
Four months have now passed. That means Ayara has lived four months in Mbok Sumi's hometown.
Mbok Sumi and Shasa did send money for two months to help Ayara's needs, but the last two months, the mother and child did not send anymore, because of Ayara's request. Ayara no longer wants to bother her best friend and Mbok Sumi who she already considers like her own mother.
How, Ayara can meet her needs? he works as an honorary teacher at an elementary school. Although the salary is very little, but Ayara still thank him. In addition to being an honorary teacher, Ayara also received Les's student children, and she also sometimes helped out in people's fields and sold wet, homemade pastries. The back yard of the house of Mbok Sumi is quite spacious, now it has also been conjured by Ayara with vegetable plants that are very fertile.
Today is the birthday of baby Elvano. Ayara did not make a celebration by inviting many children. But the woman kept making her own cookies and cooking more food to share with neighbors and asked for prayers to keep her child healthy.
Ayara had just returned from a neighbor's house, but she had not yet opened the door of her house, a car she was so familiar with stopped right in front of her house.
"Why did Doctor Farell come?" batin Ayara while looking to the side of Kira and right, afraid that the girls who liked the doctor saw the arrival of the handsome Doctor.
"Hi, Ayara, why are you pale like that?" ask the man who is a doctor in the village.
"Dok, why come home anyway? I really don't feel good about Dok's neighbors" said Ayara.
"Why should you think about the words about me? we don't do anything. How many times have I told you not to call me doc, when outside San it's just the two of us. Just call my name!" protest the man named Farell.
"Dok, I'm so sorry! I can't just call your name without calling you a doctor. We're not that close. The doctor said why should I care about the neighbor's words when we don't do anything, how can I not care, Doc? I'm a single mother, if they see us together, they'll think nothing of me. I just hitchhiked in this house, so I don't want to just because of this problem I got kicked out of this village. So I beg you, that the doctor should not come here often," Ayara finally gave her the real reason.
Farell was silent for a moment. From the look of the man's face it is clear that the man was disappointed to hear Ayara's words. However, he was quite familiar with the concerns of the woman who managed to attract his attention.
"Ayara, I came here because I know Elvano's birthday today. So I just wanted to give this little gift to her, "Farell gave a paper bag to Ayara's hand.
"Oh, there's no need to bother, Doc. Elvano Lagian is still a child, she won't understand the gift. What is most important is prayer" Ayara tries to subtly refuse.
"I bought it, would you refuse it?" farell again put on a disappointed face.
Ayara, biting her lip, feels awry now. If he accepts he is afraid that the doctor thinks he is giving hope, but if rejected, he believes the man will be hurt.
"All right, Doc, I got the card. Thank you very much!" finally Ayara grabbed the paper bag from Farell's hand, making the man carve a sweet smile on his lips.
"Emm, looks like I can't get into your house. I wanted to hold Elvano and say my congratulations" Farell said with a sad face, hoping Ayara changed her mind and allowed her to enter.
"Sorry, once again, Doc!" said Ayara who can already conclude that the woman did not allow the man to enter her house.
"alright. Then I'll go back!" Ayara nodded her head and disappointedly Farell got back into her car and passed away.
"Curtain, you big-ass widow! not shameless!" say some girls while staring cynically at Ayara.
Yes, the man was a doctor who allowed himself to open a treatment clinic at a low cost in this village. The man had a Handsome Paras, a tall posture, white skin, so it was not wrong that he was idolized by many girls. However, Farell has recently been trying to get close to Ayara, making the girls dislike Ayara and often insulting Ayara as an itchy widow.
The flashback
The beginning of his meeting with the Doctor, began when two months ago, Elvano had a high fever. It made Ayara completely panic and called out to Sopiah.
"Bude, Elvano's body is very hot, is there a hospital nearby?" ayara asked with a panicked face while holding the baby Elvano who had been crying.
"It's Nak Ayara hospital away from here. If you want to stay here, there is a clinic. Let's just take Elvano there,"
"Yes, Bude clinic is not a problem. The important thing is that my son can be healthy again" Sopiah then locked his house and immediately called their neighbor who happened to be a rickshawman.
"Maybe your son has a fever because he misses his Papa, son?" chirps Sopiah, make Ayara speechless.
"It's not just my son who misses him, I miss him too" said Ayara, who of course only dared to say in her heart.
"You-maybe, Bude, but what else?" say Ayara with a sad face and a soft tone of voice.
"If you miss her ex-husband should just call, Nak Ayara. Even if your ex-husband is remarried, he'll still be your son's father" the man who pedaled from behind opened his voice chiming in on Ayara and Sopiah's conversation. Because she knows it from the story of Sopiah, if Ayara finds her husband cheating so inevitably Ayara is forced to demand divorce with her husband.
The rickshaw carrying Ayara, Elvano and Sopiah stopped in front of a clinic and Ayara and Sopiah went down.
After that Ayara also paid the price of the pedicab.
"Son Ayara, do I need to wait?" ask the rickshaw man.
"Emm, actually, sir. But I don't know how long it'll be inside, sir. You're afraid you'll get bored" said Ayara.
"You better go home, To. You just find customers. It might take a rickshaw, "Sopiah opened his voice while pointing at the woman who just came out of the clinic.
"You don't worry, we can go home with another rickshaw. Pity you for waiting so long. There will be a decrease in your income and your wife nagging," continued Sopiah again make the man named Anto laugh a little, because his wife is famous for being angry if the deposit is only a little.
After Anto passed away while carrying passengers, Ayara and Sopiah went straight in. After waiting for some patients, Ayara finally entered accompanied by Sopiah.
Meanwhile, inside, the doctor, who turned out to be a young man, suddenly pecked at the sight of Ayara's face for the first time. For some reason, even though Ayara's face was plain without any makeup, it still could not cover the aura of the woman's beauty.
"Beautiful, but it looks like she's married!" the inner doctor looked at the baby in Ayara's arms.
"Can I help you, Tea?" greet the doctor kindly. Somehow her mouth felt reluctant to call Ayara mother as in other married female patients.
"Yes, Doc. My son's body is hot high. I'm very worried because 6 months ago she had a leaky heart surgery" Ayara said with a facial expression that could not hide her panic.
"Oh, then, I check first! let's lay him down first!" He laid his son down and the doctor began to do the examination.
"No serious problem, really. He just has a fever. So just calm down!later I'll give you fever-lowering drugs, vitamins and antibiotics, "The handsome doctor carved out his smile.
Ayara exhaled a sigh of relief. Lips that had been reluctant to smile, now began to smile.
"Huff, thank goodness! thank you, Doc!"
"Together! oh yeah, if you may know, where's your husband? why isn't he accompanying you here?" ask the doctor suddenly.
Ayara did not answer at all because she did not know what to answer.
"She's a widow, Doc!" finally, Sophia opened her voice.
"Widow? so she's a widow?" the inner doctor, who was secretly smiling faintly.
After waiting for a while, finally the medicine that was about to be given to Elvano came. The doctor that Ayara finally knew named Farell explained how to use it very clearly.
"You guys want to go home?" ask doctor Farell suddenly.
"Yes, Doc," said Ayara briefly.
"I happen to want to take a break, so let me drive you home," Ayara fluttered with her eyebrows, puzzled as to why the Doctor suddenly wanted to drive them home.
"No need, Doc. We can go home in a rickshaw," Ayara subtly refused.
"Your child has a fever. If you ride a rickshaw later he will get in the wind, so you should come with my car. Come on!" the doctor named Farell immediately stepped out, not wanting to hear any more rejection. Inevitably Ayara finally tailed from behind along with Sopiah.
Ayara did not realize that it was the beginning she was disliked by many girls because it was considered to have seduced the young and handsome doctor.
End Flashback
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