When Love Should Determine
Chapter 109

Larissa's condition worsened after the departure of her husband to go back to sea. Despite having a bath with warm water and drinking a cup of warm tea as he usually does when not feeling well, but this time it is not effective enough to reduce pain throughout the body.

By force, he woke up his little daughter who had just fallen asleep beside him. "Zahra, come on, son!."

"What's up, ma'am? why did mom wake me up? Is it morning?" asked Zahra, yawning widely.

"No, son, it's still night. I woke you up because I wanted to ask you for help."

"What do you ask me for, Mom?" zahra asked back while changing her body position to sit down.

"Go to Iqbal's house. Tell him that mom's sick."

At first Zahra refused his mother's orders out of fear, because it was too late, she was very afraid of the darkness. But when he saw his mother fall down on the floor, he finally wanted to.

While Zahra goes to Iqbal's house for help, Larissa tries hard to reach the main door by dragging her body.

Time passed, but Zahra did not return from Iqbal's house. I don't know what made him come back yet.

Meanwhile Larissa increasingly powerless to withstand the pain all over the body, while the expected soon come bring help twak come.

Either by coincidence or what, but the atmosphere in front of the house was so quiet that night, even though during these hours the atmosphere was still crowded by passing people.

Larissa was desperate, only tears could she do in the silence of the night. Slowly his consciousness began to disappear.

Amidst the despair, suddenly Iqbal came from the south by riding a motorcycle matic. Apparently at that time he was not at home, it is appropriate that Zahra did not return from earlier.

"Sister!" larissa shouted calling.

Iqbal knew exactly what Larissa sounded like. And as soon as he heard her screams, he immediately stopped the motor right in front of Larissa's house. "What's wrong? Why are these nights still out of the house?" tanyakanya.

"Help me brother, my body aches all" he said softly, tears flowing unceasingly from unbearable pain.

"Good, Larissa! Why are you like this? Then where's your husband now?"

"My husband went to sea since noon, brother. He's in the damper."

"Why would he leave you in your condition like this? And why didn't you stop him?."

"I was fine, brother, so I let him go. I don't know either, I suddenly feel like this."

Iqbal breathed a heavy sigh. "Then what do you want now?."

"Come on, brother, I don't know. I just feel like my body is feeling so sick. I think my bones are very painful."

"How about now we go to the nearest puskesmas. Let's get first aid."

"As for her best brother."

"All right! Come on, I'll take you there!" Iqbal takes the motor and turns the engine on. "Let's go!."

Larissa tried to get up and stand up. But the condition of his legs that are unable to support the weight of the body makes him fall back. "Arrgk.." he groaned in pain.

Iqbal panicked to see his stepbrother fall down. "Astagfirullah, Larissa!" worried scream. At that moment he turned off the engine and ran over. "You why? What's wrong with your leg?."

Larissa was crying in pain. "I don't know either, brother. From that moment my foot hurt so much."

"Then let me just carry it!" Iqbal reached out to raise Larissa's body, but he quickly prevented it. "No, brother, no!," he said, shaking his head. "You better help me stand up."

Iqbal nodded his head. "Well if that's what you want."

Larissa simply replied with a nod.

A neighbor came over as soon as Iqbal saw him help fill Larissa's body. "What's this?" tanyakanya.

Iqbal spoke up to answer the neighbor's question when he saw Larissa was no longer able to open her voice. "I don't know, either. The first time I saw him, he groaned in pain at the door. He said his legs weren't strong enough to stand."

The neighbor reached out to touch Larissa's forehead. "God! You have a high fever" he said in surprise. "Where are you taking him now?."

"I want to take him to the nearest puskesmas, ma'am. Let him get help immediately."

"Then go quickly and be careful on the road."

Iqbal nodded, immediately restarting the motor and proceeding with great care. "Get hold on to me so you don't fall" he said worriedly. However, his concerns were met with rejection from Larissa. "No, brother, I can still."

Larissa felt clumsy piggybacking with another man even though it was her own half-brother. Although different fathers but they come from the same womb. But in fact, the relationship between the two of them is not that close, let alone their communication only went well after the death of the mother a few months ago.

After traveling for approximately thirty minutes they also arrived at the nearest puskesmas. Iqbal helped get Larissa's body back and took her to the emergency room for help.

"Sir, please help my sister" he told a nurse."

"He why?."

"I don't know either, but he has a high fever."

The nurse picked up a cage nearby and pushed it towards Larissa. "Please put him up there."

Iqbal helps lay Larissa's body on a cage. The nurse began to examine her condition. While checking he asked a few questions, "Since when did the fever start?."

"Since this afternoon, ma'am."

"What do you feel now?."

"The whole body feels very painful to the bone. Joints feel weak, even to stand alone can not."

The nurse nodded her head and recorded all of Larissa's complaints. "Have you had a history of illness with a high fever?" ask her back."

"She, madam! I went to the hospital for malaria fever. But a few days ago I just had surgery to remove a lump in the breast."

"Let me see the former operation."

Larissa opened some buttons on the shirt and showed the location of the former surgery. "Here, ma'am!" he said while pointing at the former in question."

"Geez!" screech the nurse when seeing the condition of Larissa's scar."

"What's up, mbak?" larissa asked in a panic when she heard the nurse screech that examined her.

"You should have a high fever. Look at! your breasts are flushed."

Hearing the words of nurse Larissa also panicked. "God! how's it possible?."

The nurse took an antiseptic liquid as well as some cotton wool and used it to clean up Larissa's surgery scars. "Aren't you aware of this?."

Larissa shook her head. "No, mbak. I just found out that my breasts were red when I spoke earlier."

The nurse closed Larissa's clothes after she had cleaned her scar. "It looks like your wound has an infection!."