You're My Antidote

You're My Antidote
Hospital


"Mama's fine, Raja." Countless times have you said such a thing to her. From the start he who panicked and rushed to approach mama when opening the door of the VIP nursery where mama was treated. Panic when mama looks stingy when coughing. And now when he forbade mom to sit down.


In addition to him, papa also faithfully accompanied the mother. The middle-aged man did not leave the seat next to the mama's brangkar with the same worried look as himself.


All the needs and affairs of the hospital, Papa leave everything to Om Rafi and Aunt Selina.


"You better go home. Take your wife a break at home. You must be tired." The king looked at the wife who was talking to Aunt Selina. Talk about their honeymoon trip. Not once did the King see a tired face, which there was a fiery feeling that was channeled through the story. "Again mama was dizzy enough to face your papa's possessiveness. Don't make mama dizzy with you acting the same." added mama again attracted his attention.


"Mama dizzy? will the king call a doctor?"


"Let me call the doctor."


The king and the father spoke at the same time. Both look panicked and excessive. Mama was fine, staring at him and papa with a long sigh.


"It seems free to tell you to leave. It's better for you to sleep." Mama relented and closed her eyes.


Aunty Selina and Rani make fun of them. Not to forget the head of both.


"If Selin were a mother. Selin also sprained the pah." taunted Aunt Selina to papa who was indifferent to respond. But the man sitting across from her got up and sat down beside Aunt Selin. Looks tired face at his twilight. I don't know how many hours you slept during your time in the hospital.


My mom is just exhausted. He had a fever and was unconscious. Although the doctor had allowed her to go home once the first infusion ran out, she insisted on keeping her in the hospital until she was completely healed and nothing was complained about.


Let alone fainting. Mama only got the flu, papa always overreacted it. As much as papa's love for mom. In women who are said to be ex-girlfriends who have been cheated on. The twilight woman whose health is now beginning to be disrupted and make him and his family worried.


It turned out that papa moved to sit because he was sleepy and wanted to sleep.


Maybe feel there he can be relied on as a man so papa can momentarily close his eyes when mama also began to sleep.


"You want to go home? let me ask the driver to take you home?" ask the King when Rani is sitting next to him. By pulling the chair that Papa used.


Rani shook her head and rested her head on her shoulder. Aunt Selin's permission to go out to buy them lunch. "Rani is here to accompany the King."


"Don't you look after Mama?"


"That's the main thing. But because mama already has super sprightly guard like Kak Raja and papa. So Rani is here to accompany Raja's brother."


Rani grasped and rubbed the back of the King's hand with her thumb. The same thing the woman did in the car. It was as if trying to calm him from the anxiety he could not express to anyone.


And no matter what time, the King fell asleep by resting his head on the head of the wife. Maybe because all night he could not sleep, so the comfortable feeling that his wife gave him was able to make him fall asleep so quickly.


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In his sleep, the King returned to the dark room gripping that he had been trying to forget. Makes her sigh, when dreams like this will end.


The dark space that made his body shiver in fear. The smell of rancid like a mixture of salt and rust coming from the blood that was drenched in front of him felt very real in his sense of smell. Although only a dream, but the King remembers very well the atmosphere and aroma in the guest room of his childhood home.


This time, the King saw how papi made mami die. Mommy's eyes widen. His mouth was open but no sound came out of it. When the king had to testify to the police, he heard that she had died with two stab wounds. Lungs and heart. While the papi one puncture in the stomach.


Yep. Papi kills mami and chooses to end his life after her. The two had a big fight after dinner. Even when the King was not finished with his food.


The king was not so sure of the cause of their quarrel. As if it had become mandatory food for him every day, the bigger the King the more unconcerned. He prefers to clot his ears with earpods than he must be hurt to hear the mother who always carries her name to be the reason they take root. Because of his birth that made his mother had to give up a career that was uphill.


But the king also never asked to be born from the womb of his mother. Although he still thanked sincerely because his mother had allowed him to inhabit the woman's womb for approximately nine months. And has struggled to give birth even though mom hates him. And still hates him as much as he tries to grow up to be a good boy and boast to his mother.


"Kings.. The son of papi pride.." the voice of papi was heard whirling with blood that seeped more and more from the stomach area.


The king really hates Papi saying that.


If papi was proud of him. Papi should have endured with him growing up. Not just leaving it that way.


Or papi is too cowardly to have killed mami. Because papi knows best what law gets for people like papi.


"Enough! ENOUGH!" the first time the King fought in a dream. He no longer wanted to hear me apologize and so on. King's tired. He was really tired.


"Sister.. Brother King."


"King."


"Son, get up."


"King."


The king heard the sounds of each other trying to pull him away from the horrible dream. Making the shadows of mami and papi drenched in blood fade away in a dazzling white light.


The king opened his eyes slowly. Staring one by one the people who surround him who are still asleep in a sitting position. The difference is that he no longer bears the head of Rani, but the shoulder of his wife.


Rani's face was the only one that did not look surprised among the panicked faces around her. Especially the mother who looked at him with worry.


"You're having another nightmare, son?" ask your mother directly when she has started to be able to distinguish between dreams and reality.


The king cleared his throat to relieve his dry throat. At the same time Aunt Selina thrust a glass filled with water that she immediately drank until it ran out.


"Ordinary dreams. Mam doesn't have to worry" he said trying as calmly as possible. Although the King was sure they would not believe it and would investigate it later.


How can they believe if his face when dreaming is always pale. Cold sweats and bad breath.


But as long as they don't extend. The king will not tell. He does not want to make mama worry and add thoughts to get sicker. Maybe that's also the reason papa and aunt Selin didn't press him.


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