The Bond of Our Love

CHAPTER 9 - Beauty And The Beast

"Yes, Sister ustadzah. Eheum. oh yes gays, it seems, soon there will be a love story between the beautiful nurse, and her blind patient. Hehehe "Yanti laughs seductively.

"What do you mean? Look, yeah, I'm stressing it again. Don't think strangely. Between me and the man it was just the nurse and the patient, nothing more. So, don't imagine too far, okay?" Zahra stressed out firmly. His patience began to waver.

"That's what you think, baby. What about your handsome patient?" Yanti insists.

"What's wrong with him?" ask Zahra flat.

"What if it turns out he's getting interested in you? You sure, won't respond to it" Yanti still teased him.

"Try to give me just one reason, which allows you to draw conclusions that far" Zahra said with a sharp look.

"Remember your mother's cake? So yesterday when you asked me to take your place to serve him, I saw the cakes splattered on the floor. I have to clean it up. But you know what? That guy banned me. And he insisted on cleaning the cookies himself. Even he scolded me, because I kept yelling" Yanti told him about the incident the other day.

"Seriously Yan?" Maudy looks a lot different from Zahra who looks ordinary.

"Then you mean?"

"O Allah Zahra, do you not understand? That means, he's starting to have more feelings for you. That's why, everything related to you, is so memorable for him. Including your mother's cake" Yanti continued to provoke Zahra to her institution.

"Have you finished your opinion?" while busy arguing with his fellow colleagues, the mother of the canteen trader appears carrying a tray containing food and drinks orders Zahra.

"Thank you Ma'am" Zahra told the middle-aged woman who was putting a bowl of dumpling noodles and a glass of avocado juice in front of her and immediately passed from the presence of the five nurse girls.

"After this there are still many patients that we have to take care of. So just save your energy for it. Instead of hampering useless things" Zahra said ketus as he chewed his food.

"I'm serious Ra, the woman's feeling is strong. Cook the heck you are insensitive" Yanti still kekeh with her instincts.

"I don't care, because I'm not interested in that guy. Not because he was blind, but because he dared to insult my mother" Zahra said firmly.

"It's possible that he did something like that because he was emotional. Perhaps the influence of his mood is unstable. His name is also a sick person" Wirda tried to examine what might be.

"Whatever the reason, it does not mean he can vent his emotions on my mother who does not know anything. If he has a problem with me, he can say it. You can insult and berate me as he pleases. Why take my mother? Was it because she was just a disabled and sickly woman, who could only sit in a wheelchair? So she thinks she can't do anything, including taking care of her own son? He didn't even know how my mother struggled after my father died. He banged himself to support us. Even until now, I'm not just sitting around looking at me for money. He still helps as much as he can. Although the income is not much"

Zahra said emotionally. Unknowingly, a droplet of clear liquid escaped from his pair of eye fertilizers.

The four best friends immediately stroked Zahra's shoulders gently. A feeling of empathy ambushed their chest. Because all four know very well how the twists and turns of life Zahra and her mother are not easy.

Hearing the girl's teasing, makes Rahul unable to stem his guilt. He did not expect, that the harsh words he addressed to the girl's mother the other day, really attached to her and became the reason for the woman to stay away from him.

Yeah, maybe he's been too outrageous. He shouldn't vent his desperation on others.

Before this his intention to apologize to the woman was still on the verge. But now his heart is still. Whatever happens, he will apologize to the woman and explain the problems he has made.

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Rahul was walking alone down the hospital corridor. While passing through the room area, Rahul heard the sound of crying and screaming girls from inside one of the rooms.

"I don't want to be injected! Not want!! Hu.." -...."

"Dear, relax. It won't hurt too much. It's just like being bitten by an ant. Don't cry, beautiful boy" a woman's voice tried to persuade and calm the little girl patiently.

"I don't want to! Not want! hu.." the boy insisted on not being infused. The crying gets louder.

"Cup cup cup..beautiful, don't cry baby. Your tears will run out. Come on tell me, who made this little elf shed her tears?" Zahra suddenly appeared, and with her excitement she immediately lay down on the edge of the bed, beside the little boy.

Rahul gasped to find out that woman was there too.

"They want to inject that infusion needle in my hand! I don't want to! i'm afraid! It must have hurt a lot! Au...." fought the boy with a still soaring cry.

unlike the doctors Ema and Wirda who had persuaded and calmed the little girl with extra tenderness and patience, Zahra actually had her own way to control and take the child's heart.

"Lyra" replied the boy on the sidelines of his sobs.

"Well! a beautiful name, as beautiful as the owner. Oh yes, I have a very interesting story, the title, beauty and the beast. Lyra ever heard of the story?" zahra asked who was answered with a headband by the girl named Lyra. It seems he's starting to melt with Zahra.

"really? want Brother Zahra to tell me?" zahra asked again who was answered with a nod of the head from Lyra.

"But there are conditions"

"What Brother?"

"Delete your tears first, and don't cry anymore. Agreed?"

Lyra wiped her tears. "Then I won't cry anymore. Come Brother Zahra, tell me" he whined.

"Hehe, well beautiful. Once upon a time, there lived a handsome and dashing Prince. One day, the handsome prince was throwing a very lively party at his luxurious palace" Zahra told a story with her hand holding a pair of tiny Lyra's hands gently.

"But in the midst of the festive festivities, there came an old grandmother who asked the prince for permission to take shelter in his magnificent palace. Because at that time it was raining storm. The grandmother gave a red rose as a sign of her gratitude to the Prince. However, the prince did not allow and expelled the old grandmother from his palace"

slowly Zahra placed Lyra's left hand on the surface of the mattress, while her mouth continued to spew Disney's fairy tale lines.

"*Old grandma, my palace is not worth being entered by an old granny like you. Get out of front of me, before I tell my guards to drag you down, *Hardik the prince. Grandma was very angry and cursed the handsome prince to be so ugly. All his servants did not escape the curse of the grandmother"

With her mouth still ringing, Zahra pointed at the boy's hand, as well as an infusion needle in Wirda's hand through an eye gesture. Understanding the cue Zahra gave, Doctor Ema and Wirda looked at each other and nodded.

Then Doctor Ema took the perlak. While Wirda held Lyra's hand gently and raised her slowly. Dr. Ema placed the patch on the surface of the mattress (under Lyra's hand). Wirda put Lyra's hand over the pearl.

After that they wipe and clean the tiny hands with a sterile cotton that has been given alcohol diarea to be inserted intravenous needles.

"They are all condemned to be household furniture. The grandmother also erased the memory of the palace from everyone. The grandmother said to the prince *O Prince, you and your servants will become normal humans again. Only if you can find a girl who can love you sincerely, before this last rose stalk falls. If not, then you will forever be like this* Until one day, there is a merchant lost in the forest. The merchant found an old palace that was not maintained. He also entered the palace. In the palace, the merchant saw a red rose. Then he picked the rose to take home and gave it to his daughter Belle. Do you know what Belle means in French?"

zahra asked with a sweet smile that adorned her beautiful face. And answered with the head of a little Lyra.

All three are various tasks. Zahra kept on telling stories. Meanwhile, Doctors Ema and Wirda continued to focus on pairing the injection hose in Lyra's hands.

And Lyra, the little girl seems to be out of focus on the world around her. His innocent soul was lulled by the fairy tale he was hearing. Which makes him careless to be unaware of the presence of the needle being injected into his intravenous.

"Belle means pretty girl, just like this beautiful fairy in front of me" Zahra poked Lyra's nostrils in her arms.

"Hehe.... Then how else is Kak the story?!" lyra said with a chuckle.

"The merchant, caught by the handsome Prince who was cursed to be such a bad person"

"Let me guess. The ugly prince must have been very angry, because the roses were picked without permission"

"really so. Even so murkanya, the prince to captivate and confine the merchant in his palace. Until the merchant's daughter named Belle, very anxious to think of her father who had not come home for days"

"Then, is Belle looking for her father?" Lyra is getting more enthusiastic and curious about the storyline.

"Yes, Belle finally decided to look for her father's whereabouts by going through the forest. Until he arrived at an old and unkempt palace. Guess what happened after that"

"Belle went into the palace and freed her father?"

"Absolutely. Belle tries to free her father. But the ugly prince did not allow it. Belle continues to plead for her father's release.*Hey sir, please release my father. You can lock me up and take me in instead* the Prince agrees, and he frees his father Belle"