Sharing Love: The Suffering of the Second Wife

Nadia is gone

The three children stood in the doorway of Nadia's room. Their eyes widened in disbelief at what they were witnessing before. Everyone who was in Nadia's room turned their heads at once when they heard Nafisah calling Nadia.

"Where is our Mother?" ruby asked everyone in the room. He looked one by one at the stranger's faces there to make sure there were people he knew among them.

"Mother? Wh who? And ... Who are you? Why did you suddenly open the door and yell for Mother?" ketus teen Ruby's age.

He looked at the disgust of the three figures at the door. Ruby frowned at his words.

"This is our Mother's room, who are you? Why occupy this room? And where's our Mother?" ruby asked again with both eyes heated up. The strangers inside the room looked at Ruby and her two sisters strangely. They consider all three stressed, probably because their mother died.

"Maybe your mother is dead, and her body is buried. This room is now my father's room. Just go you guys!" he said, shaking hands with the three of them.

Ruby gaped in disbelief, the tears she held shed as well by herself. The teenager approaches them, and closing the door to the room forces Ruby and her siblings to step back.

"Sister, where's Mother?"

"The guy wasn't right, was he, brother?"

"Mother's alive, isn't she, sister?"

"Mother's not dead, are you, sister?"

"Sister, tell us that Mother is not going. Tell us that Mother is still alive. Say, Brother!"

Ruby pulled the bodies of the two and hugged them while crying. He himself was confused by the current situation. Winda and Rima did not even see the trunk of their nose. Where are they going? Where's everybody going?

"Sister, Mother can't leave us, can she?" the voice of Nafisah whining in Ruby's arms, making the teenager have to find the right answer.

He shook his head, now calm his two younger siblings. After that, he will find out about Nadia.

"No, Nafisah. Mother will not leave us. Mother is not dead, Mother is still alive. Brother will find out everything. Don't cry anymore!" Ruby tried to be strong for her two younger siblings. He took Bilal and Nafisah to the doctor's office to ask about Nadia who was missing in his room.

The three sat waiting in front of the doctor who used to treat Nadia.

"Sir, why are we here?" bilal asked after a while of waiting for nothing they did.

"Only this room hopes Brother to find out the whereabouts of Mother. This is the doctor's room that handles Mother during illness" replied Ruby again slowly.

Inwardly hoping that the doctor would tell her about Nadia leaving. The three chicks quietly waited in an uncertain time when the awaited figure would appear.

"Sister!" Bilal patted Ruby on the back as a woman in a white suit walked out of the room.

Ruby immediately stood up and went to the woman's doctor.

"Doctor! Wait!" call Ruby who managed to make the woman's move stop. He turned around and smiled at Ruby.

"Ruby's? You're here?" ask her with a fold on the forehead.

"Mmm .. Yes, Doctor. I want to ask why Mother is not in her room? Is Mommy transferred? Why wasn't I told?" scoop Ruby up immediately. His curiosity revolted in his heart.

The female doctor glanced behind Ruby. At the two children standing behind the teenager with the same gaze as Ruby.

"Didn't you know? Already from last night Nadia is not here anymore" said the doctor hanging.

"From last night? Then, where is Mother now, Doctor?" ruby asked again with her heart throbbing.

He embraces the body of Nafisah as the child clings to it. Hugging her waist, afraid to hear the news of Nadia's disappearance.

He lowered his head, his hands rubbing the corners of the eyes that let out water. Bilal looked at the doctor. Nor does he want to believe everything he hears.

Ruby raised her face, her eyes glazed earnestly making the hearts of anyone who saw her slashed by it.

"Do doctors know where your address is in Jakarta?" he asked with hope still remaining in his heart. Hopefully the doctor knows Nadia's home address in Jakarta.

But the doctor's head answered his question. Her tears flowed unconsciously.

"Sorry, sweetheart. I don't know where the address is. Sarah's not real here, she moved from Jakarta. Since she lived here, Sarah has never returned to her hometown. I don't know where the address is. I'm sorry." A look of regret was clearly visible on his calm face.

"Then, Aunt Winda and Aunt Rima? Are they here? I wanted to ask her," asked Ruby again with dwindling hopes.

"Didn't you know? Winda and Rima are Sarah's foster children. They're orphans that Sarah picked up and brought here. For that, if Nadia leaves they will also go because they feel responsible for Nadia's life. They're not here anymore." The doctor shook his head in regret.

Ruby is still thinking about looking for possibilities.

"What about the factory? Grandma's House?" the tanyanya again stir.

"To my knowledge their factory was temporarily closed, Sarah's house was guarded by a maid who took care of it. That's all I know, the rest I don't know" the doctor replied.

Ruby was desperate. Where else should he ask about Nadia. Ruby looked down, she nodded in understanding. Not wanting to force his will, he chose to go with his two younger siblings.

"Doctor, if there's any news about Mother, please tell me" she asked with a sobbing she couldn't hold. Doctor nodded.

His eyes also glanced at the departure of three children who loved Nadia so much. Nadia was very lucky, getting affection from them even though she was not born from her womb.

*****

Ruby cried bitterly after telling her meeting with the doctor. The mother who heard could not help but cry. He hugged the three children of Ikram who were not noticed by his mother again.

Not only did the three children feel lost, but they were the same. I lost someone who never knew that sadness.

"Mother don't go!" lirih Nafisah with sobs that are becoming. Bilal who had been holding back crying this time was harrumphed loudly.

"Maybe your Mother was taken to the best Hospital for her treatment. Just pray that Mother will come back to us in good health," said Mother while rubbing the head of Nafisah immersed in her stomach.

They cried long enough. And I patiently calmed them down. Until the knock on the door made them simultaneously speechless. Especially when he heard the voice of Ikram calling his son.

Ruby shook her head, not wanting to meet her brother. Mother also nodded to understand the state of their hearts.

"Ruby! Breath, Bilal! You guys in there?" said Ikram while knocking on the door of Nadia's house and occasionally move the door handle hoping it will open. Unfortunately, the door was locked and Ikram had to return with a deep sense of disappointment.

"Mas, how? Any word from Nadia? It's been almost a week, Mas," asked Yuni who welcomed the arrival of Ikram at their home. He brought her a cup of hot coffee.

Looking at the Ikram gelagat suspicious of the coffee, Yuni smiled.

"Just calm down, Mom. I've realized my mistake a long time ago, I'm not as bad as I used to be, Mas." Yuni said solemnly, "if Mas does not want to drink it, I throw it away and will ask Ain to make it" Yuni continued, turning to bring the coffee back to the kitchen.

"Eh ... Yun! Sorry, bring it here! Let me have a drink, "sign Ikram is not good. Yuni returned and placed the cup in front of her.

"So, how, Mas?"

"No word yet about it, the factory was taken over by someone else. That's what I heard."

Sipping the coffee slowly and carefully. Stay quiet and wait for a strange reaction. There aren't. Coffee is safe.