Santet Bride
Part 12's
ICU Pondok Indah Hospital
Today is the fifth day Rasti was admitted to the ICU room of Pondok Indah Hospital after a cesarean operation due to severe bleeding he experienced at the age of seven months. Rahayu, the mother still remained faithful waiting for Rasti there, alternating with Arga and Roy, the beloved papa.
Rahayu looked at Rasti lying down, saddened to see one of her twin daughters had to suffer a sad fate like this, Rahayu never thought if the baby who had been waiting for it should be born Rasti in a state of death.
However, Rahayu realized that it was all the will of the Power. Rahayu was just about to sit down, when in front of her was standing a very beautiful woman in a red dress, the woman claimed she was a former friend of Rasti's work at Garuda Nusa Television first.
"Good day, Auntie. Sorry, I'd like to ask you, who's in that is Rasti huh, Tan?" ask the girl in the red dress.
"Whose sister? Do I know my sister?" Without answering the question of the beautiful girl in the red dress, Rahayu asked back.
"I am Kirana, Rasti's best friend and broadcasting manager while working at Garuda Nusa Televisi, Aunty. I'm here because I heard the news that Rasti is in a coma after surgery. Sorry if my presence interfered," Kirana said, the girl in the red dress smiling sweetly.
Hearing Kirana's explanation, Rahayu's face became increasingly gray, as dark as the cloud hanging outside. He recalled how Rasti used to be a pleasant virgin, as well as his twin Sasti. However, it all had to disappear, after that incident.
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Two Years Ago
The crane! The crane!
The phone rang loudly at Hendrawan's residence, that morning the residents of the house were again engrossed in their respective rooms after performing bersama'ah Fajr prayers, except for Bik Muna, who was not involved, a domestic assistant who has worked for the family for twenty years.
The crane! The crane!
The sound of the phone ringing again sounded, Bik Muna who heard the ringing of the phone rushed to the family room to pick up the phone handle to stop ringing.
[Hello. Assalamualaikum says. Hendrawan's family home is here, can anyone help?]
Ask Bik Muna to the caller across.
[Wa'alaikum. I'm with Indira, Jiwo's assistant doctor. Can I talk to Sasti Hendrawan's parents?]
Ask the person across.
[Wait a minute, Miss Indira. I'll call my master or hostess first, yes.]
Pamit Bik Muna, then headed towards the main room in the house.
Geck! Geck! Geck!
"Who? Wait a minute," a female voice sounded from inside the room.
"Bik Muna, Madam. There's a call from the hospital, from Jiwo's assistant doctor Nyah." Bik Muna informs the woman inside.
For the sake of hearing the explanation of her domestic assistant, Rahayu who only wears a bath kimono with her hair still wrapped around the towel also headed to the family room to answer a phone call from the hospital.
[Hello, Good morning. I'm Rahayu, Mama Sasti. What's the latest development, Sus about my son, Sasti?]
Rahayu asked enthusiastically because it had been three days that they and their family could not visit Sasti in the hospital, because there was an event that could not be abandoned.
[Look, Ma'am .. I asked earlier because I had to deliver the news. But it is our duty to immediately inform the patient's family if there is anything in the patient.]
Sisters Indira cautiously.
[Oh, okay. Sister don't confuse me yes, please tell me what's wrong with my son Sasti. She's okay, isn't she, Sus?]
Tanya Rahayu started to get emotional.
[Look, ma'am .. Sasti just had a disaster. We hope that the family mother can come to the hospital to see Sasti's condition. Sorry that's all I can say. Good morning, Mrs Hendrawan.]
Bruk!
Rahayu was struck by lightning after hearing Sister Indira's explanation earlier, until she unknowingly dropped the handle of the phone she was holding.
"Bah! Whah! Rasti! Rasti!" Rahayu screamed for her husband and eldest son.
Roy, who was already in front of the stairs, ran to the sound of his wife's screams. While Rasti who was still lazing in the room immediately jumped from her bed and rushed to Rahayu in the family room.
"What's up, Mah? Why yell? Mama's okay, isn't she?" screeches Roy.
"Well, Mama why, Pah? Why is Mama screaming? And that's why there's a phone on the floor?" follow Rasti behind Roy.
His father just put his shoulders together, not knowing what to answer because he also did not know what happened to his wife.
Rasti and Roy come together to Rahayu, who will ask what happened, suddenly the 45-year-old woman cried bitterly. Confused by Rahayu's behavior, Roy hugs Rahayu tightly and lets her cry first, while Rasti returns the phone handle back to its place.
In his sobs, Rahayu called Sasti's name, "Pah ... Sasti, Pahm ... Sasti."
"Surely an accident in the hospital, Pah. Let's go to him at Doctor Jiwo's, Pah. Mama, worry about him, Pah. Huhuhuhu." Tangis Rahayu's.
"What! An accident, Mah? Come on, let's go there now! Rasti! Quickly get your clothes and bags and your sandals! Papa wants to get the car ready now! Bik Muna's! Bik Muna's! Please open the gate now, we're going to the hospital!" Shouted Roy loudly.
Without waiting any longer, Rasti rushed to pick up clothes, bags and sandals for mama, while for himself only took bags and sandals because he had had time to shower and change clothes. Bik Muna immediately ran outside opening the gate for her master later.
After changing clothes, Rahayu and Rasti rushed to Roy who was waiting in the car. As soon as the car door closed, Roy immediately spurred his Buggati La Voiture Noire, splitting the asphalt breaking the silence on Sunday morning.
Arriving at Jiwo's mental rehabilitation center, the three of them immediately ran to find Jiwo's doctor to ask for an explanation of Sasti's condition. But just how many steps they ran, Sister Indira called them.
"Mr Hendrawan!" sister Indira exclaimed when she saw the Hendrawan family running from outside.
Hearing the voice of Sister Indira's cry, the three of them came to him and rushed to Sasti's bed and found the girl struggling to breathe oxygen with the help of a ventilator hose on her nose while her left wrist was an intravenous needle and transfusion needle on his right wrist.
"Sastiiii ... What happened, son? You why?" Rahayu hysterically saw Sasti's state that looked very chaotic.
"Mah, watch! That's the doctor's gonna take care of Sasti! Mama's a little way out here!" Roy pulled his wife's shoulder and was immediately brushed aside violently by his wife.
"YES!" hardik Roy is rude, making Rahayu jerk and obey her husband to give way to the medical team.
The medical team tried their best to save Sasti, but God wanted something else. Among the sound of the monitoring equipment on the side of his bed, there was a faint sound of Sasti's voice for the last time before it finally disappeared with his last breath, "Mah, Pah, Rasti ... af ... kan .. a. ku. A. .. llah .. u ... A.k..a bar."
Tiiiiittt!
There was a long detail of the monitoring machine, indicating that the owner of life had taken back the spirit that had been entrusted for some time to the empty body.
"SASTIII!" rahayu's hysterical screams go straight to the floor when she finds the sound of the monitoring machine no longer beating to the rhythm of Sasti's heart.
Rasti and Roy who had previously held Rahayu's body from the left and right sides, and merta lifted Rahayu's body to the top of the sofa bed in the nursery.
Quickly, the medical team used a defibrillator to shock Sasti's heart for some time, but their efforts were futile. Sasti, it has truly returned to the ruler of the universe.
"The patient is dead, the heart shock we did was not successful. Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'uun," said Jiwo's fellow doctors who helped rescue Sasti.
Roy, who witnessed the incident, rushed to see Jiwo's doctor and searched the psychiatric doctor with various questions about Sasti.
"Doctor, what happened to Sasti? How did he get into an accident? Now where is he and how's he doing, doc?" fret Roy with a glare.
"Father, Mother, I hope you and your father calm down. I will answer all the questions of the Father and Mother one by one, but before that I am sorry for this incident. We did not expect, Sasti is this close," explained doctor Jiwo with a sad face.
Rasti hugged her mother from the side while trying to calm her down by stroking the woman's chaotic-looking shoulders from crying incessantly.
"I'm sorry, sir, Mom. Last morning after breakfast together, Sasti seemed to have deliberately ended his life by downing his medicine beyond the dose we gave him. We are also still figuring out how Sasti took the drugs without our knowledge, considering the medicines of our patients stored in a special locker of patients who have been named after each patient and we who measure directly according to the dose, according to the patient, when it will be given to patients to avoid things like this," explained doctor Jiwo at length.
Roy took a deep breath when he heard the explanation of doctor Jiwo, Roy did not doubt the quality of the hospital that serves as a center for mental rehabilitation.
"I ask, please the doctor close the news of my child's death, do not let the media know because it will make the atmosphere worse. For the next let me take care of it," pinta Roy to doctor Jiwo.
"Well, sir if that's what you want. We will not inform the media about the sad news that you are experiencing at this time, and if you need our help later to find out how Sasti obtained the excess drug, he said, we will definitely help" said the psychiatrist.
"Good, thanks for the offer, doc. I appreciate the doctor's help" Roy replied.
Rahayu, who still does not believe in Sasti's departure, urges Roy to investigate the death of one of her twins, Rahayu feels Sasti's death is very strange and beyond reasonable.
Roy responded to his wife's request and contacted one of the personal informants he often asked for help whenever he needed confidential information.
[Good day, Mr. Dandi. I need immediate help to find information about the death of one of my twins, Sasti.]
Roy said straight to the heart of the matter.
[Good, Sir. I will do this right now!]
replied Mr. Dandi, he already quite understand with this one client, if Roy gave the order it means at that time he had to move immediately.
Almost a month after Sasti died, Mr. Dandi came to bring news that Sasti's death was pure suicide. Apparently for some time, Sasti did not really take his drugs but rather stored them in his pocket or pants, and Sasti took the drugs to end his life after knowing Adi, who was not his, the man he loved married another woman because he thought Sasti had married another man first.
"Surely, why so short of your wits, son. Where is your faith, why is it only because of an Adi you can leave a mother like this," lamented Rahayu.
"Already, Ma. Everything has happened, we can't blame anyone. All is God's will" Rasti reminded her mother to accept the situation.
However, Rahayu's sadness seems to be unstoppable again. Every time, he just daydreams to remember Sasti, until one day Roy sees a disorder in his wife's psyche and decides to take his wife to a mental rehabilitation center, to recover his severely shaken soul after Sasti's death.
Then who exactly is Kirana, the sweet girl in the red dress who came to Rahayu and what does she want?
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