You Who I Miss
With Iqbal
This is not the first time I've been like this. I get tired easily and can't play hot. It's been since I just got into High School.
At the time of High School orientation, new children including me and Iqbal stood sunbathing in the field. I was tired, hot, I sat down and sat in the shade. But I was sentenced to run around the field three times. Iqbal split me up just then, he offered to replace me. However, the upperclassman refused, even Iqbal was considered a pretentious by them. Iqbal until there was emotion, he wanted to fight them. But, I stopped him.
I fulfilled that punishment until I fell unconscious from exhaustion. Iqbal was angry then, the children said as I fainted. Iqbal beat the upperclassman who punished me until it bled.
From the moment I fainted. Every sport lesson I always fainted plus the scorching sun, my nose must bleed.
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I was lying limp in the clinic bed. I saw Iqbal come into my room after calling someone. He was sitting on a chair beside my bed. I raised my hand, trying to reach Iqbal. Iqbal held my hand and approached me.
"Why?, want a drink" he said. I nodded my head. Iqbal took a glass of water from the nightstand and helped me drink it.
"I'm sorry." I said after drinking.
"I should be the one apologizing, I made you like this" he said. I shook my head.
"I'm wrong, I should have moved to sit somewhere else or I just went home" I said slowly. Iqbal stroked my cheek.
"I'm sorry I'm rised, I left you alone there" he said. I silently held back my tears.
"We go home yes, you can rest at home" he said.
"Dad don't know, if I'm a nosebleed" I said.
"You know, I just got angry on the phone" he said. I silently looked at Iqbal for pity.
"Udah no pa-pa, let's go home" he said. I'm silent. Iqbal lifted my bridal style to his bike.
"Hot" I said while in the parking lot. Iqbal. He took off his school's white shirt and only had a black t-shirt on his body.
"Why undress" I said.
"She was hot, put this on" he said, wearing a white shirt on my head like a veil. He smiled to see me.
"You're like marsha and the bear" he said. I just smiled at him. Then Iqbal got on his motorbike. I saw him take my bag and his bag that he had hung from the handlebar of his motorcycle. Iqbal carried the bags in front of him.
"It's not hard if you carry the bag like that" I said.
"No ris, let's go up" he said, holding my hand. I slowly got on the bike. He put my hand around his waist.
"Hold embrace, you will fall" he said.
"Yes" I said tightening my arms. Iqbal took his motorcycle out of the clinic.
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Arriving at home. I'm being held in Iqbal bridal style again. I don't want to walk alone. I really can't walk, my legs are limp.
"Assalamualaikum." cried Iqbal at the door. I heard my mother's voice answer Iqbal's greeting.
"Walaikumsalam." replied Mother.
How surprised Mom was to see me in Iqbal's cradle in my white blood-stained school shirt.
"Oh my God, how come you love me?" said Mother quite loudly. Mother's voice made my grandmother, Aunt Yuli, Aunt Maya my cousins Andi, Lia and Kikky come to see me.
"Why?." asked Aunt Maya.
"Rissa's nosebleed was aunty, I've brought the clinic." said Iqbal.
"What pa-pa" asked aunt Yuli.
"It's okay aunt." I replied.
"Rissa why?" asked Dea, who had just returned from school.
"Sniffles." answered Andi.
"Bring Rissa into her room" said Grandma worriedly.
"Mom's going to get some cold water first" Mother said. Iqbal took me straight to my room. Dea, Andi, Lia and Kikky followed the two of us. Iqbal slowly laid me on the bed.
"You're okay with ris." asked Dea, who had gone up to the bed.
"No pa-pa." I said.
"It is certain that you are, taking rissa to play hot" Andi told Iqbal. Iqbal just shut up.
"The others came out first, yes, I want to change clothes Rissa" said Mother. They all left including Iqbal.
Mom took off all my clothes. He also wiped my body with a towel soaked in cold water. Mom knew I was feeling sultry, wanted to take a shower but I couldn't stand for too long.
Mom doesn't talk to me much. He just asked me why I could have a nosebleed. I just told you a little bit what happened. I didn't tell you about Iqbal who left me in the park alone. I'm afraid Mom will scold Iqbal.
After she changed clothes and mom came out. Iqbal entered my room with a tray of porridge and a glass of water. Iqbal had also changed clothes by wearing Andi's clothes.
"Let's eat" he said as he sat by my bed. I slowly got up and leaned back.
"I brought chicken porridge, hem" he said. I silently looked at her.
"Aak" he said thrusting a spoonful of porridge into my mouth. I shook my head.
"Don't want bal, I'm not hungry" I said.
"A little bit, no." he said again. I slowly opened my mouth and ate it.
"Don't do it" he said. I just nodded while eating my porridge.
"Have you eaten?" I asked.
"Udah, the same as the others" he said as he continued to bribe me.
"Udah bal, full." I said.
"Yes, I've taken the medicine" said Iqbal while giving me the vitamins given by the doctor earlier.
"Now you sleep, rest" he said. Iqbal helped me lie down. He pulled the blanket, wrapped around my body.
"Guide me bal, don't go." I said. He smiled nodding. He then went up to the other side of my bed.
I tilted my body while hugging my beloved doll staring at Iqbal who had been stroking my hair.
"Our school is over again, I'll bring a car, so you don't get too hot" he said.
"Keep your bike?" I said.
"I want to exchange with a car, I've said the same papa, he said ok" he said.
"No need to bal, it's your favorite bike" I said.
"But I love you more" he said. Slowly my tears fell. Iqbal still cares about me after what I told him.
"No pa-pa it's just a bike" he said, wiping away my tears.
"I'm sorry bal, I let you down." I said. He just smiled at me.
"In Jakarta later, you want to see him" he said. I just nodded.
"You're told to choose me or him, who do you choose?" he asked.
"Can't, I love you" I said.
"But you love him too" he said. I'm silent.
"Yes, don't mind, let's go to sleep" he said.
"I love Iqbal." I said.
"Yes, I also love you ris, dear to you" he said.
"Close his eyes" he said. I closed my eyes. Iqbal clasped my hand while patting slowly on his shoulder. I slowly fell asleep after feeling something soft touch my lips.
Although I sometimes feel alone, you are always present with me. Even when I cry you are always beside me, comforting me.
- Rissa Valentina
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