THE FORMER SHADOW
9. Arshaka Incident

The morning before the sun came up, Badrina had woken up. Immediately he went down from the bed to refresh the body.

She had a hard time sleeping well last night, a new habit that has emerged since her divorce from her husband. Usually, the night rest for eight years accompanied by someone, after the talaq launched Arshaka they choose to room themselves until legal in court.

The housekeeper was preparing to prepare breakfast accompanied by Nuraini in the kitchen. Badrina also joined after saying hello and did whatever she could to help.

"Canta's still sleeping in Mama's room. It's Saturday you may wake up late, yes" Nuraini said, cutting carrots. The middle-aged woman is preparing the menu this morning chicken soup, favorite food of Cantara and Arshaka.

Badrina nodded, agreeing with Nuraini's words.

He was assigned to arrange the dishes and other supplies on the dining table. They are used to breakfast with a full menu, said Nuraini if not eat rice and side dishes, the next hour would be hungry again. Yes, habits that have been formed.

Seeing Nuraini's enthusiasm with the presence of Cantara at home made Badrina undo the intention to go home. He did not want to be taken again by Nuraini, although what was said by his former mother-in-law was often appropriate.

Badrina went into Nuraini's room, seeing Cantara still curled up in a blanket. It's so sleepy. The atmosphere of Nuraini's room is soothing with a refreshing aroma and the layout of the goods is also neat.

He shook his son's body slowly, "Canta, it's morning, son Come on up," Badrina persuaded.

Cantara wriggled on the mattress and woke up immediately smiling at her mother. Badrina returned a smile and stroked the head of Cantara.

"Mama... Where's papa?" tanya Cantara glanced at the door. Badrina did not expect the first question of Cantara in the morning. Last night the face was sad, now it disappeared to change happy twinkle.

"Papa's in the room," answered Badrina in short.

"I'm happy to wake up still at Oma's house." Cantara's sincere smile moved Badrina's heart.

"You're going to Papa's room?"

"Yes, Ma...." In an instant Cantara came out of the blanket and got off the bed. "come on, Ma!" The boy pulled his mother's hand.

In her bedroom, Arshaka is still asleep. He can sleep comfortably and soundly.

Weekend habit, Arshaka wakes up longer.

Arshaka sleeps with bare chest. The left leg is covered in a blanket while the right comes out. His hands are out on the bed. His sleep was still good when it was seven in the morning.

"Lad...." Cantara just went up to the bed, shortly after entering the room. Cantara's small voice was unable to make Xabier wake up from sleep.

The boy's movements were still haphazard, he climbed up from Arshaka's legs and knees - accidentally - hit the middle of his papa's body.

In that instant, Arshaka immediately woke up with a loud scream. His body curled up in pain, his face flushed to the neck.

It felt like Arshaka wanted to curse angrily, but seeing that the culprit was Cantara, he could only growl stifled.

"Mallet!" Seeing this, Badrina's reflex lifts her son from the top of Arshaka's body in pain, then sits him on the side of an empty bed.

"Why, Ma?" Cantara looked up in wonder at Badrina when she saw her papa suddenly screamed, until stroking her papa's back.

Badrina, he doesn't know how to explain it to Cantara.

"Aren't you papa?" ask Badrina. That pleasantry question got a sharp plot from Arshaka. It must have hurt for mercy.

"Sa..kit.." sounds like a roaring moan. What should Badrina do to reduce the pain? Does not allow himself to see the sensitive part of Arshaka.

"Why?" Nuraini panicked as soon as she reached her son's room. Clearly, he heard Arshaka's unusual scream.

Badrina explained the chronology of the incident to Nuraini in detail.

Arshaka was upset with the women in his room, as if doing the scene of the crime when the victim was left lying, not helped.

"Rina, take a cold compress. It's swollen!" he still grimaces the pain of holding the diseased organ.

Arshaka's orders cut off talks between Badrina and Nuraini. Immediately he ran to the kitchen to fulfill Arshaka's request.

To the extent that ART also asked what was behind Arshaka's scream. Briefly, Badrina only replied that there had been an incident.

"Mama came out first bring Canta, Rina stayed," Arshaka's decree did not want to be rejected.

"But-"

"Ngga wear but!" Arshaka yelled at Badrina, not out of anger but out of pain.

Nuraini took Cantara to get out of her papa's room. His face was confused, he felt guilty. Cantara can only obey his omanya's invitation to renounce his papa's room.

"Please squeeze the cloth." Badrina obeyed Arshaka's orders. The rags he had squeezed gave to Arshaka. The man put the swollen part behind the blanket he was wearing. In Badrina's ear, Arshaka was heard sighing as if he was with her.

Badrina waved her hand trying to brush off the thoughts that were drifting everywhere.

Arshaka handed the cloth whose temperature was starting to normal back to Badrina. The woman just looked and glared at the cloth that was waved at her, between taking it or not.

"Rina! Squeeze again," pinta Arshaka.  Badrina. "You why? Ck." Arshaka understood the meaning of Badrina's silence, "If I go to the hospital, the nurse will do it. Now first aid, you can help me. Your face is like you never see." Suddenly Badrina hit Arshaka's hand holding the diseased organ.

"Awwwwwhhhhhhhh.."******** stuck out of Arshaka while biting her lower lip.

Badrina took the cloth from Arshaka's hand, dipped it in water and wrung the compress, then handed it back to Arshaka.

The action was repeated many times aided by Badrina.

Breakfast hours passed by Badrina and Arshaka in the room. Their breakfast was delivered by ART, while Nuraini with Cantara.

The girl sitting on the dinner bench felt guilty.

"Papa's okay, Canta, there's Mama Cantara who accompanies." That's how Nuraini called her grandson.

Arshaka could not enjoy breakfast with his favorite menu. It was a headache and a little nausea. When Badrina asked if Arshaka's swelling had shrunken her, she replied with a sledgehammer.

"You should go to the doctor," Badrina advised Arshaka, "Where to know the surgery," Badrina smiled faintly, trying to joke around with her ex-husband.

Arshaka shook his head. Sweat poured from his body, looks like a morning workout. The man could not be joked.

"I'm with you." Badrina knew Arshaka was less than happy with the strong-scented hospital.

"Don't go to the hospital. Practice doctor only," asked her ex-husband.

Badrina finds out from the doctor's application a practice schedule that can be visited. Apparently, the doctor was at ten, Arshaka had to wait.

Badrina accompanied Arshaka in a taxi to the practice of urological surgeons. Arshaka is unlikely to drive in pain, while Badrina is unable to drive.

To get up and down a taxi and get up and down the bed must be assisted by Badrina. This time they seemed to get along.

While doing a physical examination, Arshaka tells the chronological events and symptoms he experienced. Badrina did not enter the examination room which was limited to white curtains.

After being examined, Badrina returned to lower Arshaka from the patient's bed. They sit on a bench that borders the table with the doctor.

"After I check this is a possible minor injury category, sir. Symptoms of headaches and nausea are natural, it's a manifestation of your vagus reflex that sends signals from vital organs to the spinal cord and brain stem. You do not vomit because each person has a level of tolerance to pain" explains the doctor.

"Would this lower my fertility or my ability to relate, Doctor?" Hearing Arshaka's question, Badrina looked agitated. Arshaka's question was so frontal, Badrina tried to sit as normally as possible.

"Have you had trouble urinating or is there pain?" ask doctor.

"No," replied Arshaka quickly.

"In relation to the ability to relate***, I think it has no effect if the injury is minor. Maybe if the swelling and pain disappear, Father and Mother can do it to prove whether there is a decrease in ability," said the doctor saw Arshaka and Badrina alternately without knowing the couple in front of him is no longer husband and wife.

Badrina's face flushed immediately upon hearing the man's doctor's words. Stomach pain is common, but he and Arshaka are no longer husband and wife even they have not done it for a long time before divorce.

Arshaka cleared his throat to restore his consciousness. Then the doctor prescribes pain barrier medication for a few days. Arshaka was asked to keep cold compresses every day the sick part, using loose pants so as not to suppress the sick and maintain the cleanliness of the genital organs.

If the pain still continues after the drug runs out, then in Arshaka will be taken further action by the doctor.