CHASING ILLUSIONS

TWILIGHT SMILE

“If I am allowed to love, then it is the smile of the gun that I will love faithfully, and if I am allowed to ask, then it is they that I ask to remain together.”

~Anindya

~0~0~

“I'm soon in the thesis session,” chirps a man while plucking fries belonging to Anindya. While the owner only glanced at it briefly, then returned focus to the monitor screen in front of him. The atmosphere of the cafe with this classic interior, does not interfere with its concentration in working on the script.

“Wish cool! Pray I'll catch up soon, yeah!” sahut a blonde girl who sat next to Anindya. The man just smiled and nodded, then went back to plucking Anindya's fries. This time the girl ignored the behavior of the man sitting opposite her. After all, the girl also did not like French fries much.

“Nin! Look dong! Your fries can be spent by Rizky if you don't eat them. Just look, you just ate one, but he's already spent half,” Alleta's shootout that was silent. Unlike usual, the girl simply replied with a nod of her head, as if reluctant to open her voice. His eyes were still fixed on the laptop screen that displayed a pile of scripts. Making all the humans who were sitting at one table number with him frown, confused. Anindya is a cheerful and talkative figure, and the girl's silence indicates that she is not okay.

“What makes you suddenly so quiet like this, Nin?” asked Azura, the blonde-haired girl sitting next to Anindya.

“Yes, Nin. Is your problem with Rifki yesterday still bothering you?” ask Chandra too.  Feeling invaded by her friends, the girl immediately closed her laptop. His eyes stared one by one at his friend who was also seriously looking at him, like someone who was waiting for certainty from him. A jail idea suddenly appeared in his mind. The girl exhaled slowly, “Mmm ..., actually, I ....” The girl cut her words intentionally.

“I ...”

‘Why are you, Nin?” chirp a girl sitting next to Alleta.

“I ..”

“Ciee wait!” he shouted while shaking the wasp. Makes all his friends snort. How not? They had been waiting for an answer for a long time, but the girl was playing tricks on them instead. Really am! If Anindya had not been their best friend, she might not have been breathing again.

“Hahaha! I'm sorry, I'm fine, all right. I was just finishing my script,” Anindya said as she plucked Alleta's cheese banana. Makes the girl blink her eyes, “Heh! Banana kook!” yells.

“Ask one.” Anindya put the cheese banana into her mouth and then sipped a cappucino whose ice had melted.

“Already, you just dated Rizky! Equally a handyman of food people.” Rizky and Anindya who were drinking, spontaneously choked. Fortunately, they did not lose their lives like the news on television. Indeed it seems Anindya must put a filter in the mouth of the original Alleta talk. Actually, Anindya wouldn't have bothered with Alleta's joke just now, if Rizky hadn't been harboring feelings for her. The girl was just afraid of hurting Rizky more than this.

“Other times you speak carefully, Ta! It could be you who likes Rizky later!” the girl sitting next to him was none other than Sheila.

“Tahu tuh, really like Anin's soul mate Rizky. I think you really like Rizky deh,” said Azura added.

Alleta's face is definitely flushed like a boiled crab now. The shots of his friends are true, if he is harboring the taste of a man who bernotabe as his upperclassman during High School. Oh yeah, actually they are the same age, it's just that Rizky and Anin's golden brains that got them to the top level. Rizky was about to hear the thesis and Anindya was already sitting in the 7th semester. Soon enough, the girl will catch up with Rizky getting her bachelor's degree.

“Ya is obviously blushing! His name is also a person who is in love, why not?” anindya said. All of her friends laughed, except for the irked Alleta half-dead with a face flushed with embarrassment. Anindya smiled in between her laughter, she was grateful for the grace of God in the form of friends who loved her very much. If he is allowed to ask, then he will only ask God to keep his relationship with his friends until death comes and separates them.

~0~0~

Looking at the street from the perspective of the coffee shop is the thing that Anindya likes the most. Moreover, this afternoon the weather was so sunny, the girl commented on her smile. He was sure he could enjoy a twilight smile from the coffee shop where he worked this afternoon. Ever since the day she met her friend, the girl felt a little calm. Not cranky like the first day his father hitchhiking live in his house.

The atmosphere of the coffee shop where he worked this time was quite quiet. Makes the girl a little free. Anindya took out a pen and diary from her bag. The girl's eyes were fixed on the slowly setting sun. A face in his mind, is the face of a man who always managed to attract his attention. Who else if not Bagaskara. The man who helped her from the savage thugs, the man who met her in this coffee shop and the man who praised her in the park at that time.

“Hai! It seems right to say that dusk is beautiful, like the writings in your diary.” The heavy sound made the girl wake up from her daydream. His breath seemed to be choking as he realized the figure he had just daydreamed, was now before him.

“A-there can I help you with?” ask the girl a little.

“No, Anindya.”

“What are you doing here for, Bagaskara? It's my work hour.”

“I've been here since you haven't been here. I came here to enjoy a cup of coffee and look for inspiration earlier, and I accidentally noticed you who seemed to be busy watching the twilight,” replied the man.

Anindya nodded her head in understanding. “Grabbing twilight from the perspective of this coffee shop is my hobby,” said the girl.

“You know, Bagaskara? Dusk is God's most beautiful gift to His people. The calm orange, is the opium that forces us to continue to be grateful for the gift of God,” he continued.

Anindya smiled gently, “Senja is a picture of life that happy is not forever there, it will disappear in the dark, like a night that eats up twilight. However, the next day dusk will come back and say hello. You know what that means?” asked Anindya, the man shook his head slowly.

“That means, this life is a turnaround, Bagaskara. Happiness and sorrow is a turnaround, like twilight that comes a moment later replaced with night, then the arrival of morning that illuminates.” The girl smiled. His smile was very sincere, making Bagaskara's blood rustle. For some reason, listening to the girl speak made her happy. In fact, he himself often listened to the words of wisdom, but Anindya's words just now, felt so sincere and in accordance with what he had gone through.

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