IF THERE IS STILL LOVE

A REALITY

Elin walked into the classroom, when she reached the class, she already found Risa already there. Elin approached and sat down with Risa.

"Where's echo? " Task Elin who did not see Echa with Risa.

"Somehow, there was no news at all. Look, my message is just read. There's no reply. "

Risa replied while showing her phone screen to Elin.

"yes it is. Coming soon too. " Elin thinks positively.

Risa nodded in agreement.

" How's your mama doing? is it better? " Tanya Risa's.

" Mama has improved. ahhhh. If you remember mama, I really almost became a killer, Ris. I don't know what to do if yesterday mama wasn't dealt with quickly. " She complained Elin while remembering yesterday.

"That's it, what's important now is that he's okay.You don't blame yourself like that." Said Risa patting gently on Elin's right shoulder.

"Yes, Ris. maybe this is also my destiny. What can we do to fight against destiny? it's just that I'm so scared to face what's going to happen in the future. How will Arga react? how am I going to explain it? is he still gonna believe me?" elin lirih.

"Elin, you have to believe that God's destiny is always good, even though at the beginning we didn't like it. " Risa's words strengthen her friend's heart while smiling.

Elin nodded, perhaps she would agree to those words, though not now.

He remembered the figure of Arga, heavy indeed to release love for something that also means in our lives. But isn't the world always like that? deliberately giving choices that sometimes have to hurt themselves when choosing them.

Elin sighed, feeling that she wanted to go back to the past, where she could play with all her heart, laughing freely, without any burdens like the present. But isn't that an excessive desire? being an adult is not easy.

"Going back to college, I'm going to see Arga. Would you like to accompany me? . " Said Elin while taking out the book from her bag and turning her origin back.

"certain saha. "Jawab Risa gave her thumbs up.

"Where are the preparations for welcoming new students? " Task Risa again.

"Honestly I can't focus on that, but want to be like that, Mr. Agung insisted on asking me to come along. " Answer Elin while sighing.

"Spirit!!! " said Risa while smiling widely.

Elin shrugged, then went back to reading the book in her hand. Until finally the teacher entered the class.

But until the class ended, Echa didn't show her nose. There was no news at all, the child disappeared into the earth. Even whatsapp was last active at 7:30 this morning.

"Where is Echa going? Do we have to go to her house now? my feelings are not good. " Said Elin who started worrying about Echa.

"Is it not as good as coming home from the hospital? didn't you say you were going to see Arga?"

Risa's proposal while packing her things from the table, then put her in a bag.

"Yes, already. Anyway I haven't seen Arga in a long time, so now we go to the hospital first. " Elin agreed to Risa's proposal.

Then they join hands out of the room, towards the parking lot and into their respective cars. And then go hand in hand to split the highway with the cloud that still hangs black up there.

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Elsewhere, the woman, who was about five years old, looked at her child's face sadly. He looks like he just cleaned Arga's body, and changed his clothes.

She is Arga's mother. Now only the woman was waiting for Arga there, because yesterday her husband had to return to Japan for his work.

"Excuse me aunt. " Elin said as she opened the door of the room and found that Arga's mother was there.

The woman woke up from her daydream, then wiped the tears that had flowed on her cheeks. He tried to smile welcoming the arrival of Elin and Risa.

"Elin. Come here. Invite your friend too, let's sit here." Mama Arga said, allowing Elin and Risa to sit on the side seat of the nightstand. And it was also right next to his seat.

"Thank you aunt. Here I bring a little snack for auntie. " Elin said while putting the parcel on the nightstand.

Elin and Risa were sitting on a sofa beside the nightstand, Elin stared fixedly at Arga's face from there.

Mama Arga knows what Elin is feeling right now. He smiled wryly, clenching his lips to hold back tears.

"Arga my son his one-on-one. He's a very obedient boy, I'm very proud to have him. " Mama Arga began to tell the story.

"Elin. maybe this is not important for my aunt... However, since you are the girl Arga loves so much, auntie thinks you need to know a lot about Arga. "

keep the woman.

Elin was just waiting for the next story from the woman.

Mama Arga stared far out the window

his mind drifted far into that time.

"24 years ago, our marriage was 10. But God has not entrusted us to have offspring. Until one day, in the pouring rain, a woman whom we knew nothing of with a shabby umbrella, came knocking at the door,

in his hands he held a tiny baby that was so adorable. " The woman's smile was attracted for a moment.

"The woman left the baby to me, she had cancer that could one day bring her death, the woman's husband had even died after the accident. With a grateful heart, I carried the baby with my own hands, and considered it the answer to our previous prayers. We raised the baby so lovingly that he grew up to be a handsome young man." The story of the woman with tears.

Elin and Risa were confused, the two girls seemed to still not understand.

"I mean aunt... " Elin hesitated.

"Yes Elin. "

Elin momentarily fell silent, not expecting what the woman had just told her.

"Aaa.. sorry aunt, is now Arga's birth mother still there?" asked Risa

The woman shook her head.

"One year after that day, we got word that he died because of the kangker he suffered for many years. Though Arga is not our flesh and blood, his love and affection for Arga is no less than that of his biological parents. " the woman answered while gently rubbing the back of the infused Arga hand.

"Did Arga betrothed his aunt? " ask Elin hoarsely.

"Well, Arga has known him for a long time, even since he was in elementary school. But you certainly know the mature nature of Arga, he did not show any disappointment, he accepted the reality without reducing his love to us. " The woman replied after taking a deep breath to exhale the tightness in her chest.

"Elin.tante really hopes you don't disappoint Arga. Trust me, he's a good boy. " Pinta Mama Arga with a look at Elin expectantly.

Elin could say nothing. What would she say? isn't he already scratching that disappointment?.

Elin squeezed the edge of her dress, she refrained herself from crying, trying to put a smile on the woman before her, even though the smile was imperfect she created. Risa who understood Elin's condition was only bowed.

"Tante, sorry. We have to go home now. " Elin said suddenly with a choked voice.

"oh, good. Thank you very much for visiting Arga today. "

Mama Arga said, then stood up from her seat and embraced the body of Elin who had first risen from the sofa.

Elin reciprocated Arga's mother's embrace, she hid her cries, and immediately swept away the tears that fell from her eye patch.

"Be careful on the road. " Mama Arga said taking off her arms and smiling at the brown-eyed girl.

Risa also said goodbye and kissed the back of Mama Arga's hand. Then with Mama Arga to the front door, the two girls are now walking down the hallway by the hospital hallway. Then get in their cars when they get to the parking lot.

Elin bent her face, she was crying all over in the car. Elin spilled all the cries she had held in front of Mama Arga.

He wept over his fate, wept over his love, wept over what was happening in his life.As the rain fluttered as the evening approached, Elin took the car walking away from the hospital feeling empty.

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