Love Smells

Chapter 99 The Grief

Eza who saw his best friend with his face bent, was astonished.

From the first time Arjuna entered his study, he was silent only a thousand languages.

Eza, who was checking reports of files piling up on the table, occasionally glanced at his best friend who was just sitting dumbstruck.

" When our work will be done, if you just relax!" exclaim Eza while continuing to pull one by one the accumulated files.

Understandably they spent a long time in Amrik, making the work in his office more mountainous, because Rita's mommy was only alone, he became overwhelmed.

Andrian, who was Arjuna's business partner, also had his own job, because he was assigned to handle one of the factories of Arjuna's company outside the city.

" My mind is mumbling, it looks like my head is going to explode!" Arjuna massaged his head.

" Otherwise, aren't all the problems solved?" Eza shook his head, thinking there was only one unresolved issue. Waiting for the presence of his heart.

" Maybe I need a leave of absence,"

Arjuna's words made his best friend aghast.

" What, on leave, you've been on less leave this whole time, or don't you want to be alone with your wife?" Eza teases Arjuna who only returns with a thin smile.

" You never know what I'm going through, Za," Arjuna thought and fell back pensive.

DRRTTT...

DRRTTT...

Arjuna's phone is vibrating.

" Hello." Arjuna picked up his cell phone call.

There was a voice of a woman crying across the street.

" Hello, Ren, is that you?" asked Arjuna in surprise.

" Hello brother, papa-hiks.hiks ..papa," heard Rena's voice faltering.

" What happened to Papa, what happened?" Arjuna panicked to hear Rena mention his papa.

" Better brother come here quickly,"

TOUTS.... POCK...TOUTS....

call ended.

" Hallo.hallo.." but there was no answer because the call was turned off.

" What's up, Ar?" ask Eza when looking at the worry on his best friend's face.

" It looks like something happened to papa, Za, I'm leaving first!" without waiting for an answer from Eza, Arjuna passed.

Before leaving the company, Arjuna meets Rita's mommy in her room.

At that moment mommy Rita was crying, immersing her face in both her palms.

" Mommy!" arjuna exclaimed slowly, because he had suspected that his mother had also gotten information about Mr. Teddy, her ex-husband.

" Arjuna, hiks...hiks...!" Mommy Rita spills all her grief in her son's arms.

" Your papa, Ar.. Your papa has already ....!" mommy Rita cannot say that her ex-husband has died.

" Yes, I had expected mom, mommy to be stoic, strengthen mommy" Arjuna tried to calm her mother, even though she felt the same way.

" Come on mom." Arjuna took his mother, trying to channel the power of encouragement from her.

Then they went to Reyhan's house.

*

*

*

The atmosphere was so quiet, only the sound of the chanting of the holy verse of the Qur'an echoed in Reyhan's house.

In the living room.

Some family members were sitting in a row, full of sorrow.

" Pope....!" arjuna exclaimed in a hoarse voice as he held back his cries.

He had just arrived with his mother who had been crying so much.

With a slow step they approached the body of Mr. Teddy who was stiffened.

They're sitting next to Teddy.

" Pope...!" arjuna cried again, but this time he could no longer endure his sadness. Tears flowed so hard on her cheeks.

" Yes!" mommy Rita called out as if the body was able to hear her voice.

" Rey, what happened to papa?" asked Arjuna after her crying subsided.

" Papa's heart disease recurred, last night was still fine, but this morning.Tadi morning papa's condition worsened." Reyhan cried broke, when recalling the condition of his father before he died.

" Why didn't you call me?" tanya Arjuna looked at Reyhan and Rena alternately.

" I'm sorry, sister, we were confused, we didn't think about it." Rena replied, her tears still flowing, even though she had stopped crying.

Arjuna moved from where he stepped into the bathroom. He was going to take ablution water'.

Where a person is needed to do that before holding the holy book of the Qur'an and teaching.

" You're patient, Rey, Rena, heal your hearts" said mommy Rita trying to strengthen Rena and Reyhan, although in fact the words are more appropriate in the direction of him.

" Thank you mom" Reyhan replied, then read Yasin's letter.

After finishing taking the ablution water, Arjuna immediately returned to the place where the father was.

He chanted the holy verses of the Qur'an solemnly beside Reyhan.

After a while, there came an ustadz to take care of the body of Mr. Setyo.

Starting from the bath, memorization to the last one, namely, the funeral.

All family members and friends who came to defend the condolences, all accompanied the body of Mr. Teddy to the funeral.

Reyhan and Arjuna cried again when they saw the body of the father was dropped into a burrow.

" Pope...!" Reyhan was crying.

" Patience son, patience, heartbreak." mommy Rita hugged Reyhan as she hugged Arjuna.

Reyhan was crying, his heart was feeling very bitter. He had been abandoned by his mother since he was born, and now must be left by his father.

Meanwhile, Rena was staring around. He's looking for his best friend, Dhita.

But he couldn't find it.

" Where is he?" rena's murmuring in the heart.

Shortly after, the funeral was over. Everyone has left that place.

Now, only Reyhan, Arjuna, Rita and Rena's mommy are still praying on the grave of the deceased Mr. Teddy.

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the TPU a woman was standing staring at the navel of the deceased Mr. Teddy.

That woman is Dhita, she knows all that from Eza. It so happened that Dhita when she came to her husband's office, she wanted to meet with Arjuna to take him to the hospital, to re-prove the truth that she was not pregnant.

But what he got, a very surprising information. He even heard that his father-in-law had died.

And even more stifling, why didn't Arjuna contact her?

Is that how Arjuna got to him?

All those questions continued to fill Dhita's mind.

" Dhya!" rena was walking home with Arjuna and Mommy Rita.

Dhita fell silent, glanced at everyone at a glance, then moved from her place towards the grave of her father-in-law.

Seeing Dhita who is not so responsive makes Rena suspicious, until a question mark arises in her mind.

Dhita sits languidly in front of her father-in-law's belly button. After reciting a prayer for her father-in-law, Dhita wept complaining about her whole life.