The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand

The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
The Love of Raihan


I saw that Yati was having a friendly conversation with an old man across the street.


"Please get Rai's car around, "let me tell Raihan to arrive.


"What's the mba?"asked Raihan, he felt confused because suddenly I told him to stop halfway.


"That's the Yati across Rai street,"point me somewhere where there's a Yati man standing and chatting with a man.


Raihan immediately pulled the car over. After that, I hurried out of the car and shouted to Yati but she did not hear it because of the noise of the vehicle going back and forth.


I was about to cross the road which was quite crowded by vehicles but Raihan first pulled my arm.


"Don't be reckless, danger," said Raihan, he looked panicked.


"But I have to see Yati Rai."


"But not having to recklessly cross the road carelessly right mba?"


"How come?"


"We just turn around" said Raihan, then he pulled my arm and carried me into the car.


After that Raihan drove his car around but when it was in the place where Yati was standing and the old man was no longer there. I snorted annoyedly to find that Yati was gone and we lost track.


"He's gone mba, sorry," Raihan said.


I glanced at him." You're not wrong Rai, why should I apologize?"


"Because I've been preventing you, I just don't want to happen what's the same mba."


I smiled and rubbed his cheek."Thanks for worrying about me."


Raihan smiled and held my hand and kissed her."I love you so much mba, I don't want to happen what's the same mba even though it's a small thing," he said, then kissed my hand back.


"Ehm, Rai, we're back at the hospital right now, I'm afraid Supri needs us."


Raihan nodded and let go of my hand and drove his car. Along the way there was no chat between me and Raihan, we were busy with each other's thoughts.


"Once again I'm sorry, ma'am" Raihan said amid silence. Raihan still feels guilty because maybe he thinks because he's preventing me from crossing the street we lost track of Mba Yati. While I was silent not because I was angry with him but my residence was thinking about who the old man who was with Mba Yati earlier? did yati mba cheat on Supri bang?


"Why apologize again Rai, I told you I'm not angry."


"But why are you silent?"


"I'm silent doesn't mean I'm angry with you Rai, but I'm thinking about the man who was with the Yati man earlier."


"Maybe his friend mba."


"If friends why they look so friendly. I feel like their relationship is more than just Rai's friend."


"meaning?"


"Why do I feel like Yati is cheating on Supri's bang when she sees Rai's behavior."


Raihan smiled at the conjecture I had told him."Do not think negatively first mba, who knows it is just a friend or acquaintance. We don't have any proof anyway, do we?"


I let out a sigh and leaned my back." Hopefully what you say is true, Rai, because if it happens pity at all Supri, where his wife is sick cheating, like the word has fallen on the stairs anyway."


Raihan smiled then stroked the tip of my head.


After arriving at the hospital, Raihan and I walked into the hospital. Not a few pairs of eyes that look in awe at us, either because of awe at the handsome face of Raihan or others I do not know.


Nightfall.


I leaned my tired body on the couch. Really tired of taking care of Supri bang until I lack sleep. I glanced at the Supri bang he was lying down but his eyes were open, then glanced at Zain, he was already sleeping soundly on top of the fur mattress. After that, I glanced at Raihan who was focusing on looking at his laptop screen seriously. I know he's working. In between his free time Raihan uses it to work. I feel sorry for him and feel very bad for him, I have bothered with my family affairs even though he himself has other affairs. If Raihan thought he was someone else, not a husband, not a lover, not a brother or sister and not a cousin but why I brought him into my trouble.


"Sleep mba, you must be tired, right today? let me take care of Bang Supri." Raihan spoke still in view that can not be separated from the laptop screen.


I doubt, it would feel bad to leave her a Supri bang, and she's at work anyway.


"I'm not sleepy yet" I said reasoned, though actually my eyes were very sleepy and my body was very tired.


Raihan looked at me then patted the sofa beside him without speaking. I know what he means because he's often like that. Without protest I moved and sat beside him. His hand grabbed my head and then on his shoulder.


"Sleep" he said, after my head leaned against his shoulder. I'm following up on what Raihan is doing, because besides being tired I'm also very sleepy therefore I'm not protesting.


Before I closed my eyes in a leaning position on Raihan's shoulder, I glanced at the laptop screen on his lap. Seen a percentage graph that seems to be being examined by Raihan. Behind his simple and ordinary appearance, no one would have thought that Raihan was a businessman. Despite his simple appearance, Raihan has a brilliant brain otherwise he might become a young entrepreneur today.


In the middle of my sleep I felt my body float but my eyes were so hard to open that I just let my body fly until it crashed on a surface that felt hairy and soft.


I came to my senses from the dream floating and in my state my eyes were still closed faintly my ears caught someone who was talking.


"Abang see your sister, the sister who throughout her life hated by her mother and older brother. The sister who has always suffered for her life because of your zholiman and her ex-husband. Look bang, even though he was hurt by you guys, but he was the first one to help you, take care of you by night without sleep and without complaining. Your wife, your mother, where are they? don't even help you see me."


Even though my eyes were closed, my ears were functioning perfectly and I knew it was Raihan's voice advising the Supri bang and telling him how I was.


A few minutes later Raihan's voice disappeared and in a state of closed eyes I felt like my body was covered with a blanket so I felt my body begin to warm.


One week later.


I have been in the hospital for a week and Raihan has always accompanied me. He'd rather put his company aside than leave me alone in the hospital guarding the Supri bang.


Today the doctor allows bang Supri to go home and allows chemotherapy at home by taking the drug because of seeing the condition of the Supri bang that gradually improved. I'm glad to hear that because I don't have to stay in the hospital for long and I can still control it at home.


At first bang supri asked me to be sent home to his in-laws but I forbade him and explained that he still had to do chemo and I was not sure his wife or his in-laws would care for him during the process healing. Finally bang Supri according to her I want to take her home.


When Raihan was out of the room and I packed the goods because today was going home, accidentally a folded paper fell out of Raihan's pocket and I took it and opened it, it turned out to be hospital receipt paper. There are a row of numbers on the paper ranging from the cost of ER, VIP room, drugs, intravenous fluids, surgery and chemotherapy costs for several cycles.


My pupils dilated to see the number of total costs that Raihan had to pay off.


"Two hundred and eleven million," I said in a loud voice so that bang Supri glanced at me and asked.


"Why Nuri?"


I walked up to the Supri bang sitting on the patient's bed and handed the paper to her.


"Is this Nuri?"asked Bang Supri while taking the paper from my hand.


"Read it bang."


Bang Supri started reading it with a surprised face." Here...."


"Yes that's the price of your treatment costs bang." I cut his words.


Bang Supri looks dumb without knowing what she's thinking.


"You owe a debt of gratitude to Raihan bang, you should thank him a lot. Lucky when you're seriously ill and your wife and in-laws don't care if there's still a good person like Raihan who wants to help you."


"Who is Raihan Nuri? why does he look so close to you and want to help me?"ask bang Supri. Naturally, if bang Supri asked that because Raihan looks very intimate with me, besides that he also willingly wants to finance his treatment. Bang Supri herself never met even know Raihan because when Raihan moved and lived one village with me bang Supri was married and lived with her in-laws, if therefore they never met.


"He's my friend bang."I answered it briefly because there is no way I said that Raihan my boyfriend as we never said a commitment to a dating relationship even though Raihan often reveals the feelings of love and unfortunately for me.


"Are you really divorced from Surya?"


I'm nodding.


"Why Nuri? not that he's a good husband."


"Well, where there is a good husband doing polygamy, and only a stupid woman who is willing to accept in polygamy."