After the Farewell

Go Home

For a week Rayden accompanied Kara in the hospital and during that time the man was never far from his wife. Initially Rayden wanted to clean Kara's body but his wife still felt bad so back to the sisters.

"You tuh! Though we used to take a shower together until I memorized the location of your mole anywhere" said Rayden without a filter that makes Kara flushed up to her neck.

"Mas!" his his hisses were embarrassed to be heard by the nun who could only smile clumsily.

"Lho is right, baby. You have a mole on your right upper arm, and on your back two rows..."

"MAS RAAYDDEEENN!"

Rayden laughed out loud. It feels good to be teasing Kara again.

***

Rayden fell asleep next to Kara after asking for a large gurney to hug his wife.

"You want to ask me what baby" said Rayden, hugging Kara slowly so as not to hit her injured shoulder.

"Who made me fall into the abyss?"

"Vampire."

Kara belching. "Are vampires in the real world?"

"There! Want to kill you!" rayden replied.

"It's not a vampire to kill, it's blood?" reply Kara plain.

"This vampire is different. Want to kill you by being thrown into the abyss. Lucky you are still alive and found by Mbah Yanto and Mbah Tutik."

"Serious mas. Who's the vampire?"

Rayden looked towards Kara. "Are you sure you want to hear the story?"

"And I don't remember anything, and you're my husband. If I don't ask you, I ask who" Kara said.

"You were the wife of a man" said Rayden and successfully made Kara gawk. "No, I'm not a player, Kara."

"Are you sure you're not a player?" search Kara.

"Astaghfirullah's. Seriously I'm not a player" Rayden replied dramatically.

"Then? How can I marry you?"

Rayden tells how they first met because Kara had just divorced Adi, trying to find a job. Rayden also shared that Kara was eventually accepted into Star's hotel to be Sophia's assistant head of HRD. Not to forget about the Kara family that no longer exists.

"Is there anything from my story you remember, baby?" ask Rayden.

Kara shakes. "I'm even being told a story."

Rayden laughing. "It's not a fairy tale, Kara Santanku, it's real."

"Why do you call me 'Kara Santanku'?" kara asked confused by the magic call.

"That's my dear call to you" Rayden smiled. "What else do you want to ask?"

"Is your favorite song old-timey or present?"

"First" Rayden replied.

"What's a classic dangdut song?"

"It can be said so" replied Rayden enthusiastically.

Kara seemed to think. "Is the beggar his love Johnny Iskandar?"

Rayden. "That's one of them."

"What are you hiding from me?" Kara slit her eyes.

"If you go home tomorrow, you'll know what" Rayden teased in secret.

"Anyone's home?" ask Kara. He has to take care of everyone in the house, right?

"There's your maid, bik Ijah and then there's my butler Bu Sumi, both of them are servers if the matter of bhibah bahtah baht us."

Kara tried to remember but the head was getting sicker. Seeing his wife's face in pain to remember something, Rayden stroked Kara's head.

"If you don't remember, don't force it, baby. As you walk, you will remember slowly."

Kara nodded.

"Oh, now you sleep. I'll take care of you."

Kara leaned her head against Rayden's shoulder. Although she does not remember her husband, but the comfort is there.

Rayden looked at Kara's sleeping face. I'll always take care of you even if you can't remember anything at last..

***

Bik Ijah cried to see the state of his nona which still looks scars on his smooth face as well as Bu Sumi and the waiter and guard were grateful even though Kara looked ambiguous, but still alive.

"Miss Kara, what do you want to cook?" ask Bik Ijah after Rayden put his wife on the mattress which is now sitting position while leaning on the head of the bed.

"This is Ijah's name, my dear" Rayden told Kara.

"What do I like?" ask Kara to Rayden.

"You? You like me" Rayden joked, making Kara and Ijah hate.

"Non Kara likes all food except jengkol and petai. Non Kara also can not eat durian because it will faint saban smell durian, can not eat pineapple because it is directly itching."

Kara and Rayden listen to Ijah's bik.

"I just found out you can't eat durian" Rayden commented.

"I don't even remember. Especially bik?"

"Non Kara can't get rained on, because she's gonna cough."

Kara gawking. The time of the rain directly coughs?

"Bik, today please cook chicken opor and fried sambal ati ya. How I want to eat that."

Rayden and Ijah looked at each other.

"You cravings?" ask Rayden.

Kara looked at her husband. "I don't know, but I want to eat it."

Rayden smile. "Fix, you're cravings!"

***

Kara stared at the side dishes she asked had been arranged neatly on a small table specifically for meals ordered Rayden so that Kara did not go up and down the stairs.

"Let's eat it" Rayden said.

Kara stared back and forth between the food and her husband.

"Mas"

"Yes?" ask Rayden.

"Have you ever bribed me?" Somehow Kara saw a shadow in her eyes that Rayden was feeding himself.

"Yes, I've been working on you a lot" Rayden replied with a smile. Alhamdulillah, slowly hopefully start to remember.

"Please bribe me dong. How I want to be fed" Kara's pinta who successfully made Rayden gawk.

"Usually I like to force you for a bribe eh kok now even ask to be fed" kekeh Rayden while cutting chicken meat that is spooned with rice and beef.

"Is she?" Kara opened her mouth when the spoonful of food stopped in front of her.

"Yes. That's why I'm glad you asked for it yourself."

Kara nodded. Rayden painstakingly fed his wife because her right shoulder was still in a cast and wearing an arm sling. Kara can't use her left hand properly either because it still feels painful even though it's not as bad as her right hand.

"Rayden's wife Euy maemnya" the handsome man's grin who immediately put away the dirty tables and dishes to put outside the room.

"Bik Ijah! Dirty tables and plates please!" rayden shouted from the second floor.

"Okay sir!" reply bik Ijah.

This is a house not a forest! Kara scrunched her forehead. I think I often say that.

"Well! He's hot" Rayden said as he opened his shirt and casually threw dirty clothes in a special basket.

Kara gasps at her husband's body and makes herself a little Tremor.

Can my brain be traveling everywhere?

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