Hold on or let go!

The 98 eps

"Assalamu'alaikum!", Titin entered Alby's room.

"Walaikumsalam, Mak!", said the two of us.

Titin approached Alby's gurney.

"Kumaha damang Neng?", asked Mak to me. I welcome Mak's hand for me to kiss.

"Alhamdulillah Mak!"

Now it's titin who's approaching Alby.

"Isn't Jang better?", asked Titin.

"Udah Mak!", said Alby briefly.

"Mrs, breakfast heula! Bring rice, same clothes. Must have brought no clothes, right? That's still new clothes, Mak Belom ever wear. Alby bought it."

I looked at Alby's face, he nodded thinly at the sign that I should agree.

"Yes Mak. Thanks!", I replied briefly.

"Yes, take a shower first. Let Alby be with Mak. You see, you can't stay here long. Mr. Hartama did not permit Mak to go out long ago, Mak's work is still a lot. Not that Mak doesn't want to take care of Alby."

"Mak's Work? Meaning what?", asked.

"Yes, you work there as well as Mila neng tea."

"What?? So Mak was treated like art there?", I asked in shock.

"Neverything neng! Udah, shower hunt!", Mak pushed my back into the bathroom. After an unhealthy meeting that time, today my meeting with Mak already looked as normal as before.

I took a shower this morning. Mama said, this dress is new.

"Jang? Bia still survives the same situation?"

"Yes mak. God willing, we will start all over again. Sorry, Mak, not Alby no longer care about Mak. But...Alby's leaving the Hartama host. Alby wants Alby and Bia to start all over again. Without Silvy! Without pressure from Mr. Hartama."

Mak inhaled oxygen slowly, then his hand rubbed the shoulders of his stepson and his daughter-in-law.

"Do what Njang thinks is right!" said Mak with a smile.

"Well not angry, Alby prefers Bia over Mak's own son?"

Titin.

"Silvy must learn! He's the one who forced his wish to have you By."

Alby and Mak's conversation came to a standstill when I finished taking a shower.

"You have breakfast! Mak went straight home! Fear of Mr. Hartama getting angry if Mak later outside."

"Sir, should not Mak follow Bia aja in the village? Like before?", I asked. Mak shakes.

"That's your house! Mak here, there's Mak's daughter. But until anytime, neng is also still Mak's daughter. Forgive Mak ya neng, everything that happened is the same you because of Mak's mistake. But you're the ones who took it all."

Titin rubbed both my shoulders. I don't know what to say. Just a nod representing me.

"Turn back, recover quickly, Jang!"

"Muhun Mak!"

After Mak died, I saw Alby daydreaming more.

"Why? Doubt you want to leave Mak in that house?", I asked. I'm purely asking, not insinuating.

"Miss!"

"What's? Wrong with my question?"

"The...."

"Excuse me..!", greet the doctor. My discussion with Alby has stopped.

"Yes doc, please!", I said.

"I'll check for a second Mr Alby!", said the doctor.

A few minutes later, the doctor finished checking Alby's wounds. The doctor asked me to buy ointment at an outdoor pharmacy. The hospital dispensary is out of stock.

"Yes A, Bia come out first. Ain't nothing Bia staying a while?"

"Be careful neng!"

I nodded slowly. After that I left Alby's nursery.

Tok...

"For Alby!"

"Doctor Sakti?", said Alby back.

"How is he now?"

"Alhamdulillah is much better, doc."

"Thank God that's it."

"Dok...?"

"Yes, why Alby?"

"Thank you!"

"For?"

"The doctor told my wife. If it wasn't for the doctor, maybe my wife would still be in her hometown."

Sakti smiled faintly.

"Either. It's just a mere sense of humanity, Alby. Frankly, I don't like to see Bia sad. That's all!"

Alby tried to dampen his emotions, there is an implied meaning of the words of Sakti just now.

"Whatever that's the reason, I thank you."

"Yes to Alby. Don't be tense!"

After that, the chatter just flowed. Alby's initial story can be treated at this hospital.

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"Dimas!"

Dimas who had just taken a shower was shocked when his superior was already standing in the doorway of his room.

"Father!", said Dimas standing tall.

"Finish as soon as possible, after that follow me to Sakti Hospital practice!"

"Ready!", said Dimas quickly. Today actually the schedule is not too busy, off is the term. They just had a trip from out of town. So understand if this morning they are already in the official house, different from the house that Anika occupied.

Once ready, Dimas also allowed his superiors to get into the car. Dimas opened the back door as usual, but his boss was sitting at the wheel.

"Lho, father???"

"I want to sit in front!", his boss said briefly. Dimas obeyed only his orders.

"What time is practice? You knew?"

" Lack of knowledge, sir."

After answering that question, there was only silence along the road to the hospital.

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"Thank you!", I said after I finished buying Alby's medicine. I walked to the hospital again. While in the loby, I saw Dimas, Febri's friend with someone older. Maybe father?!

"Mas Dimas?", I said. Really sksd me, huh??? yes, it can be said that. He is Anika's boyfriend!

Dimas who felt called also looked. His eyes were surprised to see me here.

I approached Dimas with the grown man.

"Mas Dimas, arek jenguk sopo?"

"Eh, not Mba Bia. Just anterin father!", replied Dimas grinning. Though beside him there is his boss and his future father-in-law.

The bia? Is this the same Bia? Inner father Sakti.

Prospective father-in-law Bia...! Monologue Dimas in the heart.

The man beside Dimas smiled kindly. But how come there are no similar-like dimas huh? Tends similar....

"No, I'm not Dimas' father. But it might be heading that way soon!", said the old man.

Waitaminute! He said what?

"Eum, this is Bia. His father..."

"Is it?", asks. After that I smiled.

"Yes my father Ika", said the man firmly but still friendly and authoritative.

"Oh..his father Ika!", I nodded slowly. Until I finally realized, if he was his father Ika means his father Sakti also dong?

"Sorry sir, I..me....!"

"Neither be awkward so Bia. I've been used to hearing about you for a long time. But just this time, I had a chance to meet you directly."

I gulped my saliva rough.

"At every meeting of our extended family, surely Sakti always mentions your name. Even though we never know what you're like."

Ehem...ehem.I cleared my throat to neutralize my unpleasant feelings towards Dimas's future-in-law.

"Sorry sir!", I said looking down badly.

"Neverything! It's only natural that Sakti and Febri haven't moved on from you, haven't Dimas?"

I looked up at Dimas's face.

"Yes sir!"

I knit my eyebrows! What does Dimas mean?

"Oh yeah, what's Bia doing here?", asked her father.

"Eum, it just so happens that my husband is on the opname here, sir...!"

"Suami?", asked Sakti's father. He looked towards Dimas who was once again floundering. Not very suitable if in the real world there are rich soldiers.

"Yes sir."

She said Bia ran out of town, her husband was polygamous. Oh, all right! Basic Dimas! Sakti must be really told, do not let anyone marry the wife. Sakti's father nagged himself in his heart.

"Then, excuse me sir.mas Dimas. A Alby's alone with it."

"Yes please."

"Dimas???"

"Yes sir. But sorry, really what information I got like that yesterday."

"Just Sakti can't be a player!", said my father firmly. Then he continued his steps towards the magic room.

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"Sato, Febri! Why are you wearing that rich uniform that made me? Shame to know!", said Anika annoyed.

"We're going straight to the base of the lady! If you have to change clothes for a long time, isn't that bro?", asked Seto to Febri who was sitting next to the wheel.

"Yes, we're going to the base. There's business, Ika!"

"Then Ika tuh ..dikawal kaya gini! Rich son of a general!", chirped Anika. Febri and Seto throw one another a glance.

"The son of general Ika!!!", cried Seto and Febri together.

"It can be compact...!"

"The weird part is, everywhere people want to be considered like that. Lha you, even hide! Shame to have a general's father?"

"Lah gga. Only Ika tuh want to have a friend who does not see whose child Ika! But that was before, now I don't have a close friend anymore. I can't stand him anymore."

"Silvy?", asked Febri. Anika nodded.

"Udah, get better. Don't interfere in your best friend's household affairs."

"It's like that!"

"Yes.iya...!", said Febri briefly. Not felt, the car has entered the campus area. Febri was about to get out of the car.

"Eh...eh... Where?" asked Anika.

''Open the door for Miss Anika!", replied Febri with a smile.

I swear, Febri's smile melts. Lying if you are not satisfied with the smile of that handsome man.

Uh, eling Anika! Eeling! Dimas in kemanain woy...????? Anika woke up from her daydream.

"Do not, I'll go down by myself. Mas Febri wear that uniform, I'm ashamed ah look at the children!", said Anika. But it seems Febri did not comment on Anika's remarks. He went down first and opened the door for Anika.

Anika's lips were five centimeters long. Makes Febri feel angry at his best friend's lover.

True enough Anika guess, she became the center of attention when two men in a handsome uniform accompanied her down.

"Neither to manyun! A real college! Today Dimas Off!", said Febri. Anika's face immediately sparkled.

"Kak Dimas off mas?", asked Anika girang.

"It's really off right To?", asked Febri on seto. Seto nodded.

"Off anyway, but again go same father. To the hospital, I want to see Mas Sakti kanya. It was so!", Seto explained.

"Dad to the hospital?", asked Anika. Seto nodded.

"There go in!", Pinta Febri.

"Yes, Ika entered!", said Ika with her pouting face.

"Cockful of manyun again? Don't you want to see Dimas???"

"Nga! Ika kesel, why did Dimas tell Sis Seto, do not say it is the same Ika!", said Ika while walking away from the two men.

"Awakmu nek arep kuwi info do not half-and-half! Snatch people's children!", said Febri.

"Ae berke! Most ngko Dimas in amok. Ga will wani mbantah anake pakue tase" said Seto interspersed kekehah.

(Let it. Most later Dimas in amuk. Would not dare to argue his son his father anyway)

"Konco crazy ya ngene iki! Seneng koncone hard, hard koncone seneng!", said Febri while getting into the car.

(Crazy friends like this! Happy difficult friend, hard happy friend)

Anika who became the center of attention in the crowd of her friends.

"An, who are they? how can you control you? Rich son of aja general!", ledek one of his friends.

"Know An, what a handsome vow!", said another.

"What the hell??" said Anika getting annoyed.

"Yes, just answer me, don't you want to know them to us!?"

"Ga!", said Anika briefly.

"Yes have An, since Lo ga is close to Silvy Lo kok so a gini temperament anyway?", chirped friend anika.

"Company very Lo An, in the same control members. Are you rich General Lo's son? Most also one of them is Lo sodara!", said another friend.

"My Father is General! General Galang Wibisono! Satisfied Lo!", said Anika leaving them all dumbstruck.

"Who did he say General Galang Wibisono? ", ask Anika's friend. The friends who had mocked Anika also threw gazes at each other.

"Aaaah.!", they chuckle rich people less even.

"God! if it's the general's son who likes nongol in tipi, means we are not safe dong gaes!", chirped one of Anika's friends.

"Gue ain't never bully anika. Mampus Lo everything!", said the woman left her friends who were still shocked to know Anika's parents.

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Cloudy Mulu gaes! Pisan mager. Maap ya if buanyyaakk typo, the feeling of udh in check that. Still Bae ana sing escaped.

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