The Bond of Our Love

CHAPTER 5 - How to Get Support

"Your boyfriend must have left you, and would have preferred another man, right?" guess Zahra was accompanied by a gentle smile.

Zahra's guess slightly surprised Rahul until his pair of eyelids opened. Unknowingly, his hands clenched back. His mouth was tightly clenched, trying to dampen his emotions that were starting to get back inflamed.

Although the guess of the woman next to him is a little bit true. But still, his blood always rises if there are people, especially foreigners who interfere in his personal problems. Moreover, the woman's speech was like opening her old wounds that had not dried up in the least.

Is this girl insulting him?

just like the people who had been insulting and ridiculing him because he was blind?

Zahra again let out a heavy sigh, the man still ignored her

"Heuuuh. I will not force. I still have a lot of work to do anyway. Don't let me get a reprimand from the head nurse for being too busy with you here, and ignoring the other patients. Rest so that your condition returns vit. I'm gonna get some cleaning gear to clean this shard of glass. Well handsome, good rest, have a good day.." cerocos Zahra resigned and almost moved.

"So you're a nurse here?" tukas Rahul flat.

"Yes" replied Zahra enthusiastically. Finally the handsome patient heeded it as well.

"So I'm in the hospital right now?"

"No, you're at the hotel right now. Hehe. Can't you see that this is a hospital? Are your eyes blind? Hehehe" Zahra joked and chuckled.

He does not realize that his words offend Rahul. Making his emotions again peaked because of the words of humiliation and ridicule he received from Amora and his family back ringing in his eyes.

Zahra's laughter suddenly stopped when her eyes glanced and stared at Rahul. It seemed that he had just realized that his handsome patient was blind.

"Oh my God, your man? n-no bi-can? l-meli.....?" zahra said softly and stammering while wagging her hands in front of Rahul's face.

"Why?! Still not satisfied insulting and humiliating me?! Still want to continue again?!" sergeant Rahul stood up. His face looked red, and his eyes were rounded.

"I-I don't know you...."

Rahul blocked Zahra's shoulder "Then what do you want to know? huh uh?! My life story?! All right, let me tell you. Listen to this Miss Nurse! everything you say, including your guesses, is true! I was blind and could do nothing. It's useless! Even the girl I love left me for another man! not only that, he even humbled and made fun of my condition! He said his future would be ruined if he was with a blind man like me! don't stop there! Mockery after scorn I get every moment from the people closest to me! Are you satisfied, miss? or is there something else you want to hear?!"

said Rahul with high intonation, evaporating his emotions.

Zahra could feel the vibrations coming from the man's body. It is clear from the look on his face, that a man's life is always mired in grief. Depressed by the darkness that shackled his happiness.

The sense of compassion and guilt became one and struck the heart of Zahra, who had inadvertently sown salt on the man's wounds.

"I'm sorry. I know my words offended you. Even though I didn't mean it, it was still wrong. I really don't know your condition or your problem. I have no right to interfere, because it's none of my business. I'm really sorry" Zahra said softly and flatly. His tone that previously sounded cheerful, relaxed and full of jokes to impress chatty now sounds serious and sad.

Rahul was stunned to hear the woman's apology. I don't know why he felt sincerity in his voice. Slowly Rahul removed his hand from Zahra's shoulder.

"Come out of here, leave me alone, please don't test your patience again" Rahul said in a low, trembling voice. Trying to dampen his emotions so as not to explode again.

Anger that he himself does not know who he is for. For the woman in front of him right now? For the woman who dumped him? His family threw it away? Or this useless self? Huh, I don't know. At the moment, he just needs to be alone.

Not wanting to add to the confrontation that could make the man even more afraid of his feelings, Zahra could only comply. Carrying a feeling of pity, the girl stepped towards the exit. He stopped at the door, then turned his body back to face Rahul"

"I don't know what kind of test you're facing. Because I was never in your position. But I can see from your eyes there is disappointment, sadness, defeat and anger that you cannot share with anyone. Maybe because at this time you feel, there is no shoulder that you can make a place to lean. But remember this one thing, there are still prayer mats that you can make a place to prostrate. My mother said that there is nothing eternal in this world except God. People may leave us one day. Whether it is by his own will, or God's will. But Allah will never forsake His servant who will draw near, and submit to Him"

and he passed by smiling after giving his talk. Leaving Rahul who was standing still and was amazed by the words of wisdom he uttered.

For some reason since being blind, only this time did he feel calm hearing someone talk to him. This time he felt a support. The support he needed, but never got from the people closest to him.

"Mom! Mother where?!" zahra called her mother from the middle room.

"Mother here, son!" his mother came from the kitchen. Zahra rushed into the kitchen as soon as she heard the voice of her mother coming from there. In the kitchen he found his mother was putting and arranging wet cakes into plastic boxes.

"Eh, are you leaving, son?" the middle-aged woman sitting in a wheelchair looked up at the presence of her son who had just entered the kitchen. A warm smile on his face.

"Yes Mom, is the cake ready, Mom? Here, Zahra bring you guys. Make diitipin diwarung-warung" Zahra glanced at the three plastic boxes containing wet cakes made by her mother.

"Yes, my son, everything is ready. This please yes you bring" the woman named Sakinah took a box-box measuring 20x10 cm on the table and handed it to Zahra.

"Yes Mom, here"

"Ohuk..." Sakinah's mother clenched her hands loosely and placed them in front of her mouth that was coughing.

"Mom, are you sick again?" Zahra immediately put the box-box cake back on the shirt and rubbed his mother's shoulders. The look on his face panicked to see the woman who had given birth to him suddenly coughing.

"No Ra, maybe I'm just tired. Rest for a while is also better" Sakinah's mother smiled faintly. Trying to show his son that he is okay. His left hand was stroking Zahra's hand over his shoulder.

"Mom sure it's okay?" asked Zahra doubtfully.

"Dear baby, I'm fine. You don't have to worry"

"How does Zahra not worry Mom? I've been asking Mom to stop making cakes. So that you can rest. But Mom always ngeyel" Zahra argued with a pouting face.

"Mother is no ngeyel, son. But I don't want to just sit still, do nothing. The mother's body even sick and sore all. Lagupula if only just making cakes, I'm still strong. Is it the mother of a child whose work is just sitting sweet and lazing? You also need busyness, so that you do not get bored" Ms. Sakinah kinked.

Zahra let out a heavy sigh, it was useless to argue with her mother.

"Yes, it's up to Mom. But remember, after this, take a break. Don't get tired anymore" said Zahra with a sharp and serious look. It was as if she was his mother and was arranging for his son.

"Every princess, do it.."canda Bu Sakinah as she pinched her daughter's chubby cheek with anxiety.

"Aww! Mama! sick of tau" complained Zahra scowled.

"You've made Mom gemes. Actually here is whose mother, whose child is it? Your attitude is yes, exactly the mothers who are nagging their children" Ms. Sakinah giggled.

"Mom, I'm serious. Mother is like a child. told to rest just hard for forgiveness.I will worry about the health of Mother.in this world only Mother I have, after the departure of Father" Zahra said sadly.

"Eat him, you quickly find a companion there. So, if you ever catch up with your father, there's still someone who'll keep you company and look after you"

"Mother! What the hell is mom talking about? Where to go bouncing around?" Zahra was again annoyed by her mother's words.

"Mom just thought realistically baby. Because the name of fortune, soul mate, death.we no one knows. Therefore, before Mom closes her eyes, I want to see the only daughter of this Mother's puppet find the mooring of her heart. That way you can go quietly"

"Huh.talk Mom it's too dramatic. I'm lazy to talk about it. I'll leave first, it'll be late again. Get the doctors and patients who need me" Zahra took back the box-box cake spelled. He chose to end the conversation that satiated it.

"Say you want to switch the conversation" Sakinah's still teasing her son.

"Ih...Mama!" zahra shouted.

"Hehehe. Oh yeah, I've also prepared a cake for your patients. Don't forget to give it later. So also tell the patient that you give this cake, hopefully it will heal quickly" Ms. Sakinah took some boxes of mica that had been filled with wet cakes made and handed them to Zahra.