SUPPOSE THAT...

NATURE OF LOVE

If sincerity is not able to shake feelings, what about guilt and compassion ?

"Please Angela.." cried Anggie as soon as Dave entered the treatment room. Seemed very tired and sadness that emanated from his face. Makes the woman look older than usual.

Dave gulped. His head felt empty watching the consequences of his decision without logic.

Adriansyah followed Dave from behind, clasping his hands and hugging his sleepless wife to accompany his daughter, who could now lie down and do nothing.

Dave sighed with a sad contorted face as he watched the changes of his good ex-fiancee and always spread that smile.

"Angela.." call Dave softly while sitting and grabbing Angela's bony hand in a leather wrap.

So thin was Angela that her face turned sunken and looked old with a bulge of cheekbones.

Dave's heart trembled, not out of love. But out of pity. He has robbed the spirit of life of a good woman who is faithfully waiting and always there for him.

Slowly Angela opened her eyes,

"Angela ?" Dave drew his face closer.

The round eyes of the doll now look striking and dim. His pale lips moved silently, making Dave clasped Angela's hands tighter and rubbed the top of his head.

"Angela, I'm sorry, I'm." said Dave could not bear.

The big eyes were watery, both her eyebrows furrowed and a second later Angela sobbed, crying.

Dave's heart is full. Nunari. He cursed his heartless deeds leaving Angela just like that.

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"Our love is a wound for everyone.."

Dave talks with Kirana moments before he meets Angela.

"Jon, your Grandpa, your Grandma, Mom." Kirana. "Dad, Mom, even Shopie." Kirana looked back at the artificial lake in her backyard. "Everyone is hurt because we're too imposing."

He just stared at the woman beside him. Childish women who are far from their ideal type. But it always managed to make him act without thinking.

"I used to love the story of Princess Odette." Kirana returns to the story but does not see the eyes of the interlocutor. "He was cursed to be a goose, so I like a goose." he turned to Dave for a moment and laughed. "Then a Prince came to save her." Kirana smiled looking at the clear watery lake that lay before her. " It's a beautiful love story." she said. "I also believe, if love is to be fought and in the end must be happy end after passing all obstacles." He closed his legs bent at the chest, hugged and propped his chin there.

That morning the air was fresh with many trees and green grass that became their seat.

"But the bigger it gets, I know it's just a fairy tale." Kirana said again. This time his tone sounded flat. "Love doesn't belong to two people. There is another Prince and there is another Princess. Love is not just about fighting and then it ends happily. But it's also about taking off and mengikhlaskan.."

"Speaking you banging, Kirana." Dave finally made his voice.

Kirana chuckles. "It's my fault." he hid his face and hugged both of his legs that were bent tightly.

Don't laugh when your heart is sad, it hurts.

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Suddenly Angela held onto his chest. His breathing was tight and he looked in pain.

"Angela ?" Dave got up from his seat in shock. Likewise with the parents of Angela who was originally a little backward, immediately rushed to the bed where her son lay.

"DOCTOR !"

"DOCTOR !"

The couple shouted alternately. The ECG monitor showed Angela's ever-increasing heart rate.

A doctor and two nurses came in and checked. Panic state.

So even Dave who tried to strengthen while holding Angela's hand which now feels weak after it had stiffened with his heavy breath.

"The condition is very weak." The doctor said as he examined Angela's chest with a stethoscope.

A Nurse injects a drug in the infusion tube, while another Nurse helps to attach a breathing apparatus.

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They look at each other. "Like Opa who remained faithful and did not marry again. I hope to be loved." He laughed again. "I'm selfish." she sneered. "Even if I die, life will go on, right ?" he said while looking at Dave.

"..We're getting married to this ring, Kirana." Dave said after a moment of silence. Grasping a plain ring without the gemstone.

"*If I'm married, I'll v*ngin everything is all white." Kirana smiled broadly. "I will also wear Mother's wedding kebaya first, hoping my future husband will be like Daddy who loves Mom for who she is, nothing."

"Dad is the best." Dave looked at. "You'll be as pretty as Mom when you wear her white kebaya."

Kirana's eyes glazed over. He smiled as he leaned his head against Dave's shoulders and Dave immediately hugged him. For a while they only looked at the lake with the lotus flower that was still bud in front of them.

"Because I'm an only child. I want to have a lot of kids." Suddenly Dave said, making Kirana chuckle.

"Eleven, let's be a football team" said Lirana, who greeted Dave's small laughter.

They fell silent again. The breeze dropped the dry leaves on the trees around the edge of the lake and brushed their hair. The atmosphere was so calm and reassuring.

"I love living in the village." Kirana drew something with her index finger on Dave's arm that was holding her.

"We'll stay in the village." Dave agrees. The view leads away to the blue sky with its white clouds hanging beautifully.

"Let Kian replace us. Let's see he takes care of two companies." Kirana pissing evil.

They both laughed at how much trouble Kiandra would take care of everything.

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"Dave, please !" Anggie crying on her knees holding Dave's leg.

"Auntie Anggie." Dave knelt down and supported Angela's arms to stand up.

"Please don't stay Angela. Please save her.." she cried with tears. "I can't watch my son suffer like this. I beg Dave, I'm mohoon.." The fifty-year-old woman was cuddling.

Adriansyah opened the black suitcase that was on the table. Take some valuable papers in it.

Dave still can't talk. His red face held the pain and his heart was torn between pity and love.

"You're left to handle and all is yours." Adriansyah thrust some map of cream color on Dave who took it was not.

Grab Dave's hand and hold it on the map sheet. Dave stupefiedly looked at Father and Mother Angela who were squeezing in front of him.

His gaze led to Angela who looked pitiful and now began to calm down after the doctor gave her medicine.

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The sun was high when Dave and Kirana got up from their seats and now stood facing each other against the lake as the setting.

"I will always pray for your happiness, Dave."

He looked at the face and the two beautiful colored eyeballs that always made him want to look.

Although not willing, to hug the girl, he could not.

"Weak man, that's me." He scoffs at himself in the heart. He clenched his hands with tears in his eyes.

In romance. Some end happily, some clap one hand and there is betrayal. But we, perhaps the One Who Gives Life is just a fad when linking our hearts. Just stopping by, not even in unites or separated. Pouching beautifully without being able to blend into each other, while hoping that time can treat and remove this taste.

"Pretend not to recognize me, Dave" Kirana said. "Surely we will forget quickly." he can still laugh.

Maki me, hit me, so there's a reason for my heart to let you go.

Farewell when we have fought for the relationship so far feels more stifling.

Sacrificing the hearts of many for our selfishness. But ultimately having to give up in the name of humanity, silly, right ?

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"Angela, I love you." whispered Dave in his ear. "Come, we're married" he continued.