Ellena Season 2 (Fate of Love)

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El turned to Raina's ring finger which pointed towards the entrance. Deg. El's heart stopped like it wasn't beating. He can't believe he's here. You, you are the reason I stayed away from the hustle and bustle of Jakarta and now I'm stranded here with my obsession with reaching sky-high ideals. And because of you, I can stand here and forget you with enough deep feelings until I realize that you're not for me.

(Backsound "Not Ready to Lose", by Stevan Pasaribu).

A man walked up to El, who was standing between Sella and Raina. He smiled sweetly without realizing their eyes were staring at each other. She is the girl I idolized until now. She, she was now growing tall and beautiful with a pure white skin. He was standing straight in front of me looking at me. I miss you El, really. If I could hold you tight, I'd hug. But, now that feeling is just the debris of memories that will always imprint in my heart. And I'm just a friend who hasn't seen you in a long time. And I want to greet you. "Hi!", greeted Dony with his trademark smile.

"Hi Don!", replied El who was still staring at Dony with mixed feelings.

"Cie..who's missing!", Sella's tease nudges El's shoulder.

"Ih..what the hell is a Cell!", whisper El shy. El's cheeks were pink, her heart was not feeling well.

"Please, you guys solve your problems all right?. Teteh and Sella will be waiting for you downstairs. Okay!", message Raina who immediately took her bag in the seat.

"I'm saying goodbye first, huh?. Oh yes El, later if Dony messes with you, you just scream!. I'm downstairs!", said Sella who ran straight towards Raina who had walked first.

"How's El doing?" asked Dony.

"Alhamdulillah, my good news. How are you, after a long time we have not seen each other?", asked El back.

"Just like you. We stand like this?", asked Dony standing in his place.

"Hm... Oh yes, please sit down!. Sorry yes, until we forget that we stand!", said El clumsily faced this problem. He sat down in front of Dony.

El looking for busy looking here and there.

"We're like strangers now!. Want to talk still feels awkward" said Dony opened his voice first.

El was embarrassed. Right too, we don't know where to start. "What if we are like a friend who has not met for a long time during our school holidays?", El's idea is not to feel awkward.

"Yes. Maybe that helps a little bit" answered Dony. "Oh yes El, I arrived here, I want to apologize for my past. I fell down, fell too deep, and I ended up blaming it on us. To the point that we're in a Friend Zone situation. I know this might be a good time to talk things out. So that I can get the blessing of a friend like you!", said Dony sincerely. "When I was in Bandung, I met a very beautiful woman. He's as good as you. He's as chatty as you. Even at my every step, I always remember you in my life. But after this past year, I opened my heart a little to the woman who greeted me every day on campus. I didn't dare approach him, because I was afraid that I would fall again like I used to!", said Dony.

There were no tears El dripped on her sweet cheeks.

"That feeling traumatized me El. What's more after I heard you were engaged to Brother Edwan whose status is his brother from our best friend. I ruined El, destroyed that I can't pass on to anyone. If time could I turn, I would accept you as my future fiancee. But, it was a waste because you had already gone far away from home".

El sobbed at the confession from Dony. His heart was broken just like Dony's. "I'm sorry Don, I didn't mean to hurt you!", said El apologizing while crying.

"But there is a woman who is always there for me when I am down. She is the woman who will be my companion El!", continued Dony.

El cried so much. If he wasn't this selfish, there probably wouldn't be that many people injured by it. "I will thank your future companion, Don, for healing your wounded heart!. And I will apologize for breaking your heart until you leave my life!", El's teary-eyed love.

"You can say it directly to him. He's here!", said Dony.

"What, are you serious?".

Dony nodded his head in a yes sign. "And he wants to meet you face to face" continued Dony.

El looked up his face. He sees a beautiful woman with a long robe and a neat hijab walking towards the table that El and Dony occupy. El saw immediately amazed by the elegance of this bride-to-be.

"Assalamualaikum Ma'am El!", who was the beautiful woman who extended her hand.

"Walaikumsalam" replied El who did not blink at all.

"He's Yasmine. She was my future companion, El!", explained Dony.

"Greetings to Ellena. I'm Yasmine. I am happy to meet Brother El in person!", said Yasmine meekly.

El shook Yasmine's hand. "What's more, I'm very happy to be able to meet you directly, Brother Yasmine", great-granddaughter El pleased.

"Call me Yasmine, brother. I'm still in semester 1", said Yasmine.

"So I'm older huh!", teased El with a smile.

"But Big Brother is so much prettier than the one in Kak Dony's album photo!", Yasmine replies.

"Photo album. He mean?", wondered El confusedly turning his attention to Dony.

Yasmine chuckles because it turns out El had not known that her future husband Dony always photographed her beautiful face.

"Seriously, I don't understand!", said El asking for a definite answer.

Dony smiled shyly.

"What the hell is Don?", asked El who was made curious by the two of them.

"Yes, let my future wife say the same to you!", replied Dony smiling shyly.

"Hm... Cie... Cie... Wife-to-be!", tempt El laughed. He felt his heart was better now.

"Yes, put my future wife first huh?. I want to catch up with Sella and Teteh!", pamit Dony.

"OK!", answered El. "I'll take care of your future wife, and keep her heart so that no jerk teases her!", continued El.

Dony then walked away from them both. El just saw Dony's back disappear.

El holds Yasmine's fingers. "Hey, why are you talking like that!. I should have apologized to you. Because I once broke Dony's heart!", said El sincerely.

"But Yasmine doesn't taste good to you, big brother. Brother Dony loves Brother so much!".

"That was Yasmine before you and Dony met. And now I let Dony choose you. You trust me, I don't have any feelings for him. And on the contrary, he already has no feelings for me!", El explained.

"Yasmine believes the same big brother. And this meeting, Yasmine asked for. So that the problems of Kak Dony and Kak El are resolved carefully!", replied Yasmine.

"Thank Yasmine. Thank you for being an intermediary between me and Dony. I am so grateful that Dony chose you, a very nice, beautiful woman and accepted Dony as he was!", said El sincerely.

"It should be Yasmine who is grateful, Brother El has let Brother Dony choose Yasmine!".

"Dony is so lucky to have chosen you, Yasmine. You are a very beautiful woman!".

"Thank you for your compliment. Oh yes.", Yasmine cut off and took two books from her bag. "Sister deserves this!", said Yasmine proffering two books of articles on the table.

El receives it and takes a notebook that is not foreign to him. It was like thinking of something like a spinning cassette.

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Flashback.

"When is it Dony?", asked Raina Tea suddenly looked at El who was sitting opposite her.

"Teteh know!. Sepi Teh there is no him!", replied El.

"When do you leave for Deck?", asked Raina Tea.

"Tea Lusa. El can ask for something not Tea?", asked El hesitantly.

"Something?".

"Yes, something!", replied El again.

"Can. What're?".

"Before El goes, can't I have Tea, El goes into Dony's room?. But Teteh don't tell Dony?", said El quickly before there was a misunderstanding.

Raina Tea laughed out loud at El's overly funny request. "Chirain Teteh, what do you want. It turned out to be just asking to go to Dony doang's room!", cried Raina Tea.

El nodded his head while smiling. "Yes Tea!. Can you?", asked El back.

"Please darling!. The guy is not here. You're free to do anything in Dony's room!. Going to bed is fine too, please!", said Teh Raina.

"Thank you Tea!", said El happily.

"What is the need for Intermediate Drops?", asked Raina Tea.

"No need for tea!. El himself!", answered El quickly while standing from his seat. Then he walked up the stairs. He misses this house a lot, although it is neighborly, but rarely he plays here. He held the handel door.

Cracks... The door opened, El saw a picture of Dony and himself as a child in Dony's jumbo-sized room. She smiled sweetly. He touched the bed sheet that is still attached to this super size bed. He sat in bed and took a picture of Dony playing basketball. "Gue misses Don as loe!", said El while stroking the cheeks in the picture frame. He put the picture back and opened a drawer. There is a notebook that is so elegant in black and white. El tried to take the notebook but he hesitated, he did not want to be considered too careless open the journal book owned by others. This is if he entered here did not ask for the same permission that has, what else open the book. But, he wondered what was in the contents of the notebook, before he picked up suddenly he listened to the sound of a car stopping in front of his house. He then closed the drawer back and looked out of Dony's window. He saw a sports car stop in front of his house. "Isn't that Sam's car!", El said to himself. He walked out of Dony's room.

Off Flashback.

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"Isn't this Dony's?", guess El thought she remembered something.

"Yes Brother. It belongs to Brother Dony. Because of the notebook, Yasmine wants to meet with Big Brother" Yasmine replied.

"You've read it all?", asked El in fear of hurting Yasmine.

"Sorry, I've read everything. My sister and I have Ta'aruf. And in that condition we have to be open to each other. Brother Dony gave me a notebook and a photo album containing Kak El!", Yasmine explained.

El touched the notebook slowly. His heart felt tight to see Dony's confession through this notebook. He now holds Dony's diary that Dony has been guarding. "Do I deserve to read it Yas?".

"Silver deserves to read it. Brother will know that all this time Brother Dony loves and loves Brother very much. Even if it's the case, but at least you know Kak Dony's confession in the book!", Yasmine's great-grandson.

"Can I ask you something?", asked El seriously.

"Boleh Brother. Please!", replied Yasmine.

"What was your reaction after you read Dony's diary?", asked El in tears.

"First of all my heart hurts. But once I've learned and understood, that's all your mass. And I understand that. Everyone has a past that cannot be separated. Including my brother and sister Dony. I'm lucky you know you guys through all the stories in that notebook. I feel jealous of Brother. Because you have friends who love each other" Yasmine explained.

"If you want, you can be a part of us. Because you're gonna be Dony's wife. And we will be brothers' companions!", said El.

Yasmine hugged El tightly. He was happy because he felt he had a brother. "Thank you Brother. Thank you for teaching me a sense of kinship and brotherhood!", Yasmine said in tears.

El was moved. He can't say anything. He replied with a nod.

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