Getting Married Due to Misunderstanding
24. What happened to Barra?

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Alesha's physical condition is fine. But I wasn't sure of her psychic after finding out she wasn't part of us. After successfully performing the operation and going through a critical period, the child finally regained consciousness, after a five-hour wait from post-surgery. The next day I'm going home, I miss home and college. I can't imagine how Alesha would feel after knowing everything. Even Hanzal doesn't know about this. I don't want to tell her this, because I don't seem to have the authority to tell her this. Looks like Mama and Papa purposely hid all this from everyone. 

Once they knew the truth, would it be possible, everything Alesha possessed would continue to endure? Such as affection, popularity, friends, family and many other things that benefit Alesha. Will it all just last or just disappear? Looking at the face of Mama who was afraid of losing Alesha, made me lazy to think of all that had just crossed my head. What if the position is reversed? I'm not sure if Mama's gonna feel like she lost me. 

After a long argument between me and Mama this morning at home, now the middle-aged woman is keeping her distance from me. An hour passed, Alesha was transferred to the hospital room. Mama and Papa approach Alesha first. 

"There rest! From then on, sister Cariin did not even exist. The sick man, rest. Not even running around." Said Brother Hanzal starting to nag. After the attention, he always nagged a lot. 

"Why is it now that Anzal's sister is paying attention to me?" I asked with a lazy face. 

"Sorry, I'm busy. What if we eat in the cafeteria?" the offer is not tempting enough. 

"I'm still full." I said, refusing without having my words first. Hanzal didn't give up. 

"Well, ask this instead of penetrating the time we never went through together." Evidently. 

"Thank you for the offer. But sorry, I'm not interested in your offer at all. Even if you bought all the canteens in this hospital for me, just to make up for the time we never spent together." My answer. 

"Where can you go, what time has passed, even up to 19 years can be redeemed just by eating in the cafeteria with you, sister?" 

"You realize that, anyway? Your nature is very similar to your mother. Miraculously, they also do not want to be equated. The way you talk was like Mama when there were clients who did not match the criteria of cooperation with the company. There's a language that he's speaking." Said.

"Why talk about Mama?" my many.

"That's a small example. You both do not want to be the topic of discussion. You are related to each other." Evidently. "Alisha, what's wrong with you?" ask her in a soft tone.

"No why. And don't ask why it's okay, but his face is nothing. Because I don't want to interact with anyone anymore. So please, don't ask any more questions." I said to Hanzal. The man simply shook his head while taking a slow breath. After that I walked away from Brother Hanzal who was still standing at the place earlier. I walked while lined up carrying an infusan pole. 

I didn't go straight to my room. I walked over to the poly kid on the third floor. The owner of this hospital is my great-grandfather, grandfather Ammar Adnan. He's Papa's Grandpa. I've heard a little story about him. He was one of the influential people in Bengkulu. And he moved to Jakarta to build this hospital. The hospital did not just stand. Because my great-grandfather was not Bandung Bondowoso, who was able to build a thousand temples overnight, along with his genies.

Little did I know and I remember from our Datuk story, that establishing a company either a hospital or a company that is engaged in any field, it is not as easy as in the dramas that we often watch. Or not as easy as the novels that young people often make. So you could say, the struggle is not easy. Datuk Ammar is a surgeon and lecturer at the University of Indonesia campus. He started from opening a clinic and until many years finally able to set up his own hospital, actually his funds were also helped by his parents and some investors. And we are here as a family that is said to belong to the rich, in fact we just continue their efforts. 

Miraculously Papa even chose a different path, finally he set up a small company to that size by taking a long time. It was also helped by his parents. My extended family is mostly involved in the world of health. Including Mama, but finally Mama chose the path to stop being a doctor after taking PPDS in the second year (specialist education program), Mama decided to go back to college to take business. 

"Alisha?" call a woman from the front who is far away from me. The woman ran towards me wearing a long white seneli. His name is Amara Shafia Adnan. He is currently taking PPDS Eye. We didn't see each other often, but we were pretty close. She's the same age as Hanzal's sister, about 7. He's my cousin from Bengkulu. 

"Hi Brother," 

"Pangling is wearing a hijab,"

"Silver wasn't the first to say that." I said make him chuckle.

"What's up, brother?" 

"Alesha and Barra don't like each other? If you like each other, why is Kevin still close to Alesha?" ask Amara suddenly. The smell stings the love triangle. Is it possible that Amara likes Barra? But Barra doesn't like back.

"Don't you like Barra?" my question is to make him flutter. 

"No, who likes Barra. I just asked Alisha." Answer reasons. But the reason is not convincing enough.

"If I don't know about it. If you want to know, ask them." My answer. My answer does not give a satisfactory answer to Kak Amara. But yes how else, I am not too interested in the romance story between Barra and Alesha. Life is too complicated, meddling in the affairs of others will only add to the heavy complexity. Just imagine, Amara loves Barra, while Barra loves Alesha, and Alesha loves her lover Kevin instead. 

Suddenly the ringing of the mobile phone rang quite loudly. But not my cell phone. Looks like the ringing vibration came from Kak Amara's snellinya. Then Amara immediately reached into sneli's pocket. He took a flat object that many young people dream of today, the iPhone 14 Pro Max. 

"Al, there's an emergency call. I'm going first huh?" He said, I nodded my head and said yes. After saying that the woman with the maroon color pashmina was running fast towards the IGD. 

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I decided to sit in the park near the boy. This hospital is designed to be green. Many shady green trees and flowers are scattered throughout the outdoor hospital. But it is different if at night, this park is not as beautiful as morning until afternoon. If it was nightfall, moreover, there were many who had entered their respective rooms, only the doctors and other medical personnel passing by, the atmosphere turned into horror. I'm not a coward of ignorant ghosts. So I feel used to that kind of atmosphere in the hospital, even though I'm not a doctor. 

"Hi brother, can I sit here?" ask a little boy about 5 years old. I look at it very carefully from head to toe. I smiled knot.

"You're human, right?" I was wary, unintentionally making a man behind me chuckle. I looked back. Since when is Barra standing behind me? Then he sat next to me.

"Did you laugh?" my many.

"Is there a ban if I can't laugh in front of you?" his tanya made me sigh violently.

"He's not a ghost. His name is Irish, he's one of those patients with kidney failure. He's been in treatment for about two weeks. But his son is strong and very cheerful." 

"When most sick people need their closest comfort, it's Irish who comforts their families and even the doctors who handle it." Obviously Barra without me asking. I nodded in understanding. Who would have guessed, girls who are still very young can experience kidney failure? It was all because of his will. We won't know what will happen to ourselves. 

"Sha sorry, could you please take a seat?" he said, I swiped straight to the right, while Irish sat in the middle of us. 

"Irish, this is Alisha's sister. She's my sister-in-law's candidate. And Alisha, this is the Irish patient I'm dealing with." He said he introduced the boy to me. Irish immediately reached out her hand, then I shook it.

"Malisa,"

"Irishis. Nice to meet you and meet you, brother." Irish said with her sweet smile. 

"It's nice to meet you and meet you too." 

"Doctor Barra, he said yesterday you want me some chocolate?" he said, then Barra took something out of Snelli's pocket. 

"Close your eyes first! Irish count to three. Later if it's already in the number three, Doctor Barra said open your eyes, Irish open your eyes!" said. Somehow I just like their interaction. It seems like Barra does like and is very close to a child. 

"One ... two .. three," 

"Let's open your eyes!" barra said with great enthusiasm. He deliberately placed two chocolate bars in both hands. 

"Thank you Doctor Barra," said the Irish happily. The boy immediately hugged Barra, Barra also returned his embrace. 

"Together," Barra said with a smile and pinched the Irish nose softly. 

"Irish, the chocolate don't eat everything! Make one tomorrow. Your teeth will run out because most eat chocolate." Barra. Irish sitting on Barra's lap. Barra rubbed the Irish sweat that fell from the forehead using a tissue. Why do I look at them like a father with his son? 

"It's normal, Sha. Not good to have a crush on the prospective Kak-ipar himself." He said to wake me up, make my mouth gawk. Just this time I found out if Barra's this senarsis. Very confident of him. Indeed yes, this man does have a million secrets that not everyone knows. 

"Who wants to have a crush on you." I said. 

"If you don't have a crush, don't say it." He said casually. I just sighed so as not to be provoked by her emotions. 

"I think Mama and Papa wrongly choose people to be a son-in-law." I said. 

"Why?"

"Confidence is necessary, knowing yourself is necessary." I said I made Barra just chuckle softly. 

"Sha, may I give you some advice?" 

"What advice?"

"You have complete parents. Don't you want to be close to them?" 

"What do you mean by that?" 

"Many people want to have complete parents. But they don't get what they dream of. Lately Hanzal has told me a lot about you. He's so sorry he never existed as a big brother to you." Evidently.

"What do you know about me?" I intentionally went fishing.

"A lot, a lot of it. But I can't say everything to you." He said he was fiddling with cellphones.

"Hanzal tell you to go back to the room. Do I need to take it?" he said very forcefully. No, Brother Hanzal, Barra is not the same, equally pushy.

"No need, I can do it myself." I said get up from sitting. So, the Irish also left. 

"What did you say just now can be trusted?" he said it made me squint.

"In all my memory, we were never close. Why did you say it was like that?" 

"Because when you came here, you said that Hanzal would return to the hospital room. But instead sit back here. Let me take you." He said without asking for approval.

"Please don't be this possessive. You are neither Hanzal nor my mahram.  Besides, what good is it that you're so positive about this same me? I don't want Alesha to think we're the ones who don't." I warned.

"Yes justin Sha, anyways Alesha who does the no-no? But he's just ordinary." Said again.

"You're not really in love with Alesha? If you love her, you won't let Kevin stay close to Alesha." I said I made Barra shut up. I don't want to argue with Barra anymore. I immediately left Barra to the room by myself. 

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...To be continued ...

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