CORONAS

23. FLOW-BY

 

“Mr Eldan Wihami. You are accused of committing a crime that endangers the safety of many people,” said a person who did not wear the uniform – who only wear a shirt with a collar that is not buttoned. He also did not lock my movements.

“Accusations of where is it?! I never did anything!” strongly object.

“A few days ago you met with the medical leadership in this city to complain about the caldier system. We see it as a threat. Therefore you are detained for a while,” he explained.

“Pak Fredi?” mummify slowly. I immediately remembered his face when the police brought him up. “But I didn't do anything!” I said defend myself.

“You can explain that later in court.”

My mouth gaped for a second. I am still trying to escape. But in vain. My body is completely locked. From the other direction, the sound of the mother echoing loudly filled the contents of the room. He tried to escape from the clutches of one of them to reach me immediately. He was screaming for my name.

“Calm, Mom. You we didn't catch. All we've secured is your son,” is obviously one of the cops who drove my mom. But that speech made him even more angry. Mom doesn't seem to accept it.

“Let go of him!” his screams. I looked at Mom. And his body pushed, hit, lunged at the cop with all its might. But the police who drove mom could hold on.

The mother became more and more angry like a hen who was protecting her child. Seeing it like that made my heart like it was clamped by hard things. “Mother, stop. There should be no commotion in the hospital. Everything's gonna be fine. I'll prove my innocence.” These words I spewed with the intention to touch and calm mom. I tried hard to no longer resist and went with the current that was dragging me right now while slowly recovering my strength.

Finally mom calmed down. He's according to what I asked. But her tears did not show that. And finally he let me go to be taken by these three cops. I calmed down while clearing my mind to think of something. The brain that does not want to obey. Instead of trying to figure out how to deal with this problem, my mind was thrown again in another direction. This brain even shows a shadow about Bang Auron and Kak Alma. They may both be treated the same. The two of them were also with me when they met Mr. Fredi. Hope they don't experience this.

“Do you also think of your other two colleagues?” to one of the policemen I was talking to. His guess managed to slap me for an instant. Judging from his calm demeanor, it was likely that he was the chairman. I didn't answer the question and locked my mouth shut. “Just relax the two of them are also being summarized today.”

Then I was hit again with a statement just now. Like there was a strong wave that shook my chest and spread all over my body. My feet and hands are weak. I almost collapsed. The contents of my head continued to hope that the two of them would not be caught and managed to escape. Let me alone who will fight alone in court later that I – along with Kak Alma and bang Auron – innocent.

“What package are you holding?” ask a policeman who is sitting on my right. The police still look a bit younger. I haven't had time to answer, he immediately grabbed it and opened the contents.

“Only patterned gloves,” I replied at the same time the police saw the contents.

The policeman put the plastic and the wrapper on the door of the car and examined the glove thoroughly. After he felt that he had not found anything strange, he handed it back to me. He said I could keep it. With handcuffed hands, and tightly flanked conditions, I slipped the Hitameong patterned gloves into my pants pocket with a little hard effort.

“Just after Arfi's arrest – the caldier user who was involved in the robbery – the leader of the medical company in this city immediately visited us,” Pak cop with that loose tie – who like his chairman started talking again. He sits on my left. He took out a pack of cigarettes and took a stick. Then he ignited it with a lighter he took near the steering wheel of the car. “Say he was recently met by three caldier users who filed complaints. We immediately tracked down and confirmed it to that leader,”.

“That old man!” I swear in my heart.

“You know? Actually we wanted to snatch you guys up right then and there. But hearing you are being treated in the hospital, we paused for a while. If we catch the other two right away, the chances of that news being smelled by you are huge. You can escape from the hospital. Even if you do that you could die because your caldier cannot cope with your new disease. But we still have heart. We will move after you really have undergone treatment and renewal kaldier.”

The police officer then stopped his explanation. The cigarette in his left hand was long. Then exhaled. The smoke was steaming quite a lot. Enough to make me cough\-cough.

“Smoking in the car does not seem good, Sir,” comments the police who are on my right.

“The name is smoking anywhere is also not good,” reply to the police who smoked it. Then he opened the window of the car next to him.

 

The outside air came in and took the cigarette smoke to get him out of the car. While this car took me to the police headquarters for temporary detention. Towards trial time. As I recall, since the day of Arfi's arrest, I haven't heard the results of his trial. That means Arfi is still in this base I'm heading to. If I'm lucky, maybe I can beat him up and have a conversation with him. Not for greeting or nostalgia. But to dig up information. Or at least look for hard evidence to prove my innocence.