Fire Sun

Raising Heart

A plastic bag was clasped by Adit when he came back in. He had just bought the pain-relieving ointment that athletes used, and some other necessities just in case. It should be in the Gesna bag, which as it is always there as a precaution.

Gesna's position was still the same as when he left, facing the back of the sofa.

"Non," call him. "Which part is bad?"

Gesna does not flip, does not respond to anything. He walked towards the back of the sofa to take a peek. Gesna's eyes were closed. Turns out the girl was asleep.

Adit sighed softly, walking back towards the front to sit down. There was a flicker of light in front of Gesna's face that blocked Adit's step onto the sofa. He instead approached Gesna, grabbing the phone that issued a red blink as a notification.

Gesna: Gugun love, don't be angry. I wanted to tell you. Uh, suddenly he's nongol.

Gesna: Really, I don't mean to lie. 😔

Style: Piss, Gun. The piss. ⁇ ️

Gesna: Read! Reply immediately! If not, I'm aduin Mamah.

The message was sent fifteen minutes ago and now, Adit saw Thunder typing a reply for Gesna.

Boboiboy Halilintar: I think I should return your words earlier, deh.

Boboiboy Thunderbolt: Your boyfriend is angry about my behavior, earlier? 😔

Boboiboy Halilintar: Say the same Bang Adit, I know positioning myself as a friend, really. 🙏

Boboiboy Thunderbolt: Congratulations yes, dear Gege. Finally there are guys who want to be the same. Wkwkwkwkwk.

Adit finally understood who Mamah meant by Gesna. Mamah was the mother of Guntur. That was the friendship of the two.

Reading the messages is also what they both did at school, making Adit draw the conclusion that Gesna and Thunder have just made up. Indeed the last he saw Guntur deliver a chicken made by Mamah to this house, the attitude of the man was like unfriendly.

He had no idea what Gesna and Thunder were fighting about, and he had until now not understood how the process of making up between different types of friends looked like they were dating.

Adit's hand was moved to retaliate, for his name was mentioned there. He tried to ignore the words 'love' and 'honey' written hurt the eyes.

Gesna: Relax, Tour. I understand, really. 😊 -Adit-I

He then locks Gesna's phone and puts it next to the girl. Along the way to the miniswalayan in front of the complex, Adit tried to think clearly. It may be true what Gesna said, she never had a female best friend. He does not know and does not believe that the friendship of the opposite sex can last.

Adit sat on the carpet, opened the bag, pulled out the math book that had not been done before. His mind is still on. He could be wrong, he just looked at something from his glasses. It could be that he was too emotional to see the incident between Gesna and Thunder was a big thing.

Long Adit stared at the row of mathematical formulas that suddenly became elusive. His head was full and Adit could not think. He closes the book and grabs Gustav's guitar on the other side of the sofa. Plucking the strings while humming softly.

"I want to be a good dream in your sleep. I want to be something you might miss. Because the steps are broken without you. Because the heart is tired."

Adit remained silent, closing his eyes, though his hands continued to move. Everyone can hope, right? It's not wrong if she hopes Gesna reciprocates her feelings, is it?

Deep down, Adit knows. Hope is often different from reality. For that man needs effort, reaching for all the desired expectations. And Adit still wants to try as hard as he can. He believed the human heart was made of sensitive lumps of flesh. He believes his feelings will be reciprocated by Gesna.

He just needs to close his eyes, wear horse glasses to focus on the goal. Do not care about anything that shakes his heart.

The door was pushed and Adit opened his eyes. He saw Gustav walking inwards.

"Well, you can finger style?" asked Gustav in amazement while sitting on one of the sofas that one person could sit on.

"A little bit, Bang," said Adit, returning the guitar to an empty sofa. "Would anyone come out again or not?"

"Why?" Gustav put the long bag and tube that had been stuck on the shoulder to the floor. Black eyes were visible on his face.

"If for example Abang does not come out means Gesna has friends, Adit just go home," explained Adit. His hands began to tidy up the math book and put it in the bag.

"No, I don't want to go out anymore. You haven't returned home, Dit?" Gustav looked at Adit's uniform behind the jacket.

Adit grimacing. "Yes, Bang. Earlier, Adit waited for Gesna to practice basketball while making PR with friends."

Gustav leaned back and slightly slumped, leaning all tired in the soft seat "Other times, if you have not had time to go home because of this kebo. Go to my room, put on my shirt."

Adit's head nodded, disinclined at Gustav's kindness. "It's okay, Bang. Tomorrow Adit ready to change clothes in the bag. Adit go home first."

"Start." Gustav held Adit back with a look of researching him. "Lo with Gesna, how's the story?"

Adit was silent. "Ask Gesna, Bang. Later Adit's wrong to say again."

Gustav muttered. "I'm starting to understand, though. Gesna must have protested, huh?"

Adit's head was nosed again.

"It's a habit, anyway. The content of his life was a protest. Want to be horrified, but do not want to terrorize others. Often forced again." Gustav chuckled softly. "Lo's with her, Dit?"

Adit did not nod, he just smiled faintly. "She asked to be kept secret from everything, Bang."

"Gue brother, you don't need secrets from me."

Adit went back and put the bag on his shoulder.

"Be careful, Dit," said Gustav accompanying his departure.

Adit's smile was on his face. Even the phrase 'Be careful' was only ever obtained by Adit from Gustav. The girl never said that. Boro-boro utters 'Be careful', thanking only never.

Trying to encourage, Adit took his big motorbike to go around the city until tired came and felt he wanted to go home.

Adit stepped in. He stamped blankly when he looked at the home.

Just like Gesna, there was no one in the house. She's no less lonely than that girl. Gesna still has Gustav at home, still having Meilan who although far away remains still there. While her?

There's no one.

Her mother is in heaven. The paper's in the air.

From the beginning, Adit did not want to back down despite knowing what happened to the Gesna family. Now, Adit understands why he's like this. Only a lonely person can understand how lonely it feels. He knew what Gesna was feeling, for he was also at a point not much different. Silence can kill people slowly.

As per the theory, two lonely people should be able to fill each other. However, theory and practice are clearly different.

After changing clothes and sitting by the window, Adit remembered Naraya. He still has a family, although he is not close. His finger immediately pressed the call button to the cousin.

"Where?" tanya Adit made small talk when her phone was picked up by Naraya.

"Yogya, Mommy. Why?"

Adit's back is vertical. "Highly fast until Yogya? It was school, right now. Why?"

"Yes, I'll use the door anywhere. Don't be a hard man, huh." Naraya corrected his joke. "Gue's got Platnas, tomorrow. What do you think? A walk?" The girl snorted softly.

"Kirain, the streets are not rhyme."

Naraya laughed softly across the street. "Tumben very much lo my phone. Why?"

"Naya," call Adit in doubt. Naraya murmured, waiting to continue. "Gue wants to have girlfriends."

Naraya's laughter is deafening. "What's? Didn't you hear me wrong? Wh why? What's your connection?" naraya did not believe it.

"Let me know how to be friendly with the opposite sex."

Adit became curious. Who are Gesna's friends who know they're dating? "Gesna isn't a story? Is he your best friend?"

The girl's laughter instantly dimmed. "Sori, ye's. The word friend has long not been in the dictionary of my life, Mas," said Naraya flat.

"Why?" This time, Adit really wants to know. How can people who laugh and compact together can point to each other behind it. As Adit knew, Gesna also regarded Naraya as a friend.

Naraya. "Gue asks why are you asking too? Just answer me, what's so hard, anyway? I'm asking you it's not Gesna."

"Yes, that's how it is," Adit replied floating.

Naraya's voice sounded mocking. "It's not clear how. I want to sleep, tired of it today. I remember, you don't have to try to have a girl friend. I'm your cousin, I've had enough."

"Didnit, idih. GR very lo if I want to be friends with you?" reply Adit.

"Gue matiin, huh?!" naraya Ancam.

"This, this... Girl magic moves to win, usually threatening." Adit began to pull the corners of the lips, smiling back for today.

Naraya chuckled again. "Bodo!"

"Eh, Naya. I heard Adji tell Gesna the same story about lo."

"What? What's the?" Naraya's voice turned enthusiastic.

Adit was silent until Naraya called him several times and cleared his throat for a moment before starting to speak. "For a girl who rejects a guy because she doesn't like him. How do I catch a different reaction, huh? I'm glad to hear Adji's name."

Naraya. "Do you know I rejected him?"

"Who forgot to say who?" adit jemawa Reply.

"Woilah, I'll demenih if you start cocky. I want to throw a grenade." The girl starts to curse him and forces Adit to tell a story.

Adit laughed, quite amused by Naraya's reply. "Know that. I also know that Adji is hard to move on and I also know that Fiska keeps Adji only."

Naraya sounded reflex swearing when he heard the name Fiska called. He returned to laughing. "Lo and Gesna hate Fiska so much."

"So she accused me of lesbianism!" litching Naraya roused. Looks like the girl forgot that she said she was sleepy. "If it's not separated, it's really nice to drag him around the city, let his face be flat on the asphalt."

Adit laughed again while shaking hands. "Lo equals Gesna's a barbarian derivative, huh? One wants to nimpa nutmeg Fiska using a bench, one wants to drag him around the city. Sadistic-sadistic bushes!"

"If I'm a descendant of barbarians, you're also kali. Our blood is neighborly. You never broke a person's teeth" Naraya said. "I've already said the same thing to you. We don't like to annoy people, but if that person disturbs us the consequences ourselves. If he sells, I buy until the last stock in his warehouse."

Adit's lips were sore, laughing from earlier. "Life lo on this is indeed unpredictable, huh?"

"Quite a flat TV, live not," Naraya replied again.

"Lo sure you don't like Adji?" Adit started to smile again. "Yesterday you were wondering if I had a relationship what Gesna with Adji? That's a jealous smell."

"Profession is paranormal, Mom?" naraya Cela. "That's supposed to be Jealous. Gesna's a lot of guy friends, you know."

"Pespel's kids aren't most guys." Adit still does not want to lose. Since choosing Naraya as the chairman of OSIS. He knew that the girl was a member of Pasuspala, a nature-loving organization that often makes trouble, but the program presented also the way the girl spoke made Adit convinced. Of course he did not expect that Naraya was his cousin.

"Oh, yes, yes. I sometimes forget they're guys." Naraya laughed a long laugh. "Mas, you still don't want to tell me why all of a sudden my phone?"

***

Gesna. His body felt stiff and stiff. Though he has often trained and the training schedule ahead of the tournament has been tightened to three times a week. However, his feet were still sore.

When he opened his eyes, there was Gustav sitting on the carpet, busy with pictures on his laptop. Gesna yawned slowly.

"Wake up, kebo?" Gustav. "Do you want to eat?"

Gesna leaned his head against the back of the sofa. He's still sleepy.

"Eat first, yuk. After that you brush Counterpain into your achy body," asked Gustav to pull Gesna's hand.

"Do you know my body aches?" Gesna rubbed his eyes and sat back idly by leaning his head on the table.

"Yes, I see from your pack on the table. You look so tired that you don't take a shower. Apek!"

"Captain? What package?" Gesna's head was back, not understanding what Gustav meant.

"Feny packs! Yeah, your grocery pack." His brother stung Gesna with a spoon and put two dishes filled with rice on the table.

Gesna shook her head as she grabbed the side dish to her plate. "What package? I don't do any shopping, huh."

"Certainly? The groceries flew in and landed themselves here by drone?" Gustav's eyebrows rose uncertain.

Gesna then remembered. Adit, excuse me to come out for a minute. Is that guy buying it? His head turned, looking for Adit's whereabouts.

"Home home" said Gustav. "Find Adit, right?"

Gesna's spoon was stuck, not bribed. "Do you know he's home?"

"Many ask me like Dora," laughed Gustav. "Yes, you know kebo. He came home because I arrived. If I don't go home, it's my son I think I've made a patrol post here."

Gesna's lips grinned, making a straightforward confession. "Gue told him to eat every day."

"Coinic!" blasphemy Gustav seems to not accept. "I told him I was coming home when I said I wasn't going to go again. A lot of asking really you to be a girl?"

Gesna did not accept being scorned like that. Raising his shoulders, he defended himself. "He asked me what I asked of him. Yes, I ask you to eat every day. It's wrong why did he ask that question?"

Thunder shook his head in wonder, staring at Gesna in disbelief. "Gue has to ask Mama. He was born in the hospital or on the sidelines of times. Your brain seems to be drifting away."

Gesna. "Iri said, Boss."

After eating, Gesna returned to the couch to pick up the phone. He also found the parcel that Gustav meant and opened it. There is wound plaster, there is bruise medicine, there is pain relief ointment, there is betadine, cold medicine, fever medicine and other P3K equipment to hand sanitizer.

Gesna took all of that to the room. After dressing the feet with pain relief ointment, all Adit administration is placed on a plastic clip and then tucked in the edge of the bag. He smiled softly as he patted the mound. Some feel warm not only in the legs, especially when remembering the affection of Adit.

That guy loves him? Gesna scratches slowly the head that does not itch. How can?

Repeatedly Gesna opened the message application. There was a desire to thank Adit but he was embarrassed. Until he realized that Thunder had replied to his message and someone read the message before him.

Holy hooch! Gesna screeched lightly reading the conversation at hand. The message was read by Adit?

Gesna again scratched behind the ear as well as the head. Adit has no comment. Not sending him messages nor calling.

The screen of the phone is shifted back and forth until it ends by opening Instagram. Unintentionally, Gesna pressed the circle in the left corner. A video belonging to Miko was played in his grasp. The live video was like it had aired this afternoon while he was training.

It appears on the screen that the three of them are live-activating. There were hundreds of people watching and sending heart marks there. But that's not what made Gesna growled. He read comments that he did not like.

Ouch, Adit. Look at his face like my life doesn't have any problems.

Brother Miko, send greetings to Brother Adit, yes.

It's adit!!! My love! 😍😍😍😍

Womb twitching, Bang. 🤩

And a series of other comments that if he spoke directly in front of Gesna, he would have his head.

Didn't Adit say that he was working on PR at basecamp? Why live acoustics? Gesna grunts and throws the phone into bed. No need to thank Adit, no need. There is no function either.