The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
Guarded by two men

Three layers of thick blankets and a close hug Raihan slightly warmed my body. Even though it's just a little at least I'm not as cold as before. What Raihan is doing right now is exactly what he did when I was shivering in the cold in his house.

I know Raihan is in a heat state. Very felt from the shirt that seeps wet until my clothes get wet. Although I was sweating but my sweat water was not as bad as Raihan's sweat water at the moment.

For a healthy and normal body, how not to overheat if you sleep in a closed room without AC and then covered with three layers of thick blanket as well.

"Is it warm, baby?" Raihan asked in the middle of hugging me.

"Se.a bit." I tried to speak even though my lips were still trembling.

"Tomorrow morning we go to the hospital! I'm afraid there's a serious illness and a great doctor doesn't have to be treated like a man." Raihan looks upset. How not to upset the medicine does not work at all. If I have a fever, I usually take stall medicine, especially the drug from the pharmacy. But this, when the drug came from the doctor himself and he who detected my disease but there was absolutely no effect.

Although the sweat on his body Raihan still hugged me gave warmth to me so that I can sleep even though it is less soundly in such a body condition. Until I no longer feel shivering but change with the hot body temperature again. I moved so that Raihan woke up and released his embrace because my body temperature was no longer cold but very hot.

"Why baby?" Raihan asked as he woke up.

"Pa.hot."

Raihan immediately got up and opened the blanket that covered our bodies and turned on the AC so that the cold room returned. After that, he flicked the window curtain and at once the glare of sunlight penetrated through my face through the glass window.

"It's morning baby, we're going to the hospital now." Raihan said, then closed the curtain back.

"Mama!" Zain, who was sleeping under a fur mattress, suddenly woke up and sat down.

"Hey, papa's son is awake too. We shower now. We're taking Mama to the hospital." Then Raihan lifted Zain's body and took him to the bathroom.

In addition to taking care of Zain from the shower to his breakfast Raihan also takes care of me. Patiently and without complaining she took care of me who went back and forth to the bathroom due to diarrhea. Besides diarrhea, I vomited repeatedly. My condition is getting weaker. In addition to hot fever, I also had diarrhea to vomit until my body was getting weak and helpless.

"We have to go to the hospital now baby, your condition is getting very worrisome." Said Raihan while applying wind oil on my stomach. Under these circumstances I did not protest or get angry when Raihan put wind oil on one of my body parts that was a little sensitive.

"Zain, papa carry mama, Zain road ya!" raihan said to Zain.

Zain looked up at Raihan's face high."Yes papa."

Carrying me Raihan led Zain out of the apartment to the elevator that would carry our bodies to the basement.

Raihan lowered the car seat so I could sit more comfortably. While Zain was on the bench by her while driving. Actually, I'm not feeling good about him who seems troubled to take care of both of us. For the umpteenth time we trouble her even though I am not yet his wife. But what I am without is not to take care of Zain take care of myself at this time I am not able to.

Raihan was driving his car at the speed of walking down the streets of the capital. Lucky this morning the road is smooth because of holidays if the working day of course the morning Jakarta streets are full of people who will go to work even though the streets of Jakarta never have a lonely but if the holiday is still a little short.

Zain sat quietly in Raihan's lap. He does not disturb Raihan who is driving as he understands if the papa candidate must be concentrated driving.

Until arriving in front of the hospital Raihan hurried down while holding Zain called the nurse to help me get out of the car. Two nurses came in a wheelchair. After I was in a wheelchair they pushed me up to the ER room that looked crowded by patients. Not long after, the two nurses placed an intravenous needle in my hand.

Raihan approached me without taking Zain." Zain where?" I asked so slowly that Raihan put his ear to my mouth.

Raihan smiled." You just calm down. Zain is safely being guarded by a nurse in the room."Then he stroked elus the tip of my head.

A few minutes later a female doctor examined me and after a series of examinations the gurney I was sleeping in was pushed into the hospital room.

I was transferred to the soft patient bed in the VIP room. I saw Zain sitting on the couch with a nurse.

"What is the disease of my future wife?"Raihan asked the two sisters who were pairing the infusion needle.

"Still in the process of examination mas, later if the results have come out the possibility of the doctor who will explain it." Answer one of them.

Even though my eyes were closed but my ears were still functioning very well. I can hear people talking around me.

"Rai, how's Nuri doing?" Suddenly I heard a familiar voice in my ear.

"No explanation yet, sir, maybe in a moment. Thank you for visiting my future wife."

"Oh, yeah, I couldn't sleep all night feeling bad. I remember the same condition Nuri kept."

"Can't it be like that, sir?"

"I don't know myself, Rai."

Silent..

Then I heard footsteps approaching my bed.

Silent...

"Hanum's.." Said the man whose voice was no longer foreign. The voice of the middle-aged man who just last night I knew him as Bagas sir Nura.

"Hanum, what does Bagas call Nuri Hanum?" Raihan asked, as if he was curious.

"Oh, sorry Rai, Nuri's face reminds me of my first wife named Hanum."

Silent..

"Why is his face so similar to that of my late wife."

"How long has Bagas' wife been dead?"

"Very long Rai, my wife died after giving birth to my second child a baby girl."

"Is that baby girl Nura?"

"No, my son went with his mother after one day of her disappearance."

"What do you mean by Bagas?"

"He died."

"Is Mr Bagas sure his father's son is dead?"

"I buried him myself, Rai."

Silent..

"Emm, Rai, didn't you call his family?"

"I told her sister."

"His parents?"

"His father's been dead since Nuri was a child and her mother as old as me she doesn't care about Nuri."

"No matter! how can a mother not care about her own child?"

"I don't know, sir. But after I his mother had not cared about Nuri since childhood. The only thing that cares about him is his late father."

"Is that why you want to marry her though.sorry Rai, she already has a child?"

"I love her without seeing her flaws sir, for me she deserves to be loved for not only her beautiful face but also her beautiful heart despite the age we are adrift for approximately five years."

"It looks like a year above Nura."

"Twenty-seven years?"

"True sir, more or less so."

Silent..

"Good morning!" A woman's voice suddenly sounded in my ear.

"Good morning doctor. How do I know about my future wife's illness, doc?"

"The great advantage of the disease that is being suffered by patients is typhoid fever or commonly referred to as typhoid disease, Mr. Raihan."

"Types!" reload Raihan and Bagas.

"Yes, and in addition to typhoid patients also have anemia."

"Anemia!" reload Raihan and Mr. Bagas in unison.

"real sir. Because we have to have a blood transfusion because the blood is so low."

"Just do it doc as fast as you can."

"Yes Raihan sir, but the problem is that the patient's blood type is empty in this hospital. Isn't that right, sus? have you checked it?"

"Right dock, we checked and we also contacted the PMI and the blood bank but they said it happened to be empty there."

"What is the patient's blood type?" Raihan asked.

"Patient blood type O Pak Raihan."

Silent..

"Then just take my blood Doc, it happens to be my blood O."

"Will Bagas really donate his blood to Nuri?"

"Yes Rai, I want to."

"Thank you sir, thank you."

In closed eyes I felt my tears come out of the corner of my eyes and then flow warm to my cheeks. And before long a gentle swab was felt on my cheek. I don't know who wiped my tears.

I glanced at the sofa as Mr. Bagas was playing with Zain but I did not find Raihan's whereabouts. I don't know how long Mr. Bagas has been waiting for me because I fell asleep and really fell asleep even my ears can't hear the chatter of people around.

After getting a blood transfusion I felt my body was not as weak as the first one even though my fever was still going up and down.

Mr. Bagas realized that I woke up and he approached me." You looking for Raihan?"

I nodded slowly.

"Raihan was out for a while looking for food for Zain."

I put a thin smile on him.

"Do you want to eat an apple let me peel it, right?" Mr. Bagas already holds an apple ready to peel.

But suddenly my heat rose again and I held my head that felt dizzy once. Bagas put the apple back and pressed a button.

"I've called a nurse. You are patient!"

Soon a nurse came and approached my bed." What's wrong with the patient, sir?" ask the nurse to Bagas.

"It looks like the heat is rising again sus."

Mba nurse took a small size bottle that is available on the nightstand then the needle is hung and connected to the infusion fluid in the divert on the small bottle. That's how, when my body temperature increases they give paracetamol in liquid form and in it through the infusion tube because if the pill form I will vomit it back.

In a matter of minutes my heat goes down and then the nurse puts the infusion liquid back.

"What heat reliever it can't last much longer sus."

"Only within four hours sir and can be given again after four hours. But it can only be given three times a day."

"But how about after three times the heat still goes up."

"Perhaps by manual means pack like compress it."

"But if the compress is still hot mba."

"Yes out how yes sir because this drug should not be given more than the recommended dose."

In the middle of the conversation Raihan and the sisters arrived Raihan entered the room carrying several boxes of food.

"I'll excuse you, sir." The sister left my room.

Raihan walked towards me while smiling."Hey, you up?"then sit next to me and stroke my cheek.

I smiled weakly at him.

"So the heat had gone up again but the nurse had given a reliever." Mr. Bagas told me while standing up.

"Oh so, thank you so much sir for taking care of Nuri and Zain."

"Same as Rai."

"Oh yes, Bagas must be hungry from lunch, not yet eaten. I bought some food at the restaurant." Raihan stood up and walked over to the sofa and placed several boxes of food on the table.

"Well, I'm so troublesome for you Rai." Say Mr. Bagas as the road approaches Raihan.

"Not really dong sir. I am the troublesome one. I should have gathered with my father's family but instead helped me look after Nuri."

"It's okay Rai, my wife is going to Singapore with her friends. And Nura said she was staying at her theme house. I'm lonely at home and I think mending here with Zain, don't you think son?" his words then stroked the head of Zain who was playing a small car on the sofa.

"Oh like that. Well then let's eat first sir." Raihan opened the paper bag and took out the contents. Mr. Bagas came to sit on the sofa and I just watched them from my bed.

Raihan looked at me." Honey, do you want this food I brought?"

I shook my head slowly.

"Later to eat porridge, let it be easy to swallow."

I'm nodding.

Raihan and Bagas eat together in a chat. They look very familiar and what they talk about is not only about business but about family and about our preparation for marriage. I don't know what reason Mr. Bagas is good to us, let alone him to donate blood for me. Is it possible that he appreciates Raihan because they are business friends? or because I look like his first wife? I don't know if only he knows.