The Journey of Jinan

Chapters. 15

In the afternoon after Jinan had just arrived at his house with Ria, suddenly Jinan's stomach felt very painful. Jinan sat down with a sofa cushion to endure the pain, seconds later the pain went away on its own.

When he was about to use his face to perform the maghrib prayer, suddenly the same pain in his stomach now reappeared. Jinan stood aside while sitting on the edge of the mattress with her eyes closed. A few seconds later, the pain just disappeared.

Jinan thought it was just an ordinary stomach ache, but after he finished praying and was about to stand up to take the Qur'an, the same pain suddenly came back. And this time the pain was much more painful than the first or the second. Even Jinan had to shed her tears from enduring that unbearable pain.

Ria who had just entered the room was astonished to see Jinan hugging her distended stomach with a face like a person who was holding back pain. He approached Jinan and sat down next to the pregnant woman.

"Big brother why?" ria asked frantically when she saw Jinan's pale face.

"Ri, Brother's stomach sa .. kit," said Jinan lirih.

"God, why can you, brother? What did you eat?"

Jinan shook his head. "Sister's queue to the hospital, Ri. It seems like Brother is about to give birth," Jinan said with a voice that began to choke.

Ria was surprised not to play when she heard that Jinan was about to give birth. "Well, don't you know where it's time?"

"Don't know. The shop's taking Brother to the hospital now, Ri. I'm afraid something will happen to my brother."

"O .. okay. I'm .. I'm calling Rico, brother. We're going with him."

Jinan did not answer Ria's words, she was still trying to endure the pain in her stomach that had not subsided.

Ria who did not get an answer from Jinan just grabbed her phone on the nightstand and immediately looked for Rico's contact and called him.

"Hello, sister," said Ria after her call was answered by Rico.

"Brother where? can you come here now? Jinan wants to give birth, we have to go to the hospital now. Brother can help kit–"

Tut ... Tut ...

The look on Ria's face that was panicking now turned to wonder, she frowned while looking at the screen of her phone that had changed into the main menu of her phone.

"Kok disconnected," murmured Ria astonished.

Ria glanced at Jinan, she looked at Jinan who was now no longer in pain like before.

"Is it okay, brother?" ask Ria.

"Thank God, Ri."

"Are you still going to the hospital?"

"Yes, you guys want to check the content. Already three times this abdominal pain appeared, Brother is afraid something happened the same content Brother."

"So I called Rico's sister, but suddenly her call was cut off. We're taking a taxi, aren't we, brother?" asked Ria doubtfully.

"Well, maybe he's busy. Yaudah let's go," take Jinan.

"Sister," called Ria and managed to stop Jinan from standing up.

"Why, Ri?"

"Can you wait a minute? I want to pray maghrib first." Ria bit her lower lip, she was afraid that Jinan would object to waiting for her.

Ria nodded. "So I'm sitting in front of me, don't go anywhere, later his stomach hurts again" said Ria worried.

After Jinan agreed and left the room, Ria performed her prayer in a little hurry. He was afraid if it was true that the pain in Jinan's stomach was a sign of Jinan who was going to give birth. He did not want if his beloved brother would arrive at home or in the car on the way to the hospital.

Just finished with her prayer, Ria heard the sound of a car engine stopping in front of her house. Maybe Jinan's order taxi has come, he thought.

Ria hastily tidied up her prayer equipment. As he exited the room, he saw Rico sitting on the sofa beside Jinan. It turned out that the sound of the car came from Rico's engine, not Jinan's taxi order.

"Well, Brother Rico is here?" tanya Ria was not far from the position of the sofa occupied by Rico and Jinan.

"You called me and said that Jinan would give birth" Rico said in English.

"That's a big deal here. Where did Brother Rico come from?" ask Ria.

"Club," Rico replied briefly. "Ohya, you said Jinan was going to give birth, but why is she okay?" ask Rico wonder.

"Sister Jinan has three times stomach pain, we better go to the hospital to check the content of Jinan. Fear that she really wants to give birth," said Ria and justified Rico.

In preparation, Jinan brought a backpack that he had prepared beforehand for her to give birth later. Half an hour later, Jinan is now on a hospital bed to be examined for his contents. And sure enough, it turns out that Jinan already wants to be born. Even now Jinan had already experienced the third opening. The pain that Jinan experienced while at home turned out to be a contraction that neither Jinan nor Ria knew.

After it was discovered that she was about to give birth, Jinan was immediately taken to the delivery room. Accompanied by Ria, Jinan walks around the delivery room to accelerate the opening of the birth canal for her child. But when the opening was still at the fifth stage, Jinan was already not strong enough to walk. He had to sleep in his bed while waiting until the opening ten.

Shortly from there appeared both parents Rico and Elena from the direction of the entrance, they approached Jinan who was experiencing contractions.

"The strong one, dear. Mama is sure you can" Ira said, holding Jinan's hand to strengthen the woman. Ira occasionally kissed Jinan's forehead fondly.

Jinan shed her tears. If the one who said and did that was her husband, how happy she would be. But all that was just a dream, what was accompanying him at this time was only a stranger without blood ties who willingly accompanied him in his time of distress.

"Dad, mother, if you were here, maybe Jinan wouldn't be like this right now. Giving birth away from the beloved country, and without a companionate husband," inner Jinan. It didn't feel like he was in Ira's arms.

"Why are you crying, baby? Is anyone sick?" ask Ira worried.

"Nothing, Auntie." Jinan wiped her tears. "Thank you for coming" said Jinan Lirih.

Ira smile. "Don't thank me. You've been thinking of Mama as your own child. From now on you call Mama, son. Don't call Auntie again" Ira said.

"But, Bi–"

"You can't refuse my mother's request, Jinan. You should call her Mama from now on," cut Elena in her arrogant style.

"Sister Jinan. I've told Brother that Brother is not alone, we are all with Brother. We're all family, sister," added Ria.

Jinan again shed tears, he really did not expect that there are still good people like them in this day and age.

At 02:15 the doctor reported that Jinan had reached the opening ten. With Ira in the room, Jinan continued to push according to the instructions of the doctor so that his son quickly out. Ira clasped Jinan's right hand while whispering words of encouragement so that Jinan would not stop straining.

Again sad tears flowed in the corner of Jinan's eyes as she felt that it was not Ira who should have said that and was here to accompany her, but her husband. But what you want to say, it's all fate. He cannot change the destiny God has set for him. All he has to do now is be grateful that he is still being presented by the good people around him. And the most important thing at this time is, he must immediately remove his son who is still in his lower abdomen.

With the rest of the energy he gathered, a few minutes later the sound of crying baby girl who just felt the warmth of the world shrill filled the delivery room. Jinan breathed a sigh of relief, a few seconds later she cried for the beautiful voice of the little baby. The voice he had been waiting for during his struggle contained. And finally he could hear that voice clearly in his ears at this time.

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