Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 28 Part 5 "Panarimaan Hapunten"

POV Karim

The next day had arrived, I who had just arrived at my house after performing the dawn prayer, mevrouw Sofia told me that my father had called her and told her to convey his request to me that I would be willing to accompany him to visit his little brother who was still being treated at the hospital due to her deteriorating condition at ten in the morning.

I immediately went to the bedroom for both of us, took my smartphone and sent a message to him via WhatsApp that I was willing to accompany him. After sending the message, I asked if mevrouw Sofia would like to come with me to visit my father's little brother, she nodded her head.

After we did our morning routine and got ourselves ready, we both went to my parents's house by car at nine in the morning to pick up my parents then we went to the hospital and got there at nine forty five in the morning. After my parents and mevrouw Sofia got out of the car in front of the hospital entrance, I looked for a place to park the car I was driving and parked it in the available parking space on the basement floor .

After parking the car, I turned off the car engine, got out of the car, locked the door and immediately went to the part of the building that was dedicated to be used as the inpatient room for internal disease which was the place where my uncle was being treated. After I arrived at that entrance of the building and reuniting with my parents and mevrouw Sofia, we walked into that part of the building and asked the nurse who was guarding the nurse station about the number of the inpatient room where my uncle was being treated. After the nurse gave the answer, my father said thank you then immediately walked into the room followed by me, my mother and mevrouw Sofia.

When we arrived at the door of the room, my father took a deep breath and exhaled, then clenched his right hand and brought his right knuckles close to the surface of the door, but when the knuckles of his right hand almost touched the surface of the door of the room, he suddenly stopped the movement of his right hand and froze for a while, then he lowered his head, closed his eyes and lowered his hand then, he turned his face slightly to me and asked my help to knock on the door and open it.

"I can't do this alone, I need your help. Would you like to help me knock on this door and open this door if after several knocks the door doesn't open?"

"Yes, Father." I told him accepting his request for help then knocking on the door of the room a few times, giving the first knock on the door.

The first knock on the door didn't make the door in front of me open so I gave a second and third knock but, the result was still the same so, I lowered the doorknob of the inpatient room door then pulled it and when the door opened, I saw a middle aged man with a brown skin color, and a head covered by a black peci standing in front of me.

I don't know who the man was but, he looked enthusiastic to see my father's arrival then shook my father's hand by giving a bowing gesture then shook my hand in the same way, showing his respect for me and my father then, after shaking my father hands and mine, he also gave his greeting gesture of respect to my wife and my mother then invited us all to enter the room.

In the room we saw another man wearing the same clothes as the man who greeted us earlier who was sitting on the sofa at the end of the room, while on the other side of the room there was a man lying weakly on the patient bed and on the side of the bed there was a middle-aged, olive color skinned woman with a graceful face sitting on a chair.

My father gave his gaze to the people in this room, then slowly stepped closer to the bed where his little brother was lying. When that happened, the middle-aged man who was sitting on the sofa immediately stood up from the sofa while watching my father's movements with great vigilance while, the middle-aged woman looked at my father with a gaze filled with fear and anxiety and my father's litlle brother who was lying down with limp showed a surprised look on his face with his wide eyes as if he was asking mercy from my father. He gave his groan to my father because, he seemed unable to string words together with his mouth.