BLESSINGS OF LOVE
Wednesday Funeral of Mario

The next morning, Jimmy was already at the airport, he was waiting for the arrival of the plane carrying Mario's body from Palembang City.

Jimmy was wearing a long-handed black shirt, blue jeans, sneaker shoes and wearing sunglasses.

At the age of soon thirty-six years, it looks once Jimmy is a handsome man who is independent and successful in his career.

With Mario dead, then automatically ownership of the company fell into his hands.

Although not yet officially announced by a notary, but certainly Jimmy will soon become the owner of the company and become a director to replace Mario's previous position.

But it definitely did not make her happy, because at least she had to lose an older brother closest to her.

By replacing Mario's position in the company it even makes his heart hurt.

"Sir Jimmy, please wait about thirty minutes. According to the information earlier at the airport Palembang City there is a little problem but it can be overcome," said Junel who accompanied Jimmy at the time.

"Yes, it's okay, I'm still waiting patiently here" replied Jimmy.

"I'm going to get some coffee first, will Mr Julian want to?" ask Jimmy.

"No, thank you. Please Mr. Jimmy look for coffee first, let me wait for the arrival of the plane" Junel told Jimmy.

"Surely the guy didn't sleep all night" Junel muttered as he looked at Jimmy's back who was stepping foot into one of the cafes at the airport.

Shortly there was a plane belonging to the TNI landed, inside there are two coffins.

On the chest were written the names of Mario Maliangkay, and another Asmila Maryana.

A coffin bearing Mario's name was immediately loaded into the ambulance, while one bearing Asmila's name was loaded into a helicopter for another delivery trip to Cirebon.

Junel and other police officers had loaded the coffin into the ambulance, and there was a form that needed to be signed by the victim's family.

Jimmy who was supposed to do that was nowhere to be found, immediately Junel searched the airport.

"Geez!" Junel patted his forehead.

How not, he saw Jimmy was sleeping on the cafe table, his hands were made into his head and amazingly he slept very well.

Inevitably, Junel must wake him up. Surely Jimmy was flirting, and fortunately soon came to his senses. Then she and Junel immediately saw the crate inside the ambulance.

Jimmy signs the form, and he gets in the ambulance to Mario's house.

While at Mario's house there were many people gathered, inevitably almost all members of his church congregation were present to fill the courtyard of the house.

From yesterday until today, Kristy was restrained and became busy as part of the family.

Yesterday, after helping drive Rosalinda's car to pick up Opa Hansen and Oma Regina, Rosalinda asked her to stay at Mario's house.

"You said Marsela had a restaurant, yeah. Now, a lot of guests are coming. Please prepare cake and food".

"Later tonight there is a service in this house, called a consolation service for the families left behind. You will prepare food for about fifty people. I give you some money for the payment" said Rosalinda who ordered food for guests who kept coming.

After receiving some of the payment, Kristy calls his restaurant and asks his men to prepare food and is immediately sent to Mario's home address.

While waiting for the order to come, Kristy saw many guests who came to offer condolences to the Soraya family.

Then Kristy yesterday went straight into the kitchen of Soraya's house and asked Mince what kind of groceries she had.

Seeing there is flour, eggs and butter, then not many think again soon Kristy making cake batter. Because the atmosphere was frenzied, Mince could not find an oven to bake cakes.

Kristy didn't lose her mind, she saw a steamer in the kitchen, so she immediately made a steamed brownie.

He saw a lot of instant noodles, then he boiled and after it was drained and mixed with the rest of the flour, and he made a ball of instant noodles and fried.

In the refrigerator there is milk and also in the refrigerator there is tea, immediately attacking water and making milk tea or commonly called tea pull.

Yesterday afternoon while waiting for food from his restaurant to come, there were some guests who were treated to steamed brownies and balls of fried noodles.

Rosalinda became very impressed to see Kristy so deft in cooking, making simple treats that taste good.

So Rosalinda certainly ordered more food for guests who will come on the day of the funeral.

"It is estimated that in the morning there will be a group of guests from the church and also my friends. Then there will be a funeral service and after the funeral there will likely still be guests here. Please Kristy prepare consumption not to be less. About the payment later I'll pay everything" Rosalinda ordered to Kristy.

"I am the oldest sister-in-law in the Maliangkay family. My name is Rosalinda, just call me Sister Rosa. My husband Bang Robert, the oldest brother and a famous heart surgeon, then the second is the late Mario and that's his wife Soraya, and the youngest is your boyfriend Jimmy," Rosalinda explains it like that.

Kristy's trying to explain that she's not Jimmy's girlfriend.

"Aaaahhhh, I was also once young. I used to be so when Bang Robert had not expressed love to me, I must have been evasive. Never mind that Jimmy will definitely declare his love, especially you look so familiar with our family," Rosalinda replied like that to Kristy.

Mince and Bik Tati though sad to lose Mario, but there is a little happiness to see there is a figure Kristy who is so quickly familiar and very friendly to both of them.

"Thank God, I hope Miss Kristy is really Oom Jimmy's soul mate" Mince said in his heart as she watched Kristy who was so deft and painstaking in making food as well as in serving food.

Not only Mince and Rosalinda, almost the entire Maliangkay family secretly noticed Kristy though unintentionally.

Except Jimmy, he's busy here and there, taking care of these documents and that's about the process of arriving the body and also for the funeral.

And most certainly close to the figure of Kristy of course the nieces, the children of Robert and Rosalinda, also the children of Mario and Soraya.

As if they already have a new aunt, the four of them quickly get along with Kristy and very much hope that Kristy will become his uncle's wife.

While Kristy for two days at Mario's house, during that time there was also a man very disappointed because two days to the restaurant and could not meet with Kristy.

"Who died?" ask Rear Admiral Samsul to Oci his trusted employee Kristy.

"I don't really understand either, but it must be his relatives" Oci said as he was.

Samsul just nodded and was disappointed, yesterday he wanted to introduce Kristy to his friends but could not meet.

Today tried to come again, and the result was the same as there was no Kristy in the restaurant.

The police commander was standing before many social media crews, all demanding a statement on the name of the victim who died from drowning yesterday.

Because there has been a statement of no objection from the family of the victim, the Police Commander that afternoon stated the name of the victim and the origin one by one.

Hearing the official statement from the Police, the President Director of the Life Insurance office immediately ordered all employees at the Cirebon branch to wait for the arrival of Asmila's body and attend her funeral later.

Likewise, the President Director ordered his staff in Jakarta to send flowers sign of condolence to the family of Mario Maliangkay, because the name is one of the customers of the Life Insurance company.

All CV colleagues and partners. Maju Mandiri, a construction and architecture company owned by Mario, also immediately ordered flower boards and asked to immediately send to Mario's house that day.

There were even some media crews already on guard from the morning both in Depok City at Mario's residence and also in Cirebon City in front of the Asmila residence.

The media crew will cover the live residence of the corpse following the funeral of the two victims.

Of course the media crew sniffed something close relationship between the late Mario and Asmila.

How not Asmila an Agency Director can be a victim and drown along with one of her priority customers.

Surely the media crew will pursue and want to find out something hidden behind the death of the two people.

Ratna was sobbing when she saw the news on television, a statement from the Palembang City Police Commander detailed the names of the victims who died in the fateful event of the sinking of a car that has killed seven people on board.

"Bang Ali, I'm going to Cirebon. I had to explain to Mas Fuad about Asmila's plan to come here.huhuhuhu," Ratna said in tears to her husband.

"Gosh, where's the money for the fare. All the money and savings we have used for capital to open this grocery store," said Ali her husband.

"Borrow it to a person or a brother, we change the money for sure" Ratna began to sulk as usual.

"Don't, just be patient. I'm sure Mas Fuad will definitely go to Palembang, will want to know where his wife died. Later we meet him when visiting the river," said Ali while trying to give his wife understanding.

Finally Ratna also relented, later she will try to contact Fuad by phone first if the funeral business is finished.

In Palembang district, precisely in Besemah Village, Pagar Alam District, media crews began to storm into the house of Jena's parents.

Inevitably, also revealed the secret of his son-in-law a famous businessman and politician from Semarang City, Edmun Nayoan, had a son-in-law who had an affair with his former student until he had a baby out of wedlock.

Even the grave and the condition of Asrul's tomb along with Jena and their babies were also in the spotlight

As soon as it was finished the Palembang City Police Commander made an announcement on the name of the victim, immediately in front of the fence of his house Edmun Nayoan was filled with media crews to ask for an explanation.

The entire family of Edmun Nayoan none of them came out of the house, all staying inside to avoid questions from the reporters.

Aletha's dental clinic also did not escape the shock of the media, but on Aletha's orders asked all employees of the dental clinic do not issue any statements and do not answer any questions asked by journalists.

Aletha had already applied for a sabbatical to friends at the clinic, currently sitting in front of the television, seeing news footage of the return of the bodies of the deceased with her husband to their respective birthplace.

Beside Aletha a lot of lumps of used tisue wiped the tears that slid down her cheeks, there were media crews who interviewed Jena's parents and also the graves of her husband and his wife and their baby.

Various analyses were put forward by the media about Asrul's death and also about his affair.

Husein's campus and office did not escape the pursuit of media crews who wanted to know who the real figure of Asrul Mubarok besides lecturers and also the son-in-law of an Edmun Nayoan.

"How dare, the son-in-law of a man like Edmun Nayoan cheated in plain sight but was not caught. The time of important people is so negligent".

"Wife when not how good, where the dentist is famous as well. It could be that the lecturer tricked the wife".

"Not always the smart man can know everything, the proof of cheating with his own sister's friends can not be found out".

It was the talk of people who knew how the Edmun Nayoan family and especially Aletha Nayoan could be fooled in plain sight.

Magenta Aletha's sister, who works in Jakarta, applied for leave of absence to return to Semarang. But because it turns out the media crew has been trailing him, then he better stay in the office hidden by his co-workers.

The ambulance carrying Mario's coffin was approaching Mario's residence.

In the courtyard of the house has been fitted with a tent and many folding chairs arranged there.

Many people were present from the church, and the priest Joseph was there giving comfort advice to Soraya and her two children.

They must believe that God always has a beautiful plan even though Mario is no longer with them.

There are groups of mothers with all-round view down from three cars that come in sequence.

There are about eleven women dressed in white but they look like top artists, all dressed up in full make up, high heeled shoes, and of course jewelry is also a fantastic precious carry bag hanging on each arm.

If you look at the appearance, of course they are all his friends Rosalinda who came to express sympathy to Soraya and her children, as well as to the extended family of Maliangkay.

Rosalinda immediately welcomed her friends, then took everyone in hand and said condolences to Soraya, Maya, Mega, Robert her husband and her two in-laws.

After that invited the eleven friends to sit in a place that has been marked since by Rosalinda and they talked together there.

Rosalinda told about the accident based on reports from the police, while presenting food brought by Kristy.

"Rosa, where's the cake? the taste and shape like this I memorized once. Usually my sister makes it" Stevie, one of Rosalinda's best friends, questioned the cake.

"Oh, that's my message from Jimmy's girlfriend, her name's Kristy. That's the guy" said Rosalinda while pointing Kristy who was arranging cakes and other snacks on a long table that was deliberately to store food.

"Loh, that's my stepbrother. Is he dating Jimmy your brother-in-law?" stevie looked happy.

"Oh, he's your stepbrother. Incidentally well, the world is narrow. I didn't think Jimmy could date your sister, either" Rosalinda was happy to know that.

"Hopefully my sister gets married to Jimmy, take pity on him. She was already three heads, had failed to marry because it turns out her future husband had a deviant behavior".

"The invitation letter has been spread because in two weeks Kristy will be married to a doctor. The man never knew he had another lover, and his lover was the same sex. At that time his lover threatened to commit suicide, it turns out that the man prefers his lover than Kristy," Stevie tells the story of his half-sister who never failed to marry.

"You're half-brothers but familiar?" ask Stevie.

"Of course, I'm a good brother" Stevie said.

"Hahaha, Stevie dares not to be kind to his stepbrother, indeed he wants to be poor. Danger for Stevie if one day until not part of the legacy of Sumargo Handoyo," quipped one of his friends.

Everyone laughed because they understood that they were all women who were afraid of falling into poverty.

The all-luxury lifestyle that has been lived, certainly makes everything have to be full of drama in dealing with this life.

The ambulance entered Mario's yard, of course Soraya immediately limped

she could not bear to see her husband's body.

Jimmy got down from the back door of the ambulance, and ambulances and employees from the office were seen helping to unload the coffin.

Pastor Yosep and Robert immediately welcomed the coffin, and they discussed it for a moment.

"Do we have to open this box again? perhaps his wife and children as well as both parents would like to see the condition of the body" pastor Yosep asked a question to the Maliangkay family.

"I think it should be, at least the family wants to see Mario's face one last time" Robert said.

Then Jimmy helped some people open the casket, and look Mario's face swell seems to have begun the process of decay on his body.

A pungent smell began to smell throughout the room there, Soraya and her two children approached the coffin. Suddenly they screamed crying seeing Mario's condition like that.

Opa Hansen and Oma Regina are also not preventable, they both insist on wanting to know Mario what he is like after a few days declared dead.

Oma Regina immediately fainted upon seeing the condition of Mario's corpse, fortunately there were some people there who immediately caught Oma Regina's body before falling to the floor.

William kept hold of Opa Hansen from the start, worried that his grandfather would have heart disease.

Mega and Maya embrace each other when they see the condition of his father's body, of course Mega can not be separated from the inhaler because since yesterday it continues to be short of breath when he first heard his father died.

The family deal finally bathed the body again, incidentally Robert also brought a team of nurses from the hospital so that immediately handle Mario's body to be cleaned again.

Soraya prepared Mario's best suit outfit for later wear before being put back in the casket.

Jimmy had ordered a better coffin, the previous one was handed back to the hospital.

After being bathed, Mario was dressed in a suit and the look of his hair and his face was also restyled by the hospital team to look more handsome than before.

Soraya watched the process as she continued to criticize because she felt devastated by the death of her husband.

Robert read the forensic examination report while looking at the face of Mario who was stiffened, reported written on the face visible there was trauma before he died and it was justified by him.

There were several bruises on his cheeks and eyes, probably from the impact when the car rolled over, then there were injuries on his hands seen his attempt to break the car glass before dying.

And when reading the question line found that there was cancer in the victim's lungs, it made Robert very surprised. Because all this time he did not know that his sister was sick with lung cancer.

In the distance Robert saw the figure of Samuel who had been dealing with Mario's illness, wanted to ask but it was impossible because suddenly time was so urgent Mario had to be put into the coffin.

"Bang, apparently must immediately service the closure of the coffin while the release of the corpse. Can not be postponed anymore, Bang Rio's body has started the process of decay faster because it was submerged in river water. The nurse team just said it could not be injected formalin because there was already a decay process," Jimmy told the condition of Mario's body to Robert.

"Okay, I will speak to the priest Joseph and also to Soraya and Papih and Mamih" Robert said as he folded the forensic report and put it in his pocket.

Soraya and her two in-laws agreed with Robert's opinion, if the closure of the casket and funeral should be done immediately because Mario's condition can not be stored any longer.

Pastor Joseph gave a little sermon for strength for the family and also a prayer for forgiveness so that all of Mario's sins could be forgiven by the Almighty.

Afterwards, Opa Hansen and Oma Regina poured perfumes into Mario's clothes. It was followed by Soraya and her children, then Robert and Jimmy's family.

Following behind Mince and Bik Tati also doused the perfume, after which all the employees in Mario's office and the rest of everyone present at the ceremony until the perfume was exhausted.

After that the casket is permanently closed so that it will not be opened again by anyone.

Maya stands in front of the coffin carrying a picture of her father, beside which Mega carries candles and a bouquet of flowers.

The two of them walked side by side, while behind him Jimmy, William and several other men lifted the coffin and put it in the hearse.

Maya and Mega also Soraya are in the car, Opa Hansen and Oma Regina are taken into Robert's car.

Some people got into their cars and some got onto buses that had been booked to take mourners to the cemetery.

The sirens accompanied the journey to the cemetery, along the way Soraya and her two children hugged Mario's coffin while tears did not stop flowing.

Upon arrival at the funeral, there are already Maya and Mega school friends along with her school teacher.

Reverend Joseph again presided over the funeral service, a series of prayers were offered for the forgiveness of sins and paved the way for the deceased.

Before long the coffin began to be lowered into the ground, back cries struck in the procession.

Soraya fainted, and so did Oma Regina faint again. It was fortunate that Mince was swiftly holding Soraya's body, as well as Oma being held tightly by Jimmy.

Opa Hansen was hugged by William and Robert to avoid fainting as well.

The two Soraya children sit with Kristy, because Mega is short of breath and fortunately Kristy is deft because she is used to facing people asphyxiated. That's because one of his nieces also has the same problem and Kristy who always takes care of it since she was a child.

Who else if not Stevie's son who since childhood always with Kristy, while Stevie's mother is too busy being a socialite mother.

After Mario's funeral was over, almost all the guests left the tomb.

There are those who go straight home, there are also those who return to the family home Mario.

It was late in the afternoon, there were still quite a lot of relatives and friends gathered at Mario's house after the funeral.

Because many people gathered, then Kristy's job is also very much to provide food and drinks for the guests.

After one by one saying while giving encouragement to Soraya and also Mario's parents, the house began to become quiet.

Now it's Rosalinda's turn to be ready to go home, while one by one walking to Soraya, Stevie looks a little turn towards the kitchen of the house.

"Kristy, are you really going to be part of this Maliangkay family?" ask Stevie.

"Sister Stevie, I told my brother earlier, I'm not who Jimmy is. I'm here purely working for money, because Sister Rosa ordered food for me" Kristy was seen explaining to her brother.

"I don't care, Jimmy's a good guy. I'm actually supporting that you get to marry Jimmy" Stevie said.

"Oh, forget. Again, I say, I'm not Jimmy's girlfriend. Please, I'll be embarrassed until Jimmy hears this empty conversation" Kristy whispered.

But Stevie just smiled as she kissed his half-brother's cheek.

"I just support and wish you all the best, baby" Stevie said, saying goodbye.

Now that only the family is left, Opa Hansen and Oma Regina are still staying at Mario's house.

Robert's family, too, still could not bear to leave Soraya and her children.

Jimmy also just finished taking care of all the administration of the delivery of the body, then the funeral and so on.

"Sister Rosa, for ordering food for these few days, how much do I have to pay?" jimmy asked, holding his phone, preparing to transfer money to Rosalinda's account.

"I paid for the order in half yesterday, the lack of how much I don't understand. You just ask your girlfriend" said Rosalinda lightly.

"Daughter?" Jimmy was astonished to hear that word.

"Yes, she's your boyfriend, please just clear the bill with her" replied Rosalinda pointing to Kristy.

Furthermore, it can be ascertained that Jimmy was only confused alone when he heard his brother-in-law declare like that.