Andra's Records

Andra...

"I heard Aunt became a famous writer now. Is that true?"

"Who said?" leoni asked as he walked through the back gate.

"Say Nina. Said he was Aunt's editor."

"Haha." Leoni laughed briefly. "Sometimes we have to write down the pain we experience. Because the pain will be treated when we write it down."

"What pain does Aunt mean?"

"Later you'll know for yourself" Leoni said as she entered the public cemetery. I just found out that behind the house is a funeral. Just behind the gate. From the second floor must have been the line of graves visible. It's spooky.

"Why did Auntie move here? Isn't the old house better? I heard Aunt sold the old house,"

"Actually let it be close to Andra anyway," said Leoni.

"Huh? Meanin?"

Leoni smiles. He looked at Bening's face closely. "We pick flowers first. Andra loved the red rose." as the woman's hand picked up the rose that thrived near the gate. Looks like the flower is picked up every day until most of the blooms have disappeared.

Bening still doesn't understand all this. The red flowers? What exactly is the meaning of all this??

"Aunty..."

"Sttt, we're here." Leoni tells. Bening. They stopped at a beautiful tomb. Bening wasn't sure of his bad premonition.

"What does Aunt mean? Where's andra? Where did it mean??" the girl was getting impatient.

Leoni walked over the tomb surrounded by those flowers. He placed two red roses on the tomb.

"Related... This is Andra." said Leoni while rubbing the new black headstone.

"Auntie don't be kidding, it's not funny!" Rejected to deny.

"It's no joke baby, it's Andra..."

"Engga! Reluctant! Andra is impossible... Andra can't be.." The clear voice began to disappear. He looked at the tombstone. Instantly he read it. Andra Michael, died on the same date as her departure seven years ago.

"No way!" clear emotions change drastically.

"Darling..."

"THE YANK!!! MAYBE ANDRA LEFT ME!" shouts clear. Suddenly his vision blackened. He felt unbalanced again. A second later he fell against the tomb.

***

Today Bening actually met Andra in the world of illusion. The man in white clothes approached him. Andra smiled at him.

"The time everyone lied to me about you," Bening cried at Andra's illusion.

"Be still, you can't deny it now. You know the truth." Andra smiled at him.

"No! I don't accept it! You're still there, proof I see you now!"

"I won't forgive you!"

The handsome guy approached her. "If only I had met you earlier, maybe I wouldn't have had to stand here as a failure. But I'm sure you can get through this."

"Andra, do you know I've been waiting for you for seven years? I always sit by the lake and send you a message. I said I was there, hoping you suddenly came from behind. But..."

"I know, Bening. That's why I apologize profusely. From now on, you can move on with your life. Now you can find someone else to replace me."

"No!"

"Sorry Bening, but it's time. I think I should go." Andra smiled once more then vaguely started to disappear. Sayup-sayup heard the voice of someone calling the name Bening.

Clear opened his eyes. He was in a room and surrounded by four people. It seemed that their faces were emitting worry.

"Sweepy..." Aunt Leoni touched her cheek.

Bening. He was in the realm of reality that he wanted to deny. He never expected his seven-year wait to end this tragic. Everyone can hide it perfectly. And strangely everyone was trying to convince him that Andra was still there. He was going to Canada to pursue his dream. He's already an astronaut. It turns out that every talk about Andra is just a lie.

The fact is that that guy has long disappeared from this earth.

I don't want to wake up. He wants to sleep forever. Or he just wants to live in an illusionary world. He wants to be with Andra all the time.

But circumstances forced him to rise. The four humans who were waiting for him to speak. They seem to be ready to blame.

"I want to go home" said Bening with eyes that returned wet.

"Don't be forced, baby.you rest first."

He looked at Leoni. He finally knew the reason why this woman had changed so drastically. It must be the reason that Andra's photos are displayed all over the room to remind them of Andra. There were millions of questions he wanted to ask, but at this moment his mouth felt stiff.

He tried to calm his mind. Now he can control himself. Admitting reality is difficult, but he has to accept it. As a doctor who understood about the brain he tried to erase some memories that hurt him. Then it's back to being okay.

Maybe this is the reason why Andra hid all this for seven years. Maybe the man knows that in the current condition Bening can already learn to accept. No longer crying non-stop and then contemplating suicide. Well, maybe he'll do that if he knows all this from the start.

He looked at Reno. That man was the one who lied to her the most. He who tells all the jokes until Bening is sure that Andra did study hard to achieve his ambitions. And stupidly, Bening believed all along.

He knows, Reno did all that for sure at Andra's request. But he didn't expect it to go this far. Even the man followed the madness of Bening by celebrating Andra's birthday during this time. He covered everything up tightly.

"Open, Auntie knows you're disappointed, but we all have our own reasons for doing this." Leoni tries to calm Bening down which gives Reno a strange look in the eye.

"Alright, I'll listen" Bening said as he endured the piercing pain.

"Andra loves you very much. He doesn't want you to think about him. He doesn't want you to worry. That's why he asked us to let you feel like he's alive. Don't know why, even at the end of his life he can still leave a sweet greeting for you."

"Andra once said he wanted to live longer to be with you." Leoni stopped because she could not hold back her tears. The memory of that day is again clearly illustrated. It was the worst day he'd ever had in his entire life.

"Say what Auntie?"

"She said she'd give him a better replacement for you."