
At the hospital, Sherin kept quiet. Even when people out there flocked to pray that he would recover quickly even though only through social media, none of his family came to see him. Alex has not been seen since Sherin opened her eyes and realized she was in the hospital. It really made him feel hurt. Just imagine, when he needs the support of the people closest to him they are actually getting away and seem to be showing that at least they do not care about Sherin's situation now.
Both of Alex's parents did come and even had time to accompany him. But they did not invite Sherin to speak. They just kept quiet and talked to themselves. They both consider Sherin to be absent.
Sherin closed both eyes and that was when her tears trickled past the two corners of her eyes. Sherin was feeling very desperate now. He felt he had no more grip to hold on. Alex who should always be beside him at a time like this just disappeared like in the swallow of the earth. No news at all.
Chequelek
The sound of the door being opened and then closed again very slowly did not make Sherin interested in opening both eyes. Sherin knows who's coming. Who else if not aunt. Because it was only the old woman who faithfully accompanied and paid attention to him.
“Goodnight mistress..”
A woman's soft, soft voice made Sherin frown. The voice is so familiar but Sherin does not know who the owner is.
Curious, Sherin slowly opened her eyes and turned her head. It was then that his gaze met with Melisa who was already standing to the left of her safe with a fruit parcel and a flower in her hand.
“You..” Sherin is shocked by Melisa's presence. Though she thought that the one who entered her room was an aunt, not a woman that she did not expect her arrival at all. The woman is also the main cause of her admission into the hospital.
“Ngapain you here? Not satisfied you see me like this?! Not satisfied you broke my feelings and heart huh?!” Sherin screeched unable to contain her frustration as soon as she saw Melisa's figure.
“Not satisfied are you destroying my pride as Alex's wife?! Not satisfied you made my household ruined huh?!” Sherin wept roaring as she could not help the sadness in her heart. Seeing Melisa standing in front of him made Sherin feel even more humbled.
Melisa. His chest was also tight to hear Sherin's cry. Melissa didn't want any of that to happen either. But Melisa is helpless. Melisa is unlikely to argue with Alex for fear of losing her job. Because after all the future of his two younger brothers was in his hands. They'll drop out of school if Melisa doesn't work.
“Sorry mistress.. Sorry.” Lirih Melisa with a trembling voice. Melissa knew she was wrong. Melisa also realizes what she did by agreeing to Alex's invitation to go to a party held by the Gilbert family has hurt Sherin very much.
“I.. I...” Melisa could no longer hold back her tears. Her instincts as a woman also come to feel what Sherin feels. But then again, Melisa is unlikely to risk the future of her two sisters.
“What?! What are you talking about?! Do you think sorry is enough to treat my heartache?! Do you think sorry you can make Alex love me again huh?!”
Melisa shook her head continuously bowed. The woman doesn't know what to do now. Melisa also realized that she had incised a wound in Sherin's heart so deeply.
Melissa could only shut up and cry. He's trying to understand how Sherin feels right now.
“Go !!” Hysterical Sherin while crying.
The aunt who heard the screeches went straight into Sherin's ward. She was surprised to see a crying Melisa fall on the floor. While Sherin, she continued to shout angry and occasionally sobbed to drive away Melisa who was just silently crying on the floor.
For a moment the aunt felt in the lemma between calming Sherin or helping Melisa who was sitting on the floor. Both are crying the same now. The only difference is that Sherin cried sobbing so loudly, while Melisa was just crying in silence.
“Kakak..” David who that night indeed drove Melisa to visit Sherin was surprised to see her brother slumped on the floor. The teenager hit her head and helped Melisa get up from the floor.
“Come brother... We go home.” Lirih David felt unbearable to see his brother treated so rudely by the wife of his superior.
“Go you !! Go !! I don't want to see your face!!” Sherin yells again while throwing whatever she can get at Melisa. That made the aunt rush closer to Sherin and try to calm her down. As for David, she immediately brought her brother out of Sherin's ward. David can't blame Sherin for defending his brother. But what David believes, his brother must have a reason to agree to Alex's invitation to attend the party held by the Gilbert family.
When she was outside Sherin's ward, Melisa's cries began to sound. The woman sobbed feeling very sad as well as feeling guilty for making Sherin what she is now.
Not bear to hear her brother's cry, David immediately grabbed Melisa's body into his embrace. David was really confused as to how it should be now. Because after all what Melisa did was wrong. Which wife is not hurt to see her husband go to a party with another woman. His wife was ignored and considered non-existent.
“Faulty sister Vid.. Bad brother.. The brother who made Mrs Sherin enter the hospital.” The cry of Melisa was stirring in the arms of her little brother.
David could just shut up. She rubbed a gentle swab of her trembling back Melisa tried to calm her sister. David believes his brother had a reason to do that. David believes her brother is a good woman who definitely won't hurt her fellow women.
“We go home now yes brother.” Whisper David.
Melisa could only nod. But when he was about to step his feet suddenly relaxed until his body almost collapsed to the floor if only David did not support him. Understanding the circumstances of his brother, David also carried his brother's body and took him step away from Sherin's nursery.
From a distance without David and Melisa noticing, Alex is watching. The man was pecking at his place looking at Melisa who was crying in the arms of her younger brother. Alex doesn't know what happened in Sherin's ward. But what Alex is certain of is Sherin's wrath on Melisa.
Alex took a breath. Somehow seeing Melisa cry her chest felt tight. It felt like Alex wanted to be in David's position, hugging and calming the troubled Melisa. But Alex knew it was impossible because Alex himself also believed that surely Melisa also hated him given what Alex had been doing to him.