Touch Me Slowly's

Richard's Sadness

"Where's your dutch, Chad?" tanya Donal was tired of standing up from earlier beside her best friend.

They got off the plane twenty minutes ago and waited at the airport exit.

"It's also me calling, Nal. Patience is a little napa, anyway? I'm like girls again PMS Lo!" Richard was also upset to see his seedmate who had not stopped grumbling beside him.

Whether hot or hungry, Donald keeps flocking him with questions about where his wife is at the moment.

Richard had not been able to reach Amanda's cell phone number nor Rose's, including her mother-in-law Amel.

The man's feeling grew even more uneasy when he saw the car he knew as his brother-in-law's car, approaching. A man of foreign descent came out from inside with an anxious look on his face.

"Kok elo picked it up? Where's amanda?" richard was confused.

"Come, come in first. I will be in Dalem."

Deryl opened the back trunk of her car, helping the two men stuff their suitcases.

"Hurry up, anyway?" donal's tease on his best friend's sister-in-law who is known to like fidgeting on them.

Deryl just kept quiet with a blank look, the man was brainwinding what to tell Richard about Amanda's current state.

"Let's ride!" Deryl swivels into the steering wheel preparing to take them to the hospital.

"Why, anyway, Ryl?" richard asked curiously to see that Deryl had not replied to Donald.

Usually the man will reply to mock his friends if they tease the man he calls so-so.

"Where are you, Ryl?" ask Richard again.

"We're going to the hospital first, Chad." said Deryl focus on carrying the car at high speed.

The two seeds cringed. "Get to the hospital? Who is being treated?" ask Donald first.

Deryl went back to silence, maybe it would be better for Richard to know when they had arrived.

Luckily the road was not jammed, they arrived at the hospital in just fifteen minutes.

"Lo haven't answered my question from earlier, Ryl?!" hold Richard when the man gets out of the car. I don't know why Deryl's attitude isn't what she used to be.

"Follow me, Chad. Come on!" deryl took Richard's hand off his arm. The man's voice seemed pushy even though it was not high-pitched.

Both Richard and Donald were confused and wondered by Deryl's cold demeanor. They had to come down and follow the man from behind.

Entering the IGD room Richard's feelings were increasingly uncertain, there was an uncomfortable feeling that he could not express, let alone see his mother and father who were hugging and crying in front of him. Richard felt that something was wrong was going on. Butwhat?

"Mommy..," call Richard to approach the middle-aged woman. His gaze was looking for something he himself did not know what.

"What's wrong? Why is everyone gathering here?" ask her again when she sees her extended family and Amanda are here. But he did not see the figure of his wife, the figure he had so longed for.

Where's Amanda? Where is that woman? What exactly is going on? Fear began to encompass Richard, anxiety clearly visible on his face.

"Chad.." - uh...." Dance's call drew Richard's guessing mind.

Dance hugged her son with tears flowing down. His chest began to flower because of the tightness that he could no longer control.

"Crying, Mom? What the hell is it? How about a get-together here?" asked Richard looking at everything there in the arms of Dance.

His family no one dared to look at Richard and just bowed in front of him.

"You are patient, dear," said Tari with trembling lips between her sobs.

His hands endlessly rubbed the back of Richard's field, trying to give reinforcement to something he had not been able to convey.

Still in a bewildering mood, the doctor came out from inside the IGD room with an unreadable face.

"Suami, Amanda's mom has come?" ask Brian's doctor who handled the smooth white woman.

"Amanda's? Why Amanda, Mom?" asked Richard to let go of their embrace. Staring at the bead full of tears.

"There was an accident, Chad," said Tommy first. He knew his wife could not answer their son's questions.

"W-what? Aa-amanda—" Richard was unable to finish his speech. His body pecked, rejecting everything he had just heard.

Richard ventured into his father's face, looking for lies in the now fragile man. But unfortunately, everyone was now looking at him full of pity.

Richard shifted his gaze, looking at the doctor who had been silent since his family delivered the bad news.

"Sorry, Sir. But we couldn't save your baby, Amanda's mother lost a lot of blood when she was brought here. Now that the situation is still critical, we are still adding blood transfusions from his biological mother to his wife" explained Dr. Brian full of regret for having to deliver this news.

Amel was inside to donate his blood. She wants to be a donor to her child.

Richard's eyes widened, sharpening his ears once more. "Babies? Doctor, is my wife pregnant?"

The previous news had almost made himself stop breathing, what is this? The doctor said his wife was pregnant and their baby—their baby is gone?

Richard staggered back until his back hit the wall. He was no longer able to hold back his tears. His world collapsed instantly.

"No, this is impossible. This must be all wrong." Richard's voice was almost like a murmur, but everyone there could hear his voice clearly.

"This is impossible" he murmured again with both palms summarizing the face. The man's body started to shake violently.

Richard's body sagged to the floor. Crying roared like a child losing a toy.

Doctor Brian frowned at Tari and Tommy whom he knew as Amanda's in-laws. Does her husband not know? He murmured in his heart.

"Yes, Chad. Your wife is pregnant now, we plan to give you a surprise after you return from Kalimantan. But we did not expect that Amanda and Rose even had an accident to pick you up at the airport" said Tari with a soft voice.

A voice of sadness rang out filling that IGD passageway, Richard crying spilling the pain and tightness in his heart.

It turns out that what she's been feeling last night since Amanda asked her the senseless thing, really happened. His wife seemed to want to say goodbye to Richard when they were far apart like yesterday.

All of Richard and Amanda's families shed tears at the helplessness of the crossbred man. Even Donald was crying, could not bear to see his best friend hit by a disaster like this.

"Sorry, Sir. But I want to inform you that Amanda's mother still has to be treated intensively in the ICU room. There's a chance Amanda's mother will fall into a coma after this, please you and your family are always ready for the unexpected news." Brian's doctor was still standing there telling him the results of his observation after saving Amanda's life.

His cries stopped, Richard immediately stood up and gripped Doctor Brian's shoulder tightly by continuing to shake him. "What do you mean, Doctor?!"

No, Amanda should be fine! Amanda can't leave.

Richard let go of his grip, taking a step back with his arms shuffled. "My wife will live! If he's up to anything, the doctor will be in charge and this hospital!"

He didn't like the man in his white robe talking as if Amanda could leave him at any time. Richard doesn't accept it and won't be willing, Amanda has to stay alive no matter how Richard thinks.

"Chad, no. Don't have to be so angry Doctor, he also tried his best to nolong Amanda. You must be calm, we are also all here sad to see the condition of Amanda, Chad.," wise Tari reminded her son.

"Aagrhhh…! Amanda needs to be all right, Mom! If not Richard who will follow Amanda wherever she goes!" threaten her.

The man snorted angrily passed from there, he needed some fresh air right now. Richard was still in shock, not expecting this painful incident to befall their family.

Just now that happiness they achieved and now must be taken by events like this? Richard was eager to blame Yang Punya Hidup for making his Amunya suffer in that hospital room.

What should he do now? He has lost his love and Amanda, Richard does not want to lose the precious woman in his life again.

Richard curled up next to the hospital wall, back in tears. His chest is getting crowded now, if he can choose better he forbade Amanda to pick him up earlier.

Now Richard had to face this harsh reality. The man cursed himself while spilling all the feelings in his heart in a sad cry that afternoon.

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