I Believe I Can See Ghosts

Shuddered

When she shivered that night, her body temperature was very high. Enrico had given the medicine a while ago, but the heat had not yet subsided.

"Where did you take Kala?"

Enrico asked Egan.

"Not anywhere, just..."

Egan stopped his speech, he was now in a sense of doubt that was so great.

"Where's Egan?. Answer me honestly."

"So Egan took Kala to go with the ghost photography community children, pa. We keep hunting photos in a location."

Enrico sighed, actually he was upset but tried hard to hold back.

"Continue?"

"When he said he was squirming the big tall figure inside the house. Not long ago hysterical like a possessed person. Continue to pass Kala subside, two of the other children are also possessed."

"Hhhh." Again Enrico breathed.

"You know, papa never forbid you to live what is your hobby. Even though papa doesn't like that. But please if you invite anyone, be careful. When his mental condition is not too good, he is not the same as you."

"But pa, according to Egan he is not a mental disorder. Kala emang can squirm soan, just like one of Egan's friends.

"Egan, papa believes more that he has a certain medical condition. It's up to you to contradict papa. Obviously, be careful if you take him anywhere. Not good for Philip. He was still in shock and still could not accept that his mother Kala was not there. Let's not tell you anything about his son."

"Yes pa, Egan is sorry. Next time, be more careful."

Enrico nodded, then he left Egan's room.

***

In the morning, Kala's body temperature has dropped dramatically. But it was like he was running out of energy. His face was pale, and felt so limp in the joints.

While outside, Egan who just finished bathing and getting dressed now went down and approached the dining table.

"Bik, is this porridge for Kala?" Egan asked Marni's bik who was busy at the dining table.

"Yes, if Mas Egan wants breakfast porridge too. There's still a back."

"No ah, Egan wants fried rice" he said then took a plate and served fried rice which was also made by Bik Marni.

"For pa." Egan greeted his father who looked fresh out of the room.

"Hi." replied Enrico then held Egan's head, though Egan slightly avoided.

Enrico sometimes forgets that Egan is a teenager. He often treated the child like a child.

"When you wake up?" ask Enrico then.

"I think so, pa." replied Egan.

"Is this breakfast for him?" ask Enrico again.

"Yes, said bik Marni." Egan answered again.

Enrico lifted the tray of porridge and milk, and brought it to Kala's room. Arriving there, it turns out Kala just finished bathing and changed clothes. He returned to bed half-lying.

"For Kala."

"For me."

"It's your breakfast."

Enrico put breakfast Kala on the bedside table.

"The rule was just aja Kala who went down om. Kala ngerepotin om kayak gini. Kala only want to fall back, while sucking energy so that it can go down.

Enrico smile.

"Om know you're not strong, so bring your breakfast here. It's also okay koq, people in the hospital om also serve patients."

This time it was Kala who was smiling, yet thin.

"Eat first, let's take some medicine."

Enrico took the porridge he brought and began to feed it to Kala.

"Nih." said Enrico while pointing a spoon at the teenager.

When he was silent, for life no one had ever even bribed him. Except maybe when he was a baby. From the age of two he remembered that his grandmother, om and aunt told him to eat alone.

Ghandi, the younger brother of his late mother, was not allowed to feed Kala. There was a time when Ghandi felt sorry for his nephew. But her grandmother and aunt and aunt and her aunt husband forbid. With reason later Kala became more spoiled.

By taking a breath and trying to strengthen his own heart, Kala accepted the bribe.

It felt so warm to the heart, he almost cried. But trying hard he held it. Enrico himself saw how Kala reacted, he was a father who was very close to his son.

He knows what he is feeling right now. Remembering Kala once told me that in his mother's family, he was not too well treated.

"Pa's."

Egan opened the door to Kala's room. It was a little bad, Enrico is now feeding it. But Egan was normal, he knew his father was kind and attentive to many people. That is because his father was a servant of the community.

"Aren't you going?" ask Enrico.

"Yes pa, cuan dong first." said Egan while grinning the dog.

Enrico then put down the bowl of porridge he held, then took out his wallet and gave Egan a hundred thousand pieces of money.

"Papa tuh gini Kal, the era is modern, rich, but giving children money is still primitive." Egan sloppy.

Enrico laughing.

"You are in love with cash so little to buy skin freefire, skin mobile Legends and others. How are you making an account, a lot of direct love, which there are only two days already ludes."

"Hehe."

Egan nyengir venom's. While Kala only smiled, honestly this closeness with parents like this was what he had always dreamed of a long time ago.

"Yes, Egan is leaving. Bye Kal's."

"Bye." answered Kala.

"Be careful on the road." Shouted Enrico.

"Yes paaa."

Egan passed, now Enrico returned to feed Kala.

After a few moments passed, Kala was given medicine and he fell asleep. Enrico prepared to leave for the hospital, when someone entered his house.

"Phil?"

Philip did not reply, but the look in his eyes was enough to explain why he had come.

"Braaac."

Enrico opened the door of Kala's room, a short while later. The teenager was still asleep.

Philip was glued to the front of the door while looking inside. Slowly but surely he stepped up, then sat on the side of Kala.

"Gue's leaving, I'm on a morning schedule." said Enrico.

The man immediately moved, while now Philip was silent on the side of his own flesh and blood.

Almost half an hour he was fixated, until finally Kala suddenly woke up. The teenager was surprised to find Philip by his side.

"Doctor Philip?"

Philip wails.

"Are you ok?" ask her later.

Kala nodded, then tried to sit down. Philip helped the boy to lean on the pillow, and gave him a glass of water. Coincidentally Enrico was indeed preparing on the side of Kala's bed.

"Where is Am Rico?" ask Kala.

"He's gone, there's a practice schedule this morning."

Kala sipped water in his hand, then put the glass on the side of the bed.

"Why are you sick?" ask Philip.

Kala shook her head.

"I don't know." she replied later.

"Capacity is possible" he continued.

"No one's looking for you?"

Kala shakes her head again.

"It seems they're happy that I'm gone."

Philip sighed and continued to look at the boy. From his tone speaking, it was obvious that he had a bad relationship with his family.