
Alvin's eyelids open slowly. The first thing that was present in his memory was Daniza.
He tried to sharpen the vision because everything was still disguised. In a consciousness that was not yet fully intact, he continued to mutter the name Daniza. The man looked around. He just realized he was in the room.
"Daniza?"
Alvin positioned his body sitting leaning against the bed. Seemed confused and began to fidget. In the room he was alone. Just getting out of bed, the door opened and Mama Elvira appeared.
"You up, Vin?" said the mother.
"Mama, where's Daniz?" suddenly tanyanya.
Bad thoughts filled his mind. He could clearly remember the incident. Alvin was afraid that something bad had happened to Daniza and the fetus in her womb. What's more, he saw a lot of blood on Daniza's clothes.
"Where's Daniza, Mah?" alvin asked again when he could not get an answer.
Instead of answering, Mama replied with a word that sounded sniffy. "Why are you asking Daniza everything?"
"Mah, help! Daniza was bleeding!"
"Then what does this have to do with you? Don't you not care one bit about Daniza?"
Increasingly frustrated at his mother's answer, Alvin massaged his head. The incident at the hotel still left a throb, although not as painful as before.
A sliver of regret began to ambush which made his chest feel crowded. Alvin remembered his evil deeds to Daniza lately. He even yelled and kicked his wife out of the room when she told him about her pregnancy.
"Mama, I know I was wrong. But please tell me where my wife is."
"Wife acknowledged, anyway?" reply mom, still with annoyance.
"Mah—"
Mama breathed a long breath. Actually he still wants to hide Daniza, but at the same time also did not have the heart of his son. Moreover, the attitude of Alvin lately is not due to deliberate.
"Daniza is resting in the next room!"
"In the next room?"
Without asking much more, Alvin immediately got up from the bed and rushed towards the next room. Several times he almost staggered. The pain in the head caused him to lose his balance.
As soon as she opened the door, Daniza was sleeping on the bed with a blanket wrapped in her body. Alvin stayed for a while.
"Why wasn't Daniz taken to the hospital, Mah? He was bleeding!" peekik Alvin was panicking.
"Daniz is okay, Vin!"
"It's okay, Mah! I saw Daniza fall and bleed!" He looks very frustrated and scared. "What if Daniza miscarried again like that time?"
Mama Elvira who was at the back was dumbfounded. He started to guess Alvin had remembered something. "You remember Daniza's been bleeding before?"
"I remember, Mah. The bloody Daniza at the hotel is exactly what happened in her rented first. Mama's with Eric why don't you take him to the hospital. If my son why-why how?"
Worried, Alvin pulled out a blanket and was about to hold Daniza. However, it was immediately blocked by Mama Elvira. "What do you want?"
"You take Daniz to the hospital!"
Mama Elvira just shook her head at her son's behavior. Despite that, he was relieved because this marked that Alvin really did remember Daniza. "You calm down first. Daniza's okay, really."
"But he was bleeding a lot, Mah! We need to get him to the hospital quickly."
Mama Elvira again blocks Alvin who wants to hold Daniza. "Daniza's okay, Vin! He's not bleeding!"
Both of Alvin's thick eyebrows intertwined to hear his mother's words. How could it not be bleeding, whereas obviously Alvin just saw a pretty red liquid on Daniza's clothes.
"What does Mama mean?" alvin was confused.
Alvin was silent for a while as if he was digesting the meaning of Mama Elvira's words. He who was still in doubt immediately pulled out the blanket and checked his wife's clothes.
Sure enough, there were no blood spots. Alvin even had a peek at the area that worried him the most. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Daniza did not bleed.
"Thank God!" he said while breathing. The man bent down and buried the kiss on his forehead repeatedly.
At least what he was afraid of didn't happen. I don't know what would happen to Daniza if she had bleeding for the second time. Maybe the same trauma will repeat itself and Daniza will probably hate her.
"Thank you, Mah. I'm so scared!" Alvin dropped his body on the edge of the bed.
"Eat him don't pan. Come on, we're out! Let Daniza rest first! She must be tired of her husband turning into an 18-year-old!" satirize the woman.
Alvin looked at his mother with pursed lips. "It was unintentional, Mah. I also don't want to forget Daniza like yesterday."
"It's hard, this. I have to be a player first!" he added in heart.
"Eat it because it can be difficult, so take good care. You're lucky Daniza still has patience in dealing with you. If you're Daniza, you've already hit her with a broom!" he said at length.
"I suspect, lest papa used to be hit by a broomstick with Mama!"
Alvin's accusation awakens Mama Elvira's brutal soul. "Alvin Alexander! Come on, get out!"
"I'd like to be here with Daniza, Mah" she asked.
Mama Elvira then raised a suspicious look. "Can you be trusted? Mama was afraid to leave Daniza alone with you. What if you hurt her again like yesterday?"
Alvin's jaw was wide open to hear his mother's accusation. "Yes my. I can remember a little bit, Mah. I can't hurt Daniza anymore" he said, trying to convince her.
"Yes already then. But if you dare to hurt Daniza once more, mama will take her away from you and you won't be able to find her." Mama's threat that sounded so serious made alvin shudder.
"Yes, Mah! Deal!"
"What deal-deal! We're not bargaining!"
"I mean, I agree, Mah. I promise I'll take good care of Daniza!"
Very bad for your own child!
"Yes, my mom's out first!" After reassuring himself, Mama Elvira came out of the room. Leaving Daniza and Alvin together.
Mama Elvira rubbed the melted clear liquid on the cheek. His heart was filled with gratitude and harr. Alvin could remember Daniza again.
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After mama left the room, Alvin looked at Daniza with teary eyes. Guilt and regret blend so strongly in the heart.
The man laid his body beside his wife. He stared deeply at Daniza's sleeping face. His heart was like a sharp dagger. What else the rest of the geeky makeup was still visible on his face and hair.
"I'm sorry, honey."
Alvin clenched the body so tightly, then buried the kiss in the forehead again and again. Let go of the longing that has been tormenting all this time. Next to his hand moved rubbing a flat stomach.
"Hey, Honey. Sorry papa, yes. Papa was once evil with you and mom. Don't be mad, yeah."
He kissed his wife's stomach repeatedly.
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