Love Anton And Mela

Middle Bonus

January 2020

Dawn ordered medical masks in sufficient quantities, and according to the pharmaceutical factory also ordered such a lot.

But the plan of Dawn is not to be sold all the masks, but while he will save for anticipation at any time will be many people in need.

The Wiharja family certainly monitors every news on television.

"Ah, however, Mamah and Papah agreed to still leave because the chairman of the committee later was Papah's schoolmate. And he said that we would be safe, "Aryani's mother insisted that they would still leave even though the news of the virus had reached all corners of the country.

"But Mamah and Papah don't disbelieve, because according to the news America and Australia have been affected by the virus," said Anita trying to prevent the planned departure of both parents.

"This has been planned from two years ago, who want to leave also about a hundred people more than the various forces in the school Papah first. All the grand reunions of this travel agenda are still," Mr. Salim insisted that the plan to leave later was not a plan that was just briefly drawn up.

In the evening, Dawn and Anita's partner Anton and Mela conduct a video conference call with Haikal and Aprilia.

Looks Aprilia began to fat her body because she was four months pregnant.

"Bro, what about the virus in Papua? Has anyone been infected?"ask Anton to Haikal.

"Papua is safe bang, which has hit Australia but only one or two people really," said Haikal.

"Yes in Indonesia there are only one or two people but in the city of Jakarta. Hopefully it doesn't spread to other cities" Anton told Haikal.

"But I'm worried, I hope it doesn't spread much. Because of the fear of becoming a pandemic," said Fajar looks worried.

Then the three couples also discussed other things, and all prayed for each other so that there would be no spread of the virus in this country.

February 2020

Anton and Mela sit in the television room in their house, the night Gibran is asleep.

Mela held Anton's hand and felt very cold, then Anton grasped his wife's hand.

They are looking at the latest news that in the city of Jakarta there are some workers who returned from China indicated to have the virus but escaped at the airport examination so that it is now transmitted to many people.

There have even been some victims who have died from the disease.

"Oh my God, this is a flu virus that mutates into a deadly disease. Hopefully the affected can be cured immediately by a team of doctors in Jakarta," said Anton who suddenly felt worried.

He saw a lot of shows both on television and on social media at the end of last year.

Many medical personnel are forced to stay in the hospital because of the large number of patients.

They can't go home, because if they come home they can endanger their families.

Surely anywhere in various media began many government appeals to wash your hands often using soap or carrying hand sanitizer aka disinfectant or virus.

"Pap, how is this. I just paid the store rent to Melati. But there is news like this so worry well, who knows there are salon customers or cake buyers are people from abroad," Miranti told Jaya.

"Yes, Mom, but look first. That's what hurts in a big city, in a small town it might not happen. Medically speaking they are better than us in the area, "sahut Jaya while looking at the sleeping Solana.

"I'm worried about Solana, a baby who is prone to contracting the disease" Miranti said as she stroked her baby's cheek.

"Mam prayed a lot, we can what only surrender to the Power," Jaya strengthened his wife's heart.

Finally Miranti still pay rent to Melati Salon for the next year.

Until mid-February, Anton received many questions about the virus.

Either people ask in person or over the phone, but Anton can't answer with details because he himself doesn't understand.

On Monday, the fourth week of February 2020, Anton stared at the circular and the decision letter he received without blinking.

Both letters were signed directly by the Minister of Health, so it is an impossible task to refuse.

On the circular written that from the beginning of March 2020 Puskesmas where he led must be closed until a deadline that cannot be determined.

All employees will be discharged, and the same time limit will also be determined later.

Then there is the official decree, listed the names of Anton Wiharja and Rossie Tamadi from Tuesday tomorrow will be sent to a hospital in Central Jakarta, due to lack of medical personnel.

Because since last week the number of patients infected every day there are hundreds of people, so doctors who are in areas that have not been infected with the virus for a while must be pulled to Jakarta.

Mela cried almost all night, she did not know what to do if her husband served to Jakarta which is an infected area.

After all listed are assigned to a time limit that cannot be determined.

He also received a circular from the local government if for a while closed the pharmacy business because the meeting of many people is very prone to transmission.

The entire Wiharja family was informed of this, but it was only because Anton had to carry out the task he had been ordered.

Because if you refuse, it will be sanctioned that destroys his career.

And the next morning there was a big minibus car picking him up in front of his house.

Mela was very sad as she stared at the back of her husband entering the car that picked him up.

Wanting to attract her husband so as not to go there, but certainly can not as the wife of a juatru doctor must support the performance of her husband.

Her hope and prayer is that her husband will be fine and return home safely.

It just so happens that Eti's children are grown, so she also tells her husband and son to stay at Anton's house to accompany Mela and Gibran.

Anton along with Rossie and several other doctors from different packaging arrived at a famous government hospital in Jakarta.

It turns out that there are also many doctors from various other regions to be seconded in Jakarta.

They were shown lockers to store their gear, and each was given a complete hazmat suit.

After the meal they were all briefed and they were divided into several groups.

Rossie Tamadi is included in the group of doctors who will handle critical patients, while Anton is in the group of doctors who handle patients who have passed the critical period leading to recovery.

The reason is because they have a record of each doctor, because Anton is disabled then the results of the consideration of the board of doctors are included in the group.

But make no mistake, people whose recovery period can not be declared 100% virus-free, so every doctor still must wear hazmat clothes and run the applicable protocol.

The first week the number of patients heading to the election is still relatively small compared to patients who are infected.

Anton along with five doctors and five nurses had to deal with about a hundred people, so each doctor was to have about twenty patients.

Anton's first week in Jakarta, every night Gibran cries in search of his father.

He did not recognize his father who was in contact with the video while wearing full hazmat clothes, like an astronaut while in space.

Mela tried hard to face it, even though when the phone was closed she could no longer hold back tears.

March 2020

Various media outlets daily reported the number of people who contracted the virus.

There are hundreds of people sick every day, some die from the virus and some are recovering.

Now it was not a hundred anymore, but it had almost reached three hundred people in the recovery period.

Again the person in recovery, not the one who is soon healed but the one who just finished through a critical period.

And those people still have the potential to pass the virus on to others.

For this reason, Anton strictly obeys the standards that have been put in place, although the hazmat shirt makes himself very hot but he is not likely to let go while in the patient room.

The virus began to spread to the town where the Wiharja family lived and also where Anton's wife and children lived.

He is currently far from them facing many sick patients, while his family is far away and certainly makes his mind also divided to his son and wife.

"Mi, don't leave the house and don't accept anyone's guests either" Anton said.

"Oh Allah, Cheeks also take care of health there. Mimi would definitely not go anywhere because she was worried that Gibran was sick" Mela told her husband in tears.

"Where's the Gibran Mi?"ask Anton.

Then Mela moved her phone, pointing to Gibran who was running smoothly.

His son was playing ball with Eti, and Gibran waved his hand when he saw his father on his mother's phone.

Not feeling tears streaming down Anton's cheeks, he did not know when he could hug and lift his son's height again.

He misses his son's laughter and his cries, he misses everything about his son.

But there's no way he's coming back now, because he's sure to bring a nasty virus to his family.

Eti's husband automatically became unemployed, the project where he worked was stopped for an unlimited time.

His mind was in a frenzy, his two children were now studying at home on line.

The internet quota runs out so children cannot learn. Want to work to find where else, see in the news hundreds of employees of large factories were put home.

Every day to eat must wait in front of doctor Anton's house, later his wife Eti out to give side dishes and rice to take home.

Fortunately Anton's family is good people, in the middle of the pandemic is also still willing to share food.

But every day this is also a shame of his heart, but Slamet can only reflect while trying to find a way to find a fortune.

Because there was no work and then he tidied up the house, he dismantled one empty room former of his deceased father-in-law who was long unused.

He saw there was an old sewing machine and a lot of piles of cloth, his mother-in-law was a dress tailor.

But Eti doesn't even have the intelligence of her mother, she prefers cooking to sewing.

Slamet used to be able to sew when his parents-in-law there was an order to make a scout scarf and once also made a handkerchief.

But today where there are more people wearing handkerchiefs he thought and he just cleaned the room and then covered it up again.

"Walah.park.. Because of a pandemic like this I can not sell to the market, all markets are closed. I want to go around peddling fish, but it can't be prevented because the police have to wear a mask," said one of Slamet's neighbors complained about his fate while sitting on the porch of his house.

"Why don't you buy a mask and put it on?" ask Slamet to his neighbor who is a wet fishmonger around.

"Ah Slamet.where have you been, pandemic times like this masks cost hundreds of thousands. Where is I money to buy a mask like the one the hospital wears," said the neighbor who looks sad.

"If only there was a cheap cloth mask would be able to buy it because I can wash it to wear many times," he continued, as he passed from the terrace of the house Slamet.

"Mask fabric?"slamet's guman while thinking something.

"What does a cloth mask look like?".

Then he asked his son to search on social media what the cloth mask meant.

His son was looking and there were indeed instructions on how to make a mask out of cloth. Some were tied with rubber and some were tied with cloth.

Slamet watched carefully, and how to make a cloth mask was not much different from when he helped his in-laws make scarves and handkerchiefs.

How to cut is almost the same as how to sew it.

Slamet immediately entered the room of his former room-in-law and checked the condition of the sewing machine, it was still good only to be given oil and slightly tightened the bolts.

Then he took one cloth and cut it according to the instructions from social media earlier and tried to make a cloth mask with a rope tied.

And it turned out to be one fruit, then he tried it and felt moved.

"Oh Allah, may this be the way for us to seek the fortune for our children" Slamet said with tears and asked for Powerful guidance.

Then he started cutting some more cloth and eventually became quite a lot, then he sold to neighbors around at a very cheap and affordable price.

Everyone was interested in buying it and even some people ordered it. Then there are also some requests from some hijab women to be made specifically for hijab.

Since then he has continued to try to make masks with various variations, some have failed to try again and again to suit the wishes of customers.

"Alhamdulillah well Mba Eti, finally mas Slamet can have a business," Mela told Eti who was considered like a brother only.

"Yes Ma'am, my mother used to be a tailor, uh I can't even. Fortunately Mas Slamet can sew.eh yes.can sew," said Eti which always has an element of latency.

Because there is a call to sunbathe every day between nine am to ten am, it turns out that cosmetic orders are actually increasing.

The women want to sunbathe but fear the face is not cool anymore, then the use of anti-sun cream continues to run.

And a decent order can still be made through social media and sent via online taxi to the place of booking.

It is not much but still running, also ordering vitamins to the pharmacy is still there even though the condition of the pharmacy closes.

For neighbors around served only limited to the fence, because Mela does not receive guests.

Even Ibu Sinah also did not dare to go out of the house even though she missed her granddaughter.

Aryani's mother and Mr. Salim also had to cancel the trip, as all airlines were not allowed to travel.

The world economy suddenly dies, can only reap the windfall from small things.

Jaya is also now helping his wife deliver food orders, Miranti turned the brain because the husband suddenly stopped his job.

Back to the market was a pedicab boy named Doni, and he was wearing a plastic bag to cover his body from the virus. There's a reason, because he doesn't want to get sick.

"Bu Miranti, in the market is also limited because it sells also only until nine in the morning" said Doni while hanging groceries on the fence.

And the payment money has been hung on the fence as well by Miranti.

The same thing applies when Jaya delivers food to the ordering house, she wears a mask while riding a bicycle to deliver the order to the neighboring house.

Indeed, all orders change, there are no people who meet face to face, no people shake hands, no more places of worship of any religion are open to the public.

All major malls are closed, mall employees, offices and manufacturers are also many who are left behind because there is no economic movement.

Anton was transferred to a sports house, because the number of patients infected has been thousands, so the hospital can no longer accommodate.

Semantara Mela at home increasingly upset, seeing television shows there are a number of nurses and doctors who are declared exposed to the virus. There was even a famous doctor who died from the virus earlier.

"Bak Eti, I'm afraid. Gibran's cheeks how well. Where there are now thousands of people who are sick with the virus," Mela cried in the arms of Eti, while Eti could only ask her always Istighfar surrendered to the Almighty.

Anton was alternating breaks with other doctors, he opened his food box and started lunch.

Still remember Hernowo, a classmate who met him a few months ago at a cafe while gathering with alma mater friends.

"Elu Anton, right? How come it's here, bro?"hernowo said that at that time only wearing ordinary clothes did not use hazmat and others.

Anton looked up and was surprised by the appearance of his friend.

"Wo, why not wear hazmat clothes, danger bro," Anton warned his friend.

"Let's, I intentionally let me die. Free life too, my wife cheated in plain sight. Why am I alive again" replied Hernowo casually and he lit a cigarette in the rest room instead.

The doctors and other nurses who were eating immediately rebuked Hernowo, but he seemed to be unconcerned about everyone's reprimand there.

Anton, who happened to have finished eating, immediately got up and tried to snatch a cigarette from Hernowo's hand.

Damn once the cigarette hollowed out hazmat clothes right near his wrist, but the cigarette was captured and turned off by him.

"You're going to kill yourself, please, but not here. We are tired of knowing!!!! A lot of people have to be taken care of, so you don't want to get attention here. Please go!!!" Anton goes up in black to see Hernowo's behavior.

"Eh Anton, you don't know how I feel. Same I'm tired of taking care of the crowd, but my wife even cheated on me when I was here to devote myself to the crowd!!!" Hernowo also did not want to lose, he turned angry with Anton who was considered not understand about him.

"Listen Wo, whether you're betrayed or not, that's your personal matter. But here we are all on duty, helping people a lot. Please, don't bring personal matters here and don't get angry here. Please let you go home and solve your personal problems" Anton said, staring intently and pointing his index finger at Hernowo's face.

Then Hernowo left the room and walked somewhere, and Anton returned to his office to check on the patient.

"Doctor Anton!!, please go to the department first in the opposite building. There's a couple of little kids who have the virus, but the pediatrician's not around, so please help us for a minute," one of the doctors asked Anton for help and of course he immediately moved to the department.

In contrast to the part he had been handling, in the building opposite this patient was a lot and everything looked very terrible.

Some were drooping, some were vomiting, some were coughing and some also had to wear breathing apparatus because of tightness of his chest.

In the recovery section alone is tired and half dead, especially those who handle the critical and critical patient section.

Anton is shown to a room where little children are exposed, and his heart is pounding again because he remembers that there were children at home.

Gibran's worry about getting the virus comes back to haunt his mind.

Anton examined about thirty young children who were ill and in critical condition.

"Doctor, the shirt is this hole" said a child innocently as he put one finger to scrape his hazmat shirt.

Anton was shocked to death when a small finger hit the skin of his arm, automatically now Anton was exposed to the virus.

Because the little boy whose finger was scraping his hazmat sleeve was a child who was in a high critical condition due to exposure to the deadly virus.

Anton remained silent while smiling at the weak, helpless little boy while stroking the boy's head.

But Anton continued to examine and treat the condition of the patients of small children who contracted the deadly virus.

But it was not just a child, because Anton's doctor was kind and friendly, so almost all the children who saw there was a hole in Anton's sleeve could not bear to pry it.

Almost half of the children in the room had their fingers scraping a hole in Anton's hazmat sleeve.

Later that night when entering the mess, every health worker had to take off his hazmat clothes to be immediately destroyed by special officers.

When opening hazmat, felt his body goosebumps like he was in the wind, his body temperature was hot and his throat felt hot and sore.

Anton sat pensively, he bowed his body while holding his head.

"Why doctor ?"ask the nurse Irma who always accompanies him.

"Suster Irma, I was exposed not to approach" Anton said with a paled face while looking at nurse Irma.

"AH !!! My goodness, doctors have always been careful. Why can't doctors?" nurse Irma said limply sitting about two meters away from where Anton was sitting.

"I'd like to see Dr. Rossie Tamadi to check on me, and here's my phone. Please, if my wife or anyone from my family calls, tell me I'm very busy" Anton said as he stood up and walked to the building where a critical adult patient was exposed to the virus.

Doctor Rossie was surprised to see Anton coming without a hazmat shirt, and even more surprised when Anton asked him to check.

His body temperature was over thirty-eight degrees, his smell was gone, his tongue was numb and his throat was sore.

"Sorry doctor Anton, you need to be treated immediately in the critical patient section but there is a special room for exposed medical personnel," doctor Rossie said limply looking at a co-worker she already considered her own sister.

Doctor Rossie delivered Anton while walking imperceptibly in the corner of Rossie's eye there was a drop of water dripping.

In a special room exposed medical personnel there are about ten people who are being treated and one of them is already worn ventilator or breathing apparatus.

"That's the doctor who looks so bad?"ask Anton while staring at the bed at the end of the place where one of the doctors who has been used the tool.

"That's Dr. Hernowo, who was found unconscious last night from shortness of breath. He's been about five days exposed, but when treated to run away and infect many other doctors" said doctor Rossie Tamadi, looking annoyed at Hernowo who was lying helpless.

"I want to be in bed next to Hernowo" Anton said casually.

"Don't, Anton's doctor is still in the early stages so we can immediately handle it so as not to be critical like Doctor Hernowo," Rossie tried to prevent Anton.

"Believe me, I must be next to him. His condition was half conscious, and I had to help him" Anton said forcefully.

Finally, the bed for Anton is provided next to Hernowo who is lying semi-conscious and breathing also with a ventilator that is a breathing tool in the form of a hose inserted into the mouth and nose and then connected with a tool oxygen regulator.

"Hi, I'm Susan Hernowo's friend, you must be Anton's disabled doctor" said a woman across from Anton's bed.

"Hi too, yes I am Anton, greet doctor Susan," Anton said with a friendly smile.

"Have you also come in here because of him?"susan asked the doctor, pointing at Hernowo and Anton, not just a smile.

"I was already going to sleep in the mess that night, suddenly Hernowo banged on the door while yelling my name. So I woke up to see him, and he held my cheek and told me he cheated on his wife" Susan told Anton.

"He said he was not clearly mingling about his wife who was caught cheating. Bring booze, smoke, cough and when he comes home he kisses me on the cheek. The next day I was brought here with a high fever" Susan continued, looking annoyed at Hernowo.

"Where do you know you from?" anton asked as his eyes glanced at Susan and Hernowo.

"We work at the same Hospital, I'm a general practitioner and he's a pediatrician. And the ugly thing is that she's my ex-boyfriend, we broke up because of tribal differences".

"I am from Padang and he is from East Java. My parents disagreed, so I was betrothed by their choice, had a daughter and then separated. My ex-husband is married again, my son is coming with me" Susan said with a smile.

"Hmmm..it seems there will be a chance for you to be together again dong," said Anton teasing him.

"No, just look at the time when I had to choose a stupid man like him" Susan said with a flick of her lips.

Anton looked at Hernowo and then got up to him in a whisper, "Foolish base, it's usually just making a run. Get everybody infected, and then you think it's over".

"Wake up stupid, remember your son. You died and your son was raised by your wife who you think is a br*ngs*k girl. Of course you will be happy in the afterlife to see your child will also be the same as his mother. Think with your brain, not just emotion. What kind of pediatrician are you," whispered Anton issued his scathing sentence, because he understood for sure Hernowo heard it even though he seemed unconscious.

And sure enough Hernowo's hand moved his brain sign responding to Anton's words.

According to Susan's version, after they broke up because Susan married the man of her parents' choice, then Hernowo so often entered the nightclub to get drunk.

It was there that he met a woman named Ana, and somehow one day they woke up in a hotel room naked.

A month later Ana is pregnant and Hernowo is forced to marry her, and they have a daughter also named Arabella called Bella.

Since the baby Bella is more often taken care of by Hernowo's mother while Ana his wife is the same as the first to enter the nightclub almost every day.

Bella is now with her mother Hernowo and Hernowo's younger sister Herdanu who is still in college.

When the virus hit like this, Hernowo could not go home because he had to serve small children exposed to the virus.

So that Bella, who was almost two years old, was also placed in her parents' house because she also felt worried that Bella and her wife would not be supervised.

Sure enough, because the nightclub was closed then the poranya party she moved to her house, because after all her husband was also not at home.

One day Herdanu had to take Bella's clothes and also had to take a stock of her nephew's canned milk, she was determined to penetrate into her brother's house to take the needs of her nephew.

And inside her sister's house, it turns out Ana's sister-in-law is seen being drunk badly naked with a man.

Herdanu was furious, then he photographed all the chaotic house and his brother-in-law who was hanging out with a man on the sofa.

Both of them are still unconscious because of the influence of a lot of alcohol, so do not understand that Herdanu photographed them.

So he took all the belongings of his nephew, and he left his brother's house.

And with emotion he sent all the photos he took to Hernowo, and that made Hernowo shaken and drunk again.

The second day Anton was treated, he was still feverish, sneezing and his throat hurt, once in a while he started coughing.

"Am I going to be the same as him?" anton asked Susan while pointing at Hernowo.

"Oh don't dong, I've been in this room for almost a week. Same with you at that time, the cure is to keep thinking positive do not give up. Remember you also have children and wives waiting at your house," Susan said as she looked at Anton.

"My wife doesn't know that I'm in this room, my phone is placed in Irma's nurse so she answers that I'm very busy" Anton said, looking sad to remember Mela and Gibran.

"Anton you're wrong, you have to honestly say what you are. They also have the right to know your condition, and if you know family prayer also becomes our encouragement," Susan continued advising Anton.

"Every day I do video phones with my son, and that's what makes me get well. Come on later if a nurse comes in and sends a message to get your phone taken from nurse Irma".

For a moment Anton pondered, he thought about what Dr. Susan had just said, there is a point also because surely now Mela wonders about him.

"Mbak Eti, it's strange that Anton's doctor has always been busy being unable to be contacted for three days. Gibran wept and wanted to talk to his cheeks" said Mela, pouring out her heart to Eti.

"Prophey Ma'am, maybe it's true that many busy doctors are sick. Also on television the number of sick people increased every day, "sahut Eti tried to calm Mela's heart.

"Usually although busy, his cheeks always provide time to greet his son. But these three days were not at all, and every single one on the phone must have been nurse Irma answering. I was worried about Eti, afraid that there was nothing with Anton's doctor" Mela said again as she began to cry.

Eti could do nothing but encourage Mela not to think badly.

The fifth day Anton coughed badly, but he kept the spirit of continuing to take medicine and vitamins.

The seventh day of the new phone he could receive because the new nurse Irma could be confirmed by the nurse who was on duty in the room.

Fever has gone down and sore throat has begun to subside, as well as coughing and sneezing.

Anton thumped his heart and contacted his wife, and when his phone contact was connected, he could not help but hold back his tears to see his wife sitting while holding her child.

"Where's the cheek?"ask Mela too while shedding tears.

Anton slowly tells him what happened and Mela is very surprised. Then Mela cried bitterly because she was very worried about her husband's condition.

"Mi baby, look at me too spirit. Mimi's childhood sweetheart who became like that, crying so. Come on baby you have to believe I'm going to get through everything" Anton said excitedly to his wife.

True what doctor Susan said, by saying what is to her family turned out to be the energy that makes her strong.

Hernowo can be separated from the breathing apparatus but still looks weak.

"Enak right bro, can call the same daughter wife. While I'm what, just a useless man," complained Hernowo when he saw Anton just finished contacting the video phone with his son and wife.

"Your little girl is almost my age. He must be happy if his papa called him, papa who excitedly greeted him rather than have a papa who complained constantly," said Anton trying to arouse the spirit of his friend.

"I'd rather die, for what life has also lost my pride to have a cheating wife in plain sight" Hernowo complained again with his head down.

"Just leave there, neither will your mother live for a hundred years, your sister will have a household. Then Bella who is the same, of course, back to her mother and will be taught to get drunk and live freely," Anton said again with his chuckle.

Hernowo was silent and seemed to think what Anton had said. Then he looked at Anton and said, "Fuck you, where do I want my son to be a drunk".

Anton just shrugged his shoulders and pulled the blanket and closed his eyes.

To be sure on the fourteenth day, Anton was declared healthy but could not return to his city. He remains on duty again, while for another fourteen days he remains in quarantine somewhere in the sports house.

Susan's doctor was already healthy and had served again, while Anton also began to return to health as usual.

Hernowo, who later followed to the quarantine, was heard calling his sister to ask for help from a famous lawyer.

He will divorce his wife and take full custody of the child in her hands, because he has strong evidence that his wife does not take good care of her child.

Then he said to Anton, thanking him for making it happen.

Hernowo promises to take care of his son, and he must stay alive for the sake of his son.