
I got to the hospital. Karina told me that dad was being treated in a separate room. I don't understand, you should just be taken care of in a public class, the cost there would be cheaper. Karina said, these are all ideas from her friend's son, the father she said she wanted to be betrothed to me.
I knocked on the door of an anonymous room with Class 3A writing on top of the door, then I opened it slowly. "Assalamu'alaikum" I said to my father, and there was a foreign man beside him. It seems they are chatting.
"Wa'alaikumsalam's chat. Sophia? You're here?" Dad looked at me with excitement.
I kissed my father's hand, and greeted the stranger. I can only smile at him. My guess is, it seems like that man is the one my father will betroth me to.
"Where are things, Dad? That's okay, right?" I asked my father still standing to his left.
"Udah. Dad ain't pa-pa, huh." My father replied smiling. "Oh, yeah. Sophia, know this Bara, her son Temen Father," continued my father holding the left shoulder of the man who was sitting in the chair to his right.
I smiled briefly at my father's friend's son. As for him, he still continued to act friendly as I entered earlier.
The mood was silent for a moment.
"Sophia, this Bara-"
"Em, Dad. I want to talk to you both, Dad," I said, cutting off my father's words. "Can, right?" I hesitated to look at my father and then turned to Bara. I won't let you tell me much about that man. I don't want to know.
"Oh, yeah. If so, I go out first, Om," said Bara seemed to feel driven away by me. Good, he's quick to sniff.
Bara smiled at us, me and dad. He leaned over, then walked out of the room.
After the door was closed Bara, I rushed to sit to the right side seat of my father who had been occupied by the man. The chair was warm, surely Bara had been sitting there for a long time.
"Well, Big Brother said Dad wants to mate with me, huh? Same who, Dad? That fella? I don't want to be coded!" I started protesting with the sound of my voice.
"Why not? Bara's an army, loh. He is handsome and his work is honorable. You haven't been practicing either, have you?"
I still knit my eyebrows at my father. Yeah, my first impression on Bara he was pretty okay. But to me, the handsome Juna! And about me, who my father says hasn't done. Hey, I'm just looking for the right companion. And now I've found him, Juna.
"From Semalem Bara bela-belain to nemenin Daddy here. You know, she's the one who paid for all of my care at the hospital, "my dad said.
I'm getting pissed. So that guy named Bara has bribed my family with his kind-hearted and not arrogant seduction? Anyway, I have to make dad stop this weird matchmaking!
"Father what the fuck, anyway. Don't want to be brought by others for things like gini. Why do you want to be indebted to that guy? I can also afford to only pay for your care at the hospital for a few days."
"Father was also initially nolak. But Bara's pissing for payin, and he's even putting Dad in this room." Answer dad to me.
I looked away, then looked at my father again. "Yes, Dad dong's business to make his refusal...! Besides, don't you think Mom has enough money? I transfer every month, you know. I'm still getting a cab, I'm still selling, right?"
At the end of each month, I rationed my parents. I'm filling out mom's accounts for two to three million a month. I also regularly leave weekly pocket money for Lusy. Well, even if it's a hundred or two hundred thousand, but I'm willing to give it to my beloved niece.
"Yes, um.... But the money was in your Auntie's stamp," my dad said, surprising me a little.
My aunt? That means it must be my father's sister, Aunt Tari.
"Yes, but it can't be pinned all right, Dad? What's Aunt Tari doing, anyway?"
"Dad doesn't know. He said make business capital. But don't know what the effort is." Dad answered making me breathe heavily.
Aunt Tari, my father's sister is a spinster. He was almost forty years old, but I also never got word that he wanted to get married.
"You too. Grandma nagged on to Daddy because you never looked at Grandma at her house. He said nothing to Dad. He said that you forget yourself, it is, you who do not love the family, it is."
I groaned silently listening to my father's babble. When I was a child, I was not close to my grandmother. He's fierce and I don't like him.
Actually, I respect my father's mother. But because of a mistake that makes me still hurt until now, I became disrespectful. But I also try to forgive that mistake.
Grandma used to accuse me and mom. I got a story from Karina and my mother that when my captive mother became pregnant, my grandmother instigated my father if the baby my mother conceived was not her child. They certainly don't make up stories. What was such a story written for?
But thankfully, the father was able to fortify himself to always believe in his wife. I also feel that pregnant women are because of her actions. And in the end, Grandma remained tight. Until I was born, I was tested for DNA with my father to make my grandmother believe that I was his granddaughter.
Grandma's accusations are baseless. My mother was a good woman. I don't know what Grandma thought. But according to Karina's and mother's prejudices, the grandmother only wanted the father to part with the mother and then return to live with the grandmother to support her. If that's true, it's outrageous.
"Yes, yes. Let me take Grandma to her house." With a heavy heart, I said that.
"How did it go, Dad? Anyway I refuse to be fooled! I have my own candidate, Dad. And I just want to be with him, nothing else!" I'm strict with dad.
"Who...? Must be a guy not clear, right? I don't want you to choose the wrong one. Enough of your brother that makes Daddy puyeng. But thank God Bimo is advancing now."
"Sophia's choice will not concern you with Mom. Sophia can be sure," I told my father.
"What does he do? If you're unemployed, you're directly no, yes."
I know why you seem possessive about the man I want to relate to. He definitely doesn't want my life not to be prosperous later. Which parent wants their child to suffer after marriage? Especially if the child is a girl.
"He's still in college, Dad." My answer is actually nervous.
"Still in college? So your candidate is a student?" Dad widened his eyes looking a little. "Sophia, so that student doesn't guarantee success. You are the same as Bara. His future is clear because he is a soldier. And is that your choice? His future is still on the brink of uncertainty."
Nah! I'm sure Juna will be successful later. His personality and family background convinced me. Juna's future must be amazing.
"No, Dad. Sophia refused to be betrothed. Whether it's the same Bara army, the same doctor, the pilot, the police, or the same hero though. Sophia will be the proof that Sophia's choice is the best for Sophia."
My father seemed silent for a moment. "Okay, I won't force you to be fooled by Bara. But you should know Dad about your student girlfriend. Soon!" have me make me.., spirit, please!
Alright, I will prove that Juna the King of the Universe is the most appropriate riding prince for me. Just look later, father, even mother and Karina, they all must have fallen in love with Juna.
"okay! Sophia's gonna make Daddy the same as Sophia's choice!" I looked at my father with a confident smile.
"And if you fail, you have to want your father to be the same as Bara!" threaten my father.
But I still believe in myself. I smiled, thrusting my right hand at my father. Father with his confident behavior also smiled lightly shook my hand. "Deal," we said at the same time.
***
I'm still in that hospital room. I laughed a little jokingly at my father whom I hadn't seen in a long time. The middle-aged man with a sweet smile seemed very happy to see his daughter who is now with him.
One minute. Two minutes. "Oh, yes. Which bara? Don't you wait outside? You told me to come in, gih." Dad ruled me.
Because of the fun of chatting, we forgot about the man. Inner laughs. May Bara feel better for being fucked with me and dad. So I don't have to bother refusing this match. Bara must be a little upset with me. And yes, he can refuse his match.
But it doesn't seem that easy. Bara seemed to be casually playing his phone sitting in the front seat of the father's room. When I told her to come in, she smiled kindly at me instead.
The three of us are now gathered in the VIP room. But actually it can't be said to be a VIP room, anyway. There are only two guard chairs, a television, and a medium drawer, as well as a fan. The furniture is less complete if you say the VIP room.
"Oh, yes. Daddy wants to eat? That's Sophia bringing food from home, you know," I said looking over the white bushel I put on the half-metre-high wooden drawer there.
Dad smiled. "Later on. But you are the same Bara if you want to go outside to eat first please. Dad here himself ain't pa-pa, you know."
I suddenly awkwardly turned to Bara, then looked at my father again. "It's only 11 o'clock, Dad. Sophia will have lunch at home."
"Well? You're here until late afternoon, Dad. You can be familiar with Bara. Isn't that right, Bar?"
I just smiled embarrassedly.
Hid. Dad sucks. You know I have a boyfriend, but why does he talk like he's giving Bara a big chance? I hope that man doesn't really want to be betrothed to me.
I was astonished. As far as I know, many soldiers like to get to know girls through social media, facebook for example. But this Bara, she looks so innocent.
I kept quiet and couldn't answer my father. What am I supposed to say? If there's a chance for me to get along with Bara, I'll tell the man that I already have a girlfriend. He'll understand, right? [ ]