The Choice of Old Man
The Honesty of a Father

Keenan looked at Alexa from outside the ICU. His throat felt choked when he saw the many medical equipment connected to the girl. Previously, doctors had done MRI and CT scans on Alexa, incidentally the neurosurgeon who handled it was his own cousin, Prayoga.

Yoga had also asked someone who drove his cousin to the hospital. It checks Alexa's level of consciousness by pinching parts of the body, giving stimulation, opening the eyes and calling her name. His body did not respond at all. The glasgow coma scale value is at level 3 (lowest value) indicating the patient is in a coma.

After performing a series of examinations, Yoga diagnosed Alexa suffered a severe injury to the head, thus requiring craniotomy surgery.

Operation Kraniotomy — Making a hole in the skull bone as access into the brain. Removes blood clots that may form and repairs blood vessels in the damaged brain. Put the piece of skull bone back in its original position after the bleeding in the brain stops, then stick it with a special nut.

Sure Yoga has signed the registration form. He became a doctor and guardian of Alexa. Sofyan and his father are brothers. Once the surgery was completed, the girl was transferred to an ICU room and monitored closely for 24 hours.

"There's damage in Alexa's brain, in limbic areas. The limbic system plays an important role in regulating a person's memories and emotions. You know what, I mean?"

"Gue was once heard from his parents Alexa. He had brain surgery in an accident 9 years ago" Yoga said. The man informed Alexa of her condition after performing craniotomy surgery.

"Alexa .. ." - Keenan called the girl's name. The man's tears wanted to fall on his cheeks, but he tried to stay strong. Keenan lowered his head, trying to hide his two teary eyes. "I should have gone home after the press earlier, I shouldn't have let you go alone ... But ... ."

"Don't blame yourself. There will be no one who knows, you also can not keep on keeping Alexa every time. Moreover, you're a cop, not Superman or Spiderman." Yoga poking out from behind the ICU room door. "Get into the dalem, even if it's just for a minute."

Yoga patted Keenan on the shoulder, then stepped away. The man followed Yoga's advice. Yes, they have known each other since Keenan was introduced to the Wijaya family. Her identity as Hoodie Yoga knows it. Only Alexa doesn't know about it.

Keenan washes his hands before entering the ICU. He sat in a chair beside the bed holding Alexa's hand and rubbing her back. The girl's face looks calm with bandages on her forehead, as well as a ventilator that can help her breathe.

"Sorry, yes, I'm too busy thinking about how to clean up my good name. I forgot about you." Keenan's tears flowed down his cheeks as he said that sentence. "The reason I accept this matchmaking, because I want to continue to be beside you. Whenever and wherever it is."

Keenan stuck the back of Alexa's hand to her cheek. "Gue won't let the culprit get away. Never, do I need to take him in front of you?"

The man gave his laugh. How could Alexa answer that question. Keenan felt like a weirdo talking alone. Despite this, he felt relieved to have already let out his heart.

Keenan straightened his body. He closed his eyes, closing his face to the ventilator that covered Alexa's nose and mouth. It's hard to leave that girl at a time like this. However, he must find the perpetrator who has hit Alexa.

Keenan stepped towards the door. Then, look at Alexa. "Gue won't be long, though. Just for a minute."

"Keen!"

Regan ran from the hospital corridor. Keenan immediately put his index finger on the lips so that his friend was not noisy. Regan hastily scrolls the screen of her phone. He showed CCTV footage of the accident, the man himself requesting it from Indomaret officials. Incidentally outside it is installed cctv that leads to the highway.

Keenan watched the video on Regan's phone. It was seen that Alexa was on the edge of the road, the girl did not park her car in front of Indomaret because she only wanted to buy one item. Suddenly, the black sedan car hit Alexa's body until it bounced away from its place.

"No cctv showing the license plate?" ask Keenan.

Regan shrugged both shoulders. "Nothing. Just this doang, even then the car came suddenly from the right side. Yeah, where's the look."

"What car brand?"

Regan watches the car in the video. "You look at it anyway ... The car's a sedan."

The man reflexively felt familiar with the sedan car that Regan said. Many people use such vehicles. But in his memory there was only one. The sedan car that passed him in the parking lot of the shopping mall that night.

"Follow me. We're going to the mall." Keenan stepped up leaving Regan still pensive behind him.

"Well? Shopping lo?" cetus Regan's.

A moment later, Keenan stopped and turned around. He looked hard at Regan. "Don't ask too many questions. Want to come or stay?"

"Yes, follow my time at home."

After their death, a man in a doctor's suit and a mask-covered mouth entered the ICU room without washing his hands. The man was carrying a wheelchair. For a moment, he looked at Alexa's face. The man reached out to pull out the ventilator attached.

"Don't unplug, the patient's condition isn't stable." Yoga enters the room after washing hands. Seeing that, he immediately stopped the man in the doctor suit in front of him. Fortunately Yoga came on time, if the ventilator was revoked automatically will worsen the condition of Alexa.

The man scratched his head which was not itchy. "O-oh, i-yes, is it?" answer stammered.

"A doctor will know when to remove the ventilator, not carelessly like before" said Yoga. He squinted his eyes at the man from head to head. "You ... Not a doctor, is it?"

"A-ah, sorry. I think I got the room wrong. Then excuse me."

The man came out with his wheelchair. Yoga was suspicious of the man's movements. He immediately reported the matter to Keenan. The man asks her to look after Alexa while doing research in a shopping mall.

"Don't let an outsider into the ICU except for family" Yoga told someone in the lobby by phone.

Yoga sees Sofyan from the window of the door, then lets the man in. Yoga leaves Sofyan with Alexa inside and waits outside. Previously, Yoga had informed his uncle about the condition of Alexa.

Sofyan looked at his daughter. Which father was not sad to see his daughter lying weak in a hospital bed, with a lot of medical equipment on his body. The man gently rubbed Alexa's forehead, his tears falling onto the bandage on his daughter's forehead.

"First I wanted to apologize to you. You think Dad is the best man for his daughter and mother. But the reality is not so ... I betrayed you both by marrying another woman ... ." Sofyan revealed everything. His voice shuddered as he said it.

"Dad just felt like he owed that woman a favor. Because Ratna saved your life, so ... Dad offered me anything he wanted."

Yes, Ratna Dwiyanti's request is marriage. Because Sofyan himself offered anything to the woman. She had no choice but to comply, on one condition not to reveal her status as wife to Athifa and Alexa.

"Dad apologize. Sorry to be honest now." Sofyan wiped away her tears. "Do you have to divorce that woman for your sake?"

Alexa's index finger is moving. Sofyan who saw it enthusiastically called Yoga. The man opened Alexa's eyelids, shining them with a small flashlight. Then, give stimulation in the form of pinches in the arm.

Yoga tries to pinch Alexa once again. "Still the same. No response yet, maybe it's just the initial response. There's still a few hours left, Om."

"The best for Alexa. Om believe, you're a competent doctor."

TBC.