Choice Matchmaker For Reva

111. Like brothers

Reva sat down trying to strengthen himself on the living room sofa, after Aldo left he leaned with Ayu's companion, the shady eyes were swollen with red color around his eyeball.

"Reva." the voice approached unhesitatingly.

"How to." Reva called out the man's name and came back crying.

"Don't cry, you're happy in nature!" Anggara comforted him, and then the man looked around not finding Rey or Aldo. "Where's your husband?" ask soft Anggara.

"In the Masjid with the others." Ayu answered Anggara's question this time.

"Oh, then I'll catch up." Anggara smiled a little at Reva and Ayu, then he went out to catch up with Rey and the others.

The number of neighbors and colleagues who came still did not change the woman's grief, tears never stop wetting, forgetting to drink, forgetting to eat and not rest. Then they all went to the funeral.

Rey was already in the burrow to welcome the body of the mother, helped Aldo and some people to position the body of the mother before it was actually buried. Dev, who was seen among the mourners present at the funeral, could only remain silent and do nothing. Intentions wanted to join the burying as Rey did when it helped bury his mother, but different now, there is Aldo who has been with his best friend, he said, and most importantly Aldo is the daughter-in-law of the current mother instead of her.

Slowly the excavation covered the body of the mother who had rested led to the qibla, the end of this only temporary life, a life that was only this short. Wasn't yesterday we were still playing with mom, mom who always screamed and yelled when this self made trouble, angry mom babbling when this self played don't remember coming home, no, the mother advised with wise words that made the ears hot and those words were ignored. Then after the crying mother when we get married began to live a new life, the mother who was happy when she would fondle grandchildren. And after that, the granddaughter grew up, and we just realized that mother is not like before. The tired face was wrinkled, the twinkle of the eyes that always look tough it turned dim, that day we just realized, when else love a mother. When the old woman's old age sounded more chatty, more annoying and so can not stand the day with her. Not infrequently his chatty words get answers that he thinks hurt the heart of mother. I don't know how long that time, if a day feels long ago if a year how many answers offend him. And finally he's gone forever.

"Mother." Reva looks hysterical even with her soft voice but the painful heart is so unable to cover. The limp body was uncontrollable wanted to step but the power was no longer there, until he fell. Ayu who was once unable to hold the body of the pregnant woman, until almost fell and lucky Dev not far from them until he had held the body of Reva who was increasingly sitting lethargic. Reva was crying silently but as much as in her breath could still be heard.

"Reva realized, you can't do this." said Dev did not dare to do much, his heart was eager to do many things, calming and comforting him as he used to experience the same thing. The girl was always with him at that time, always comforting him with sweet seduction that said from tiny lips and a sweet voice. Honey, those memories just passed without being able to reply to the same thing. "If only we met not with my condition this way" he said in his heart, staring at the sad face made his daydream more and more.

"Surge!" Aldo grabbed Dev's hand that was holding his wife's shoulder and threw the hand away carelessly, the man was slightly pushed back with a sitting position.

"She's very limp." said Ayu sounding panicked.

"You brought some water?" Aldo grabbed the limp body and hugged it.

"No." replied Ayu, looking around.

"Darling, we're home." Aldo tried to get him to stand up, but the body was too weak, so Aldo sat back down.

Dev who had been away became upset and went awry, grabbed something in his car and was forced to come back closer. "He used to drink this." Dev reached out his hand with a can of milk.

Aldo looked at her with a look of regret. "You!"

"This is not the time to argue." Dev leaves the milk in Ayu's hands, the man leaves the funeral first.

Aldo carried the weak body to the car accompanied Ayu, lay him in the back seat. "Dear don't worry me." Aldo stroked that face looking puffy and wet.

"Drink this brother." Ayu opened the milk can and gave it to Reva. For a moment after drinking a little, then Reva fell asleep in Aldo's arms, so many hours of crying without eating and drinking made him so tired.

"We're home." Aldo asked Ayu to drive. The man would not let go of his embrace, continue to be beside him and stroke his head.

Arriving at Aldo's house carrying Reva immediately went up, followed by Alisa who looked very worried.

"What's wrong with her?" Alisa came into the room, felt her sister's forehead and felt her hands and feet. "She was out of energy, nor was there any food in her stomach."

"So drink a little milk." Aldo replied, because Alisa will give you medicine.

"Ah, okay. You're gonna force him to eat, you're gonna give him this vitamin tonight." Alisa closed the bottle of vitamins that had been in dikita.

"Yes, brother."

The man was endlessly squeezing his cold, withered fingers. Looking at the face he loved so much was sleeping tired and weak, letting the breath blow regularly even just for a moment forget his sadness at the departure of the mother.

Outside the rain fell so hard, as if to express the sadness that his wife was experiencing. Aldo was no less sad to remember when his mother died while he was still in school, had to live a life of kara. At school with the cost of the rent of his mother's estate, sometimes without money at the end of three months after the lease was used up, he had to wash the car on the streets to get money, he had to wash the car in order to get money, home with wet clothes, the money works also wet. Sometimes alone, but sometimes alone with Dev, his best friend from childhood until the time he was married.

Suddenly there was a sense of urgency about the friendship, the long times they had been through together like brothers.