An Unwanted Match
JYTD 16TH

A few months after that, Nayla never contacted Galang again, and Galang never contacted him again. He understood, it might still feel hard for Nayla with all this. After what they've been through the last few years, their relationship has been strained by one problem.

And Thea? What happened to him after that day?

Well, he already feels comfortable, comfortable with someone he once refused. Someone he doesn't want in his life at all. Apparently, there was more than one thing that made him feel that he did not want the breakup to happen.

The first reason, is because Galang turned out to be able to be a good priest.

And secondly, he loved the young man because of God.

***

"Asalamualaikum, huh? Naw? Aunty is ready for breakfast, sir is also waiting."

The sound of Bi Esti knocking on the door of a room.

Galang and Thea had actually woken up, . However, since it was a holiday, the two of them seemed comfortable wanting to be inside the 'second' room'.

Thea who usually after dawn prayers directly helped Bi Esti in the kitchen, but today he did not do because Galang continues to be compassionate to be accompanied.

"Yes, Bi!" exclaimed Galang slightly shouted in reply to Bi Esti's words.

He and Thea were still in bed, facing sideways with one hand he used as his head pad and one right hand which he used to hug his wife's body.

She smiled sweetly as she looked at Thea's plain face with no makeup on that morning now looking at her with a slight nimbleness.

"Why?" ask Galang.

"You don't want to wake up? I was waiting to know."

"A further five minutes, okay?" galang said, closing his arms to Thea and burying Thea's head in her chest.

Thea smiled sweetly, she did not let go of Galang's embrace. It felt very comfortable when Galang hugged her like this. Who knows since when, he began to get used to Galang's warm embrace of him.

Moreover, he had also given his first night to Galang and never thought he could do that.

Has he fallen in love? Does Galang love him too? He doesn't know. But clearly, he was so absorbed in every treatment Galang to him.

"Eumh .. That, today there's a plan to where?" ask Galang again.

"Well, rich ordinary. I'm gonna check the store for a second, that Abis is going to Mom's. I miss my mom, I haven't come in two weeks to see her."

"Cie."

"Cie why?"

"That's the boss."

"Ck, don't keep teasing me." Thea smiled sweetly.

Because now, the business they are engaged in together is now fruitful, the business is running smoothly and now they already have employees because Thea has signed a contract with one large company.

With a decent income from his sales, at least he now does not need to work in caffe anymore. He had stopped because of that but also because Galang asked him to stop.

At first, Wingky looked disappointed but he was a little forced to want out, because Galang's request was an obligation for him that he had to follow.

"Thank God, we should be thankful. Because by Allah's permission our efforts run smoothly," said Galang.

Thea nodded her head slowly. "Let's go down, not good with papah." Thea moved and sat up from her sleep.

"Ck, why don't you feel at home for so long ... Hmh?" asked Galang a little grumbling.

But Thea didn't bully him and actually got out of bed.

"Don't let's go down. Are you not the one who often says, if God does not like lazy people? Look, what time is it."

"Yes yes I wake up," said Galang lazy tone and also up from the bed.

***

After descending down and approaching Yahya sir who was waiting at the dinner table, Galang and Thea sat down for breakfast together. As usual mother-in-law named Rini setiowati did not come to eat with them.

Thea began to understand the situation in this house. It turns out that Bu Rini indeed strongly rejects the presence of Galang in his house because he is the son of Mr. Yahya who is out of nowhere his origin.

From the story he heard from Galang, the woman he referred to as the mother had once had a son. . However, when he was 1 year old, the baby was kidnapped by people and was found 1 year later.

However, again, misfortune befell Ms. Rini because her baby died from having an acute illness.

Until now, Ms. Rini never had any more children. What reason does he not know. Clearly, he often felt the same sadness if Galang approached Bu Rini despite continued rejection.

"What about your efforts? Is everything going well?" asked Yahya to open their conversation.

"Uihh, thank God you're good, Pah! Who used to dong his employees, Galang." Sambar Galang with a wide grin mellowed Thea.

Thea scowled and slightly kicked Galang's leg next to her.

Mr. Yahya smiled. "Thank God if you need anything. Just say to Papah, your money for capital to open a store first still Papah save. Who knows you need it, you can take it at any time" said Mr. Yahya again.

"Oh, that .. no need, Pah, God willing our money is enough. There is a good finance minister here. Despite the stinginess of the barbarians! But thank God it can even be controlled," said Galang again while staring at Thea with a little soft.

Thea was getting annoyed.

His lips pursed and he glared at Galang because he had continued to tease him since.

As they were eating breakfast the next morning, Bi Esti approached Thea.

"Sorry, Non. Someone called and asked Non Thea," said Bi Esti.

"Call? From whom?" asked Thea slightly frowned. Because he wondered why those looking for him did not contact a cell phone but a house phone.

"Say from the neighbor of Non Thea's mother" Bi Esti replied.

"Oh, yes Bi. Thanks to Bi," said Thea, saying goodbye to Galang and Pak Yahya to pick up the phone which is not too far from the dining room.

He also wondered why his mother's neighbors were calling. His mother borrowed another cell phone. Hmhh, even though he had bought her a cell phone. But her mother always did.

When he arrived, he picked up his phone.

"Asalamualaikum ..." he began to speak.

And the person who called him started talking.

First he heard, the man panicked and spoke very quickly. He kept listening. But over time, his breathing began to be irregular because he continued to listen to the words of the man. His body shook uncontrollably, his hand holding the phone was no longer able to hold it until it fell.

"Astagfirullahal enzyme ... Astagfirullahal adzim." Thea was having a sigh with tightness attacking her chest.

He held on to the table in front of him because he could not hold back his own weight.

"Thea? Lo why?" ask Galang.

He looks panicked when he sees Thea's strange gurgle from the dining table.

"Mother ..," said Thea softly and very quietly.

"Mother? Why the same mother?"

Thea did not answer, But her tears broke in front of Galang very fast. He cried out shouting his mother's name. Signified that something bad had happened to her mother-in-law.

***

Thea ran quickly into the small alleys towards her mother's contract. Her tears continued to flow incessantly, crying over a man she planned to meet this morning.

Galang and Pak Yahya also followed behind.

And after he got in front of a fence, his tears became more and more when he saw the condition of this house.

The yellow flag seemed to be blown away by the wind that was so heart-piercing.

Chairs lined up in front of his house, many people. And all these things that he hated so much he saw in front of him clearly.

Both of his legs trembled as he stepped, slowly. He never really wanted to see this in his life.

"Mother ..," said Thea as she reached the door.

It was seen that someone approached Thea and Galang quickly after seeing their arrival.

"Thea, you're patient, son. When I first found her, it seemed like your mother had fallen in the bathroom, I already wanted to take her to the hospital. But your mother is dead" said a woman who owned the contract that her mother occupied. He gently rubbed Thea's shoulder to convey his condolences.

Thea was silent, her tears were flowing more and more as she saw a stiff body lying on the bed. His whole body was covered in cloth and he walked over to his mother's body.

"Mother ..," said Thea, moving her hand to open the cloth that was blocking the face of the body. He still hoped that what he saw was wrong.

He tried not to believe, but what power. What he saw was his mother's right.

His face that always shone brightly, scolded him and advised him first. Now it looks so pale. His warmth and warm embrace as a child to adulthood, now drowned in the destiny that came to him. Cold ... that's how he felt when he touched his mother's hand.

"Mother? Mother why leave me? Mother please don't stay with me! Up, Mom!" thea said as she moved her mother's body. He was crying and becoming more and more. Hugging the cold and stiff body of his mother who had faced Allah.

"The, patience. Istighfar! You can not be rich gini," said Galang who tried to hold back Thea's tears and tried to release Thea's hand grip on her mother.

But Thea didn't listen and still sobbed in tears hugging her mother's body.

"Mom, why is it so fast? How am I, Mom? I have no one but Mom. Mommy, please wake up!"

Galang increasingly hard pull Thea's body increasingly hsteris crying over the departure of his mother.

"Thea, look at me. Lookat me!" said Galang while facing Thea's gaze at him. Thea was still crying, "Lo can't be rich gini, sincere mom. Kasian mother if you cry rich gini, you will certainly not be able to calm down" said Galang.

He gently rubbed Thea's matted hair blocking her face, looked Thea deeply in the eyes and pulled her into his arms. Thea was still crying sobbing in her arms.

He's got.

"Lang, I don't have anyone but Mom. Why does this have to happen to me, Lang? Why?" Thea buried her face in Galang's chest because she could no longer see the reality.

Thea kept crying.

"Please help her for her funeral. Lang, take your wife somewhere else first" Yahya told the people there and asked Galang to take Thea elsewhere. I can't watch him cry like that.

Galang just nodded slowly assented. "Come, The" he said later, leading Thea's body to stand.

Thea tried to stand up, she was still looking at her mother's body for a while. Until he started to step up,

Galang felt there was something strange about Thea. "The?" asked Galang who started to panic when Thea was silent and instead continued to hold her chest.

"Lo why?" ask Galang again.

"Ah."

Sounded so soft Thea's voice as she answered, she continued to tighten her hand grip on her chest until finally Thea's body was helpless.

"Thea? Astagfirullahal adzim." Galang was startled and restrained the weak body of his wife who was suddenly unconscious in both hands.

He saw his wife's pale face on both hands. Thea must have been devastated by the sudden departure of her mother.

"Immediately take your wife to the hospital, let Papah here who will take care of her," said Mr. Yahya.

"Well, Pah," said Galang assented.

After that, he immediately lifted Thea's body to take her to the hospital.

***

Galang fell silent next to his wife's weak body, held the woman's one hand and kept waiting for her since then.

Not a second he missed, he did not want if Thea realized later he was not next to him. Now his heart was getting stronger, looking after his wife to the end.

Poor Thea, she has already lost her father and now she also has to accept the fact that her mother also left her.

Clamps!

The sound of the door being opened by someone, Galang turned his head and saw who was coming.

It turned out that it was Bi Esti with one bag in her hand.

"Asalamualaikum."

"Wa'alaikum salam. Bi," he said with a faint smile at the arrival of Bi Esti.

"How is Non Thea doing?"

"Doctor said, it's not stable, Bi. But hopefully, Thea can be aware as soon as possible," said Galang slowly while still staring at the pale face of his wife.

Bi Esti hasn't said. However, his eyes began to redden withstanding the crying as he felt the same sadness.

"I feel so stupid, Bi. Because I don't know anything about Thea's disease. She was my wife, but I was negligent of what made her weak" she said.

"Patience, Den. These are all tests. After Den Galang knows everything, Den Galang should pay more attention to the health of Non Thea. And hopefully, Non Thea is also given fortitude for the departure of his mother," said Bi Esti while rubbing the shoulders of Galang with a slow sobbing of her crying that she could not stand.

Galang nodded slowly.

"It is time to pray dzhuhur Den, it is better to pray Aden first. Let Auntie who changed to keep Non Thea here, Master will also come after the funeral is over" said Bi Esti again.

Galang was silent for a moment, looking at Thea again for a while. It was so heavy actually leaving this place for even a moment.

But he also cannot ignore his obligation to pray five times.

"Alright, Bi. I let you go to the mushola for a while, yes," he said later.

Bi Esti just nodded slowly assuringly.

And he immediately moved from his seat to go find a place of worship in this hospital.

***

Time continued to run when Galang began to set his feet in a mushola, taking ablution water and performing dzhuhur congregational prayers with others.

After his prayers ended with do'a and salam, he still sat on the expanse of prayer and still solemnly prayed his best for Thea.

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Death, it is the destiny of someone we never know when the time will come. If a person feels lost because of the loss of a loved one, sadness will continue to follow.

If time is the answer to the question of when the sadness will be gone, then all we have to do is learn.

Learning to accept reality even if it is very slow.

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Galang began to step back towards the room where Thea was treated, already fifteen minutes he left the room, He also accelerated his steps because he felt too long.

He hoped, when he reached the room Thea was awake and he could breathe freely.

"Asalamualaikum."

No one answered. Until he stepped inside again.

"Bi" he said again, looking around him.

Bi Esti doesn't exist.

Until in the end he saw something very unexpected and made him shocked.

"Astagfirullahal, Thea!" He was a little screaming.

Because of the shock when he saw the bed stretcher was empty uninhabited, the blanket was messy, infusional hose was rolled over it.

"Thea?" asked Galang while looking for various directions in this room.

Niente. There's nobody here, Thea? Where did his wife go? He is sick at the moment.

"Den? What's up?" asked Bi Esti who had just come inside.

"Bi, Thea doesn't exist. Where is he, Bi?" asked Galang who immediately hunted down the question on Bi Esti.

"What?" Bi Esti looked surprised and saw the empty bed in front of her. "Sorry Den, Non Thea was still there, he was still not awake when aunt went to the toilet" said Bi Esti in a panic.

Surprised not playing. "Astagfirullahal enzyme, Bi. If so, I want to find Thea right now," he said as he immediately turned around and ran out of the room.

***

Galang ran and kept running down every aisle of the hospital. Ask the doctor and nurse or anyone she sees on the street. But they all say the same thing. Not knowing and not seeing.

The feeling is not funny, the worry is increasingly flowing in every vein of his nerves. Thea ... Where is his wife now?

He kept calling and searching, until at last he saw someone in hospital clothes staggering in the parking lot.

He quickly ran over, convinced that the man he saw must be his wife.

"Thea!" exclaiming Galang quickly approached the body of the woman who almost fell.

Both of his hands managed to hold the weak body of a woman, which turned out to be Thea.

"The, lo why are you here? Lo, right, still sick, why'd you come out?" tanya Galang berdubi-tubi while still holding Thea's body.

Thea who looked still very pale was crying and trying to release her hand.

"Yourself, Lang. I want to see Mom, I want to see Mom, "Thea replied.

"Thea, please. You have to go back to the room, come on The," said Galang who continued to hold back Thea's hand that tried to rebel from him.

"I don't want to, Lang! I'm gonna go see Mom, please. Anterin I met Mom! I want to see my mother Lang! Galang, I beg you, anterin me."

Grep's!

Without many more words, Galang immediately pulled Thea's body into his wound. Trying to resist the bitter tears of his wife who felt deep sadness for the departure of her mother who still could not accept.

"Galang, I beg you. I want to see my mother one last time."

Galang tightened his arms, rubbing slowly over Thea's hair which was now crying sobbing.

He doesn't care, if now they are the center of everyone's attention. All she cares about is Thea.

He no longer knows what to do with the condition of Thea like this, while he knows for sure the body of Bu Lestat has been buried.

"Cry, get out of everything you want to do now, if it can make your sadness less. I'm here, The. For whatever you need" said Galang slowly.

Thea was still crying sobbing.

Galang was still silent as Thea cried out in tears calling out her mother's name and banging her back. He accepts whatever Thea does now, as long as it can ease his wife's burden.

After a long time Thea let out all her feelings.

Galang began to feel Thea was calmer, he let go of his wound and looked into his wife's eyes deeply.

"We go back to Dalem, yes," said Galang while rubbing softly Thea's slightly tangled hair blocking his face.

Thea did not answer.

And he understood, Thea wouldn't turn him down this time.

He immediately carried Thea's body in both hands, bringing her back into the hospital.

"I want to go to mother's place, Lang," Thea said very slowly in her arms.

"Yes, later after the doctor ngijinin lo go home, I will anterin lo. wherever you want," he replied, confirming Thea's position on both hands.