DORM WITHOUT CONTAINER

CHAPTER 78: THE WRITINGS OF INSPIRATION

In the days of Inspiration and Mother took turns to keep Dad in the hospital and occasionally Rosa also accompanied waiting for her Father Ilham. Even Ilham to skip training to take care of Dad. But, what was captured by the friends of Ilham was different. Seeing the now strange Inspiration, they become very sure that Inspiration is not the plain Inspiration as it once was. Inspiration is no longer the inspiration they are proud of. The captain? Skip practice? Not a good example.

With Ilham busy with his family, Jhon, Nugroho, Toni and Made obviously hang out more often with Dilan and others, thus making them accustomed to playing without Inspiration. Little by little their mindset about Inspiration became changed. If they used to prefer to play with him, now maybe playing without Inspiration is okay. Neither does Inspiration feel like they have lost them. On the matter, if he is sensitive to the feelings of his friends, Ilham should know that the four of them actually miss the old Inspiration. The inspiration that is always there for them.

"Today he's not training anymore?" ask Jhon while dribbling on the spot.

Nugroho shook weakly. The four of them breathed in despair.

"In that sense, the tournament is getting closer" Made said.

"Did he not think the tournament was important?" ask Toni.

No one asked Toni's question. They entered into a quiet atmosphere, until suddenly Dilan called out to them from a distance. "Hey! What are you guys doing there? Let's practice!" Shouted Dilan.

No one intended to answer Dilan's invitation. Nugroho, Toni and Made looked lethargic, uninspired for training today. However, Jhon also did not know how to get him excited.

"Come guys, we'll just practice" said Jhon lirih. He walked closer to Dilan while dribbling. His friends followed from behind in silence. It would add to the problem if they also skipped training. Mr. Ridwan must be angry if he saw them also absent.

***

Rosa leaned her head into the classroom then looked around her. I thought she was asleep at her class table. Rosa smiled at her sister who was sitting while leaning her head on the desk during the empty hour in the last seconds of school hours.

Rosa walks into the classroom and approaches her lover. He sighed, then shook his head to see how soundly Ilham slept there. Surely he was exhausted because he was busy looking after Dad until he was sent home this afternoon. He was supposed to be practicing basketball at school. But, he prefers to skip out to devote to his parents.

Rosa's smile faded when she saw a piece of paper near the head of Inspiration. Out of curiosity, he took the paper and read it slowly. It seemed like it was an outpouring of his heart. It was written there neatly what he was thinking, what he was feeling. Ah, it turned out that this was what made him exhausted.

"Ng.." Suddenly Ilham moved. "Rose?"

Rosa was shocked at a glance. He immediately put the paper back on the table and held the back head of Inspiration. "Sorry Ham, I'm interrupting your sleep huh?"

Ilham. He rubbed his eyes for a moment and looked at his lover. "Then, why is Elo here?"

"So I accidentally saw that Elo had not come home and even fell asleep at the table" said Rosa made Ilham silent. Rosa breathed her breath. "Ham, if you're sad, you need a friend, you should tell me. Why do you keep your own problems?"

Inspiration is silent.

Rosa patted Ilham's shoulder. "Gue doesn't want to force you to tell a story, Ham. But, you know, I'm elo's lover. At least I'll know whatever you're feeling. Including elo's grief."

Inspiration just smiles hearing it.

Rosa breathed her breath. "OKAY. Since I don't want to disturb you for too long, you better go home and continue to sleep at home. Elo has to rest more so he can join basketball practice again. I think you should talk to Jhon and the other elo friends."

Ilham lowered his head hearing his friends called. He nodded slowly. "Maybe by now they've misunderstood me Cha!" Ilham.

"Elo must not have told them about elo's busyness all this time, right?" Reply Rosa.

Inspiration raised his head. Rosa knew without Inspiration to answer.

Rosa smile. He took himself to ruffle the hair of his lover who was actually already irregular while laughing. "Here you go, take it easy, I'll help you talk to John. Okay?"

***

Jhon sipped his coffee for a moment after his order came. In the cafe near the deserted Health Nursing School dormitory, she sat alone with Rosa to talk about something as she requested this morning. Actually, Jhon wants to go home quickly so he can study for the Gerontik exam tomorrow, but Rosa really forced him not to go home first until he finished talking. I don't know what he's talking about.

"Jhon" said Rosa finally after a long time. "Gue wants you to tell me the whole story. I brought you here because I want no trouble between our friendships." Rosa Say.

"That's the matter?" jhon asked while frowning in wonder. "Are we really having a problem? We're okay, aren't we? We hang out together often." Jhon was clearly astonished.

Rosa breathed her breath. "Jhon. It's not about us. But about elo. Do not think all this time I did not pay attention to Elo and others did not play with Ilham. Now tell me, what's the matter with you guys?" Ask Rosa.

"Didn't I say that..." Jhon stopped saying as he was cut off by Rosa's words again.

"No. I don't want to hear Elo say that Inspiration lately has a lot of business. Okay, he's busy, but I know something's going on, right?" asked Rosa with a probing face. 

John snorted at Rosa's words. "Cha, for information only, elo's own lover who keeps us away from her. If only he hadn't been so indifferent to all of us, we wouldn't be like this either. Just ask that elo lover, what he's done to us." Jhon.

"What did he really do?" Ask Rosa.

"Huh," snorted Jhon while smiling obliquely. "Dare you blame me without knowing what happened? Cha, the elo lover is now playing alone on the field. Then, he's always in a hurry to go home without saying goodbye to us." Jhon.

"What's? Just because of that you think Inspiration has changed?" ask Rosa not to believe it.

"If you must know, Rosa Pratiwi. He didn't even have any fun when we were all selected for the tournament. He just smiled and just left us" said Jhon. "Again, what kind of captain misses training when going to the tournament. We would have been happier if Dilan had replaced Ilham. He's more responsible." Jhon.

"Oh, so is that it? Why then do you pride yourself on Inspiration? Basic hypocrite. Back when Ilham had just entered school, you were even so adoring to him. Now you throw it away like old stuff!" rosa said furiously. He stood up and glared at his friend. It was fortunate that the cafe was quiet, so its voice did not attract the attention of the crowd.

"Purely? A hypocritical inspiration! He who has reneged on our promise of friendship and just left! If he still thinks we're his best friend, at least he'll try to pull us back!" John stood up and was angry.

"Oh yeah? If Ilham does not consider elo and the others his friends, he will not bother to think about how he explained everything to you!" the word Rosa makes Jhon silent. Rosa set her breath for a moment before she continued. His voice swallowed. "He's suffered enough, Jhon."

John sighed, then threw away his face. Her lips were tightly closed. No longer know what to answer. 

"If you have to know, lately Ilham's father entered the hospital. Inspiration only wants to make amends for his mistakes all this time to Dad. Hence, he temporarily vacuumed from the exercise. Friday tomorrow he will also start training again with you. But, he was also confused to see you guys who were so far away from him. She often locked herself in a room, Jhob, because of this problem" Rosa said. 

"But..," said Jhon doubtfully. "Why didn't he ever tell you?" Further.

"Elo does not know how the character of Inspiration about venting, Jhon. He doesn't want to worry you. If only I hadn't caught him sleeping on the desk in class yesterday, I wouldn't have known either" Rosa said. He took out a piece of paper from his bag. 

"See this...!!!" Rosa showed it to Jhon.

"What's this?" ask Jhon while receiving the paper. 

"That's the writing of Ilham. I don't think she can bear to keep it to herself, so yesterday she fell asleep at the study table" Rosa said, letting Jhon read it at a glance. He patted Jhon's shoulder slowly so that he looked back at him. "Gue hope you talk to him, okay?"

Jhon silent. He just nodded slowly.

Rosa smile. He patted John on the shoulder again before Rosa finally resigned to return to the dormitory and left Jhon who was still silent there. Jhon's intention to quickly go home and rest in the dorm room son finally delayed again because he just sat back and held his head. Dizziness. He did not think he could misperception with Inspiration all this time. In terms of, all this time he convinced his friends to think positively if there is a problem.