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Him, Kanya

Renzana Alcatraz

I thought Arez was crazy when he asked me to look after a woman named Kanya whom I had never even met. However, it was only natural that Kanya became his greatest fear when he had to leave. The woman, even just looking at her picture, made anyone want to protect her. Not because he looks fragile. He even looked like a cheerful figure, but behind his smile, it was as if there was a heartbreaking story he had deliberately hidden.

"Lo may refuse if you are not interested in making you a wife, but I beg you to be like Bang, in the future, make sure you are always there for him."

We were sitting in a hospital park after undergoing a series of tests, whether our body condition was compatible if we did a heart transplant. Arez asked me to talk about Kanya. The woman he loved all this time.

That day Arez said, if Kanya makes him want to live longer. Had Arez never met Kanya, it could have been that the man chose to give up and refused to go to therapy if the end result was both dead.

"Don't you tell me she already has a boyfriend?"

"Gue was sure that they couldn't possibly survive to the end."

"Lo long time kayak shady yes, pretentious set the future."

"Their love is not strong, Bang. Their story is also flat. There is no test at all if not the nature of his girlfriend who is temperament if jealous and like a sleazy should this, should it. Possessive like Kanya is an item that she can have. Fortunately, I don't like to play rough with him. Until he dares to lukain a fingernail, I will take Kanya by force."

"It's a strong fight in itself."

"Don't fight, if they use meusin they will also do if I get caught playing rough."

"Brake, serem."

Arez did not respond to my comment and chose to press the main menu button on his screen. Showing their photos in Mandalawangi Valley as wallpaper. Kanya's smile seemed off the photo. Although a mysterious impression was still visible on his face.

"But I'm sure Bang, you will also fall in love with Kanya if you meet. She is beautiful, even though many are more beautiful. There are things in Kanya that are not necessarily owned by other girls. His heart and mind." Point Arez at his own chest and head when saying heart and mind.

I smiled in response to Arez's statement. If only I could feel the same. Falling in love with someone without worrying about tomorrow I die or still being given a chance to live.

Maybe I used to feel the same way. While still a hotshot on campus by following the movement of students. There was a woman who interested me without having to worry about my weak body condition. But that really makes me hard. Just talking to him alone, has made my heart pound.

What consequences? I had to be willing to be confined in the inpatient room until my condition improved. It was repeated several times. Until I really suppressed the feeling of liking to the opposite sex. Although not a few of them openly or secretly admire me.

At least Arez is lucky, he can feel in love without worrying about his heart condition that is triggered quickly when adjacent to the person he likes.

Since then, Arez has been telling stories about Kanya for as long as there is a chance. It makes me feel as if I can feel what he is feeling. There was not the slightest gap to discuss anything other than Kanya. Until one day, Arez said a pretty serious sentence. About Kanya.

"Bang, in the future, I'm just letting you fall in love with Kanya. You have to take care of him. Don't let him get hurt, especially because of you! It's curse. Only Kanya can lose her jomlo lo status in the future."

"Start making it up. Longer and more serem know not."

"Gue just in case. Who knows, you've changed your mind."

Back then, I thought that my conversation with Arez was just a joke. That man didn't really curse me like JK's story. Rowling or maybe J. R. R. Tolkien learned all manner of magic. But I really can't fall in love with another woman. Although I'm not in love with Kanya either. Who will fall in love with someone they have never met. Isn't that just weird?

Long after the incident happened, in April 2019. I met Kanya for the first time.

Ting... 

The sound of the elevator opened just after I pressed the number five and almost closed. A short-haired woman with a boat intersecting bob model entered the elevator with an irregular breath. The sweat drenched her clean facial skin even though it did not look as white as most metropolitan women. Tend yellow. The clothes used are also standard for most workers in this building. Plain jeans and shirts lined navy colored vest. Even so, his face looks attractive if he is noticed. Even without excess makeup and thinly polished lipstick.

Is.deg...

Ever since the woman entered the elevator, my heart was beating fast. Even the edges of my lips seemed to be attracted by themselves and arched a smile. I don't usually behave like that. My friends often call me an ice man because it is not easily touched by any woman. But just being in one room with the woman seemed to trigger the organs in my body to act according to his own will. Not at the behest of my brain.

Could the previous owner of the heart feel the presence of someone he cared about in the past? Could Arez have realized and made his heart beat beyond the limits of my reasoning?

"Duh, it's really melting. Can't tell Mas Hanung if I'm late."

I refrained from commenting when the woman grumbled. Her movements were adorable when she panicked and hoped for a quick lift to the destination. Though this elevator moves according to its speed and is not as slow as he alleged. Even the woman bit the tip of her nails impatiently. While I only noticed it with my mouth closed, my hands held a smile. It was just the two of us in this elevator and I didn't want her to take offense to laughing at him. 

Ting...

Elevator opens on second floor. A group of people entered and shifted the position of the woman who was originally standing right in the middle to be beside me. His thin body was squeezed by the human wave that filled the elevator. He even stepped on my feet when pushed back. When she realized that her foot was stepping on my shoes, she refused and apologized. I just smiled while nodding my head.

For some reason, getting closer to her made my heart beat irregularly. I've never attracted this to women before.

Especially when I decided to accept a heart donor from Arez with a thousand coercions. This is the first time Arez's heart has been implanted in my body reacted to seeing a woman I never knew before.

"Finally, up to me. Excuse me Ma'am, I'm out first yeah," said the woman as she split the horde of humans inside the elevator. But his body was actually pushed by a fat man when he shifted to give him space to make the woman fall to the floor.

My reflexes grabbed her hand and helped the woman stand up. Before he was even more embarrassed by being noticed by so many people, I grabbed the crowd and pulled him out of the elevator.

"Thank you, Mas, it's nolongin. I was waiting for the boss" he said as we walked down the aisle to the daily newspaper division before he ran away without having a chance to ask what his name was.

Yet I have a hunch, he is Kanya. The woman that Arez chose for me.

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"Lo's big smiles from earlier, bro. What wind makes you happy?" asked the man in square glasses, welcoming me warmly upon arriving in his room. He just led an editorial meeting for the coverage materials today. "Meet you pretty girl?"

"Bawahan lo, there is something that makes me interested," I replied while sitting opposite him.

"Wait, my subordinate? Who the hell? Tumben-tumbenan also you are interested in girls. How's the character?"

Hanung's laughter was only responded to with a misbehaving smile. I don't know why I'm interested in that woman. Only my instincts tell me he's Kanya. The woman that Arez chose for me. The woman who supposedly could remove the curse that the man had uttered.

"He's pretty tall, 173s maybe. The body is not very thin, not fat either. Take the same height. Her hair was cut from a bob-shoulder model."

"Hem, Kanya is sure. Surely I must be Kanya. It's only natural that you're interested in him. She is not only beautiful, from her face it is also seem that she is smart and hardworking. Ulet. If I don't have a wife, I'm also a girl. Your eyes are also the same quality."

"Yes, instead of lo pacarin, I'll talk to you first. Know it."

"Do you really like him?"

"I have never been in love before, but my heart is not as frozen as the North Pole either."

Hanung laughed at my speech. Imbuhnya,"Yes, I'll know deh. Busy the election again. Disrupt the work of ntar. 'And different deadlines are the same."

"Damn it also takes all the time."

"Let's not be rejected easily. Trust me the same."

Yes, he is Kanya. Kanya Gayatri's. The woman that Arez chose for me to look after her in the future. The universe brought us together in unexpected ways. Makes me even more convinced that Arez's past curse has affected my subconscious and made it my ambition to find Kanya.

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