My Beautiful Lawyer
43
Hasna was running down the aisle of the hospital, like a madman. Vino followed with a very uncomfortable feeling of seeing Hasna so panicked to hear Fajri enter the ICU due to falling on the stairs. But he did not have time to say anything or complain, because Hasna immediately gas-fired to the hospital without asking permission from him.
Arriving in front of the ICU room, Hasna stopped then looked at Fajri who was lying helplessly there. Hasna's breath went down, and so did Vino. But Vino's feelings were mixed with an unspoken annoyance.
"Hasna, I don't..."
"Is he okay?" asked Hasna while crying.
"Please go to the doctor's office for more information. Only his co-workers and superiors came. But they're gone again. The family has not signed the operation agreement" explained a nun she asked.
"Operation?" mummified Hasna.
He went straight to the doctor's office. Once again Vino was left behind, he could only sigh and catch up again.
"Fajri, tell me what happened to her" Hasna sat down on the chair looking at the doctor.
"You who?" ask Doctor.
"I am Hasna, his sister" Hasna answered steadily.
Vino smiled at Hasna's reply. He was finally able to temper his feelings. He sat down to hear the doctor's explanation.
Finally Fajri was operated on, Hasna was waiting for him all day. His lips were endlessly muttering, praying for Fajri. Vino noticed him, he thought, what if he were the one in Fajri's position, Hasna would be just as worried.
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Beno stared at Fajri's desk, he still felt very guilty, even though everything happened due to accident. He recalled the moment he sneaked into the CCTV control money. He deleted the footage on the part he and Fajri were talking to and when he fell.
~I've done it neatly, no one will suspect me~ Beno's heart said.
Shortly thereafter, Vania comes to take Beno to the hospital.
"You want to come with us?" ask Vania.
"Where?" ask Beno flat.
"To the hospital, to visit Fajri" explained Vania.
"Later tonight, I'll be waiting for him later tonight" Beno replied reasoned.
"Oh, okay. Bye Beno" Vania pamit.
He went with some other co-workers. Meanwhile Beno stared at them from the window near his desk.
Suddenly a man called.
"Yes Sir!" answer Beno.
Beno seemed to be silent listening to the man's words. Sometimes he answers "yes" and "well". The words that Fajri hated, which he thought were words that came out of a lackey.
Beno remembers all the habits and life lessons Fajri gave from the first time they became co-workers. Same with Mr. Great, Fajri's father. But the reality of life makes Beno deny everything he thinks is right and violate all those principles.
Beno hung up the phone and walked out of his office. He rushed to the hospital, but not Fajri. Beno went to see his sister Dara.
Arriving at the front door of her ward, Dara sounded hysterical asking for help. Beno hurriedly entered and saw Dara brandishing a fruit knife at her nurse.
"Don't come near me, get the hell out of here. GO!" Dara is getting hysterical.
Beno tried to get closer to calm him down, he walked slowly while watching Dara's movements.
"This is brother, Dara. Dara is calm yes, brother is here for Dara" he said with his hands almost touching Dara's hands.
Dara was silent with a breath of breath and looked at Beno. Then a burst of tears began to come out of Dara's mouth.
Dara was hysterical, Beno grabbed her hand and her body he hugged. The knife in his hand, Beno threw it all the way. The nurse came out while rubbing her chest.
Beno looked at the nurse, he was afraid that the nurse was clumsy, no longer wanted to take care of Dara, like other nurses before.
While rubbing Dara's hair, she also thought about what was really going on.
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That night, Dara came home with clothes that were soaked and dirty full of mud. His face was pale, his hands trembling as Beno found him sitting limp under the shower in the bathroom.
Beno who came only once a week to his home, where his parents are dead, only thought Dara was sad to remember both parents.
Beno took care of Dara for a whole day. Without speaking, he was only helping Dara. Preparing the meal and the medicine, also without saying anything. Their relationship was very awkward, especially after both of their parents died in an accident. Beno blames Dara because they were following Dara to Dara's tourist attractions due to his phone jokes that make them panic excessively.
The next day, Beno returns to work and leaves Dara alone at his home. A few weeks later, Beno gets word from his neighbor that Dara attempted suicide by slashing his wrist.
Beno finds Dara lying weakly in the hospital. He cried staring at his sister and his only family was on the verge of death. The doctor said he lost a lot of blood. Beno had to fight hard to get blood that is quite difficult to get.
Some people sell the blood for a high price. Beno can't afford it, he's desperate, he's almost thinking about ending his life with his sister in the hospital.
But Bima Sebastian came with a brown envelope containing a pile of money that Beno desperately needed. But unfortunately, Dara has been sentenced to be a mental hospital patient. The doctor said he had a severe trauma that left him no longer in control.
But, Bima was not stopping sending money for him. He became dependent and very grateful to Bima Sebastian.
That's why Beno ignored the evidence and helped Bima to the point where she had to sacrifice her friend and best friend, Fajri.
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Starting at night, Beno was still sitting next to Dara who had fallen asleep due to sedative injections. Beno occasionally sighed heavily. He doesn't know what else to do. All the treatment he has done, but all of them are not good development. Dara is becoming more and more hysterical. Beno lost hope.
Beno came out of Dara's ward, he saw the nurse still sitting waiting in the chair outside the room.
"Mba Nia!" exclaim Beno.
"Sir!" answered Nia while standing up.
"Huhhff, I think Mba Nia ran away like a nurse before" Beno said with a stupid smile.
"No sir, I really need this job. So I will stay" replied Nia.
Beno smiled with the reason Nia conveyed. Just like him, he needed the money so much, so he did everything for the money.
"Thank you! I promise, if I get more money, I will give Mba Nia a bonus" promised Beno.
"Thank you Sir!" said Nia.
Beno was about to leave, but Nia asked a strange question.
"Dara likes to get a tattoo?" ask Nia.
"What's? A tattoo?" Beno doesn't understand.
Nia thinks back, she undoes her intention to say the thing she knows. She felt, maybe this was the privacy of Dara that she had never told her brother.
"Ah, maybe a birthmark. Sorry sir, I was wrong" said Nia.
"Oh, that birthmark. Yes, it's a birthmark" Beno said, recalling a birthmark that quite looks like a tattoo on Dara's back.
Beno tidied up his suit, he was about to leave. Their conversation was interrupted that night. Beno went to the hospital where Fajri was treated.