Look at me, my man!
Tired and Surrender

Deren opened the door of Theresia's ward just like before his gaze was directly directed at Theresia who was lying in a cage. Darren seemed unaware that now he was staring fixedly at his daughter. Though previously he was most anti-stare the face of Theresia.

Unknowingly, Dareen walked towards Braggar, until now the man's body was already on the side of the brangkar occupied by his daughter, when it was close to the brangkar, Dareen could not turn her gaze away she continued to stare at Theresia who was closing her eyes.

‘Look at your daughter's face fixed, Dareen.” Suddenly Salsa's words hit Dareen's brain again. The speech that told her to pay attention to Theresia's face, and sure enough Dareen felt a vibration that she had never felt before.

And before long Dareen was glued when Teresa opened her eyes, until now the two gazes locked each other. Theresia who had just regained consciousness After she struggled apart from death felt strange when she saw the father in front of her. Tere felt It was a dream, he even smiled at the father, because for the first time Tere saw the father looking at him.

As Tere smiled faintly at her, Darren increasingly felt strange. But before long, Dareen realized then shook his head, the man turned around until Tere realized that this was real and the father was really in front of him. As Dareen turned around, Teresa's sense of pleasure turned to sadness as her father left again not caring about her in this condition. Because Theresia was aware of what was going on with her body moreover she was unable to move her entire body.

***

Selbie opened the door of the emergency stairs, she sat herself down for a moment on the stairs of the emergency stairs, the woman felt like taking a break while calming down in a quiet place because after reaching her daughter's nursery, Selbie didn't want to think about her sadness.

Selbie opened the crackle, then she opened the bottle of drinking water she had bought and then downed it. After which Shelbi resuscitated her body to the side with a straight-forward looking eye, it seemed like Selby's soul was slightly shaken right now. Because she had just experienced a painful thing where she had almost lost Theresia and now her body was weakened and helpless even she felt unable to move her body.

10 Minutes later

The door of the emergency staircase opened, so Shelby tried to turn her head and move her body. “Salsa!” call Selby, it turns out that Salsa went inside the emergency stairwell.

When Theresia was struggling, Salsa's friend, a doctor at the hospital, called Salsa and told her what had happened. Since Salsa still has a job, she can only come to the hospital when her job is done.

And just now when Shelbi came out of Salsa's canteen following her sister-in-law and when Shelbi came in, Salsa didn't go in right away she kept quiet for a moment because she knew Selbi needed time and after a few minutes had passed, finally Salsa went inside following her sister-in-law.

Salsa smiled, the woman's heart was so torn when she saw Shelbi like this. For some reason, Shelbi is so strong to face everything herself, where no one knows Theresia's disease. And Salsa just called her parents to tell her what happened and maybe her parents came here.

Selbie wanted to get up from her seat, but could not get Salsa to go straight to Selbi and sit next to her sister-in-law. “Sa-Salsa!" call Shelby in a super soft voice, the look on her face as if saying ’Please hug me.’

Salsa did not answer. He hugged his sister-in-law instead, knowing now that Shelbi needed a hug. And the second that Salsa hugged her, Shelbi hugged Salsa back tightly, and cried loudly.

After her father died a few years ago, Shelbi really didn't have anyone to share her grief, nothing to strengthen her, no one ever comforted him and no one said that everything would be fine.

Salsa hugged him, Shelby literally spilled it all. This hug was indeed simple, but it was able to calm Shelby down.

While Salsa who heard Shelby's roar, also shed tears. He cursed his sister's actions.

Fifteen minutes later.

Shelby's trying to get control of herself. The beautiful woman released her embrace from the sister-in-law. Salsa wiped away her tears, she clasped Shelby's hand.

"Why are you hiding this from us?" ask Salsa.

Shelby wiped away her tears and then shook her head.

"Yes, do you want to stay here? Want to calm down? Let me accompany Theresia, "salsa said until Shelby nodded.

Finally, he was able to calmly leave Theresia as there was his sister-in-law waiting.

***

Darren drives his car at a moderate speed. Somehow after coming home from the hospital, the man felt strange. His soul seemed to be detached from his body, until he was like a daze.

Suddenly, Darren stopped his car. He braked suddenly when someone crossed over, and after the person left, Darren immediately parked his car on the side, because he really felt out of his way.

Darren leaned his body back. He held his chest that was painful. Really, Darren had never felt like this before. Unknowingly, Darren's soul as a father rebelled when he saw Theresa lying in a gurney, but her ego was still higher.

After a long silence, Darren immediately started and ran his car back. He decided to go home because he remembered Tristan.

After a long journey, finally the car driven by Darren arrived at the apartment. The man rushed down and walked up to the elevator to get into his apartment unit.

When he went inside, there was a voice talking from the inside until Darren immediately walked quickly, and it turned out that his father and mother were in the apartment.

"Honey, please take Tristan to the room" said Tommy until Mayra nodded.

"You can go, too" said Tommy, who turned his head to the housekeeper who works at Darren's apartment. The housekeeper did not stay overnight and was just about to commute, which is why when Darren came, Tommy asked the housekeeper to get out of the apartment.

"Dad, why don't you let me know if you're gonna be here?" ask Darren.

Tommy smiles. Inwardly, he was eager to beat up his son, but when he did something rude, he would not find any way, Dareen would become even more so.

"Daddy wants to talk to you" said Tommy. His tone sounded relaxed, even though his emotions were passionate. Don't ask how shocked Tommy and Mayra are when they find out what happened to their granddaughter. They were really surprised, even in person Tommy called the doctor who handled Theresia. Then from the doctor, tell Tommy everything, until they find out what happened to his grandson in full, from the start he first detected lupus until now.

"What's up, Dad?" darren asked, "What is this about work? I don't think the company is that important. I was able to control the company and there was no mistake."

"Darren," called Tommy who instead called out his son's name instead of answering Darren's question.

Instantly, Darren's body he sculpted. For some reason, he was suddenly strange when the father discussed Theresia. Theresia's smile immediately hit Darren's brain, making Darren feel claustrophobic.

"Why is that?" darren asked as usual, the ego is able to defeat everything.

"Your daughter has lupus" Tommy replied.

"What?!" pekik Darren, quite surprised when he heard the father's words. But before long, he regained his senses and leaned his body back, as if he did not care about the disease suffered by Theresia, even though his heart was rumbling.

"I told you and I've stressed that I don't care if he dies or ..." Darren stopped his words when he saw his father's smile. Wait, shouldn't his father be raging or at least beating him up because he said this? Why is his father so relaxed.

Understanding Darren's confusion, Tommy Kbaki smiled, leaving Darren glued. For some reason, in Darren's eyes it wasn't a pleasant smile.

"Daddy can't force you to care about Theresa, that's your right as a parent. Daddy's just reminding me, don't let you regret it." After saying that, Tommy got up from his seat then he followed Mayra to the room, then after that invited Mayra to go to see their granddaughter in the hospital.

***

Tommy and Mayra got out of the car and went straight to the hospital.

"Darling, you go in first. I'll wait here" Tommy told Mayra.

Tommy tried to calm himself down, the man was sitting himself in the waiting chair, he rubbed his face, he really felt like a failure as a father.

'I'm sorry I failed to educate my son, ' Tommy's inner apology to Shelbi's dead father.

Two months later.

It has been two months since Theresia was treated, and after two months of treatment, Theresia was finally allowed to go home. The more days, Theresia's condition is getting better because she gets tremendous system support from her father's family.

Dareen, don't ask, of course the man never came. From the day that Theresa came to her senses and saw Darren visit her and leave when she came to her senses, from that day on, Theresa was tired of wishing for her father.

How not, at that time he who had just realized after fighting from death immediately saw the father. He thought his father would be a little pitying, but his father turned instead. Plus for two months, he was in the care of the father never came again.

Time shows at seven in the morning.

Shelby, who had just come out of the bathroom, immediately saw that Theresia was neat in her school uniform.

"Theresa, where are you going?" ask Shelby. They just got home from the hospital last night, but Theresa wants to go to school because she misses her school environment.

"Mommy, I want school" Theresia said.

Shelby bent her legs, equalizing with her daughter. "Theresa, but ka—"

"Mommy, the doctor says I'll be fine as long as I'm happy, and I now want to go to school" Theresia said.

Shelby developed her smile. "Yes, then. Tristan might be having breakfast if there's no Daddy, just have breakfast with Tristan" Shelby said.

Because indeed all this time, Darren never wanted to join Tristan when there was Theresia at the dinner table.

"Okay Mommy" he answered.

Theresia immediately turned around and then she came out of the room, then after that she walked towards the dining table.

"Theresia, come here" Tristan asked when she saw her sister enter the dining room, so Theresia immediately walked cheerfully because she could have breakfast with Tristan without Darren.

"Why did you go to school? You just got back from the hospital" said Tristan, who is also ready to wear his school uniform.

"I miss my friends" Theresia said. He pulled out a chair and sat himself across from Tristan. Just as she was about to take the bread, the sudden movement of Theresia came to a halt as Darren pulled out a chair and sat down next to Tristan, making Theresia frown. Tumben once his father wanted to join Tristan when he was at the dinner table.

Instantly, the atmosphere was filled with astonishment. Tristan turned to his father, apparently Tristan was also confused to write. Over the years, this was the first time the three of them had breakfast.

Tristan who did not want Theresia to leave the dining table, quickly handed over her breakfast. "Let's have breakfast, Theresia," asked Tristan until Theresia pulled the plate, while Darren also directly pulled the plate in front of him and took the bread. Then after that, rub it with jam and give it to Tristan.

Of course it did not escape the observation of Theresa. However, Theresia seemed to not care about what was done to her brother, although of course it was painful.

The atmosphere at the dining table was so full of silence. Tristan, Theresia focused on finishing their breakfast, until Theresia kept the remaining bread she held and then kept it on the plate.

"Theresa, where are you going?" tristan asked as Theresia whistled leaving the dining table.

"I want to have breakfast in the room while watching" Theresia said. Of course he lied. The little girl left the dining table because she wanted to hold back the crying. Somehow, even though he had tried not to hope, but when he saw the father, he remembered the moment where Darren had left him when he had just regained consciousness.

While Tristan, looking directly at Darren, as well as Darren who also looked towards Tristan.

"why are you staring at Daddy like that? Ask Dareen.