
Waiting, waiting,
with all the emptiness of the heart
Everything looks perfect
Everything looks real
You are still mortal.
Waiting, waiting,
Under the falling leaves
Passing through the wind blew back memories
For the one soul I want to have fully again when I find it again.
I've spent seven hundred nights looking back at the shade of your eyes
Tucked into the warm embrace of your mess.
When my legs are weak under the waiting door.
No trace left no mark.
Looking at the day that almost gave up
Not the losing sun
I who gasps melt and am torn.
The hour hand is already at the number twelve, one phone call or message has not entered the black phone that Alya has been holding with a cold heart.
What the hell is going on over there? can ka Afkar keep me or will just give up because of the services that he could not just leave.
Titt's.
Alya slightly shook, her trembling hands now instead became wet.
" The Assalamualaikum ka"
" Greetings waalaikum, where's the angel?"
" In my room"
" ooh"
" How's brother?"
" Darel has returned, Mr. Wijaya is preparing to go to the mosque and Aprill is in his room"
" How did it go?"
" Hmm, after the prayer with Mr. Wijaya, I will meet you".
" Ka, what's going on? Alya wants to know"
" Later on"
" Afkaarr, answer first"
" It looks like you should go back to Yogya".
Silent.
" Dear, baby,,,"
" It was Alya guessing, ka Afkar would never be able to leave them"
" It is precisely dear who will leave dear parents soon, dear will go home to Yogya and I will go to Jakarta"
" What does that mean?"
" I'll pick up mom, and sweetie wait at home, we'll come to propose to you"
" Afkaaarr"
" Heheheh, it turns out that I'm easier to work on myself than a helpful darling"
" Why?"
" If the baby who solves something too much emotion, the core problem is even fragmented"
Alya smiled even though Afkar could not see how happy the face was now.
" Dear???"
" Yes ka"
" I pray first, I'll pick us up for lunch. Don't go anywhere"
" Yes ka"
" Ashloraikum"
" Waalaikum salam ka"
" Emuahh"
" Heheeh".
Clik.
How easy it is to receive this news, whatever happened earlier I do not want to know anymore, ka Afkar succeeded somehow. Look at their photo six years ago and hug it.
" All of us have changed ka, you who are squeaky and simple appearance are now handsome and caring adult men. Likewise Alya who was still with jeans and tight t-shirts, flip-flops that were said to be ka Kevin bulukan, without hesitation carrying a guitar to the Bowo coffee shop. Now no longer, Alya has changed well because ka Kevin who prepared Alya to be a respectable and dignified woman he said, it was not to accompany him, but to accompany you ka Afkar. But of all those changes, one that is still the same and will remain the same, we who will always fall in love with each other in every meeting. I love you ka".
Set yourself in a daydream that is no longer a daydream, a dream that will soon come true.
Thiiit
Phone call
" The Assalamualaikum ka"
" Greetings waalaikum, I'm already downstairs"
" Yes, Alya's down"
Make a little appearance in front of the mirror, immediately reach for the phone and wallet to put in the clutch bag. A smile of love greeted him from behind the wheel
" It's so beautiful my dear, so happy again"
Alya lowered her little dress that was pulled upwards when she was sitting.
" Yes, Alya's lover called and gave good news"
Afkar rubbed Alya's hair but went straight to the edge
" Oh, don't be convinced, it won't be pretty anymore"
" Let's just, like a cake, messy cake, I'm still in love"
Alya sneered
" A, Alya's hungry"
Afkar turned the wheel
" It also wants to be taught to eat".
Alya turned to her right side
" Ka, how'd it go until big brother succeeds today?"
" So morning Mr. Wijaya asked me to accompany him in his room after we prayed at dawn. He's asking you"
" What did he say?"
" Said how you felt last night, he also apologized if Aprill's treatment and words hurt you. I just answer the truth, dear sad and disappointed, and Aprill's treatment is sorry"
" Have? when does Alya forgive?"
" Bagel yes, I will again make you very good in front of him, dilusinnya no story"
" Yes, peratin, hehhe"
" She said I was wrong"
" Indeed"
" Yama"
" Hehehe, go ahead"
" I should have kept you if I loved you. I said I loved my girlfriend very much, but I couldn't leave her. I can't stay by her side with you"
Afkar turned his car to the right towards Jalan Brigadier General Haji Hasan Basri after stopping for a red traffic light.
" He replied that if the problem was Aprill, he would feel very guilty, Aprill his daughter, while I was already considered a child. Not all of Aprill's wishes have to be my responsibility to fulfill it again, Aprill has grown up, sooner or later we will indeed separate later"
" It's not that Aprill loves ka Afkar"
" Yes, that's what I said, and I'm so ashamed of the answer"
Afkar smiled and glanced at Alya
" Why are you?"
" She replied, sure Aprill loves you? i'm rattled. He said, Aprill needs a figure that can protect him and take care of him, and the figure of an old man, the figure of a brother is on me. Had Aprill been able to find that in someone else at this moment, perhaps he wouldn't have been this hard right now"
" Sister Darell's story?"
Afkar nodded
" Slowly I told him about a man who was kind, caring, responsible and mature, he became interested. A man who loves his daughter patiently and does not impose his will. He asked me where I knew he was a good man, and I said my girlfriend tested him and trusted him. He praised you with a single sentence that made me unable to resist laughing"
" What are you?"
Alya is curious and confused by her lover's behavior now.
" He said he believed in all your choices, proving that you have chosen me the man you deserve to be your life partner, who is loyal, patient, honest, insightful and affectionate"
" Sir Wijaya praises Alya or praises brother?"
" Praise me through your intermediary, hehehe"
Alya pinched Afkar's waist.
" How's Aprill?"
" We were talking when Darel came"
" then?"
" Pak Wijaya asked Darel to be able to keep Aprill during the campus and after, of course with a reasonable limit, but still bang Jali who will take him everywhere"
" April accepted?"
" He was silent, but there was no rejection, and again Darel was his lover"
" Right, it's just brother who's too far into what's not his capacity"
And continue to talk lightly about the future.
An hour from Alya's pick-up and finishing lunch, Alya and Afkar were sitting in the car quietly. After lunch with a menu of roasted chicken and spicy Alya favorite they decided to tell both parents Alya first before Afkar picked up his mother in Jakarta.
" Dear, why am I so nervous?"
" Just relax, ka Afkar already know mama right? ajakin' just kidding me first"
" Where can I joke with him, I've been rejected out loud, baby"
Alya laughed
" The turn in the rich office of the lion is angry, want to call the prospective in-laws hot cold"
Afkar looked at Alya
" Dear, this is different. He never wanted me to be your lover, and now I'm talking about proposing to you"
Alya was getting stronger clasping Afkar's hand.
" When you're ready, Alya wait"
Silence, one minute, two minutes, three minutes.
" Dear, I'm ready"
Afkar let out a long sigh, Alya released his hand
" Well, Alya will be here ka, Alya will help you by the way"
Afkar nodded, though not completely trusting his nosy lover, but at least this was a serious moment, not the time to joke.
Video call
Thiiiite
The face of a beautiful woman wearing a hijab sits on the sofa and holds a handsome little boy.
" Dear assalamualaikum"
" Waalaikum greetings mama, uh there is love aunty, what is the news dear, emuuah emuah"
Alya turned her lips
" Where is Alya?"
" On the street ma, just had lunch"
" We also just ate, we stayed here, yesterday morning left, later afternoon back"
" Same with papah ma?"
" No, papah is busy, same Tasya, your car in the quasi Tasya Al, mama has told you not to be made until your emotions level up 5"
" Kok only 5 mah, go up again dong levelnya, it's Alya car, no permit yet pinjem yummy"
" The rest of the level makes you angry".
" huh? Alya part too, love Tasya aja mah, wrong Alya what?"
" What's wrong? three days without news, mama wants to call fear you are busy with the fierce lion, later you get angry too if your phone rings, she still likes to be angry Alya?"
Alya smiled wryly, iih mama kok discussed that, the lion is beside Alya now, Alya glanced at Afkar who was looking at him with a gaze that Alya does not understand when the atmosphere is less friendly like this.
" Hehehe, sorry ma, Alya is busy, there is important business"
" Negarin mama doesn't matter?"
" Mama why sewot anyway ? again, yeah?? hahaha"
" Alyaaaa"
Alya laughed and glanced again at Afkar who looked very confused and nervous, Alya gave him a code if he was ready to talk to mama, Afkar nodded.
" Who are you with?"
" Eemm mah, someone wants to say hello to my mom"
" Oh yeah, who's Alya?"
Alya moved the position of the camera and now the screen of Alya's phone already has a handsome man's face with a deadly smile.
" Aunty Assalamualaikum, good afternoon"
" Greetings waalaikum"
Mama looks confused, really similar to the photo hanging on the wall of Alya's room anyway.
" I'm sorry, I look like someone"
Afkar furrowed his brows, Alya beside him laughed.
" Such as ma?"
" Like her Alya"
Alya further hardened her laughter and made Afkar pinch Alya's arm slowly
" Dear, wake up"
Alya shook Afkar's hand.
" Call me his name, similar to who tried, hahhaa"
" Like Afkar"
Mama replied slowly afraid her answer would cause trouble.
" Yes, I am an Afkar aunt"
Afkar smiled.
" Is this really Afkar? add contains, no more check yes"
Duuuh, the same child mama kok level of humiliation, Afkar again poked Alya's arms are increasingly happy to have friends to undermine the authority of Afkar.
" Why did you know Alya was in Banjarmasin Afkar? how did you meet Alya?"
Afkar shut up, you know? the auntie who found me
" I live in Banjarmasin aunt, it's been two years"
" Oh, are you missing it in Banjarmasin? thank God you're alive, Alya said you might be dead"
Afkar's breath was choked
They both are expecting me to be dead yes, I am still alive aunt, tahlilan for the dead only. This time Alya did not laugh, my song duuuh angry no huh?? mama, why follow that anyway?.
" Aunty and om how are you? healthy?"
" Thank God we're healthy, how are you?"
" Thank God, I'm also a healthy aunt"
Silent, Alya several times poked Afkar's waist to talk, but Afkar could not start it.
" Oh yes Afkar, you have been in Banjarmasin for two years, maybe you know the mining company where Alya wants to work together"
Afkar nodded
" Help Alya, please tell him that if you have to deal with that fierce boss, maybe you have acquaintances in that office, a little care will strengthen him, moreover,,,, maybe, you have contacts in that office,,, eeemm from you Afkar"
Why is aunt's last sentence so. Heeyy, who does that mean fierce boss? that's my aunt, a future aunt's daughter-in-law, Afkar glanced at Alya who pretended to be busy watching the road even though their car was not going anywhere. What story are you Alya about me? uuhh son-in-law would I look bad like this.
" I'll try aunty"
Mama smiled
" Have not seen each other for a long time, when did you come here Afkar?"
Afkar nodded
I'm going to a auntie's place, to propose to aunty princess, huuups, why just say it in my heart anyway.
(ayo Afkar, your future-in-law's yellow light is already very yellow, yellow oldaaa, quickly replace it to green, lest I replace it to red again. Then I follow again into the dialogue, before this Afkar later if you want to behave).
" Eee, yes I'll go to Yogya later aunty"
" Yes, aunt wait, but wait Alya sorted out first the same business of his co-worker, please help Afkar"
Afkar nodded and smiled.
Alya was sultry to see Afkar who had not also served the core purpose, from just talking nonsense doang.
Alya gives him the code by pointing at his own lips so that Afkar understands it is time to talk. Because only Afkar's face is in front of the screen and Alya is only a figurehead behind the screen, Alya is as content to act like a director who instructs as he pleases so that the player can do it, code it through eyebrows, through the eyes, through the hands, through the lips. I know Alyaaaa, can you shut up? I'm returning the words I lost to the joke of the future-in-law that made my brain lose its speech again.
" Eemm aunty ,,,"
" Yes Afkar"
Why am I nervous anyway, Alya suddenly silent, ka Afkar how to say yes? need no help? oh no. I just shut up, he said I helped him talk and it could ruin his memory.
" Aunty has been busy for a few days?"
" Ordinary activity anyway, work from morning to afternoon, afternoon caring for plants, now more aunty plants, if you wait for Tasya who helps can die aunty plants, especially since Alya left, especially since Alya left, he could suddenly disappear with the white guy. Aunt opened a practice tonight. Why Afkar?"
Afkar sighed, very busy his horror aunt.
" I want to go to Yogya Alya's aunt"
" Alya's business isn't finished yet? is it possible that he failed cooperation, Alya gave up huh? just one week anyway, what would his office say, help him first Afkar, however this job is Alya's happiness, only work that can make him back cheerful again sejaaaakkk,,,,"
Mama shut her mouth, while Alya gawked. Mama confided in someone who was being talked to, mama did not realize yes, huuuhhuu, mama realized...
Afkar is still waiting for the continuation of mama's babble, since what aunt? since I went missing or since Kevin left?.
Afkar glanced at Alya who was still with a high level of astonishment.
Alya turned the position of her phone towards her face again, calm Alya, calm down.
" Daniissh aunty, have eaten yet"
Cute face of Danish immediately laughed broadly at her beautiful aunty
" Udaaaah"
" Danish kangen aunty?"
" Jeen"
" The handsome son of aunty, this run out bobo first yes"
Danish bit one chocolate biscuit and made her lips brown.
" Ma, that's a dirty Danish mouth"
" Yes, mama take a tissue for a second"
Mama stood up and disappeared from the screen. Alya did not waste time.
" A ka, ngomooong"
" I've talked, but why is the same theme the conversation isn't connected"
" Just say, aunt, I'd like to propose to a aunt's daughter"
Mama was back in front of the screen and her face was shocked
" Whataa? want to propose to Alya? Afkar wants to propose to Alya??"
Huuuppp, Alya forgot that even though my mother's face was missing from the screen, their voices were still heard. Alya and Afkar looked at each other and Afkar immediately clasped Alya's hand. It's like this, Siiihh.