
" this is your new patient profile ! " a woman gave Aidan a document
" That I was just planning to go on vacation, you don't like watching me relax !" aidan protested somewhat annoyed at his friend, because he always promised a schedule of meetings with patients without asking first.
he hugged Aidan's shoulder "Hehehe my friend I believe in your great abilities, so don't waste your abilities !" he said while teasing Aidan "he's a patient who you don't think will be overwhelmed by him ! " Aidan stared bitterly at him
" Why don't you finish it !"
" I've been trying, for the last year even ! but it looks like I won't make it she hates me now ! so I'm handing you my great friend !! " he hugged Aidan's shoulder
" i know why she hates you, because right now I hate you !" Aidan left with his frustration while carrying the profile document earlier.
the friend smiled at Aidan's rant "thank you buddy !! spirit !!" yells
In his workspace Aidan began to see the contents of the documents given by his friend earlier.
" Well this is the last one of the year, after that I will go on vacation !! " aidan said to himself
" her name is 'allura estiana gantari' a beautiful name, her age is 20 years, a victim of physical and sexual violence, a, witnessing his family being persecuted and killed with a firearm in his presence it must have been terrible, well I will try to help you allura !" After reading his allura profile, Aidan was moved to help allura. To better know the condition of allura and his family Aidan had asked it to his friend earlier who before his became a psychiatrist allura family.
while sipping warm tea, Aidan stood in front of the window looking at the view of the city at night from his apartment which was on a fairly high floor, the calm atmosphere and beautiful scenery make his heart and mood improve, while in other places allura was asleep but he had to wake up because nightmares were side by side again and again. his sweat that poured out and breath that gasps he always experienced every night since the bad incident happened to him, he said, the psychological therapy he had been undergoing all this time did not eliminate his nightmares that even allura felt only a slight wound heal in his heart, the others are still the same sometimes the wound is inflamed causing pain very, allura just want to look good in front of everyone even though in his real heart, allura, his soul and mental state were still falling apart.
**** the next day
" Hey, good morning, I'm Aidan "welcome Aidan when I meet Mr. Kevin
" Oh, good morning too, you're the psychologist that Zihan's mother recommended?" Said Kevin
" Dad sir it was me ! " ansaidan was friendly
" Let's go, the allura is still in the shower he said "take Kevin sir
" Sarah..., can you see if allura is done ? " Tell Kevin to Aunt Sarah to check allura
" Oh, a minute ! it's come well, I call it allura first "
While Allura was still in the bathroom, it had been almost 1 hour of allura soaking in her bathtub.
" Allura...are you done bathing ?" Aunty Sarah's voice called but Allura did not answer or open the door, making Aunt Sarah worried.
" Allura.allura !! " Auntie Sarah panicked because she did not hear any sound from the inside, she continued to push the door that was locked from the inside, but allura never opened the door, aunt Sarah's voice until it was heard outside the room made father Allura and Aidan go there to see what happened.
" Allura you're okay, right ? Allura ! please open the door, baby !" allura's father tried to call allura as well but still there was no word from inside the bathroom that made everyone there panic
" don't panic just yet ok! I'll try to break the door ! " aidan said then he broke down several times the allura bathroom door, fitting the third time his door managed to open, and...
" Ooh my goodness you make us worry "Auntie Sarah feels relieved and weak to see allura is fine
" What's up ?" With her innocence allura asked
" I'm sorry I got out first !" Aidan felt awkward seeing Allura still soaking in her bathtub
" I guess.. Quickly finish the bath, and immediately ahead !" Said Mr. Kevin still a little shocked and then passed away
" let's take a shower ! you have been soaking for too long " said Aunt Sarah while helping allura out of the bathtub.because too long soaking allura skin so wrinkled, Aunt Sarah can only sigh at that.
" We're sorry, allura was called never nyahut, so things like this always happen, and we always worry " Mr. Kevin feel embarrassed and guilty to Aidan
" It's okay sir, it's a thing to understand, but we also need to be vigilant because bad events may happen ! " close aidan
" Please have a chat first, I'll take a drink "Auntie Sarah said goodbye to the kitchen
" I'm sorry before sir, don't you want to dig up old wounds or remember what happened that time, but I can ask what really happened at that time ? " Aidan asked heartily, sir Kevin took a deep breath, like he wanted to strengthen himself to answer Aidan's question, sir Kevin headed to the window with his wheelchair followed Aidan , and start telling stories
" i don't know if everything happened so fast, my wife and son were murdered before my own eyes, and my daughter was harassed in front of my eyes as well (starting to sob ) I failed to protect them ! " because it's too emotional Mr. Kevin felt his chest tight
" You okay ? You don't have to force yourself !" Aidan is worried about seeing Kevin's condition
" I'm fine. I would like to ask for your help, please give me back my son's smile, please bring back the old allura, he is very precious to me he must heal !" Mr. Kevin clasped Aidan's hand to beg, Aidan was confused what to say but he did not want to make Mr. Kevin hopeless
" I can't promise allura can be like she used to be, but I will strive to restore allura's smile ! " aidan said, their chatter was cut short by the arrival of allura between them. Aidan was silent for a moment seeing the arrival of allura, allura with a cold demeanor and his flat face just standing in the distance.
" i'm sorry, allura likes to be afraid of meeting new people ! " said Aunt Sarah while keeping 2 drinks on the table and then rushed to allura
" he's your new friend, yuk acquaintance ! " take Aunt Sarah gently, allura just fell silent while continuing to stare coldly at Aidan
" come on ! you must have a friend so that you can recover !" persuade Aunt Sarah while slowly guiding allura, finally Allura want to step her feet.
" Hey, my name is Aidan "welcome Aidan kindly while thrusting his hand
" Allura !" reply allura briefly without replying to Aidan's solace, making Aidan feel awkward
" Let's be more familiar, you can call me with brother or brother "Aidan tried to eliminate his awkwardness, but Allura instead silenced him
" Euuuh alright, whatever makes you comfortable ! " Aidan even more clumsy in front of allura
" Ok !" allura sat down on a chair nearby without caring for Aidan
" Well you two carry on well, I hope you are patient facing my son ! "
" Yes good sir ! the beginning of the meeting is always like this, just relax I'm used to it !" said Aidan, then Kevin and Aunt Sarah went to give comfort to both of them
" Ok, for our first meeting, we told each other about each of us well, you agree ? "
" No !! answer allura
" It doesn't matter !!" allura left just like that, Aidan
" Ok, well that's not really important "Aidan follows allura "where are you going ? " Allura did not answer . Allura went to a reading room, there were a lot of books there exactly more like a private library. Allura brought a book and started reading it.
" So you like to read ?" Allura still did not want to answer the question from Aidan
" You read all the books here ?" Still quiet
" You..." Directly cut by allura "shuuut "
" Alright "Aidan tried to be quiet, now Aidan did not know what to do, he also brought a book and read next to allura. Soon, Allura fell asleep with the book covering her face.
" It's sleeping !" said Aidan while picking up the book that covered allura's face, Aidan also saw that there were stitches on Allura's forehead that were quite long, then he also saw many incision scars on his arms and on his fingers. " It seems like he often injures himself "the mind of Aidan, unconsciously Aidan continues to stare carefully at allura then he tidied the hair that covered his face
" geez what I did !" Aidan made himself aware of what he had just done. Aunt Sarah came to deliver food to the room
" is allura asleep instead ?"
" Dad he just fell asleep "Aidan replied in a soft voice
" what about dong ? did allura just wake up ?" aunt Sarah's asking was bad for Aidan
" no aunt, it's okay kasian, let me come here again tomorrow !"
" i'm sorry well, just the first day a lot that makes you uncomfortable !"
" it's okay Auntie !" reply Aidan with his friendly smile
" but.. Aunty wants to ask for help moving in allura, can you ? " he said he felt bad but Aunt Sarah instead told Aidan to take me allura
" Dad can Auntie "this time Aidan smiled awkwardly
Aidan also took me allura and moved it to his mattress but when Aidan wanted to put on a blanket, he saw sweat began to pour on Allura's face and then suddenly allura woke up with breath gasping
" you why ? are you having a bad dream ?" aidan asked worriedly, but allura did not care about Aidan, allura got up from her bed and ran to her bathroom. Aidan immediately followed, he saw Allura turn on the shower and then flushed herself until soaking wet
" hey hey what's up ?" Aidan turned off the shower, Allura's body seemed to shake
" breathe.breath follow me yuk !" Aidan helped allura calm himself down, after a few minutes allura was able to calm down, Aidan put a towel on Allura's body and brought her back to the room.
Aidan stared at allura who seemed to still calm himself, at that time Aidan knew that allura was still experiencing severe trauma and still harbored his pain alone, he only seemed to heal from the outside only. when allura was back okay, Aidan decided to end the meeting today, because many things he wanted to ask his friend Zihan about the condition of allura, he also contacted Zihan
📞 Zi, are you sure that allura has healed ?
📞 has not been cured more precisely his total ! what is it ?
📞 must be you are more thorough again ! he is still not healing, we must meet !
Aidan hung up
" what does it mean ?" Zihan did not understand Aidan's intention earlier
" what's up and ?" ask Zihan
" i want to see allura's developmental data while you're in therapy ?"
" a minute !" Zihan searched allura's documents on top of the other documents
" this is !" Zihan handed over a fairly thick draft to Aidan, Aidan examined it carefully
" his development here is good ! but why is the trauma still so severe ?" ask Aidan,
" what was allura like ?"
" it seems like she's always having nightmares !" aidan said "he also has a lot of cuts on his hands, did you know that he often hurts himself ?"
" god my fault ! he never told me that he was always a nightmare but about the wound on his arm I knew since 6 months ago, he seemed to be willing to overcome his own problems during this time he did not want to open to me, he always read books all day to divert his mind, he was always open to me, it was good but when he stopped or did anything else his bad memories always came again, the memories of the past would indeed not be erased what else such a terrifying event was, indeed, in addition allura has a strong memory ability to make it difficult to distract his mind, maybe that affects his recovery !" clearly Zihan, Aidan nodded in understanding with allura's condition
" has he ever left the house ?"
" ever, for the first time since that incident I took her out, you know what happened ? she had a severe panic disorder until I was overwhelmed, so she hated me because I took her out of the house !" Aidan smiled wryly
" you're taunting me ?" Zihan was offended
" no, I have a lot of respect for you!" said Aidan mocked Zihan
" you've got a big head well ! let's see how your quality is now !" challenge zihan
" can..! you see the effective way that I will do against allura !"
" don't be arrogant just yet, he will only hear you when he already believes in you, you just met once already very confident !"
" i'm a man who can make women comfortable, you just need to shut up and watch !" said Aidan was very confident and then he passed away, Zihan looked at his departure
" but I do believe in you !" mutter it
In his office, Aidan was devising some ways he could make allura trust him,
" what should I do ?" Aidan asked himself
" to divert your mind ? maybe with a game that sharpens the brain can divert his mind !" Aidan got an idea, smiling knots he was sure that this method could effectively make allura divert his mind.