Chapter 118

• Rio sat on one of the benches in the hospital garden. In his heart, he kept thinking. How could he convince his parents to come and propose to Retno? If yesterday he was preoccupied with thinking about the cost of the wedding, now he was also preoccupied with thinking about how to ask his parents to come to Jogja.
• With a little frustration inside him, Rio tried to contact Ari. Yes, maybe his father could respond to all of this more wisely than his mother. Not wanting his courage, which had started to gather, to disappear again, Rio immediately took out his cellphone from his pants pocket. He searched for his father's phone number there. After getting Ari's phone number, Rio immediately touched the green button. Rio waited for a moment until the phone was finally answered by Ari.
• "Assalamualaikum, Ri?"