Hacking Flavors
Karina Koma

"Where is Karina being treated?" I asked for an urgent answer from Mark.

"At the Hospital Mother Mulia Carnation room number.7.."

As soon as I heard the information I needed, I immediately left Mark again as soon as my inner power was able to move forward.

Yush!!

I was swept by the daytime wind under the hot sun. The street crowd for me is meaningless because I am able to race between the sidelines of cars and motorcycles passing by.

Not until ten minutes, I also arrived at the lobby of Mother Mulia's hospital. I immediately aimed at the reception desk and asked the female nurse standing guard there.

But maybe because my appearance was too sudden that made the nurse surprised to fall from the top of her chair. Thought I might be a ghost who appeared to scare her.

"Excuse me.." I said a little gasps.

"Aargha!"

Rambour.

The nurse fell backwards. I pat the guilt that comes to the surface. And asked her the way to Karina's ward.

"Sorry, Sus. Where's Carnation Room number 7?" Ask me in a big tone.

After confirming that I was real human, the nurse answered my question. Even with a stammer.

And again I immediately darted away leaving the receptionist guards who were certainly frightened and considered me a stray ghost in broad daylight.

I don't give a shit. For me the most important thing right now is Karina.

My heart was beating so fast, because of the fear that had plagued my whole mind and soul.

I'm really scared. Really scared.

'What if I arrive late? Like my return to see Laila back, which was also very late.' My mind was filled with various thoughts of the same kind.

It wasn't until two minutes, I had already reached the room where Karina was being treated.

Once inside, there was no one there. So no one was surprised by my sudden appearance.

Even so, my replacement was made surprised, when I found the figure of Karina in a bandage almost all over her head, arms and legs. Traces of blood seemed to pierce through the bandages.

I immediately approached Karina who was unconscious. I grabbed his fingers as gently and as softly as possible. I don't want to wake her up in the pain of my touch that might be rough.

I looked at the face of Karina who seemed to be sleeping in peace. If it wasn't for the bruises and blisters on his cheeks and chin. Karina's eyes swelled up.

I can imagine how great the danger of death the woman before me had passed.

"Rin.."

I called Karina's name as gently as possible. It was silence that answered my call earlier.

"Rin.." call me over and over.

But again there was no word from Karina who lay still.

I looked at Karina's face for a long time while wiping her fingers with intravenous needles.

Various thoughts raged in my mind. Whether it is sadness, guilt, regret, and longing, everything is mixed into one.

If only time could I replay, I would like to keep the memory to make Karina happy for longer.

"If only.."

My murmur was cut off by the voice of someone I knew. The voice came closer to Karina's room.

"Urus everything we can handle on our own first, Jer. I have to take care of my sister who was in an accident." said Idham, Karina's foster sister who was calling someone.

"Yes. I trust you. If there's anything you can't handle, just call me, okay?" Idham said back.

Cklek.

Karina's in-room door opens. And I rushed to disguise myself in the corner of the room. I used my inner power to camouflage myself, so Idham was unaware of my presence in the room.

Luckily, the shirt I'm wearing right now is white. So this is enough to make it easier for the camouflage effort I do.

I noticed Idham's movements as he approached Karina who was lying still.

I squinted my eyes. I was immediately whipped by a feeling of dislike for the young man's actions. Especially the way he looked at Karina. Which I don't think is like a brother's view of his sister.

Then I heard Idham speaking in a very slow voice.

"Why are you like this, Rin? You're making me worry so much.."

The atmosphere was quiet for quite a while. Before Idham finally resumed his words.

"If I may, I want us to always be together, Rin. Anytime and anywhere. Baby, you rejected me. Why Rin? We don't have blood relations?!" Ask idham in a slightly elevated tone.

'That was my guess all along. Idham did have more feelings than a sister to Karina.

"Honey, you already consider me as a big brother. Whoa.kakak! That's not what I expected of you, Rin! Not that!" Idham started to look riled up.

I was wary and prepared to ambush the young man, such as he intended to harm my Karina.

'Ah 'ah.. My Karina again I declare ownership of that woman.. Karina... What have you done to me?' I continued to mutter in my heart.

And I'm back to hearing Idham's monologue.

"I used to regret that I didn't insist on asking you to marry me, Rin. So you ended up getting kidnapped in Manhattan..!" Idam said with regret.

"Then you come back, Rin. Your answer is still the same. This time, I was too late. Because it turns out you seem to like other men already." continued Idham speak for himself.

'What does that mean is.me?' i'm second-guessing.

"I finally gave up, Rin. Whatever it is you're happy. But in the end you end up like this! Where's that guy you like now, Rin?! He's not even here to accompany you!" Condemn Idham with a tone of voice that rises again.

I who heard it, immediately looked down embarrassed.

I might have been in Karina's room earlier, compared to Idham. But my courage was far below that young man who dared to appear openly. Unlike me who is so cowardly and instead hides behind the power of my inner power camouflage.

"Where is that guy, Rin?! There's nothing! Bik Tum story, if the boyfriend you like already knows that you are in an accident. So that guy should know already, right?" Idham continued to speak.

"But where is he now Rin? He's not there for you! I hate to see you fighting yourself after that guy who doesn't feel the same way you do, Rin. I hate it every time you tell me about that guy who has a problem with his past. I hate him, Rin. Honestly!"

"..."

The silence in Karina's room suffocated my mind and soul. I who heard Idham's statement did not have the courage to just say it or just show myself.

Even when Idham went out again to see the doctor who treated Karina, I still covered my body with the inner power camouflage in the corner of this room of the hospital.

Cowardly.

Loser.

I think I'm like that.

***

The day continued to change, until it did not feel two weeks had passed since the accident Karina happened.

Karina is still in an unconscious coma. And this makes me anxious half to death.

According to the doctor I heard, physically, Karina's real body began to stabilize and was nearing recovery. But strangely the woman did not wake up.

I don't know what the cause is, but clearly the doctor says the cause can be by a variety of factors. One of them is the desire of the patient to wake up unconscious which is either too small, so that his brain response was retaliated by still making his lying in a coma.

"Rin.. wake up.. You've been in this hospital for a long time, Rin. You don't remember what Rinaya is? You don't remember what your mom is? You don't remember the same.. What am I?" Whisper me near Karina, when there were only two of us in her room.

During these two weeks, Idham was the one who most often kept Karina in the hospital. The young man would usually come in the morning and go home at night.

And as long as Idham stood guard, I did not dare to show myself in front of the young man. My ego was slightly hit by Idham saying that I didn't care about Karina.

Though actually I really care about her foster sister.

But strangely, I still hide in the shadows every time my visit to Karina's room turns out to be in contact with Idham's clock.

My focus right now is for Karina to wake up from her coma.

And my wish was finally fulfilled also on the seventeenth day since Karina was hospitalized. Karina finally regained consciousness at the end of that afternoon.

***