ENDRO, THE BODYGUARD

FATHER'S EXPLANATION ABOUT MARRIAGE

"Endro..." Mentari's voice was heard greeting the man who was a few steps behind her.

At that time, they walked hand in hand with school uniforms that were still attached to their respective bodies. It just looks a little disheveled from the time of their departure in the morning.

Yes, that afternoon they had returned from where they used to study. And as always, they will go home together. That time, Endro walked behind Mentari with both hands in a pocket beside the pants he wore.

From along the path they took, only that greeting was what was heard from the two of them. Mentari did not stop his slow walking footsteps turning his back on Endro. He did not look back even a little.

"Endro...?" Call him again in the same position.

"Don't call me if you don't intend to talk to me." Ketus Endro ignores the call of Mentari.

Mentari stopped his steps. And that, spontaneously made Endro come to stop his steps as well. The sun turned its body towards Endro. He stared fixedly at the man's face with a gaze full of seriousness.

He was trying to find an opening to say what he wanted to say back then.

"What's wrong?" Tanya Endro began to respond to Mentari's attitude.

"I like you...!"

Silent.

Endro's eyes blinked with a single blink. Trying to digest what the girl before him said back then.

I don't know what the meaning of the look on his face, which is certain he smiled a little at Mentari's confession.

"Why are you quiet?" The mentor who felt out of self-esteem, began to sing his lips. "You even want to marry me..." Demonize it. He turned his body again and left Endro who was still there.

"I like it too. She's beautiful, smart, nice... And her hair is long." Endro murmured without being heard again by Mentari.

The girl has gone away. He seemed to have lost his pride in front of Endro, because he had dared to express his feelings to the man.

That was how they farewelled that afternoon. The expression of Mentari's feelings, the unrequited certainty of Endro.

*****

"Dad..." Call Endro when he's over lunch with Kamil, his father.

"Hummm?" Sahut Kamil without turning a single look to his son. He was still busy honing his machete with grindstones.

But he always has been. A good listener for his son, without neglecting his own work.

"The comment says he likes me..." Adu Endro without further ado. He knew his father would understand his feelings. Because sometimes, his father is also able to play the figure of a mother for him.

"I like it too. She's beautiful, kind, smart. And her hair is long..." Endro said a little. "Is that why I married my mother too?"

Endro's question completely stopped Kamil's work.

"No..." Kamil Sahut. "Because your mother's a rich man's son..." He said as he stared fixedly at the face of his son who looked surprised by his confession. He's speaking not the truth. He was just testing the maturity of his son.

"When I intend to marry Mentari, Dad. But he's just an adopted son and has no wealth." Endro plain.

"Don't spice up your intentions by looking at the look, nature and matreality of someone to marry her, son. I think, at your seventeen years of age, you have an adult mindset. But you cannot yet sort out what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad..."

"I don't understand, Dad." Endro was honest.

"Do you really intend to save the girl?" Kamil asked slightly suppressing Endro's feelings.

"Of course, Dad. Poor him..." Reply Endro confidently and look steady.

"Are you sure you can take it even if you don't feel anything in your chest when you're with him?"

"I even felt it..." Selama fast.

"No, Son. Even for pity, you will feel that way. Your heart will beat, and force you to do things you don't understand.

Marriage is not a relationship based on will. But getting married, is a relationship that will produce something you never produced before. And that too, if you want to.

Marry someone you didn't love before. But you're sure, after asking, you can love him. Marry a woman, if you are with her you will find no other happiness out there.

Marriage is not just a joke, a saving or a happy one. But in marriage, you will experience many things. For sure, there will be the most painful thing...

So, are you sure at your age you're talking about marriage?" Kamil explained at length to his son's mistake about marriage. Something he promised to Mentari.

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