BEAUTIFUL REUNION IN TWO

90. A Name

On Thursday afternoon, Tristan was startled by an information from his office messaging app group. Makes him unable to concentrate anymore on completing the audit report.

Malic:

I just got information if our colleague Hakimah yesterday had an accident on the way to Semarang, on the highway Batang-Semarang. We pray that nothing will happen to Hakimah.

The news was not only shocking to him, but made him ambushed with worry.

Especially yesterday before Hakimah left for Semarang, he had a chance to talk to the woman through a message application. Hakimah told him that he was going to Semarang, asking for the blessing of his parents to divorce Agustiawan.

He also tried to find information about Hakimah.

It turned out that the elf car Hakimah was riding was hit by a tronton car. Three people died, four were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.

Hakimah was among the passengers who suffered severe injuries from leg fractures and shoulder discoloration, which likely required hospital treatment for more than thirty days.

*******

"Thank you Ly" Nadia exclaimed to Lily as she was about to get off the car Lily was driving.

He never again drove his own car because of his enlarged stomach. So always ride a vehicle on Lily, either when leaving or returning from the office.

In the garage, he finds Tristan's car parked. Tristan doesn't usually come home early from the office. Not like him who every five o'clock in the afternoon was at home.

As soon as he opened the door, Tristan looked fresh out of the room carrying a trolley bag. Tristan carries a bag every time he travels out of town.

"Where are you going?" she asked her husband, stopping her steps, standing looking at Tristan from the tip of her hair to the tip of her foot.

"Semarang," Tristan said briefly. Tristan also stopped his steps in front of the room door.

"Dinas?" He frowned, because last night Tristan never told him if he wanted to be discharged from the city. So that she did not prepare her husband's clothes and equipment.

"No. I'm gonna go get Hakimah. He's in an accident."

He was shocked to hear information from Tristan when Hakimah had an accident. Because she knew her husband's friend. Smart woman friendly.

"What accident?"

"Car. On the highway back to Semarang."

"Trus how is he? She was in an accident alone or with her husband?"

"alone. Not likely with her husband. They're getting a divorce."

But it seems Tristan regretted having made that remark after seeing her reaction.

"Haaa divorced?" Tristan's expression made him even more surprised than when he found out Hakimah had an accident. "They're newly married? Why would they want a divorce?"

Not just surprised to hear the Hakimah who just got married was about to divorce. But the feeling of anxiety has hit his mind.

Hakimah is a woman whom her husband once admired. And soon the woman is back single.

"No need to gossip about Nadia. Don't mind people's business." It seems that Tristan is less happy when he parses the evidence about Hakimah.

So he stopped asking further about Hakimah.

"Who are you with?" Questions containing suspicions sprang from his mouth. His eyes followed Tristan who was sitting on the sofa wearing shoes.

"Self," Tristan replied without looking into his eyes.

"Not with an office friend" she said

"They're busy."

"Are you not busy?"

"Clearly busy Nadia. But Hakimah is a member of my team, it's not good if I don't swipe" Tristan said. Tristan seemed to start getting sultry being frowned upon by various questions by him.

"I'm leaving, huh?" pamit Tristan's.

"How long?"

"I'm coming home soon."

Tristan's answer sounded ambiguous to him. Because the word 'quickly' is not clear the meaning, when to go home.

"Be careful" he said with a heavy heart.

Clearly he felt heavy-hearted. Not only because her husband visited Hakimah even though under the pretext of swerving. But his condition is currently pregnant, just waiting for the day of delivery arrived.

He still escorted Tristan to the terrace of the house, until Tristan boarded an online taxi that would take Tristan to the airport, although with a disappointed heart.

Although her feelings became sad and her thoughts erratic, she tried to accept with a spacious heart when her husband went to Semarang to visit the woman who was often proud first. And it may still be adored today.

Although already trying to accept with a spacious heart, the departure of Tristan to Semarang to visit Hakimah turned out to continue to interfere with his mind. So that only qto type a letter in the office that has been made the concept by a junior lawyer was repeatedly wrong. Not just to disturb his mind. It also interferes with his digestion because many times his stomach mules think of Tristan.

"Why you?" ask Lily. Maybe Lily noticed her self failing to focus all day.

He stopped typing, then leaned his back on the back of the chair.

"Tristan ... to Semarang to visit Hakimah who had an accident" he told Lily.

Lily laughed a little and said, "And Hakimah is married. There's nothing to worry about anymore, right?"

He never told Lily about Bimasena. Also about Hakimah, the woman who admired her husband once told Lily.

"Judges will soon be divorced from her husband. But I don't know what the problem is. Tristan covered it up."

She continued, "Ly, do you think if Hakim gets divorced from her husband, won't Tristan go after him?"

Lily laughed at him.

"You should not be so prejudiced against Tristan. Don't affect your content."

"Since last night the thought of Tristan moving to Semarang made my stomach always mules Ly," he lamented to Lily. "I'll go to the toilet first."

He stood up leaving Lily in the file room, walking in a hurried step toward the toilet.

*******

However, Lily was surprised by Nadia who went to the toilet many times. Actually he suspected Nadia had experienced contractions about to give birth. But as a person who has never had any experience in childbirth, he only notices his neighbor pacing the office toilet.

"Nadia, don't you start because you want to give birth?" Finally he presented his guess.

His words did not stop making Nadia flabbergasted. "It feels like this if you want to give birth?"

"Where do I know Nadia." He shrugged, as he was not the right person to answer Nadia's question. "Wait for me to ask the woman who gave birth first."

Maybe he was too excited to ask, so that almost all employees who were in the office entered his room to see Nadia, including Titiana's mother.

"Why are you Nadia?" ask Titiana's mom worried.

"From last night my stomach mules ma'am. My stomach and lower back are sometimes cramping," complained Nadia with a sense of unease because it has been mobbed by people. The woman's eyes glared at him.

"That's a sign of giving birth to Nadia. You need to get to the maternity hospital right away," Helmi's mother interrupted. "No fluid or blood coming out?"

Nadia shook her head with a pain-bearing expression.

Neither Nadia, herself nor Mother Titiana had ever experienced childbirth. So that Helmi's mother who holds the role this time.

"I have to go back home to pick up the equipment first Mom" Nadia said grimacingly.

"Alright, we go to your house and then to the hospital," Mother Titiana said so swiftly.

"I called Tristan first" he said. Although he was astonished himself, why should he contact Tristan? Not just Nadia?

Lily: Tristan, where are you?

Tristan: Semarang, what is Lily?

Lily: Nadia, belly mules. It seems like she is about to give birth.

Tristan: Please take Nadia to Ly's hospital. I'll call my mom and Mpok Nana. I'm going home as soon as I can.

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Now Tristan is in a dilemma after receiving Lily's call. In Jakarta Nadia wants to go to the hospital to give birth. While here, in Semarang, Hakimah's condition has not been stable because of heavy injuries due to accidents. Hakimah is still undergoing non-surgical treatment.

He already said to the parents of Hakimah, will accompany Hakimah who will be referred to Jakarta tomorrow, to the hospital with the best doctor to perform orthopedic surgery.

Now he's confused. Having to return to Jakarta to accompany Nadia gave birth, which means reneging on her promise to Hakimah's parents to accompany Hakimah who will be referred to Jakarta tomorrow, or stay in Semarang and entrust Nadia to Mpok Nana and her parents?

He also contacted Mpok Nana and his own mother's father. Asked them to accompany Nadia in the hospital before she returned to Jakarta.

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On Friday afternoon, after receiving a call from Tristan, Nana and her husband Herial rushed to the maternity hospital. Arriving at the hospital, there were several people who accompanied Nadia. Maybe friends from his office. Lily's neighbor was also in the hospital.

Nadia was still in the examination room. The midwife is checking the blood pressure, pulse, breathing, body temperature, and fetal heart rate to monitor Nadia and the fetus.

After that, obgyn's doctor performed an internal examination. By inserting a finger into va**na Nadia to assess the opening of the uterus.

"Mother is still in the second opening stage" obgyn told Nadia. The results of Nadia's examination are then recorded by the midwife in the medical record.

Nadia is still having lost-emboss contractions. When the contractions came, Nadia looked grimacing.

"Pok is sick Mpok," Nadia moaned to him.

"Yes, it's like that the pain of Dik if she wants to give birth," he said. His hand held onto Nadia's hand which moved in search of a grip.

"Mothers should walk a lot first to help open the birth canal. So that the opening process can be faster," Dr. Obgyn told Nadia.

He also walked Nadia along the hospital hallway. Several times when the contractions came, Nadia stopped walking. Biting the lips and clenching the hands hold the pain.

"Mpok, another woman who was about to give birth, accompanied by her husband walked. Only I am accompanied by a brother," ringis Nadia endured the pain. Stop holding on to the wall for a moment. The tears of her sister-in-law began to trickle down.

"Sabar Dik, Tristan is in service. I'm going home soon." She tries to strengthen Nadia so that she can get through the pain of giving birth even though Tristan has not come.

"Why hasn't Tristan returned yet?" many times Nadia asked her husband while enduring pain.

He was also astonished, because until midnight, Tristan had not appeared yet. The only ones who came were Tristan's parents.

He tried to contact Tristan, but the phone of his sister-in-law's husband was not active.

Maybe Tristan's on the plane.

She thought Nadia would give birth at night. But until the morning arrived Nadia was still struggling to withstand the pain. The strength of the contractions his sister-in-law was experiencing was increasing.

But for him, Nadia is classified as a woman who is steadfast in enduring pain. Her sister-in-law just whimpered and grimaced in a quiet voice. Just the tears rushing out signified that her sister-in-law was enduring intense pain.

Unlike her who was full of screams every time she gave birth.

He was so sorry to see his sister-in-law who struggled alone without being accompanied by a husband.

"No need to contact Tristan again, he will not come Mpok," said Nadia.

He drenched his sister-in-law's sweat with tissue paper.

"Pray my son" Tristan's mother told Nadia.

"Where the hell Tristan until now has not appeared," the grunts of Tristan's mother, seen starting to feel bad because almost twenty hours Nadia was holding the hospital, her son had not yet appeared. Can't be contacted anyway.

But Nadia never mentioned the name Tristan again. Nadia never asked her husband again. Perhaps his sister-in-law was already disappointed with Tristan.

He could understand how his brother-in-law felt. Women who want to give birth need the support of their husbands on their side. Want to be accompanied by a husband during childbirth. But Nadia could not feel that.

Now he wondered in his heart, was there a problem between Nadia and Tristan? Because the flight from Semarang to Jakarta only takes an hour. While twenty hours had passed, Tristan had not yet appeared.

He was tired because he had been with Nadia since yesterday. She and Lily and Nadia's mother-in-law never left Nadia. Continue to accompany Nadia in the hospital.

After half-twelfth noon, the contractions experienced by Nadia more and more often. So the midwife moved Nadia to the maternity room to prepare for childbirth.

"Pok, sick, I'm not strong anymore," Nadia's moaning accompanied by sobs because of enduring intense pain. The cries of his brother-in-law began to sound.

"You must be strong, Dik, soon your baby is born," she urged Nadia.

She, Lily and Nadia's Mother-in-law also entered the delivery room to accompany Nadia to undergo labor

Doctors forbid Nadia who repeatedly strained every contraction came.

"It is not yet time to push Mother, because the opening is not perfect," prevent Doctor Obgyn's.

But he was suddenly surprised to hear a different groan from before coming out of Nadia's mouth.

"Biiiiiim, sick Biiiiiim. Help me Biiiiiim," said Nadia while straining to endure the pain.

He immediately covered Nadia's mouth with his hand, so that her brother-in-law did not repeat the name of the man again.

Then he whispered into his sister-in-law's ear, "Nadia, don't mention the man's name, your Mother-in-law is here!"

He had to endure the bad taste of Nadia's mother-in-law. Because he was sure, Tristan's mother heard Nadia mention the man's name.

But Nadia did not seem to care anymore because of the intense pain. Several times Nadia mentioned the man's name on the sidelines of her moans, although very soft.

"Biiiiim, take my hand."

"Beciii."

He could only look at Lily, unable to prevent Nadia from saying her name.

******

Biiiiim ... Biiiiiiim ...

Suddenly Bimasena jerked, awake from his sleep. With a sweaty forehead and neck. Panting like running fast. The air inside the room is very cold with air conditioning. Outside, Caracas is cold

Did he not hear wrong? Or is he dreaming? Between conscious and not, while sleeping he heard his name called by a woman.

He knows that voice.

Nadia's Voice.

Anxiety immediately filled his calf cavity.

He looked towards the wall clock. At one o'clock in the night. This means that in Indonesia, which is eleven hours faster than Caracas, it is 12 noon.

What happened to Nadia?

He immediately grabbed his phone from the top of the nightstand. Trying to contact someone.

Bimasena: How is Nadia?

------------: From yesterday Nadia entered the maternity hospital Pak, because it had experienced contractions. Now it is in the delivery room, the preparation for childbirth because the opening is almost complete.

Bimasena: How is it?

------------: Nadia continues to cry in pain. Oh yes, many times he mentioned the name Bim when the contractions and pain came.

He was surprised to hear the information he heard. So that was when she heard Nadia calling her name, not her imagination or her dreams?

Bimasena: Who accompanied Nadia in the delivery room?

------------: Mpok Nana and her mother-in-law.

Bimasena: Where is Tristan?

------------: Tristan has not returned from Semarang Pak.

He could only sigh at the last piece of information.

Bimasena: Come closer to Nadia. I want to hear his voice.

But as soon as he heard the moans and cries of Nadia holding back the pain, he suddenly felt the sensation of pain. It was as if he could feel the pain Nadia felt. Not only that, heartache hurt him, because he could not accompany Nadia at a time like this.

Bimasena: Enough!

It seems like he lost the soul of a real man. Because he was no longer able to hear Nadia's moans. Because he could only hear Nadia's voice secretly, without being able to speak to strengthen the woman going through labor.

Bimasena: Please take care of him! Don't ever leave him!

He could no longer continue his sleep. Can only walk back and forth with a restless soul, waiting for good news from Jakarta.