The Incident At Age 17
Part 1, Awakened

I started to open my eyes, it felt really hard just to open my eyes, it felt like I hadn't opened my eyes in years.

"Akhh, the doctor he woke up" shouted a woman in her all-white uniform.

I began to circulate my gaze, the white and stench of my inner medicines which I believed I was now in the hospital.

A woman wearing all-white clothes began to come and ask me a sentence that I thought was very stupid.

"Are you able to see me" he said with a nod from me. I wonder why the doctor talks like I'm blind?

"You can say one word" he said, puzzling me, did he think I was mute.

I started talking but my voice didn't sound at all, I started to panic but the doctor rubbed my arm, "calm down, slow down" he said.

"Bo-doh" said my reply with a smile by him.

"When you've just come to your senses from the coma, can't you speak politely" he said with a smile.

I round my eyes surprised to hear his words. When he said, then how's mom doing? my mind is starting to feel unsettled.

"Where's my mom" I asked, she turned her head away which made me think badly.

"How long have I been in a coma" I asked again.

"7 years" he said to my surprise, how could I be in a coma for that long, then what about my mother, is she okay?

"Where's my mom" I asked again.

"He's dead" he said, causing tears to flow from my eyes. No, it's impossible, how could he leave me alone.

And if so, why don't I see her one last time.

.......

  It has been a month, I have started walking even though I can not fast,and during my time in the hospital, I often practiced walking and worked on my muscles, my hands and feet, which were stiff because I had not used them for a long time.

And for a month also a woman who claimed to be my mother's friend, always came to see me. Then what about my father and also my Iranian aunt, did they know that my mother died. They haven't even seen me once as long as I'm conscious of the coma.

I looked at my face that was turning into more mature, how could this I think of me while looking at myself reflected in the mirror.

The accident happened when I was 17, and now I'm waking up from a coma when I was 24. Then how was I when I was 18,19,20,21,22 and 23. I always wondered how I felt on my graduation day at SMK and how it felt when I first entered college. I couldn't even feel those most important moments and now I can't even pursue my dreams.

As I was daydreaming about my truly unlucky fate, someone patted me on the shoulder.

"Do you want to go for a walk" said aunty Vania, a friend of my mother's.

I replied with a nod, and she started wearing my jacket so I wouldn't feel cold because this month is already wintering.

Arriving in front of the hospital garden, the atmosphere is quite crowded, even though today it has entered winter but they only wear thin clothes as if they are accustomed to it.

"Aunty my father and aunty don't look at me" I asked, she started smiling and rubbing my hair with love.

"What aunty Vania is still lacking for you" he said, I know aunty Vania always try to avoid this topic. But why, what was the reason he always avoided it.

"Forget them" I looked directly at the aunt vania, what does it mean, why should I forget them. Without feeling my tears dripping, I don't know how many times I kept crying, since when I became so cry like this I thought while wiping my tears that kept dripping.

Aunty Vania immediately hugged my body and rubbed it slowly, "there is still a aunt, do not ever think that you are alone" she said which made my cry break.

I have never felt this kind of warmth again since my mother died, I don't know what to pay for it.

"This is from your mother" said aunty Vania after feeling I was calm, she then handed me a paper.

"What is this"my question.

" That's the cafe's license, the moment before your mother died she died this for you. He said hopefully you can continue his efforts" he said that made me cry, how could he still think of me while he was on the verge of death.

"After you get out of the hospital you can stay at the aunt's house" said the avenged aunt vania nods from me.

One week passed and I was able to go home, I began to walk behind tente vania, "wah, a big aunt's house well" said I was amazed to see the contents inside the house.

"Aunty where aunt's husband" I asked.

"He's out of town for the next few months"

"Then aunt's son? "

"Em, do you remember the female doctor who treated you"

"Yes still"

"That's the first child of course" he said that made me surprised, how can aunty vania still look young while her son has grown up.

" Marriage aunt at 17 years old "he said as if he knew what I thought.

" Such young aunt" said my aunt Vania, smiling, but her smile looked like someone who had deep wounds.

"Tante was betrothed at that time" said he who still maintained his smile.

"What a happy aunt" I asked.

"Of course"

"Thank God, if so. But why does aunt look sad" I asked.

"Because aunty can't pursue aunty's dream" he said with a smile of care that I can feel.

"You can occupy the child's room temporarily" he said.

"Why? I can sleep in the guest room" said my reply to her.

"No, the second aunt's son is also still out of the country" he said, I just nodded my head. After that aunt vaniapun direct me to the room I will occupy.

"beautiful" I said when looking at the decorations in the room, the room looked so elegant and looked so comfortable to live in.

TB