Brother Gemes

Lonely woman

Waking up in the morning feels the same way. Lonesome.

There is no warm morning. There is no red hue of happiness when you see your beloved.

For years of living alone, Tera himself was not a loner. Since the accident that took two very precious lives in his life.

A tragic accident took away the figure of a parent from his side. They leave without an implied message to strengthen their children in living alone the next day.

This house, the relics of his parents. Living by relying on the remaining treasures, which were bequeathed due to unplanned departure. God's plan is the best for his servants.

Farewell is painful. Being an only child makes him have no focus when sadness hits.

Little Tera just went to school and went home to her family's watch shop. Can both be called 'home'?

When the actual house is only used for a short break, close your eyes so as not to fixate on the mortal world. Forget for a moment the sadness that gnaws the whole heart. Play in dreamland, wading beauty that sometimes greet. And when the nightmare comes, only the crying is created.

Only the watch shop was financing his life right now. Now managed by someone who is considered a friend by Abah during his life. Share the results for the continuation of their lives.

Abah Anom, live alone. Living in a shophouse after living away the wife who died ten years ago. Without a child, without a shelter called home.

Tera allowed him to stay at the shophouse. Take care of and maintain the watch shop which from the moment his parents died became his.

Abah Anom is always friendly to customers. It is fitting that he be a friend of Tera's parents. Since then, Tera did not need to go back and forth every time she went to school to look after the store.

Hm, doesn't little Tera also need play time like most children? Isn't it not beautiful when the playing time in the forced snatch to achieve a little luck to continue life?

Living in a parent at the age of seven is not an easy thing. Managing a business that should not be his duty. Abah Anom is willing to take his place. For little Tera to feel the beauty of playing with her peers.

At the age of seventeen exactly fell on this day, nothing special was created. It's just a dream for a man who lives alone like Tera.

Jati, her boyfriend of nearly five years, tried to fill the void in her heart without any news today. His heart still feels empty, right?

Initially, Jati was just a close friend who claimed to be Tera's boyfriend to everyone. What an innocent Tera could do with it all. Just admit.

Their relationship continues to this day, on the day of age.

Not only today he is without news, he has often done. It's like Tera's just her backup boyfriend. Just saying 'happy birthday' does not exist. He came when he wanted to. Loneliness will not go away when there is no cure. Hearts want to have solace. Does anyone?

The reverie split, the sound of incoming messages startling Tera. He reflexively opened the message. Expecting from Teak, but it's just empty hope. The message came from a new number.

It contains:

'Happy birthday, Tera. May happiness always be with you.'

That was the only message he received.

Wh who? Who her? Happiness said.

Puh, funny.

Cih, for Tera it is just a myth.

It's a holiday, and he's confused what to do. Teak number is inactive. Once Tera had to buy a birthday cake that she fitted with a lighted candle and she blew it herself.

Tera tries at all times to contact Jati but nil the results. Until the evening there was no news of him.

Wake up lonely and go back to sleep with sadness. How many thousand boxes of tissue should he buy, and the contents will be the same as his heart. Blank.

Lie down with your phone on, displaying a short message from someone unfamiliar to her. Falling asleep to one question, when will this sadness end and change happily?

***

Monday morning, a student's routine is to return to school. Tera came as usual.

It was early, too early for the other students. Distant eyes looked ahead there, a familiar figure. That crazy guy again.

He sat leaning against the front pillar of the stairs towards the Tera class. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he looked up. Smilingly.

Tera had no idea what a genuine smile was like? Like that?

He stood up, Tera was on standby. Always be alert if the man is perverted again as before. One month since the tragedy of the bloody kiss, he is still chasing Tera. Tera's life at school became unsettled, plus two others. Dimas and Ahmad are also infected with the crazy virus. Tera doesn't know whose name it is.

"Hey..morning." said.

"Hm.." answered Tera.

"Duh, very jutek this morning. The sun was shining bright in the morning. It's not cloudy like this, it's not clouds" he said.

"Gue is not the sun. If I'm the sun, I'll shine so hot that you burn." maki Tera.

"Wesss..sadisss..."

Koor two people behind Tera who immediately turned her head and found two cockroach figures were grimacing.

"You're safe, aren't you, boss?" ahmad asked the madman.

He just lifted a thumb. He handed something to Tera that came from his bag. Sweet packaging with light blue ribbon.

"Create it, make it lo. Happy birthday to ya." he said with the biggest smile.

"Gue doesn't need it." replied Tera ketus.

"--lo who chatted me yesterday?"

"Yes" she answered briefly.

"Thank you a few times" said Dimas.

Tera went out from before the three of them without accepting the crazy person's gift. The crazy trio that made him insecure at this school, he should always avoid.

Tumben they're not after Tera. They went somewhere. Usually they'll always pick up Tera. Chasing Tera here and there like a boy. Hm, weird.

Tera suspects that she should remain vigilant. This may include their plans. Tera went down the stairs again with a burning curiosity.

They entered the warehouse, their headquarters. With the door shut tight. Tera's vegetables could still hear their conversation.

"Eh, it's a gift of redundant dong."

That's a voice Tera recognizes. Ahmad's voice, his classmate.

"What's it say?"

Ask another voice. Dimas Sound.

"Something that benefits the pokonya."

Say another voice. The voice of the mad man.

"No, give it up. Si Tera mah untouchable." said Ahmad.

"Ck.no will. I'm sure he's my soul mate." replied the voice. Noa's Voice.

A soul mate?

Tera had heard those words. Someone said that a few years ago. I guess, yeah. Tera doesn't remember much. But he felt like someone had told him that. Even he and Jati never discussed the problem of soul mate.

Seen in the other person's point of view, Tera and Jati are happy couples. Long dates without quarrels until the breakup of a relationship. But from Tera's point of view, they don't know. Jati is not the desired boyfriend.

Joking and laughing with him always Tera did when she met him. That's because teak can make the atmosphere better. Change the mood of Tera quickly. But it remained empty that felt, as if the sound of laughter was just a distant echo. Echoing in the sense of hearing without possessing a poor heart.

Tera sharpens the hearing to eavesdrop again.

"It's getting very lo" said Dimas.

"Boss, laen girls a lot. Time to be an actor?" timpal Ahmad's.

"The relationship could break up. I wait for him to break up if he wants macarin him." said Noa kalem.

Breaking up? Will Tera and Jati break up someday?

Maybe, yeah. When the heart meets the saturation point. When Tera's heart stopped to wait for the true care of a Teak. You can get real care from others, right?

"Buset, if not broken.jomblo mulu lo." joked Dimas.

"Gue singles. No singles." bela Noa.

"Ck, same thing as shit. Lo single, ntar duet continue to make that album. Basi lo, ah." said Dimas again.

"The singles have time to date. Who is dating aja ngaku jomblo. Let what try? Let's have a lot of simple. Bank times ah." reply Noa.

Tera left the warehouse. Leave their conversation that continues. Going to class is more convenient for her. Sit down with an alibi reading a book. No one else will know if he is contemplating his fate.

The doorbell rang, Ahmad ran to the classroom before one minute more math teacher entered the class.

Silent. The atmosphere created in this class. Like the silence that seeped in Tera's heart, which she lived for years and felt.

He had spent hours in this school, now it was time to go home. Yes, home. The place he least wanted to go back. But what power he must always go back there. Only houses and clock shops are always his 'home. A stopover for him.

It rained down hard. Most students return home in their own vehicles. The motor and the car passed, breaking through the torrential rain.

Tera did not dare to go home, he took public transportation. To the stop under the torrential rain, it seemed like he had to rethink. He waited for the rain to stop in front of the main corridor.

"Boss, we go first." shouted someone in the back.

Tera looked over, Ahmad waved his hand and Dimas embraced him. They go to the motor park leaving someone who just smiles while waving his hand.

Him, Noa. The madman named Noa approached Tera. Still with a smile etched on his lips.

'She why the hell? I was surprised that he had a smile in front of me. Though I have clearly shown dislike to him.' Inner Tera.

Noa opened her bag, after standing beside Tera. He took out the banded package again, and stretched it out before Tera.

Pretending not to see, that's what Tera did.

"Here, a gift for you" said Noa.

"---lo open. You're gonna need this now."

Tera looked cynically right at Noa's face.

"Ck, go home. Just die."

"Gue will die if God calls me" Noa said.

His face was flat, still with his hands extending out that banded package.

"Gue doesn't want to accept anything from strangers." - Tera.

"Gue is not a stranger to you. Here, accept this Tera." force Noa subtly.

"No.." ketus Tera again.

Noa replied to Tera with a soft tone.

"I'm a stranger according to you. Starting from this moment I'll be the closest person to you."

He smiled "--gue Noa. I'm no stranger to you, am I?"

"Cih, don't expect you to get me." decih Tera.

"There will always be hope. Even God gave His servant a thing and gave his solution with prayer. One of the easiest and first-time ways that comes to human thought. Prayer."

Noa smiled again and continued.

"--prayer means humming hope. And there is hope, nothing is impossible."

Tera looked at Noa right in her face. There is a smile there, a smooth tone of voice and soft speech that can change the feeling for the better. It was as if his personality was different from his figure in the UKS room at that time.

"Why should I? Why am I the one lo recokin?" ask Tera.

"Hm, I don't intend recokin lo. Why should lo? I don't know. But it feels like I should always be around you." replied Noa.

He handed back the package with the light blue ribbon. Tera looked at Noa's face and the package alternately.

"Accept this. You're gonna need this. Right now." he said gently with full attention.

Tera accepted while still staring at Noa's face. He had not expected this madman to be so considerate.

"Open up." Noa said.

And Tera opened the package. It has a light blue jacket.

I don't know why he likes that color now. Will it be my favorite color?

"Cold weather. You just take it."

Noa grabbed the jacket and put it on Tera.

Noa smiled back. And he went from before Tera under the remaining speck of rain. The rain has subsided. The cold weather he created, now not in the sense of Tera's body.

He reflected on the puddles of the former act of the rain, the reflected face now blushed. It was as if happiness had manifested itself.

This jacket warms the body. She was perfectly wrapped in her body. Wrapped in this jacket, Tera returns home with a warm heart.

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Tbc