Melody Love Aqila

chapter 11 Farewell

Shinta opened the wooden window and tied the curtains, as if she was allowing the morning sunlight to visit her tiny residence. The sound of a baby's cry leads his feet into the room, as hypnotized he grabs the tiny baby's lap and unbuttoned his shirt and suckled it. He stroked the face of his little baby with affection.

What if the man still hasn't given up, what should I do?

Shinta's face stiffened, horror and fear haunted his mind, it was not impossible if the man would soak in him, suddenly cold sweat soaked his body. He immediately went to the writing table, grabbed a tiny blue pen and a clean white sheet of paper. His right hand moved like a dance on paper while his left hand held his little baby in his chest. After he finished writing, he looked at the paper. There was doubt surrounding his chest.

Where should I go....

Shinta took a breath and let it out deeply, her feelings were extremely depressed. He put the paper in an envelope and tidied it.

Shinta's eyes watched Aqila who was immersed in her school studies, for some reason her lips felt heavy to launch the sentence that was in her heart. He approached Aqila and rubbed her black hair.

"What are you learning, baby?" say Shinta subtly

"Memorize some mathematical formulas, ma'am." Answer Aqila. He closed the book and put it in his bag.

"do you feel better?" connect Aqila while watching her mother's face. There was worry in his eyes.

Shinta simply nodded, she held Aqila's hand gently

"Son, tomorrow I plan to go wandering." said Shinta, he was silent for a while and then continued his sentence

"Mom doesn't know where either.. The next life may be more difficult, will you be patient for it?" shinta said, Her tears melted down her cheeks .

Inside the two-storey maternity clinic there was a commotion after Shinta handed her resignation letter.

"Why did you resign?" Rosminah

"Is there anything you don't like here, baby?" Connect midwife Erni

"Or could someone hurt you?" Rudi the Apothecary

"No. no. I just want to go back to Jakarta, where my parents are" Shinta said half-lying to stop a barrage of remarks addressed to him.

"O... yes... Where is Doctor Anwar? I haven't seen him since" Shinta continued

"Today he took a leave of absence" Maya said

Shinta flinched, tucked in guilt plaguing her heart. Anwar has given away a lot of Budi to him, he felt embarrassed if he did not say goodbye to him directly. Shinta takes the phone out of her pocket and calls Anwar but is not connected, repeating it several times but staying the same. Shinta decided to send a short message to him.

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The sky was bright, the birds were chirping, they were flying in groups adorning the blue sky and white clouds and then stopped at the twigs of trees that were shady around the cemetery. Anwar sat beside Seruni's tomb, he chanted various do'a of kindness to the deceased, he was immersed in a certain. There was guilt and shame hanging in his heart, he was pensive long enough to take lessons from his past, then sprinkled flowers and poured water over them. He said hello and left the tomb of the man who once filled his heart.