Boyfriend Lies

BC 15 | Dara the Lebay

I looked at the notice board with a heavy heart. Watching with his own eyes the name Kak Bagas in the PKL location division table. Our hope that Kak Bagas wanted to be placed near my house or around the school environment seemed to be destroyed just like that.

Bagas was placed in a large hospital. So large, the distance that separates was very wide. It is still one island, one Bandung as well. We were only separated because of different districts. West Bandung Regency, the exact location. Need to spend about an hour to get there either in a state of traffic jam or deserted.

Believing that soon we will be LDR, my step was shaken when I went down the stairs. Weary, tired, lethargic, as if clashing into one. Don't want to accept reality, but what else? Kak Bagas' request to Mr. Abigail was not heeded at all. Instead of being brought closer, the school even deliberately distanced the location of the PKL.

The phone in my shirt pocket vibrated. A notification came in from the person who was about to leave me plastered on the screen.

From : Ayang

Over where? Waiting for class, right.

I looked at the hallway that could take me to the front of class X-A. My heart wanted to approach, but my steps were heavy to be able to sit limp on the last rung of stairs.

Bizarrely. Instead of being present at the last moment, I acted cowardly and wanted to run away. Still can't be willing, still can't imagine days without him. Huh! Look, if every minute is accompanied. The heart becomes static when one of them leaves.

Heads down. The feeling of uncertainty increasingly fills the chest until it feels stifling. Many times one of my hands squeezed a gray skirt along the knee. The phone that was in the grasp of the other hand also shook again. This time it was not an incoming message, but rather a call notification.

Before picking up the phone, I swallowed my mouth first. Do not forget to raise and lower your breath so that later the sound sounds relieved and airy. My thumb then tapped on the screen, preparing to receive a greeting from a loved one on the other end.

"Where?"

Nothing yet, he had already asked my current position.

"Where's my brother?" Deliberately asked because I didn't want him to come here.

"It's in front of the class. Brother chat didn't come in, did it?"

"Y-yes, come in." My head looked up, the feeling of tightness as if back to subdue to make my eyes look glassy.

"Why don't you come straight here?"

"Hm?" I was confused to answer. "I'm .. There's business first."

"What business? Don't we want to get ice cream? So, right?"

Ah, besides going home together, today I also want to avoid playing together.

"Darling?" her reprimands are getting upset because I'm acting unnatural.

"Buy the ice cream sometime, yes, sister. Today there was impromptu group work at Riska's house." Forced to lie because I wanted to avoid it for a day.

"Oh, huh?" He must have doubted that. "Why is the class empty? Riska and the others where?"

"It's there, it's the same adek."

Well, the truth is full of lies.

"The truth is group work, right?"

"Hm." I increasingly refrained from speaking at length for fear that my crying defenses would falter.

"Yes, already. Brother's coming home now. You'll have to pick up later, right?"

"So. No need," reject me who directly press the screen to close the connection.

My head bowed deeply again because I didn't want to miss the chance to cry. Lebay indeed, but this is the first time I parted with Bagas. It feels heavy stepping, meeting, and parting for longer.

Still crying, I braced myself to be able to leave the hiding place. Backpacks and shoes that had been lying on the shelf had been taken and I was wearing. Time home. Alone and take a taxi.

The phone screen is again an easy target for fingers. I hurriedly opened an online taxi booking app because I wanted to get away from school as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the hope of returning home quickly is not that easy to be granted by God. Fifteen minutes I made the booking and it failed because there was no one from the driver.

The frustration returned. The truth is unfair, yes, the world. Nothing is going my way right now. Full of force, I walked out the gate. The solution to return home left one accommodation, namely taking a public transport car.

I was again made to wait, did not stop flirting to the right to make sure because the car majors did not come. My attention seemed to be shifting for a moment. The phone that is still in the grip again shows great shakes. My chest was made tight for the umpteenth time. Brother Bagas called again and again. Inevitably to cover up suspicions, I picked up the phone line.

"Honey," he called in between the noise of the road.

"Why?" I asked who was now focusing on opening my eyes.

"Look left!"

Spontaneously I turned, found a figure who exchanged connections with me was pecking beside his favorite motorcycle. For a second, I realized that the lie covering the sadness had been exposed.

"Dad?"

The call seemed to wake me up for a moment. "Hm?"

"Are you angry with your sister?" Slowly he started to step.

"No," I said, creating a sledgehammer.

"Why lie then?"

My lips vibrate. Unable to answer and admit that I lied for my own good. Bagas did not stop stepping. He further eroded the distance, until now we managed to stand face to face. My hand dropped the phone, hurriedly averted his eyes because he did not want Kak Bagas to find my chaotic face.

"Surely, you've read the notice board, huh?" guess it and I can only nod my head.

"If that's why Adek lied, I'm sorry. Brother has his own reasons for not telling Adek."

I'm nodding. "Yes, I know." I tried to swallow my mouth so that my voice sounded fine. "So I don't want to tell you the location of the PKL for fear of being like this, right?"

"Not." He shook his head strongly. "Silver's not ready to see Adek cry."

"Well!" Hearing him I was getting sad. Unmitigated, the crying that tried to be held broke.

"What is this brother, dong?" I said on the sidelines crying. "We're LDR later. Adek can not often meet, can not often follow Sister there because she does not have a SIM. Adek is also sure, Brother will be busy later. Adek not sure we can be okay, just, if the location is far apart like this."

Instead of answering, Bagas even pulled my body into the deck. On the door of my hair a few times. Let me cry until my heart feels calm and airy.

"No promise" he whispered. "Promise will always tell you. Always go to school and home. Anyway, Adek must believe that brother is different from the usual guys. Brother will take care of heart and be faithful."

My head looked up, feeling interested in giving a response. "Promise, will you be faithful?"

"Promise." He smiled gently. "For my sister, Adek is more than enough."

"Just right, you know?" I'm afraid he's like he already is.

"True, dear," she replied loudly.

After getting the intake of love words just now, my body can be vertical more steadily. Unmitigated, I also feel able to escape from Kak Bagas's embrace.

"Here, yes, don't cry anymore!" his orders while removing the remains of my tears. "Don't lie anymore, you know. Brother doesn't like it. Fortunately, it didn't immediately pull."

I chuckle and feel ashamed. "Yes, sorry."

"Udah now come, yuk!" He grabbed my hand without permission.

"To where? Going home? Buy ice cream?"

"To Cisarua."

My forehead frowned. "Misarua?"

That is, right, the location of Kak Bagas' PKL.

"Hm, help me find a boarding room."

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