SUN FLOWERS

FINALLY, THE WIFE-TO-BE..

Riko really enjoyed the soy sauce fried rice along with the eggs ceplok cooked by Risa. After some hours of the greatest heavy rain with the condition of a very rumbling stomach, finally the worms in the stomach feel free after being given food intake.

"Sa, the fried rice is good." Said Riko with a sumringah smile, her voice did not sound clear because her mouth was filled with fried rice itself.

Risa did not respond at all, because Risa was also busy feeding Dennis a meal. Risa also felt uneasy because Haikal had not returned from the hospital after dropping off her mother.

"Sa?" Riko tries to call Risa whose face looks bud and restless.

"Sa.." this time Riko patted Risa's shoulder.

"Are you brother?" Asked, the clap from Riko managed to disperse Risa's daydream.

"Why?" Ask Riko again.

"Have not come home yet? I'm so worried." Said Risa with a riled up facial expression.

Risa immediately got up from the dining table, walking towards her room to pick up her phone that had been placed on the mattress. Once in the room, Risa immediately picked up the phone and there were several missed calls, and there were several WhatsApp messages from Haikal.

"Sister, father's condition is deteriorating. If I could come here now, yes."

That was one of the WhatsApp messages from Haikal, Risa read it with a trembling heart, the crystal water droplets falling continuously from her eyes.

Risa feels the world is cruel to her, her father is given a disease that Risa is not able to finance her treatment at all, maybe if there is no Riko and Arka Risa is now stressed and depressed thinking about the cost of treatment.

"How is this?" Only those sentences and questions only now appeared in Risa's mind. During this time the medical costs were borne by Mr. Arka, and it is also impossible for Mr. Arka to finance the treatment of Risa's father continuously, Risa also felt embarrassed and very troublesome.

Risa rested near the mattress in her room, her tears continuously running down her cheeks, Risa grabbed her hair many times. Actually Risa is very eager to shout and scream vent her grievances, but there is power? There is Riko in this house, and there is Dennis as well who has not fully understood about this situation and circumstances.

Riko had finished cooking rice soy sauce plus egg ceplok, Dennis had also finished eating it. Risa never returned to the living room, Riko was afraid of anything happening to Risa, even Riko had insecure Risa was sick or fainted.

Riko immediately holds Dennis and asks Dennis where is Risa's room? And Dennis showed me his brother's room.

Just sober Riko was shocked half to death, as soon as he opened the room door, his bead caught the figure of Rsa who was struggling and crying sobbing.

"What's wrong?" Riko asked as she held onto Risa's shoulder.

Risa lowered her head, Risa also wiped away the remains of her tears, Risa could not possibly tell her father's current condition, after all Risa did not want to involve Riko in her family matters.

"It's okay, brother." Risa replied with a smile, even though the remains of her tears had been removed, but her eyes could not lie to Riko.

"The story is sa." Riko was still trying to persuade Risa to tell him the burden that was bothering her mind.

Dennis the 7-year-old who is very active and spoiled has not fully understood what his brother feels, Denis even mocked Risa, he said rich children still like to cry.

"It's late at night, brother, mending Kaka go home. All Kaka the way home, I'm the same Dennis hitchhiking up to RS, can't you, brother?" Risa asked, her eyes were very clearly visible.

"Can! Yuk, Denis went straight to the car, Kaka Risa wants to get ready first." Said Riko while leading Denis to the front page, Riko knew something must be wrong.

Risa opened her closet, took a sweater to wrap her body to make it warmer, Risa also took a sweater for Denis. Because in a hurry, so Risa only locked the door, even the dining table was not cleaned.

Riko was already sitting at the steering wheel, with Dennis next to her. Riko smiled at Denis' extremely active behavior, not knowing how much his little mouth was wondering about the car.

"Denis is sitting in the back with Kaka." Risa opens the car door and will move Denis to the back seat.

"No way!" Reply firmly.

"Well, you're sitting in front of me, just enough to sit down for you and Denis, you're also lowering your body?" Riko tries to provide a solution so that Denis and Risa do not engage further in their debate.

Risa complies with the advice of Riko, Risa sits with Denis. The car just drove Denis was excited, asking this is it, even Risa to the dizziness of hearing it. Yeah, that's Denis, looking really tacky. Understandably Dennis rarely ride a good car, often take an angkot follow his mother to the market.

"Denis be quiet! This is dizzy!" Snapping Risa with her loud voice, Risa's mood is not good, the shot coming out of Denis' mouth even makes her brain feel more boiling.

Denis eye pellet filled with a clear liquid that will soon spill over his cheek.

"Eat him again dizzy, Denis quiet ya." Riko rubbed the top of Denis' head gently. Riko knew why Risa was a good Kaka for her sisters, but right now Risa was really not being good. Riko does not know what happened to Risa, but Riko believes that Risa is in a difficult situation.

Denis nodded at Riko, his palm trying to dispel the clear liquid that had not been spilled. Then Denis hugged Risa tightly, Risa also hugged Denis, Risa rubbed Denis head. One hand Risa raised to massage the base of her nose.

The car has arrived, Riko parked his car in a fairly distant place. Risa and Denis go down, before Risa has told Riko to go home. But Riko refuses, Riko is well aware of what really happened.

Risa walks hurriedly while leading Dennis, Riko follows her from behind. After passing through a fairly long hallway, visible from the opposite direction Haikal was walking hastily.

"So father was critical, his condition weakened. Then dad improved, I kept asking about Kaka." Haikal said with a breath of breath.

Risa and Haikal immediately ran to the place where her father was cared for. The two of them were quite upset, to the point of leaving the dumb-ass Denis staring at the backs of those who had moved away.

Klek, Risa opened the door to her father's room in the care. There his father looked very thin, a few hoses stuck in his nose and arms. Lying weakly on a hospital bed, his condition was very weak. Late on the side of the bed was his mother Risa who faithfully held the hand of the husband.

Seeing her father's condition that was getting weaker, Risa could not help but cry. Risa hugged her father, the flow of tears could not be prevented.

"Son." His voice was barely audible.

Seeing the door open, Riko also entered the room while leading Denis.

"Father is tired of being here, besides the cost for heart treatment is very expensive. I don't want to continue to trouble that good friend of yours, who has financed my father's medical care. I'm sorry about you, too, son, the real father doesn't want to charge Haikal school fees to you." Said her father, her bead eyes looking at Risa with a spotlight that was difficult to decipher.

"Dad wants to go home, son, please take care of everything. I want to sleep at home." Another imbibing.

Risa shook her head, tears unceasingly falling down and wetting her cheeks. Not only was Risa crying, the mother and Haikal were also crying.

"Dad here first until healed, for the cost of care do not need to be thought of, just calm Risa will try as much as possible." Risa rubbed the pace of her tears, forcing a smile while gently rubbing her father's arm.

"Father just go home, this father's medical expenses are too burdening for you son. Dad doesn't want you to focus on dad, so you miss your youth, you have to get married. Son, I'm afraid there's no age, I want to be your guardian." His voice was very small, almost inaudible.

Her father's words deeply slapped Risa's heart. Be married? How is it possible to get married, with whom will Risa get married? Even the vocabulary of "Marriage" was completely absent in Risa's mind.

"Risa's getting married, but not now. How to get married, the candidate just doesn't exist." Risa chuckled softly, Risa tried to display her cherry face, whereas her mind was floating.

If he married, who would finance the treatment of his father, who would pay for his younger siblings in school, who would provide for the essentials in his home. Can't you just charge it to her husband? After all, her husband did not want to bear it all.

Highlight the eyes of his father caught a foreign figure in this room, the figure was from earlier busy inviting Denis to speak.

"He who?" He asked, his eyes were still fixed on Riko. But because his voice was very slow, so Riko did not hear it and just continued to invite Denis to speak.

Risa, mother and Haikal just turned to follow the tail of her father's eyes Risa looked at Riko. They all just realized, it turns out that Riko was in this room.

"That's Riko, Risa's friend well. He's Risa's friend who finances the father's treatment, so there's another good person who finances the father's treatment, the boss at Risa's place of work." Risa could not just call Riko a friend, after all it was true that Riko had financed her father's treatment until 1 AD.

Hearing Risa introduce herself to her father, Riko turned her head and smiled. Riko also approached her father Risa, and tried to kiss the back of her hand.

"Pardon me and Risa who have troubled you, I promise someday I will change money son Riko, Riko, and forgive me and Risa's also the one who's already charging Riko's son in this matter." His father Risa said with a soft word.

"It's okay, it doesn't have to change me completely." Riko said with a deep smile, in her heart Riko said this was not a sincere thing, and Riko was also actually very embarrassed. It was not Riko who financed the treatment of this treatment, it was Risa who financed everything by selling her body to Riko. Riko also regretted his previous actions, why he used to be so hearty with Risa, people who were in big trouble even given a difficult choice.

"Oh yes, I have something to say." Riko's words stopped for a moment, she was indeed Risa at a glance. For some reason once Riko told Risa's father something was said, Risa spontaneously won Riko, as if Risa knew what she was going to say.

"Riko and Risa are just friends, there is no relationship more than that. But, deep down Riko actually wants to edit Risa as a companion for Riko's life forever, or in the sense that Riko really wants Risa to be the wife and mother of Riko's children." Riko said clearly and very blatantly.

Risa was very shocked, even her mouth was gaping perfectly. So, tonight this very second Riko is proposing to her, with very gentle Riko talking directly to her father Risa. Risa felt this was too fast, and Risa also could not confirm whether her heart was leaning on Riko or not. Risa is eager to refuse, because Risa does not know clearly and surely how Riko really feels. Does Riko want it just out of sheer lust, or does Riko really mean to ask her to be a wife?

"Son, this nice guy proposed to you. I'm dying to see you get married, I want to see for myself how this one-of-a-kind father's daughter became the wife of a good man who loved her so much." Said her father, her father really hopes Risa receives this proposal.

His mother approached Risa, gently rubbing Risa's back. As a mother now, of course, Risa's mother is very understanding and knows very well how her son feels, this is a difficult situation for Risa. The swipe on the back was hoping to make Risa calm and take the best decision.

"Sister, just accept it. Perhaps this is the last wish of the father, after all Kaka knows for himself how the condition of the father now, the father also said fear of no age, than Kaka regretted later on, the father also said, better Kaka just accept Kaka's proposal handsome. Kaya Kaka handsome is also a good character really, really fit even this beautiful sister." Haikal's whisper in Risa's ear.

Risa tried to consider her father's words as well as Haikal's. After thinking long enough and considering everything, Risa finally had a decision on her mind.

Risa took a lot of breaths, then slowly Risa exhaled. "I am willing to be the wife and mother of Riko's children." He said loudly and firmly, after that Risa closed her eyes, hoping that her decision was good and right, and brought happiness to her family, especially the father who lay weak.

Everyone was smiling, happy smiles. Dennis also smiled even though Denis didn't understand any of this. Everything is happy, except as a mother whose eyes are glazed so that it becomes a puddle that is ready to spill. The mother pulled Risa's body, clutching her very tightly. Her mother this year was not Risa's wish, Risa did all this just to make her father happy.

"Alhamdulillah." Said Risa's father with excitement.

"Riko is ready for the ring, so tonight Riko and Risa are engaged. And soon Riko will also propose to Risa." Riko took out a love-shaped ring box from her suit pocket.

Risa rounded her eyes perfectly, it seemed like Riko had really planned this all out. The proof, the ring box alone is already available in his suit pocket. Two rings with a very simple design, but very elegant and looks luxurious. Riko pinned the beautiful ring to Risa's ring finger, and vice versa. Haikal captured it all in a portrait taken on Riko's phone. Everything in the photo with a happy smile.

The one who was very happy in this event was her father Risa. His mother Risa is not ceaselessly embracing Risa, his mother Risa is praying that Risa is happy with this difficult choice.

The night was getting late, Risa's father was already asleep. Risa told her mother to sleep, and so did Haikal. Since his mother must return to accompany his father tomorrow, Haikal must go to school. While Denis was asleep in the lap of the mother, maybe now Denis is struggling with his dream.

Risa sneaks out, opens the door very slowly, Riko follows her.

"Where are you going?" Ask Riko.

"I want to be alone first, please don't follow me!" Risa said slowly but firmly, even the look in Risa's eyes looked at Riko hatefully.

Finally Risa and Riko went in opposite directions. Without them noticing, Risa's mother peeps and steals their conversation. Sure enough, the feeling of a mother is never wrong. Risa won not love Riko, not feeling now her cheeks have been wet by falling tears.

*****

The day has changed in the morning, the moon that last night has faithfully commemorated the earth, will now be replaced by the sun. Their duties both illuminate the earth, just different in terms of time.

Risa blinked her eyes which were actually still very sleepy. Risa's hand tried to rub both her eyeballs, after her eyelids opened. Risa staring at the clockwork attached to the wall shows at 06:00 WIB.

Risa was glued to one suit that stuck to her shoulder. Risa's bead eyes were cackling around this room, where was Riko? Where did Riko sleep last night? The question continued to dance in Risa's mind. Last night Risa did take off her sweater to cover her mother, and know-how Riko also took off her suit to cover Risa.

After finishing waking her mother, Haikal, and Denis Risa rushed to the toilet just to wash her face, after which Risa returned to her father's room again.

Not long after the door opened, the figure of Riko appeared carrying plastic food. Riko bought chicken porridge for breakfast everything. Everything took its share, as did Risa.

After finishing his breakfast, Haikal left first, because the needle from home to Haikal school was quite time-consuming.

"Dennis school ma'am." Her voice almost sounded funny.

"Snitch a day is okay deck, today mom must accompany dad so can't take Denis to school." Answer mother.

"Let Risa aja who nganter Denis school, so today Risa is working. Easy to mom, later Riko's sister who talked to the boss of Risa's workplace." Said Risa while nudging Riko's arm.

"Mother's look, can be set." Riko held out both of her thumbs.

"Keep Riko how? Riko's son has to work too, right?" Ask Risa's mother.

"He's mah gamoang bu, his work can be handled by his manager. After all, he is the owner of a coffee shop, his employees are many. He's sitting there watching his employees' performance." Risa chirps with throbbing lips, actually Risa is mocked Riko who does her job like a lazy person.

"Oh so. Yes, sorry, son Riko mother today is a little troublesome."

"Often it's okay ma'am, don't hesitate to be the mother's future daughter-in-law." Riko blinked one eye at mother and Risa.

Riko is driving Denis to the toilet, while her mother pulls Risa away for a while.

"Son, I know you don't actually love Riko. Again you sacrifice your happiness for the sake of family, I hope you are happy in the afterlife son." Risa is now in the arms of the mother, her mother's tears spill over Risa's shoulders.

A sense of peace and calm now infiltrated into Risa's heart. A mother never misjudges her daughter.

"Who said I don't love Riko's sister? I did not love him, but I did not love him. No and yet it has a different artist. Mother take it easy yes, Riko's sister is a good man, Risa will definitely be happy to be his wife. About love? As time goes on and the more we spend together and get used to each other, that love will slowly emerge. I do not need to worry, later after Risa married Risa will carry out the role of a wife well really, Risa will prove that Riko's sister is lucky to have Risa." Risa replied with a smile, not a forced smile what more a fake smile. This time Risa just say according to the condition of her heart.

Riko heard everything, there was a warm feeling, and suddenly her heart felt flowery. Riko was very happy to hear the answer coming out of Risa's mouth.

After that Risa and Riko went to take Denis, Risa also asked Riko to ask for permission not to enter work. Before leaving for school, Risa went to her house first. Because Denis' uniform and school supplies are still at home. Then go to Dennis' school.

"Where are you going now? Can't you wait for Denis here until Denis's lesson ends?" Ask Riko.

"No idea where? Or if not, I go home. After that Riko's sister went home to the coffee shop or to the apartment, let me pick up Denis." Said Risa.

"Get me what?" Ask Riko.

"There is public transport, if not use a gojek." Risa opened her eyes panted.

"Don't! Meningan I nemenin you sa."

"Why? Afraid of his future wife in the godain gojek?" Risa asked with a ketus.

What did he say just now?

His future wife?

"Finally, the future wife..." Riko grabbed Risa's fingers, then kissed Risa's friendly ring finger embedded with a beautiful ring.

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