A World Without Seams

50

"Sorry, who are you?" Jim scrunched his forehead to see two foreign girls in his room. The two girls stood stiff and looked at each other and looked back at Jim.

"Jim.." whispered his mother.

"Who? Who're they?" jim pointed at the two girls.

"Jim... They're yourfriends. Rachel and Noey! Did you forget?" ask Jim's mom.

"No! I don't have a friend by that name!" said Jim staring at the two girls he didn't like.

"Jim... Did you forget? You dance in the park? Even almost every night you dance there, call me and..."

"No... No. gabe.. I never did... In park? Aaarrrghhhhhh..my head...remove you guys!" one hand Jim held his head and the other told the two girls to keep their distance from him. Like they're disgusting germs.

"You guys get out first! Jim needs a break. He just regained consciousness!" jim's mother orders an anxious look at his son's condition and tells the two girls to come out. He also pushed the emergency button to call the nurse.

"But..." Rachel survives when she sees Jim in pain.

"Udah! Let's get out first!" Noey forcibly pulled Rachel's hand and carried it out to coincide with the team of doctors who were just about to enter.

"Why Jim?" rachel asked like a dazed person.

"We wait for the doctor's explanation, yes" said Noey, he invited Rachel to sit in a waiting chair in the hospital hallway. Rachel's mind wasn't calm, something happened to Jim. He's sure of it.

Shortly after the doctor and nurse walked out of Jim's room, they passed by.

"Let's go in!" take Rachel.

"Wait a minute!" Noey's still holding him.

"But..."

Rachel denied that a doctor and two nurses walked past them and went back into Jim's room. They're inside long enough.

Rachel got tired of waiting for something uncertain. He wanted to meet Jim. Then ask a lot of things. It turns out that Jim had been in a coma, but how he could dance, get acquainted and even tell a lot of things with Rachel. How can they interact while Jim's body is still lying in a coma? Rachel's head was pulsing again.

The doctor and nurse came out again accompanied by Jim's parents. After the doctor left, Rachel approached and asked Jim's parents.

"What's Jim's condition, auntie?" ask Rachel.

"Everything's fine. But... It looks like Jim lost a lot of memory in his life" Jim's mother replied.

"Lost memory?" rachel asked, Jim's mother nodded.

"It seems like an accident as well as the loss of the closest person makes the trauma worse,"

"Then, Jim doesn't remember anything at all?" ask Rachel.

"It seems we want to talk to you about this" Jim's mother asked the two girls in front of him to come into Jim's room. Jim was sleeping there.

"He was given sedatives and pain relievers. His head was very sick and he kept on fighting. He had to be reassured" Jim's mother said. The two girls looked at each other and looked back at Jim's mother.

"We want to know your relationship. All about his friend he remembers, but you guys? He doesn't remember anything at all. And we're getting suspicious when you know Jim when he's in a coma" Jim's father said.

"I made it clear that I knew Jim a few months ago, he was practicing dance in the park right in front of my house" Rachel explained.

"Omong empty! How could Jim exercise while his body here lives like it's dead. No response at all. You guys lying to us?" ask Jim's father in a loud voice. Makes Rachel and Noey a little scared.

"We don't believe it! See you guys are friends of Jim. Right now we're looking after Jim a lot, because the situation seems to be making his life dangerous,"

"There's no way you're accusing me of being mean to Jim!" Rachel said.

"We'll protect Jim until he recovers! And before that, we don't want you around here,"

"But..."

"Udah Hel, let's go!" Noey pulled Rachel's hand to say goodbye. But Rachel insisted on holding on.

"I beg you, let me meet once if Jim wakes up" Rachel asked.

"No, until Jim's memory comes back just to meet him" Jim's mother said. Then they both walked into Jim's room and closed the door.

Rachel shed tears. How could Jim forget it. Yesterday Jim just hugged her and asked her to be someone special. Even the sweet taste of yesterday's kiss was still felt on her lips. Why did Jim forget everything?

Rachel turned around and rushed to the doctor's room asking for an explanation but firmly the doctor also did not want to explain anything to Rachel whose status was just a boyfriend.

Languidly Rachel followed Noey in the car and drove home. All the way Noey asked Rachel to talk but Rachel answered only briefly. Finally Noey gave up and let Rachel temporarily digest what happened.

Arriving home, Bram waited for the two girls on the porch.

"Can you go home?" ask Bram. Rachel simply nodded and immediately withdrew to her room.

"He why?" tanya Bram follows Noey to the kitchen.

"I guess in shock, you know she has a boyfriend, right?" Noey asked back in a whisper when no one would hear them. Bram shrugged his shoulders.

"Not sure, why him? Diputusin?" ask Bram.

"No, his girlfriend was in an accident. Keep recalling,"

"really? When's accident?" ask Bram.

"That's the problem!" Noey said, flicking his index finger and thumb until it rang, then he walked to the dinner table and sat there. And Bram too.

"What's? Try stories!" pinta Bram's.

"Aren't you guys fighting anymore? Why kepo?" noey said as she glared towards her brother.

"Not really, sister is fine with Rachel," elak Bram

"Relatedly? Not that sister's boyfriend is no longer reprimanded? Not to help make peace, instead follow no negur!"

"No, no, no, that's no Noey! No sister has seen Rachel, it's been rare lately!"

"Yeah.... Yep... Yaaaaa believe me," Noey immediately drained his drinking water and went to the room he used to occupy.

"Noyes! Deck! Yaah... Not yet told you! Why did he leave?" Bram banged on Noey's bedroom door. But Noey cuek instead locked the door of the room from the inside. Intentionally pranking her brother to be deterred. She hopes Bram is sensitive and takes care of Rachel but it turns out her brother is busy with his girlfriend instead. Noey didn't entirely blame her brother, maybe he also kept his girlfriend's feelings but...

"Aarrrrgggh... All wrong. Poor brother Rachel. Hopefully he'll be fine" Noey said just before he went to bed and closed his eyes.

What happened to Rachel? He felt something was off, he wished it was all a dream and he could see Jim in the park dancing. He would accompany Jim and tell him everything that happened today. He slept in his study and opened the window. The wind plays with her hair. He looked towards the park. The park is empty. Silent.