Back to Loving Post Amnesia

Section 4

The second week after Pradipta came to her senses from her coma, Shania came at the man's request. As always, though, Meida–mertua Shania– who came to besan's house to persuade and tell the complaints of her son who cried roaring so that Meida could bring Shania or herself who would go to visit her lover's house.

"Shania, I miss you" said the man, clasping his hands deeply. Closing his eyes only to channel the longing that felt long buried in his chest.

"I'm sick, but you just got here? Busy in the hospital, huh?" Said the man, Shania only gave a fleeting smile.

Hearing the story of the mother-in-law who told me that Pradipta had amnesia due to bleeding in the midbrain and post-operative effects, that's why the man had failed brain function especially in remembering the last few scenes of his life.

The man looked up, looking at Shania's face with his thinning lips forming a crescent moon, "Later, so shall we watch?"

"Watch what?" Shania asked in surprise.

"Konser JKT 48, it looks like later in late December," said the man who sounded slurred.

Shania scrunched her forehead, clearly it was not December at the moment. The girl band concert was indeed a dream of Shania at a young age and before marriage.

Just as Shania is strange to see her husband's behavior, Pradipta is also strange to see Shania's appearance. The man watched his lover from top to bottom. Her eyes narrowed, "Tumben wearing a hijab? Yesterday he liked to wear a tengtop or you can see" Pradipta commented on the appearance of his lover who felt foreign in his eyes.

"And what is this? You're, so add more chubby, yes, today?" Said the man pinching Shania's left cheek.

Really, in the eyes of Pradipta, Shanianya looked different. Shania yesterday always looked sexy, open, and her small body. However, today Shanianya is covered with a dress and a hijab that dangles over her back. In fact, Shania was dressed in private a few months after marrying the man and none other than because of Pradipta's own request.

Again, the man said, "do you know, Shan, if I really want you to look like this. You look very pretty and more beautiful" praised the man.

Shania once remembered that the man had said that on the first day of Shania's hijab. However, now he heard it again, but at a different time when Pradipta forgot that he had been his wife for a long time.

"What are you eating, baby? So, pretty plus chubby like this. Get more anxious, you!" The woman's cheeks turned red and her head moved to the right and left because of the pinches on both cheeks.

Shania who is being treated like that, suddenly crying–remembered the memories of the first time when the man did the same thing in the courtship– and made Pradipta scared.

Her cherry face instantly receded and fidgeted, "Shania, auh. Sorry, hon. Sick, huh? You're in pain, huh, so you cry?" Asked the man stroking his lover's face; a former pinch.

"Here and here, let me have a kuelus. Don't cry, the sky's cloudy" said the man, making Shania cry even more.

"Kok, added the rain of tears? Still hurts, huh?" Pradipta asked while blowing on her lover's cheek, then dipped her at a glance.

"Quite, not sick," after a long time, the woman let out her voice. Shania who was surprised to get a small kiss, then put away her hand and kept the man's face away from his face.

"Sorry, Shan. You mad?"

Shania shakes. Not because of the pain in his cheek, not because of the kiss, but a sense of regret; longing; the pain he felt in his heart. The woman did not expect that the husband would behave like that and return to his old youth, when they were still dating, when the man had not married her, and when he had not cheated on her.

Shania retreated, shook her head, then left with a cry.

Pradipta flinched with his female demeanor, he frowned as the woman's body moved away from him. "Ma, where is Shania going? Why did he leave in a state of crying? I made a mistake, didn't I?" Said the man shaking Meida's body on his bed. His legs, which were originally hanging on the edge of the bed, moved down to chase after Shania, but he could not walk properly as his condition was recovering properly.

"Shania, return. Don't be mad, come on, let's go to the concert, the day after tomorrow. I promise," she cried, crying like a young man cut off in love.

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Midnight.

Two women of different ages were still awake and sitting on the sofa in their room. Looking in the same direction at the body of a male patient who was lying down and was slumbering in his sleep.

Inside Pradipta's ward, Shania rests her head on Meida's shoulder. Staring at the man lying on the bed in the light blue bed.

"Ma, why did Mas Dipta become like that?" Shania asked with heated eyes because of the tears that had bloated in her eyes after seeing the condition of her husband, a man who was full of authority and became her guardian during the household, which she was married to, now it has the same attitude as it used to be when it was young.

"Mama doesn't know either, son," Meida's response stroked her daughter-in-law's head.

"She still remembers the concert, considering the old me, the attitude of her who came back like when you were dating, Ma," Shania said.

"But, the real Mas Dipta is not in love with Shania. She has another woman, Ma," Shania said in tears after the affair.

"Sorry, Ma. Shania doesn't want to be cheated on, Ma, but can't leave her at the moment" Shania said.

"Mom knows, mama understands. But, please be with Shania, you must hold on for a while until Dipta recovers. The decision to divorce is in your hands, but wait for the moment when her memory returns and she is fully conscious, son." Meida clasped Shania's hand and carried her inside her chest.

Shania nodded, "but, this is until when, Ma?"

The days continue to change, Pradipta's health has been increasingly recovered, but not with his memory. There is only Shania and her past.

"Ma, but Shania doesn't promise to be with Mas Dipta forever,"

Meida frowned as her hand grip was slowly removed from her daughter-in-law's hand, "Why?" Ask the mother-in-law.

Shania shook her head slowly, "Shania can't and won't repeat everything, Ma. For Shania, our domestic life was over after Shania found out Mas Dipta was cheating. It was the promise of the two of us, Ma," Shania said in a choked voice as she held back her tears.

"Please help Shania get through this, Ma."

However, Meida shook her head. "No, Shan! I don't agree, you're not over. Can't stop here, there's a way out!" Meida said firmly, but gently conveyed.

However, as hard as Shania clasped, however close her eyes and ears, in fact she was again reminded and shown clearly that Pradipta had dependents in the stomach of another woman.

For Shania, her love is pure and indivisible. If there is someone else in his small family, it means that love is ready to be reduced especially when he knows his love will be divided into 3.

"No, Ma. Shania can't, can't. That's enough."