinic," said Robert while writing a cover letter to Mario tomorrow doing a photo of his chest.

Mario lazily received the letter of introduction, fortunately Mario according and the next day he came to the laboratory to do a chest X-ray.

In the afternoon Mario returned to the laboratory to take the results of the X-ray photo.

While carrying a large x-ray, Mario stepped into the main door of the hospital.

Just now he was about to ask the information section where Dr. Robert's clinic is, but someone called his name from behind.

"Bang Rio!" someone shouted from behind and the person ran small towards him standing up.

"Bang Rio, what's up here?" the man approached Mario while adjusting his breathing.

"Hi, it turns out you're Samuel" said Mario when he found out who approached him.

"How are you doing Bang Rio?" samuel asked Jimmy's best friend since he was a kid.

"Well, you practice here too?"ask Mario again.

"It just so happens" Samuel said with a laugh.

"I want to go to Bang Robert, want to show you the X-rays I told you to do".

"Oh, let me take you".

Then the two walked while talking to ask the news and also their families.

Then discuss Jimmy who is still single, while Samuel already has two children.

Mario still remembers how his brother Samuel and Jimmy used to make silliness, such as stealing Mario's laptop to watch forbidden movies.

Or secretly run away with Mario's motorcycle when their bike runs out of gas.

And many more of their ridiculous mannerisms that often make Mario rise in blood.

"That was a bang, now I've been converted. It's not a stupid child anymore, hahahah," said Samuel laughed amusedly if he remembered his behavior with Jimmy in antiquity.

"I'm a freak, you dare to be just like me. But to Bang Robert you dare not bother at all. Why would that be?" ask Mario.

"Different aura bang, if Bang Robert aura howaaaa, if Bang Rio was chaotic aura so we dare, hahahah," said Samuel again while deceiving.

"By the way, are we going a long way?"mario began to feel tired.

"Hahaha, the specialist clinic is in the back building. We were in the front building" replied Samuel.

Then shortly they arrived in front of Robert's practice room.

"Sorry, Dr. Robert had three surgeries today. The patient also had something that I changed in the afternoon and partly rescheduled tomorrow" said the nurse, who is on Robert's staff.

"So how's bang? want to come back in the afternoon or tomorrow again?"ask Samuel.

"Bang Robert is busy, I don't know, I'll call him when I can meet" said Mario.

"What is Bang Rio sick of? here let me see the rontgent," Samuel asked.

"Well, can you?" Mario doubts Samuel.

"Geez Bang, I'm now an internal medicine specialist. Internists let me believe it too" said Samuel as he pointed at his chest.

"Hahaha, sorry. I still memorize that you're a child snobs like Jimmy's pinter," Mario replied while giving a x-ray to Samuel.

"Hahaha, let's go to my practice room" Samuel took Mario to his practice room not far from Robert's.

"It turns out you're a specialist" Mario said, observing Samuel's practice room.

While Samuel only smiled while shaking his head because it was still considered a silly child by Mario.

Samuel took out the x-ray and put it in the lamp to read the x-ray.

When Samuel was surprised, he immediately grabbed a small paper from the analysis of the radiology specialist, his face tense as he read it.

While Mario is calm and looks to be replying to some chat from his phone.

"Dok, you can go to my room for a minute" Samuel asked his partner through the intercom.

"I want to go home bro, practice is done. What the hell is it?" a woman's voice from across the street.

"A moment, please," Samuel asked again.

He soon entered a female doctor, and went straight to Samuel. Both appear to discuss the results of Mario's X-ray.

Then the lung doctor explained to Samuel what the X-rays looked like, and Mario certainly did not understand the medical term they were talking about.

Then the woman's doctor told her to leave the room because she had to go somewhere else.

Samuel looked at Mario, and he looked confused to convey the results of the x-ray.

"Don't you, sorry can we talk?" asked Samuel in a slow tone.

"What?"ask Mario.

Samuel looked at Mario for a while, then slowly said, "Bang, if I deliver bad news, it doesn't matter?".

"Okay, just tell me. You're a doctor, what am I?".

"Bang Rio lung cancer stage three to four," replied Samuel felt heavy convey it.

Mario was surprised, and he said, "You're kidding, Sam".

Samuel shook his head, then sighed he explained Mario's lung condition and pointed out the location of his cancer.

"If Bang Rio has time right now, I'll drop him off to the radiology room here, I'll check again for any scattering".

Mario feels weak, while adjusting his breath and he obeys Samuel to the radiology room and USG abdomen.

After doing a series of examinations, then Samuel again check the results of x-rays of the back of the body and also the results of the examination of Mario's stomach.

"Bang, a quarter of my left lung was damaged by cancer and now the cancer is spreading to my spine. Does your brother often feel sore too during this time?" Samuel explained the results of the examination.

"Yes, I cough constantly, sometimes sputum comes out there is blood and his back is often sick at night," Mario explained how he felt.

"This is a temporary cure to inhibit cancer, we will see the results next month. Whether it should be immediately in surgery or other actions," said Samuel with a bad feeling.

"I'll tell Robert's doctor" Samuel said.

"No Sam, let me tell my whole family" said Mario.

"Alright, keep the spirit of Bang Rio," Samuel said as he patted the shoulder of the person he already considered his own older brother.

Mario smiled, then as he passed he said, "I believe now that you've become a doctor".

Samuel smiled bitterly when he heard these words, he himself did not expect to know that Mario had a deadly disease.

Samuel's heart is sad, has not met Mario for a long time, but when met must be faced with such a reality.

"Bang Rio can still joke when his life is on the edge" Samuel muttered as he looked at Mario's back as he walked away from the hospital.

Asmila parked her car in the courtyard of a luxury boarding house in the city of Jakarta.

A luxury building that rents each room for employee boarding.

Similar apartment, but in this place there are advantages, namely washing facilities and ironing free clothes, then there is free warm rice.

So that the tenants can buy side dishes or cook themselves, warm rice has been provided by the hostess.

"Mother Asmila, there's a mother's husband in the room" the guard told her.

Asmila glanced at a car parked in a special parking lot of guests.

"Thank you, yes, I told you too" Asmila told the officer.

In his heart he always felt sinful when the officer always told him that Asmila's husband had come, or when Asmila had come with him.

Who else if not Mario, since transferred to the headquarters, Asmila occupies this luxurious boarding house.

And every Saturday and Sunday, she would definitely return to the city of Cirebon to be with her husband.

It's been almost a year that means he lied to all the officers of the boarding house.

Because all the officers there and also some fellow residents of the boarding house close to him know that Mario is her husband.

When opening the room door, Asmila found Mario lying on the floor with a slanted position, his hands tucked between his thighs.

His shoes were still worn, and his face looked very sad.

His eyes pushyly looked towards the closet but his gaze was empty, beside him was a plastic package filled with medicine.

Asmila immediately closed the room door and immediately approached Mario.

"Rio, what's wrong, honey? why you, baby?"ask Asmila while stroking Mario's face.

While glancing at Asmila, there were water droplets flowing from Mario's cheeks.

Asmila was very surprised, because she never saw Mario in such a condition.

Then Mario sat with both knees bent, his head leaning against the bed.

"What's Rio?".

"Come, I'm gonna die soon".

"What do you mean?".

"I was a doctor, checked my lungs and it wasn't just a cough. But...".

"But what?".

"This..stage three cancer. I have cancer stage three even before four," replied Mario then he sobbed, Asmila immediately hugged him while not believing the words of her lover.

Hugging Mario, he saw a plastic package containing several kinds of drugs.

Then Asmila held the face of Mario who was still in tears.

"Let's explain it to me, I want to hear," Asmila said as she looked at Mario.

While crying Mario told me about his cough during this time, and Asmila also knew even often asked him to see a doctor.

Just yesterday Mario finally went to the doctor, and it also happened to be his brother who asked.

It turned out that the results of the examination were unexpected, a deadly disease was eating away at his body.

"I'm not afraid to die, but I'm sad because I won't be able to see my two children become scholars or I will take them to the wedding altar. I don't know how much longer the rest of my life," said Mario full of grief.

"Don't think so Rio, I'm sure these days there's all the cure. Don't be discouraged" Asmila tried to encourage Mario.

"When I was actively looking for money for my son's college tuition next year, it turned out that I had to die. I'm sad that they can't continue their studies and achieve their goals" Mario laughed, remembering the faces of his beloved son.

"Rio, listen to me! you have to be sure that you will recover, you have to continue to remain full of spirit for the sake of your two children," Asmila once again builds Mario's spirit.

Suddenly Mario's phone rang and saw the name Mega there.

"Dear, what's up, son?" mario asked after trying to catch his breath and adjust his voice.

"Why do you come home?"ask Mega.

"Is there still business, son, what's up, baby?" ask Mario again.

"Mega's hungry, Mince's a spicy cook. I can't eat" said Mega, sounding heartbreaking.

"Okay, papa's coming home now. Later papa bring your favorite crab fried rice well," said Mario who could never refuse if Mega asked for something.

Mario immediately hung up his phone and went to the bathroom to wash his face.

Asmila gives a towel when Mario comes out of the bathroom.

"Try the phone Maya, you must be careless," seduced Asmila to him.

Mario did not answer, indeed Mega has its own meaning in his heart, if Maya of course Mario can still refuse, Mega will never be able to refuse.

Then Mario kissed Asmila's forehead, and he said goodbye to go home because his beloved son asked him for food.