
" I can explain." He said stammered, Brother Zean grabbed both of my hands but I immediately shook off. My eyes began to heat up and clear circles dripped just like that from my eye fertilizers.
My chest fluttering in rhythm with my irregular breath, I hit my chest full of crushes, my eyes staring at the nanar of the man I initially trusted so much. "When are you together again?"I asked with a hoarse voice.
"What do you mean, who's together again, Natasha and I are just friends now, we're working on a Thesis together." It was Zean who made me even more angry.
" So you guys go to college together." I pointed at Brother Zean and sister Natasha alternately. "You guys left together back then, didn't you, I met Natasha's sister in the airport when I was dropping off Zean's, so you guys planned it from the beginning?"I smile bitterly, my tears do not stop flowing, I feel like a fool in front of them.
" You misunderstood, I just found out that Natasha went to college here after we accidentally met in the campus." Brother Zean paused for a moment, he cupped my face with both hands. "Trust me, I just love you, nothing else." His words are full of emphasis.
I shook Zean's hand again, I really wanted to believe him, but what I saw in front of my eyes made me doubt and began to lose faith in him.
" Is it worth a friend to make out that way, he kisses you and you don't even try to resist him, do you enjoy it?"
Brother Zean rubbed his face rough. "But I'm not replying to it, I'm focusing on my thesis, please understand, kissing a friend here is normal."
I smiled cynically. "But I don't live here, where I live that you guys have done more than just friends, I know I don't have the right to ban your friendships, but this time you've gone too far and I can't trust you anymore. You say you love me and want to be with me forever, but in fact you still can't escape the shadow of your mass." I paused my sentence, I took pains to swallow my salivary, trying to reconsider the sentence I was about to say. "Let's break up."
Brother Zean pecked, his eyes began to turn red. "What are you saying, I don't want to. I admit I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but please don't leave me."
"You who pushed me to leave, what in your eyes I was so stupid, repeatedly you did things that hurt me and I easily forgot that, but this time, I gave up, I gave up, I'm tired of being the fool you've always fooled." I started sobbing, but I had to finish this as soon as possible. "Stay after your dreams even if my love is no longer with you, I'm gone." I turned around and left Zean's brother still fixated, with half-running I left Zean's house, I wiped the tears on my face, but for home alone, I couldn't hold him back, they just keep flowing down my face.
I continued to move on without knowing my purpose, the pain in my heart made me forget that I was in a land of people, a foreign place that I did not recognize.
I stopped my steps and watched the wildflowers that were blooming along the way, they were so beautiful and colorful. Today my heart should be blooming like the flowers of spring, but hope is only hope, in fact my heart is falling in this beautiful spring.
I scratched my head that was not itchy, broken in my heart had damaged my sense, I was standing where I did not recognize, he said, my head was in a daze trying to remember where I came from until I got to this place. "Bas stupid, stray where I am." Gumamku.
" There's something I can help you with." Exciting a voice behind me, I immediately turned around and felt grateful because there were Indonesians who found me.
" Indonesia?" Ask a young man who is standing in front of me.
I nodded quickly. " Yes, you are from Indonesia." Means back.
" Yes." Answer's short. " Are you straying?" Guess it's on target. "Where are you going, maybe I can help you." Imbuhnya with a warm smile on his handsome face, a typical face of Indonesia, Indonesia,
"I want to go to the airport, but I didn't find a taxi around here."
"Ah, there is rarely a taxi that passes. Where'd you go?" Friendly ask.
"I want to go back to Baltimore, my brother lives there." My word.
" Oh yeah, I live there too, where does your brother live?"
" Not far from Johns Hopkins University."
The young man smiled. "I also live around there, did your brother go to Johns Hopkins?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"You went to college there too?"Ask me politely.
The young man who was almost the same height as Brother Ega nodded. "I'm studying specialist, only the second year. You've been to college?" Ask again.
"It's only starting this year."
"What courses do you take."
"Medicine."
The young man nodded his head, then he thrust his hand at me. "Ilham, nice to meet you, what's your name?"
"I took the hand of the young man named Ilham with a smile. "Indhi brother. Nice to meet Ilham's brother."
"Let's go to the airport now?"Invite him, then he walked ahead of me, I immediately ran after the footsteps of Ilham's legs were so long.
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During the 5-hour trip on the plane Ilham talked a lot about his family living in Indonesia, he said he had a younger sister who was also my age, he was so friendly and kind that I felt comfortable and safe when he offered to help me.
We arrived at Baltimore Airport at about 10pm local time, with good heart Mr. Ilham will also take me to sister Zean's apartment.
"What's the matter in Santa Monica?" Ask Mr. Ilham when we were in the taxi.
" Walking to someone." I answered a little doubt.
" Friend?"Guess again.
I took a deep breath and threw it away violently. "Over right, the ex."
"Just broken up?"Ilham grew curious.
I decided to tell the young man I just met today, I thought it was okay to share with him, anyway we will not meet again, maybe by telling someone about this tightness will be reduced. "Hem."Answer's short. "I saw him being hugged and kissed by his ex."
"Then what did he say?"
"She said it was normal between friends, hugging and kissing each other."
" Do you believe?"
" Of course not. I decided to break up, maybe I should focus on my studies first."
"It's good that if you think so, you're young, out there there must be a lot of people who want to be with you, especially if you're a doctor, there must be a lot of people queuing up." Said Ilham trying to comfort me.
I look back on the words of Brother Ilham, rightly, I was young, for what I should be this sad just because of heartbreak, if Brother Zean is my soul mate, God will definitely send him back to me, God will surely send him back to me, if not, then I'll just remember it as my first sad love. Really my first love.
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