Misplaced Taste

FOURTEEN YEARS AGO

"Son, you know, mom used to be just like you. Dissolved in sorrow and fear."

"Mother used to be afraid that Raisa wouldn't come back in her coma."

"meaning?" ask Devan.

"Then, in a car accident. Raisa had been in a coma for a year. During her coma, Raisa is revealed to have a brain tumor. He was also declared amnesiac because of the violent impact he experienced," replied Miss Dewi.

Devan silently listened to what Miss Dewi said. His household assistant used to be his nanny and his sister's nanny.

"Auntie used to be very scared if Raisa didn't come back. Bibi always hoped that Raisa would wake up and remember her family" said Ms. Dewi.

"However, the hope of the Goddess Ma'am was dashed. Raisa did wake up. But he does not remember who his family is" explained Miss Dewi.

The flashback

"Auntie," cried a petite girl as she awoke from her long slumber.

"Sheena. This is aunt, son," exclaimed the Goddess Maiden who faithfully accompanied the waking sleeping princess.

"Abibi ... Hicks ... Aunt ... scared," she squeaked with a cry that began to sound.

Madam Goddess swiftly hugged the little girl named Raisa. Trying to calm down so that Raisa does not cry and remember the dark incident.

"Raisa don't be afraid, yeah. There's an aunt" said Miss Dewi.

"She remembers, who's aunt?" ask the Goddess.

Raisa nodded. "Mother Raisa" replied Raisa sarcasm.

Deg. Madam Dewi was shocked when she heard Raisa's words. However, he also did not want to make her feel any pain. After a year of sleeping.

"Other than that?" ask the Goddess doubtfully.

Raisa shakes. "Raisa doesn't know anything," Raisa replied with her lisp voice.

The three-year-old toddler looked sad when asked that way by her aunt.

"Yes already. If so Raisa sleeps, yes," said Miss Dewi.

"Yes." Yeah."

Flashback off

"Since that time. Aunty already thinks of Raisa like her own aunt's daughter. Aunty who was lonely because of the death of her aunt husband became happy. Aunty's life became colored when Raisa was present," said Miss Dewi.

"But why didn't auntie bring Raisa home?" ask Devan.

"Auntie did that because of two things, son," replied Miss Dewi stroking Devan's head affectionately.

"Auntie is afraid that Raisa will feel pain and also that's the message of your mother," added Bu Dewi.

"Mama's manat?" devan parrot.

"Yes. The mandate of Mother Medina," replied Miss Dewi.

...****************...

Fourteen years ago.

Today Raisa's family will take a vacation to the beach. As promised by his father, if the weekend Raisa will be invited to vacation at the beach.

"Isael is going to the beach," the carefree toddler girl on her babysitter's lap.

"Isael will play with the pasil" said the toddler with a slurred voice.

"Isael will play the waves," the toddler was unceasingly chattering along the way.

"Raisa's gonna play the waves?" ask Meda from the steering chair.

"Yes, Pa. Raisa will make houses from the pasil," he replied enthusiastically.

"So Devan wasn't invited?" ask Medina next to the steering chair.

"Sir Dev is far away. Who told him to go to school and live with Oma. Later if he comes home we play baleng to the beach again," replied Raisa.

Everyone in the car laughed at Raisa.

"It's mama's son who's a pinter, anyway" praised Medina.

"Yes dong!" sahut Raisa's.

"This is my mom's photo. Mama will send it to Kak Devan," said Medina.

"Isael wants to share with Devan. Go, Ma! Photo Isael," Raisa's enthusiasm.

Czechoslovak.

Medina took a picture of her little daughter

"Kilim to Brother Devan, Ma!" exciting Raisa.

"Bial Brother Devan is coming home soon."

Medina, Meda, and Lady Dewi laughed again. However, their laughter did not last long. When the car arrives at JL. Cantile. Suddenly the car is shrewd and uncontrollable when avoiding the hole.

"I don't know, Ma" replied Meda trying to take over the steering wheel.

"Ma, it looks like the brakes are blong" said Meda.

"What?" medina asked in shock.

"Yes, Ma."

"You all wear the safety belt!" meda's orders.

"So papa ain't chek first?" ask Medina.

"Yesterday after from Bekasi papa forgot chek," replied Meda.

"What the hell?" medina grumbled between annoyance and fear.

Her husband is usually careful. But now why so late?

"Mama, Isael is afraid," the great-grandson of Raisa on the lap of the Goddess Mother.

"Isael calm down, yes. Don'worry. Raisa just shut up in aunty's lap" replied Medina.

"Mama. Isael was afraid," the great-grandson of Raisa with her lisp voice.

"Don't be afraid, yeah. We'll all be fine" Medina said, calming her daughter down.

"Revelation!" exclaimed Medina when she saw a truck from the opposite direction.

"Aaa .." cried Medina as her husband slammed the steering wheel to the right and hit a large tree on the edge of Jl. Cantile.

At that instant, Meda immediately died. Medina can still be conscious and advised to Miss Dewi. Lady Goddess at that time was only minor injuries. Raisa in her carriage slammed out and hit a big rock near a tree.

"Bi, please save Isael," said Medina with the rest of her strength.

"Take him. Love him like Bi Dewi's own son," pinta Medina.

"If he were seventeen years old. Tell me about his family in New York. Let him live here first" Medina said.

"I don't want to be far from Raisa" Medina added.

At that moment, Medina also breathed her last.

Madam Dewi immediately came out and approached Raisa. He took Raisa to the hospital for help. Leaving the accident area and cars that have emitted thick smoke.

"Oh my God!" pekik Bu Dewi when he saw the car had exploded.

Madam Dewi in a hurry brought little Raisa who was drenched in unconscious blood to the hospital.

Once in the hospital, Raisa is immediately treated by medical personnel. Miss Dewi also got help for the small injuries on her body.

In waiting for Raisa, Madam Dewi hopes anxious. From the police no one knows if Miss Dewi and Raisa are also the victims of the single accident. The rest of Raisa's family doesn't know where Raisa went with her nanny.

They suspected that Raisa and her nanny fell into a steep ravine near the place of the antics. There were really no eyewitnesses.

Especially Jl. Cantil is a fairly quiet and rarely traveled road. Jg. Canteen itself is a shortcut to make it faster but a little hollow.

The day after the accident, Raisa was declared in a coma. Since then Miss Dewi painstakingly took care and waited for Raisa who was in a coma.

...****************...

"As soon as Raisa is aware. Aunty is happy, but aunt is also sad because a month after your sister was sentenced to get a brain tumor," said Ms. Dewi with tears.

Devan quickly hugged the Goddess.

"Auntie is trying to find a way out. With the ability of a very small and simple aunt. Bibi is only able to buy medicine and treatment to Raisa," explained Miss Dewi.

"Doctors try alternatives. See how the economy of aunt. So since then Raisa is only able to take drugs and chemo in one year," said Bu Dewi.

Devan has no power to hold back his tears. He could not imagine how his sister Isael was suffering. Devan lives with treasure in New York there. Raisa fights for her survival and survival.

"Sorry," said Devan.

The Goddess took off her embrace. Removing the remaining tears in Devan's eyes that he had considered his own son.

"You are innocent. This is all fate" said Miss Dewi.

"Destiny is cruel, Bi," Devan said.

"Hus, don't be so," interrupted Miss Dewi.

"If fate is not evil then there will be no retislaya, son," said Ms. Dewi.

"Restislaya and Asrar have always been part of destiny. We all have to accept it" added Miss Dewi.

Restislaya: A wound in the heart.

Asrar: Secrets.

Devan nodded.

"May Raisa quickly come to her senses," said Ms. Dewi.

"Amen."