7 Days With Althara

Trying to take Rey

“Hay gorgeous” greet Rey as usual she bothers me in front of the cashier table while I am working.

“Hay Rey”

“Why not say hello ‘Hay handsome’”

“Emang you handsome huh?” My ledek, with his hands still busy on top of the keyboard.

“According to others it is, but kaya does not make you”

I laughed with his disappointed reaction.

“Not done yet?” Ask Rey.

“After ya”

“OK I wait outside”

At night in a mall, Rey and I walked to the cinema to watch a movie.

“You what movie?” Ask Rey.

“Film what am I following”

“Okay then we watch Scary Movie” Rey appoint one of the big ads on the cinema wall.

The ad contains a creepy film with many of its ghosts that scare.

“Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't” said I held Rey.

“Do not ever invite me to watch a ghost movie, if not I go home” threatened me.

Rey smiled at me.

“Why?’ Ask her.

I remember Althara again, I used to watch movies like this with her at home or the cinema. But Althara knew, if I had watched a scary movie, at night would make it difficult for me to sleep and even make me become afraid parno in the dark.

“OK, we choose another movie” he said while smiling laughing at me.

Rey's phone rings.

“For a while yes I picked up the phone first”

I nodded my head.

“Hallo tar”

“Gue again in mall”

“Same of me”

“Iya Alhena”

There was no answer from her friend, but from Rey's answer, her friend wanted to know who Rey was with.

“Why?”

“Hah now?”

“Gue can't tar, I want to watch this”

“Tar.”

Rey looks very upset to her friend who is on the phone.

“Rey, why?” I asked Rey who was still putting the phone in her ear.

“Temen I asked for help in preparation for the exhibition which is in the next few days, but it's okay I told you I can't. Yes tar sorry I can't” replied firmly.

“Ngga anything Rey, we go home yes, anyways the film is nothing exciting other than the serem movie and I do not want to watch it” said me

“It's okay to go home?” The question was convincing.

“Iya Rey”

“Oke if that. Tar, I anterin girl I went home first I run into the building to help lo”

I squinted my forehead when he called me ‘cewe I’ then rey hung up his phone.

“Cewe me?” My ledek.

“Yes you're a girl right?” Say it quibble.

“Iya I'm a girl, but the impression is like I have you”

“You are rich enough?”

“Ya ngga lah” tangkis me.

“Yes already, just assume I was wrong to say, should I say the same ‘anterin girl I’ it?”

“Udah, whatever you”

“Kalo is up to me, can dong I consider you my girl” said Rey teasing me.

I stared at him so sharply

“Rey” call me cynically to commemorate her.

“Haha yes okay okay okay, I was just kidding Al”

I'm sorry Rey, I still can't fully accept you. Althara's figure still bothers me. I wouldn't be able to make new connections with other people if my mind was still full of Althara.

I've cleaned my body and changed my clothes to get some rest. I opened my closet and something fell out of the closet.

It's a box. The box contains some of the mementos Althara gave me.

The novel Drhuva, the star beads that Althara bought while on vacation in Jakarta, and there are some polaroid photos that I still keep in the box. I don't know what purpose I'm still keeping all this.

I just still hope, Althara will come back someday and explain everything that has happened to me. And I didn't feel like I'd waited so long that I never thought about my feelings of loneliness.

Maybe it's time for me to forget about Althara, I have to give other men a chance to get into my life. I'll never know if Althara will come back or not at all. Even if he were to return, my heart would already be too sore to recover.

The next morning Riani and I were resting at a junk food restaurant.

“Gue seneng you have been able to move on from the past lo Al, but do not take you just soin Rey impingement doang because you are too forced yourself to lupain Althara”

“Lo why the hell Ri? Is it not you who insist on me trying to open my heart to others? Why do you suspect now that I only benefit Rey?” My annoyance.

“Not so Al, yes I'm just afraid if you even nyakin Rey because you still want to continue the same Althara”

“Yes how should I Ri? Until whenever I can not escape Althara in my life kanya” my pessimism.

“Ge just ask you to try sincerely to open your heart lo al, do not let you feel forced to accept him. Because it's the same way you hurt Rey's heart secretly”

Riani's words were right again. I was still thinking about Althara, and I just wanted to try to open my heart to Rey, I never thought about what it would be like after I accepted Rey, I still think of Althara and still cannot replace Althara in my heart.

“Oh yes Al, yesterday there was a handsome guy I swear ga boong” Riani started again with his hyperbolism makes me lazy to listen to him.

“She's very handsome Al, but strangely she just came to sit down pesen Coffe Latte doang and crabbing is so rich nyari people”

“Ya nyari temen nya kali”

“Ga no Al until he came home was no one nyamperin dia”

“Ya his temen ga so dateng times, lo most ngurusin idup people deh” nagel me.

“Ngga everyone's business al, only the handsome aja hehe” I shake my head to see the behavior of my friend who is always absurd.

My phone's ringing.

Rey.

“Hallo”

“Hay Beautiful” greet her.

“Hay handsome” reply me with a smile. Making Riani laugh amusedly at his hearing.

“Where to?”

“I'm resting with Riani, why?”

“I want to take you to my exhibition tomorrow night you want ya?”

“Tomorrow nights?” I looked at Riani and she seemed to hear what Rey said. Riani nodded her head asking me to obey Rey's invitation.

Without Riani's approval, it seems like I'm going with Rey.

“Oke” answer me.

“Oke if that, see you tomorrow night gorgeous”

“Baik” reply me then I hang up his phone.

“Then where is he?” Ask Riani.

“Ke Exhibition show painting its temen. I really don't want”

“Why ?”

“Althara used to love painting, later I even want again the same she there”

Riani sighed with a face so lazy.

“Please deh al, you have to fight it all. Not all about Althara lo hindarin, Althara likes this you so do not want to eat this, Althara likes to go to this place, so do not want to go to this place. Now Althara likes to paint, do not also lo ga like to see people's paintings. Come on, stop al” said Riani so tired of lecturing me.

“Iya Yes Okay, I tried to make lupain it”

I'm not sure I'll forget it all easily either.