15 Years Adrift

episode 25: Grief Blanket

In the hospital..

Nita was lying limp in the ICU room with a ventilator attached to her nose.

The monitor showed a very weak wave and almost disappeared.

Dika and her two sisters sat at the side of the bed holding Nita's hand.

"keep your sister's brother, son.."

nita said softly while shedding her tears.

"Wika will take care of sister buk. ibuk strong yes. ibuk must be healed." said Dika while trying to hold back her tears.

Nurul and Ayu endlessly cry beside Nita, they are very afraid to see Nita's condition is getting weaker.

"momuuk.." call Fani who just arrived at the hospital still with her party dress.

Fani immediately hugged Nita while crying so her.

"Fani.relax it.."

Dimas stroked Fani's back.

his eyes were glazed with glass, he also felt the same sadness as Fani, but he tried to stay strong and hold his tears as much as possible.

Adit and Rianti enter the ICU.

"mbakk.." said Rianti lirih with a sad face.

"Son.. Ibuk titip Fani and sister ya.."

nita said softly with a voice that was almost gone.

Nita grabs Dimas' hand, then slowly puts it over Fani's head.

Fani who was immersing her face in Nita's embrace was immediately shocked and raised her face.

he looked at his mother while continuing to sob incessantly.

"busy believes you can be happyin Fani.."

said Nita while staring at Dimas.

Dimas shed his tears when he heard Nita's words.

"i promise to make Fani happy."

he said confidently while stretching his palms over Fani's head, a sign that he was serious with his promise.

"married to Dimas nak"

added Nita again with a small smile.

"yeah buk.. Fani will be married to Dimas, but mother must be healthy, said her mother want to see Fani wear a wedding dress." said Fani sobbed reassuring her mother.

Then Fani stood facing Dimas while tightly grasping her mother's hand.

"let's get married.."

fani looked at Dimas with certainty.

And in front of Nita as well as the others, Dimas pledged his marriage while holding the top of Fani's head and staring at her with full confidence.

" I am Adimas bramasta..

asking you to be my wife.

to have each other.

complement each other in hard or happy.

in good health and sick.

I promise to be loyal to you.

keep and make you happy until death do us part."

dimas said in a firm and loud voice.

Fani also received the premarital bond that Dimas said to himself.

" i'm Alisha Fania..

willing to be your wife.

I will accompany you in difficulty or pleasure.

in good health or in pain.

and I promise to be faithful to you until death do us part."

fani said very confidently while shedding tears.

Nita smiled as she stroked the cheek of her eldest daughter, then she looked around and also smiled towards her other children.

then slowly the smile faded, her eyes slowly closed and her breathing came to a halt......

🔊Tiiiiiiiiittttttt............!

The monitor sounded straight and buzzed in everyone's ears.

Doctors attached a repeated defibrillator to provoke Nita's heartbeat, but the Monitor wave showed no changes to Nita's organs.

Fani sculpted for a moment.

the water flowed profusely from his eye patch.

he tried to convince himself that his mother would be fine.

fani's world seemed to stop spinning, his breathing was unstoppable, his body was trembling from head to toe.

"no..!! ibuk well aja. ibuk definitely healed. ibuk can not leave us.." Fani reassures herself while kissing the back of Nita's hand.

Dika hugged her sister tightly while crying her strong.

he had already thought of the bad possibility that would happen to his beloved mother.

After several tries, the doctor stopped fishing for Nita's heartbeat because there was no change, then slowly the Doctor covered Nita's face with a cloth and reluctantly stated that Nita was gone.

" no...! ibuk can not go!!!. hiks hiks .. ibukk......."

fani's cry broke out right then and there, she shook her mother's already cold lifeless body shake.

Dimas also felt the pain of his wounds experienced by Fani.

dika, Nurul and Ayu's cries also broke in Rianti's arms as she continued to call her mother in a sobbing voice.

" be patient, baby, you must be strong.."

said Rianti who was also crying, he felt very sorry for them because they had no one else.

"om.. ibuk has not left om. ibuk has not died om. ibuk may not go om."

Fani looks at Dimas with tears, she hopes all this is just her nightmare.

Dimas hugged Fani and calmed her.

in Dimas' arms the sound of Fani's crying slowly dissipated and at the end he was unconscious.

...~~~~...

The next morning....

The sound of crying accompanies the departure of Nita's corpse towards her final resting place.

Fani still can't believe that her tough woman is now gone for long.

he continued to cry as he remembered how hard Nita struggled to support them.

Yes, mothers are always there and fight alone for them.

the mother who always smiled in front of them despite keeping a lot of wounds.

the mother who became their pedestal one of her.

now they have to let go of the mother who is so incredibly tough.

and now they had to see that great figure disappear during his time in a heap of earth.

One by one the people who drove Nita to her navel went from there.

now there is only Fani, his sister, Dimas and his parents.

"let's go home, son.." take Rianti while rubbing Fani's shoulder.

Fani obeyed Rianti and they all walked away from there.

At her house Fani and her sister sit and hug each other, they are strengthening each other.

Rianti who saw that also felt touched by their concern for each other.

...~~~~...

Three days after her, Rianti invites Fani and her younger sister to move into her house.

Rianti promises to make them part of his family and Rianti is also willing to become Nita's successor.

In Fani's room looking to be packing her clothes, Dimas also helps next to her.

" have you taken care of the paperwork?"

fani asked breaking the silence.

" documents??" Dimas looked at Fani in wonder.

"documents our marriage." said Fani while turning her eyes on the pile of clothes on her lap.

Dimas then approached Fani and sat right next to him.

"if you feel forced to marry om, you can cancel it. om will not burden you." he said while looking at Fani with gentleness.

" we have tied the promise in front of mother om. and Fani does not want to ignore ibuk."

Fani stared at Dimas with glassy eyes.

"marriage is not about the promise of Fani. om don't want you to spend the rest of your life with people you don't love."

"as long as Dimas loves Fani, Fani does not mind spending the rest of Fani's life to be his wife."

his words are sure.

The reason that makes Fani want to get married is because the love that Dimas gave to Fani is very sincere.he believes Dimas will not betray her like his father betrayed his mother.

he also promised himself that he would learn to love Dimas sincerely.

Dimas was very pleased with Fani's conviction.

"om benjanji will love you dear.."

said Dimas while gently tucking Fani's head.

deggs.....

Fani's heart is like coming back to life when she gets a soft kiss from Dimas.

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