My best friend, Maduku
Life and death

"What happened ?." Annisa asked after they were already in the room.

"Patient is bleeding heavily, Nissa. You know how pregnancy at a young age is really dangerous." Answer doctor Elana

"Astaghfirullah.but, El, doesn't Alsya routinely check her pregnancy every month ?."

"Yes. But, that was not a hundred percent guarantee, because right now alone he still had not reached the fifth opening. The factor of his young age slowed his labor process."

"Alsha had been in pain for almost two hours. What to do SC (Sexio cesarea) ?."

"We can wait for him for the next hour, if it can't go through the normal road, then it must be through the fault."

"But, if Alsya was still able to wait for another hour, she had even fainted."

"We'll give him an injection so he can survive."

"Well, do what's best for my brother."

"God willing."

"Then I go out again, assalamualaikum.."

"Getishalight."

Annisa came out of the delivery room. And how surprised he was when he came out turned out to see a bad view of Aly's condition whose face looked bruised. Well, aly had just been dealt a blow by his own father, even now that his father was still looking angry at him.

"Mas, it's been !. Stop !." Strangles Aly's mother and helps Aly to get up from her seat.

"He's too selfish, it's appropriate for a father to punish him!."

"Fakhri, already. Don't scold her, Aly must have had a reason why she wasn't there next to Alsya." Abah tried to calm his anger.

"He's been so outrageous all this time, bang."

"Already, ahh. Distract your emotions ." Advice from Abah again.

Aly who was in the arms of the mother only fell silent while rubbing her own jaw that felt numb due to the hard blow given by her father. Aly is guilty here, he does not deny it and he really deserves the anger of his father.

Aly was indeed very selfish towards Alsya, all this time. He who used to whine at his parents wanted to immediately marry Alsya, he who even seemed to escape his responsibilities as a husband by choosing still wanted to denounce education in pesantren, he is also the one who rarely pays attention to Alsya when Alsya is pregnant with her child, she, she, she is the one who is very guilty of Alsya.

Somehow the reaction of both parents and both parents-in-law later when they find out one more fact about Aly that can be said to be very fatal.

"Om, Alsya is in need of Aly by her side, so let Aly accompany Alsya inside." Annisa started to make a sound. "Aly, come in !."

"How's Alsya doing, ma'am ?." Instead of going straight in, Aly asked that question.

"Alsha is still waiting. Because her opening contractions are slowing down because of her young age factor." Obviously Annisa to Aly, but everyone who heard her was shocked by Alsya's situation now.

"Astaghfirullah's... " Aly scooped up her own face violently. "Then, Aly comes in first, ma'am ?!."

Annisa just nodded.

Aly started to enter the room. Before approaching Alsya's body, Aly was encouraged to wear sterilization clothes according to medical procedures and after completion he immediately approached his wife who was still struggling alone to give birth to the baby.

Alsya's sweat had already soaked her face along with Alsya's moans that felt pain all over her body. Aly approached Alsya's bed, her hand clasping Alsya's hand which felt cold and damp with sweat.

Alsya seemed to ignore anything else around him, apparently the tremendous pain shifted everything.

Aly's mouth trembled chanting dhikr and shalawat in a soft voice, right near Alsya's ear.

After a few minutes of doing so, Alsya looks calmer even though her hands are still tightly grasping the hands of her husband and mother.

"Istighfar, son... Astaghfirullaahal Adziim..." Umma also whispered in his daughter's ear.

Aly's mouth was ceaselessly holding sholawat while hands free from the grip of Alsya's fingers he rubbed on Alsya's stomach gently, as if trying to calm the baby to calm down and not torture the mother.

According to his doctor, the opening of Alsya is also still very far for the delivery process.

"Yes, honey...?."

"Mom..."

"Yes, Al..?."

"Al is not strong... Al surrender..." Alsya said with tears continuing to slide from the corner of her eyes.

Aly was also unable to hold back her tears, she cried in silence, it felt like she wanted to change Alsya's situation with her because she could not see Alsya who was in pain.

"No, honey, don't give up, you can do it. Don't empty your heart, baby..." Aly lirih.

"But my body is very limp, mas..." Say Alsya again with her head weak.

"Al, you want to see your son, right ?. You want to be the first madrassa for your son, don't you, son ?. So, hang on for your son, huh...?." Umma said to support even though her tears had dripped nonstop.

Alsya closed her eyes, and it instantly made people panic. Also make doctors and nurses immediately take action to revive it. Aly and umma pulled over, giving room for medical experts to do their job.

The medical experts took action to revive Alsya, they looked dexterous and trained with the circumstances that Alsya had experienced so that only a few minutes, Alsya had re-awakened, instantly everyone could breathe a sigh of relief.

"Alsha." Call ummanya.

"Dear."

"Astaghfirullah...!." Alsya muttered with a long sigh.

Aly again whispered the beautiful sentences of sholawat along with a gentle swipe of his hand on Alsya's head.

"Buck...!" Pekik Alsya increasingly clasped the hands of two people beside him.

The doctor who heard Alsya's scream immediately approached and examined Alsya's body which turned out that the development of the opening had reached the final stage.

According to the instructions, Alsya struggled with all her might to get her baby out of her womb. Another with Aly who could not see the process chose to look at the face of the wife with a heart and mind filled with the best prayers for her two loved ones.

Moments after going through a really exhausting struggle for Alsya, umma suddenly said hamdalah. Aly reflex looked at the doctor and nurse, who turned out the doctor was carrying the baby looks still red. Aly's tears rolled back, as if he could not believe that the baby had been born to the world. But there was something stuck in his heart.

"He didn't cry, doc ?!." Aly asked worriedly.

The doctor did not answer but immediately took swift action to save the baby who did not cry.

After trying at all costs, the red baby finally cried even though it was not tight. But it made his family very grateful.

The doctor placed the baby on top of Alsya's chest. And how happy Alsya was when she saw the baby was born safely, making it powerless to hold back tears.

"He's my son, mas ?." Alsya asked with her eyes still focused on her baby's face.

Aly did not answer his wife's question, but his kiss on Alsya's forehead many times already represented the answer.

"Congratulations, son. Umma is proud of you. Be a good parent to your child, huh ?." Ummasya.

Alsya looked at her mother's face. "Thank you, umma..."

"Yes, then, umma get out first huh ?."

Alsya. Then the ummanya came out as well as the medical personnel, and a few moments later came again three different nurses than before, to clean the body of Alsya as well as the baby.

Aly was still always accompanying Alsya, until the time came he was asked to announce the Adhan to the child after the baby was cleaned first.

With happy tears, Aly echoed the following adhan with his iqomah in the ears of the baby with a soft voice.

After completion, the baby was placed on the lap of Alsya who was slightly sitting with her back given a pillow refutation to do the process of giving her first breast milk.

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