Valuable Time

Abah's Travel

A few days passed, suddenly Gege got a phone call from Ratna's mother.

"Ge, can you go home now, son?!! Take a few days off, you want you to go home now."

"What's bun?!! From last night Gege's feelings weren't good, was everything okay?!!"

"Yes son, I just want you to go home now. Abah you're sick Ge, he wants to see you."

"Good bun, Gege will be taking the flight today as well."

All the way home, Gege could not contain his tears. She cried all the way. Even she did not care about others, she still cried sobbing - sobs. There was pain in her chest, a sense of tightness that she could not endure. He was very sure that something bad happened to him. But he still assured his heart, that you will be fine when he gets home later. He even bought a lot of his favorite food.

A few hours passed, Gege arrived at his house. There were black flags, lots of people coming. Arriving in front of the door of the house, Gege saw the father was stretched across a bed that had been fitted with a white serbah cloth.

"Gege...!!! Hikhikhik.." the mother hugged her child and wept bitterly.

Gege just kept quiet, he sat in the corner of the house looking at his father. No words were spoken, no sound or sobs. He just stared silently at me, but the tears were flowing nonstop.

He was devastated, his feelings mixed together and regret enveloped his broken heart at this moment. Pain, tightness.that's how he feels. It was an unwilling feeling and it felt like he wanted to turn back time, when you asked him to come home. If he had gone home at that time, he might still have met my brother.

"Gee... You are patient, son, God loves you more. We can't stop a fate that's already written." Gigi the brother tried to calm his sister, he knew if the sister was very hit by the departure of his brother.

"Gee... Let's be ready - ready to bathe your body. Would you like to take a bath?!!"

Hearing Gigi's words, Gege realized. She cried hysterically and approached her father. Hugged abah, he saw the mother who was sitting limp in front of abah.

"Change... Why, why don't you wait for Gege. Are you angry with Gege?!! Don't you want to talk to Gege anymore?!! Abba... Why is it like this, I'm sorry Gege. Forgive Gege for being such an ungodly child. If Gege had come home sooner, would you be okay now?!! Gege has brought my favorite food, let's eat with you. Abah... Forgive Gege abah... Hikhikk..." Gege was crying incessantly, he felt all this was happening because of him. Abah left him out of anger with her.

"Gee... Let's get ready - ready to bathe you. You must let abah go, let him go quietly."

"No bun, Gege doesn't want to lose his brother now. Gege can't make you happy yet, why do you have to leave now."

"Change... Look, Gege has gone home. Gege is home, don't you want to talk to Gege?!! Oh...!!!"

"Gee...Let's stand up, change your clothes first. Let me rest in peace. Would you rather endure the pain."

"Change... It's all Gege's fault, Gege should have gone home sooner. Forgive Gege abah... Abah's..."

"You must not blame yourself, this is God's will. We must be sincere Ge... Let's get ready - ready to bathe you. You want to see you suffer even more?!!"

"Sister, Gege won't..."

"Let's change your clothes quickly, our brother has also prepared everything."

Finally Gege prepared himself, he took part in bathing the father. Gege and Gigi gave shampoo to his hair, cleaning his face with soap. While the two older brothers hugged his brother and soaped his body.

The funeral is over, everyone back home. Gege kept crying in the corner of the room, mother crying in front of the bed abah while lamenting his sudden departure. Until now all the family still do not believe what happened, because before he was not sick hard or there are signs of wanting to leave.

"Before Ge fever, he told the mother to be taken to the hospital. When he arrived at the hospital, he was examined by a doctor. The doctor said he had acid reflux, not long after he breathed his last."

"How can it be like that brother, time is only because stomach acid can go. Why didn't anyone tell me?!! I'm a doctor, I check a lot of patients and I treat a lot of people. Then why, when you're sick no one tells me?!!"

"Everything just happened Ge, we all didn't expect it to be like this either. Abah was only in the hospital for a day, he always said your name. But he doesn't want you to know he's sick." Teeth crying tells all of these events.

"Sister, I chose this major because there is a sugar disease and he is often injured because of work. I want to be a doctor so I can treat him and my mom. But why at a time like this, you didn't even tell me everything."

"It's Ge, we can't regret what happened. Look, Mother, she's worse off than we are. He is more lost than us. Do you want to see him sick from crying like that. Let's talk to you, take you to eat and rest."

Gege looked at the mother who was still crying her heart out - brewed in front of the bed.

"Bun, let's eat first. We don't want you to get sick, let's go eat first. Gege is also very hungry..." Gege hugged his mother and shed his tears, it hurt to see all this, Gege also did not want anything bad to happen again.

"Mother will eat it later, you eat first with your sister well."

"Gak bun, Gege wants the same mother. Mother also has not eaten from yesterday, Gege does not want mother sick. Come on, bun, let's eat first."

"Mother isn't hungry yet Ge, go eat first. Don't argue, mother is fine. It's gone there..." Mother hugged my bed and cried there.

Silu... It hurts to see a mother who is very bad as now. Gege is very understanding of the feelings of the mother, because all this time the mother is always with you. Wherever mom is always with you, especially if she is just the two at home. Now, after you leave, you will be alone at home. Gege's two older brothers are married and live in his wife's house. While Gigi works in the city of C and Gege works in the city of B, his younger brother is the smallest school in the city of G which is an hour from home. So he had to stay at the boarding house and away from mother.

A few days passed, Mother still dissolved in her sadness. Even though he wanted to eat, he was still difficult to swallow his food. So that the mother looks very thin, all very sad to see the condition of the mother. Especially Gege, Gege always gives vitamins to the mother so that the mother remains healthy in these difficult circumstances.

"Bun... Gege will take care of Gege's transfer. Gege will try to move to the hospital in the village. Actually Gege wants to open a practice at home, but it costs a lot of bun. Mother, Gege stay a while is okay - what is it?!! Adek happens to be on school holidays, so adek will be at home to accompany mother."

"Yes... Go son, lest you be fired from your job. You've been hard-earned to get that job."

"Tomorrow Gege will leave bun, Sis Gigi will also return next week. So the mother must be good - good at home, take care of health and do not forget to eat bun. Even if it's just a little, keep eating bun..."

"Yes..." Gege was still very heavy to leave his mother, but he had to return to work. Moreover, Gege is still fairly new at his workplace, so it can not take too long leave.

"Sir, you take good care of your mother. Do not leave your mother alone and remind you to keep eating. You also do not be lazy - lazy to eat, look at your body is very small."

"Yes, brother."

"Change.just a few days Gege already missed... Gege misses abah..." Gege shed his tears and stared at the picture of his brother and himself as well as Gigi and Geji. It was their last photo of a family walk, while Gege was still sitting on the bench in elementary school. The only memory they will never forget.

"Change... May Abah be quiet there and placed in Allah's custody SWT." Gege again prayed in his heart while hugging the photo.