Behind the Veil (Aisha)
Race
Lela looked down at her two fingers in the bandage while remembering the incident this morning where the trauma she experienced returned and again definitely made her husband confused.
He was getting sad, though, the dark past makes him have to continue to feel the fear as if back to reality even though he has tried his hardest to eliminate his trauma in order to live a normal life with his husband in his marriage secondly.
Suddenly he was shocked by Anita sitting next to him.
"I have a list, soon we will be called." Anita smiled as she rubbed her back.
Lela nodded, she then looked around where there were few patients today.
The two then talked for a moment.
After a while of waiting, Lela's name was finally called by the nurse, both of them stood up to enter the doctor's room.
"What are you doing here?"
Lela and Anita are shocked to hear Aisha's voice behind them, both of them turn around, seeing Aisha and her husband standing in front of them.
Lela did not answer, nor did Anita seem confused.
Aisha who was astonished then saw the room that her sister was about to enter earlier.
"Poly psychiatry?" aisha asked while looking at her husband.
Alvian who also felt astonished nodded, he knew exactly if this was the room to consult a psychiatrist.
"Why don't you answer, what are you doing here."
Not to mention they would reply, the nurse again called out Lela's name.
Aisha looked at the sister's face in wonder.
***
Aisha continued to hold back the tears that had already been inundated in both eyes.
Especially when he who forced to come into the room to hear himself how his sister told the doctor if the trauma she experienced relapsed on the night of her wedding, the incident was not forgotten Lela told me.
Aisha held tightness in her chest, not expecting that it turned out that her brother had kept all of this by himself.
"The lives of people who have experienced violence will no longer be the same. The slightest violence will be exposed and become part of his life. There may be violence that is underestimated by others but still not a trivial thing for people who experience it. Even though women who experience violence have managed to be free from violence, do not think the problem stops there. There will be a barrage of violent impacts on women like your sister." The doctor saw Aisha.
Aisha immediately held her brother's hand.
"The psychological side of survivors of violence will certainly be disturbed. In fact, even though the violence she endured has long since passed. The types of effects can be in the form of nightmares associated with violence, flashback, difficulty concentrating to depression. Over time, there will be a lighter that makes the bad memory reappear. Like this morning, just because of the broken glass. His fear arose because there must be a bad story behind it "
"Therefore, after this I recommend that your sister undergo regular psychological therapy and it is much better if her husband delivers."
***
Aisha kept silent, not saying a word as she and her sister walked out of the room. Anita who waited outside then invited the two to rest for a while in the Hospital cafeteria while waiting for Alvian who still had patients.
The canteen.
Lela and Anita look at each other looking at Aisha who continues to be silent, from the look of her eyes they know that Aisha is still shocked to know what happened to her brother.
"Sir." Lela held her sister's hand.
Aisha immediately saw her sister.
"So don't know if you must be disappointed because you didn't tell you" said Lela staring at her sister's face.
Aisha shook her head.
"I'm not disappointed in my brother, but in myself." Aisha looked at her brother's face.
"I'm sorry, brother, because I can't see your fragility even though my sister has always looked tough, it turns out there is a pain that my sister is trying to endure in the middle of a carefree laugh. How much brother has suffered holding back the tightness, hiding the sobs, continuing to close himself without any place to share." Aisha looks sad.
"Sister is not alone. All this time there was Doctor Anita who accompanied brother."
Aisha saw Anita.
"Sister. After this there is also me who will accompany brother. Brother don't worry, we'll fight together."
***
Andre looks brightah, while driving a car he continues to glance at the wife sitting next to him while smiling to herself.
Siti smiled seeing her husband so happy. After they married, her husband several times invited her to take a vacation but she always refused with a variety of reasons. Until finally the desire of her husband is now granted, they can go for a walk even though in fact they only drove the group of santri who passed the selection to participate in the District level MTQ competition to one of the regions.
"Honey, the area where the race was held happened to be a tourist area with beautiful scenery and cold weather. Let's just say that three days we're there we're on our honeymoon." Andre saw his wife happy.
Siti smiling.
"But still we don't forget if our main goal is here for the race, we still have to focus on the students."
"Of course, baby."
Finally after some time, the group of three cars arrived. Siti directly takes care of the re-registration of the santriwati who participated in the race, as well as Andre with a supervisor doing a re-list for the santriwan.
After that they were directed to a designated hotel located not far from there for the participants to rest, while Siti and Andre had booked a room for them themselves.
Siti was shocked when entering the room she was greeted by red roses scattered everywhere. Especially when looking at the bed decorated by heart-shaped roses. Not yet exhausted his shock, suddenly he was hugged by the husband from behind.
"Hows it? Do you like it?"
Siti smiled, she turned her body around.
"What's this?"
"Surprise from me. Remember I said, let's just say we're on our honeymoon. Are you happy?"
Siti nodded with a smile.
"thank you. Of course I'm happy."
***
Yusuf held back the jealous flames on his chest when he saw Siti and her new husband walking hand in hand, both hands clenching in anger at the sight of the two who looked very happy.
There was a bit of regret why he used to waste Siti. But now he just felt that Siti is the best woman he ever married. Because of that regret now he has not been able to find a replacement. Until now he is still a widower and has not been thought to marry again.
Yusuf saw that if Siti and her husband continued to walk hand in hand towards him, his gaze was now focused on Andre who he thought had snatched Siti away from him. Joseph was upset to see it.
"Assalamualaik." Yusuf finally took the initiative to greet the two in the crowd of the contestants.
Siti and Andre are shocked to meet Yusuf. They answered Joseph's greetings at the same time.
"How's the deck? Looks like she's happy now?"
"Alhamdulillah good. Thank goodness I am also very happy." Siti clenched her hand to her husband, while looking at Andre's face with love.
Andre returned his wife's gaze by peeping Siti's forehead. The two then looked at each other.
Of course Joseph who saw felt increasingly upset.
"Thank God she was happy. Glad to hear it."
"thank you. Oh yeah, who are you here with? Where's your wife?" ask Andre while he is down.
Asked by his wife, Joseph looked surprised. She felt ashamed to tell Siti if she was still a widower now.
"I came here myself. I am also not married anymore because besides being busy taking care of boarding school I am also busy doing business, taking care of some business, so now I have not thought about getting married just yet." Joseph tried to give an excuse.
Andre frowned while looking at Joseph's appearance from top to bottom.
"Business?Hm...From your appearance alone looks you are not like a businessman or a businessman's son," replied Andre while pulling his wife's hand to invite him away.
Joseph immediately saw his own appearance.
"Oh yes, from the way you talk earlier I'm sure if you regret wasting your ex-wife, and upset to see her very happy now." Andre stopped his steps, turning to look at Joseph with a mocking smile.
