The Secound Choice's
Thirty One
What an exhausting day. Syifa finally finished her work at the hospital. It's time to go home. A mini backpack hung from her back, the girl walked down the hospital corridor.
From the opposite direction, Syifa saw a female figure who was no stranger to her. Syifa sharpened her vision. Sure enough .. the woman he had met before.
The girl smiled her sweet smile as soon as she passed the woman.
"Doctor Syifa?!" asked the woman, Syifa stopped her steps
"Yes, I'm Doctor Syifa. What's up, Mommy?" ask Syifa full of questions
"I'm Veronika, Adam's mother. Adam Abizard." he replied as he reached out, Syifa greeted him with a polite manner.
"May I have a minute for the doctor?"
"Oh, can .. can, Mom. My clock is done too."
"We're talking over dinner?!" invite the woman who has started to look wrinkled on her face
"Hm .. sorry, Mom. Let's just talk there." Syifa pointed at an empty bench that was not far from them. Coincidentally around was not too many people passing by.
"Alright, come!" Veronika and Syifa also walked there
"What's up, Mommy?" syifa asked, they sat side by side without distance. Syifa did not treat Veronika like a stranger
"Adam never felt the affection of his father. He was born without pith to his father." Veronika looked at Syifa with teary eyes. Syifa could deduce where the old woman was saying
"Because of that .. not many people looked at him politely. Even in a modern country. He became very secretive and. Adam always blamed me, I was wrong ....
Our wrong actions. But, why should a child who does not know anything bear the consequences!
Not getting the affection of a father made me always agree what Adam wanted. Whatever it is!
I always agreed to every decision and request he made. Every time he does something, he always tells me. Although it was ultimately his own decision that he made.
Even though I was never angry with him, I really loved him even though he did wrong. My sinfulness makes everything right, all his actions.
I was thinking that's how I pay for all my mistakes." Veronika was silent for a moment
"I don't know where it started. Adam became so possessive when he loved someone, as if he did not want to be abandoned.
Mena, they've been dating for a very long time even until they got engaged. It turned out that Mena left her at the end of the day their wedding was already set. He was so upset he was angry!
Actually I already know Mena's affair. Even Mena herself admitted it. Actually, he can not stand to Adam's posesipan not even rarely he plays hands. Mena really felt constrained."
"Now that Adam was falling in love again, I saw love in his eyes as he told a young girl, a doctor from Indonesia. He's really very happy.
But, the doctor refused his love for a reason .. ck! The doctor himself knows. Because that's you." Veronika holds Syifa's shoulder. Syifa who had been a good listener continued to guess where this conversation was
"He was wrong! His pain made him unable to think clearly. Luckily Mena survived.
"Wrong, it should be wrong. It would not be good for something wrong to be justified and vice versa. My parents taught me that.
Look, Mom. Adam committed a crime. Grateful Mena and her husband did not report her to the police. And his rude attitude to mom. It's not worth a child to his mother, Mom." Syifa held Veronika's hands together, but the woman let her go
"Let that be our right. I told you I was treated like that."
Syifa smiled wryly, the doctor took a breath while thinking of composing a sentence to keep the woman feeling
"As a mother, it is appropriate to have the happiness of the child above all else. Same with my mom and dad. My happiness is also above their interests. So I rejected Adam even if there was no reason to reject him.
My papa has never held me back, never opposed any of my wishes and decisions during my nearly 28 years of life
That's why I'll be back in Indonesia soon, ma'am." Veronika was surprised
"Isn't the doctor's education still not finished?" veronika asked, Syifa smilingly nodded
"Like a mother who is willing to be treated unkindly by her own mother's child, the mother is sincere and willing to accept it. Likewise with me, I buried my ideals for the happiness of my parents. Right now my mom needs me and I also want to always be near her." Syifa smiled, the doctor seemed so relieved to say all the words that had just come out of his lips and hoped that no heart would be hurt.
Whether this was a coincidence or something intentional, or even Veronika's arrival to the hospital was at Adam's request that he could not refuse. Because after their last meeting that time, Syifa continued to look for reasons not to meet Adam. To be sure Syifa was grateful, her decision was not wrong.
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The last third of the night, Hafidzh looked solemn on his prayer mat. Begging forgiveness for all his misdeeds and filial deeds to the creator.
A series of prayers with sincere hope he strands words, words, as well as hoping for a cure longing for his endless longing for the only woman he could not reach to hug even though the longing was already wider than the ocean.
The photo of the young blue hijab woman on the nightstand near her bed she glanced at a glance.
"Hafidzh longs, Umma!" heed
His phone notification reads, after finishing his prayer Hafidzh reads a short message from Abi Dzaki.
The handsome man smiled, his two thumbs were surfing on the flat screen keypad
"You are all good, O Allah. Alhamdulillah." he muttered
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