BLESSINGS OF LOVE
By 4

"Win, what does he want? just asked to come home here, now noisily crying at midnight like this want to go home Oma and Opa. Mother became irritated, you know !!!" Aletha looked very upset at her son.

"Mother.hu.hu...Win afraid mother.from the top of the room there is a road person, there are people jumping.hu.

...hu.hu.hu..," Edwin his sons Aletha and Asrul sobbed at midnight.

"Keep mother how? must believe your imagination. This is the second time you've been like this. Frequent watching horror movies and horror shows, so his brain is chaotic like this. No matter what you're afraid of," Aletha grew angry and upset at the words of her son who she said heard voices from her father's workplace right above her room.

Asrul went down to lock the door to his study and went down to his son's room.

"Dad checked my dad's workroom, it was just the sound of the window that I forgot to close. There's nothing up there, believe me dad well," Asrul tries to calm his son down.

"But Win doesn't want to sleep alone in this room, Win's father is here...

hu.hu.hu.hu..," Edwin still cried in fear.

"Come on, have it or sleep here with Ewin, don't cry again. Boys abstain from crying in fear like this" Asrul said, hugging their only child.

"Dad is now the one who spoils him, so don't always blame me for spoiling the child well. It's up to you to sleep together, you want to sleep downstairs alone" Aletha said as she rushed downstairs to her room.

BRAAAKKK....AUMMM!!!!

The door of the lower room was opened violently and slammed violently by Aletha.

Asrul then closed the door of his son's room, after which immediately lay alone with Edwin on his bed which became narrow if filled by two people.

For Asrul this moment is very rare he got, since this child is a baby, a father who wants to hold his own child is also always prevented by in-laws for this and that reason.

Jena laughed amusedly upstairs, she had been deliberately pacing back and forth in the upper room and occasionally stomping her legs to sound down as if someone was jumping up here.

"Hahaha.Eventually his son was crying and they could not make love.hahahah..," Jena was very happy.

"Just like I'm here to fuck, you guys won't be happy as long as I stay up here".

Jena now lives upstairs in the room that Asrul works in.

Intentionally Asrul has also provided a bed and has designed a closet closed by a partition on the edge of the wall as a place where Jena hid while Aletha or Edwin suddenly went up there.

But so far both Aletha and Edwin never accidentally climbed to see the room above it, for the reason Asrul many pieces of mockery for the scattered buildings.

Asrul said he was worried that the miniature fragments he made would be held by Edwin and then mixed with others, because they had been separated from each part.

The problem of Asrul's reasoning alone so that his wife and child do not go up to the top floor room in the house.

"Dad, please don't always corner me and say I always spoil our child. The proof last night was that she was crying indistinctly and it was the father who defended her" Aletha protested to her husband over the incident last night.

"Bun, I'm not defending but he probably wanted to sleep with his father last night" Asrul said, making a large amount of jam bread.

"Yes, only I was upset that this was the second time, always saying I heard a strange noise from upstairs in my dad's studio. What's really in there ?"aletha asked while still feeling annoyed.

"Geez, what's up? just a pile of cardboard, styro foam, paint, drawing table, laptop then let alone. Oh yes there is a bed, if I am tired stay sissure up there," said Asrul as he began to put the jam bread into the grill.

"Who knows if you keep animals, or maybe there's someone up there. I don't know anything up there".

"Geez, how could I possibly raise an animal up there. Especially the people I put there, why the hell did you think so strange?"Asrul was somewhat inflamed hearing his wife's words.

"Who knows if there is nothing, well don't be angry dong" said Aletha as she opened a can of powdered milk stored in the kitchen cabinet.

"Dad now drink milk? amazingly, this milk powder was about to run out," Aletha was stunned when she saw the contents of the milk can only stay for one more glass.

"eeemmm.yeah, I like to have trouble sleeping, so drinking warm milk is very helpful to be able to sleep," said Asrul sounding a bit shaky.

"It's good to drink milk, dad is often here now, so my diet hasn't been noticed lately".

Asrul smiled at his wife, but his heart was very unsettled at Aletha's words.

"His dream is a lot of dads, for whom, this much will be spent by whom?"Aletha was shocked when she saw the pile of toast on the plate.

"Edwin likes it too, and I have a lot of work today. Not good for a snack up there," said Asrul but did not dare to look at his wife's face.

"Hmmm, most toast is only a cup of Edwin eaten. Where can he eat a lot, the greater the more difficult to eat. It should be that he just wanted to be able to eat a lot," Aletha complained about her son's habits now.

"Who knows his father's bread he will like and eat a lot of it" Asrul said slowly.

"Mother, let's go home to Oma and Opa. Ewin didn't want to stay here for long" Edwin suddenly came down from upstairs and immediately hugged his mother.

"Why else, Win?".

"Mother, Win it's always heard the sound of people walking up there. It was heard from my father's office" Edwin looked terrified as he hugged his mother.

"Dad, it looks like your son has to be brought up there so he can see that there is nothing up there" Aletha told Asrul.

Instantly Asrul glared and of course he was very angry with the words of his wife.

"Alright, I'll clear the entrance first. Later I call Ewin up well," said Asrul as he stepped upstairs. He walked while thinking hard how, because on top there is Jena who might still sleep at this hour.

"Where's my bread? I'm hungry to know!!!"jena said with a glare as Asrul arrived at the top floor of his house.

"Prophe Jena, there's your bread. But now I'm asking you to get in the closet edge first, just for a second. My son wants to go up here" Asrul asked Jena.

"Hmmm, should I keep hiding like a cat. I don't want to, I'm hungry, so where's my bread?"Jena was sulking hard.

" Jena.Please just for a moment, Edwin looked here for a moment. I'll bring some bread up, please help me. I beg you to help me for a moment" Asrul pleaded with Jena.

While annoyed, resentful and irritated, Jena nagged but she finally wanted to also go into the bulkhead on the edge of the closet in the room.

"Look, there's nothing up here. Just a small room, a lot of daddy business up here. Where there might be people walking - the street or running around up here" Asrul said as he took Edwin to his work studio right above his room.

Edwin stared at every corner of his father's study, researching every detail of what was in the room.

The boy nodded, then immediately asked to come down from the room upstairs because Aletha called him from below.

"Dad, let's take some shopping to the supermarket. I see in the fridge all the food supplies here are almost all gone" Aletha told her husband.

"Hmmm, come on, but for a moment I'll put this bread up first" Asrul said, looking hurriedly to bring the toast upstairs.

"What's so weird about that dad, why is toast kept on top?" aletha asked as Asrul had arrived below again.

"Let me not forget, so I'll keep it upstairs for me to eat later. Let's go, don't think about the bread".

Then the three of them went to the supermarket shopping for various foods for the purposes of the house inhabited by Asrul.

After that, we spent lunch together in a mall.

"Where will Edwin sleep tonight?"asked Asrul while rubbing the head of his son who was greedy eating his favorite fried chicken flour.

"Win bobo at Oma's house only, if at home father and mother are always afraid. Sure enough Win heard someone walking back and forth. There might be monsters in the father's study, "Edwin shuddered in fear at the thought of a creature in Asrul's study.

"You play too many zombie games, watch vampire movies, must be obsessed with such things" said Asrul as he glanced at his son.

"But another father, this is another. I really heard there were people walking. Totally sure".

"Eve night sleep with dad, right. But I didn't hear any sound, really".

"Maybe the monster's afraid of you".

Aletha just messem-mesem just hear the talk of father and son, it is not clear the conversation of both for him.

A monster or a subtle creature, which makes no sense to Aletha, and she chooses silence over emotion again to her child.

Asrul drove his son and wife to his father-in-law's house, everything they had bought was brought home by Asrul because it was all for Asrul's needs for the next week.

"His son was eating in the mall, while I was here starving to the level of a god," Jena nagged as Asrul arrived back to his house.

"Here I brought him the fried chicken flour and also the fries," Jena immediately snatched the plastic package that Asrul thrust to him.

Jena immediately ate the fried chicken greedily like the person she had not found food.

"Slow down a little if you eat, choking will even make you bother" Asrul warned Jena.

"Let's ah, people have been really hungry since".

Then Asrul washed the fruits and put them in the refrigerator, along with sausages and some other foods.

"There must be three days of all this food, and I was surprised to see Jena. Pregnant but even greedy, another with my wife who was even difficult to eat when Edwin was pregnant first," muran Asrul while arranging all the foodstuffs in the refrigerator.

"Mila, what are you, baby?" fuad asked his wife over the phone.

"Geez, from yesterday the anger kept on. I'm not taking a walk, Mila. I have a job in Kalimantan, my boss happens to ask me to fix one of the oil pipes here" Fuad patiently replied to his wife.

"Indeed, my husband loved work more than his own wife. Being alone with my wife can also be willing to let me, then immediately like a laptop to take care of a job that will never run out," Asmila blabbed again to Fuad.

"Mila, I'm sorry, baby. After all, this is my job. Please understand, dear" Fuad tried to seduce his wife.

"Mas can go to Kalimantan, but visiting his wife in Jakarta is hard to ask for forgiveness. Until I beg you, I still won't come here".

Fuad sighed, then replied Mila Mila's statement just now.

"I'm not going to Kalimantan to play or to go for a walk, Mila. By Allah. I'm with my boss there's a job here, there's a broken pipe and I happen to know about pipe repair".

Asmila did not reply, but was heard by Fuad that his wife was crying.

"Well baby, instead next week we meet in Bandung. We spent time alone there. Agree no?" Fuad persuaded his wife by making an appointment for next week.

"As for you, I won't say yes, I'll be disappointed again. We often make promises to go together and the results are never there".

"I want to watch another Korean drama. Yes, yes, yes. Later we will talk again if Mas is sure to take me for a walk together," said Asmila in a cold tone to her husband.

Then their phone ended, Asmila immediately cried when ending the conversation with her husband.

Fuad across there also grasped his phone, there was a sense of sadness because all this time he felt often disappointing his wife who asked for time just wanted to be alone in a different atmosphere.

Monday morning was another new day for Soraya, she immediately left for the campus that had been abandoned for more than a year.

Almost all campus staff welcomed him, lecturers and some seniors arrived to welcome Soraya who just graduated strata 3 from the University of New Zealand.

"Later after lunch, we have a meeting with the chairman of the foundation and the University's advisory board. Please, Soraya's mother will be there on time" said the rector at the university where Soraya teaches.

Soraya of course was flattered to get such an invitation in particular.

While waiting for time, Soraya gathered with her two best friends on campus.

One was the head of administration, his name was Ibu Kristi and another a rather gentle man named Pak Tatang.

The three of them named themselves "Triple O", namely Otang, Oti and Oya.

Kristi is the original Binjai person, he if calling friends there is always his O word.

An example would be calling Soraya, "Yes..O...Yep...Soraya's...

O...Yeah...!!!".

And if calling Tatang is like that too," Tang...O..Tang

....Tattle...O....Tang...!!!".

And Kristi secures herself Titi, so Soraya and Tatang return the call," Ti...O...Ti's...Titi's..

O...Ti....".

Starting from there, the "Triple O" was created.

"Finally Triple O can be collected again well," said Kristi aka Oti happily.

"Yes right, say, I miss Oya too. Dong say story in NZ how aja, uh, I thank you for the prize. I like bingit," said Otang aka Tatang with his potent style.

"Ah, in NZ is the same as here, just no siomay, batagor, cendol..hahahah," said Soraya teasing Otang.

"Hahaha.dasar Oya.not a true story," Otang as usual sulked spoiled.

Then Soraya began to tell stories about during her time there and also about friends from other countries who also became her best friends during her studies there.

"Eh. he said there are new ones coming home from abroad, use the same key chain share magnet stick all refrigerators. Kirain long abroad, just go home what it is. You know, bring cheap stuff also show off. Tired deh..," a voice heard someone deliberately insinuating Soraya.

Of course Soraya understood who said that, but she just kept quiet pretending not to hear the words of the person.

The three then continued the story that had a few moments cut.

Ira is one of the lecturers who are very ambitious to occupy a seat as rector.

When he found out Soraya had successfully graduated from abroad, of course, made him feel threatened to be seized by the position he was looking for by Soraya.

And Ira was supported by a friend who was also a lecturer there named Anes.

"Yes well, try if those who go abroad are Ira's mother, of course when going home will share expensive souvenirs," said Anes added to the heat of the atmosphere.

"Definitely dong, I am not even a foreign graduate but the quality is much better dong than those who have just returned from abroad," Ira said again addressed to Soraya.

Kristi started to get a little hot in her heart hearing the words of the two people.

"Otang, I'm nanya dong. If a person who likes to quip is his name what the hell?!!!" Kristi started to reply.

"Oh.I guess the name does not know yourself," said Tatang plain pretender.

"Your time?!!!" yelled Kristi again.

"Stupid!!!" greet Tatang.

"Stupid Time!!!...Hahahaha," Triple O laughed back at Ira and Anes' innuendo.

"You're mocking me?!!!" Ira suddenly looked sharply at Kristi.

"Eh.there are people who talk to us. I think I want to join as Lima O deh," joked Kristi but deliberately did not look towards Ira.

"If the Five O's what's dong, Ti?" asked Soraya holding back a laugh.

"Otang, Oti, Oya, then Onyet and Onyong.hahahahahah..!!!" kristi shouted out loud.

The three friends laughed loudly at Kristi's reply, and of course Ira as well Anes grew increasingly upset and they left the room with a pouting face.

Soraya met the rector and immediately faced the chairman of the foundation. Then they were involved in talks about a plan to replace the rector because the old rector will soon enter retirement age.

"Sorry sir, I think it is better to hold a feasibility and propriety test or commonly called a fit and proper test to some candidates to be more fair," Soraya said.

"Mother Soraya isn't confident in your own abilities?" ask the chairman of the foundation.

"It's not so sir, it means to be fair and no one is hurt. Because there may be other lecturers who also have the desire to be rector. And also I, even though I am a foreign graduate, may not have the ability to be a leader".

"But if there is such a test, it will be fairer and clearer to determine who is worthy to replace the rector when he retires" Soraya explained superbly.

Of course the current chairman of the foundation and the rector agree with Soraya's opinion.

"Mbak As, I'm going home tomorrow to Bengkulu. Because all parents have died, dear heritage house if sold just like that. So my husband and I will move all back to our hometown" Ratna told Asmila's best friend long ago while still working at a cosmetics store.

"The important thing is to arrive in Bengkulu later you have to keep the spirit of trying well. If for example possible, you join the company where I work that is in the branch there," Asmila gave encouragement to her best friend.

The two of them were sitting in a cafe, incidentally Ratna contacted Asmila who was sitting at her boarding house.

"Tomorrow our morning to the airport and straight back to the homeland," Ratna looked sad as she was going further and further with her best friend.

"Eh, by the way you once told me about kyai that can treat all kinds of diseases. Does he still exist?" Asmila suddenly remembered Ratna's story a few years ago.

"Well, I have to get there first, then I can know he's still there or he's dead. Later after I stay there, I will tell you again" said Ratna.

Before long the two friends had to separate, because Ratna had been picked up by her husband.

They hugged each other, and Asmila desperately wished the kyai that Ratna had told her about was still there.

He plans to bring Mario there, the hope is great to want Mario to be healthy again as usual.

Yesterday Mario had told him that he was afraid of surgery, because according to many stories people who had cancer surgery was the same as lying.

The big cost comes out but it makes the sick person worse.

Armed with that in mind, Mario is currently trying to find an herbal remedy for his healing.

It's just a pity, Mario never discussed his illness with his family, even though his brother is a reliable doctor.

During this time Mario hid the disease he suffered to his entire family.

He kept trying to show that he was okay in front of everyone.

Though the more days the disease is getting worse eating away at his whole body.