ENDRO, THE BODYGUARD

THE COVENANT AT PADANG ILALANG

"Ah... Finally, the graduation exam is over as well." Endro murmured while breathing a sigh of relief.

"You're so happy it seems." Said Mentari who had been sitting with Endro in the expanse of the field behind his school. There, like the base where the two of them are. No one knows about that place.

"Yes, he is..." Sahut Endro excited. "Are you not?"

"Stop that..." Mentari put on an indifferent face. He propped his chin on the knee he was holding back from earlier.

Endro furrowed his brows "Why I don't know? Do you want to keep going to school here?" Endro did not understand what was in the girl's mind.

"If it's better for me, why not?" His words further added to the look of confusion on Endro's face.

"Reason?" Ask Endro again increasingly staring fixed face Mentari.

"At least, every day I have a moment of freedom. Not 24 hours in that hell." He said while brushing a smile of bitterness.

"At least you've only waited for a few years, so you can get out of that hell they created for you, Mentari." Endro said calmly.

"I mean...?" Mentari's eyes were reddened, staring intently at Endro full of question marks.

"Wait a minute... This heromu, will soon save you. I'll take you away from them." Endro's pledge convinced Mentari.

"I... It'll never get away from them, End. Even until I die?." Mentari pasrah.

"No... I wouldn't be willing to do that, Mentari. I'll marry you..." The eyes of the Mentari were rounded for a moment.

"Me-married?" Nervous ask.

Endro nodded.

For a moment, Mentari smiled. "Married..." He muttered again as if believing himself with what he had heard from Endro's mouth.

Endro grabbed both hands of Mentari. He forced his way into the recesses of the girl's heart through the look in her eyes. "Yes, Mentari... I'll marry you three, or four years." Sahut later.

"W-What's up, Mentari?" Ask Endro fearfully.

Mentari got up from his seat, he stepped slightly back to Endro's body.

"Three or four more years?" Ask with a body shaking.

Endro. He knew, with time as long as it would only make his Martial die slowly.

Endro got up. His feet stepped on the girl standing in front of him. He's holding Mentari from behind.

"I'm sorry Mentari. But believe... A strong heart, will not be able to make us physically die in suffering. You're definitely up for it. In a moment, our age will reach eighteen. I'm gonna find a crutch for us, before life blows in the relationship we're gonna create.

Right now, we are still seeds that are not yet solid. Maybe the wind is beating us, right?

I promise, I'll be back. Promise me to wait..." Her request.

"Are you sure you can see me again in that time? You know what not? One day, like a year in that house. They're ruthless, End. They are more savage than animals. They're not human..." It just came out of his mouth.

Great sobbing mentari. Endro turned Mentari's body, and buried the girl's face into his chest.

"I don't know what, because you haven't told me. But I know how it hurts, because my eyes have seen your pain.

I want to get you out of there immediately, but what do I have? I'm sure they won't just take you off, Mentari."

Endro slowly removed the Mentari from his arms. He took both cheeks of Mentari. "Now I ask. Will you wait for me, until I can pick you up?"

The tears of Mentari are flowing again. He nodded his head slowly.

"Yes already... Let's go back to class. We'll talk later." Invite Endro while holding the fingers of Mentari. They came out of there, so that no one would see them out of the hiding that Endro had made for them.