The Tragedy of the Night

The Part 52

3 Months later

In front of the hospital hallway, a man walked quickly. His broad steps did not care around, his face was not clearly visible due to being covered by a mask, his head was wearing a hat that read ARMY, he was wearing a white hodie and sports shoes that looked expensive.

If people didn't know who he was, they would think he was a young man in his 20s. Sometimes people who see it though can not clearly see the appearance of the man argue that the man is a handsome man who will visit his girlfriend who is sick, who is not, and moreover with the flowers and fruits brought by him further strengthened the conjecture.

The man sighed as he stood in front of the door that read MELATI 203. He pushed the door slowly as he walked in. Slowly he walked like a slacker to a weakly lying female patient, his eyes closed for three months, hoses and medical equipment filled his body.

He grimaced when he saw the scenery he hated so much. But he can what? This was all his fault, he made the woman helpless.

The man put the fruits that he had just bought in the mall to a small table, after which he opened the hat and mask that he deliberately used so that his identity was unknown to people, and also put it on the little table.

He sat in a chair on the edge of the gurney. The man looked at the woman's face that looked pale, there was sadness when he saw the woman he loved had been lying from childhood and could not move. His heart ached to see the sight. If he could exchange, he was willing to be in the position of that woman.

Arsen laughed softly, sometimes thinking why fate was so strange to guess. He never thought his destiny with Nisa would be like this, obviously he did not know it was the way that night God reunited their love again.

And that makes Arsen do not believe in this world, his dream of wanting to have children with Nisa was long granted god. And he also once doubted his feelings for Nisa, whether he loved Nisa as Ica or he had a special feeling with her. But when he answered his question, he loved Nisa because she was sincere not as Ica, but what made Arsen very happy was that Nisa and Ica were the same person.

Arsen glanced at the flower he bought earlier. He deliberately bought jasmine flowers, he knew the woman loved the flowers. And Arsen struggled alone to arrange the flowers in order to become a beautiful union. And from there he learned that flower arranging was a difficult job.

"Hi Princess! You know, you used to really like it when I called it that. You used to promise never to leave me, but it turns out you're out of my life, and I have to find you back. I never thought I'd see you back, it all felt like an illusion. But it's okay, if that illusion is the way I can get close to you I'm willing to stay inside this illusion forever." There was no response from Nisa at all, the woman just remained motionless.

Arsen sighed when he did not get a response from the woman, just now he met his first love now he seemed to want to be separated again. Arsen put the jasmine flower to the place where the other flowers he bought every day for the woman. Already dozens of flowers neatly arranged in that place, there was even a withered, but Nisa never opened her eyes.

"When are you like this? I give up Sa, I can't see you being tormented like this." The man grabbed Nisa's palm.

He smiled at Nisa's hands that were as pale as if there was no blood flowing there. His hands felt cold and soft, and he could only look at those hands with a wry smile. Arsen brought the hand to his lips, he kissed the hand. For a long time, he dyed it until he did not notice tears dripping from both corners of his eyes. Arsen doesn't care if people say it bucin, weak, and lebay. The important thing for him is that he will accompany Nisa until she realizes even if it is for years.

The doctor's word a few months ago was enough to slap Arsen.

"Mother Nisa had a lung infection, due to the large amount of chemical fluid that entered her body and it damaged Nisa's mother's lungs. We have to do the opration, and chances are it only works out to ten percent."

"What do doctors mean by chemical fluids?"

"The water in his body is not ordinary water. The water has been mixed with chemical liquids."

Arsen's hands clenched as he remembered the doctor's words. But he was a little bit satisfied Sarga was scorched with the bomb he put himself. Luckily, he survived when the bomb exploded and he was out of the building. Although he had a slight burn on his leg, it was not serious.

Arsen moved his lips away from Nisa's hand.  Then he brought his hand to his face.

Arsen looked up to hold back his tears from spilling back. As much as he could bear, pain spread in his heart when he had to be in this situation. Efforts to hold back his tears were in vain as the clear water dripped making his defenses collapse.

Accidentally as his eyes stared at the hospital wall, he saw the writing of God. Arsen's heart beat violently at the sight of the writing, how long he had forgotten his god, how long he had not kept his commandments, and how long he had been working on his prohibitions.

Why is he stupid? Why does he want to face God now? Where was he yesterday? Arsen glanced at his watch, it turned out that the time Isya had entered. Then the man put Nisa's hand to its original place. He stood up from his place and leaned his body to kiss Nisa's forehead.

"I miss you" whispered the man.

After that Arsen went to the mosque to worship and pray to Allah to give his gift to Nisa in the form of awareness of the woman.

"Arsen! Gabriel!" Nisa's lips moved and said the word at Arsen's departure.

No one heard it because there was only Nisa in the room. Gabriel returns home briefly accompanied by Ibel. Speaking of Ibel, the woman had returned to Jakarta when she heard Nisa was in the hospital.

10 Minutes later

Not long after, Arsen returned to the neighborhood to take care of Nisa. He sat in the chair that was his former seat. She smiled looking at Nisa's face which still exuded an aura of her beauty.

Arsen placed his hand on Nisa's face. He traced every detail of the shape of the face from the eyes, nose, and lips. Arsen stopped his hand there, he smiled softly at the lips were not as red as they used to be, now the lips were cold and pale. He rubbed the lips for a few seconds, the keumdian he distanced the hand when he realized.

"Wake up everyone misses you sweethart."

Arsen laid his head beside Nisa's hand while holding the hand. He closed both of his eyelids, but suddenly he felt Nisa's fingers moving in his grasp. 

Arsen quickly opened his eyes and looked into Nisa's eyes. The woman slowly opened both of her eyelids, which of course made the Arsen who saw her instantly startled.

"Nisa," said Arsen as he shed tears, there was a smile of happiness etched on that handsome face.

"A-arsen!!!"

"I miss you." Arsen immediately hugged the fragile body with a stuffing stuck on his lips. "Thank you for being sober to me."

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Tbc

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