Behind the Eyes of INDIGO
Hit back

Mom quickly told Mr. Aji to call the doctor immediately, and soon the doctor came to check on Alia.

The doctor smiled as he said "Alhamdulillah, your child is awake, his heart rate is also stable, if in the next 8 hours his condition continues to increase, then he can be immediately transferred to the hospital room" the doctor obviously left.

Ms. Mia came out and told Alia's situation to Mr. Aji, then asked her husband to come in and see his daughter.

"Alia... Have you woken up, son? Papa is very happy that you finally realized" teardrops continue to wet Mr. Aji's cheeks that are moved because after waiting for days Alia finally opened her eyes.

Alia only smiled while looking at Mr. Aji's face because she still could not move.

Every two hours the nurse came to check on Alia, as promised by the doctor, some of the wires attached to her chest began to be removed, and the hose on his nose was also removed.

The nurse asked Ms. Mia to dress the patient to Alia, now the only thing attached to Alia's body was an oxygen hose and also an infusion device attached to her right hand.

After finishing releasing all the tools, now Alia was moved to a public treatment room containing two patients in one room, but it just so happened that the patient in the room had just come home so Alia became the only patient in the room.

Slowly the doctor began to tell Alia to talk, although slowly but Alia spoke quite smoothly, she also began to be able to move both hands.

"Good good! the development is very fast, now you just need rest to recover quickly" the doctor told Alia.

Alia smiled and the doctor left the room.

"Son... Mama's so happy you've finally realized, oh yes every day your friends come, but they can't see you because you can't be looked at yet"

Ms. Mia spoke at length and told Alia everything because she was too happy.

"Se every ha...ri?" alia's speech was somewhat disjointed because it was still difficult to speak.

"Yes, every day. Oh yes, there is also one of your male friends, he comes every night and accompanies Papa in front of the door of the room, the boy is very nice, he is very nice, and every night he always asks permission for Mama to be able to enter the room just to read the Qur'an to you" he added.

"Male friend? who?" alia said in her heart.

Alia looked to her left side, there was the figure of her older sister standing while smiling at Alia. She tried to raise her hand and hold onto Bu Mia's hand, she smiled as she looked at her Mama's face, and Mia returned the smile.

"Ma.." said Alia slowly.

"Yes baby? you want a drink? the doctor said you could eat and drink" Mia said.

Alia shook her head, she tried to move her legs but it felt really hard. Both of his legs felt stiff and could not be moved at all.

"Why can't Alia's legs be moved?" ask Alia.

"That's..."

Bu Mia lowered her head, her facial expression instantly turned grim and did not dare to look at Alia.

"Why Mah? why is Mama silent?"

"The doctor said you have temporary paralysis" said Ms. Mia very slowly.

"What's? why is it like that?"

"That's because you have seizures that are long enough so that there are some brain nerves that are disturbed and affect the motion system in the legs" explained Ms. Mia.

Alia felt very hit, as soon as she could not think anymore, she did not know how to accept the reality. Her tears kept dripping down her cheeks, Alia tried to get up and look at both of her legs, yet she was still so weak that she could not get up at all.

"You're calm, son, the doctor says it's only temporary" said Ms. Mia, who tried to calm her daughter down.

"When is Mah?"

Ms. Mia simply shook her head and could not answer Alia's question.

Ms. Mia tried to call Mr. Aji to help him calm Alia down.

The time has shown at 20:00 WIB.

Since noon after knowing the state of his feet Alia just silent, daydreaming about what he would do with such circumstances, what about his college, his future...

But the figure of her older sister always stood beside her with a smile, she was as if she was giving Alia encouragement and support so as not to feel hopeless.

Ms. Mia and Mr. Aji were sitting on the front porch of the room. They were enjoying a dinner of packaged rice that Bu Mia bought from the hospital canteen.

Shortly thereafter appeared a boy wearing a gray cocoa shirt and black trousers, also not forgetting the black plain peci that is always neatly mounted on his head. The man walked closer towards Bu Mia and Pak Aji.

"Assalamualaikum Mr. Ma'am..."

"Goddessalam..."

"Goddessalam..."

Answer Mr. Aji and Ms. Mia simultaneously.

"You come again son, Alia is aware now" said Mr. Aji who immediately stood up.

"Yes Mr. Alhamdulillah, I had time to the ICU room, but said the nurse had moved here so I came directly here" said Azam.

"If you want to see Alia, just go in. but..." Mr. Aji did not continue his words.

"But why Sir?" ask Azam.

"Alia seemed to be very hit, because the doctor said both legs were difficult to function" explained Mr. Aji.

"Innalady... My mom and dad were patient"

Pak Aji invited Azam to enter, he went back out to finish his meal and left Azam alone to meet Alia.

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"Assalamualaikum.." said Azam slowly.

"Walaikumsalam, you... Why else come here?" alia said with a tinge.

"Do you still not understand? or are you still pretending you don't understand?"

"Why else, do you now know how I am, and will you still love a disabled person like me?" alia.

"Alhamdulillah, I am very grateful that I can still see you conscious from the coma and want to talk to me" said Azam while throwing a smile at Alia.

"I'm..."

Alia could not continue her words and went back into silence. He turned his face away from Azam.

Azam glanced towards the female figure standing to the left of Alia, she lowered her head slowly while smiling as a sign to respect her existence.

"So I heard the news, that Bu Murniati and Mr. Sharif have died." said Azam slowly.

"What's? innalilahi wa innailaihi. When's? how can?"

Alia was very surprised when she heard the news of the death, she turned into very enthusiastic because she wanted to know what was the cause of their deaths.

"So early this morning, around 8am, they were found dead inside the house because in the snake bite, the child said that there was a snake entering the house and bit them" Azam explained.

"At 8am? wasn't that when I woke up from a coma?"

"Well, I thought that they ended up sacrificing themselves for your safety, because Ms. Murniati also said that she did not want any more new collateral".

"God, pity them." murmured Alia.