Dusk And Suffering

3. Just a Hugger for a moment

It has been three days that Dusk fever is still up and down. Early in the morning with ushered by his eldest son Bu Patmi forced Dusk to seek treatment to the puskesmas. The little boy was very stubborn, he was very difficult to treat if he was sick.

"Sir, let's go home. I'm not okay. Tomorrow also down the fever, will have taken medicine," whine of Dusk while waiting in line for his name to be called.

"We'll be home after you've checked. Udah not much whining, the more you whine, Pakde will take you to the hospital, not puskesmas. Wanna?" Aldi who I defeated stubbornly Dusk finally gave a threat only.

The little boy was then silent by pursing his lips a few inches. Aldi actually displayed his smile when he saw the adorable reaction of Dusk for him.

"Senja Kumala," call the midwife from inside her room.

With Ogah-ogahan Dusk enter into the check room. He was also lying lazily in bed. While the Grandmother waited in a chair that was provided for patients and who delivered.

"What do you think about besides fever?" The midwife asked while checking.

"Nothing, Mom. Fever" replied Dusk.

The Grandma who heard the reply of Dusk immediately stood up and approached them.

"Lied, Mom. Yesterday Dusk until vomiting and diarrhea fever also did not go down all day yesterday," said Bu Patmi. "This one is as stubborn as his mother. He was very difficult to tell, yesterday all day I persuaded him to check. But always resisting for a thousand reasons" Patmi confided in the village midwife.

"Senja, it can't be that, honey. If the pain must be checked immediately to be healthy again quickly. Look, tuh! Grandma's worried and sad that you're sick, don't you feel sorry for Grandma?"

Silent twilight, he was confused as to what to answer. If he is sick there are two different feelings that he sees in the house. He doesn't know who to feel first. On the one hand he did not want to make his grandmother worry and did not want to bother him. But on the other hand his mother felt happy and not angry if she saw herself lying on the bed. So it must be a feeling of who he cares about. Both of them are people who are dear to you.

"Mom, from the inspection I just did. Dusk is like suffering from typhoid. Here I give you a referral letter to take you to the hospital, yes. If it is true my guess, Dusk could be treated in the hospital for a few days." The village midwife wrote something down on a piece of paper.

"Tipes?" repeat Miss Patmi is weak. "It can heal, can't you?" tanyanya.

"Can, Mom. That's why it must be taken to the hospital so that it gets treatment quickly."

"I don't want to go to the hospital, Grandma," whined Dusk somehow for how much.

"Well, no need to go to the hospital. Let Grandma take care of you until you get sick and Grandma dies from exhaustion. You want that, right?" ms. Patmi replied with a tone of voice irritated.

"Grandma, don't talk like that. All right, I'm going to the hospital. But it's in an expensive hospital, Grandma." Speak slowly at the end of the sentence.

"Don't make money! Shut up and talk to Grandma!" Ms. Patmi gave a warning.

Finished with the Midwife business, Bu Patmi just took Dusk to the hospital. He feels better faster. No matter hungry and tired he lunge for the healing of the grandson.

*

Manda, a thirty-year-old woman who can't do anything without the help of her son. All his needs are Dusk preparing. Starting from watches, shoes, bags and other purposes.

Unknowingly Manda makes herself dependent on Dusk. There was no twilight he was a fool not knowing where the beaver was stored. Manda always considered his son as a domestic assistant, in exchange for the money he used to raise Dusk until now.

"Nih, you keep all the items that I always use for work, do not get damaged let alone lost. You have to prepare everything before I go to work. Starting from watches, bags, shoes. Besides you have to take care of my things, don't let there be any dust. You do other work too, you know? I have to waste a lot of money to raise you! And it's not free, yes. You'll have to change my money later." That's what Manda said when Dusk was seven.

Since then Dusk began to work doing everything that was ruled by his mother. No one dared to fight or tell Manda at that time. Because he always threatened his Mother and Brother that if they forbid Dusk to do homework, then he did not hesitate to return to try to eliminate Dusk.

"Yes, Mom. I'll do whatever you ask. Can I have something, Mom? Just hug me once, Mom. Just once," pinta Dusk begged.

"Hugs? I'm holding you, don't dream!"

"What should I do to let me dream in Mom's arms?"

"There's nothing you have to do. Your presence is not what I want, because you are ruined already my life and my future."

Return to Manda who ransacked the entire house just to find her watch. He threw away all the things in front of him. The thing that would have hindered his search for his beloved.

"Astaghfirullah, Manda! What are you doing, anyway? Why is this a mess?" tanya Aldi who came home to take the needs of Dusk while in the hospital.

"Is the child in your house, brother? I'm looking for my watch. I don't know where he keeps it. This half why is he crawling?" manda's nagging still doesn't stop her activists.

"Work is not wearing a watch, it can be. So if you feel you need Dusk, do not torture him. You, you can't do anything without twilight. Even to find your stuff you can't, you're nothing without him."

"I don't need him, I need my watch."

Aldi raised his left lip, giving a sneering smile to his own sister. "If you don't need it, yes. Why are you screaming call him? In the next few days, don't look for him! Dusk again in hospital for typhoid. That means you have to take care of yourself. Don't cry at dusk. Are you ashamed of yourself? You said you didn't need him, you said you didn't want him. But you trust him to keep your belongings," Aldi said while packing whatever is needed while in the hospital.

Manda was silent, as if she was correcting what her brother had said. However, in the next second he went back to looking for his watch.

"Here you go, sister don't keep reminding me of that damn kid! He's useless"

"So talk to you, Manda! What you should blame is the man who impregnated you and just disappeared without a trace. You may hate him, you may punish him, but not with Dusk."

Hearing Aldi's words made Manda's emotions unstable. He remembered that night. The night where everything was taken from him. His breathing began to disorganize, the young man's face again milling in Manda's eyes.

"The face of the boy reminds me of that man, he who ruined my future." Manda's trauma was like coming back when he was reminded of the young man.