Secrets of the Former (Love Left Behind)

Seven

Nevan is retreating. He shook his body in the waiting chair in front of the room with an unfocused look. His mind drifted everywhere and his heart beat was not bad. He still could not believe what he had seen just now.

Shanessa herself was pacing back and forth with a panicked face. He occasionally tried to peek through the door glass and occasionally bit his nails.

15 Minutes, dr. Farez came out followed by a nurse. Unlike the sister who continued her steps, Farez actually stopped and spoke to Shanessa.

"Everything is stable, but please calm Dihyan," he asked solemnly.

Shanessa nodded quickly and thoughtlessly entered the hospital room immediately. Nevan who heard the doctor's request looked up. Something is troubling him. The doctor was indeed treating Gantari with Dihyan?

***

Inside, another nurse was patting Gantari on the shoulder, trying to strengthen the family of a patient she had known for five years. Shanessa came, then gave the code so that she was the one who accompanied Gantari who was greeted with a nod in agreement with the sister. He finally came out with a face that still portrayed worry.

Gantari is still sitting. His eyes were reluctant to switch a second from his mother's face. When Shanessa held Gantari's hand, she was well aware that the body was shaking violently. Her tears fell again looking at the situation of the cousin. He pulled Gantari in his arms and held her tightly.

"Dance, everything will be fine," Shanessa's voice trembled. To be honest, he was also unsure of what he had just said.

"Everything is safe now" he continued. Shanessa felt Gantari's body so cold, the closer she was to it.

Shanessa sobbed, but Gantari did not make any sound either. Only the tears that had been dripping down her beautiful face.

"You're strong. If I were you, I wouldn't be as strong as you" Shanessa said bitterly. He started to get scared to see the state of Gantari which was like an undead.

"Dance, please look at me."

"Aunty won't leave you!" He cried out in frustration, then shook his frail body in front of him, looking for a way for his cousin to return his gaze.

Gantari slowly lowered her head and a crying voice began to sound from her lips. Shanessa felt her chest tight, she hugged Gantari again and the cry broke, making Shanessa's heart feel squeezed.

"really. Cry, baby," said Shanessa softly.

There was no conversation going on between the two young men of different professions who were sitting in the hallway. They both listened silently to Gantari's cry. Secretly the pain slipped in their respective chests.

***

The sun was already overhead, the stomach began to rumble, so Nevan took the initiative to buy food. After eating quickly, he wrapped up two more servings.

The food he gave to Shanessa, although the girl looked ogah-ogahan received. Her appetite is not in the least, but Shanessa is determined to accompany Gantari to a meal.

In dreams.

Being persuaded, however, Gantari was not willing to eat. Shanessa came out again with two bags of food plus her desperate face.

"If he doesn't want to eat, you eat" Nevan said.

Shanessa did not dare to resist, as it sounded like a command tone. So they went back to the hospital canteen and ate there.

"Tari will not come home" Shanessa sighed in between her meals.

Nevan just shut up.

"But he has to go home" Shanessa continued.

"Mother's sick. Let him stay the night."

"No way," Shanessa replied weakly. He stopped eating. Just a few bribes and he couldn't go on.

I don't know why, today passed so quickly. Nothing is late afternoon. Shanessa gets more and more scared and tries to contact her father, but there is no answer, so she sends a message.

Persuading Gantari home is impossible and allowing Gantari to stay here is his name.

Nevan watched Shanessa get more and more frantic. Dissatisfied with making choices.

"You want to stay here?" ask Nevan.

Shanessa turned her head a little enthusiastically as she felt it was a good idea. "What's the reason we didn't come home?"

Nevan looked at him confused. "What else? Accompanying your cousin in the hospital," he replied innocently.

Shanessa grabbed her own hair. "No way," she replied frustratedly.

Nevan pensive. Although he did not understand, he knew so many things that he did not know.

Shanessa's phone rang. His face changed pias when he saw the name of the caller listed.

Grandfatherbiscuts.

After a long time of thought, Shanessa just answered the call.

"Grandfather is in the parking lot" he told Nevan after he finished talking on the phone for a few minutes.

Shanessa's words just made Nevan frown.

Shanessa and Nevan decided to go down. Arriving at the bottom, grandfather told them to go home first. Shanessa refused, but Grandpa resolutely repeated his order again.

After being forced to agree, in the car Shanessa can not be separated from the grandfather who is still standing in the parking lot. Nevan drove his car slowly following the exit path of the parking area, but not a second did Shanessa let go of her grandfather position. There is a look of worry and fear implied there.

Nevan, who realized that, immediately marginalized her car, making Shanessa turn her head. However, for a while Shanessa's focus returned to the figure of Gantari who had just come out and walked towards the place where grandfather was standing waiting.

Grandfather and grandson did not look like they were chatting. The faces of both of them were equally hardened, just like a person who was in a fight. That uneasy aura spread to Shanessa who was looking at them from the window.

Gantari's eyes flashed with anger. He looked at the grandfather with a hateful look. His lips clenched in anger, while his hands were now firmly clenched on both sides of his body to make his knuckles turn white.

"Go home. If there's anything, the hospital's gonna call you, "it's not a call, it's an order. After that, Grandfather immediately turned around intending to leave. However, his steps came to a halt as Gantari coldly replied to his words.

"Aren't you satisfied you killed my father?"

THE PLAQUE!

Nevan flinched, her eyes round, not expecting what she had just seen. The grandfather he knew warmly could slap his own grandson like that. Shanessa moreover, his hand had even almost opened the door to run there if he did not see the arrival of the papa car.

Gantari raised her head in a slow motion and let the hair that had briefly covered half of her face leave from there. Then, he pulled the edge of his lips. The grin reappeared.

Ardi got out of the car in a hurry and went straight to Grandpa. He tried to calm his father.

"Don't make him hate me more, '" he said.

Then he put his grandfather on his shoulder and took him into the car. Ardi had turned his head for a while, just making sure Gantari's condition before finally entering the car and drove from there. Followed by the grandfather driver who took his vehicle.

Shanessa was about to get out, but Gantari went back inside the hospital as if nothing meaningful had happened.