The Sweetest Feeling's

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Nania drops the helmet she just picked up from the storage room while receiving bad news from the house.

"Please replace me with Mr. Daryl's lunch!" He handed the package to Nindy.

"Why?"

"I have to go home. My father …." He didn't finish his sentence.

Nania immediately ran out, then turned on the matic motor she used to deliver food. And without a second thought the girl immediately gasped towards the house.

He did not take long to arrive, because the traffic was not too heavy during the day.

From a distance he had already seen the crowd in front of his house, making his feelings uneasy.

Nania immediately stopped the bike, then half jumped down and ran.

"Dad!" He yelled.

And it's true what he's been afraid of all this time. The man was already stretched stiff in the middle of the room measuring 4x4 meters.  Her eyes were tightly closed as if she was sound asleep but her chest did not move at all as Nania had always seen.

Some neighbors held him at the door to calm him down. But it made him hysterical.

"No way! Daddy!" shouted again.

"Patience Nak! Be patient! Your father won't be sick anymore, he's calm." An old woman hugged him.

"No want! No way! You can't be the same with me!" The girl thrashed.

"Dad! Don't stay with me!!" He's trying to get away.

"Take your heart out, boy! Poor your father."

"I don't want to! Dad can't possibly leave me!! This morning I still ate!!"

His face was so pale yet this time he looked calm.

"I'm sorry, Auntie, we found her like this" she said before Nania fell unconscious.

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"Kiss his father first, son before the shroud closes. But the tears don't fall, do they?" A religious leader spoke to him.

Nania immediately went forward desperately holding back the cries. His chest felt so tight and his body was really sick. Looking at his first love, now gone.

He's the guy who's been his encouragement all along. The solace and the mourning entertainer left him. While he was fighting for his recovery.

The father apparently was unable to survive after three years with hepatitis and they only fought both to overcome it.

"The strong darling." The old woman who was accompanying him tried to strengthen.

Nania approached, and with every effort she swallowed a heartache in the chest. He looked at his father's face and kissed him for the last time.

Goodbye Dad, I love Dad. Thank you for being a great dad to me. Heaven awaits father. His whisper in his heart.

Then they pulled him to avoid the crying that broke again. And some of the mothers in the back hugged him back.

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The sky is overcast to accompany the man's departure for eternity. There, in his last bed that had been tightly closed was studded with flowers.

Nania continued her crying that seemed reluctant to stop. I don't know how hard he's holding back, but the tears keep flowing.

Until finally some people pulled him home after painstakingly persuading him.

Nania was stunned when they arrived home. An unexpected guest was waiting.

"Mother?" he murmured as he recognized those people.

"Oh, .. the mother is very sorry." said the woman and she rushed to hug her daughter.

Nania's cry broke again, and she hugged the mother's body tightly. It had been a long time since they last met a few months ago, and this was the first time the woman had embraced him.

"Dad said, if I can't get out of here, Mom." They gathered in the living room.

The night was late and the mourners were gone.

"You're alone here, isn't that dangerous?" Mirna tidied the envelope they had finished opening and put the money into a package.

She and her husband deliberately stayed over to accompany Nania.

"It's safe here, ma'am. Neighbor Nia is good. They're also the ones who help keep dad safe when Nia works."

"You are mother's son! If mom says come along. Why the hell do you think? Your father is gone and only your mother is!" The woman raised her voice.

"Nania! Listen no?" said again.

"Listen, Mom."

"Now get your clothes done, we'll go tomorrow morning!" say mother again.

"But ma'am, it hasn't even been a week since Dad died." Nania looked down, not daring to look at her mother's face.

"In reticence, Nia wished to pray for her father until the seventh day. Like people."

"No need! It is useless, and there is no suggestion in our religion either. Why would you do such a useless thing?"

"But Ma? Love this house if Nia leaves. How about …."

"We'll just sell it. And you can stay with mom."

"sold?" Nania.

"Yes. We'll call the bearer. Now, quickly get your clothes done and sleep!"

Nania stunned. I don't know why he couldn't refuse his mother's words. This happens every time they meet.

"Nenice?"

"Yes Ma'am." The girl immediately went inside her room and did as her mother told her to.

While outside the room the two men laughed with excitement.

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"I'm sorry Nia Bi, if it's often troublesome?" He said goodbye to the neighbors who had lived together for years.

"Why should I move? Your father just died yesterday, son?" The neighbor hugged him with tears.

"Yes, we're worried about leaving him here alone." Mirna pulled it from behind her daughter.

"When he's safe here, Mom. We've taken it like a child."

"Stay still, I feel worried." replied Mirna, as kindly as possible.

"But why should his house be sold? Isn't baby?" The hooded woman glanced at the modest house owned by Nania and her father who had been fitted with a banner that read for sale.

"Nania won't be coming back here again, ma'am. And she needs to continue school." replied Mirna again.

"Is that?" The neighbor looked at Nania's sad face.

"Yes, would you excuse me?" Then Mirna immediately pulled her daughter away.

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Nania looked at the simple house in silence. Eventually he had to return to the place after years of going after his father after the divorce of his parents.

Precisely, the mother who gave it to the man for foster care because she felt unable to care for two children in a widow state.

A young man older than her came out of the house. With the appearance of the usual. Wearing torn jeans and a jacket with a cigarette lit in his mouth.

"Back also you?" he said to Nania.

"Mom, ask for money dong. Sandi was going to hang out." she turned her hands to her mother.

"Working on your job?" Mirna said, but he also did not mind giving some money to his first child.

"Widihhhh, a lot of money?" Sandi peeked into the mother's bag, and she found a large sum of money for their size.

"No courtesy! There go!" Mirna patted her head.

Sandi laughed, then she left on her noisy motorbike.

"Nenice?" Then another old woman appeared, and this was what made Nania smile a little.

"grandmother?" he said as he meghambur into his grandmother's arms.

"Dad is no Grandma" he said, and he went back sobbing.

"Patiently, Son. Its alright. You must be strong." he said, bracing.

"Come in?" The grandmother pulled him into the house.

A room that is not too big is located just below the stairs. Which Nania knows as her grandmother's room.

"You slept with Grandma?" The woman said.

Nania was stunned for a moment. But then he nodded his head.

What did he expect? His mother would not prepare anything special for him. But this is better than sleeping in the middle of the house with a stranger who will roam around all the time. How thought.

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