HIM, MY BEST FRIEND

S2 Truth?

"Doctor Rinjani, can we talk for a second?" a voice sounded from behind me.

I looked up and I saw Rena standing a few feet behind me.

"Sure," I answered.

I looked at Doctor Eagle for consideration. Instead of helping, he smiled and moved out of his chair.

"Please, Miss Rena," said Doctor Eagle invited Rena to sit in the chair where she was.

"Thank you, Doctor," he replied, nodding.

" Be careful, you will be immediately proposed to be Brother-in-law," he said as he passed me.

He left laughing. To me the joke isn't funny at all.

Rena was sitting next to me, in the chair of the former Eagle Doctor. I saw his face pale a little with dark circles under his eyes. It seems like she's waiting for her mother without a break.

"Yes, Ren, what's wrong?" many pelahian.

"Sister Riri ...," he was silent for a long time. I waited patiently for him. However, it was not a word that came out of his lips but rather a cry.

"Why are you crying? Mom's okay, isn't she? Sis had a chat with the doctor who held the mother, she said the mother is okay."

"Not the mother, brother, but Brother Harry," he said slowly.

I was still silent, not responding to what he said.

"Sister Harry said it all, and I didn't expect it at all. I think Brother Harry is doing well. Sorry, I don't know."

I don't fully understand what Rena is talking about. However, I catch that Harry is telling us what happened to us first. So that Rena did not misunderstand our relationship.

"It's okay, it's all the past" I said.

"Can I still beg, brother?" tanyakanya.

"please? What's for?"

"Please go back to him. Harry's brother is absolutely devastated without his brother" he said in tears.

"No way, Ren. We have nothing before. All those memories I buried deep. Our story used to be just a friendship story that was over" I pressed.

"No, Brother. Brother misunderstood. I was the witness of how Brother Harry tried hard nyariin Brother to Malang. I didn't know what was going on, but I finally understood. Brother Harry cried when I said Riri was here. Riri's sister who nolongin mother," she tried to explain.

"That's nothing, Ren."

"Sister, every time Harry's brother has a holiday, he always goes to Malang. Every time I ask him what he needs to go there, he just says to meet Kak Riri. When I said that brother was here, finally he just said that he went to Malang not to meet Brother, but to find Brother."

"What do you mean?"

"Sister Harry regrets everything he's done, brother. For years she's been nyariin Kak Riri, but didn't meet."

What joke is this?

"Why should he regret it? He himself is the one who betrays Brother. She's the one who's leaving with another woman" I said fiercely.

"Because of that Brother went to Malang, right? Riri chose to take the scholarship away because Harry's brother betrayed, right? Meanwhile, Riri was not interested in taking the scholarship. Didn't you see there's a common thread between Harry's brother who betrayed the same decision as Riri's sister?"

I tried to open my mind to Rena's explanation. But my heart still rejected what my brain caught.

"You're no longer trying to clear your brother's name of what he did, are you, Ren?" I tried hard to keep rejecting what this woman sitting next to me was saying.

He shook his head hard.

"You can't believe it, look at this!" The release of a new model smartphone and presented it to me.

"For what?"

"Try Kak Riri clay first," he asked very much.

I received that phone. I touched screen. There appeared a picture of a girl smiling sweetly with long hair unravelling in the wind.

"Whose phone is this?" I asked with a choked voice.

"This is Harry's phone" he replied.

"Why did you see Brother?"

"I don't want to open up people's privacy" I refused while putting the flat object on the table.

"I am the ngizinin, Brother. Please, Brother should know everything," his eyes are back in tears.

"No!"

"Please, brother," his cries began to break.

"Whatever's in here won't change the situation now, Ren," I said with emphasis.

"So big Brother thinks so, why is Brother afraid to open the phone?"

"Enough, Ren! You're this shit?" suddenly Harry was behind us.

"It is good that you come here, Har. Please explain to your sister exactly what happened. I don't want any misunderstanding. And I don't want my name to be ugly because it's considered evil or has no feelings."

Harry did not say a word. Only her eyes looked at me.

"So don't assume this problem is over, Ren. Excuse me first" I said as I stood up and walked past Harry.

"Yes, one more. Don't make my photo a screen saver or wallpaper. We are not muhrim, I don't want it to be a crime for me" I said, turning around for a moment.

I continued my footsteps.

"Nobody misunderstood you, Ri. Everything I told Rena was true" Harry raised his voice so I could hear what he was saying. But I don't care anymore.

...

I had intended to rest in my room so that later tonight would not be sleepy when guarding in the ER. But now my eyes are not at all willing to cooperate.

I finally got off the check bed and sat in my chair. I took the cardboard there and took out a pillow that was in the shape of a pink Hello Kitty head combination of white. I cuddled that pillow. The fragrance of clothes smelled from him, the sign of the pillow was well-groomed. I rubbed that pillow with my thumb. He used to be my confiding friend before I gave it back to the person who gave it to me.

"Hi, Kitty. How you been all this time?" I asked as if she could hear and answer my greeting.

"I think he's taking good care of you" my monologue again.

"Did he ever talk to you and talk about me?" many stupid.

Suddenly Rena's words ring in my ear.

Didn't you see there is a common thread between Harry's brother who betrayed the same decision of Riri?

Could it be that he used to deliberately make himself look bad for me to stay away from? Didn't he want me to take that scholarship? And I said I'd stay here to dream with him?

I smiled cynically. How could a high school boy think that far for his loved ones. Too far-fetched.

Every time Harry's brother is off, he always goes to Malang. Every time I ask him what he needs to go there, he just says to meet Kak Riri.

Is anyone that stupid, looking for something that is not clear of its existence? Since I graduated college and earned a Bachelor of Medicine (S. Ked) I continued my professional program at a hospital outside Malang. Finished koas I still do internship in remote Nusa Tenggara. How could he possibly find me?

I feel like a fool thinking about all those possibilities.

Suddenly my phone sang the song Old Luka. I hurried to pick it up to see who called me. A name is on there. I'll pick up that call immediately.

"Assalammu 'alaikum, '" salam.

"Wa'alaikum greetings, Dear. Are you busy right now?" ask the Caller.

"No, Mom. I'm still in the hospital, but I haven't been on duty. Can I help you, Mom?" my many.

"There certainly is, dear. Mommy just got here this morning from New Zealand. Mommy wants to pick a kebaya for your wedding. Did Mommy's favorite kid tell you?" tanyakanya.

"No, Mom. Maybe he forgot, "I replied.

"He's always been like that" she said.

"It's okay, Mom. Tomorrow I'll definitely come home to see Mommy" I said.

"Alright, Dear. Mommy will be waiting for you. See you tomorrow, Honey. Assalamu 'alaikum."

"Wa 'alaikum salam."

See, there's no point thinking about the past. He won't be able to take me back. And now my future is in sight.

"Sorry, Ren. My brother said, everything you say, won't change anything" I murmured.