Pellucid

Chapter 55 - The Sunscreen of the Past

"Pras" great-grandson of Doctor Heni.

"You_heni?" ask Papa Bening a little stammering.

"So... This is your daughter with Dew?" doctor Heni asked for an answer to convince him of something.

"Yes" replied Komjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi briefly.

While Bening only looked at the interaction of the two who were like they had known each other before.

"Do you know Doctor Heni?" ask Bening lirih.

"Oh, yes, dear. He was Papa's childhood friend. It used to be the home of his parents Doctor Heni one village in Sleman with your eye home," replied Papa Bening.

"Oh so. The world is narrow, Doc. It turns out my dad was a doctor's little friend. Although the age of the same doctor different several years. Back when I was a kid, Papa was stubborn, Doc?" ask Bening while chuckling.

"Very recalcitrant. To the extent of making a girl cry," great-grandson of Doctor Heni intentionally.

"What's? Well, Papa used to be cold as a fridge huh Doc?" tanya Bening deliberately mocked her Papa.

"Cold banget. It's like diving into the bottom of the Atlantic ocean that's so cold as ice just to find the Titanic, "labeled Dr. Heni.

"Haha.. really so, Pah?" ask Bening while laughing.

"Hem.." replied Papa Bening briefly as he looked at Doctor Heni with a flat gaze yet hidden something.

"Darling, get your things done right away. Don't be so late, you have to rest a lot."

"Ready, Ndan."

Bening also say goodbye to Doctor Heni without any suspicion of the two. And now in the living room only Papa Bening and Doctor Heni left.

Two people who have been good friends. There is even love in it even if it is just clapping one hand.

But the relationship must run aground because shackled by something that happened in the past is quite bitter.

The atmosphere that had been bustling with small and chuckling laughter, now turned into silence. Silence is created between the two. And his face was both drastically changed.

"Thank you" said Komjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi.

"For?" doctor Heni asked flatly without seeing Papa Bening's face.

"Everything," replied Papa Bening straightforwardly and looked at Doctor Heni. But the figure that was stared at, did not return his gaze.

"It's my responsibility as a psychiatrist to help anyone in need, especially my patients. You don't owe me anything just because your daughter I help you" said Dr. Heni firmly.

"I'm sorry about your husband's death. Sorry I didn't know. Long time we did not meet," said Papa Bening sincerely.

"I don't think you need to do that. Because we're not that close either. My husband doesn't know you either. I didn't invite you to my wedding either!" replied Doctor Heni flat impressed ketus.

"sorry. Once again I'm sorry for what happened" Papa Bening's great-granddaughter with a sigh came out of her lips.

"By pleasure" replied Papa Bening briefly.

"You are the most stupid man!"

"Out there you don't know what it's like for someone else to fight with their partner to get their baby. To the extent that it gets a lot of gossip, insults, innuendo to caci maki because it is considered barren. But you are a lucky human among those millions of unlucky humans. You still have a baby with Dewun, the woman you love so much. But the treasure that the Dew left to you is precisely you wasted. A treasure that is out there much is expected and dreamed of by others."

"I hope you can take care and love Bening for the rest of your life as your penance all this time to him. You don't know that your daughter is suffering from deep trauma and a severe anxiety disorder. Not because she was pregnant out of wedlock. But the trigger is the thing that you've been doing to him piling up in him like a mountain that stores a lot of hot lava and then settles to erupt like a time bomb. And when the mountain erupts, it's finally the psyche of your daughter who's the victim."

"Never regret it because it's free. It's all been happening. That's all I need to tell you," Doctor Heni said firmly.

"Do you still hold grudges for what happened in the past between us?" ask Papa Bening lirih.

"For what life holds grudges. More precisely disappointed. If at that time you really want to reject the match between us that your father raised on the basis of return to my Father who was willing to donate his kidney to save your Father, you should have said it from the beginning to your parents. Which automatically didn't make my parents embarrassed, fell ill and my father died."

"You just left without saying goodbye when our proposal party went on. If you ask me, am I ashamed? Oh it is definitely the honorable Komjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi, I Heni Widyastuti and my family at that time were very embarrassed. It felt like we wanted to drown our faces into a mud pit so people out there didn't know what we looked like. My family and I are not as rich as your family. Which the villagers there will never dare to gossip your family out of fear. But we, who are just little people. To get out of the house just to buy food, we did not dare. The discordant voices of the neighbors cornered me and my family for your refusal. They assume my family just wants to control your family's possessions. Until we get karma. Even though the fact that the only boy who was a famous puppet in the village actually left because he was only a coward!" screeches Doctor Heni.

"It turns out across there is already a girl you love but that girl has not accepted your love. Your father and mother came to our house to apologize. But up to a month the boy did not return home because he was reportedly being sent to a conflict area. Even shortly after the embarrassing incident my father fell ill to death, the boy did not come to our house even if just to apologize."

"Do you know what my prayers were to God?" doctor Heni asked with a frenzy and look at the eyes that are staring sharply.

"No," replied Papa Bening softly with a sad look at Doctor Heni who was already teary.

"You will hurt the one you love until you feel a sense of regret in life. Someday you will come to me to apologize. I did not expect a cursory remark on my disappointment with you when it was heard by God. I'm sorry those words came out of my lips when my heart was disappointed. And Bening became a victim. Ma_af.. huhu.." said Doctor Heni, crying and covering his face with both hands.

"It's not your fault. I deserve that. Sorry, I can't repay your love. Sorry, made your family ashamed back then. Sorry for everything, Hen."

Papa Bening shed his tears. He was truly sorry for his actions in the past that went off without saying goodbye.

The two men sitting in the living room were crying in the silence of the night. Remembering the heart-wrenching past.

After the departure of his father, Heni and his mother immediately went outside Java after his house sold. She continued her studies that had been abandoned and met a soul mate, namely her late husband named Vishnu.

Doctor Heni's mother died shortly after her daughter was married. And until the end of Vishnu's life died due to an accident a few years ago, Doctor Heni did not have children with him.

After the family of Doctor Heni wander, the parents of Komjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi approved the marriage of his son with Dewun. A year after marriage, Komjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi suffered a disaster, his parents had an accident while with him.

He survived, but both of his parents died.

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Papa Bening and Doctor Heni were both still both silent. Just wipe each other's tears that are still on the faces of the two.

Unwittingly by the two, Bening overheard a conversation between his Papa and Doctor Heni from the beginning to the end.

Bening also involuntarily dripped his tears hearing the veil of the bitter past between Doctor Heni and the Papa. His crying sound stuck in the esophagus. He deliberately silenced his mouth with his own two hands so as not to make any sound.

Seriate...