Red Hooded Girl

121. GBM S3

The god opened his eyes slowly. Put it up a few times. He stared straight at the ceiling of the room made of woven bamboo.

Where am I?

His gaze swept slowly over the dim room where he lay weakly. Until he realized the room was a room. An infusion needle was also stuck in his right hand. While the infusion bottle is hung on a rope that runs across the bed.

Is this a hospital? Ask her.

"Aww." He screamed in pain as he moved his left arm. It was very painful and painful.

"Are geus conscious?" A young woman came into the room. Maybe because of hearing the God's cry.

(What is conscious?)

The god looked at the woman who had now been standing beside the bed he had occupied. He looked deeper into the face of the woman before him. His face was familiar to him.

"Geus seven poe anjeuna is conscious," she explained as if she understood what God was thinking. The man asked why he was in this place. So thought the woman.

(You have been unconscious for seven days)

Not long after a pair of elderly husband and wife entered the room. "Geus is aware, Pit?" ask the young lady.

(Are you sober, Pit?")

"Enggeus Ki, Ni." (Aki, Nini)

"Is nami anjeun?" ask the old man called Aki.

(Whose name are you?)

Gods flinching. Didn't say a word. He just looked at the three people one by one, alternating.

"Sigana teu means Sundanese base, Ki," said the young woman called Pit.

(It doesn't seem to understand Sundanese, Ki)

"Do you not understand Sundanese?" ask the young lady.

The god shook his head.

The young lady took a breath for a moment.

"Then I speak Indonesian" he said.

"My name is Pipit. It's Aki and Nini, my grandparents." The woman named Pipit introduced herself and her grandparents.

"If I find you unconscious in the thickets. Then take you to this house. You have fainted seven days" said Pipit.

The god listened intently to the explanation of the beautiful woman.

"Whose name are you? What kind of person are you?" tanya Pipit's.

"My-she. Ouch ...!" The god held his head in pain and pain.

"You don't move much first! Your collarbone is also broken" Pipit said.

The god was discovered by Aki Rusli who was about to take the grass for his cattle. At that time Aki Rusli had just returned from the market after selling her garden crops.

Dewa is brought to his house by using a pick up rental car that Aki rents to bring the crops to the market. Aki enlists the help of a local mantri to provide help to a God whose condition is weak and unconscious. The mantri provides infusion therapy to prevent lack of body fluids and electrolytes (dehydration).

"So, what's your name?" repeat Pipit because the God does not answer the question.

"Sa-I don't know."

"Don't you remember your name?"

God shakes.

"Jeez, Ki, Ni .. He's amnesiac."

"Amnesia eta naon? Kakurat shiver, sanes?" lontar Nini's.

(What amnesia is? Lack of blood, right?)

"Sanes or, eta mah anemia. Amnesia mah leungit memory."

(Not at all, it's anemia. Amnesia is memory loss)

"But the slave ieu teu apal saha ngaranna, orang stillan name Asep wae," proposed Aki.

(If this child does not remember his name, we give him Asep's name)

"Because you don't remember what your name is. We call you Asep, yes" Pipit said.

The god stared for a moment at the three people before him. Then nods off.

 

*****

Two months later.

Mimin felt his stomach ache like it was being squeezed. It feels like heartburn when it comes the first month of the day, but many times more pain. Since morning his stomach has started to heartburn, but then disappeared. But this afternoon the heartburn is getting. The pain felt is getting stronger. The frequency of contractions is getting stronger and more regular, every five to ten minutes.

This afternoon Deka came home early. At three o'clock in the afternoon, he arrived home. Just now he threw his body on the bed and had not had time to change his work clothes, heard the door of his room was pounded.

"Den Deka ...!" exclaimed Bi Siti banged on her bedroom door. "Please Neng Mina, Den! I think I'm going to give birth" Bi Siti reported.

Deka jerked up and then immediately went down. Since the departure of Dewa, Mimin no longer occupies a room on the second floor because of fear for the safety of himself and the baby in his womb.

"Where's how? Is Jasmin going to give birth now, Bi? Which mama? Mama hasn't come home yet? Then how should I?" Deka looked panicked.

"Den Deka took Neng Mina to the hospital. Let Auntie call Mom," said Bi Siti.

"Which hospital you take to, Bi?" Deka asked innocently. Understandably, for years he chose to be single.

"Maternity hospital, Den. Not a heart hospital. Moreover, the single hospital. Hihihihihi ..." kelakar Bi Siti.

"Yes, yes, I understand."

"In the meantime Den, I'll get you the luggage to carry." Bi Siti went to the room to pick up the baby bag that Mama had prepared two weeks ago.

"You can still hold it, right?" Deka grimaced at Mimin who grimaced with pain.

Mimin. Sometimes he takes a breath to get rid of the pain.

"Bang Deka, please contact Opi also Mami or Abah yes," Pinta Mimin.

"Yes, yeah. I'm calling Opi now." Deka ran to the room to pick up the cell phone.

"I've contacted Opi, we'll meet at the hospital" Deka reported.

"Thank you, Bang."

"We're leaving now?"

"Yes" replied Mimin grimacing.

"This is the bag, Den." Bi Siti handed over the baby gear bag.

Deka grabbed the bag and hurriedly stepped into the garage, preparing for the departure to the hospital. Mimin walked with Bi Siti led to get into the car. Not lingering, the car immediately drove.

"Please, someone is giving birth!" exclaim Deka when it reaches IGD. He behaves like a panicked person.

"Relax, sir. Don't panic." The IGD officer reminded him.

Responding, the guard nurse took Mimin in a wheelchair to the IGD. After performing a series of handling procedures before the delivery process, Mimin was taken to the delivery room.

"His husband's father?" ask the doctor who will help deliver Mimin.

"My-me ...." Deka stammered.

"Just go in, sir. Accompanying his wife so that the spirit in struggling through the labor process," said the woman's doctor.

"Let's go in, sir!" exclaimed the doctor because he saw Deka did not move from where he stood.

"D-yes." Deka answered it. Confused about entering or not.

"Bang Deka ...!" With a running step, Opi approached Deka.

"Where is Mimin Tea?"

"It's already in the room. You go in here, accompany Jasmin!" decah Deca's.

Opi nodded then entered the delivery room. Lucky when Mimin experienced a contraction, he had come home from campus so he could immediately come to the hospital to accompany.

"Mrt ...." Opi hugged Mimin. "The strong yes, Tea."

"The gods have not yet returned. He should be here. Huw ... Huuu ...." Mimin sobbed in Opi's arms.

"Steh don't think about it just yet. The Oton was born, the Teteh must be strong and vigorous." Opi rubbed the clear grains that escaped Mimin's eyes.

"Teteh wants A Dewa here .. accompany teteh. Huw ... Huuu ...." Mimin kept crying.

"Istighfar, Tea. A God will also be sad if you see Teteh like this. A God would want to see a strong Tet. Soon there will be Oton who will accompany Teteh."

"Astagfirullahaladhim. Astagfirullahaladzim apos. Forgive your servant, O God." Mimin took a deep breath, hoping that a peaceful atmosphere could fill his heart cavity, breaking down the pain that made him haru.

"Are you ready, Mom?" The doctor's question made Mimin immediately shrink tears.

"Let's see how many openings." The doctor instructed Mimin to open both thighs.

Mimin. "Bismil was bornohmanirohim" he said before struggling with labor.

"Pull napaaaaas. Blow and let's neden, Bu."

"Grand ...."

"So ma'am, come on again. Spirit, Mom."

"Rrc ... Hufht ... Hufht ...." Mimin's breath began to sting.

"Again, Mom. Look at her hair, yeah."

"Bismilbaohmanirohim. Allah akbar. Eeee ... Eeee...."

"Come on, spirit tea...!" Opi cheered with a tense look.

"Again, Mom. A little more."

"Allahu akbar's. Eeee ... Eeee ...."

"God ... Oek ... Oek ... Oek ..." Baby crying breaks up the delivery room.

"Alhamdulillah," said Mimin and Opi together.

Doctors immediately wrapped the baby in Mimin's chest for early breastfeeding initiation.

"One more, Mom. The placenta hasn't come out yet. But it is not difficult, because the touch and suction of the baby against the nipple* mother's milk can facilitate placental discharge and reduce bleeding,” explained the doctor.

Mimin smiled when the baby's little hand touched his chest. And his tiny mouth began to suck out the source of his life.

“Ngeden once again, no need to be strong. Yeah, great. Alhamdulillah is done," said the doctor while throwing a smile to Mimin.

"Congratulations, baby boy, ma'am. Weight 3.2 kg length 49 cm. Very handsome baby," praised the doctor.

Mimin cried and was amazed to look at his little hero. "Alhamdulillah, O Allah" he said, wiping the wet corner of his eye.

"She's so handsome, Mom. Surely his father is very handsome," said a nurse who accompanied the doctor handling the delivery process Mimin.

"Yes. His father is very handsome," said Mimin while wiping his little whiz head.

****

"Kang Asep, tong ngahuleng. Engke kaasupan jin," seloroh Pipit.

(Kang Asep, don't daydream. Entering the jin)

The god just smiled in response to Pipit's carelessness. Even though he doesn't understand what it means. If Pipit speaks Sundanese, it means that the sentence is delivered is not important or a mere joke.

"Mimipi the girl in the red hood again?" terka Pipit's. God has told me several times about the girl in the red hood who is often present in her dreams.

Gods nodded.

"Asep's kang remembers who the red-hooded girl is?"

God shakes. "The girl is very similar to you, Pit," he said.

Eyes Round pinches patterned. "Oh, huh??"

"Yes." Yeah." The god stared at Pipit for a moment. "The girl is hooded while you're not."

"Or maybe what Kang Asep dreamed of was me, but wearing a veil," said Pipit.

"No. I'm sure it's not you, though .. very similar."

"Don't the girl in the red hood be your family. You can, your sister. Or even she's your lover, your boyfriend, or maybe .. she's Kang Asep's wife."

"I don't know. I can't remember it."

"Takol we sirahna kawas di pilem, jadina **** deui," seloroh Nini.

(Hit his head like in a movie to remember)

"Aya-aya wae, Ni."

(There-there-is, Ni)

"Ni, nyarios basa Indonesia wae. Engke panginten ngomongkeun anjeuna."

(Ni, speaking Indonesian only. Later I thought I was talking about him)

"Yes, yes," Nini said a bit shouting because she had walked into the kitchen.

"Other times, if Kang Asep dreams of the girl in the red hood again, ask where he is at. Let me take Kang Asep there later," continued Pipit.

Again the God smiled in response to the sloppiness of the beautiful girl.

"But, why does that red-hooded girl look like me. Is she not my twin?!" Pipit frowned.

"You got a twin, Pit?"

Pipit laughs. "Hihihihi .. don't know, Kang."

Why Pipit replied I don't know. Don't know what different it means to not have. The God murmured in the heart.

*****

"Mother Jasmin, this is the baby. It's been cleaned and mowed." The nurse handed the adorable baby to Mimin's sling.

Cheerful sparkles and happy smiles appear on the face of Mimin when carrying the baby. Sadness and heartache disappear instantly when staring at a tiny, handsome and adorable face.

"May, if you want to be treated first," said the nurse. "His father was called, to punish the baby first" continued the nurse.

"I'm going to torture this baby" said Mimin.

With a vibrating sound, Mimin sing azan in the right ear.

"Laa ilaha illallah ...." The end of Mimin's voice sounded hoarse holding back tears when reciting the last sentence of azan. The clear grain escaped his eyes. Everyone in the room looked up at the day and was amazed at the times when Mimin became a muezzur for his little baby.

Afterwards, Mimin reads the iqamah in the baby's left ear.

"God, God is handsome, Tea," praised Opi staring at his nephew's anxiety.

"Such like a God" Deka said.

Mimin smiling. "Let A Dewa come home later, he will see his son look very much like him" he said.

Two hours later it was Mama, Papa, Abah and Mami who came to visit Mimin.

"Honey, I'm sorry mom for not being able to accompany you during childbirth" Mama said. "Tuh, Papa anyway, use there are all office matters, which requires mama to be present," he continued.

"Yes, ga what, Mah. The important thing is to survive. Alhamdulillah" said Mimin.

"Thank you, Jasmin. It has presented the first grandchild in the middle of our family," said Papa.

"It's like all Gods, yes, Tea. There's no resemblance to her, "soon Mami.

"Hehehehe ... Yes, Mih. Because I miss God too much, maybe." Mimin smiled bitterly.

"Udah diazani hasn't, Tea?" ask Abah.

"Udah, Bah."

"Who is wronging?"

"Seek yourself."

Abah rubbed Mimin's hair. "Prophey, Tea. Spirit, there is already someone accompanying Teteh now."

"Yes, Bah." Mimin smiled cheerfully when imagining his days later with the little guy. Today is a moment where happy and sad come together, changing quickly.

"Mom Jasmin, is there a name for the baby?" A nurse came to him. "If there's a name, let me take note of the administrative data here." The nurse said again.

Mimin remembered the last message that God delivered through the messaging application.

Shahadah, the name for Oton if the guy. Good, Neng?

"The baby's name ... Creed," said Mimin.

"The full name, Mom?"

Mimin was silent for a moment. The god has not yet given a full name to the baby.

"Full name ... Muhammad Syahadat Argian" said Mimin steady.

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Intentionally the last few chapters I wrote long, this is only 2k words loh. Let Mimin the same God quickly meet ya. God willing three or four more chapters of God will be found.

Thank you for the support.

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