
~Happy Reading~
In the hallway of the hospital that already looks a little crowded it sounds a step run from a middle-aged pair who still look fit.
“Ray...” call Ardian when you see the son sitting leaning in front of the Alexa room in the care.
“papa!” Rayhan also stood up to welcome the papa “ma.”
Rayhan ran up to the mother and grabbed her tightly.
“what happened?” aunt Rasty stroked the son's back gently, channeling calmness to the son. Aunt Rasty knows that her son's condition is not okay, worried as much as she is.
“Exa.. Exa...” said Rayhan stammered while releasing the embrace of the mama.
While both pairs of eyes noticed how Rayhan again sobbed in the need of his beloved mother, and the papa stood glued while staring at them both.
“Joe...” Said om Ardian slowly, and still heard by Rayhan and the mama, he said,
'is he my nephew? my brother's son? is it not wrong to recognize him? '
Rayhan also looked at the brother and the papa alternately while wiping his tears.
“Ray.... the..?” papa turned towards Rayhan asking for an answer,
Rayhan nodded in response. While Joe who felt observed stepped closer to the middle-aged pair.
“Om...” greet Joe with a glassy face while standing in front of Rayhan's father,
“Ya Allah....!” peekik quietly om Ardian, soon he embraced the nephew who had been in his car.
While the wife was crying, very surprised by the appearance of the nephew, a sense of haru and happiness that could not be described with words, she could only cry in the arms of the son.
Once again the crying drama Devan saw, the family gathering that had been separated for so long, leaving an endless sense of haru.
“thank God, you're still alive nak” asked Ardian tearfully as he held the niece's head and watched the face closely. A face very similar to that of the older brother who had not been around more than 15 years ago. Luckily he could immediately recognize the face, the face he missed so much.
“iya om” said Joe while smiling haru
“Joe..” call aunt Rasty slowly after taking off the arms of the son
Joe turned around to hug his aunt. Aunty who has been considered like her mother, a figure who never distinguishes the affection between the son and himself.
They sob in the clench, channeling a burning sense of longing and happiness.
After a long time standing in sobs, Devan finally approached and re-create the crying drama. He greeted Ardian and Aunt Rasty and asked him to sit down.
“where have you been all this time nak?” ask Ardian after they sit side by side.
“Joe has been raised by Devan om's parents, papa Daniel and mama Dania”
Aunt Rasty also grabbed the niece's hand and rubbed it gently.
“forgive Joe om, aunt, all this time Joe does not remember the Joe family, just a while ago Joe got the memory of Joe back”
Joe also tells what he experienced during the kidnapping incident and how he was foster and raised by the family of papa Daniel. Aunt Rasty, who heard the sad story of the nephew, shed tears again, but it is undeniable that he was so grateful because Joe was found and treated well if the person who had helped him.
“om is very grateful you came back healthy son, almost every day om heard Alexa cry miss you. used to be when we moved to our house which now, she kept crying not want to move, she continued to cry, he kept saying how if brother Joe came home and he wasn't there, then brother Joe would be sad. he always said like that” said om Ardian while recalling the events of more than 15 years ago, when the family om Ardian returned to the homeland after the condition of his son and wife improved,
Joe listened intently to Alexa's childhood memories without her, and it made her feel even more guilty. The little sister that he should protect according to the message of the mother, but in fact even far from him, he did not even remember until he grew up.
“sorry Joe om” Joe finally sobbed in his uncle's arms.
“stt, already son, now most importantly you are back, already with us, Alexa would be happy.”
Joe nodded and took off his uncle.
“then how can Alexa get hurt?”
“boy...!!!” call Ardian to the son
glug
hearing the call made Rayhan gulp his saliva roughly. He knew the meaning of the call, a call that is now very rarely used if not upset with the son
“explain to papa!”
“sorry Ray pa, Ray can not keep Exa well, Ray really sorry”
Finally, with a little stammering Rayhan also chronological events in camping ground to Alexa teluka and taken to the hospital. The four of them listened intently without cutting in the slightest.
“less a***r!” as Rayhan said after hearing the name of the brother's killer mentioned in his son's story.
“then have you guys reported to the police this incident?”
“already om, everything has been handled. Devan and I will take care of om”, Joe said in response to the uncle's question.
Om Ardian also turned towards Devan who had been silent before without sound after asking them to sit down.
“nak Devan, thank you for you and your parents have taken good care of Joe so far”
“i asked my parents to make brother Joe as my brother, and I did want a brother and be greeted both my parents with the presence of brother Joe”
“whatever it is, om very grateful, if only your parents did not find Joe, I don't know what will happen to him, maybe until now we will not meet back”
Devan nodded with a smile, not knowing how else to respond from his adoptive uncle.
***
It was dark when Devan returned from returning the police car he was carrying. This afternoon he decided to return to the police station to return the borrowed car and Rayhan also took his cellphone and took his car which was still parked in the camping ground area.
When they arrived at the camping ground, they still had time to meet with Rizal and the group who were cleaning up his belongings. Bagas and Dedy approached them asking about the condition of Alexa who was still lying in the hospital.
Finally, after finishing cleaning the goods and Alexa helped other children, Rayhan returned to the hospital with Devan.
“kak, we buy eat first yu?” take Rayhan when he almost arrived at the hospital where Alexa was treated
“oke, we buy for both your parents also”
Devan also directed Rayhan's car which he drove towards the tent food stall on the side of the road.
***
“kak, ma, pa.. we eat first” invited Rayhan shortly after arriving in the waiting room
Now the condition of the hospital is back quiet, only a few people who passed by in the hospital aisle.
“iya Ray, thanks”
They also force themselves to eat, although it is difficult they have to keep their body condition.
“om and aunt should go home rest first, let Joe wait Alexa” Joe said after they finished dinner
“huh,..” om Ardian sighed “om and aunt will find lodging around here, too far if you go home”
“good om,”
“Ray, follow papa home first, later replace with Joe after you rest, we have to take turns keeping Exa”
“baik pa” said Rayhan without refuting, if you can be honest, his body feels tired, plus lack of sleep because of participating in night-time activities,
“Devan not go home first?” asked Aunt Rasty who noticed her nephew's sister remained seated quietly without showing any fatigue.
“no tan, Devan here with brother Joe”
“well, later can replace with Ray, keep your condition” said om Ardian sambal stand followed by his wife and son.
“good om”
“kabarin om any development Exa”
“well om, happy rest” said Joe stood up and looked at the family he had just met passing away from the hospital.
“kakak don't want to tell papa and mama?” ask Devan after the conditions are back quiet
“kakak don't know how to say how” Joe sits with his head down while covering his face with both palms.
“ya stay story only if the brother has remembered everything, from the room sister is not at home, must be anxious to find the sister, if I am used to not at home, so mama won't worry”
Huffs
“you were right, from earlier mama called brother, but not adoptive brother”
"well, well, surely later the car's rich nagging if you've met brother" joked Devan while chuckling
"hunt gih kak, call mama, will papa come to intervene?!"
"uh, uh,..." Joe also became excited himself to hear the words of his sister, 'could be bad if papa came to intervene, will not run overnight'
after preparing his mentality, Joe finally contacted his mother,
"assalamu'alaikum..."
"Joe!!!!!!"
tbc
hi. hi.
wah Joe got sprayed tuh, 🤭🤭🤭
so if you go say mom yes,
thanks for the support 🤩🤩🤩
wait for the next update...