Come A Closer Love's

87

It took 1 hour for Marwah to prepare spaghetti dishes for Erwin who looked patiently waiting for Marwah to serve his dishes.

" it's simple spaghetti" said Marwah, putting a plate in front of Erwin.

Erwin looks welcoming with a knotty smile.

" honey," Erwin replied by grabbing Marwah's fingers.

Marwah stopped looking at Erwin's tired face.

" i'm sorry, Marwah's only cooking spaghetti, anyway,"

Erwin smiled at the knot again as he grabbed the cutlery on the plate.

" it's gotta be good,"

Marwah grabbed a chair beside Erwin and tried to sit closer to the side of this man.

Erwin seemed to be eating enthusiastically.

" how??," ..

" hmm, but. but." Erwin replied with a slow chew

" but what?" asked Marwah quickly.

" it feels different,"

" why?? is it too salty?" guessed Marwah with a curious face.

But Erwin did not answer, he instead returned to eat the spaghetti, so Marwah became curious. He quickly grabbed Erwin's hand holding the cutlery and tried to grab a bit of the spaghetti and ate it slowly.

And Marwah's face looks a little tough.

" ah, right this is a bit salty," he said riled.

" well, don't eat anymore" forbid Marwah to Erwin who will still continue eating.

" it doesn't feel bad, though" Erwin said, pretending to close his eyes a little as if he felt the food was really bad.

Marwah looked furiously and then quickly hit Erwin's shoulder on purpose.

Plaque..

" ish, tell me if it's not good," exclaimed the pouting Marwah.

But suddenly Erwin dropped his fork spoon, and bowed in pain.

Marwah looked with an incredulous face.

" webay deh," he said ketus by looking at Erwin who was still enduring pain.

And every now and then there was the sound of a small sigh from Erwin's lips that was holding back his headache that suddenly reappeared.

" mas, don't be kidding" said Marwah who looked seriously at Erwin and tried to grab the man's shoulders who was still bowed.

" mas" cried Marwah anxiously.

" mas, why??, does anyone hurt??" he exclaimed, looking down at Erwin's face.

" se.severa," swished in pain Erwin by holding his head for a moment.

Marwah was surprised to see Erwin in pain who did not play games.

" mas, we're going to the hospital" exclaimed Marwah frantically holding Erwin's slightly sweaty face.

But Erwin grabbed Marwah's fingers and Marwah stared with a worried face.

" mas just need to rest" said Erwin slowly.

🍃🍃🍃

After a while, Erwin who now looks like normal after the pain of his head is gone. Marwah who was sitting next to Erwin continued to stare seriously at the man who looked leisurely eating chocolate cookies dr. Desserts.

" udah donk seeinnya" cried Erwin by closing the mini jars of chocolate cookies.

" mas really do not papa," he continued by staring at the anxious face of Marwah who continued to pay attention to him.

There was a long breath of Marwah.

" i'm sorry, yes" said Erwin with festive fingers Marwah.

" what do you often have headaches like that??" asked Marwah anxiously.

" hmm, lately quite often,"

Marwah's shocked face was increasingly visible.

" often??,"

" yes, maybe a migraine" Erwin replied casually.

Marwah stared with an incredulous face.

" migraine??" said Marwah trying to think for a moment.

" don't worry, headaches are common, what else when dealing with office things, headaches that often appear," said Erwin trying to end the discussion of pain.

Marwah clucked in disbelief.

" but the headaches are not unusual" said Marwah still looks anxious.

Erwin smiled slightly.

" mas most know themselves mas, as long as a short break and..," he said while laying on Marwah's lap.

" and get enough sleep here, surely mas immediately improve," he said by grabbing Marwah's fingers to rub his head.

Marwah breathed her long breath.

" huuffft, you know?? mas is the most recalcitrant!!," said Marwah slowly.

" recalcitrant?? but like it??," said Erwin with a little laugh seduces Marwah.

Marwah was also lured into a small laugh. Then his fingers slowly rubbed with affection on Erwin's head. For a moment Erwin felt comfortable and calm in the lap of Marwah.

" wrong,"

" hmm" murmured Erwin with his eyes closed enjoying the soft touch of Marwah's fingers on his head.

" what about the company's problems?," asked Marwah hesitantly.

Erwin momentarily opened his eyes and stared pushyly at the unlit TV screen.

" don't know," answered Erwin heavily.

" What about the Atmadja company??" ask Marwah back in more detail.

Erwin shook slowly he woke up from the lap of Marwah.

" you know??,"

" ah did not really understand, but mas Chandra had said that the company uncle mas withdraw all shares from Aritama," explained Marwah

Erwin smiled knot.

" hmm, business risk," he replied casually.

" is there no other solution??" ask Marwah back.

Hearing that Erwin only let out a long breath.

" there may be, but the mas is again lazy to think, " replied Erwin slowly getting up from his sitting.

Marwah looks confused.

" where are you going??" asked Marwah while waking up.

" mas must go home, because you definitely want to rest," he said by looking at Marwah's face, then his fingers touched Marwah's face with affection.

" tomorrow to pick you up,"

Slowly Marwah pulled Erwin's hand from her face.

" don't go home" Marwah whispered.

" hmm??" Erwin didn't really hear clearly.

" just spend the night here," Pinta Marwah returned with Erwin's hand in hand.

Erwin.

" say, are you serious??" said Erwin in disbelief as he tried to look at Marwah's face.

" iyya, but mas sleeps on the sofa," answered Marwah quickly with a nosy smile.

" huh??" said Erwin

" get thee" said Erwin with a sullen face.

And Marwah laughed at once. So Erwin looked in amazement, then with his instincts he grabbed Marwah's waist and pulled the woman's body so that it approached him. So Marwah was shocked and held his hand on Erwin's chest.

" wrong,"

" you have to take responsibility if you invite the mas to sleep here" he whispered and slowly dropped a kiss on Marwah's soft lips.

Marwah gasps to receive a kiss from Erwin. But slowly he returned the kiss of Erwin with deep, soft fingers Marwah embracing at the nape of Erwin while stroking gently the handsome man's hair.

But for a moment Marwah felt something was different, and slowly he stopped his kiss from Erwin, until Erwin was a little disappointed and binging when Marwah ended their kiss.

" am?? mas smoking ya?," guessed Marwah with breath still roaring in front of Erwin.

And Erwin was shocked.

" how do you know??,"

" not tasty, bitter," said Marwah.

Erwin laughed out loud.

" waaah, mas should be more careful this nie," he said by kissing a glimpse of Marwah's pouting lips.

Erwin nodded slowly.

" i'm sorry, sometimes mas smoking.yes if the mind is complicated again," he explained without releasing his embrace from Marwah's waist.

" ooh!!," exclaimed Marwah nodding.

" but still not," Marwah warned.

And again Erwin laughed at the Marwah ban.

" what's laughing anyway??, this is serious mas," said Marwah back with Erwin who continues to laugh.

" you must be surprised, you can learn this knowledge also not from random people," said Erwin tried seriously.

" meaning??"

" you know this science from your father, dr. Evan," said Erwin looked at Marwah's shocked face.

" AH?" said Marwah shocked in disbelief.

" the time?? no way, for a lifetime papa never smoked," said Marwah convinced.

" uh, you don't believe it, do you?" cried Erwin again by stretching his bow.

" obviously I don't believe it, when do you see papa smoking??" asked Marwah.

" oh, so curious right?," he exclaimed as he pulled Marwah to sit back on the sofa.

" yes curious laah," said Marwah nyolot.

Erwin smiled slightly. Then grabbed Marwah's fingers for her peng.

The Flash Back On

That night after the rain subsided, a young boy stumbles slowly towards the hospital rooftop. This is the third time he dared to go up the hospital building for the sake of seeing the beautiful scenery even the day of Jakarta.

Young Erwin was again amazed by the beautiful view of the capital at night. He smiled widely and breathed in the fresh moist air.

For a moment he went into a long distance in memory of a young woman lying in a pool of blood before him. And a responsible boy of his age was screaming hysterically.

" if aunt Sari were still here, maybe she'd be angry with Toni" he murmured sadly.

For a moment he sighed his heavy length as if the burden of his regret was so stifling. But Erwin was disturbed when he heard the voice of a man talking.

" hmm, Iyya dear, sorry mama papa still have to be hospitalized, okay same aunt yaa," said the man with his hands massaged forehead and looks like a cigarette stuck there.

" love you Safa, love you Marwah," and the conversation was interrupted at the same time the man's breath seemed tired.

Erwin was glued to look at the figure of the man who was casually smoking back his cigarette.

Aware of being noticed, the man also casually turned to Erwin. And smiled at him with a relaxed face.

" oh, you apparently," said dr. Evan relaxed while loosening his tie.

" doctor, how come you're here??" asked Erwin as he approached.

dr. Evan just smiled at a glance while pulling again the cigarette butts and then throw it into the air.

" that should be my question, why are you here??" asked dr. Evan to Erwin then he turned his hand to tell Erwin to sit on his side.

Erwin obediently followed dr. Evan to sit on the edge of the concrete which is slightly spaced with the edge fence divider of the building. Seen dr. Evan helps Erwin to be able to sit with his legs that are still wearing sticks and casts.

" are your feet better???" asked dr. Evan watched Erwin's leg.

" hmm it's been much better doctor, dr. Fauzi was diligent in monitoring," explained Erwin.

" it's good, after all you're young, so recovery is much faster" said dr. Evan is back smoking his cigarette.

Erwin was fixated and he did not swipe if surprised to see another figure from dr. Evan.

" you wanna try??" haggled dr. Evan.

" is it okay?" asked Erwin in surprise.

" try it, because if I forbid you will definitely find another opportunity to try it?" said dr. Evan gave Erwin his cigarette and mouse box.

Erwin was fixated on receiving the two objects, only this time there was a man who blatantly offered him a cigarette.

Erwin looked doubtful, but his curiosity was far greater than his fear. And by swallowing his saliva slowly he took a cigarette from the box and pulled it while reaching for the mouse.

Looking at Erwin's limited movements, dr. Evan grabs the mancis from Erwin's hand and helps him to burn the cigarette.

When the cigarette caught fire and Erwin tried to inhale the smoke, he spontaneously coughed for a bitter and hard-to-explain smoke as it entered his throat.

Uhuk..uhuk..,ukhuk.., Erwin coughed with difficulty trying to hold back the bad taste in his chest cavity.

dr. Evan chuckled as he patted Erwin's back.

" how?? still want to continue??" said dr. Evan challenged Erwin.

Erwin answered with a nod, and little by little tried to practice again trying to smoke a cigarette. And the second time he coughed again..

Uhuk.uhuk.., ukhuk..,

Until finally at the fourth pull of a cigarette, Erwin began to get used to the cigarette smoke that filled his chest cavity.

dr. Evan smiled a little, then back he smoked his second cigarette with Erwin who was still a beginner.

A moment of silence and a puff of cigarette smoke that accompanied the two of them dissolved in each other's minds.

And there was a long breath of dr. Evan was heavy until Erwin flinched.

" how old are you??,"

" 17 years,"

dr. Evan nodded.

" hmm very young" said dr. Evan.

" what is your problem with them??" asked dr. Evan.

" who??,"

" the thug who hit you" said dr. Evan.

" oh, that's my cousin, he paid people to kill me"

" Huh?" dr. Evan's shocked.

" it turns out your problem is heavier" chirped dr. Evan is funny to hear Erwin's exaggerated speech.

" this is a serious doctor,"

" it will not solve the problem with just killing, it adds to the problem, the sequence will be long, chased by police not to mention going to prison with a life sentence," explained dr. Evan.

Erwin was silent, but in fact his cousin wanted him dead.

" sometimes an apology can't bring back what's been lost" Erwin said

" yes" said dr. Evan.

" but by killing is not the end of the solution" continued dr. Evan looked seriously at Erwin.

" you are too young, your life is long, and you must be strong, because the burden of men is much heavier" advises dr. Evan on Erwin.

" if women are predestined to feel pain during childbirth, then God is fair with men having to bear the weight of the burden of life so men must be twice as strong as women," clearly again.

Erwin was glued to the advice of dr. Evan.

" it's not easy, "call dr. Evan with a heavy tone.

" as now, I have to think hard between two lives that I love, on the one hand I am a husband who does not want to lose his beloved wife, on the other hand I was a father who also wanted to hug the unborn baby" he said heavily while sighing.

" even my science can not be used at this time," he said regretfully.

Erwin fell silent with just being a friend confided dr. Evan who can not be imagined turns out a doctor has his weakest point.

" does your wife know??,"

" no, she was pregnant with complications, coupled with her frail body so she had to be totally bad rest and at the moment I have to make one tough decision,"

" what??" asked Erwin curiously.

" lose both or choose one" replied dr. Evan heavy.

Erwin was surprised and immediately he remembered the face of Marwah who always bercertia of mama Wulan. This is really the toughest test for a man, thought Erwin who tried to understand the adult male side of dr. Evan whose daily life is famous for his kindness and friendliness.

Suddenly the sound of the ringing of the mobile phone belonging to dr. Evan, that got them distracted. And dr. Evan immediately picked up the phone enthusiastically.

" yes, baby" replied dr. Evan soft.

" hmm, well, I'll be back soon" he said with a smile framed there as the communication was cut off.

Seen dr. Evan puts out his cigarette butt immediately by stepping on it. Then he quickly reached into his pants pocket and ate two pieces of candy.

Erwin looked confused.

" this is a way to get rid of the smell of cigarettes in the mouth," explained dr. Evan.

" one more please don't tell Marwah about this" said dr. Evan with Erwin's cigarette pointed.

" well doctor, this will be my secret,"

" good," said dr. Evan steady.

" and I teach you this is not for you to suck at all times, but use this if your brain can't think, because pondering for a moment is much better for a man's brain, hope you become a strong man also strong," said dr. Evan patted Erwin's shoulder.

" remember that advice" exclaimed dr. Evan's assertive.

" good doctor, thank you very much, and I pray that the doctor makes a good decision" Erwin said.

And dr. Evan replies by giving Erwin a thumbs up while walking away from Erwin with his cigarette still burning.

Be missing dr. Evan, Erwin just sat pensively with a mancus and cigarette box left by dr. Evan he didn't suck anymore. Because of the advice of dr. Evan was truly established as a man. As the advice of dr. Evan strengthened his soul and opened his mind.

Erwin will never forget until he grows up.