My Lovely Driver's
13
"Sorry I'm Aunt.”.
Guilt has not disappeared from Nata.
Sukma grabbed both of the woman's shoulders, then pulled her in an embrace. It's been two years since Salisa's best years without going in and out of the hospital. Who would have thought tonight would have to go back to feeling the cold sensation of IGD.
“What's wrong, Insyaallah Salisa will be fine.”
The sukma wipes the clear water flowing from the eye fertilizers Nata, and vice versa. The two wiped each other's tears, then tried to smile even with foggy eyes.
Radit was still in the emergency room after agreeing to some actions that the doctor would take. While Sukma, Retno, Audrey, and Nata waited outside; chanting prayers in dismay. Hope nothing bad happens to Salisa. They've been through the middle of the night there.
“Go home Nata, you look exhausted. Salisa has passed her critical period”
Radit came out with a face that looked very tired. Hours in the hospital in a wet shirt, the man loved his family. Even though Salisa had absolutely no blood relation to him.
“No, I'll stay here until Salisa comes out of that space”
“But we are here. He's still there and we can't do much here”
“Please Radit, don't kick me out.. Let my mom go home”
Nata turned to Retno who had asked permission to go home, he was worried about the situation of the husband at home.
****
In the morning, Salisa's condition improved a little. At least there is no emergency anymore that makes him have to be monitored like last night.
A nurse there mentioned this 'miracle’.
Ahead of nine Salisa moved to the hospital room although some medical devices are still attached to his body. Slowly clouding in Nata's face was reduced, though not entirely.
“Babies bribe ya”
Nata while pulling the chicken porridge that the officer had just placed on the table. Salisa is weak. The girl is still not appetite, she can only spend three tablespoons and choose to sleep.
“Sorry brother yes, have made you go to the pool until you can do this.”
Nata rubbed Salisa's shoulder, he almost let out his tears again if Radit did not come back.
“From last night apologize to you. Wong was forgiven, still apologizing.. Request another cake..!” Radit laughed crisply.
He brought a few bottles of mineral water and placed them in a small cupboard in the corner of the room laughing. As if nothing happened last night.
“So what do you think I should ask for?” Nata asked, squinting her eyes.
“H....What yes? Ask for dowry for example, to me”
Radit boasted his smile, while Audrey seemed to giggle while playing a worm game on her smartphone.
“Nata, stay here first same Radit yes.. Audrey's aunt goes home and changes clothes first. While taking some Salisa clothes first in the apartment. How do you know Radit later did this, so Salisa is not alone”
Sukma had just returned from the canteen, looking for something to eat together.
“Eh Yes Aunt.”
The middle-aged woman looked a little pale, but the wide drawn lip line disguised everything. The carriage was very calm, covering up all fatigue and anxiety.
“That's why I bought chicken porridge with ketoprak, you guys eat first. It was the last meal in the cafeteria. There's not much food there on weekends"
Sukma put one plastic bag containing three food boxes. Audrey immediately picked one styrofoam filled with chicken porridge and ate it in a hurry. Then she rushed her mother to the apartment.
Nata took out a box of breakfast without looking at the contents first. Then devour with the spirit of the menu which is apparently the same as Audrey's. He was already very hungry, so no longer care about the gaze of Radit who watched Nata like he had not eaten for three days.
The man was amazed, if most of his female business associates ate gracefully. Nata even seemed to not care about the state of his misery every meal.
But that's exactly the appeal. Radit was always at home watching Nata's gluttony linger. Smilingly.
The man grabbed the only box left. Seeing that there was only Ketoprak there, he put the white food container back.
“Why not eat? You don't like it?”
Nata paused his meal for a moment, curious. While Radit seemed to rub his nape, confused what to answer.
“I can't eat it “
Radit does have a history of allergies that cause shortness of breath when consuming nuts.
“You are allergic to peanuts? Why didn't you say. I just wanted to take no porridge.”
Nata suddenly lost his appetite. He felt guilty about letting Radit starve. While the sun was almost looming, the man had not had any breakfast.
“Nothing. See you eat I'm full kok” Sahut laugh.
Until a voice from Radit's abdominal cavity surprises them. The sound of signals from a hungry stomach. Nata feels bad.
“You lied, it sounded a sign you were hungry! How dong canteen is empty, where the car does not exist! Did I call Mr Amar bring food?”
Then Nata even patted his own eel, he forgot to bring a cell phone.
“I ate yours aja deh” Finally Radit gave up on pretending like he was not hungry. He pulled the spoon from Nata's hand.
“Angos?” Nata is shocked to see a man as clean as Radit eating from his container.
“What's wrong, consider it a practice before actually everything is both”
Radit said after letting the soft food down into his abdominal cavity.
“Means?”
“Yes, a plate together, a house together, a room together. Isn't it if you've married all that?”
Nata almost spouted the water that was still in his mouth. Then the pause took time between the two.
“You want to be, so my wife?”
Radit's question this time really made him go awry. Nata almost forgot about the matchmaking deadline.
“Astaghfirullah!” Nata landed both of his palms on his head. He almost forgot something.
“Loh, my question is wrong yes!” Radit asked in shock at Nata's response.
Nata remembers the last message he sent to Lukman, not even knowing what Lukman replied. It's almost 9 o'clock, while it takes almost another hour for him to reach the location, even then without a morning shower.
“Bu-not. I forgot I had a friend's appointment at the park this morning. Where not to bring Hape. Lest he wait for me there” Nata began to look unsettled.
“So how? Just call your mom and tell her to tell her?
“Mother? Don't!”
Of course this will only invite trouble. Radit was confused to see the panic of the women before him.
“So?"
"I'm out, okay?"
Radit nodded as he pulled the width of his lip line, very sweet.
"I ordered Go Car?"
Radit issued several red rupiah sheets and an ATM, but Nata declined the card. He just took the money.
Nata looked at the clock on the wall of the hospital room, estimating the travel time. It's too late.
“Oke, already. I told you to wear black, maroon hijab. Wait in the hospital yard.
“Still Radit”
Nata exited the room with half a run. He waited for a while in the parking lot, until a driver approached him.
A hijab-wearing woman develops a smile, in front of her looks a toddler in a kangaroo sling is fast asleep. Then he held out a green helmet to Nata.
Nata nailed for a moment, pity. Then go up to the back of the bike.
“Where to Stay?” Sapa Nata was behind the driver when the trip was a little far away.
“Near the Hospital, behind Sukma Nusa” High School
“Wah, near the same school I used to be apparently. Thank God his henchman adek ya, know his mother again work.”
Nata chose pleasantries with sentences that did not seem pitying.
“Iya.. Thank God, still a baby is good at working together. Usually saturday-sunday guarded by his brother. But this is the big brother there try out”
The woman was seen rubbing her son's back.
“His Kingdom?”
Somehow Nata could not help but ask the source of this problem.
“Then. Marry again Ma'am... I was divorced just one year ago”
Nata was silent to the confession. She wondered how hard it would be for a mother to raise her two children. Even small toddlers are invited to split the streets, against the wind, to be able to connect life.
“That's patient yes Ma'am.” Nata seemed to take a deep breath. His divorce with Dion is certainly not this bad, they have no children.
“Still Mbak. Maybe this test also evoked my sins in the past. God willing I am sincere.”
Nata was amazed by the answer of the woman in front of him. There was not the slightest attempt to defend himself by demonizing the wicked man. Along the way Nata was struck, how much God gave him favors.
“This Mbak.. Taken all of them”
Nata gave him ten rupiahs, all of which Radit gave him. He regretted that he did not often use the services of online drivers, even though there may be many people he can help. Unfortunately it was not his own money, he promised to replace Radit money.
“Do Not Mbak.. I don't feel good receiving this”
The woman subtly refused the red sheet and forced it back into Nata's hands. He did not want to feel like making his own son as a fisherman of his sustenance.
The two looked at each other for a while. No one wants to give up.
“Okay aja, I love it not for Mbak, but for the child Mbak. If he refuses, then I take back”
Nata moved the money into a pocket attached to the front sling.
He remembered his grandmother used to often use this way if he wanted to donate people who are 'not happy' this kind
The woman was silent, and began to shed tears. Then he looked at the son who had woken up while showing off his four new teeth.
“Still Mbak. God never left me, until sent an angel like Mbak.”
The woman wiped a clear speck from her eye patch.
“Sama-sama. Pray for my health to be given"
“Whose Mother's name? I want to pray Mbak..”
“H.. Just pray for Salisa to heal. Call my sister's name, Salisa ya Mbak!”
Nata handed her helmet back, then ran away leaving the woman with her child. He was nearly two hours late. If only he did not make promises maybe he would feel at home for a long time, learning about the life of a tough mother like him.
Nata entered the two-hectare park area in a hurry. A city park that offers a little coolness around polluted streets.
The combination of the Chalatea and Asoka plants appear parallel flanking the path, while a variety of medium-sized trees are slightly behind it. Green, shady, soothing.
A circular pool with benches surrounding it is where Nata often escapes when saturated in the office.
Some benches look empty, visitors are not as crowded as usual. Morning and afternoon are the preferred time for many people to come to this place to just invite children to play, or eliminate saturation from all routines.
Nata turned to several benches, looking for a figure who might come or wait to fulfill a promise he decided unilaterally.
A few moments to repeat the circulation of his views, but the results are the same. There is no form sought. It only looked like three families, with a small child. And a pair of teenagers who seem to be getting drunk on romance.
'Would he have come home because he waited a long time, or maybe he didn't come at all...' Nata.
He looked sideways, at the cool teenager holding hands.
“Dek, There seems a shoulder-haired man not while here?” nata said without hesitation, at least the question can make a pair of teenagers stop friendly in public places.
The one being asked seemed to frown, as if asking for a moment to remember the figure being asked.
“Know brother. If it was beside us there was nothing. But this park is big. Maybe what you ask, is in another section.”
The girl then looked around, every corner of the park was also provided other benches in a simple form, only made of cement. Rectangular in shape.
“Yaudah, thanks yes..”
Nata again walked around the vast park with a giant step. He was so tired that he slept for only an hour last night. Not to mention so much that he had to mess with his mind, about last night's incident, about Radit's remarks this morning, and about Lukman's whereabouts.
Slowly drizzle down one hit the hijab to her tunic.
“Rain?”
Nata held both hands. And even stare alone. Hoping for rain to shake his mood.
Had it not been for the strange look people had on him, perhaps he would have actually played with the rain or let the rain play tricks on him, perhaps.
Finally he went to one side of the park as did the people around him. A building with several pillars without walls. There is little roof to shelter, although not as wide.
All those in the garden gathered at that spot, there were dozens of them. But there is no Lukman among them. Nata guessed it seemed like the man had never come.
The shadow of Lukman seemed to be lapping his mind space. His laughter, his jokes, his mischievousness, until his farewell that night. Then who would have thought to meet again yesterday, with very complicated circumstances.
The rain was getting worse for an hour. All there with friends talking, or accompanied by their 4 inch screen. Except for Nata, he can do nothing but grieve the situation, not even a piece of money he has. How could he possibly forget that to go home he also needed some.
His head just feels heavy.
“Nata”
Sayup-sayup heard someone calling his name from behind. But now to turn away he was exhausted. His eyes began to twitch, unable to see who was standing before him right now.
“Lukman?”
Nata tried to blink again his eyes, blurred.
'Bruk..'
Nata fell to the floor and was unconscious. The man who called out to him looked very panicked, he immediately pulled the body into his lap, patted his cheek, hoping that the figure he loved woke up.
“Nata..! Nata, please wake up..!"
