BLESSINGS OF LOVE
Towards 5

The days kept changing, Mario felt his body getting weaker and weaker.

Want to tell the real condition to the whole family, but the lips feel very heavy.

Some time ago Robert asked himself about the results of X-rays, but Mario replied that it had been handled by Samuel.

It's also his fault that Robert didn't find out to Samuel about Mario's true condition.

Think Robert certainly Samuel has given the best medicine for Mario.

While Robert himself is enjoying his new profession as a heart surgeon.

Not all doctors can do this, so doctors who can handle such operations certainly have better value among fellow doctors especially in the general public.

Because Mario seemed fine after being given medicine by Samuel, Robert also did not ask about the health of his sister to Samuel.

That afternoon Mario was sitting on the roof of his office, as usual his favorite place if he was having a lot of trouble was sitting under a water tank.

A long time ago if you sat up here for sure while clamping a cigarette and a cup of coffee.

But things have not been done for a long time since Mega's second child was born.

Cigarettes have not been friends for a long time, but stupidly he is still friends with smokers.

Years of being a passive smoker, and the result he had to feel the suffering of being a patient with lung cancer.

Wanting to tell his current condition to his family, but somehow his mind raged.

He does not want his family to worry about him, he feels unfair if until his wife will later feel sad if she knows she is dying.

During his marriage with Soraya, he always felt he could not give good things to his wife.

Especially now, he also harbored a taste to the wife of another person, the woman he had accidentally known while staying at a hotel several years ago.

If counted already two years of his relationship with Asmila took place, and for two years also he had lied to Soraya.

Why should also be in a relationship with Asmila, even though Soraya lacks anything.

It is very difficult to tell, because somehow if you meet Asmila there are things that cannot be obtained and revealed to Soraya. But Asmila can provide enlightenment and Asmila can fill something else that Mario can not get from his wife.

"Bang Rio, what else is here?"

asked Jimmy who followed his brother up to the roof.

"Hi, sit here Jimmy. Enjoying the afternoon up here is very fun," said Mario.

"Hmmm, from the top of the mountain is even more fun, bang. Come on when to come with me to the mountain" Jimmy said as he sat next to his brother.

Mario did not answer, just silent while staring at the sun that gradually sank.

"What drink is that? how does it smell so weird?" asked Jimmy who accidentally smelled the aroma of a drink from Mario's glass.

"Herbal tea" said Mario while sipping his drink.

"The smell is disgusting, bang".

"This tea is good for the cough pain I feel".

Jimmy became speechless, because he understood that his brother was often coughing. But all this time in Jimmy's mind because his brother often to the construction site and did not want to wear a jacket even though rain.

"Jim, if one day I die, please continue this company and manage it properly. And another one please help my children financed school until finished being a scholar," said Mario suddenly without rain or wind said like that to his sister.

Jimmy turned to his older brother and said, "Ngapain hastily died. Don't want to see kids get married?".

"Bas stupid indeed, I'd say that. But the age of people who know, where anyone remembers when his life contract ended, should have been when the life signature was read first what the contract agreement was like," said Mario while telling his sister.

"Had known no one would ever remember when his life contract expired, uh. Means stupid brother dong, "Jimmy won't lose.

"Ah come on, just like that, if one day I don't exist either dead or somehow disappeared. Just do what I asked you to do" Mario stressed again to his brother.

"Whatever your brother, I'm so dizzy to hear you say that. It's up to what your brother wants, which I will certainly do all my brother's wishes" said Jimmy while feeling annoyed to hear his brother's words.

Mario laughed at the expression of his sister who looked annoyed to hear his brother's words about death.

Where anyone would feel happy if suddenly like given a last message by a loved one.

Not just a matter of Mario convey that, because this afternoon he consulted again with Samuel his best friend Jimmy who had become a specialist in internal medicine.

"Bang, this drug is like a valve that temporarily blocks the spread of cancer cells. But inside the cell it keeps growing bigger, the valve can't keep holding. One day it will be pushed and leak exploded into the entire body tissue brother," Samuel said this afternoon to Mario.

"What's the solution, Sam?".

"Yes surgery, must be operated on to remove the nucleus of the cell and then in the radiation beam and in chemotherapy so that all the cancer cells die" continued Samuel again.

Only Mario insisted he did not want to be operated on and still asked for medicine first to hold the disease temporarily.

Samuel could not say much more, as a doctor his duty to treat and provide the best solution for all his patients.

If the patient remains stubborn, what can be done. Only give advice so that the patient's mind is open and willing to be given action in accordance with the provisions that should be.

"Mbak As, it turns out that kyai is still there and still treat many sick people. Even yesterday there was a cancer sick person already stage four, given prayers and drinking water from him. Before long healed and now can do activities again," Ratna told Asmila by phone about kyai that can treat all kinds of diseases.

"How do I register as a patient with the kyai, Ratna?" ask Asmila with enthusiasm.

"Well that's it, I met his assistant yesterday. Until the next two months is full of schedules of patients who come from various parts of Indonesia," said Ratna told Asmila.

"Well, how's the story like that. Where might I bring my friend back and forth to Bengkulu".

"Calm Ma'am, I'll come by if I can stop by there again. And if you can just register the name of a friend mbak As. Later please just send a chat well what is the name of her friend," Ratna tried to provide a solution to Asmila.

Of course Asmila agreed once, and after the phone ended immediately she sent a chat to Ratna, telling her the name of the friend who was going to be treated there.

After receiving a message from Asmila, it was Ratna's turn to be confused because the name of the friend Asmila mentioned in the short message was the name of a man.

"Mario???".

"Sir, my aunt was asked by her next-door neighbor. He said in this house there were sightings of pregnant women. Iiihhh.bibik so afraid," said Bik Sumi a daily maid who was ordered to work at the house where Asrul lived by Aletha.

"Where there are such apparitions, it's just strange Bik Sumi. Neighbors talk that is not clear even listened to," said Asrul when hearing a speech from Bik Sumi.

"It's kind of haunted, sir. Especially in the top room, often bibik heard like there were people pacing there," continued Bik Sumi.

"Bik, Bik Sumi ironed my clothes only on Monday and Thursday. The rest of Bik Sumi during this work at the house of another neighbor. So sorry don't listen to the other neighbors talk shit. The important thing is Bik Sumi ironing, then after that go home," Asrul gave emphasis to Bik Sumi.

Of course Bik Sumi was a bit frightened, because all this time had never seen Asrul angry. And right now it seems that Asrul is not happy with Bik Sumi's statement like that.

"Mas Asrul, I want to go back to Palembang. Although later my family may be blasphemous, but I really want to go home there," said Jena who was lying down while stroking her growing belly.

Asrul did not reply, he was silent because he felt he had no answer.

Should he take Jena to Palembang, or let the pregnant girl go home alone there.

If Asrul leads to Palembang, what about his wife Aletha.

Letting a pregnant woman without a husband return to her hometown will certainly make her feel guilty later.

But to tell Aletha the truth is also impossible.

Just stay quiet for a while while thinking the best way out for the thorny problems he made himself.

"I can't Mila, why should I go that far just for treatment that doesn't make sense," Mario said when Asmila conveyed about the treatment carried out by a Kyai across the island.

"Rio, said my friend many people there even from other parts of the island in our country, even he said some people from other countries also have treatment there," Asmila explained about it again.

"No Asmila, I don't want to and I can't. What that guy did, we don't really understand. Now is not the time of the prophet who can prophesy touch people and recover. And that man is not a prophet, so I'm sorry I can't" Mario refused Asmila's invitation to go to the place Ratna showed him.

"But many people recover from kyai earlier, and not just one or two people feel it".

"Yes, maybe so. But I can't, I really don't believe in anything like that".

"Hmmm, it's up to you. I'm just trying to give you one alternative treatment. My hope is, you want to follow my advice because you do not want to be operated on," continued Asmila with a little disappointment.

"Okay, thank you for your concern. But, I'm sorry I can't because I don't believe in anything like that" Mario stopped his car right in front of the entrance to Gambir station.

"Thank you too, I'm down first, Dad. Hopefully you can think about my offer again" Asmila said as she prepared to get out of Mario's car.

"Have a great time with my beloved husband, Dad. Don't think of me being with your husband" Mario teased Asmila.

"Printing you".

"Hey, kiss dong before you go down".

Asmila sneered, but still kissed Mario's cheek and even had the two kissed each other's lips.

"Greet Fuad well, have fun".

Asmila got out of the car without saying anything more. That afternoon, Mario asked Asmila to drive him to Gambir station.

Asmila will spend time with Fuad from Friday night to the next three days.

Then Asmila entered the station building and immediately searched for a train to the city of Bandung according to the ticket he had booked.

Mario himself immediately drove his car to his house.

She immediately headed out the gate of Bandung station to find her husband who must have been waiting for her in the pickup lobby.

Asmila looked to her right and left looking for her husband, but she was nowhere to be seen.

Some taxi drivers continued to follow him offering delivery services to him.

Asmila tried to call her husband's phone and her tone was always busy.

From behind the pillar there was a man busy calling someone, then Asmila tried to get closer to find out if the man was her husband.

"Try checking every two hours, oil flow and pump pressure from above. Because it is estimated at the location that oil supplies are not too much as well. So worried that later the pump would suck up other minerals besides petroleum," it turned out that the big tall man in a blue shirt was her husband.

On Asmila's wrist, her watch showed eighteen past thirty minutes.

Her husband is still dealing with work when he said he had permission since noon to his superiors.

Asmila just sat on one of the rows of benches where people waited to be picked up.

"OK, sip, later if there's anything just call me again well," Fuad heard ending the conversation with the person at his workplace.

After closing his phone, Fuad glanced at his watch and surprised himself. Because the arrival hour of the train carrying his wife must have arrived since.

Fuad immediately turned around to head to the passenger pick-up gate, but to her surprise she saw Asmila sitting with her hands folded over her chest.

"Hi, Mila, it's already here. I'm sorry I was on the phone with the office guy" Fuad said when he was next to his wife.

"Ten minutes I was sitting here alone, while my husband was not looking. It seems that if I kidnap someone or someone kills you, they will never care. All she thought about was the pump, the oil, the gas pressure, it was important not her wife" Asmila grumbled at length to her husband.

"Don't get mad, let's love we're out of here. There is already a car waiting for us, there happens to be a partner company of car facilities and drivers during our time in Bandung".

Asmila did not answer, then stood up and walked with her husband to a car that had been waiting for him.

In the car there is a driver waiting to take them anywhere they want.

"Mas, I'm hungry".

"Okay, we'll eat first. Sir, please take us to the restaurant that was mentioned by the father's superior, well," Fuad told the driver earlier.

"Alright sir," said the driver as he immediately drove towards a restaurant whose building is quite luxurious.

"Come, driver, eat with us!"take Fuad to the driver.

"Oh, no sir, please. I have my own meal money from my boss, so please father and mother enjoy dinner at this restaurant," said the driver had rejected Fuad's invitation because he already had his own money to eat from his boss.

Fuad and Asmila immediately went down and entered the restaurant.

"Good night, welcome to our restaurant" greeted the waiter.

"Good night, is there a table reservation on behalf of Fuad Kusnadi?" fuad asked the waiter.

"Okay, please wait a minute. We checked our records first" replied the waiter.

"Muhammad Fuad Kusnadi of the State Oil Company," Fuad nodded after the servant gave his full name.

"Please father and mother come with me," the waiter asked and showed me the table that had written Fuad's name there.

"Please send me this menu, you and I want a message now? or call us back later?" ask the waiter.

"We choose first, we call back later" Fuad said.

"Alright, I Rio will be able to call me back to serve the order of father and mother," Asmila was stunned when the maid mentioned her name.

Silently Asmila felt her heart pounding, feeling as if the surroundings were insinuating subtly to her.

After being selected for some food, Fuad called a waiter named Rio.

Fuad conveyed the order and the waiter named Rio took note and repeated Fuad and Asmila's order so as not to make the wrong order.

After being convinced then he went to the kitchen to deliver Fuad and Asmila's order.

About half an hour later all orders came as Fuad and Asmila wished.

After eating they headed to the hotel which was also pre-booked by the driver's superior.

"Hmmm, five star hotel. It's amazing, mas," Asmila said.

"Yes, I just said yesterday I wanted to go to Bandung. Then partners

it immediately gave this luxurious accommodation," said Fuad who also felt amazed.

"Good night, welcome to the luxury hotel. I'm Soraya, how can I help you?"back Asmila seemed to be shunned by life, because suddenly the hotel officer named the same as someone far away there.

After being examined and the name of Fuad was indeed recorded there, then the hotel officials gave room keys for him.

"Please sir, room 808 and here's a voucher for breakfast tomorrow morning. Have a good rest and enjoy our service. Thank you," the officer named Soraya conveyed the keys and vouchers in a friendly manner.

Fuad and Asmila immediately entered the elevator towards the eighth floor, upon arrival at the top immediately searched and entered the room.

"Wooowww.suite rooms".

The couple was so surprised to get an unusual room, but a luxurious room class.

Asmila immediately laid her body on the bed whose bus was very soft and soft.

The hope is that Fuad will soon embrace her, ask her to make love, but the reality is very different.

Fuad immediately took a bath and performed the prayer that was left behind, of course Asmila also immediately followed what her husband did.

After that Fuad even took Asmila around the city of Bandung at night, Asmila certainly welcomed the invitation.

They drove around the city escorted by the driver earlier, seeing some crowded places in the city.

Then enjoy culinary snacks at night and after that back to the hotel, it turns out the driver has also been booked one bedroom there so always standby anytime Fuad needs delivery services.

At night Fuad and Asmila make love, as usual Fuad does it full of tenderness and affection.

Asmila looked at the face of her husband who fell asleep after making love, she even remembered at the beginning of knowing Mario had done a scene of romance like in foreign films.

Honestly Asmila really enjoyed the moment, because throughout the marriage with Fuad, her husband never did extreme things while making love.

What Fuad did all this time was just mediocre, the important thing is to be able to give each other pleasure and then after sleeping together.

"Maybe Mario was so with his wife, so it was so crazy that we did" Asmila recalled that night while making wild love with Mario.

She rubbed her husband's hair, then let her husband lightly kiss her cheek, saying,

"I'm sorry, ma'am".

The next day they took a walk to several tourist attractions located in Bandung Regency.

Take pictures, take a walk and eat a variety of culinary typical of the city of Bandung.

After that shopping, because the city of Bandung is a center of cheap and good fashion shopping.

The night returns to the hotel and another love affair ensues, and Fuad does what they used to do for years of marriage.

Asmila receives Fuad's subtle treatment, even though her heart is raging to make love like she ever did with another man, Mario.

Three days and three nights with her husband, Fuad also reportedly did not hold a cell phone because it was confiscated by Asmila.

Now Asmila could not demand more from her husband, because Fuad was basically a gentle and kind man.

"Thank you, mas. When else can we both be like this, I want us to vacation where to go abroad with you. But can we do it?" Asmila said that while tightly hugging her husband.

"I promise early next year we'll apply for a sabbatical, we'll go to the doctor together. Then we go on a honeymoon abroad, we make a child there," Fuad said as he looked at his wife.

"Seriously?" ask Asmila.

Fuad nodded his head, then kissed his wife's lips.

"I'm serious, so I'm going to do some work first and then I ask my boss for a sabbatical" Fuad said.

"Promise yes, ma'am".

"Yes, I promise, Mila".

While at home Mario and Soraya were talking together in the bedroom.

"Mam, this I keep in the drawer here well. Life insurance policy I bought yesterday. If later I'm okay, don't forget to take care of this policy let liquid insurance claim," said Mario while saving two files into a drawer in their bedroom.

"I wonder the same pap, since yesterday always said so. If I'm okay, if I die, if I go. What's up, anyway? Always making people creep in fear of hearing your words, pap," Soraya seemed annoyed by the phrase often uttered by her husband.

"Why should you creep in fear, mom. People will all die, and no one will ever know when they will die" said Mario casually.

"Indeed, Pap didn't want to see our two daughters graduate, then work, get married and give us grandchildren. Pap did not want to take our daughter to wear a wedding dress and walk on the altar to say a promise," Soraya again protested her husband.

"Hahahah.I want dong, of course I want, mam. But what I'm saying is who knows, maybe I can't do that" Mario said.

"Let's know, I'm lazy to talk about it, what pap said made me creep in fear" Soraya said as she passed out of their bedroom.

I don't know where to go, she must be upset by the words of her husband who always said such things.