A Wound

Chapter 22's

It's been two days that Hartono has been treated and unconscious. And just like last night, tonight Ara and Arumi will stay at the hospital to monitor the middle-aged man's health development.

Hoping for a miracle to happen, the middle-aged man awakens from his coma.

Arumi lay on a sofa that is wide enough to cushion Ara's thighs. The two of them were still talking about his father's restaurant which now belonged to someone else.

Chequek...

"Miya." said Ara and Arumi together.

Miya ran over to her two best friends, and gave them a hug.

"Where's Dad? I wanted to see Dad, "he said in tears, unable to contain his tears.

Ara and Arumi immediately bring her best friend to see Hartono's condition.

"Dad, sorry, Miya just came. Miya's a bad princess." Miya spilled her tears in front of Hartono's treatment room, staring at the middle-aged man's body from behind the dividing glass. And many times regretted his ignorance of what befell the man he called the father.

Miya continued to wipe away her tears that kept falling, then turned to her two best friends who were currently standing right behind her.

After finishing her crying, Miya started asking about what had happened to the middle-aged man. And Ara told me everything.

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"Why not tell me if you want to go home?" ask Arumi to Miya. After they returned to the room where they rested.

"Yes, sorry. This is sudden," replied Miya regretfully.

"Then who told you that you had an accident? Your number has never even been active." asked Arumi.

"So I went to Ara's house, but only met Bi Ratih. Trus Bi Ratih told me that Dad was in an accident, so I rushed here."

"I think you suddenly came home because you knew Dad was in an accident" Arumi said, and was answered with a sledgehammer by Miya.

Miya then told about her return that was not known by her parents.

Today is the day that Miya first meets the man she is about to be betrothed to.

And this afternoon, the man picked her up at his house, after last night asking Miya's parents for permission, to take her daughter out. With reason, so that they can get to know each other first. And also the man intends to apologize directly to Miya, for making the girl wait a long time just for a family meeting.

And just before Miya was picked up, her mother gave back Miya's phone she had been holding for days. With the intention that they can exchange phone numbers later.

When the man came to pick her up, Miya did not pay much attention to the man. He was busy with his plans to escape. Because it turns out to be true, said Ara, after the family meeting later, his parents will soon marry him, on the basis of the parents request from the man. And if she wants to continue her studies, she can ask permission from her husband later.

The man took Miya to a restaurant for lunch. And after placing the order, the man turned to look at the girl who was currently sitting opposite him blankly.

The man scratched his forehead with his fingertips, when he saw Miya who looked very reluctant to see him, or talk to him. Maybe the girl was angry with him, or maybe his attitude was a form of protest over this matchmaking, he thought.

The man cleared his throat, just before starting his conversation. So that the girl in front of him realized from his daydream that I don't know what.

"I'm sorry, it's made you wait so long. He said you left your college a few days ago" said the man regretfully.

Miya turned her eyes to the man, "yes it's okay," he replied flatly. Then looked seriously at the man before him who had no idea what his name was. Though as he remembered the man had mentioned his name earlier when in the car. But he doesn't really care.

"Oh yeah, can I ask you something?" ask Miya.

"Yes, please." The man smiled.

"Do you like me?" asked Miya without further ado. Makes the man laugh when he hears it.

Miya knitted her eyebrows together, "is there anything funny?" tanyanya was confused.

"Ah no. Sorry!" the man stopped his laughter and looked seriously at the girl. "Yes I like it. You're beautiful."

"You really like me?" ask Miya again, reassuring.

The man nodded, "yes, why?"

"How can you so easily like someone you just met?" Miya flicked her lips, feeling annoyed with the man before her.

The man's answer made him even more confused to find a way to escape. In fact, if the man does not like it, they can work together to cancel the matchmaking made by their parents.

"Have you ever heard the word love at first sight?" asked the man smiling, "it seems like I'm experiencing it right now," he added, making Miya glare at hearing it.

Sounds sweet, thought Miya.

"It seems you don't like me. Do you have a lover?" ask the man again.

"Not really.... I just want to continue my studies" replied Miya.

"Then what's the problem? I won't interfere with your college."

"But we're getting married in the near future" Miyah said.

"We can postpone it until your lecture is over, if you want."

"Yes, I'm serious. But can you sit back, people look at us." The man chuckled at the behavior of the girl in front of him. It seems true said the mother of the girl, if her daughter is not so mature. But he likes.

Miya circulated her gaze at the other visitors, then quickly sat herself down. Embarrassed, while catching some people looking towards him.

"But I'm not sure mom would approve. Can I ask for your help?" asked Miya expectantly.

" What help?" ask the man.

But their conversation had to come to a halt due to the presence of the waiter who delivered their order.

And after thanking the waiter who had finished serving the food in front of her, Miya again looked seriously at the man before her, "can you let me go today?"

"You mean?"

"Let me go back to Jakarta today. Because if I go home, I'm not sure if my mom will let me go back to Jakarta again" explained Miya.

And when he realized the man looked confused, Miya again said, "I promise I will not betray you. I'm not going to date anyone. If anyone comes near me, I'll say I'm engaged.... You want ya?" the door, clenched his hands together.

The man chuckled at Miya's words. His gaze turned to Miya's hand that was still clenched in front of her chest. "People won't believe you're engaged if you don't have a ring on your finger."

Miya spread out her palms, and stared at all her empty fingers. There's nothing there, "no problem, I'll buy it in Jakarta later."

"Then what should I say when Auntie Fani asks you?" ask the man.

"You just have to tell me that I forced you. The rest, let me explain it to mama."

The man slowly nodded his head, "yes already, alright!"

"Thank you, yes." said Miya sparkling.

The man widened his smile and nodded back, looking fixedly at the girl who was currently also staring at him. Make their views clash with each other.

"Handsome too, I just realized.... It must have been very amused when he touched it," inner Miya, smiling, stared at the thin bewok growing on the jaw of the man before her.

"Astagfirefull!" lirih Miya, who quickly shook her head, dispelled her perverted thoughts.

"What's wrong?" asked the man.

"Ah, it's okay.. After this I go straight to the airport huh?" miya Pinta.

"I'll take you."

"No, I can go alone" Miya refused.

"I'll take you. I can't possibly let my future wife go alone" the man smiled.

Miya slightly gasped, amused to hear the words of the future wife who was addressed to her.

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"I'm so happy to hear it" said Ara holding Miya's hand, after hearing her best friend's story.

"So you really took the time to go buy a ring before you got here?" arumi asked, staring at a ring that had been coiled on her best friend's finger.

Miya shook her head, "no. Before driving me to the airport, he took me to a jewelry store and we exchanged rings there. He took me for a picture, he said so he could show it to our parents. At least, so that mom won't be so angry with me" explained Miya.

"Wahh that's so sweet. Then where's the picture? show me." Arumi reached out her hand asking for Miya's phone.

"There's a hapeen."

Arumi let out her breath, feeling panted.

"I haven't activated my hape. I don't want you to interrupt our time." Miya could imagine how her mother would scold her all day if she turned on her phone.

"Then what's your fiance's name?" ask Ara.

"Abyan.." said Miya smilingly, imagining the face of the man she was with a while ago.

Miya then stood up from her seat, "I'm going to Dad's room, if you want to rest, just rest. Let me take care of you."

"You who should rest, you must be tired after the trip," said Ara.

"It has. No one gets a break, we'll keep Dad together. No one sleeps, right?" threatening Arumi and assailed by her two best friends.

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