CUTS
Doctor Widia...
A pair of eyes were watching behind the concrete walls of the hospital. He firmly gripped the handle of the broom in his hand. Hatred, anger and jealousy were clearly visible on his face.
“Thank you, Doctor.” said Rendra as he exited the control room. An hour more he spent talking to Cut but not a word came out of the girl's mouth.
“Don't thank me. If your presence can make it back, it is precisely me who should thank you. But there seems to be no results, your face is quite clear tell me.” said Dr. Widia with a slight smile.
“It is not easy to face a patient like Cut. You have to be patient and enough time to wait.” continued Dr. Widia.
“My task time is only a month away. I don't know how to go ahead. If the condition of Aceh is still as it is now, it is very difficult for me to come here.”
“So, you will give up?” ask Dr. Widia.
“I don't know, Doctor.”
“If you can't, don't force it. Just follow the advice Abu gave yesterday. Find another girl in Java! Don't wait for something uncertain. Love must be fought for but logic must take precedence.”
“Thank you, Doctor. Then I say goodbye first.” the two shake hands then Rendra out of the hospital building with a feeling of emptiness.
Tok.dok....
“I'm in?”
Chequek...
“What do you feel now?” asked Doctor Widia while sitting on the bench occupied by Rendra earlier.
“He seems sad. Although he did not tell me, but the look on his face clearly described the sadness that was too deep. You stupid man! So many girls in Java are there but she's still thinking about you. He is willing to wait for you just to say ‘iya’. If I were him, I would probably have two children by now. What to wait for the uncertain. Handsome, high-ranking, intelligent is enough capital to captivate every woman out there. Not to be dissolved in an obscure love. Especially with a girl desperate with her own life. Never mind taking care of the husband, yourself alone can not be taken care of. His mind alone cannot control itself. How to take care of the household let alone be the wife of a soldier.”
“Kak, Cut to the kitchen.”
“Please, your place is indeed there. You're happier spending your time with the stove and the pot. They won't talk to you like I do. Enjoy your youth in that kitchen.”
Cut leaves Doctor Widia without a word. He went in silence. While Dr. Widia looks upset with all the efforts she has done but Cut is still reluctant to open up.
“Doctor.”
“Aparticularly?” Dr Widia was shocked when she saw another man enter the room.
“You!”
“What are you doing here? What if someone sees or recognizes your face?”
“If the soldier can come here why can't I? I also want to see him.” Doctor Widia massaged her temples. “I'm like moms with two boys fighting over toys. If you want to see him, not now! He just met Rendra, it's not good that in a day he'll see you two. Come back here tomorrow!”
“Doctor, I don't know if tomorrow can still come here. Allow me to meet him today. I promise I won't do anything.”
“What if he gets hysterical and yells? The male nurses will come and you will face the doctor and I will get in trouble for letting you see him.”
“Let him calm down first. I don't know what they're talking about just now.don't force her mind to accept you all at once. Well.I get dizzy if you're like this. Please, listen to me! Come tomorrow, I'll get everything ready. If you can last this long why can't you last another day.”
“Ya already, I hold the words Doctor.”
Khalid exited the control room and accidentally hit the shoulder of a man who was also about to enter the control room.
Tok.dok...
“What else? I said tomorrow.”
“You?” Doctor Widya originally thought that it was Khalid.
“What's up, Doctor? Why the reaction is like seeing a ghost.” asked Rendra.
“It looks very important until you have to come back again.”
“Can I if I bring Cut out for a while?”
“No! That's too risky. I don't want to get in trouble because of you.”
“Just a minute, Doc. I want to take him to enjoy the beach. Who knows he'll talk to me.”
“Can't, Mr. Rendra. Thank you.” Dr. Widia this time really has to be assertive like mothers of two children. After leaving Rendra alone in the control room, Doctor Widia briefly sees the man she believes to be Khalid peering out of the nurse's window.
“They are both really like children. Huhhhh..” Doctor Widia tried to calm down again. Today was really exhausting for him.
Late in the afternoon, the doctors and nurses who had finished the picket left the hospital. Guard officers, nurses and changing doctors are ready to replace the night picket schedule.
Humps.hump...
The cut turns as one hand closes its mouth and the other pulls its body back. After trying to fight, Cut fell unconscious by the influence of drugs.
“You're mine, Cut Zulaikha.”
Crane..kring.....
Crane....
“Halo, with whom?”
“Sorry, Sir. It's from the hospital. There is important news for Doctor Widia.”
“Before a while, I call first.”
“Ma...Wake up, there's a call from the hospital. Said important.”
“Iya, what's up?”
“Sorry, Doctor. Patient Cut is missing from his room.”
“What??? I'm going there now. Contact Doctor Zul, and the police now!” Doctor Widia runs to her room to get the hood and the car keys.
“Papa inter.” Doctor Widia nodded.
The couple immediately headed to a mental hospital in the middle of a lonely night. This time the journey of Doctor Widia is fairly smooth without obstacles because of using the official car of the husband who works as a member of the provos.
“Truly spirited rebel.” grumbled Doctor Widia on her way to the hospital.
“Whose Mama means?”
“Let's Mama tell us more.”
The car drove fast enough to not feel it had entered the hospital yard. Although law enforcement in Aceh did not go well but the case of the disappearance of mental hospital patients such as Cut remains reported to the authorities.
Doctor Widia saw some of the authorities directly contact someone through HT as soon as she knew the background of Cut. Dr Widia was getting more nervous when she had to answer various questions from the police. The husband who felt the strange gurgle of the wife then asked permission to talk to the wife first.
The police who saw the KTA from Doctor Widia's husband immediately allowed them to talk together. This is where Dr. Widia looked down scared when interrogated directly by her husband.
“Ma...” without the need to ask, just call like that only Doctor Widia directly told the truth to the husband.
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