Be aground

Gathering

As I approached the end of the semester, I began to get more busy thinking about college. Although not every day I call mom, but every day I still ask how the mother is doing through chat messages. Right said mother, I have to put aside the feelings for a while. Focus on education, so you can finish it on time.

"It's only a few months left if you're excited, you can pass" she said.

Considering only one semester left from my graduation target, I was more eager to finish college. I don't mind all the things that make my spirit slack. There's no time to relax.

"Run, semester vacation to Jakarta, what would you like to join KKN?" arjun asked on his way home from college.

"It looks like I want to join KKN only. Let next semester just take care of thesis cooperation," I said, remembering that all the requirements to apply for KKN have been met.

At my campus, every final-level student who has met the total achievement of the number of semester credit units specified by the academy, they have been able to apply for a Real Work Lecture, a kind of community service. The activities themselves are carried out not only around the campus location, but to the suburbs that are still included in the campus coverage area.

"Gue wants to go too, who knows if he can be with Lo village" said Arjun.

"Aren't you sure you saw me? From morning I'll see you again." I cringed in wonder.

"If you're Lo, do you see me every day?" He asked back.

"Not really, only if later there will be one village with Lo, do not know also," he explained.

"Ah, yes, yes. Something excessive is sometimes not good either. Should I go somewhere different like Lo, huh?" muttered.

"Yes. Just like that. Let Lo can also mingle with others, do not be the same I continue," welcome me to agree.

Come to think of it, Arjun has always been following where I go. If only he had not been sick at the time of the final exam of the first semester, he might have been in the same major as me, considering that his brain abilities were higher than mine.

Arjun's friendship scope is not much. It's just me, Riko and his little gang. I just don't want Arjun to be too dependent on me, not because I'm distracted, just that he has to learn to deal with situations when I'm not with him. He is no longer a boy to be protected. It was time for him to learn to overcome all his fears without anyone's help.

"It's not because I'm bored, is it Run?" Arjun repeated his question.

"Yes, no, I was. If bosen, I've lived since," I argue.

"Ha-ha, yes too."

"Now we're not kids anymore, Jun. In a moment we have entered into a larger realm than our current environment, it is time also Lo mingle with others," said I explained my reason.

"Yes, that's right." Arjun nodded in agreement. "Keep, Lo to Jakarta again when?"

"Friday, finish UAS."

"Gue anter, huh? I'll meet you soon, Lo," he asked in a hopeful voice.

"Yes, yeah." I approve. There's no harm in me getting Arjun to Jakarta.

"Thank you" he said softly.

"I should be the one to thank you, Jun. Already want nawarin nganterin," I said.

"Actually, I'm worried, you will meet the same guy who met Vienna again, anyway," he said slowly.

"Eh? So still thinking?" I was shocked to hear his confession.

I think all this time he has been acting ordinary, because he has forgotten my confession to walk with Brother Beni while in Jakarta. It turned out that he was still thinking about the matter.

"Yes .. not really, anyway. Just thought about it," he said.

"Lo jealous?" tudingku.

"Slightly," she admitted with a flushed face.

"Ha-ha, you're so sweet when you're so jealous, Jun," I pinched her cheeks in a fit of anxiety.

"Aw!" her screams held the cheek I just pinched.

"Just calm down, Juni. Because I go the same way Beni, who thinks even Elo," I said shyly.

"Ah, time?" his god took a quick glance then smiled knotfully.

"Already, ah! My cheeks are hot" I held the cheeks that were starting to get hot.

"That's okay, sweetie," she snickered without looking at me, still with a dikulum smile.

"Since when, the hell Lo become a gini dreadlocks," my gelak amused.

Finally, the journey to the house was filled with conversation between Arjun and me. For the first time in months I was able to laugh, after draining tears that never seemed to dry.

***

The final semester exam ends as well. Half-running, I met Arjun who had been waiting in the front garden of the department building.

"Would you go home or go straight?" ask when I came.

"Lo don't take a change of clothes home?"

"I've been ready from last night."

"Eh? Ready to go too?" Amazed, it turns out this one guy is fast-moving too.

"Already dong! You want to go home first?"

"No, I have also brought all of you in my bag, my change of clothes."

"Yes, we go yuk!"

After stopping by a minimarket, buying snacks and drinks to stock up on the road, we moved to leave Bandung.

Luckily the Pasteur toll gate is not as crowded at the end of the week, so we are not too long stuck in traffic in the Pasteur area which is always a jam subscription.

"Run, do you know we've been together?" Arjun's voice jerked at me who was about to fall asleep.

"Already, anyway. Why the hell?" sahutku returned the consciousness.

"Keep, what comments?"

"Not come to anything, anyway. Why the hell?"

"He-he, afraid of not agreeing with our relationship," she sounded nervous.

"Why do you think like that, indeed all this time I think I'm the type of mother-emak judes what?"

"Yes, no. All this time you know I'm a geeky guy, does he accept that his son is the same geeky guy as me?" There was doubt and a sense of inferiority from his tone.

"Ah well, Juni. Still think about it. If I'm stuck, don't mind appearance."

"Ha-ha yes, yes. You always seem to be good. Every time I go to Lo's house, it is always warmly welcomed" he said.

"As of now he's still like that. Even though the pain is still as vigorous as it used to be." I smiled wryly, remembering the face of the mother who was not as fresh as before, but still looked excited. "Keep, let's say you already know we're made?"

"It has. Yes, yesterday when can I see you?"

"Eh? What's to do?"

"You want nanya, when can I go to bed to be a ghost maybe," he kekeh.

"Just kidding, Lo ah!" my snail hit his arm slowly.

"Aren't you going to want me to apply?" his voice sounded relaxed, but was able to make my heart beat so irregular.

"Eengg .. haven't thought until I'm there, Jun," I said a little embarrassed.

"Gue's thinking, graduating college I want to apply, Lo. It doesn't matter, do we start living from the bottom?" His voice sounded so serious.

"Eh, I haven't thought of it yet, Jun. Just give me some time to think, okay?" I wavered when asked such a question.

Being honest about the problem of continuing the relationship in a more serious direction has still not been thought of by me. The thing that filled my mind at this time was how to quickly graduate and be able to accompany the mother during the treatment period.

"OKs. No problem. The important thing you know, I'm running this relationship not half-and-half. I'm serious about it, Lo."

I just replied with a smile. Arrange the heartbeat that increasingly feels uncertain.

Dear God, do not let my heart stop suddenly hearing what Arjun said. Although he looks relaxed, but I'm sure he's not messing with what he says.

That's how it feels to be proposed. Between joy and fear mixed into one. My biggest fear right now, what if Arjun turns out to be not the right man for me. Is he really the soul mate God has prepared for me? Uh! For now I have to put aside all these fears. I'd rather just go through it without any burden. May the universe bless us.