The End of Hope
89 Eps. Mother to My Son 1
After Dinda finished lunch, she felt her heart was so moved to tell Nindy's death story to Naya. His best friend never wanted to know or disturb his family's past, except for what he knew. But, when Naya yesterday frankly admitted, that she could be the mother of her two nephews, made Dinda want to tell the incident, even though Naya did not ask for it. He was stunned for a moment then he took a cell phone to contact Naya.
Naya receives a call from Dinda, after her job of serving the queue of snaking customers, is done. Naya asks Ms. Mimin for permission to receive a call on her phone. And he came out of the canteen to speak more freely.
"Hello, Dinda. Is there anything important wasn't yesterday we just met,?" ask Naya after saying her regards.
"Hey, did I call if there was only a need?" replying to Dinda's voice across the phone, Naya heard while chuckling.
"Hehe, no, what's wrong?" ask Naya later.
"I just want you to hear my story."
"What story?"
"I don't know why, but I want you to hear the story about the death of my sister-in-law, Nindi. I think you need to know."
Dinda feels that Naya should know about this, and Naya hears Dinda's story until it's over.
After Dinda stopped telling the story, Naya asked, "where is her grave far from where I work?"
"Oh, you want to go there? Not far away, probably about a thirty-minute drive from there. But you have to book a taxi so that it's faster, there's no public transport going through at the UN there."
"All right, I'll be there."
"Naya, thank you, I just want you to know everything that happened."
"Yes, I know. I also thank you, for telling me everything." said Naya with an uncertain feeling.
At least there is the same thing between him and Ares, they both keep wounds and sadness on the masses.
"Sama-sama, sorry, I told her over the phone, we should have met over dinner."
"No need .. to talk about important things doesn't always have to be that way. That's what a phone is for."
Their conversation ended and Naya resumed her activities.
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In the hospital.
What Ares had in his memory at the time was Nindy's bloodied body, and he was weakly helpless in a hospital bed, as he saw in Yoni today. He hugged Yoni's body, trying to cast a shadow as he hugged Nindy's lifeless body.
By the time the surgery was done on his wife, doctors had successfully removed the fetus in his stomach, saving the only life they could sustain. Indeed, at that time, the treasures and money he had were completely useless to defend, even withhold a life. The regret that was in his heart was why he did not come sooner, or send someone to take care of his wife, even though he knew the state of preeclampsia suffered by his wife in her pregnancy.
Despite the regret and guilt that plagued his soul, the tragic accident that he had to accept as a fate that separated the relationship between him at that moment.
He held the hand of Yoni who was still asleep with some bandages on his shoulders, legs, hands and head, he was still grateful that his son was still alive.
"Defend me dear, papa says you don't go like your mama, under these circumstances leave me, don't punish me anymore because of my negligence to look after you. It's enough of your mama to go with the wound and bleed like that time'
Dinda came to the ward where Yoni was being treated. He immediately went there after being told by Rasti about the circumstances experienced by his brother. She saw her brother wearing a regular T-shirt and her niece sleeping on the bed with an infusion hose in her hand.
Ares wiped the sweat off his face, he was still resting on the floor after he finished performing the zuhr prayer beside Yoni's bed. At the same time the child woke up and whined crying feeling pain all over his body, perhaps the anesthesia given by the doctor while performing the action, gradually began to decrease. But Yoni's body temperature is very high.
Dinda compresses Yoni's forehead, after which, there is nothing the two of them can do but calm down, comfort him and offer him to eat, or something that pleases him, or, but because of being sick of course all children will express their pain with tremendous crying and fuss. Like that to endure pain, adults only sometimes complain let alone children as small as Yoni.
"Son't you get a work leave tomorrow for how many days?" dinda asked broke the silence, after which Yoni calmed down a bit.
"I haven't applied for leave."
"If not who will wait for Yoni tomorrow?"
"Where are you today can you wait for Yoni for tomorrow?"
"Ck! Brother joking yes, indeed Big Brother maksa Mama keep Yoni. Mama's sick Yoni is also sick, when the sick take care of the sick?"
Ares stood up as he pulled out his hair repeatedly, he walked back and forth looking thoughtful to solve his problem this time. He could not for a few days off work or ask Raya to keep Yoni was also impossible, could alternate with Dinda for a while but did not know until when Yoni needed treatment.
"You take care of Yoni for today, until later tonight. I went home for a while" Ares told Dinda.
He wanted to go somewhere, he felt the need to spill his heart. After that he will go home to pick up some necessities, which he will need when he has to wait for Yoni, while in the treatment room. Problem he will be sanctioned or not from the company, it's a later affair he does not want to make the same mistake, by ignoring his son just for his job.
Ares walks out of the hospital, shuffling to the spot where his car was parked. He went to a cemetery in the middle of the city, he rarely went to the place where his wife was buried.
Because of the feelings he felt this time, and the thorny problems he had to face, pulling his way to go there just wanted to say that, "our son fell, Yoni is now sick ..."
After pulling over his car, Ares walked over to Nindy's grave. From a distance he saw a woman standing beside Nindy's grave. He looked at the female figure with his frown.
'Naya, why is he here does he know Nindy? But at the time he said he didn't know Nindy'
Ares approached slowly, as it were, not wanting to disturb what the woman was doing and saying next to his wife's grave. But he heard nothing, and only caught the teardrops, which glistened on Naya's cheek and his lips seemed to twitch in prayer.
It was just like that what a living person could do to a dead person. Pray for forgiveness for him, and pray for the good of the dead, on the side of his Robb who controls human life in His grasp. For when a man's leaf falls, all that is related to him are cut off, except three things, namely, the charity of knowledge, of benefit and the righteous son who always prays for it.
After standing behind Naya for a while, Arez stepped slowly before Naya, on the side of Nindi's other tomb. He glanced at Naya at a glance and then looked at Nindi's headstone, standing still while putting both of his palms into his pants pocket.
He seemed speechless only in his heart, without Naya knowing what the man had said to his wife's grave.
"Assalamualaikum ya ahlil grave. Nindy, do you know who he is? This woman has made our children fall in love with her. But she refrains from being a mother to our children. You know what kind of trouble Yoni is? The boy managed to force me to completely restrain myself from all the temptations of women and managed to make me a loyal man, after you were gone? But the woman in front of me now, had already destroyed it, even when I expected it, she was like a mirage'
The mirage, which can be seen as untouchable, can be seen as uncarrying, as if it existed when it did not.
As soon as Naya saw Ares, who was standing before her, she was eager to ask about the answer to her message. But for the sake of seeing Ares' reaction and facial expression, Naya concluded that this man had not read the message from her.
'O Allah, what can I expect apart from Your love. You love me more than anyone on earth, O Rohman, Rohim. Was my message not sent or did he deliberately not read it?'
Naya looked at Nindy's grave at a glance, "Nindy, you know it looks like your husband didn't read anything on his phone,"
Then Naya left after saying that, without looking at Ares in the slightest, walking quickly away from the tomb area. Then get a call after arriving on the side of the road.
"Assalamualaikum, what's the matter with Dinda calling me again? You miss me so fast?"
Hearing Naya's clumsiness, Dinda laughed across the phone. After answering his greetings, he recounts Yoni's current state and also says the state of his family that cannot constantly keep Yoni is only Ares himself. Frankly, Dinda asks Naya for help, taking turns to look after Yoni while he is in the hospital with Aries while he goes to work. Dinda feels no one can help them except for Naya, the only person who is not Yoni's phobia to relapse.
"Maasyaa Allah, then I'll go there now" replied Naya when she was in the taxi of her order.
He goes straight to the hospital, where Yoni is being treated, without thinking. Especially thinking about his change of clothes, if he was forced to stay overnight, because as usual he had brought a change of clothes for himself.
Somewhere else.
The man was still standing by the side of his wife's grave, he had already kept, all the memories that could remind him of his wife. Because all the memories at the end of their relationship are so painful to remember. Such are memories, sometimes too beautiful to forget but too painful to remember.
It should also be done by people still alive, when there are family members go away, namely by getting rid of or storing everything related to him, namely, giving his belongings to be given to others in need, or changing the layout of his home, where usually the deceased person is often located. All of that is useful to speed up the process so that they can let go of people who are gone. Getting rid of, saving, what is related to the dead does not mean not loving and forgetting them, but at least it can calm the living after his departure. If you love them, pray for them.
Ares furrowed his brows trying to digest back what Naya said before he left earlier. Naya said of the message on her phone, It only realized that she had not seen and checked the contents of her phone from yesterday.
He rushed to leave the tomb after praying for his wife's spirit, hoping that Naya would still be there to find public transport and he was ready to give her a ride. However, the girl was gone from there.
Ares drove his car at high speed towards his parents' house, which was quite far from there. After arriving home, he gets a reprimand, and scolding from Rasti, who is disappointed with Ares, for making his granddaughter into the hospital. All questions of race are launched on ares like journalists who are scraping news at the source. Ares answered only as necessary.
The man was tired of hearing the ravings of his mother, so he decided to clean himself, prepare some clothes in his house and perform magrib prayer, because it was time to arrive. After that, he ate dinner while checking his phone.
A lot of messages that go into it are also some missed calls recorded on his phone, so Ares took precedence by answering some very important calls and chat messages related to his work, so that Ares also took priority, he finished it one by one.
Until time goes by without waiting and he goes into the night in a clash of dark skies and stars.
"Ares! Want to get to when you relax here, not necessarily Dinda can have dinner, there quickly go to the hospital bring dinner for your sister!" rasti said with ketus. He was still weak, but seeing his son like this, he strengthened his strength, just to scream.
Ares has not finished all the contents of the chat on his phone, as Rasti continues to babble. He immediately took food for Dinda, and went to the hospital.
Once in the car, he took the time to check all the messages, and when all the messages had been opened there was still one message notification left, which had not been opened, when he opened it turned out to be a message from Naya, and his eyes widened perfectly as soon as he read it. He thought about going to see Naya right then and there.
'Aaakh, so this means talking to Nindi eaten earlier. So this is what it means?'
"Oh Allah, Naya! Why don't you tell me frankly, why? why Naya?! ahhhh...!"
Ares stepped on the accelerator of his car, rushed to Naya's house but once there, he did not meet her even the house was empty. he was waiting for her for some time, calling her was not also lifted, he was not, he was agitated, up to the call that somehow to how many times, still not lifted.
While at the hospital, Naya keeps her phone in silent mode, so she can't hear Ares' calls on her phone.
"You haven't had dinner yet, Nay?" ask Dinda.
"You too." said Naya.
"I'll call brother first, so we can have dinner together and he'll take care."
"Can. I'm hungry."
Seriate
