Guardians of the Heart #2
Chapter 9
After the meal, the Lieutenant and Arga did not rejoin me and Rey who returned to the living room as if they were giving us time for the two. But I didn't like it, I wanted to talk to them and listen to them playing guitar on the back porch.
“So they were your close friends all this time?”
“Iya.”
“That time you watched with them too?”
“Iya, same girl Arga also.”
“So that you want to go home, Yudha?”
“Iya, Mas Yudha.”
“He really is who the hell? Your brother is not, brother is not, girlfriend is not, but his style is rich in important people only, only Lieutenant Doang has also been belagu let alone become a child Ambassador.”
“He is indeed an important person for us!”
I could no longer hold back my emotions when Rey denigrated the Lieutenant like that.
“He is not the son of the Ambassador, but he is the only son of the vice governor of West Java as well as a businessman here, and keep in mind, the army is not just any job! They are the ones who will defend this country if anything happens, after all he is not an ordinary soldier, he is a member of Kopassus, has been a member of the United Nations forces, he said, the best Akmil graduate of 2012 and has received several awards medals from the State for his services, and another, his rank he is not Lieutenant but Captain.”
Rey seemed surprised to hear the fact that I was revealing about the Lieutenant actually, and yes I forgot to tell her that the Lieutenant was no longer the Lieutenant but was already the Captain, he said, he got a promotion after doing a mission yesterday and I don't know what that mission is either, but certainly at that time all the squads who dropped in the mission got a simultaneous promotion and also a medal of awards from the country.
“But he is very simple, he never boasts of the wealth and position of his parents, nor his own position, which is why he became a favorite son and brother and the pride of his family and also my family. And where your hotel stay in Bandung that you said 5 stars, you need to know. Papah is one of the shareholders there.”.
Rey was surprised to hear that, but I wasn't satisfied, recalling earlier during the meal he boasted how he had traveled the world and proudly said that his father besides an Ambassador also had a company that would later be passed down to him and his younger siblings.
“So you better not brag about your parents' property in front of him anymore because it will only embarrass you.”
For the first time I took out what was on my mind in front of Rey, made her fall silent as if I couldn't believe I could be that brave and soon she came home. After Rey left, I joined Arga and the Lieutenant told her everything, making them both laugh.
“Since when I became the son of Dedy Mizwar (deputy Governor of West Java) when Papah bought shares of Hyatt hotel?”
The Lieutenant laughed as he shook his head listening to my story, as did Arga.
“Bae, Nan, nu siga kitu mah (biarin, Nan, which is rich so mah) emang should be digituin if not tar plus big head.”
“Iya, endless sprains! If he's just bragging anyway, but he dares to humiliate Mas Yudha! I will not be silent!”
The Lieutenant looked at me for a moment then smiled as he ruffled my hair.
“Take it easy, Key, Mas Your Lieutenant will not just stay still, right, Nan?”
The Lieutenant smiled again while playing the guitar, and I fell silent with a rustling chest when I heard Arga say ‘Mas Lieutenant-mu’ which reminds me of the past.
“Let it go first,” he said casually with his fingers strumming guitar strings, “But you're okay, Key? How about because of this he's angry with you.”
The Lieutenant stopped playing the guitar and now looked at me worriedly, and it made me feel mixed up. On the one hand I'm happy that he's worried about me, but on the other hand I don't want him to worry about me fighting with my girlfriend for defending her.
“He is not the type of person who can hold back his emotions, so if indeed he wants to be angry he must have been angry earlier.”
The Lieutenant was silent for a moment then nodded in understanding, “If he gets angry, tell us, ok?”
I nodded in understanding and the conversation about Rey-pun stopped until there. After praying magrib Arga said he wanted to go to Irene's house, while me and the Lieutenant again sat on the back porch, back to playing guitar.
And as usual when we were both, she would chant the same melody making me really curious about the song she liked to play when she was with me.
“This is whose song anyway?” for the umpteenth time I asked but as usual just getting a smiley answer from the Lieutenant made me look at him annoyed.
“Hmmm.. western song, 90s, singer guy.”
“Iiiih! A lot of male singers in the 90s. Besides I was born in 92, lest this song be before I was born.”
“Hahahaha.. if not mistaken this early relist 1994.”.
“Thank you, I'm still 2 years old if that's it.”
“Hahaha, but this is a very famous song so you should also know.”
“Know... but forget, that makes more curious.”.
“Hahaha..” the Lieutenant again muttered the melody making me more curious.
“Come dong, singin! Consider it a birthday gift.. yes.yes.yaaah!"
“Gift birthday?” the Lieutenant fell silent then looked at me with a sniff, his fingers still picking the same melody.
“Happy birthday, Key... thanks for being an amazing woman.” He looked at me with a soft look of eyes and a smile on his face, making my heart start to craze.
“Women who not only have physical beauty, but also crystal-clear hearts and as clean as dew... thank you for standing by my side until now, and thank you for staying healthy and still sharing the same air as me.”
I really could not breathe to hear all of his words, still looking at me he then changed the melodic passages that had been played to be more excited and immediately I laughed to hear it.
“Happy birthday to you.. happy birthday-happy birthday, happy birthday Kekey.”
“Hahaha.. Why even a birthday song? I want that song.”
“That birthday gift is it, if that song was still PR for you.”
“Engga want, the gift time is happy birthday.”
“The gift will be just wait.”
“Truth get a gift? When?”
“It is up to God to give his gift when, which I must have asked for the best gift from God for you.”
I smiled at him, as usual he always managed to touch my heart. Verily I knew what a gift I so desired of him for me, that his presence beside me had slowly made the fragments in my heart come back whole, though not perfect.
It was not Rey who had healed my heart, but the presence of the Lieutenant beside me as a friend who was always there when I needed him, as the ever-reliable guard of my heart who had inadvertently healed my heart. Arga once said to me, “The one who can treat our heart wounds is the one who has made him hurt and we ourselves.”
“Means?” at that time I did not understand his words.
“For example rich gini, A hurt the same B, and A can not forget his heartache as B even though he can continue his life and happy with the C, C, until one day A meets B, he will again remember his heartache and may even threaten his happiness. Different story that B came and apologized sincerely with A, A, without giving up he kept coming again and again until finally the A got used to the presence of the B and finally the A forgave him because he could see the sincerity of the B. So even though one day the A is no longer with the B but the same as the C and one day meet the B, B, si A will smile at B because there is no more pain in his heart, maybe even they both can laugh at the stupid things they did in the past.”
I smiled at Arga's words and now I felt it, it was hard for me to see it at first because it seemed to be reminded of heartache and disappointment, but slowly seeing his sincerity I was now used to his presence and my heart slowly returned intact even though it had not been able to laugh at the mistakes of the past.
The night Rey called me, she apologized for her stupidity and she promised she would try to accept my friends as I would her friends. Didn't I tell you that he was actually kind besides his high and jealous talk, the rest had no problem with him.
As an apology tomorrow he invited Arga and the Lieutenant to lunch. I immediately contacted Arga and the Lieutenant to deliver the invitation and fortunately they accepted it even with a little persuasion by saying Irene could be taken.
But what Arga invited was not only Irene but also Karin. It feels like we are doing a triple date!
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