HEARTBEATS

27. You Mean

...Memories will always be created when you start to follow a story, from everything that happens in your life with joy and sorrow....

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Revelyn felt as if time was spinning very slowly, as she recalled the moment Leo gave her the bracelet back then.

When Vito threw the bracelet away, then stood back to him, Revelyn then walked to look for the bracelet.

Carefully Revelyn went down the cobblestone path like a slide, even Revelyn was uneasy because of the many thickets around her.

Revelyn circulated her entire gaze in search of the bracelet, Revelyn did so because the bracelet was Leo's gift, which meant that the bracelet meant enough to her.

"That's it."

Revelyn smiled, she got her bracelet stuck in one of the twigs.

"Girly!"

The girl had already gotten her bracelet, and wanted to go upstairs to meet Vito. But unfortunately, Revelyn even slipped so much that he fell, even his body rolled to hit the roots of a large enough tree that spread on the ground.

Brucks

"Oh."

Revelyn was in pain, she had stopped rolling but her head and body were all in pain.

The girl touched her forehead as fresh blood flowed away, leaving Revelyn shocked.

"Blood ...?"

But Revelyn was silent when not far from her, Revelyn saw the bracelet that Leo loved her.

Revelyn's hand slowly moved to reach the object, but the girl could not move her entire body due to the pain.

But Revelyn's eyes began to glaze over, the girl squeezed the grass around her, suddenly Revelyn seemed to be pulled into the past so as to make her recall her childhood with Leo.

"Mbak .. when do they come home?"

Revelyn, a six-year-old, continued to cry while sitting in the gazebo of her yard with her nanny Agitha.

It had been a year since the departure of Mama, Papa, and also his brother, but the three of them never came home, making Revelyn cry because she missed her family.

"They must go home, son, you must be patient, yes." comfort Agitha, he rubbed Revelyn's hair and kissed the top of the boy's head.

"Yes, when?"

Revelyn's cry became more and more, she could not bear it anymore.

"Sir, can Leo borrow Velyn for a minute?"

The presence of Leo surprised the two, the seven-year-old stood not far from them.

Hearing Leo's words made Agitha smile while nodding.

"But Velyn is not an item, where it can be borrowed!" whinek Revelyn, he looked at Leo pouting.

"Sorry." said Leo, the boy chuckled.

After that Revelyn walked over to Leo, "you're with me, just wait." said Leo, he held Revelyn's left hand and went to his destination.

The two of them will walk towards the park, whatever Leo will do, Revelyn is confused and just according to where they went from with Leo.

"You can't cry, girls can't cry" said Leo, they both took a seat on the park bench.

"*No papa! who can't cry is a boy!" upset Revelyn, make Leo smile*.

"But still, Velyn can not cry, Leo will also be sad. 'And Leo's duty should be to make Velyn happy, so Velyn should be happy."

Revelyn turned to Leo, but she cried again at the words of the boy beside her.

"Velyn was sad, they left Velyn, saying they were coming back, but what? not home yet. It must be because Velyn is a crybaby, right? that's why mama, papa, same sister Regan doesn't want to go home."

Revelyn sobbed, making Leo's expression become moody.

"You said I can't be a crybaby. So, you can't be whiny either." said Leo, he patted the top of Revelyn's head slowly.

The girl stopped crying, she looked at Leo.

"Leo, are Leo like them?"

"What-like?"

"Go away and never come back."

Leo shook his head, "Leo is not them, because Leo's job is to be happy with Velyn, and always there for Velyn, Leo will not leave Velyn, because Velyn means to Leo."

"Leo didn't lie, did he?"

"No."

"Why does Velyn mean to Leo anyway?"

"Because Velyn is precious to Leo, now, tomorrow, and forever, Velyn will be the most meaningful to Leo."

Leo always said that Revelyn meant everything to him, Revelyn was everything, even when they started stepping on 3rd grade Junior High.

At that time the younger sister from their school expressed her feelings for Leo, Revelyn who heard it was just ordinary, but because she was curious finally Revelyn asked Leo when they were in the school garden.

"Gw heard you were shot by your underclassman." 

"Dead dong gw."

"Not that dodol, I mean, there is a younger class expressing his feelings as lo, why even you refuse? though she was beautiful." Revelyn said, she looked at Leo who was sitting next to her.

The man's expression was ordinary, Leo was like that, many girls expressed their feelings for Leo, but the man always rejected him. For whatever reason Leo, Revelyn did not think, is Leo different? oh no, it doesn't feel possible.

"Gw refused because I already have lo, Velyn."

Revelyn immediately looked at Leo cengo, "do you mean?"

"Velyn is everything for me, because I don't want anything else but Velyn, because according to me I need in this world, only Velyn."

Revelyn's mouth was slightly open, she could not believe Leo was saying that to her.

"Why? why is Velyn everything to Leo?" revelyn asked nervously, it felt like her tongue was suddenly twisted because of that guy.

"Because you're the person I love the most in this world, after mama gw."

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Revelyn managed to reach out to her bracelet, all her might turning her position into a seat.

Tears began to plunge freely on Revelyn's cheeks, the girl crying silently as she looked at the bracelet in her hand.

The girl looked up, she was startled as Leo stood right in front of her, albeit with a severed breath.

"Leo ..." - Revelyn softly.

Leo frowned, "lo hurt?" leo asked frantically as he saw Revelyn's forehead spitting out fresh blood.

"Why ...."

"W-what?" leo asked as he took a sip of his saliva, he looked at Revelyn fixedly, the girl still sitting on the ground.

"Why do you always care so much? why are you always there when I need you? why are you always there to be my backrest? in fact, even though I started to move away from you, I started not to care anymore about you, even I never existed again when you needin gw ...."

"Lo always try to make me happy all this time, but I can't even make you happy every day."

"When everyone tells you to stay away from me, because I'm selfish, because I'm naive, but why, why don't you stay away from me? why do you even still care about me, why are you always there for me?"

"Actually how much does it mean, anyway, I made you?!" revelyn shouted, the girl's tears did not stop coming out of her eye patch.

Hearing all Revelyn said, Leo just kept silent, but the girl kept looking at him as if she was waiting for his answer.

"I don't know, either." replied Leo, making Revelyn frown.

"For gw, lo it's everything, lo it means to gw. Lo, the person I love the most after my mom died. Maybe you're the one that mom sent me, from heaven, to make me happy again."

"Because of Velyn, my days are always happy and full of laughter."

"Gw doesn't care if you're selfish, naive, or whatever, because humans have their good and bad sides. Lo it's my best friend, lo it's everything, lo it means to me. Because lo, I can rise from the fall that I have experienced."

"Gw .. It's a shame you, Velyn. Even this feeling of affection to the point of wanting to have lo, forever."

Silence, after which they both fell silent. Revelyn, starting to stand up, in a very chaotic state, Revelyn stared at the two Leo beads quite deeply.

"That's what I do for you ...?"

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Everyone laughed loosely while sitting around the campfire, they also sang and also danced around the campfire.

Vito sits next to Revelyn while playing guitar and singing. As for Revelyn, the girl just silently stared at the campfire with a blank look.

"Velyn, let's sing."

Vito's intention to invite the girl, but Revelyn instead got up from her seat to leave.

But Vito intercepted his hand, "where are you going?"

Revelyn stared at Vito nanar, then threw Vito's hand that intercepted him.

"Don't bother me."

After saying that, the girl began to leave the crowd. Revelyn chose to walk away from the tent, the girl just wanted to be alone.

"Girly!"

Vito pulled Revelyn's hand so that the girl's body turned to face him, Vito looked at the girl fixedly, but it seemed like Revelyn was just staring flat at him.

"Why are you?" ask Vito.

Revelyn raised her eyebrows, "gw, why?"

"Vely." Vito urged the girl, making Revelyn smile.

"Lo want to stay away from Leo, my best friend, right?"

"Yes." Yeah." Vito nodded, "gw tell you, because I love you, I just don't want you to get close to him, it makes me jealous." explained Vito, Revelyn nodded.

After that Revelyn touched next to Vito's shoulder while patting him slowly, Revelyn smiled sarcastically.

"Gw know you're my boyfriend, but that doesn't mean you want to tell me to keep away from Leo. He's my best friend, who knows me even more and my family matters, more than anyone including you!"

"Lo just know the happy side of me without wanting to understand my sadness."

"When I mean more and everything to my best friend, then why should I leave him? him, it's worth it to me. Because of her, as well as everything to me." Revelyn told me, she tilted her head while looking at Vito with her innocent pretentious smile.

The guy clenched his hands together, he pulled Revelyn's hand as the girl wanted to pass away leaving him.

"So, you refuse to stay away from him?" asked Vito with a flat expression.

Revelyn nodded, she released Vito's hand which intercepted her.

"If you tell me to stay away from Leo again," Revelyn looked at Vito with a flat expression. "maybe you'll be far away."

Revelyn left Vito for the tent, and the girl hugged herself while biting her lips deeply.

Was I too rude, huh, same Vito?

The girl sighed as she entered the tent, but she gasped when she found out that Leo was inside her tent.

"L-lo what's here?"

Leo turned his head, he looked at Revelyn with a smile.

"Gw wants to cure your wounds."

"No need, I'm not papa, the blood has stopped coming out anyway." Revelyn refused while chuckling, but Leo instead pulled his hand to sit in front of the guy.

"But still, the wound will be an infection."

Finally, the girl complied. He let Leo treat his wound with red medicine, then covered his forehead with a wound plaster.

"Thank you."

Leo nodded, "yes."

"Thank you."

Leo frowned, "just thank you,"

"Make it all."

The guy smiled as their beads looked at each other, the next second Leo pinched next to Revelyn's cheek in anxiety.

"Gw would like to thank you too."

Revelyn raised next to her eyebrows in surprise, "make what?"

"Make it all too"

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