Sleeping Rooster
5. Grief News
Last night's incident made Linda unable to sleep soundly shadowed by Ardan. Wake him up with random hair scramble also hanging eye bags.
"Aaaa.." Linda's cry provoked her parents who were relaxing in the living room.
Her mother rushed to see what was going on with her son.
"Son, aren't you inside?" ask her mother to knock on her son's door.
"Yes ma. I'm not papa." said Linda from the inside.
"Oh yaudah if you're ready to come down to eat, son." asked his mother who still remains in front of his son's room door.
"I can't look like a gini. The cave must find cucumbers. It's cucumber." Linda rushed down but was not yet ready to go to school.
His parents saw his son running into the kitchen like he wanted to find something.
"What's going on in the kitchen, baby? Shouted his father because his son ruined the relaxed atmosphere of reading the newspaper.
"First look for a cucumber pa." Linda replied.
His mother approached her son earlier looking for cucumbers in the refrigerator.
"Would you like the cucumber?"
"It's ma."
Looking at his son's face, his mother was shocked not kepalang because the eye bags are very clear in his son's eyes.
"Jeez, how could you be like this, son."
Linda did not press her mother said and immediately rushed to her room to relax her eyes with the cucumber.
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Ardan wakes up with the sound of a bear ringing times from an unknown number. Ardan caught a glimpse of the number and immediately picked it up.
"Assynolajet. Mas" panicked voice from the voice across there.
"Vaalaikumsalam. Yes, why yes." Ardan was still feeling lazy to wake up so he lifted him up by sleeping on the bed.
"Mas, the mother of the accident in Jamawari area."
"What?!. My mother was in an accident." Ardan instantly rose from his sleep hearing that. Ardan hung up his phone and hurried to the Jamawari area. Fortunately the area was very close to the location of the Ardan school. So he could meet the teacher for a bit for permission.
He immediately went to the Jamawari area. When he got there, he saw his mother lying in the middle of the road with a shower of blood. Many police cars are investigating his mother's body.
An ambulance arrived. Ardan went to see his mother who was being carried by the hospital to be handled by his health.
"Mom, wake up mom...." Ardan shook his mother's body but there was no response given by his mother.
Ardan was crying in the middle of the road looking at the car that was taking his mother to the nearest health center.
Ardan immediately chased the car with his motorcycle. The hospital car was shut down until it reached the hospital. He rushed to push also the hospital gurney carrying the body of his mother who was already lying weak.
"Please hold on mom. I beg you."
Fortunately at that time the hospital immediately provided first aid for his mother, namely the awareness of his mother.
"Son. Please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry mom." Said his mother was brick and followed by crying because he could not make his son happy at all.
"Mom can't say that. Mom must be healthy." said Ardan did not want to lose the figure of the mother who became the only family for Ardan.
The safe goes into the ER room and Ardan is told to wait outside the ER room. Ardan paced back and forth in the room while praying that his mother would not why.
Until the doctor who examined his mother came out to bring news for Ardan.
"How is my mother?"
"Your mother is out of blood and needs a donor right away. Our AB blood stockpile is up." said the doctor.
"I'm going to donate my blood to my mother."
"Well, please do a blood test before you donate your blood to the patient."
"I'm sorry you can't donate your blood because you have a disease" said one donor.
"So what, my mom needs a blood donor now?" pinta Ardan with a pervasive worry.
"I'm sorry but you can't donate your blood to a patient" said the donor for the second time.
Ardan went and met his dying mother in the patient's gurney with many hoses stuck in her body.
"Mother, what's mom's condition?" Ardan felt sorry to see his mother lying helplessly.
"I'm sorry....... Ardans. Mother.... can not....to be....to be a good mother...... Please..excuse me....sorry mother.." her mother spoke stingy because her mouth and nose were attached to a ventilator.
"No, I've been a good mother to Ardan. Mother's mistake Ardan forgave for a long time. So Ardan please I'll heal first huh. Please accompany Ardan. Because Ardan has no one but mother." ask Ardan to his mother.
"I'm sorry...... Mothers..... Nak...... Ms.....no....can .....be...... Mother......yang ......baik..." suddenly his mother was unconscious making Ardan call the doctor who was examining his mother.
The doctor came and immediately told Ardan to wait outside the ER room.
"Mother, Ardan please hold on. Please don't stay with Ardan."
Ardan saw the doctor remove all of his mother's hoses and ventilators. He doesn't know what happened to his mother.
The doctor came out with the news that his mother was dead.
"I'm sorry we. We can't save your mother" said the doctor.
"Ngga, no way doc. My mother is alive she will not leave me here alone." Ardan told the doctor.
"But God has another will. So you just let it go."
Ardan can't hold back his tears. Slowly land granules of water flowing in the eye pelup Ardan. In an instant he immediately cried as unwillingly as he saw his mother's body covered by a white cloth.
Not long after Mr. Herman came with Linda and Dion. There they saw Ardan crying on the doorstep of the hospital ER. Mr. Herman immediately hugged Ardan's body that had been left behind on the doorstep of the hospital.
"Patient, son. Your mother doesn't feel pain anymore. You must be strong. You're not alone here, there's father son."
The process of bathing and burial of his mother Ardan went smoothly. The gravestone bearing her mother's name was plastered there. Ardan can no longer look at his mother's pretty face. He's calm down there. Ardan must be sincere with the departure of his mother.
Ardan stood up and rushed straight to the prison to inform his father that his mother had died. At that time Ardan was not alone in the cemetery. There's Mr. Herman and Bu Farda and Linda and Dion.
Seeing Ardan just leave without saying goodbye to them. Makes Linda want to ask Ardan but is immediately pulled back by Dion.
"Let him alone first. Maybe he needs peace now."
Linda was silent and not wrinkled when Dion said that.
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Ardan took his bike off the cemetery and went to the prison to see his father.
Not long after he arrived in front of the prison gate. Ardan pulled out his bike and went to the prison officer to let him know he wanted to visit.
Ardan was told to wait first in the waiting room and not long after his father came with a field officer behind him.
"For a visit time of 15 minutes" said the prison officer.
Ardan then hugged his father's body, releasing his longing to his father.
"Dad. I brought news of grief. My mother died in an accident this morning. "
His father was shocked to hear that. He did not know that his wife was dead. But her father had to be calm to strengthen his son.
"Here son, you sit down first." said his father.
Ardan told all that he was going through right now to his father. It didn't feel like 15 minutes had passed.
"Dad, Ardan said goodbye first"
Ardan then parted while kissing his father's hand.
