
This morning Naima fed her mother breakfast porridge. He was very grateful, because his mother's condition was better than before.
From there, Maya noticed her daughter's face. He felt his daughter was covering something up from him. Butwhat?
"Naima .." call Maya's mom in a still trembling voice.
Naima looked up at her mother. "Yes, mom?"
"Mother wants to just go home," the middle-aged woman asked suddenly.
"Going home? I can't go home yet, Mom. I still need to be treated here. After I recover, I can go home. I'm patient, yeah. I want you to heal, I want you to be as healthy as you used to be."
"Where did you get that kind of money to take care of mom here, Naima? Mother's medical expenses must not be small, where do you get money from?"
Again Maya asked something that made Naima unable to answer.
"I told Mom, don't think about it. Just think about the mother's health" Naima replied trying to divert.
"How can you be calm and unmindful, Naima? You just don't want to tell mom where you got the money for mom's treatment. Please tell me, so that you don't have any thoughts, son. Please don't cover anything from mom. Honest to mom, yeah. I beg you, I just need honesty," said the woman makes Naima confused to give a reason what else.
"Mother"
"And please tell mom, who is the man who came to the house to take mom to this hospital? Does this have anything to do with him?"
Naima felt stifled. He tried hard to divert the question of the mother, but the middle-aged woman even scouted him.
"I'll admit it to you, but I hope you believe me. I want you not to talk about anything else, let alone wonder about me." Naima filed a requirement.
"Mom deserves to know anything about you, Naima. Shouldn't you ask, you're open as mother's daughter."
Again Naima was made silent. His head was busy compiling answers for his mother to trust him. He did not want to make his mother disappointed, especially to make his mother's health decline. He'll try to cover this up. She hoped that before her stomach grew, her mother would make a full recovery, so she could leave for a few months until she gave birth.
"The man who came to the house and took her to the hospital was called Zico. I met him accidentally. He's a big boss at a company. He was in need of employees and offered me a job" Naima said.
"After that, I tried to borrow money from him. And after the mother is healthy later, I have to work in his company in order to pay the debt that I currently use for mother's treatment. So now you can't think of other things anymore, yeah. You believe me, don't you?" naima.
"Mom, why are you looking at me like that? Do you not trust your daughter anymore?"
"Rarely that?" ask Maya to doubt.
Naima nodded. "I'm being honest with mom. Why don't you trust me?"
"Mom doesn't believe you, Naima. It's just that mom feels weird. There are indeed people in this world who are so easy to lend money with a nominal that is not small to people who are not familiar without certain guarantees."
Naima's face stiffened, her irises almost widened. But he tried to cover it up by trying to calm down so that his mother did not suspect him.
"What did mom say? What guarantee does that mean?"
"He's not just anyone, Naima. I'm just afraid you're being used by him. And what I'm most worried about, she'll ask for your life in return for her kindness."
"Mom, that's enough. Mom thought too far. Already, yeah. Don't talk about it anymore, I told Mom the truth. Now I take the medicine and then I sleep. I want you healed."
Naima put down her bowl of porridge and took the medicine on the tray. He gave some kind of medicine to the mother with a glass of water.
Bu Maya received the drug and immediately drank it along with water to encourage the drug. After that justify his sleeping position to a more comfortable position. Naima covered the mother with a blanket that was just a foot away.
"Mother sleep, rest yes. I'm gonna go out for a minute, have breakfast at the cafeteria. Is it okay for me to stay?" pamit Naima's.
Mom Maya nodded.
"Yes already, then I stay, yes. Don't think about anything, I need to rest."
Naima left the mother, whose head was still filled with a big question mark.
I hope you didn't do something that threatened your life, son. Inner bu Maya.
He stared at Naima, before his eyes were closed by the effects of the drug that made him sleepy.
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