Chapter 3 Three chapters

Why is this?

Darmi suddenly came and immediately accused him of wanting to harm his own children. Her in-laws thought she was so crazy that she would lose her mind and do such a cruel thing to her two children.

Zayn himself didn't know what had really happened. Earlier, his two children were fine, even both of them had fallen asleep after eating fried chicken sent by a mysterious person.

But wait a minute ....

Zayn began to realize that maybe someone deliberately wanted to harm his family by sending the food.

"Zayn, what happened to Daren and Desy? What did you do to them both?" Linda tearfully hugged Daren while Darmi hugged Desy.

"Lin, I don't know anything. I don't know why the kids are like this, they ate fried chicken earlier, and ...."

"That's enough!" Darmi yelled, "this is not the time to explain anything. It's better now that we take Daren and Desy to the hospital," Darmi said ending the argument between her son and daughter-in-law.

The middle-aged woman looked at a confused Zayn, "Hurry up and find a rental car Zayn," Darmi ordered.

"Yes ma'am."

In a frantic state, Zayn left the house to look for a car he could rent. There was no way he was taking his two children on his rickety motorcycle.

30 minutes later, Zayn returned home after finding a car. Although he had to owe the car owner first, but at least Zayn was grateful that his neighbor trusted him.

Without waiting any longer, Zayn brought his two children who already looked very weak. From Daren and Desy's mouths, foam even came out, which made Zayn even more grateful.

"Just watch out if anything happens to my two grandchildren Zayn! I'll make sure you end up in jail!"

Darmi warned, on the way to the hospital the middle-aged woman continued to curse and blame Zayn.

Zayn admitted that he was wrong, he should have forbidden his two children earlier. Instead, he let Daren and Desy eat the poisoned food.

Arriving at the hospital, Zayn's two children immediately received intensive treatment from medical staff.

"Zayn how is this? I'm afraid something will happen to Daren and Desy?" Linda said sadly, afraid that her two children would not survive.

"You calm down. Let's pray together, that Daren and Desy will be okay." Zayn put his arm around his wife, soothing a saddened Linda.

"That's why, you be careful Zayn! You are a useless father, because you are poor, my two grandchildren are starving and eating food that is not clear like that," Darmi was angry, indeed the middle-aged woman's mouth had not stopped nagging since before.

"I'm sorry ma'am," Zayn said admitting his weakness, "but I also don't want this to happen to my children," he said regretting everything that had happened.

"Anyway, I don't want to know Zayn, my two grandchildren must survive. Whatever you have to do to save Desy and Daren's lives."

"Yes ma'am, I know."

Without Darmi even asking, Zayn would do anything for his two children. Even if it meant sacrificing his own life, he was willing as long as Desy and Daren were okay.

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"What did the doctor? How are Daren and Desy, are our children okay?" asked Linda, after Zayn left the doctor's office.

Zayn sighed heavily, indicating that all was not well.

"Desy and Daren must be treated in this hospital first. Their condition is still very weak, the doctor suggested that they stay overnight for the next few days," Zayn explained.

"How long do they have to be treated for, Zayn?"

"I don't know Lin, the doctor can't say for sure."

"And the cost?"

That's what's giving Zayn a headache, the hospital fees and medicines for his two kids. Right now, Zayn didn't even have a penny. I don't know where he would go to get a loan.

"Zayn why are you silent?" Linda was annoyed, asked instead of answering the man was daydreaming.

"I'll try to find a loan first. Maybe I'll make a certificate of incapacity."

Darmi swore harshly, what an unreliable daughter-in-law. She really wanted Linda to leave a man like Zayn immediately.

"Why do you have to use a certificate of incapacity? As Daren and Desy's father, you should be able to provide the best service for your two children! Don't just be able to make a child, but raise him unable to," Darmi quipped at Zayn.

"I will endeavor to provide the best for Daren and Desy." Zayn didn't want to respond further to his in-laws' scathing mouth.

The disheveled-looking man stared intently at his wife. "I'm going home for a while, please take care of Daren and Desy. I also have to return the car we borrowed earlier."

"Yes, you be careful on the road."

Zayn nodded slowly, soon he left his wife and in-laws. With a million burdens lodged in his brain, Zayn walked in an uncertain direction.

After this, what should he do? Where would he go to earn money? Hospital fees, car rental. It felt like Zayn's head was going to explode.

Trials came thick and fast to his little family. Why did it have to be them, poor people who had nothing? Zayn was struggling just to eat, and now he had to deal with the problems of his two children.

Zayn's steps stopped where he parked the four-wheeled vehicle he had borrowed earlier. He looked around, searching for something he had left there earlier.

"Where's the car?" Zayn asked himself, he hadn't forgotten. He had parked the four-wheeled vehicle where he was now.

In a state of panic, Zayn looked for someone. The parking attendant was the first one he looked for, hoping he was the one who had forgotten where he had parked the four-wheeler.

"Sir," Zayn called out, and approached the parking attendant.

The man, who was older than Zayn, turned around, "What's wrong?"

"Did you see the car parked at the other end?" Zayn pointed to the direction where he had stored his car earlier, "A black Avanza," he explained again.

The man wearing the orange vest remembered the black car as described by Zayn earlier.

"Oh I remember," the man said, making Zayn a little relieved.