
Tiara ran along the corridor of the hospital, without waiting for Pandu who was still parking his car.
Just now that the woman had arrived in front of Ruby's room, she was suddenly startled as soon as the door opened. Not because of the door, but because of the figure of the man who appeared from inside that made the woman shocked.
"A Came Arka?" tiara murmured with enlarged eyes.
"Eh, you know me?" ask Arka with a frown.
For a moment Tiara was confused by the Ark's reaction. However, it was only temporary because he suddenly remembered something.
"Darling, why did you leave me alone anyway?" suddenly Pandu, appeared from behind Tiara. Having not received an answer from Tiara, Pandu gasped in shock at the presence of his best friend Arka.
"Arka, why are you here?" ask Pandu without further ado.
"Lho, it's me who wants you, why are you here?is she the girl you told me about, that made you finally choose to live in Bali?" Arka pointed towards Tiara.
"Eh, yes. This is Tiara!" Pandu elbowed Tiara's arm, gesturing for the now-legitimate woman to be his future wife, introducing her.
"Hi, I'm Tiara!" Tiar extended his hand.
"Carca!" return Tiara's hand.
"Sob, it is fitting that you do not want to be betrothed to Adel, it turns out your future wife is beautiful too" whispered Arka.
"Hey, how dare you praise my future wife?" pekik Pandu is upset.
Arka's laughter instantly broke, leaving Tiara's mouth open. Finally he understood how the character of the old Arka. "It turns out he got this one first!" inner Tiara.
"Ka, now explain, why are you here?" tanya Pandu after the regret disappears.
"Oh, I was on the beach again and the woman inside was too. She was shocked to see me and she finally gave birth. I was mistaken for the husband of the woman inside, and they asked me to accompany her during childbirth. That's all!" obviously Arka is long without adding and without subtracting. "but there is something that makes me confused, Pan. Why does the woman inside know me?" arka's eyebrows are sharp-linked. "Surprisingly, I feel like I have a bond with him and his three children" Arka continued.
Pandu and Tiara looked at each other, confused as to what to say.
Yes, that man is Arka, Ruby's husband. Arcs suffer from psychogenic amnesia. Amnesia is often experienced by people due to severe stress that may be caused by events that make them sad. And what is experienced by this Archa is called localized amnesia, that is, he forgot only certain parts. Arka forgets Ruby alone and everything related to her, but not to anyone else. Because the sadness and stress that he experienced made his body and mental refuse to remember certain events that made him sad. But, of course this is not permanent, and is only temporary.
Yes, because it is too heavy a sense of regret felt by Arka, especially when looking at Ruby's videos, making the man become stressed because he felt himself to be a useless man, unable to accompany Ruby in her pregnancy.
Arka also has acute insomnia, so it must consume a lot of sleeping pills in order to sleep.
Flashbacks
Three months ago
Pandu stared sadly at the condition of his best friend who is now back again like an undead. Arka's body that was once contained now looks very thin and unkempt. Look, now even the nutrients that enter his body come from the infusion hose that was attached to his hand. Guilt immediately arose because he felt he was involved in making his best friend become like that. Even his best friend, already can not take care of the company anymore, to make his company was at number one, dropped drastically to number 4 and number one is now held by the company Pandu.
"Ka, why can you be weak like this? you said you'd be strong and excited to find Ruby and your future children, but why are you weak, you idiot!" pandu.
Again Pandu was stunned to hear Arka's complaint. He does know, Arka's hard efforts to be able to find Ruby, but he's the one who foiled everything secretly.
Not without reason he did. It was because of Ruby's request that it was still difficult to forget Arka's treatment of her during the four years of marriage. Scout now as if squeezed, backward wrong, forward let alone.
Pandu and Tiara had even told Ruby everything that had happened. Where Arka already knew the true events, Jelita and her mother who ended up in prison, even died. Even Pandu has also told how Pandu struggles to find Ruby's existence, but his wife Arka still does not believe in the change of Arka. I don't know why Ruby was afraid to find Arka looking for her. She is afraid that Arka is looking for her only to take her three children. It makes no sense, because Pandu also explained that Arka was looking for him because of love, but still the woman did not believe. Ruby even threatened to harm himself if Pandu to tell him where his existence on Arka. Finally inevitably, Pandu decided to keep the existence of Ruby on Arka.
"I've forgiven him, but even though I've forgiven him, it's still hard for me to meet him. Please understand me!" that was what Ruby said at the time.
"Ka, I know you're very depressed because of the regret you've been through, but it's not like I've said that you have to stay up for them. I promise that I will soon meet the two of you in the near future," Pandu said softly when his memory of Ruby's words, ended.
"Until when, Pan until when? until I'm crazy?" ask Arka in a weak voice.
"Awhile more. I can make sure of that. You are patient. The important thing is that you have the spirit first, so that you can be healthy as before,"
"Thank you, Pan! I'll try!" arka lirih.
Silence paused for a moment on them for a split second. The next second, Arka woke up from her seat and stood up with a slight stagger.
"Where are you going?" Pandu started to panic.
"I want to go to the toilet for a while" said weak Arka, passing away by dragging an infusion pole.
"Do you need help?"ask Pandu, while standing.
"No need! I can still be alone," said Arka again continued his steps even though he was teetering. But when approaching the door, suddenly Arka's vision began to blur, without being prevented, the man fell forward so that his head hit the wall and fainted.
The guide who saw the incident, rushed to help Arka. That was the beginning of making Arka suffered from psychogenic amnesia. Not because of injury to the head but because of the acute sadness he felt. His body and mental now refused to remember everything that made him sad. At least that's what the doctor explained.
"It's only temporary. As time goes by he will be able to recall at least 3 to 5 of these years. Let her mind calm down first!" obviously the doctor at the time.
The flash back end.
Tbc
So, the scene yesterday is not incompatible with the title it is part of the title. Arka can experience psychogenic amnesia, precisely because of his great regret, to make him depressed and destroyed.
But it's only for a few moments, not permanent.
I just created a scene where Arka can still accompany Ruby to give birth even in the midst of confusion.
Later if I make Ruby easily able to forgive Arka, there will be controversy and feel too easy Arka to get forgiveness from Ruby.
If I feel like I'm not up to expectations, I'm sorry, because I'm not an expert at pleasing all of you. Thank you ⁇