When Love Loses Meaning
Not an ordinary woman
Emanuel repeatedly glanced at Ezme but the girl preferred to be busy with her phone.
“How close are you to Marry?” emanuel asked in curiosity.
“Our relationship is nothing more than a friend but, something different with Marry yeng makes me want to be close to her,” Ezme said without lifting her face.
“Marry, is he your assistant?” ask Emanuel.
“True. She is an amazing woman,” replied Ezme proudly.
“Authorizible?” there was a frown on Emanuel's cold face.
“True. It's just so incredible. Her spirit even surpasses that of me who has no burden in my womb.”
“Is pregnancy a burden?”
“For others may not but for me, Yes. I do not want to be burdened by a child,” replied Ezme firmly.
“In other words, you can't be my special woman. Coincidentally I like women who are willing to experience changes when she is pregnant or breastfeeding,” said Emanuel laughed.
Just like Emanuel, Ezme laughed amusedly at the dry humor of one of the most influential single men in their country town.
“You're kidding, right? I can't even believe there are women who refuse to be the mother of your child,” said Ezme laughing.
“How about I say they prefer to adopt or hand over the affairs of the child to others?” reply Emanuel amused.
“Maybe they have not been given enlightenment,” timpal Ezme while shaking his head.
“I think they're just like you. Most of the women I know don't want to give birth to me. Why should receive the load while they can pitch freely,” replied Emanuel.
“How about your friend, has her lover or husband been told?” emanuel asked after he saw Ezme getting restless.
“I don't know.”
Ezme's answer made Emanuel not continue his question. However, he is a stranger who starts to get tired of routine activities that start to make him tired.
All the activities he did from morning to evening had similarities that kept on repeating. He needs entertainment and attention.
A cynical smile was seen on Emanuel's lips as he recalled his encounter with Lev. In his heart Emanuel thought that Lev was the same. Bored of looking for something different.
However, the difference that happens to Lev is that he has a lover who is older than Lev's own age while he, he does not need a lover who is more mature than him.
“Besides as your friend, do you share an apartment?” ask Emanuel.
Ezme's laughter rang out loud before he replied. “Marry makes more sense than my other friends. How could she want to stay with me while she knows I don't like kids.”
“Then she stayed alone?” Emanuel furrowed his brows.
“No. He lives with a middle-aged woman the owner of the apartment he rented,” replied Ezme.
Despite the astonishment of not expecting Emanuel to be so curious about a woman he did not know, Ezme answered.
“How could Emanuel actually know Marry, but where do they know him?” ezme thought before the car driven by Emanuel's private driver got into the Lobby parking lot and stopped right in front of the hospital lobby door.
“Why not a big hospital?” emanuel asked as soon as they had come down.
What does Emanuel expect when someone calls a hospital. For the man who had incredible wealth, the hospital he was in now could be so he would call it just a clinic, but for
those with limited balances in the account, the place is better than just being at home.
“Come,” invite Ezme who refuses to respond to Emanuel's remarks.
Biana had mentioned where she was so Ezme did not need to ask anymore in the information section. He immediately took Emanuel to where Biana was sitting waiting alone.
“Biana, how has not also finished its operation?” ask Ezme as soon as he meets Biana.
“Still in recovery room. Ezme, I'm so worried but Marry, I don't know what he's feeling. Not panic at all,” said Biana reported.
“Then, how about the baby, is it healthy?”
“Healthy,” Reply Biana.
“He is Mr. Emanuel Durstan,” Ezme replied without any information following him.
“Can I see the baby?” ask Ezme to Biana.
“Please, the baby is on the edge so you can see it from the glass. But you can tell the nurse if you want to see it more clearly. Just say Baby Mistress Rosemary,” tell Biana.
Rosemary, nice name but why did she choose to be called Marry instead of Rose? At least that was what Emanuel had in mind as he looked at Biana and Ezme alternately.
Ezme and Emanuel then leave Biana who remains faithful waiting for Rosemary. He seemed unwilling to leave while Rosemary was still in the recovery room.
In front of the neonatal intensive care unit, Ezme and Emanuel watch the baby according to the instructions
Until a nurse approached them.
“I want to see Baby Mistress Rosemary,” tell Ezme.
With a friendly smile the nurse then went inside and not long after there was another nurse who entered and lifted a baby who was smeared near the glass.
“Yes God .. how could Marry give birth to such a handsome baby? I wonder who his father is,” praise Ezme when the nurse brought closer the face of the tiny baby who had shown his good looks.
Just like Emanuel. She has yet to know who the woman called Mary by Ezme is, even with Ezme alone he was new to the scene but seeing a baby with curly hair and thick with a handsome face left Emanuel speechless.
“I'm really curious who his father is. I'm sure his father is not an Indonesian man,” said Ezme.
Slowly but still be heard by Emanuel.
“Indonesian Men? How can the baby's father be Indonesian?” emanuel asked in wonder.
“Sorry, it seems I have not told you that Rosemary is an Indonesian student,” replied Ezme.
“So.”
No more words or sentences were spoken when the nurse put her baby Rosemary back in her cradle.
They return to where Biana is but a message goes to Ezme's phone sent by Marry.
“I'm already in the treatment room.”
A short message continued with the notification of Marry's place in the care so they rushed towards the treatment room.
The first seen by Emanuel is the relieved face of women who have natural beauty despite not wearing excessive makeup.
“Congratulations yes. Sorry, I wasn't there when you needed to,” Ezme told Marry after giving her a hug.
“No problem. I was lucky not to have to give birth on the road to reduce the panic of Biana,” Rosemary replied laughing.
“You don't hurt?” ask Ezme.
Do women who have just given birth often feel pain? But why is Mary lying down like normal?
“Sick, but if I show you I won't be allowed to see my son. Have you seen it?” said Marry.
Emanuel was sure Rosemary knew someone else was coming with Ezme, but he didn't see it making Emanuel feel like it wasn't considered.
“Already. Your baby is very handsome. I'm sure when he was a teenager you should be able to have a big broom to drive away the women who adore him,” Ezme said laughing.
“Really? I didn't pay much attention to it,” Rosemary replied slowly.
“I think he looks like his father. Did you tell her dad that you gave birth?” ask Ezme.
There was a pause that happened once Ezme finished talking. And Ezme immediately realized the mistake he had made.
Why would she have to ask now while previously she never wanted to know who the man who had made Marry pregnant was?
“Not yet and I have absolutely no intention to say it,” replied Rosemary after quite a long silence.
When Rosemary turned the other way, she looked at Emanuel and he saw Rosemary's eyes looming.