Under The Rain's
Chapter 17—Snow Ball Effect

Three days off became three weeks when Kris decided to accompany Reva longer in Bandung. Many important work affairs that he easily left behind, because Reva often suffered health problems in the last few days. Seeing Reva who was already grimacing helplessly on his bed made Kris reluctant to move. He did not want to leave his girlfriend at such critical moments alone.

“Honey, we go to the doctor again, yes?” kris whispered softly as she stroked Reva's hair that was drooping limp beside her.

“New yesterday from doctor?” reva answered helplessly.

“I'm less sreg same doctor yesterday.”

“How else, Doctor Octa is on vacation to Europe.”

“So we want to wait until Doctor Octa comes home?”

“Say you are not the same doctor yesterday?”

“But I can't see you like this.”

“I'm okay. Just my hip hurts so much .. can't walk.”

"What's wrong? You vomit after every meal. Your period is also so bad."

Reva did not chim in, then Kris immediately massaged along his back while the woman lay on her side. The sequence becomes a smooth massage up to the hips until the part feels better for Reva. Chris has been doing that for years. He had memorized which points made Reva cry mercilessly.

After getting a massage usually Reva will fall asleep, although with extraordinary cramps that often he felt in the lower abdomen. Therefore, Kris also sparingly always provides a warm compress to reduce discomfort in the area.

“Lagian, ‘kok, can get this up again, anyway, Darling?”

“I don't know, maybe because I met again with Erin.”

“Erin?”

“It looks, anyway. Lately, I have not controlled my diet. He always sends a lot of food.”

“Aduh ... don't do it, dong. Always take care of your health, yes. Later tell the same Erin if you really need to be selective with food.”

“Iya, Dear ..”

“Do Erin know that you have been sick all this time?”

“I never said anything about it."

At such times Kris strongly condemned the depraved man who had made Reva suffer greatly. That had incised so great a wound and suffering, like a snowball effect. Thanks to the events of nine years ago, the barrage of ill-fated events that Reva had to face seemed endless.

Kris promised to find the man and give him the right reward before he died. Because of his increasing busyness, Kris had loosened the search for the man. But it won't happen again. He'll find her soon enough. Sure.

“ Anyway, if tonight you can not sleep anymore, we go to the hospital, yes, dear.”

Reva doesn't answer anymore. His entire body was trying to fight the pain that came from his ovaries making him so tired. He continued to hold his stomach while trying to sleep after taking painkillers that had been for years accompanying his days.

***

“I carry if you are not strong road, Darling.”

“You sure you can ride the motor? We can use a taxi so you are more comfortable.”

“Motor only, no problem.”

With a step down, Reva began to walk down the corridor to the elevator that would lead him to the basement, where Kris' motorbike was parked. Reva really felt something was wrong so she immediately complied as Kris forced her to return to the hospital after yesterday's check-up. That time, it was possible that he would end up hospitalized.

Arriving in the basement, the elevator door opened and Rafael's figure who had just returned from his office was seen waiting around to climb to the top.

“Eh, Raf, here too?” kris asked in surprise when the figure of his new partner caught his sight.

Rafael whose focus was directly on Reva who looked very pale did not serve Kris's question. Reva was used to looking pale because he had bright skin-tones, but that time he looked very different. His pallor looks very concerning. Is he sick?

“Raf?” Kris began to feel disturbed to see Rafael glaring at his lover like that.

“Reva why?” Rafael did not press again and asked back. He came closer to seeing the woman more clearly. However, his steps instantly came to a halt as Kris' arm swiftly restrained the chest of the man taller than her.

“Reva again hurts,” replied Kris sharply.

Rafael immediately took a step back when he realized Kris did not like his attitude just now. He finally understood that the man turned out to be very protective of his lover. “Sorry,” he said briefly while raising his hands, a sign he did not intend to do anything.

Reva who immediately felt uneasy to see the figure of Rafael there immediately took refuge behind Kris' back while continuing to lower his gaze. Thanks to his trauma, he reflexes away whenever his radar finds Rafael in the vicinity.

The situation between the two men was tense at the time. But Kris immediately ignored him and immediately lifted Reva away from Rafael who was still standing there. Rafael could only stare at Reva's pushy footsteps that kept moving leaving him without even looking back.

***

After going through an intensive series of examinations with several procedures such as X-rays, MRI, CT Scan and blood tests, finally the team of doctors decided that Reva should immediately undergo a laparotomy. It was found that the cyst on her ovary had ruptured and Reva had a fairly serious infection.

Quickly, in the last few days, Reva has been constantly experiencing nausea and vomiting and light bleeding outside her menstrual cycle. The medicine given by a doctor he met yesterday also no longer able to withstand the pain in his lower abdomen.

Sometimes, Reva herself is indeed negligent to take care of her health. He often felt exhausted from work and his diet became a mess. Usually, there was Kris who always firmly reminded him to rest. But unfortunately, it has been a few months that Kris had to work outside the city. It seems that soon Kris will consider returning to Bandung only so that he can always join Reva.

“Must operation again, yes?” reva asked resignedly when an OBGYN Specialist Doctor started asking him to fast.

“Yes, honey, just calm down, yeah. I'm always here for you,” said Kris unceasingly kissing the back of her lover's hand that was lying weakly on the bed of care.

“Sorry yes, Dear. I took you again. I took care of you.”

“Eh, what are you talking about? Don't think weird, yeah. I can take care of you.”

The procedure of removal of ovarian cysts was not the first time undertaken by Reva. He had to undergo laparoscopy twice. Cysts that reside within her ovaries are caused by follicles that did not shrink during her first pregnancy, eventually forming cysts. In fact, after giving birth, the cyst remained undecided so the team of doctors had to remove it when Reva had severe bleeding many times.

The first surgery was successful, but the tissue grew again a few years later, so the second laparoscopic procedure had to be performed by Reva. And at that time, Reva returned to the operating table to undergo the third surgery. That time even the situation was much more severe, so the larger incision needed to be incised by the sharpness of the scalpel in the lower abdomen of Reva.

One stitch of surgery on Reva has been counted as one lethal blow by Kris. For Chrissakes. For whatever's in the universe and all that's in it, Kris will make the man pay full price for what he's done to Reva's body. And I don't know how many stitches in her body Reva received since she gave birth to her eldest son until nine years later, while the man fled freely.

The snowball effect that did not stop rolling hit Reva's life without giving her a chance to completely recover. From depression to drugs. From the wound in her womb to the wound in her mind. From losing a job to losing an education. That man has to make up for everything. Must. That was the purpose of Kris' life at the time. There was no negotiating room for the person who had viciously tortured his lover to such an extent.