The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 16 Tears

A cold morning encounters Tiara for the first time when she returns to her consciousness. He was immediately fully aware and his heart churned as he recalled the sequence of events so that he could lie in this hospital. The first thing he did was hold his stomach. Although there has been no change even though she is pregnant, and Tiara has not experienced morning sickness so far, but the question of how the baby in there makes her body hot. With great difficulty, he tried to sit down. Don't know what he's gonna do.

A moment later his eyes immediately stared stiffly at the sofa where Alfa was asleep there. The man looked exhausted. He hasn't even changed his clothes since yesterday afternoon with his pants and t-shirts that look a little tangled. The emptiness felt voluptuous in her heart considering the possibility that she had miscarried with so much bleeding. Oh, he's like he just got happy with his feelings flying up into space, he said, but it just fell to the ground because he forgot not to bring a parachute so he could set foot on the ground without pain. He did not have time to prepare his heart for this possibility, so that a sense of kelu very pierced his chest cavity.

Heart hurts. Perfectly absorbed like a drug that began to taste bitter when it spread to all parts of the body and remove the poison in the form of tears. He could not hold the clear grain of his eyes to not come out. However, not wanting to wake Alfa up, he held back as hard as he could so that his cries only let out small suffocating sobs that it would be even more depressing when heard. Crying in silence.

Tiara continued to hiccup for quite some time then slammed her body back into the bed. Just before the sound of movement from the direction of the Sofa and Alfa sat there. The woman's heart was lighter now, though tears still left their mark there. Tiara lay quietly again, but with her face turned in the opposite direction from where Alfa was.

The man tried to gather all his strength in order to sit down and stand up properly. He did not realize that his wife was awake.

He stared for a moment at Tiara who was still calm on the bed. As if he did not want to disturb her, Alfa finally decided to refresh her body a little by stepping into the bathroom available there and then washing her face.

There was the sound of the door opening and he froze his activity for a moment. There were several steps that followed each other entering the room. There was a voice of a man talking to Tiara. Alfa immediately came out of the bathroom and revealed her curiosity for who had come to visit her wife this morning blind.

Papa and Mama.

“Good Pa.” Tiara answered weakly there. Alfa sighed in disappointment because it was not her first self that the woman saw when she woke up. Without the man knowing, Tiara had woken up first and spent her own time crying.

“Alpha." Helmia said hello first when she saw her son coming out of the bathroom. All eyes looked at him except for his wife, he was still facing a direction he could not see.

“I'm sorry Papa came by so early in the morning. Papa will not be able to come to visit if you wait for free time," explained Yunus with which Tiara simply nodded.

“What happened?” Helmia seemed unable to withstand the question she was about to ask.

Unanswered, the door opened again and this time it was Doctor Jeni who was also surprised to find there were many people in the room. Clumsy, he scanned his smile at everyone who had seen his arrival followed by a nurse.

“Helmia." Jeni then advanced herself and a brief chipikis with her old friend then turned to look at Tiara who had been awakened.

“I'll check it out for a while," he said then approached Tiara who was also looking at him.

“How are you doing?” Jeni's doctor took a checkpoint out of her pocket, checked her heart rate and her eyes and mouth, then checked the infusion bag hanging on the side of the bed and checked her blood pressure.

“Good Doctor.” Tiara smiled briefly.

“You must be busy Jonah, so willing to come visit this cold morning.” Doctor Jeni greeted the man who was sitting on the sofa chair with Helmia beside him.

While Alfa was at the side of the bed, standing there.

“Yes. I just want to know the condition of my daughter.”

“Tiara is fine. He just had to recover his condition for some time.” The old woman said lightly.

"Recover his condition?" Helmia asked with a frown.

"Yes. Tiara's having a miscarriage." Doctor Jeni looked ironically at Tiara's now pale face looking at her.

Helmia gasped for the news that was so shocking to her.

Alfa exhaled a long breath and raised her head to expel the restlessness that came back to her. His brows furiously stared at Tiara who was just speechless. The man knew that his wife was trying not to blow his emotions right then and there, finding the arrival of those people who of course intimidated him.

"Why?" Helmia asked again, not satisfied with Jeni's short answer.

"alright. I think I should say it now. You okay Tiara?" Jeni's doctor asks Tiara for her approval of what she is about to say.

Really if Doctor Jeni asked Alfa, she would say no. Opening Tiara's secret in front of her mother is akin to putting Tiara into a lion's den. Ready to eat. Unfortunately, Tiara's thin nod did not distract the doctor's attention towards her. He's really nervous right now.

Tiara who still does not talk much seems only resigned to the doctor's verdict. Although, just like Alfa, she felt uncomfortable talking about the most personal things to her in-laws.

"I was originally hoping, Tiara was one of 99 good possibilities after finding out she was pregnant. I'm not worried about her anemia at all, but Tiara is one of 100 less fortunate. And, the results of the follow-up examination that I did showed that Tiara had a weak condition of the womb. In a healthy pregnancy, the door of the uterus should be tightly closed to support the uterine sac that will form. But in a weak womb, the door of the uterus is not able to close so that there is bleeding and miscarriage." Doctor Jeni tried to explain in straightforward language that is easy to understand. However, his light words actually had an unusually heavy effect for people who heard his explanation, including Tiara who was the subject of the conversation.

Tiara closed her eyes. Truly he was very hopeful, he was now sound asleep and did not hear the words of Dr. Jeni.

"could. Of course you can. However, we have to be patient and I will seek special treatment if Tiara gets pregnant again."

There was no relief from Jeni's optimistic remark she had just made. The whole room looked tense. Alfa even now looks lethargic by sitting half of his body on the nightstand.

I want that man to scream at this moment.

"Don't you guys want to give Tiara room to rest?" Alfa's chest rumbled and her molars clenched tightly as she held back her desperation not to get angry right then and there. Pronounce the tone of expulsion over anyone who was in that place. No matter if they are his parents.

They throw each other a look. Then, wisely, Jonah finally led the word to say goodbye.

"Yes. I think my arrival early this morning has been disturbing. We certainly can't bear to be kept here intimidating. We're going home." Jonah got up from his seat but without permission, Helmia first left the room without a word. The man just exhaled to see the behavior of his wife who showed dislike clearly.

"Papa go home first. Tiara, I hope you get better soon" he said with a smile and left the room leaving Jeni still glued to her place.

"I'll be back by noon. Forgive me." said he, who was only responded with Alpha thinning his lips then giving a short nod.

"Don't forget the medicine you gave Tiara." The doctor walked out of the room just like that after saying his last sentence and nodded his goodbye sign head without saying another word. Re-closing the treatment room.

Alfa circled the bed, right in front of the face of Tiara who had just turned her head. The man stroked his wife's forehead. Oh, his heart felt sliced at the puffy face and the overcast expression of the woman.

Tiara rested on her hands and tried to sit down, Alfa propped her back to help. However, not until she sat up straight, Tiara immediately scattered her embrace and buried her face into her husband's chest until her tears broke, it only sounded shrill as he gripped the Alpha T-shirt tightly as a silencer.

Seeing Tiara's attitude, Alfa tightened her arms, hoping that the pain that had befallen her would change to her completely. Tiara shouldn't be pretending to be strong right now, until she doesn't want to be seen crying in front of Alfa. Although, without even pretending, Tiara was already the most powerful woman for her.

After a long puff of breath ended her tears, Tiara finally distanced her body and sat up straight. Alfa sat next to him with her legs hanging down.

Tiara smiled brightly as she rubbed the rough tears that were still coming down without any excuse.

"Band. You stink." Tiara flicked her hand towards Alfa in a mocking tone.

Alfa gave a small smile at the joking tone her wife suddenly said. Again he felt full. Tiara was trying to amuse herself. The man promised to do anything to make Tiara happy.

"You're hurting me." Alfa poked his wife's waist and Tiara laughed.

"I want to go home soon." The look on Tiara's face turned serious.

Alfa watched carefully the two eyes of his wife.

"of course. You can always heal quickly. I'll take you home soon." The man nodded vigorously then linked his fingers into Tiara's hands.

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"You shouldn't act like that in front of your sick son." Yunus said calmly as he continued to focus his gaze forward, driving his car at a constant speed.

Helmia showed her cynical face. "Then what should I do? I can't pretend. To be honest I have not been able to wholeheartedly accept Tiara's presence."

"Though Tiara's your friend's son?"

"It doesn't have any effect at all."

"So, are you pretending to be nice to Tiara in front of her mother?"

"What I think is right, right? Alfa let me down by severing her one-sided relationship with Nelly and now instead marrying a sickly woman, how can I accept?"

"You keep regretting the past." Jonah exhaled a long breath of restraining emotion. Really Helmia will only add to the murky situation if it continues to be an antagonist in the middle of their child's relationship. Perhaps not yet, he could still kindly meet each other face to face with Tiara. I don't know if he's out of patience. But hopefully that doesn't happen.

"I won't stay silent. I can't see my son having to jump around and spend an uncertain amount of time with a woman like that."

Helmia got out of Jonah's car and slammed the door hard before stepping quickly into the house.