Still Wishing He Back?
43. Seeking Hope

"Oh yeah, I heard you got engaged to Laura? Is the news true?" Ask Alex.

"My news turns out to be to America too, huh?" Darren frowned when he got a question from Alex.

"Yesterday I heard from the kids, and all about you and Laura, so I got to know and tried to confirm it to you today." Obviously Alex.

"Well, it's getting more famous, the story is" Ledek Lucas.

"Can you shut up, can you?, I'll throw it out, too." Pissed Darren looked at Lucas who was sitting next to him.

"Peace..." Lucas just smiled while making a 2-finger gesture.

Alex again could only smile at the small debates of his two old friends.

"The story is not true, Laura and I have no connection whatsoever. Anyway I've pulled the news down, why is there still anyone talking about it?." Darren turned to look at Alex, answering the question Alex had asked him.

"Maybe because you haven't made a rebuttal stat? The wild ball is getting wider, because you just delete the news, without giving clarification about the real news." Said Alex.

"Am I the artist should clarify everything? After all it's not necessary for me to do, because it's too much trouble." Said Darren who looked cute.

"It is precisely that, because you are so indifferent, you become like justifying the contents of the news even though you have deleted the news." Alex gave his opinion.

"....."

Darren fell silent, he reflected back on Alex's words on the matter.

"He actually wanted to make a press conference to refute the news, but I suggested not to do it, because if so, later the reporters asked this was the same as him and even disturbed him, he said, any more? You know, he's a kid who doesn't like that kind of furore." Timpal Lucas commented.

"Well, yes, too." Alex, who understands what Lucas means, seems to agree on his view.

"Continue now how's dong? Does it stay like this?" Ask Alex again.

"Leave it alone, even if your words have a point, it seems I would rather leave it like this. After all, not just this one time the talk about me appeared among the children, right?." Said Darren who seemed not to care much about his friends who gossip about him.

"This is a very Darren." Alex said commenting on Darren's and Darren's indifferent attitude that only replied with a smile.

....

Unlike Darren who can still talk quietly with his close friends, Airin who is still awake from his sleep continues to reflect in his room. Thinking of the right way to meet Darren later. Although he had shared his story with his aunt, but he was still not convinced on the decision to go to a Darren directly. Especially with Darren's condition that does not remember him. He was afraid of being rejected before saying his purpose.

"Mama.." Arka's call shifted her eyes that had been pensively staring at the window of her room.

"Oh, Arka woke up, huh?" Airin immediately approached the child who was looking for his whereabouts.

"Mama's not sleeping?" Ask Arka with a still sleepy expression.

"Oh, this is mama going to sleep, too." Airin hugged her son who woke up from his sleep.

"Arka wants to sleep while hugging my mom." Said Arka while hugging Airin.

Hearing that, of course, made Airin smile. "Alright, mama will hug Arka. Now let's go to bed again, ok." Airin also laid her body beside her son, who eventually forced himself to sleep.

Patting his son's back slowly, Airin tried to put his son back to sleep who had awakened.

You seem to know yes, if mama has a lot of thoughts.

Airin gently brushed the hair of the child who had closed his eyes again. Seeing his sleeping son made him smile and hug his body more and more, and try to close his eyes by forgetting for a moment the burden of thoughts that bother him.

He fell asleep while hugging his son. Trying to come to terms with his own problems by trying to be more calm and sleep to remove a moment of his grief.

I want to see him again.

Without tears coming out of her eyes that were closed. Just imagining it had already made his feelings turbulent, and involuntarily shed tears. Not wanting to drag on in his sadness, for fear of disturbing the sleeping child, Airin ignored his sadness and continued his sleep without trying to wipe the tears that had already come out.

Not an easy decision for an Airin, although disappointed because of his feelings that have been hurt on a Darren, but a heart that has been filled with love will be difficult to forget. Despite trying to run away, the shadow of the person who once filled his heart and feelings, was so hard for him to forget.

......................

In the morning, at 8 am, was right at my hospital of hope.

His face was increasingly lethargic and pale with his body showing weight loss, due to his eating disorder, making him now in a limp condition, until it ended with hospital admission.

"What are you sick with?" Rendi visited Airin who was lying in a hospital bed.

"The air is just soy sauce, brother." Reply Airin showed his smile even with his condition still weak.

"Geez Airin, next time you have to take care of your condition." Said Rendi who worried about Airin's condition with her expression so sincere.

"I was shocked when I saw your aunt in the hospital, I thought she was sick." The worried tone was clearly visible from Rendi.

"Yes, Airin tau. Next time Airin will keep the body of Airin better. And, besides, Airin is now gapapa really, just a little bit limp." Said Airin to calm Rendi who worried about her condition.

"Thank you son Rendi has visited my nephew, when it was busy like this." Said bi Rahma to Rendi who chose to approach Airin who was being treated at the hospital where he was also on duty.

"It's okay bi, it just so happens that Rendi still has free time anyway, so try to stop by here for a while while looking at Airin's condition." Reply to Rendi who did not mind.

"Oh yeah, what about Arka? Does he know that you're in the hospital again?" Rendi asked Airin.

"She still doesn't know, because she's still in school now." Answer Airin.

"Keep the one who's gonna pick him up at school, who's dong?"

"So, I've asked Dava for help if he has time, and there's an uncle at home."

"Oh, I'm glad to hear that." Rendi smiled with relief as soon as she heard it.

Rendi's attention to Airin and his family really warms anyone who sees it. So sincere and compassionate.

"Sister Rendi no more patients today?" Tanya Airin looked at Rendi who was still inside her room.

"I don't have a schedule for any more surgeries, there's just the task of controlling the patients that I've finished surgery, and that's what I've done, so you take it easy, ok."

"That's the case, because I'm afraid that it even interferes with the duties of Rendi's sister who is a doctor."

"It's not like it's my own will to come here." Rendi smiled at Airin.

"But, still, can't a doctor be this relaxed?"

"Doctors also need to relax themselves, so as not to get too tired and fall sick. Later if the doctor is sick, who dong will examine the patients?"

Hearing that, Airin could only smile.

"Hemm." Inner bi Rahma saw the familiarity of Airin and Rendi who were chatting together. Even so, he smiled with pleasure to see their familiarity.