Fire Sun

Knight For Xena

After Adit's motorbike swerved through the crowded vehicles piled on the road at rush hour, Gesna finally knew their purpose. Adit took her to the Old City. The atmosphere around the Fatahillah Museum at night is quite charming. This place is not yet empty, visitors are still crowded.

Luminous lines of garden lights fence the area making this location beautiful and attractive. Not to mention the small lights in striking colors, brightening the atmosphere.

"What do you eat?" tanya Adit broke the mood when the guy parked the bike.

Gesna who had gone down and opened the helmet then shook his head. "don't know. Hungry but not lust."

"Why is it like that?"

They walked down a wide hallway in one corner. Many food stalls vary in style along the aisle. From the old style to the minimalist style of today.

"It's okay." Gesna was tired all day. Mood is most important when it comes to spending energy.

"Times?" Adit stopped, turning Gesna's body to face the guy. "Still why-why, tuh."

Gesna's hand was pulled by Adit to get into a cafe that is not crowded. The guy ordered coffee and some snacks. "What do you want to drink?"

"Order only. Origin is not coffee," said Gesna who is lazy to read the menu. He then put his heavy head on the table.

"Why?"

"Yes, I don't get to sleep" she said, closing her eyes.

"Easy. I'll be friends if I need to stay up late."

Gesna heard Adit order a glass of warm orange juice for her. The man then returned to his voice when the waiter had already moved away.

"Well you think about that this afternoon?" adit asked as he put his hands on Gesna's damp head. This chick's hair smells like apples. What sampo smells like this? Adit was curious. He has never smelled the same.

"Non," he called out as he rubbed Gesna's hair slowly. "If there's anything, you can tell me the same story."

Gesna. After the shower, his eyes felt heavy. Moreover, the wind that blows makes the atmosphere cool. Cold and heavy eyes were the most brutal conspiracy for Gesna because he could not block the sight of another blink. Plus Adit's hand that still rubs his head, making the wave of drowsiness even bigger.

"Raclut? Yes, a little fall. Sori, I'm ajakin lo walk time you're tired."

Gesna was just cuddling slowly. He was going out not knowing where to sleep. Being alone at home can make the mind become dead-end and cloudy aura.

Adit no longer asked anything. Tumben Adit spoke the truth and did not digress. However, the man's hand was still playing on Gesna's head, rubbing his hair until he managed to fall asleep at the arm-bearing table.

On the other hand, seeing Gesna asleep made a special impression on Adit. He knows Gesna's tired, today. He also knew Gesna's mood was not good. In fact, when we met at home, the beautiful twinkle of Gesna's eyes that disappeared from noon had not returned. Gesna was watching with her friends.

Adit glanced a little. He knows Gesna went to watch, went with Adji. If yesterday, he had thought what kind of relationship Gesna had with Thunder, today, he began to think whether Gesna was that close to his male friends? With Thunder, with Adji, with Renard?

Adit's head began to accredit the known basketball children, from tenth grade to twelfth grade including those who often gathered at the basecamp. Oh my God, that's a lot. Adit blinked in shock, and did not accept.

He started to slacken. Recalling every word Bara said, this afternoon. Is it true that he's starting to really like Gesna? Because if Adit thinks, Bara has a point, she's never been this cool as a girl. Always wanting to know the circumstances, always wanting to see the news.

Gesna was not Snow White who was just asleep waiting for the Prince. She, the unique woman in the armor. The brave Xena was also full of wounds. The undaunted goddess of war. However, Adit still wants to protect him. Adit wants to be a knight for Xena.

He sipped the drink that was already in session. Cellphone ringing. A message came in from Naraya.

Naraya: So, have you asked him yet? Is she related to Adji?

Adit closes the message without replying then pocket the phone. He saw the beautiful face of Gesna. Now, what's he supposed to do? When his heart falls on a girl, what should Adit do?

Yeah, maybe he's already in love with this sleeping chick. The sense of regret grew bigger, too hard to fight. He wants to protect also has. He wanted Xena to be his only and would not allow others to harass.

"Non," call Adit poking the cheek and pinch Gesna's nose softly. "Wake, Non. The apple curse is gone."

He then shook Gesna's shoulder slowly. The girl opened her eyes and yawned. "Eat first, Non," he said while tidying up Gesna's hair.

Gesna yawned while rubbing her eyes. His view was directed to the sweets that Adit ordered. "Gue pengengengin telor crust in front of the Bank Indonesia Museum."

The girl got up, but Adit's hand held back. In this cafe does not sell eggs crust. "Let me order. You just sit here, drink the juice."

Adit gets up from sitting down. Walk outwards, down the crowded dimly lit road and approach the patrons of the crust of the eggs. He would not allow the still-sleepy Gesna to go on the road buying the crust of eggs. Moreover, the distance of the cafe to the seller of telor crust is quite far. Let the girl rest, Adit thought.

He pulled out his phone and called Naraya. 

Naraya answered his call. "Hello. How's it?"

Adit started ordering and sitting on the existing cement bench. "Gue hasn't asked her, but she seems ordinary. I think they're just friends, huh."

"Oh, huh? That one last afternoon that's called being friends, huh?" Naraya sounded snorted. "Now know me."

"What was it, this afternoon?" ask Adit suspiciously.

"It's okay. Yes, I want to sleep first, sleepy," replied Naraya. "Did she know I told you?"

It was Naraya who told Adit that meeting Gesna in the cinema was with Adji. "No. Safe, really," said Adit while paying attention to the crust of cooked eggs.

"Yes, who knows. Delete my message, yes."

Naraya then said goodbye, leaving Adit who still did not understand what happened between the pair of friends.

***

"Don't be a hick, anyway." Gesna pulls Adit closer to the ontel bike rental.

After eating, Adit invited him to walk in the region. The field in front of the Fatahillah Museum is crowded. The ranks of ontel bikes that are neatly parked on the edge of the field. On the left side of the field, a flock of pigeons came because it was given to eat visitors.

Instead of stopping, Adit instead sat Gesna in the bonfire, pedaling a bicycle in the Old Town courtyard. "Wear the hat dong, let it be like Dutch Noni."

"Lo's wearing that batok helmet let me sift Meneer."

Adit's still shaking the bike. Actually funny. During this time Gesna only saw Adit carrying a large motorbike, not a frail bicycle.

The guy laughed softly. "It's okay to Meneer if you're the Noni. A grip on napa's waist? Let's get romantic."

Gesna. "Romantic? Free cigarettes to eat?"

Their bike stopped at one corner that had trees. Adit looked at him. "Lo still smokes?"

The guy put Gesna's hand on his waist. Bicycles walk back, they circle the actual field is not too wide.

"Diminished. Not good. Especially the girls."

Gesna's eyes were fixed on the yellowish floodlights. Old cannons symbolize the prowess of Batavia of the past. The air around was still cool, the wind was blowing their hair.

"Grottling!" saith.

The pink ontel bike stopped back. The Meneer. "The chatty guy's got two, Non. One, he's clumsy. Two, he cares. Which one do you think I am?"

"Smatch!" gesna replied ferociously while throwing her face away. There was a sigh that stopped because of Adit's gaze just now. Moreover, the man's hand again swept his head.

Adit smiled amusedly. The well-toothed man laughed with his looks. "No. You pretend not to know. Don't be soo. It'll be real, new nyahok."

"Originally speaking!"

The hand of Gesna who was about to hit was captured by Adit. The guy held his fingers. There was a stinging sensation when Adit played Gesna's fingers.

"If I care about you, how?" whispered Adit down, putting his head on Gesna's shoulder. Look at it from a very close distance.

Before long, the guy kissed Gesna's head.

"Would you not be my partner? So Mrs. Aditya?"

Like a black night sky, Adit's grip on his hand was like presenting many stars. There was a rumble that Gesna did not understand. Warmly ran through his palm, permeating all the way to the heart. As much as he could, he tried to deny the strange things that were whack.

"What the hell, lo?" Gesna was about to let go of Adit's grasp. The guy even tightened his grip between the fingers of Gesna.

Adit pulled Gesna's right hand forward, peeling the back of the hand slowly. Then bring that hand into his jacket pocket. "Don't let go! I hold your hand."

"Not funny, Dit!"

"Gue's not kidding anymore, Gesna." Adit pulled him to get off the ontel bike and sat on a bench made of black marble. "From now on, my girlfriend."

"But—"

"But what?"

"Gue doesn't like lo" Gesna replied straightforwardly and tried to put up her jutek face so that Adit changed his mind.

Undeterred, Adit took Gesna's right hand out of his pocket and kissed again. "Not yet, not a sham. You can like it later, though. I don't have to like it now. Do you like other guys, Non?"

Gesna. There are. The guy she likes is already dating another girl. "Eng. No."

"Yes, already. Everything can happen, Non. Jan Pieterszoon, 'Dispereert niet, ontziet uw vijanden niet, want God is met ons'. The important thing is not to give up."

Adit looked at Gesna's face with a smile.

"Who is Jan Pieterszoon?" Gesna's eyebrows go up next door. The name is as if it had ever been heard.

"Governor General of Batavia, my dear. He who destroyed Jayakarta, built high walls also put cannons around here." Adit pointed to the cannon in front of the Fatahillah Museum.

"Kok part of the invaders you remember? It should be removed from history, the name of the person who destroyed the kingdom in Indonesia, "gesna protest did not accept.

Adit was still staring fixedly at Gesna. The wind coming from the port of Sunda Kelapa combed their hair.

"Losing must be remembered. So that people can learn. Learn the meaning of defeat, learn to bow your head, let's know that in the sky there is a sky, let's re-examine the tactics of war."

The smile on Adit's lips was still painted. His grip is still tight. That guy looks really bright when it comes to history. His way of speaking is ordinary.

"Learn that there's a Hotman Paris in the sky?" hiss Gesna silly. Secretly, he cussed the foreign explosion that came from earlier.

Without poking at his jokes, Adit pulls Gesna's chin to get them to take a look. "This time, I want to be a winner."

Gesna felt a sudden dry throat and hands became cold. Adit's grip has the potential to drop body temperature.

"I'm not Prince Jayakarta, not Jan Pieterszoon but I want to be a winner. This time it is a winner in your heart. Can you?"

Gesna was glued to Adit's eyes hearing the call change. Cost disappeared. How could God have created such deep eyes? Adit's dark bead drew his consciousness. Gesna had to admit that the Chief in front was indeed a magnetic field that was difficult to fight. Shake the balance point he has.

Gesna looked down, turned her head. Next to his heart was still shouting the name Thunder loudly. However, next to him again feels special with Adit. What does he have to say like this?

"Three, Two, One. Time is out! You can't protest anymore." Adit's left hand grabbed Gesna's free hand. Both of their hands held. "From today, you, Mrs. Aditya's me."

Both of Gesna's hands were frowned upon and placed on her chest tightly. "Adit's Punya. No one can disturb!"

The corner of Gesna's lips twitched uncontrollably. To cover it up, Gesna moved her lips to the left and to the right many times. The thing that looks adorable in Adit's eyes so that a small pinch perched on Gesna's cheek.

However, the romantic scene was interrupted by the arrival of a small busker wearing a small guitar. The boy sang a love song. "Duhai lover puja slalu in the heart. I waited for you. You are the only girl in my dreams. In every sleep."

Feeling insinuated, Gesna would have kicked out the buskers who came, but Adit instead asked the boy to sit next to him and then sing along. Instantly the duet of Adit and the busker raises the attention around.

For quality, both have stunning sounds. It's just, Gesna is always sultry if people notice them because of Adit. Moreover, Adit still clasped his hand. Gesna was so embarrassed.

"Hear my dear. There's nothing else at the moment. You are the one at heart. You are the one at heart."

Can anyone kidnap Gesna, right now?

"Duhai. It is only you I want. There is nothing else in the heart. Forever only you."

Many times the back of his hand was frowned upon by Adit. Gesna's heart was shrinking, his blood was being pumped. Gesna was trying to neutralize the chest beating. Not that it's getting noisy. She's panicking. Adit is not good for heart health.

"Can you borrow the guitar?" pinta Adit to busker. The boy nodded and gave the guitar to Adit.

Guitar strings plucked. Little sister sang back to him. "I've been reading books of old. The legends and the myths. Achilles and his gold. Hercules and his gifts."

"Spiderman's control and Batman with his fists. And clearly I don't see myself myself upon that list."

Gesna knows the song. He has memorized almost all of Coldplay. Adit still looked at him with a smile.

"But she said, where did you wanna go? How much you wanna risk? I'm not looking for someone with some superhuman gifts."

"Some superheroes. Some fairytale bliss. Just something I can turn to. Somebody I can kiss. I want something just like this."

Gesna felt her face getting hotter. The black sky above them felt as boisterous as the new year. No, there are no fireworks in the Old City, at the moment. Because the tempest is the contents in the chest.