
Three days later. I'm still pensive. There was nothing I could do but stay in the tent. I just kept quiet and didn't say a word. Even though everyone is running around in front of me. Children crying. And the parents complain. My spirit of life seems to have disappeared. Moreover, I heard many bodies found in various places. Their identity is difficult to recognize because the body is partially intact, some are not intact and some even begin to rot.
I have no hope. Maybe everyone I know is dead. I dare not look at the mading where the names of the dead are displayed not far from the tent where I am.
Adelina came into the tent to approach me. During these three days, he occasionally came to entertain and invite me to chat on the sidelines of his humanitarian activities.
"Do you want to go around?" ask Adelina.
I just kept quiet. M€r€mas shirt on my lap. Honestly my heart is broken. There is nothing left that can make me smile.
"Outside there is an impromptu garden that has just been made" said Adelina.
"Go!" I yelled at Adelina.
"Astagfirullah," said Adelina surprised.
"Don't mind me" I said.
"If you keep going like this, things won't change. Don't wait for someone else to change your situation now for the better but you can change it yourself" Adelina said.
"You don't know the pain I feel, I've lost it all" I said.
"Maybe I don't feel what you're feeling but everyone here feels the same way as you do" Adelina said.
I'm speechless. My eyes look ahead. Empty and empty.
"Look at the little boy, he cried last night missing his father, mother and brother. All his family members died. He's still a kid to take care of himself just can't. How could he laugh?" adelina said while pointing at the little boy who was playing alone. I know from last night he cried calling his father, mother and brother. But today she stopped crying and no longer called her family members. He seems to have adapted to his situation.
"Everyone has their own tests but how to get up and turn bitter into a smile" said Adelina.
My eyes look around. Some of the wounded and lost members of his family have already begun to rise up and accept their destiny. Why can't I?
"I want to go to the park, comfort the kids, if you're interested in coming" Adelina said.
My shoulder was patted slowly by Adelina. Then he went out of the tent.
At first I was not interested. But it's true that I have to change my situation. Back start life either there is Albern or not.
I step foot out. It turns out very crowded. Many people do various activities from helping evacuation officers, gotong royong set up a new tent, queueing food distribution, clean water, to the toilet, some helping the public kitchen, some are following healing therapy, some are following healing therapy, and more other activities. I have missed a lot these three days. It seems I'm the only one who's been down. Everyone here feels the same way as me. Why I feel the most sad.
"Aara," call a voice I know.
I looked to the side. It turned out to be just my hallucination. I thought Ami or Dodo. Maybe if there were none like this at least these lips would smile thinly.
I saw people crowding in front of the mading. Actually my heart is heavy to see who the victims are already identifiable but I want to make sure my family, friends and acquaintances are alive. I walked to the mading. Be patient until it's my turn to look at that list.
"My son hik hik hik."
"My husband died, all this lies hik hik."
My tears are dripping down my cheeks. I can feel what they feel. How painful and bitter it must be to lose loved and loved ones.
I step foot forward closer to the mading board. My hands are heavy to air to search one by one for the name I want to find.
"Miss hurry up the others queue up!"
"Yes," I said.
I started searching quickly. They're right, not just me, who wants to know. If I just keep quiet the other pity behind me.
My eyes went up and down looking for the names of everyone I knew.
"Ami, Dodo," I said limply seeing their names on the mading. I feel like my body cannot be moved. I just found the name Ami and Dodo as a list of people who died just no energy. What if I ...
"No, I should know," my inner.
I went back to see the list. It turned out that all the members of the Albern family died from his grandmother, father, and mother. So did some friends and people I knew at my school.
"Hik hik hik." I wept. Unable to hold back my tears.
I can't stand it. I stepped foot out of the crowd. I'm not ready if Albern, Bobo, Axel and Raina's names are on that list.
I walked back to bow my head. I accidentally ran into a guy who was on the phone.
Tuaq ...
His phone fell down. But I was stupid. Keep walkin. The man was angry, coming at me.
"My cell phone's gone down, look!" his protest.
I stopped my steps. Look at the phone that fell down. Mobile phone with pink case. Makes me look in his direction. Whahuh? Even the suit he wore was pink as well.
"That's your phone?" my many.
"Yes dong, my favorite phone," he said.
The man took the phone that fell. And scolded me just because the phone case was dirty, unhygienic, contaminated with viruses and abrasions.
"What is this place? My clothes, the stuff I wear, my body can get packed with viruses and bacteria" he said.
"Sister!" call Adelina waving from a distance towards the man in the pink suit.
"Adel," he waved.
Adelina approached us. She was about to hug her brother but was immediately sprayed using a disinfectant that she removed from her pocket.
"Sure your body is full of germs, bacteria and viruses, me and my stuff can be infected" he said.
"Sister, it's clean here" said Adelina.
"It needs a microscope to prove this place is really clean" he said.
I was silent to see this super clean pinky guy. In just a few minutes, he had already talked about illness and hygiene. Moreover, I and all things here are considered carriers of germs, bacteria and viruses.
"Why are you here?" ask Adelina.
"Mama told me to catch up with you, when this place is very sterill, know that I wear APD clothes, so it is safe and avoid all diseases," he said.
Adelina smiled hearing her sister. His eyes turned to me. She watched me who was silent in wonder to see her brother.
"What did you do?" ask Adelina.
"Who is doing this? This slovenly girl nudged my phone. Look at my favorite pinky casing dirty, full of germs, bacteria and viruses, blisters again," she lamented.
"Here you go, buy it again" said Adelina. They seem to be talking. It seemed Adelina was already used to her brother's habits.
The man I thought was a maco, cool, strong and tough collapsed instantly upon seeing the man whom Adelina had called sister. More precisely gemulai.
"Yes, I'm Aara" I said.
"So someone was looking for you" said Adelina.
"What's looking for me Albern?" many enthusiast.
"No, her names are Axel and Raina with a baby named Bobo" Adelina replied.
My heart is a little disappointed. I thought Albern was looking for me. But hearing Axek, Raina and Bobo congratulations I'm happy.
"Where are they?" my many.
"There's near tent 10" Adelina replied.
"Thank you Adelina" I said.
Adelina nodded.
Soon I went to the place Adelina had told me. Even though from behind the gleaming man called out to me.
"Miss you still have a debt with me, my beautiful case is broken!" his yell.
"Here you are, brother, come with me to the post" said Adelina.
"Sorry, Brother bring a private tent more sterill and beautiful," he said.
I'm shaking. Keep walking to leave them.
Up near tent 10 I saw Axel, Raina and Bobo. I ran towards them with tears on my cheeks that were powerless to drip.
"Axel, Raina," I shouted.
"Aara" Axel and Raina said.
Raina hugged me. While Bobo is held by Axel. I cried all over Raina's shoulder. My sadness really broke. Seeing them made me remember Albern even more.
"Raina thank God you're safe" I said.
"Yes Aara, we are safe" said Raina.
We sat together to tell him everything that happened. Including what happened to Albern. Axel looks sad. He clenched his hand. Eyes glazed. Same with Raina.
"Prophe Aara" Raina told me.
"Yes Raina," I said.
At least their presence alleviated my grief at Albern's departure. We talked to each other. While looking at our city that has been hit by a tsunami. There is empty land without tall buildings and busy people who go and go home from work. We are looking at a new future.
A month has passed. I took the plunge to tidy up the city from the garbage and the remaining piles of buildings. They started to rebuild the city. All the victims who were not found were pronounced dead. I and hundreds of people who didn't find the bodies of our loved ones can only hope they're okay.
Adelina is still in my town. She helps with everything she can help from teaching, healing therapy, and entertainment to children. Not only that Adelina who is a pediatrician helps the government provide free consultations. He was examining children of tsunami victims. Adelia's sister who is a hygienic man who sweet also occasionally come to my city with all the tools that are anti-germ, bacteria and viruses. As usual he was very anti-close or touched anyone. Everyone likes to wear pink. Be it a shirt, shirt or suit. A rare creature I just found out.
***
Three months after the tsunami the economy has started to recover. The buildings began to stand on the ground. The street started to sound noisy. Clean water is no longer scarce. Markets and schools began to operate normally. Public facilities that serve the community have begun to open and provide servants. Like police stations, public hospitals are not emergency hospitals anymore, government offices and others. I stood in front of a mass grave. Bodies that could not be identified in the grave there. I brought a bunch of roses I put on a mass grave. It's possible that Albern was in one of those bodies. I remember exactly he was injured in his temple, besides it was cold and hit various objects when carried by the current. The chances of survival or life are very small. Only God's miracles can bring him back. And I always pray that one day he will come back.
My tears can't stand when I remember Albern. I don't know when we'll see each other again. Maybe in heaven.
From behind Axel, Raina and Bobo approached me. They strengthen me.
"The way God has a beautiful plan be it for you or my brother" Axel said.
"Yes, everything will be beautiful in the end" I said.
"Everything that happens, only sincerity that makes us able to step forward," said Raina.
I'm nodding. Wiping my tears. I think far away there Albern was thinking the same thing as me.
"Let's go home" Raina asked.
"Yes," I said.
We walked out of that mass grave. Back to the simple government-given house. Thousands of homes built by the government for the community. Whether it is from government funds or funds from donors.
The house we lived in had only two rooms, a living room and a kitchen adjacent to the toilet. Axel is now working on a new parbrik. Raina opened the dining room.
Everyone starts their new life. Struggling from zero back. There are no rich people, all the property carried by the tsunami is not left. The pride that was once proud of was lost to nature. We are all equal now. Living in a simple house from the government. Only new entrepreneurs from outside the city who have capital and build businesses in our city.
I sat down with Raina and Axel in the living room.
"Aara are you going to town A?" ask Raina.
"Yes, I want to start a new life there" I replied.
"You're going to college?" ask Raina.
"I don't have the money to go to college, maybe I'll go to work on Saturdays and Sundays" I replied.
"Why not just here?" ask Axel.
"If I'm here I'll always remember Albern and miss him" I replied.
Axel and Raina fell silent. They feel what I feel now. There's no way they're stopping me or preventing me from staying. While this place is full of memories for me and Albern.
"You should contact us a lot Aara" Raina said.
"If you need anything, tell us as much as we can, we'll help you" Axel said.
I'm nodding.
"Bobo will definitely miss you" Raina said.
I immediately stood up to Bobo who could stand up and talk about various things.
I hugged Bobo, maybe tomorrow I won't see him in a long time.
"Bobo, Momy has to go, Bobo has to be a good boy, cool and healthy, yes" I said to Bobo, tearfully. It was hard to leave Bobo. Since childhood I have been taking care of her.
"Mi-mi ... Mo-mi ..," said Bobo.
I hugged Bobo. Seeing it was like seeing Albern. His eyes, his face, and his habits are similar to Albern's. I remember and miss him.
Since then I have decided to go to the city of A. First I went to the house of the Grand Family of Ariendra. A very rich and famous family in the city of A. They are often called crazy rich philanthropists.