ENDRO, THE BODYGUARD

BODY AND SOUL

What a beautiful creation 'Mu, God... Begiiit's beautiful...

I am grateful that You gave me the gift of all this. It was a large garden and its results were successful. You have given me much in your favor, O Allah...

Endro stared at the garden in front of him. He smiled with happiness. No tara and never seen before, that smile. Except when he heard the news about Mentari's pregnancy, his wife. He himself still remembers that.

"I love you, Mentari... My wife's... My darling... Mother of my daughter...." Endro sparkling.

"I love you too, dear..." Mentari's hands hugged Endro's waist from behind. He came out of nowhere. His head rested on Endro's back. At that time, Endro's face looked young again. So handsome and still tight.

Masya Allah's... How romantic they are. Thy pair of Man-made, God...

Endro opened the hand plan of the Mentari that was coiled around his waist. He turned the position of his body facing his beloved wife.

"Beautiful... Your dimples tease me, baby..." Praise Endro while linking his forehead to the wide forehead of Mentari. He whispered, saying a romantic word to his wife.

"Yeah... Ibu..." The voice of the girls was heard calling them. In his hand, there was a small basket of white roses. His smile was exactly like Endro's.

On the cheek of the little boy there is also a small hole that adds to his own timidity. "Darling... Dad's son is coming?" Sahut Endro Seraya welcomed the tiny body that ran scattering to him. "Where have you been, son?" Endro asked while tightly hugging the tiny body. Her tears are pouring. He felt a pain in his chest.

A longing that was so deep he felt. Last time, the little girl didn't hug herself. The Minister forbade her to do so, and took the girl to leave her alone.

"I'm from the flower garden, yeah... Looky... The flowers are pretty, aren't they, Dad?" Said the little girl boasting flowers that had been in her tote basket.

"Yes... Well-favoured. All white, this is son." Praise Endro. Seen, beside them, Mentari just smiled watching her husband and daughter so familiar.

"Mother's word, white is holy, Father... I want to give these flowers to Mother, because Mother is so Holy, clean, beautiful too." His long babble bewildered his mother.

"For which Father, dear?" Spoiled, Endro also asks for himself from his daughter.

"For Dad???." The little girl looked confused while watching the flowers in the basket she had been carrying earlier. "But this is for all mothers..." Her speech was subtly feeling bad to her father.

"For Dad it's red, honey..." Mentari said as she approached her husband and daughter.

"Red?" The little girl's forehead shriveled a type as smooth as silk.

Mentari. "Red is a bold sign, honey. His father was brave. Even the brave ones. Dad was so persistent and dared to call us..." Mentari explained.

"That's it, Dad?" The little girl turned to Endro asking for the truth from him.

"Yes dong, honey. You have to be brave enough to meet these two beautiful women..." Endro. He pressed his forehead against the little girl's forehead. So heated.

"Butii... The red rose can't be picked by the park rangers, Dad." The sockets look sad. She was so sad that she could not give flowers to her father.

"They said, the red rose is for the brave. The guard said, white represents the soul, and red represents the body. Wait, when Dad's settled in with us. The body will accompany the soul completely. I'll be picking red roses every day for Dad." The little girl reasoned.

"Hmm so, huh? Father's son is smart..." Endro smiled. He ruffled his daughter's bangs.

"Never be lonely again, dear. I've found your love, and I'm waiting for you to come. Every time, I'll come with our daughter to accompany you.

Keep afloat, that good may flow for your Father and your grandfathers. Right now, they're enjoying the sweetness of tea and strawberries in your garden, honey." The Whisper of the Mentari in the ear of Endro.

*****

Endro looked around and realized that he was still on the balcony behind the house. His head looked up at the back garden bench, his lips smiling in light of last night's incident.

"Om Endrooo's..." Nummi's cries were heard calling out to him everywhere rousing himself from the reverie. It looks like the girl is looking for him.

Endro got up from the lounge chair he was in at the time and tried to figure out where Nummi's voice came from. "What's up, honey?" Endro asked as he approached Nummi who was already in front of him.

Nummi dissipates herself into Endro's body. "Om where have you been? Nummi's been looking for it." Nummi's murmur is still in Endro's arms.

"You looking, Om? Why?" Endro asked without answering the girl's question.

"Nummi will leave now with Father and Mother, Om..." His voice looks heavy leaving Endro.

"Now? Why not tomorrow, baby? You're going to school on Monday..." Endro said with furrowed eyebrows. He released Nummi's body from his embrace, and stared fixedly at the girl's face.

"Yes... But Mother said, Nummi must prepare school supplies tomorrow, Om. All rest, let Nummi's body fit on Monday." Nummi.

"Owh... Yes already. It's okay, honey. Next time you can come back. It's close..." Endro's words calmed Nummi who was ready to cry in a moment.

"Om should also visit often... It should be more often. Don't forget to bring Nummi strawberry too, Om." Pinta Nummi sounds pushy.

"Yes... You will stop there, yes. Om will call Chika to pick strawberry for 'you. Make Silvi too." Endro Message.

"Really, Om?" Nummi asked with widened eyes due to pleasure.

"Yes... But don't forget, yeah. Later Om will also tell Daddy." Sahut Endro's.

"Yeeey... Thanks, Om..." Nummi said so happy and excited.

"Yes, honey..." Endro kissed Nummi's forehead, his nephew as well.

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Time keeps passing. They all left for their city. Starting from Nummi and her parents, to Chandra, her nephew.

At that time Endro returned alone accompanied by Bi Hana and Mr. Aaron who always faithfully accompanied him.

It's just that, from then on everything felt different for him. He was no longer as lonely as the previous days. It was thanks to Nummi's curiosity about her past.

She smiles more often, and may cry for necessary things. He was no longer the quiet, cold and stiff Endro as before. Because her betters had believed in her love, and she was sure of it.

Several times he visited Ghani's residence, he also often revealed his true self. Bodor and humor. He acts more like Tom and Jerry with Arkhan without any pretense anymore. He laughs more often, after.

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