Father to My Son

chapter. 29

Erin, go visit Renaldi in the hospital because of her own request. Arriving there, Erin saw Renaldi's face that looked so sad and like she wanted to say something to him

   "You've been a long time Erin! Where have you been!?" Said Renaldi who suddenly let out a loud voice

  "Huh? Why are you so angry!? I just got here too"

  "But you've been too long!? Didn't my mother come home two hours ago!? But why are you just here now!?"

  "What's really!!! And actually you want me to come or not anyway!!!?" Shouted Erin

  Renaldi finally realized that he had shouted at Erin who had just arrived. Renaldi stopped screaming and rubbed his almost crying eyes

   "Sorry, yeah. I was not intentionally. As always, I was always emotional. It's a bitch, isn't it, if you meet someone like me" said Renaldi, who started crying because of it.

   "Why are you crying?" Erin asked who was walking and sitting next to Renaldi.

  "Sorry, I was crying. Because, I feel guilty for yelling at you earlier"

  "No need to cry. Sometimes, I was like that to Raka too.

  "really?" Renaldi asked who stopped rubbing his eyes

  "Yes. Everyone has been like that, right? You don't have to cry, I won't be angry either"

  "Thank you, Erin, and it's actually my goal to get you here because there's something I want to tell you "

  "What?"

  "J.don't joke. That's all a lie, right? Didn't you promise me to see the fireworks on New Year's Eve!?"

  "Sorry, Erin. I don't think I can get out of the hospital anymore. And maybe, I'll just look at it from the hospital window."

  "No, I'm sure you'll get well and get out of this hospital!!"

  "Thank you, now I can understand how you feel right now. You take it easy, I'll be fine. You believe me, don't you?"

Renaldi seemed to be calmly saying it as if he was completely fine.

After the hospital, the weather was very cloudy. Erin walks home through a playground where Erin meets Renaldi for the first time. And Erin was trying to rest on a swing that was there.

"Am I going to lose someone I just met today?. Hey, Rangga! If you're still alive here and see one of your best friends Renaldi get sick like that, will you? Are you going to cry like me? Renaldi said you were hiding somewhere. But, where!? Please, show me your current form! I'd love to talk to you right now"

And unexpectedly, when Erin cried on the swing, Rangga had been sitting next to her since then but Erin could not see her form at all.

"Sorry, Erin. I can't show myself right now. Because I still feel so guilty for making you wretch back then. And this also includes punishment for me not being able to take good care of my wife. You definitely can't see me right now, can you? Sorry Erin, I'm so sorry to you. Please forgive me" said Rangga

Rangga finally tried to hold Erin's hand that was covering her face, but still she could not touch it. Rangga's hands are not real in this world, they can not touch humans at all. In the end Rangga was forced to hug Erin even though Erin could not see her form at all

"Hope you can feel it, Erin. If I was always there beside you" said Rangga who immediately disappeared at that time.

"I think someone hugged me earlier. But, who is it?" Said Erin who tried to look around but there was no one there and even Erin did not feel the existence of Rangga around her at all.