Doctor Naura

Chapter 14 Aunt Sofie

Adhan Fajr has reverberated. Father and bang Zamy went to the mosque near my house which is still performing the obligatory prayer congregation. Before entering the mosque worshipers are sprayed with disinfectant liquid, in front of a sandal rack near where worshipers are required to wash their hands, carrying each prayer mat with a distance of at least 1 meter in the mosque.

"Wake up son.., Fajr.., Fajr.., yuk Fajr dear." My mother woke me up like a child. I covered my face with a bedcover and tried to sleep again.

"Assynolt...." There was the sound of father and bang Zamy coming home from the mosque. I'll wake up soon. I finished praying and went back to the kitchen. I bergesas perform prayers. After that, I walked after my mother.

"Shall I pray, son?" Dad greeted me. He's turned on the television. The news is still corona. While bang Zamy was already sitting on the sofa near dad, cling his eyes to the hape. Watching the re-broadcast of football matches. His left hand holds the cellphone placed on his left knee while his right hand clenches its own anxiety to see the players who lack calculation according to him.

"It was, yeah, just now. Oh yeah I'd like to drink what Naura's prepared to drink." I stopped as I approached my father, my eyes fixed on the television screen.

"That's how it happens when the steering wheel is in the hands of people who don't have a SIM." Father muttered slowly hearing many medical personnel returned to being victims of covid-19. Bang Zamy stopped staring at HP. He stared at the tv screen.

"Well, what kind of tea would you like to have?" I repeat again.

"Corona...." He answered while lowering the sarong cloth and head bobbles.

"Dad want to drink corona?" I was upset by himself. Bang Zamy giggles. And I still don't realize my question. I finally left them both in the kitchen, helping mom.

"What do you want to drink?" Bang Zamy is bothering me who's been walking.

"No!" I answered and scolded him.

"Why not?" Bang Zamy teased me again

"It's puffed! Coffee warm milk lukewarm not too sweet...."

"Babeeeeepp!!!"

"Oh!" I'm elapsed.

Arriving in the kitchen, the mother was ready with a plate of fruits. I make coffee milk habit bang Zamy, do not forget to brew warm tea to a round teapot, a gift of friends when coming home from Thailand first. I made about 4 cups of star fruit to enjoy together.

"Naura, please slice the sponge first, son, then put it on this plate." Mom put down a white ceramic ceiling plate with a golden list.

"OK mom." I took a roll sponge inside a rectangular 'tupperwore' on the table. I put it on a synthetic plastic tray, sliced it up and straight assembled it. Done it.

"Mom..., it's cute, right?" I showed you the results of the roll pieces. Mother approached, her hands releasing the aprons used when washing a little glass and dirty dishes.

"Where do you see?" He's saying.

"Now!" I threw the plate towards my mother.

"This is right. Not like the daughter of the mother cut him still the same plastic wrap and with a blunt knife. Hahaha...." Mom pinched my cheek.

"Already ah ma'am, the past.., let your past be...." I reply by following the rhythm of the dangdut song Eri S. Mom just smiled.

"We have breakfast with your father and brother in front." Mother took me while carrying a teapot of tea water and a tray containing 4 beautiful ceramic cups. While I brought a roll sponge plate and a cup of coffee milk favorite bang Zamy. We put it all on the family room table. Dad glanced at the milk coffee I brought.

"Well, here he is who's this early." Dad raised his milk coffee glass.

"Eiiittthhh dad's coffee milk bang Zamyyy...." I protest. I saw bang Zamy looking at me smiling while stopping my speech. He held me back by raising his right palm.

"Ah time turn coffee milk Zamy doank made...." Dad mengedumel while putting his milk coffee again to the table.

"Drink dad, Naura will make another bang Zamy. Then the father was asked to drink what the answer is corona-corona only." I'm just gonna mop up a little.

"When was Naura singing? No Zam, no Naura just what would you like to drink?" Dad asked for a defense to bang Zamy.

"Yes yeah, I don't think you're wondering what you were drinking." Bang Zamy talk easy. His eyes glanced at me triumphantly. I clenched my teeth at him, my eyes wide. Then without caring about bang Zamy who was laughing satisfied to tease me, I went back to the kitchen making milk coffee again. While mother? I saw he was in control of the spectacle. No more covid-19. The remote is in his hands. The spectacle turns to the ustad that grips people with prayer and spontaneously the participant becomes healed. Programs that are still pros and cons among the ummah. Including me personally.

The dawn slowly passed, the day was getting uphill towards the morning. The sun slowly appears in the eastern horizon, giving new hope to everyone on earth.

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"Naura cepaaatttt dong naak. I want to buy an eel first at the Morning Market before I go back to Mentok." My mother shouted at me who was wearing a mask.

"Yes yes, mother...." I deftly put on my socks, put on my flip-flops and headed for my mom who was ready on my bike. It didn't take long, about 3 minutes at 40 km/h, crossing the rat road we've arrived. Because the location of my house is behind the morning market.

I've been following my mom for over an hour shopping. In my hand there are many pockets. At first, I only wanted to buy eels because there was no sales in Mentok, but eventually everything was bought, ranging from rice anchovies, tilapia, cork, catfish, tuna and mackerel.

"Lha said mom just wanted to buy a doank eel...?" I was surprised to see the mother who was sitting also near the seller jengkol.

"Combining to Pangkalpinang you know Naura, good shopping here cheap-cheap. Here jengkol 30 thousand sekilo, lha in Mentok 40 thousand you know son. I'm lucky 10 thousand hehe..." Mom chuckles happily. I just smiled, apparently a woman's soul seemed destined to be happy shopping. Mother was busy choosing her jengkol, which there was a little hole, she immediately removed from her presence. There's a slightly withered kempes he gave to the salesman.

"It withered away just why the hell bang." so he said. The jengkol just nodded with a smile. While me? My fingers began to turn pale and even turn blue because of carrying my mother's grocery bags. If only mom had said that she wanted to do a lot of shopping, I would have brought a shopping cart. Finished buying jengkol mom traced the sales line at the emperan kaki lima.

"Tuh unji unji unji how much is unji, ask for 3 seeds only...." Mother pointed at the merchant porthole of an old grandmother made of used sacks.

"What mom?" The seller was confused.

"It's granny..," Mother touched the red vegetables marinade. But unfortunately the old grandmother did not even see it because suddenly there was an NGO to distribute free cloth masks

"Where? Whahuh? What's his mom gonna buy?" My grandmother focused on my mother.

"That's a unji flower...." Mother holds the unji she was referring to earlier.

"Owh is this ma'am?" His grandmother chuckled while holding her wares which mother meant.

"Yes nek itula, his name is unji in my village." Mother explained it.

"Which village's mother?" Grandma serving.

"Bengkulu grandma, I originally Bengkulu work in Bangka can men Bangka. We in Bengkulu call this vegetable unji." My mother felt the need to explain everything. My smile grew bigger looking at her behavior.

"Owh.., kecombrang ma'am it's called here." The old grandmother weighed 3 seeds. Put it in the bag and give it to the mother.

"How much grandma?" I opened my wallet and asked.

"12 thousand buk." Answer slowly.

"Thank you ma'am may the longevity, cheap and smooth fortune, healthy is always her beautiful daughter. Aamiin's." Grandma thanked me and looked at me. I just nodded without a smile. Because I will lose my smile because I am wearing a mask.

"Let's mom, it's heavy." I showed my mom the groceries. But my mother blinked her eyes at me.

"Naura, if you're tired, just sit and wait here. I want to buy tamarind just as good as terasi there." Mother pointed towards the inside of the market while starting to walk away from me.

"Cepetan ya ma'am, Naura there is a promise nemenin the Director to receive PPE assistance from PT. Tin." I shouted at my mother a little so that some of the merchants near me spontaneously looked at me with confused faces.

"OK okay okay okay...." Mom waved her hand at me. I just nodded thinly. And from a distance I still had time to see my mother down and buy a variety of vegetables again. I shook my head again. While waiting for my mother, I put my groceries into the motorbike and then returned to the place where my mother left me.

"Hey Nora!" Suddenly I heard the voice of Aunt Sofie who was near me. I saw the Irwan with him, smiling at me.

"Hi aunty, borong ya aunty....?" I felt stale looking at the bags in Irwan's hands.

"Yes, go shopping for a week's stock. You see, the aunt had to cook early in the morning for the Irwan and his papa before leaving for the office."

"Owh so yeah aunt." I answered. Irwan remained silent. He just nods to the rhythm of the music of the kitchen knife salesman.

"Well, by the way, Laura here, why? Shopping, but there's no shopping." Aunt Sofie was busy checking the back of my seat. Cement fringe street vendor. No bag of groceries.

"Naura's been taro on aunt's bike...." I answered.

"Who's on the motor? Where's the 'Alpat' car? Is it sold, right? Wh why? Did the doctor also get affected by the corona?" Aunt Sofie asked at length.

"No aunt, it's Naura's house near." I smiled answering. Irwan remained silent. Sometimes he smiles at me. Maybe I feel ashamed to play with my parents.

"Where is Lora's house?" Aunt Sofie put her groceries next to me. He sat near me.

"Naura ma'am, Naura. His name is doctor Naura." Irwan answered his mother.

"So that's what mom meant. Naura." Aunt Sofie answered.

"It's my house back there aunt, but it's passing through the road to Merdeka Square. No need to go through the red light." I'm trying to explain. But all of a sudden I saw Aunt Sofie's face change. His eyes looked to the right with a pus. I looked over and found my mother there.

"Lho is far right the wart cat shopping here. Is there anything cheap to sell in Mentok? Do you have no money? Therefore.., already know a lot of children, still hesitant to lift children, huh if only...." Aunt Sofie sneered towards mom.

"What is a cow budeg? Lu who dagu came all the way snobbery to lose a child..," My mother answered jutek. They no longer seem to be a dignified family. It no longer appears that my mother was the head of the OPD in the government. West Bangka. Brand emotions inflamed. Making sense they no longer work perfectly.

"Hey kur! I did not pretend to lose a child, I lost my 3-day-old baby. You are yes...." Aunt Sofie with a waistline speaks loudly. Some people were already present swarming us.

"Already ma'am. Let's go home." Irwan pulled his mother's arm. But aunt Sofie still insists on staying.

"Lha but it's a DNA test, it's not your son. And since the baby's in my house, the authorities and others let us babysit it." Mother is getting closer. He put his groceries back a lot. Me and some of the people who were there were confused. What problems they discussed. Only, at first glance I could feel that what they were talking about was me.

"Basar Muna muna, you should have been more sentient, I just lost my baby, you should have given the little girl to me...." Aunt Sofie's still pissed. His hands pointed at my mother's face, which was silent.

"Basic mad, already know not his son, still insistent to be taken, you....!"

"That's crazy, try to love me that baby first. Now where? Huh huh? Where's baby? So is he the same as you? Mostly a mess." Aunt Sofie is back to grumbling. Some parking attendants have even come to divorce. I was surprised by the sudden events that could only be confused. Some people have calmed Sofie's mother and aunt.

"Review ghost.., if I don't have an important invitation at 9, I'll have you." Aunt Sofie is back. Then still with a breath he said goodbye to me. Irwan, even though he's a cop, can only be quiet. Maybe he already knew his mother's nature. I then thought, lest her mother's emotional instability really happen. It's so sorry Irwan and his father.

"Nora, next time we'll connect again. I'm sorry suddenly there's a madman coming...." Aunt Sofie left me and the crowd. His eyes were sharp looking at the eyes of the mother who only stroked the chest of beristighfar.

"What's the matter with Aunt Sofie, how do you guys really hate each other?" I asked while looking at my mother. The shopping stuff I took earlier. I asked for the keys to the bike, we headed for the parking lot by the side of the road, then I arranged the goods, turned on the motor contact and hugged my mother home.

"I'm sorry Naura's mother, Khilaf's mother. The woman anywhere and anytime always looking for a commotion when meeting mom. Sometimes I'm ashamed of myself." Mom explained on the way home.

"What's the problem, ma'am?" I'm kernasar. Mom took a deep breath and breathed it out.

"As my mother told you, after the day Naura entered our lives, the news broke in the Sofie newspaper that she lost her first baby girl who was only 3 nights old. Said someone kidnapped the baby. While at home we were also excited about getting a baby. So he immediately came to the house and even had time to accuse us of deliberately kidnapping his son because he did not have a daughter...."

"Is aunt Sofie Mentok, too?" I cut off mother's conversation.

"Yes, she was original and long in Mentok, before moving to Pangkalpinang her husband was still serving as a chair at the civil registry office. For reasons of pity for his wife who lost her first child, whereas we didn't give her baby the time they wanted to adopt you, it seems like her husband deliberately complicated the administrative paperwork of the adoption."

"Is there any chance of Naura their son missing ma'am?" I stopped the motor and opened the door. Ma'am Mairoh who rushed towards the gate directly I gave the code to stay away.

"That's what they thought. You're their kidnapped son."

"Continue?" I'm getting curious.

"They have even repeated 3 times doing DNA tests. And the result is still that tiny baby isn't their child." Mother explains.

"Because the lab results say Naura is not their child, I have also objected to giving your upbringing to them, so since then the Sofie's temperament has been so bad to me." Mother added.

"Mother knows Aunt Sofie well. How could that be?" I asked back.

"He was a friend of Mom's High School when he was in Mentok." Mother replied.

"Pity is also aunt Sofie yes ma'am."

"Pity is pity, but he should be aware and patient his son has not met." I just nodded while carrying the groceries. While mom kept on nagging herself.

"Hey...., why did your mother read Naura's poem so early in the morning?" I was joking to see a mother who looked really upset. But mom went straight to the bathroom, and changed clothes, and so did I.

"So at the market I met my grandmother...." Mother answered ketus.

"Naura, Naura.., your mother why?" Dad slowly spoke to me.

"So I met Aunt Sofie yeah."

"Where's sofie?"

Sofie Irwan's mother."

Ogh deserves it." Dad went to the garage, he cleaned up some paper. While I was getting more confused.