We, Without Me

Up, Ma!

Yuki stared at the miris of a sunken-eyed figure with a protruding collarbone. Skinny body, thin cheeks, facial features I lack of sleep and chapped lips should be dehydrated. All were reflected clearly from the mirror that was slightly splashed with water.

“Hah ... have children yes you in my beautiful face?” yuki grumbled while researching the new acne, mosquito bite spots and red rashes of clearly drawn scratch marks.

Salah Yuki had fallen asleep in the hospital garden chair covered in fog. Though at that time the sky was still dark, the dew clearly thickened even though the morning almost greeted. But quite relieved because his heart can now be calmer.

Right, pretty quiet until a second ago.

“You're still here, By?” ask Yuki gelagapan. Closing half of the face with a small towel.

After Yuki, Keven has returned to City B. But apparently the man just went to prepare food that might be successfully metabolized in Yuki's body.

“How can I go if you haven't eaten. I'm bribing ya?”

“I'm still full.”

“Yakin?”

“I-iya.”

“So who screams in this little belly?” kekeh Keven rubbed Yuki's flat stomach. Not slim, but very thin because of weight loss drastically.

The big hand momentarily moved away, squeezing the bitter that spread pierced the chest. Keven immediately smiled broadly at Yuki's response which was always unexpected.

“What the hell are you, By!?” knock Yuki in a low voice while making lips.

“I can't be pregnant! It's hungry. Tau hungry? Not yet impregnated ya can not get pregnant,” continued Yuki grumbled. Unknowingly admitting that he was starving, even his hand moved to pluck the potato parchment and devoured impatiently. Forgetting to cover up pimples that make him low self-esteem.

“See, right? I just need to eat. Don't talk weird. You've never been impregnated.”

“Iya-iya, already, you are hungry. So eat slowly, huh? Tasty, right?”

“Hm, delicious. So yummy. Feeling like life again,” Yuki reply cheerfully, but at once his face was gloomy.

“Life? Mama is still alive?” ask Yuki gamang. The rest of the parchment in the mouth is swallowed without chewing again.

“Why talk that way? We meet Mama every day, right? Said Doctor also condition Mama much progress.” Keven gently stroked the crest of Yuki's lowered head. “We must be patient until Mama is completely stable and recovered. Now you have to eat a lot. Mama would be sad if you wake up later to see her son getting thinner. You don't want me to be scolded by Mama for failing to take care of you?”

Yuki sneered lazily, staring sternly at Keven who gave a shady look. “Let you be scolded. You like being naughty now. As long as I don't go on sale, you spread the charm to the ciwi-ciwi. Overall!”

“You've seen me spread charm?”

“Every day!”

“When?”

“This is you again spread the charm. Why combing hair back using eyebrows raised all? Let what? Let's see those sisters? Flirty ih!” accuse Yuki of turning her chin towards the nurse who was about to pass in front of the two.

“I just scratched my hair, honey,” Keven explained with a long breath.

“But cool!” ketus Yuki while narrowing fiercely.

‘Gosh, Honey,’ Inner Keven can't believe. But a smile on the lips because of a flowery heart.

The perpetrator who had originally traveled the peaceful path, willing to help half the cost of treatment even though Yuki's heart is quite heavy forgiving has now disappeared. Escape without a trace and eventually become a fugitive.

“I'm getting ugly huh. So skinny dry. This is also spotty. I'm ashamed of you, By.”

Keven frowned confused. A second later his pupils widened at expressions far from reality. For him Yuki remains the most radiant. Only three to five pimples inhabiting the cheeks and chin do not make the radiance of Yuki's charm fade.

“What if I get fat? Marriage time must be pregnant continue to stretch, continue to swell, continue you .. beware if the lyrics of other girls! I satay it's eyeballs!” Suddenly the girl who was muttering softly exploded a shrill voice.

“For a long time I pregnant you now,” muttered Keven while scooping a mouthful of rice for Yuki.

"I heard ya, Mas!"

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In the afternoon after Keven's death, Yuki returned to meet Mama Maria who was lying weak. The sign of life only feels real when Yuki touches the wrist of the Mama, the rest is clearly displayed from the life support tools that sound constant.

Repeated routines that are a day are never absent. Even the girl chose to stay at Mama Maria's house. Not to stay, just go home washing clothes and cleaning as necessary because it is not possible to make the hospital hallway like a basecamp.

It was also used Keven to borrow the kitchen Mama Maria to cook a nutritious intake for Yuki. Although inevitably at this time Keven can only come three days or once a week. Unlike in the early days of Keven who every day accompanied Yuki.

“Ma .. kebaya my dream already exists. But I asked Mas Keven not to buy it first. I think it would be great if Mama did not wake up. I want it to be slim, not flat. But I don't have an appetite. Who has entered must not be out again long," Yuki told Mama Maria.

"Wake up, Ma. Please help Mas Keven persuade me to eat. Do you know I like to eat?” lirih Yuki Pilu with teary eyes.

“Mama why not wake up? I'm .. I'm tired of waiting, Ma. Why does Mom like to leave me?! I'm not a bad boy. I know I have a lot of behavior. But I'm less sure what the hell is the same Mama? Up, Ma! Please, wake up ...” Yuki squeezed the sterile clothes that wrapped herself up. Closing the eyes cussed at the smell-piercing aroma of the medicine when it came to inhaling deep air.

The vital signs still showed the same wave, but the twitching and flinched tip of Mama Maria's index finger was never noticed.

The girl who had almost run out of tears was only able to bite her lips firmly. Trying to straighten the back that is already very unable to bear the bitterness of the story of life. He bowed deeply with his throat as if he refused to pass through the air.

“Mama tau ...,” said Yuki parau, “Papa yesterday said thanks Mas Keven. They started talking a lot. Even Papa wants to pat Mas Keven's shoulder. I don't know what bullying is or what, but Mas Keven just smiled. If Mama does not continue to sleep, mendingan tomorrow I immediately married. No one knows when Papa suddenly whipped again. So, Ma, before tomorrow I come here again, please wake up.”

“Oya, I accidentally broke the anti-aging serum Mama. Wake up, Ma? I'm ready to be scolded,” whispered Yuki with a hollow ruckus ending the encounter that afternoon.

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Yuki again sat pensively in the hospital hallway. Staring blankly at the white wall with a blank mind until a tremor startled him. It turned out that the phone in the hand had rung loud.

Yuki took a lot of breath. Exhaling heavily then pulling both corners of the lips as wide as possible. His voice answered that call. He didn't want anyone across there to worry.

“Thank you very much, Ra. Sorry I keep taking it. Used to buy you who take care, now that the land is sold also bother you. Sorry, Beb, I don't understand the selling of land, I just know how to get money. But good thing you used to advise buying that land. Now you can make extra medicine," Yuki chanted with a distinctive grin.

Unfortunately, all was lost when the phone call ended. Yuki slumped with her knees bent. He looked down deeply with his arms dangling forward which was still holding the phone.

Again, Yuki's not okay.

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