Love Stay Here
Simalakama

Lampung City

Sekar ran over to his sister Puspa who was waiting for him in the hospital parking lot. They hugged each other and missed, then they walked to their father's hospital room.

The two said their greetings and walked over to their father and mother. She hugged and kissed the back of her mother's hand. After quite satisfied Sekar approached the body of his father who lay helpless in a hospital bed.

"Sir why did he get sick?" Sekar stroked the back of his father's hand with a sad look.

"Father is just tired, why do you bother bringing him here? You just go home, yes," said the father made his tears drip.

"What's the doctor saying, Mom?" now he looked at his faithful mother standing beside his father's bed right across from him.

"The doctor said you should have surgery but you don't want to" replied the mother with her hands rubbing her tears.

With a sad gaze Sekar looked at the pale face of his father who increasingly looks blackened the sign of the worse the disease.

"Mr wants to be operated on so that it heals quickly. Later we go home together we can gather together at home happily. You want to, huh?" Sekar persuaded his father to be operated on given the condition of his heart that needed immediate action.

"Father wants to be operated on with one condition," said the father with eyes staring at his daughter.

"What's the condition, sir?" ask Sekar. The girl's hand is still tightly grasping the hand of the father who looks getting smaller because of the reduced body weight of the middle-aged man.

"Only you determine whether you want to be operated or not." hearing this Sekar surprised, what exactly his father wants.

"Father wants you to marry Abas immediately. He's a good, responsible and hardworking man you've also had a relationship with. I think you and he can be happy later." Sekar was surprised not to play to hear the conditions proposed by his father with a stammering and soft speech.

"Strickers can't marry Abas, sir. Just not love. You're asking for another condition, huh?" He refused his father's request.

"Then bring your own candidate of choice. This is my last request. At least if you die, you have handed you to the right man to take care of you. All this time you fight for us, then if you are not long, you still have time to see you happy. Marry, son please." the words of the father increasingly heartbreaking anyone who heard it is no exception Sekar.

"Father don't talk like that, no one knows the age of man. We must be sure, that God will lift the father's disease and the father can be cured as before," said the mother reminded the father of the destiny of God.

"Yes, that's what you know, Mom. It's just that if Sekar is married, at least the burden of the father to keep the daughters of the father is reduced by one. You want someone to take care of and protect it well because you can no longer protect it" said the father lirih with breath gasping.

Everything in the room was getting more and more powerless to hold back his cries. Confused as to how. The life of a very meritorious person in his life is at his decision. It was like eating simalakama fruit. She had no lover, but she also did not want to marry Abas, the man who had once incised a wound in her heart.

Although he accepted Abas to be his girlfriend not because of love, but his heart still hurt by Abas' betrayal of him. He felt sick and it was still there. He doesn't want to be hurt by the same person.

"Sir, give Sekar two days to decide. This was not an easy decision for Sekar." the girl rubbed the tears that kept flowing down her cheeks illustrating how her heart was at the moment.

The food deliveryman entered the room to deliver the patient's night grave.

"Father eat first, yes let healthy quickly. Now aaaaaa." He asked his father to open his mouth to eat. He shook his head slowly at the reluctant omen.

"If you do not want to eat, Sekar also does not want to marry," Sekar threatened the father and it managed to make the old man open his mouth

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Day changes night. But the concern of Sekar's heart has not changed. After making sure he was asleep, he went outside to the hospital garden.

"Mom, I'm sorry maybe I'm going to Jakarta again waiting a few weeks," said Sekar Lirih in a phone call with Intan his superior.

"Why, does your father hurt so bad?" tanya Intan was worried.

"Yes, you need to have an operation right away. But you asked for the terms and conditions I must get married immediately. If I can't bring my lover in two days' time I have to marry the man of my choice." Sekar recounted the situation he experienced to Intan while shedding tears.

"Then do you have a boyfriend?" intan asked with a thumping chest hoping that his daughter would become Bima's lover as he had hoped all along.

"No, Ma. That's why I'm confused. I don't have a boyfriend but I don't want to marry that guy either. I know him well enough, according to my father but not for me. But if I don't comply, you don't want surgery and it's very dangerous. I was confused. hiks hiks." there was a sob of Sekar's cry from a distance.

"Why did your father ask for such a condition, is there no other condition?"

"Because you want to see me married. He wanted someone to take care of me.He said before he died, he wanted to see me happy." Still crying.

"How is your relationship with Bima?"

"Let's go, Mom I don't know either. I dare not expect between us just a relationship as friends."

"What if you accept my son, Sekar. You must not only think of yourself, but also of your father's safety."

"Sorry, the doctor called me, I'll let you know." Now cut off his phone call by lying. The doctor was nowhere near him because he was quite far from his father's treatment room. He just didn't want Intan to keep pushing him, making him even more confused.

Sekar's heart is really like being squeezed to feel the anxiety he experienced. Heart dilemma. On one hand he wanted to save the life of the father, on the other hand he did not want to marry Abas. Unfortunately, he has no lover.

Does he have to accept Bima's invitation to get married? But if accepted he was worried if he would be made into a slave under the guise of a wife. The debt is very much and it will be a burden in her marriage.

Didn't he say to forget? Where maybe he could forget, it was a number that was not small to be taken for granted.

Remembering the figure of Bima his heart felt longed. At first he thought that Bima would be bad for him because of the fierce impression that Bima showed him. But when he had lived in the house, he still felt the warmth of Bima's attitude was still like 4 years ago.

"Mas, what should I do?" the sound of crying sounded desperate.