
The message Ayuna sent just ticked one, unread. Ayuna got a break at eight o'clock in the evening, then the girl had a chance to tell Saka.
“Where, tired ya?” Aris greeted him while handing over the portion of the dinner that had been distributed to the volunteers. Since they came earlier Aris was not seen because he joined the front line of the disaster, helping the SAR team comb the victims among the ruins.
“You who look tired, I will help you here,” reply Ayuna while paying attention to the appearance of Aris who has worn dusty.
Then together with other volunteers they began to eat rice boxes and mineral water, eating potluck but felt very delicious in the middle of the disaster post conditions that gave the impression of pity concerns.
“Your grandparents' family home was also hit by the earthquake?” Ayuna asked as she remembered the Aris family also living around the disaster site.
“Most of the house wall cracks, the roof frame is also peyot-tilt. No longer safe to live in,” replied Aris could not hide his sadness, let alone he saw closely with his own eyes how the houses affected by the earthquake were so severe.
Aris also recounted the greater grief felt due to the hysterical cries and screams of those who lost a family member.
"At the post there were also many eyewitnesses who delivered damage and many fatalities," Ayuna responded while remembering the post situation these few hours.
For Ayuna, the impact of the earthquake was not just watched through online news and social media. Today various versions of his grief were heard directly from witnesses who came to the relief post.
Although not witnessed at the scene but anyone who picket at the post can feel the suffering of those affected by the disaster. Reports and case stories of earthquake victims who entered the post are enough to give an idea of how severe the earthquake that shook this time.
“Tomorrow my brother came to see the family that was hit by the disaster. You all the day after coming home in brother's car ” said Aris again. Ayuna looked astonished.
“Why is that? Shift we until Saturday, why am I told to go home Thursday?”
“I'm worried you're sick. In this post the atmosphere is less conducive . Your helping intention has been realized? Make the first experience quite first,” Aris reasoned that makes sense.
Ayuna kept quiet to consider. For how many hours in the post it has felt how difficult it is to want BAK and BAB because the toilet is always full and must go some distance looking for other alternatives. Not to mention the condition of the post that is minimal fresh air, feels crowded by dusty and sultry weather by the back and forth of many people who stop at the post.
“You can help here until tomorrow afternoon. Brother stop here at night or early in the morning so as to avoid traffic jams in Jakarta.” Aris left after giving advice for the good of the girl.
True said Aris, for the first experience of volunteering, he must be able to measure physical ability and energy not to drop it actually troublesome committee.
Ayuna came home with her sister Aris and her husband, there was also one of their families who were brought to Jakarta. All night long drive by new car after a bright visible day in the morning they enter the city limits.
Ayuna was delivered to the boarding house, the girl immediately took a shower and gave birth to clothes and dropped on the bed.
“Mbak…..! Mbak....!” Ayuna opened her heavy eyes after how many hours she had fallen asleep. His whole body is in pain. The sound of door banging is still heard among the calls of Retno Maids boarding house managers.
The girl got up staggeringly reached the door and opened it. Seemed a forty-year-old woman with a worried face.
“Aduhhh, kiraian Mbak fainted! All day not out of the room, that's Aris from earlier nanyain is Mba Yuna okay?” berondong Retno who has been calling and knocking on the door dozens of times. He almost reported to the host father asking to be broken down the door of his room.
“Sorry Mba, I'm tired of not waking up. What time is it?” Ayuna looked at the wall clock in the room, it was four in the afternoon? Huff. It's worth Retno so panicked because she did not wake up nearly eight hours!
Ayuna rushed to reach her phone in the bag. The battery power until the remaining 5%, Hedeuuh. Stamped charger while activating the phone screen, a lot of message notifications from Saka and Aris.
Just a few sentences he typed back to Aris' message, there was a stabbing feeling that attacked the stomach until Ayuna grimaced in pain. His stomach felt cramping and began to have difficulty breathing. A cold sweat began to seep in the temple, the girl now coiled on the floor of the room enduring the increasingly unbearable pain.
Ayuna looked at the window and the sunlight that hit her eyes made her head feel spinning, dizzy. Try to change the position of the body and shift the screen of the phone looking for the number of Retno Mbak. As a result of the little move, now his head becomes increasingly dizzy with the view continues to spin.
Why is it like this? Ayuna closed her eyes while feeling the pain that continued to stab in the abdomen. Try crawling up to the bed avoid the cold ceramic floor that seeps in the skin, but again due to the move wake up the head feels more and more spinning.
Mother….! Ayuna trembled to call the woman she missed so much and tears were pouring down her cheeks. Amongst the agonizing pain, the girl could only remember the face of Bu Madah, her mother of almost eight years had not seen her again.
I didn't want to die before I met Mom, Siss Ayuna before she was completely unconscious.