Fire Sun

Friends are Drugs

"Lo what?" Adit looked at Naraya who was not struggling. "OSIS's son taught people to pull out."

Naraya gulped, glancing towards Asri who did not tell him there was Adit there. The glimpsed, only getting lower. "Bantuin friends. Gege again needs help," he said flat and walked splitting the weeds.

"Gesna's a sore snore again, jump that high will hurt more later." Adit noticed Naraya's movements with both hands in his pants pocket.

The girl snorted a little, passing Adit to get to Asri. "Guntur's father died, Gesna needed to come there as soon as possible. It would be in my position."

Sure enough, after the break, the news was announced to the classes. Adit, Bara and Miko were also people who knew Guntur.

In front of the house Guntur already installed tarup and also yellow flag. Adit and his friends chose to sit outside because mourners were crammed in the living room.

Next to Adit, there were some people who were having a discussion. Ask when the body was buried and buried. In silence, Adit listened intently.

"Ko, isn't Thunder a Christian?" whisper Adit to Miko. He wondered why the people were busy talking about the funeral prayer.

Miko, who was still greeting some known students, replied, "The fate of Thunder is Islam."

Adit turned the plastic stool he was sitting on. "Seriously lo?"

Bara who heard the two people also joined the roost. "Yes, how can you? Different religions?"

"Yes, could be. They actually can? The thunder is an Adventist Christian, much like an Islamic kayak" explained Miko who knows all this from Riko.

Bara who is also a Christian then furrowed his eyebrows. "Oh, is this Thunder Adventist?"

Miko nodded while paying attention to the situation inside the house. "Kuy, in. Not much anymore."

When they stood up, they did not enter. Mourners are carrying bodies inside the coffins, and will be taken to a nearby mosque. There, Adit sees Gesna. The girl continued to side by side with the Rainbow while Thunder always swept over the mother.

And true said Miko, she also saw her sister Guntur enter the mosque with Gesna. After the prayers, they also walked towards the public cemetery which was behind the complex. All of that can not be separated from Adit's observation.

Adit then understood that Rainbow embraced Islam like the father, while Thunder followed the faith of the mother. From afar, Adit could see the deep sadness on Gesna's face. That bolt was really moody. Occasionally Gesna rubbed the back of the Rainbow, whispering words that might strengthen.

It's only fitting that Naraya helped Gesna to drop the school. The presence of the chick was needed in the Thunder family. It seemed like Thunder's younger brother was only close to Gesna. From earlier, crying continued in Gesna's arms.

During the funeral, Thunder's mother repeatedly fainted in Thunder's arms and the man was seen trying hard to toughen up.

Adit just kept quiet to see all that. She doesn't really remember how her mother died. It all felt vague because he was still so small. If not wrong, enter elementary school. As Adit recalled, there was no longer anyone who rubbed his head while singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. No one called him My Sun anymore. No one slept holding her back or coming to her during a nightmare.

The funeral went well, the body was buried after the Asar prayer. The sun that began to fall left behind a very miserable twilight for the Thunder family.

Adit. There is no child who is not sad left by parents. Therefore, he chose silence. Do not wonder further the cause of death of papa Guntur. He only heard the grapevine if he died of heart disease.

After the funeral, mourners began to fall apart. In the courtyard of Thunder's house only a few dozen disciples remained, Thunder's friends. Adit sees Riko, Ilham and Adrian helping to suckle plastic benches, while Gesna sits together with Guntur in front of the fence.

He got up, helped. So did Miko and Bara. Thunder is part of the Basecamp. They consider it as a brother.

"Why hearts, Bang? Aman?" ledek Bara whispers when the guy realizes that Adit always steals a glance towards Gesna.

"Shhh..." Adit glanced at Bara ferociously, afraid that anyone would hear.

Instead of being silent, Bara even grinned sucks. The boy's hand pulled out the phone and showed something to Adit. "It's the guitar you turned to him, right? So the gift is for Thunder," said Bara raised his eyebrows to tease.

Adit thinks only he knows about that. He forgets that Bara and Miko also know about the guitar. The guitar he returned to Gesna, given the girl to Thunder as a gift.

Gift.

The gift that the picture added also speech. The gift used to sing Happy Birthday song. Gift that was once given to him by throwing. Gesna's treatment of both of them was different.

Adit grimaced while returning Bara's phone, raising his shoulders as if unconcerned. Gesna was still talking quietly with Thunder and the guy just nodded slowly. I don't know what to talk about. It's just that, which Adit doesn't like, the girl rubbed some sweat on Thunder's forehead. Trying to get used to it, Adit sat back down and pulled out a cigarette.

"For cigarettes." Bara sat down on the side, taking a stick from the box that Adit had proffered. "Snitch, during courtship, you've been swiped sweat that's not it yet?"

"Mingkem lo, Bar," hissed Adit cast a glance in the other direction. He wanted to say goodbye to Thunder, but Thunder was with Gesna. If the girl threw away her face, of course some students who were still there would realize the awkwardness of her and Gesna.

From afar, Adit sees the arrival of Naraya and several OSIS children. The special alma mater coat is owned only by the son of OSIS. Everyone wears it except for Naraya. He also saw Joceline there. Adit's attention began to focus again on Gesna and Thunder. He was curious how the three of them remained calm after being touted the Lambe School.

Gesna stood up, stepped forward Thunder, snatched the bottle Joceline gave him and slammed it hard onto the asphalt. Everything that exists is shaken. Adit to raise both eyebrows.

"Lo tuh why the hell during being Gugun's girl? Don't know what he should and shouldn't eat?! Long ago, you gave shrimp. Now, you give me some tea! It's smart to be a person!" snapped Gesna while pointing at Joceline's face.

"Gege..." Riko, Ilham and Adrian immediately try to pull Gesna, blocking the girl and Joceline.

"G-gue doesn't know that Thunder can't drink tea" Joceline's great-grandson was startled. Didn't think Gesna could be that angry.

"Keep what you know?! Challengers wear almet OSIS snobs kecakepan?!" gesna spray with crossed eyes. It's not Gesna if you lose. Despite being blocked by large bodies, Gesna still tried to advance. "Udah came late, put on smiles like no more sin!"

Naraya who knew the two also tried to mediate. The girl's hand pulls Gesna's arm, but Gesna is getting windy. "Ge, we had a sudden meeting."

Adit decided to leave. He puffed and threw a cigarette, trampling the fire to the ground. He doesn't have to watch this love triangle. Had Thunder turned his head, Adit wanted to be able to say goodbye while waving from far away.

"Nay, this is not an OSIS section. No speech to me. The edge! Let me teach him a lesson first," jolted Gesna shaking hands to get rid of all those who were in the way. "What kind of girlfriend are you? Bokap time your girlfriend is guaranteed not even there?! The thunder needs you! You should be in samp—"

"Gege, it's already." Thunder rose up and grabbed Gesna into the embrace. They hugged tightly. Thunder's hand also stroked Gesna's head, calming her grief and blazing emotions. "Swimming, Ge. Quiet." Calm."

Adit was petrified on the spot when he heard the roar of Gesna escape in the thunder. The cry that had not been on the girl's face finally came off. The cry that Adit never saw. Adit doesn't see Gesna crying during a fight or telling her about her family. Adit doesn't see Gesna crying when she falls or accidents.

"Our father, Gun. Papah we go," murmured Gesna sobbing, lodged in Thunder's chest.

"Our father," hissed Bara to Adit's ear. "Father. We," Bara repeated the two words while flickering.

Adit felt his throat dry. Moreover, seeing Thunder also shed tears. The two of them who had been standing up were finally crying, hugging.

"Yes, Ge. Papah we're leaving. We have to be strong."

Adit directly stepped on Bara's feet so as not to laugh. The reason, the guy beside him watched all the events while continuing to comment. "Dit, you remember. I'm the number one person who supports you, time-conscious, you like him. Use the event nantang-nantangin lo everything let lo motion. But, I don't agree to see you like this right now."

Bara raises one eyebrow when Adit turns his head, no matter if the sentence will sound painful. For Bara, facts must be respected. "If Thunder does not like you make sad Gesna. Gesna did not like to see Thunder sad. It's also me, I don't like to see you sad or hurt people."

Adit returned the view forward. Seeing how Thunder ignored his paled girlfriend and still hugged Gesna to calm the girl down. He did realize, how closely connected they both are.

"Lo remember what I said in the cafeteria, that time?" add Bara while snorting. Adit shook his head, too much Bara had ever said. As if understanding, Bara repeated his words. "Gue knows you like Gesna, but I think Gesna likes Thunder. See? Told you."

Right after Bara said that, Joceline slid into the asphalt. Falling unconscious without being blocked by anyone, and the one who caught first was Naraya not Thunder.

"And according to what I saw today, Thunder had the same feeling. Love can, so can't." Bara got up, patted Adit's shoulder gently. Feeling no need to say goodbye, Adit and Bara choose to go with a greeting through Miko.

"Remember said Kang Parking, Dit. Back, back!" exclaim Bara from the top of the motor that drove next to him. The guy then clawed because it would be separated.

Adit's pressing the gas deeper. His brain approved all of Bara's assumptions, but his heart was in revolt. I can't believe what I see is true.

Adit incubates hard, vanishing vexation. He had been blindfolded, trying to pretend to be blind when he saw how close the interaction of Gesna and Thunder was. How Guntur hugged Gesna on the edge of the basketball court, how Thunder suddenly jutek when he found out he was at Gesna's house. Oh, aye. Why did Adit miss what caused Gesna to be so tangled, that afternoon? Isn't that the date Thunder arrived with Joceline? Their anniversary date was the same, and Gesna was gloomy that day for sure because she knew Thunder was with Joceline.

He was too stupid, trying too hard but forgetting something. Forgetting that people who are in love with others will not be able to turn away. Forgetting not to have a boyfriend is not necessarily loving someone. Didn't Gesna say at the beginning that she didn't like him?

It makes sense why Gesna didn't want the students to know he had a relationship with the girl. Because Gesna likes Thunder. Had it not been Adit who told, perhaps Guntur also did not know the special relationship between Gesna and Adit.

When people's hearts are closed, millions of efforts will also be in vain. A single point of error becomes a great calamity. Though he wasn't really a bet and Gesna knew it.

Adit swears as hard as he can between the roar of the motor engine. He's done anything. Trying to explain well, already. Trying to block and force Gesna too. Trying always there according to Gesna's request to accompany the girl to eat also already, even though she was fighting. He is still not considered. All sms, all messages, all his phones ignored were also blocked. Even Adit also tried to send the code of every song uploaded. What outcome? Nil, empty, nothing.

The Adit motor swerved, cutting off all vehicles on the road. All too confusing. He drove the bike as fast as he could out of town, not knowing where to go. Then the bike stopped a few hours later on Secret Hill.

The sun has gone down, leaving orange lights that will be dark for a while. Adit sat on the ground staring at the yellowish lights.

A message came in, a music link from Bara, and Adit played right away. He heard the song while letting the cold wind stab through the body. Bara's right. A friend may say bitter, but his purpose is for good. Like the medicine given to the patient.

Adit then presses Bara's number. "Bar, you're right."

He was silent for a moment while looking back at the perfectly darkened sky. "Gue .. back off."