The Last Cliff's

Chapter 22's

Clarissa Mae frowned, "are you trying to impress me, Eddy ?" that was the sentence that came out of his mouth while talking to Edward Rodmeyer in front of the door of the president's suite classroom.

"Maybe." replied Edward Rodmeyer.

"This must be your hotel, so you can do everything here. One of them was to move my reservation from the regular room to the president of this suit. Yeah, right ?"

"Maybe also !" edward Rodmeyer is like taking Clarissa Mae to a riddle.

"Especially what you used to do to charm the hearts of your adoring girls ?"

"Dinner meybe ? Tonight ?"

Clarissa Mae laughed at the offer. The person he had just known was taking him to dinner together. Even though during his 4 years together with Arvine Dowson, never once he was invited to dinner together.

"How ?" Edward Rodmeyer shrugged with a smile, waiting for an agreement from the woman who was chuckling before him.

"You're funny, Eddy."

While opening the door of her room, Clarissa Mae still continued to laugh. Laughing at the irony of his life.

"Come ... Tell 'yes' to sleep well tonight."

"key ... Deal !" clarissa Mae replied as her bedroom door closed, "thanks, Eddy" he concluded.

***

In front of the IGD waiting room door of a private hospital, Arvine Dowson is seen pacing, walking in his own direction. Sitting quietly made her breath tight, worry smothered her heart, sadness clogged her lungs.

Hem color tosca and dark blue jeans had wrapped around his body, but not enough to dispel the foul scent of trench water that was still soaking his hair.

"Go take a shower, Bro ! Shampoo you all." said Nickolaus Welas who suddenly appeared behind him. A pack of toiletries was immediately thrust in front of him.

The package was indeed received, but that does not mean he immediately went to the bathroom. He chose to continue his indistinct steps, to the right pillar of the veranda and then back to the left while occasionally looking up at the sky.

Without saying anything, Arvine Dowson kept pacing back and forth. While Nickolaus Welas began shuffling to the waiting room bench, repackaging his camera and storing it with a tripod in his backpack, but his eyes could not be separated from the figure of his best friend. All his life, Nicklaus Welas had never seen Arvine Dowson acting as strange as he was, like he was losing confidence, like a man who could not accept the line of fate.

"It's been 2 hours, Bang ! Lo Pacing the cake of the possessed. Not tired of what ?" Shouted Nickolaus Welas.

"Gw think again, Nick !" arvine Dowson.

"What do you think ? Doi is being helped by people who are experts in their field. Let them work within their limits !"

"You know what, Nick ? It's a matter of the heart !"

"As far as you go, Bang ! But the smell of the trench on Lo's body makes me nauseous."

"Go back to his hostel Billy !"

"Ha ha ... That's the problem, Bang ! I don't know where to go."

"Telphonlah Billy ! Get him to come here."

"Metul is also your advice, Bang ! He he ... Why didn't I think of that."

"Your brain, Nick ! Need surgery."

"And that brother's body odor needs to be amputated !"

"Lo garing !" ketus Arvine Dowson's. He continued his increasingly indistinct footsteps.

When three young girls in college clothes glanced at him, Arvine Dowson did not care. He continued his ritual, walking back and forth without a care even though many people who passed him had to close their noses.

"To Mr. Arvine Dowson, it is expected to go immediately to the IGD administration room" the sound of the loudspeaker surprised him, making him move straight into the administration room without looking in any direction. Even as three college girls start stalking him, Arvine Dowson seems to be ignoring them.

"Please sit down, Mr ...?" said the doctor who greeted him behind the desk.

"Arvine Dowson, Doc !"

"Well ... Mr Dowson ! Indeed, there have been many miracles in the process of handling your friend. Things that are beyond our predictions just happen. Trauma wounds that afflict your friend's body and head are too severe for level 2 medical treatment. While the situation is not possible to do level 1 action. But it turns out that the fighting power of the patient is extraordinary, he is able to overcome his pain to be able to survive until this moment. That means your friend has gone through his critical period." The Doctor began.

"Hmmm ... After hearing the specialist's explanation for the X-ray record" the doctor said as he held up an opaque piece of plastic in front of Arvine Dowson, "I can give you two kinds of news." the doctor stopped his explanation. His hands fixed his glasses. Making the three college girls who were behind Arvine Dowson's chair like furious, especially the curly-haired ones.

"Your friend's condition is now stable, his TTV has returned to normal numbers. That's the good news !"

"Keep the bad news, Doc ?"

"In this section." the doctor pointed to a vertebrae that was depicted in the X-ray record. "There's serious damage."

"How serious, Doc ?"

"In this 2-dimensional X-ray record .. this bone looks like a crack. But it's more than that, sir ! This field is crumbling !"

The three college girls seem to be starting to panic, but they still manage to remain voiceless.

"That means, Doc ?" arvine Dowson's voice began to crackle.

"That means ... There is trauma to the central nerve, or at least there is excessive pressure on the central nerve due to the crush of this bone fragment, which in turn can cause partial paralysis on the lower part of your friend's body."

”That means ... Hani will- ?" Arvine Dowson couldn't go on, he just looked down. For the rest of his life, that was the first time that happened. Tough man who is not strung by a storm, does not recede in the face of a nestapa, at that time can only bow to the scratches of bad luck.

"Cripple, Master !"

It was the worst news he had ever heard, his beloved lover had to be paralyzed by his ego. "Will Hani be paralyzed if I don't force myself to meet ? What force is capable of creating this cruel warning ? Dedemit the crater of Mount Rinjani ? Or is God demanding proof of the sanctity of my love?" and there are still a lot of questions that go into Arvine Dowson's head. Making his eyes slowly blur to keep the oath into his soul. In order not to look strange in front of the doctor, he immediately covered his eyes with a black glasses.

"All right, Doc ! Do your best for him. I entrust her care to this hospital." replied Arvine Dowson, still with a firm voice despite a slight tremble.

"Have ? That's all Bang Vinnie can do !?" one of the three college girls behind him surprised Arvine Dowson.

"Who are you ?"

"We're Shasa's family !" ketus girl with a Japanese-like face. "I'm Farah Isuke, it's Cindi Latuconsina" he continued, pointing at the curl girl next to him.

"And I am Fatimah Mahmud." said the hijab girl in a soft voice, her cheeks wet with tears.

"Owh ...."

"Oh ! Just oh doang ?" Cindi Latuconsina started to pitched high.

"So how do I have to ?" reply Arvine Dowson.

"Sorry, Mr Dowson ! Solve your problems with these children outdoors." drive the doctor away in a smooth voice. Forcing Arvine Dowson to leave the room.

"Free Miss Shasa Nangisin Lo, Bang ! Until her eyes are swollen every morning."

"Dibelain until now remain single ! Uh ... Just doang doang reply lo, Bang !"

"Kasian ma'am Shasa ... Cowo turned out to be cemen ! There's no responsibility."

Dab blah .. blah .. blah ... An accusation flowed into Arvine Dowson's ear from three college girls who followed him walking down the hallway to sit on a waiting room bench.

Arvine Dowson sat with his eyes closed, his hands grabbed his own hair, while as much as possible regulating the breath in his chest.

"Bang ! Please don't stay in Shasa's mom." whined Fatimah Mahmud while kneeling in front of Arvine Dowson. His voice pail represented his cry that was increasingly laden with sorrow.

"Eh ! What the fuck are you ?" Nickolaus Welas objected to Fatimah Mahmud.

"Yes, Bang Vinnie ! Please don't stay in Miss Shasa ... He wants to see you, Bang !" farah Isuke followed with Fatimah Mahmud, kneeling in front of Arvine Dowson.

Before long, Cindi Latuconsina also knelt down, saying nothing but stifled sobs.

As if he did not care for the wishes of those who knelt before him, Arvine dowson's lips slowly muttered a verse :

"Hinduism is not realized solely because of the span of space and time.

Sometimes it may be because of an uncertain feeling.

Then let the joints turn blue.

Because it is not to carry taboos

The tears did not materialize because they were sad

Sometimes they may seek love

Then let the drops go to slice the heart

Because its presence is not to be understood

Reassure your heart, my beloved !

My form is not to add to your wounds and my barrel

Let my verse embrace the blue of your miss

Until you understand, that your tears have cut my heart as clean as your heart.”

While keeping his eyes closed.