Fire Sun

Behind you

Repeatedly Adit cleared his throat, unscrewed the messaging app and played the phone. His finger wanted to type the message as usual but the brain forced him to stop and know himself.

Lately, something has been unusual. Someone entered secretly into his secret realm. Some are annoying without being driven away.

Lately, all about Gesna overran his curiosity. The shadow of the girl played with logic and forcibly snatched away the uncaring attitude that Adit had all along.

There are questions that Adit himself is incapable of asking others. Not Miko or Bara. And Adit needs to answer that question.

During this time, the parameters of a girl attractive to Adit is a woman who is feminine and soft and somewhat weak so that she can protect.

Since dealing with Gesna in the parking lot, he is attracted to the courage of the girl. His adrenaline rushes, making him curious. Moreover, fought Bara with the lure of the guitar, of course Adit wants to prove that he is not a loser.

But since Bandung yesterday, Adit felt something had changed in him. He wants to protect Gesna. That girl is not weak. However, shouldn't the protected not be the weak? And this is not a matter of being challenged or a loser, it's deeper than that. Adit felt like a buffalo poking his nose at his own foreign feeling.

Gesna and the book about women she read changed Adit's paradigm, dismissing the myth that beauty should be soft, white and sweet. As it turns out, it is not only physical perfection that makes a person attractive. Brave and confident women are no less beautiful.

The proof in history, beautiful women are many, but women who dare to sacrifice for the homeland of Indonesia are more memorable. Who does not know Cut Nyak Dien, Martha Christina Tiahahu, Nyi Ageng Serang and Admiral Keumalahayati?

"To class, yuk," Bara.

The cafeteria was deserted, the break bell was over five minutes ago. Adit cleared his throat again, moved from his throne, trying hard to get rid of the shadow that haunts lately.

"Why lo? The more quiet I feel." A curiosity was drawn in the face of Bara. The guy's look looked at Adit.

"Sariawan kali," replied Miko. They both chuckled and Adit still looked flat as usual.

Bara blaked Miko's head. They walked in front of Adit. "Eh, you remember Saturday, no? I was astonished. Why are the two kids dressed the same? That's it, the stick is it. I think something's hidden."

"Masa, anyway? I'm behind the drums, kali! Not how much see," said Miko.

"Well, you crazy... Very sweet I think. The world belongs to both, the other to the nebeng. I almost hit the bus on the spot" Bara said. He who became the closest witness to the incident Adit and Gesna that night did hold back the sense of wanting to be ridiculed or want to react more.

Feeling insinuated, Adit commented. "Bacot lo, Bara!"

"Must catch me, Ko. I smell the scent of defeat. Where I just changed tires with wheels again," murmured Bara full of regret.

Miko chuckled small. "Mampucul lo. I said what too? Why bet, anyway?"

Bara grimacing. The three of them walked down the front hallway of the canteen. The cafeteria they occupied was a 12th class cafeteria, only their generation and brave underclassmen only entered there. When going through the toilet, Bara stopped, Miko came to a stop and Adit who was behind them inevitably also stopped.

"That's ... Gesna, right?" Bara pointed to a girl who was going into the women's toilet. The girl's leg kicked the trash can box before entering. "Buset is a child. I don't love it if he's with the Chairman."

Adit was still silent and glanced a little. This day, he tried not to disturb Gesna with his messages. Adit was taking time to think about the strange thing in him.

Miko just smiled a little. He knows Gesna better than Bara. At least he had joined the basketball boys at basecamp, and knew Gesna wasn't that rough. "He's not that actually. Kid's hilarious. You're the one who's never sat with him."

Adit still chooses silence. Even though he knows the truth of Miko's words.

Before long, Gesna was seen coming out of the toilet. Along with that, a guy came over. Adji, the basketball frontman is also their classmate who is notoriously friendly, kind and loved by many girls. Within seconds, Adji wrapped his arms, bringing Gesna's head into the arms.

Bara's eyes widened. "Wooh! Misjudgment of sodara-sodara. It turns out she's close to Adji."

Bara's gaze turned back, glancing at Adit. His Sukunya's head looked at the incident with a gaze that was difficult to decipher.

No one knows if Adit's blood suddenly felt bubbling. His hands clenched unconsciously. Adit watches Gesna hugged Adji with a strong jaw clenched. He insisted on fighting the strange thing that was again attacking him.

As understood, Bara invites Miko to leave. "Kuy, to class, Ko. Sometimes, there are people who need to finish their own business."

Regardless of Bara who went with Miko, Adit's steps moved forward. Out of his will, he uncovers Adji's hand on Gesna's shoulder.

"He's got a shoulder to lean on." Adit pulled Gesna's head into his embrace.

Adji nodded in understanding. "Jagain she is, Dit. He's like my own, '" asked the guy before he left the two of them.

Adit took off his embrace to look at Gesna's face. That ferocious sharpened once, at this moment. Adit hugged again.

"Gandhi?" adit asked quietly while rubbing the head that was on his chest.

Gesna.

"Mama?"

The girl was still shaking in the trap. Adit grabs Gesna's face, and rubs her cheek.

"Ang? Papa?"

"Is there anything that bothers you besides me?" ask Adit again while paying attention to the state of Gesna.

Adit's hug removed Gesna. The girl tries to relax even though Adit can catch the sadness that exists.

"No. It's nothing, really," Gesna replied as she turned around, about to climb up the stairs towards the 11th class corridor.

"Miss..." Adit dared to call the girl. Gesna stopped, still staring at the front corridor. "Trust me. I'm always behind you" Adit said.

Adit's words make Gesna return to his presence. The girl challenged his eyes. "Ngapain you said that? Let's what?!"

Adit's tongue feels cheesy. He can't answer.

"Adith... You said that you wanted to know me. Now, you know, right? You know how my family is, how I am, how I live. What else do you want?" Gesna raised her chin.

"There's nothing good about my life, Dit. People also went one by one. So, you better not come again than you regret knowing me."

Gesna turned around and left. Leaving a question mark growing larger in Adit's cranium. Yes, he already knows everything. Knowing how the Gesna family, knowing how the girl felt to her parents, also know who Meilan Lituhayu, a famous Indonesian designer whose career dashed in the international scene.

However, everything Adit knows about Gesna keeps him from stopping.

Adit doesn't know why either.

***

"Kan, what did I say?" whispered Bara commenting on the dramatic events they were watching.

"So, how are those two, anyway? ask Miko to know.

"Kok I'm not sure if this is just a bet?" gumam Bara concluded. Adit's action is too natural for acting.

"Gue's even happy if it's not a bet."

Bara grinned. "If so, you help me persuade Adit to make the bet void."

Miko cursed while shaking Bara's head violently. "Si Anjir just said that now, because you're going to lose, right?"

Bara's head throbbed due to Miko's punch. He stood up from his head earlier, then returned Miko's toyoran bertubi-tubi. "You also disagree with us betting. What the hell, nyet?"

Bara has a reason to invite Adit to bet. During his time as a Chieftain, he was used to observing in silence. That's the science that Adit exemplifies. He then lowered his head again, wanting to peek at the continuation of the hug scene that if on television gets a PG-13 rating alias only allowed to be watched at the age of 13 years and above.

"Well, how's it gone?"

Miko who rubbed Bara's toyoran took a peek. "Eh, where are you going? Waduh, don't let anything weird happen."

Bara snorting amusedly. "Indeed pictor lo!" his teasing while circulating his eyes around. "Where the hell are they?"

Miko put her hand on Bara's lowered back. Go find Adit and Gesna. "Yes, yeah. Where's them?"

"Which one?"

The rosy reflex asks not to be noisy.

"They're who? Find what the hell you're on?"

Bara shook his hand so that the question that came immediately remained silent. "Gesna" he answered quickly.

Miko nodded while circulating her gaze. "Yes, same Adit."

Before long, Miko and Bara stiffened. From then on, there were only the two of them. Why is there a voice between them?

Miko and Bara turned their heads, seeing Adit being ruffled waist with his strapping. "For whom?" ask Adit again.

Realizing that being caught red-handed was figuring it out, Bara ran quickly, Miko hurriedly followed. Perhaps the class could be a safe fortress for them at this moment. Honey, the teacher who taught didn't come in.

Adit catches the collar of their uniform before getting into the classroom and pulls towards the corner of the corridor. "Bar, Mick. What the hell were you guys?"

Bara. "Some, there's nothing."

"Udah, don't be a bokis. See what you were?" Adit's sharp gaze skimmed, knowing that he was being lied to.

"All!" bara and Miko answered simultaneously and demanded.

"Now be honest. Where are you with him?" Miko was really curious. "Dit, I said, yes. If this is only because of yesterday's bet, it is better to cancel. I don't support."

"Lo's acting girl, Dit. The mantle! But not now. My bokek again, njay!" added Bara chuckling.

Adit kicked through the classroom window from the outside. Some eyes glanced at them. "Lo thought, is it because of the guitar?"

Adit grabbed the shirt and punched Bara in the shoulder. Their base fell.

Rise up and curse. He repulsed Adit until Adit's body hit the wall. "Certainly? If it wasn't for the guitar, for what?"

Adit.

"Can't answer, can you, lo?" Bara grinned.

Situation heating up. Miko pulled the two away from around the classroom, towards a deserted place that no one saw.

Bara jerks off Miko's hand and points at Adit. "Lo think I'm going, Dit? You think I can't buy that guitar? Wasn't it! Not because of that."

"If it's just the guitar, it's easy! I can do ajakin lo motor racing or what, obviously not sacrifice innocent children and no relationship at all with us," said Bara while pulling his lips up.

The guy crossed paths as he swept his gaze across Adit's body. "Lo look at yourself. Have you seen yet? Lo that's weird."

By not giving Adit time to speak, Bara continued to scout him. "Maybe Miko doesn't know, but I do, Dit. Someone saw your motorbike in Bandung when you did not enter yesterday. Boncans same chick. That's Gesna, isn't it?"

Miko gasped, turning to Adit as quickly as possible. "Lo to Bandung with Gesna?"

Adit nodded. "It hurts."

"Well, you see, Ko. He was sent to Bandung because Gesna was sick. And then, he hugged Gesna and kept saying 'Trust me, I'm always behind you'. What the hell is trying that? Indeed lo who? Bodyguards?"

Adit incubates, advances towards Bara and blocks the neck of his best friend's shirt. "No need to interfere in my business!"

"Why? You want to punch me again? Barnaul, Dit. Tonnjok!" challenge Bara.

Adit took off his grip and walked back towards the classroom.

"Dit, I don't want to interfere. At first it was because of my idea," cried Bara calling Adit.

Adit stopped and turned around. Staring at Bara with an expressionless look.

"Gue ajakin bet let you be honest with yourself. I know you are a Chieftain, but that does not mean you do not have a heart. Is it hard to feel alone? You won't be weak by acknowledging your own feelings."

"Gue never pledged himself to be the Chief. That could be your wish. You are always going forward when I don't care what they do to me. Lo who makes it look like I'm great, I'm strong when you see for yourself, right?"

"Dit, I knew you long before you spelled out the same Chief of Tribes as them. I know you, Dit. Miko knows you. And you remain the Chief for us, not because you broke people's teeth, not because people are afraid of you. Not that," Bara said. "But because among us, you think the deepest, the most systematic, the most rational."

"Keep suddenly you become the most ridiculous human who fad people's children. Do you try your reasons? Because Gesna's funny? If funny is laughable, not disturbed."

Miko chose to see the incident in silence. Adit stared intently at Bara, examining the truth of the words he heard.

"Dit, relax! You really like Gesna!" bara continued shaking Adit's body.

Adit's jaw tightens. His blood heated up again and he brushed off Bara's hand. Is it true what Bara said? What has all that has lately filled his brain departed from that one conclusion?

Adit Agency was withdrawn Bara. The guy looked at Adit as if he had seen a dead card.

"Lo's never been this cool with a girl, Dit. I did not, no sin. Or do you want to be too? No need for prestige height. I'm just the same lo, whose name is regret always later, if in front of his name preambule."