The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
Doctor Bayu

The handsome doctor at a glance resembled Rey that stepped wide towards me. I myself am still faithfully waiting for his arrival because I think maybe the doctor will talk about something important about Ms. Mariam.

After approaching, doctor Bayu smiled and I returned his smile. I did not speak or ask but waited for him to speak first.

"Ehm, you want to go home? can I go with you on the road?"ask her.

Gosh, I think he called me there's something really important that he just wants to go along with me. I stung at him.

"Mba, mba..!"doctor Bayu shook his hand on my face until I realized.

"Ah, sorry, please doctor!"

"Like it's better called mas alone yes do not need to use the doctor's appendix to be more familiar."

I smiled thinly."Okay if that's what he wants.

"Yes, we haven't met you, I'm Bayu, Bayu Bagaskara." Doctor Bayu stretched out his hand and I hesitantly returned his helping hand. When shaking hands I feel like something is running through my body I don't know what. When our gaze met and when I looked at his bead I felt so close to him, so close. I don't know why I feel this way.

"I'm Nuri," I said later.

"Lady?"

"Lady Aisha."

"Well, what a pretty name, as pretty as the owner of her name," seduced doctor Bayu, her smile broadened and I only showed a faint smile.

Then we let go of our hands and continued walking. Along the corridor Bayu doctors asked a lot about my age, my activities and my family but one thing he did not ask was about my status. I do not know the reason he did not ask when usually the man if acquainted with a woman must be asked first is the status of the woman but this does not apply to the doctor Bayu. In addition, he also discussed the problem of the disease suffered by Mariam's mother and I just listened to it so that we did not feel the steps that interspersed with the chat had arrived in the hospital lobby.

"So, like we have to split up, I'd like to excuse you to go home first?"pamper me to him.

"You want to go home now? keep going home on what?"doctor asked back. Now he no longer calls me "mba" after he found out that I was younger than him. Doctor Bayu himself does not believe if my age is old enough because he thinks my face is a baby fresh face.

"Dock motor."

"Then we go together to Nuri's parking lot" said Bayu's doctor.

I scrunched my forehead."Oh, yeah..."

"I have a patient in another hospital." The doctor answered my astonishment.

"Oh, so doctors don't just work at this hospital?"

"No, I work on a schedule of tasks so yes go back and forth to and fro."

"I'm like ironing back and forth" my joke.

We laugh together.

Then we continued our steps towards the parking lot which happened to be located side by side and only limited by a transverse barrier.

"If I may know where your house is Nuri?"ask doctor Bayu in between stepping towards the parking lot.

"Depart away."

"Call me, we're out of the hospital."

"Emm, far away mas."I'm correcting my words.

He smiled broadly.

"Away?"ask her later.

"At a village and the distance is approximately two hours but depends on the driving speed as well."

"So you go back and forth every morning and evening to this hospital using a motorbike with a distance of two hours?"

"Yes, mas. But sometimes only an hour and a half if the road is smooth.

"Well, that's so cool of you" praised her with a smile that didn't escape her lips.

"If you are alone?"I began to dare to ask because I felt comfortable and doctor Bayu himself was nice to chat with.

"I live in Jakarta" she replied.

"Huh."My eyeballs are round.

I immediately narrowed my big eyes it felt so embarrassed to have been on the ledek.

"So you're a Jakarta guy?"tanyaku later.

"Yes, my papa is native to Jakarta, while my late mama is a Dutch Sundanese mulberry."

"Mama Mas Bayu is dead?"

Doctor Bayu nodded.

"I said, my mother died after giving birth to my sister but my sister also died too. I was only two years old and from then on I never felt the affection of a mother again even though I had a stepmom." Doctor Bayu story with glassy eyes. Then she looked up so her tears wouldn't spill. Maybe he thinks it's prestige if a man cries in front of a woman.

I feel bad for him, because I asked him a lot he became sad. Though it was not my realm to know her family background. But strangely, I who had never wanted to know the affairs, problems or things that include the personality of others suddenly just wanted to know this time, especially to the doctor Bayu.

"Ma.sorry doc, I..."

"It's okay Nuri, I'm the whiny one. A man crying in front of a woman is a shame, isn't it?"doctor said Bayu while wiping the tears that came out slightly from the corner of his eyes and his lips flattened a smile.

I smiled awkwardly.

"But..I do not every day back and forth between Serang Jakarta really." Dr. Bayu continued his explanation.

"Continue?"

"When I was on assignment in this city I was boarding in this area and I had two days in one Sunday in this city."

"Just two days? the next day where's the task?"

"In Jakarta, in my own clinic."

"Mas has his own clinic but why is it still working at another hospital let alone the hospital is far away."

"ehm, at first I worked in this hospital and I happened to have more sustenance then I set up a pulmonary clinic in Jakarta. My own clinic has not been around for about three years.

"Oh, so."

After that, I didn't ask much more because it felt like it was enough and we continued our steps until we arrived at the parking lot.

"Where's your bike Nuri?"ask her.

"There," point me at the parked motorcycle line and one of them is my bike.

Doctor Bayu looked at the clock that was coiled in his hand.

"Yes, if we separate here. You heartily bring the motor and do not speed up danger," he said later.

I nodded."Thank you." Thank you."

When I was about to walk away, your baby doctor called me.

"Yes mas?" sahutku.

"ehmm, I hope this is not our last meeting and separation, yes Nuri, and I hope that at another time we can still meet again" said Dr Bayu.

I smiled and nodded. After that, I continued my steps towards the motor park and I saw the baby doctor walking towards the car park.

I drove my bike to the street to go home with a smile that kept on expanding on my lips. I feel very happy today and I don't know what caused it.

After arriving home and just getting off the bike, two toddlers ran towards me.

"Mama...Wawa.." shouted Zain and Fatan simultaneously. Then their tiny bodies hugged my legs, Zain on the right and Fatan on the left. I smiled broadly at the attitude of these two compact toddlers. Although these two toddlers have a two-year age difference, they connect if they talk even the same size. Fatan who is two years old above Zain should have a higher body size but not, precisely the same as Zain. I understand why Fatan's growth is a little slow because Sumi's life was difficult as well as mine. But I was a little bit luckier than Sumi because even though Surya like that he still wanted to support me even though it was only five hundred thousand, while Sumi, who was, since the age of four months, she was no longer supported by her husband. After giving birth, Sumi had to struggle to find money because in addition to having to raise fatan there were several mouths that she had to feed, her mother and her two sisters. Sumi is the backbone of her family.

The difficulty of finding work in my area makes Sumi have to migrate to the city what else is Sumi just graduated from SD. Luckily she had the craft of makeup so she could work in a beauty salon despite her small salary.

Zain can still be treated with my own hands and given formula milk even though I only eat tofu, tempeh, kale, salted fish and chili salt. But Fatan, since from the red baby she's been in living by Sumi working in town and only given canned milk containing her nutrition just a little. Moreover, the one who takes care of him is his mother who in fact does not understand nutritional problems. Even Ms. Mariam once told me that every day the fatan is only fed rice mixed with salt. At that time I could not help her at all because I was not working and in addition I was pregnant Zain and I was in a difficult situation anyway.

I crouched down and hugged the two of them and kissed them in turn. After that, I carried them through my left and right hands and brought them inside the house.

I saw the clock stuck to the wall already showing eleven o'clock past. Before I picked up Ria and Rio at their school I took the initiative to feed the two toddlers first because I was afraid it would take a long time and starve them.

Fifteen minutes later, the, they had finished my bribe then I turned to the clock that was stuck on the wall already showing half twelve o'clock passing in the sense that I had to pick up the two boys at school.