Lara's Admirers

Episode 38's

The two men walked down the hallway to Arka's room. Though it was only four in the afternoon, but the atmosphere was already quiet like this. Although actually now they are in a state of fear but their expressions look so convincing. They may lose their self-esteem until that happens.

"Simplons!"

Sendy opened the door latch of the Arka room. Then push that wheelchair up to his bed over there.

"You're not in a hold?" Ledek Sendy when he saw Arka was having trouble getting down from his wheelchair.

"Relieve it!" Reject Arka raw.

While the man who was a year older than him was just a little laugh looking at Arka. After making sure Arka was completely safe, Sendy pulled over his wheelchair beside Arka's bed.

"I'll go back first." Sendy

Arka nodded her head "Yes, thank you very much."

"Okay sip." Sendy gave his thumb to the man.

Suddenly he stopped his steps when he was going out, then turned back his body. Arka shone a sharp look at the strange man.

"Why?" Ask Arka.

"Only alone?"

"You can see for yourself."

"Ih, watch out later the mbak kunti comes nemenin mas Arka. Haha...."

Sendy tried to scare the man.

"Didih, the one with the older brother will be on the way back in the hallway even in the follow." Reply Ark.

Sendy did not immediately pierce it, he then closed the door slowly so that the hinge slightly creaked and created an atmosphere of horror. Arka shuddered in horror herself after making sure Sendy had actually left from there.

Arka chose to go back to sleep, then immediately pulled the blanket.

***

"Flame... Taps... Butt..."

Sendy's footsteps sounded so clear along this passageway. It seems very rarely passed by the hospital officials except when delivering food and checking the condition of the patient.

"How can the boy get a room in such a place." Sendy's mumbling.

He only remembered one thing, if he left his hoodie in his motorcycle seat. He was in too much of a hurry to meet Eresha after receiving a call from Renata. He forgot his favorite hoodie.

Sendy decided to go back down first to pick up his hoodie that was along with his motorcycle in the parking lot.

After getting what he wanted, Sendy immediately returned to Eresha's room with a hoodie that was coiled around her waist.

***

I play my nails while waiting for the guy to come back here.

"Oh my God! I'm so tired of being here!" My complaint.

I can't even do anything but lie down or go to the toilet. It's the second thing I hate about hospitals besides the distinctive smell they have.

"Where's my phone?" I muttered slowly.

I circled my gaze across the room to find that thing. That small rectangular-shaped thing could definitely take away my current saturation.

Uh! That's her!

I immediately grabbed the thing that was lying on the table. Because it just so happened that his desk was next to mine, so it wasn't that hard.

"Huf! Who put it there?" I said while wiping some of the dust that stuck there.

Though there has not been a day of this thing I left, it is dirty. Yes, after all, the phone will always be stronger after use.

I opened the WhatsApp short message application, ascertaining whether there are incoming notifications or not. Other applications, including social media.

I scroll through all the contacts there, looking at him one by one. About who I can talk to right now. I thought for a while while still searching for the appropriate name.

"Ah, they!" I'm enthusiastic.

I haven't talked to them for a long time. Three strange people still live in the city. Maybe they will leave the small town when they graduate school. I don't know if that's the case, but I don't know exactly how. They once said that when they graduate, they will take a scholarship out of town to continue their studies.

Without a second thought I immediately called them with a video call. Vuahhh... I can't wait to see them. Whether the faces of the three girls changed after a long time I did not see.

The screen of my phone was divided into four parts, and each part showed the inscription "while connecting."

Zahra who raised the video call first, followed by Rini and Rahma. The four of us were screaming hysterically right then and there.

I'm sure there will be a lot of gossip they haven't told me.

"Wooohh... Eresha!"

They looked so excited when they saw me.

"Hi hi hi..." Reply while waving my hands in front of my phone screen.

"Kangennnn!" Zahra.

"I know, too, that's why I'm your video call." My word.

I finally get to meet these three humans again even if only from a glass screen.

"I'm sorry about yesterday's accident we couldn't look up. You're going home from the hospital, you're going straight to Jakarta." Obviously Rini.

"Yes anyways, your hospital is out of town." Rahma Typal.

"Yes hunt through dong if you have to take it there first. Yesterday's hospital runnin' closest to the scene." I said with a little bit.

"Oh yes, how are you doing by the way?" Ask enthusiastically.

For some reason if I meet them, after that my energy seems to increase so drastically. I can't deny if they're my mood boosters.

"Alhamdulillah, be all right." Rahma.

"It's okay." Reply Rini.

"Alhamdulillah. How about yourself?" Answer Zahra.

"Alhamdulillah well too, only now again moved the place of the fall." I clearly.

"meaning?" Ask Zahra.

I immediately changed the mode to the rear camera and showed them the entire room. Then do not forget also with my hand attached to the infusion needle on it.

"Geez!" Rini.

I immediately returned it to front camera mode so they could see my face. I know that the three of them miss me so much and almost die if I'm not with them. Comeon! it was too hyperbole, after all they are still fine without me there.

"Lo's being treated again, in the hospital?" Ask Zahra to make sure.

I nodded, assuring.

"Geez, get well soon." Rini.

"Thank you."

"What pain?" Now replace Rahma who asked me.

"Biasalah ketapean, many activities, lack of sleep and even drop." I clearly.

"Eh realized that the Eresha now since in Jakarta said she used me you, hahaha.... You used to be me." Timpal Zahra who suddenly play nyelonong aja.

Yes, I just realized that. I just laughed a little with them. Soon our unclear conversation was over. Conversations are uncertain what the topic is, and can vary according to their mood.

Even though it only lasted a few minutes because they had to go in for an exculpation in a moment, but I really enjoyed it. They're all just as funny as they used to be, even now they're much funnier.

"Simplons!"

Suddenly someone opened the door from the outside. I thought it was a treatment or a watch doctor going around. Turns out I was wrong, it's Sendy's sister. He tidied his hair a little messy then pulled the chair next to me.

"Sorry, I went to the parking lot first. Someone's missing." His word.

"It's okay." Reply calmly.

Then he took his backpack which he left here while delivering Arka earlier. His hand reached into the contents of the object and then took out a laptop from there.

I don't know what he's fiddling with in there, which he obviously looks very serious. Maybe doing his college work. I threw my gaze at the ceiling, then sighed heavily.

"This is it!" Said Brother Sendy while picking his finger.

I turned my eyes to the man next to me.

"Try to see." He then thrust his laptop at me.

I scrunched my forehead, not understanding what he was doing just now. Without a second thought, I stared at the screen of his laptop.

"While you were sleeping." I tried to spell the title written in Korean Hangul.

Then Sendy Scroll her down a little, and the title appears in English. I snorted as bad as hell. Why not just show the title written in the letters of the alphabet, it would obviously be much more practical than I had to read the Korean Hangul that I had never really mastered since second grade Junior High.

Yeah, you know if I like all things Korean. Including the genre of music that I have loved since class VIII Junior High. At that time I also had time to learn about Korean, and of course the letter Hangul entered the list. I studied self-taught, but I never really mastered it perfectly like a native Korean. I've never been able to speak Korean as fluently as my English.

"Let's not get bored, we watch this." Said Brother Sendy.

"This what?" My toot.

"Korean drama aka drakor."

"Do you know I like Korea?"

He was silent for a moment and seemed to think hard and then answered my question just now.

"You know, after all, girls now really like it all." He said while smiling stiffly.

I smiled wryly at the answer.

Oye! Not all girls like Korea! Even my friends have blasphemed them. Besides, I don't like Korean things because I follow trends like them, I've been in that for a long time. You could say I've been very pro and master in this one business, except the language.

Sendy pushed the play button there and the intro music started. I switched to the laptop. Don't try to disturb me in situations like this.

"Do you know the story of this drama?" Ask Brother Sendy.

I shook my head without even turning my eyes away. I don't want to miss a second of this spectacle.

"So, the story is about a girl that every time she dreams, her dreams will come true. Since then, he has been traumatized by his own dreams. Because from there he can know the bad things that will happen to him and the people around him." Sendy in detail.

It seems like this man had already seen it before he had seen it with me. The proof is that he knows exactly how the story goes.

"It looks like it'll be exciting." My word.

He brought his head closer to me. Wait a minute, there's something weird about me. What's this. My heart rate is not normal, my God!

I squeezed my blanket because suddenly my heart tempo was getting faster and more uncontrollable. Oh someone please help me! I think my heart will soon explode.

Damnit damnit! I was not focused on the drama. This man is now resting his head on my shoulder.

I tried to regulate my hunting breath at that moment. Breathe in.... Dispose..... Phew.... Calm down.... Calm down....

***

Sendy deliberately rested his head on this woman's shoulder. It's been a long time since he's been like this with Eresha. He let go of all the fatigue that was exhausting his mind right now.

Sendy hopes that all his memories and memories come back. He wants everything to improve as it used to. He wants to be by his side, telling me all the things they like. But that was then, now the situation is different.

The Eresha now belonged to an Ark. It was no longer the Eresha he knew. Although in fact they are still in dating status without Eresha realizing. It is not themselves who make them separate. Time is too cruel, fate is too willing to do all these plans to them.

If the girl knew if the person next to her was the person she used to love so much. But it seems very impossible if all his memories in the past come back again.

He continued to highlight the girl closely. While Eresha could not calm herself because of this unexpected incident. The huft! Well, the point is that none of them are really focused on watching the drama. Then for what the show is played, in vain.

***

I am now more in control of myself. At least it's better than before. I tried to focus on watching the drama so that I would know how it went.

I turned to the side, towards Brother Sendy. Aishh! A scene that is really exciting but not to see. Holy hooch! Because I turned my face away, now me and this man meet a look. Our faces were really in close range, I could feel her warm breaths.

I immediately turned my face back. I turned my eyes back to the laptop. Why we even awkward each other like this, I became misbehaved.

"Hmmm...." I cleared my throat slowly.

"Why was that?" Ask Kak Sendy while melting the tension of the atmosphere.

"O.H... No way. There was that scene, I didn't want to see." Clearly I am with a tone of speech that is still stammering because of wrong behavior.

"But it's a natural scene, it must even be if in a Korean drama like this."

"Yes.a... It's just a.a.a.not how it is."

"Where?" Ask the man.

"You don't have to talk about it."

I'm trying to shift this increasingly frantic conversation.

"Continue to episode two!" My love.

"Hey! It's here to rest, not to make a Korean drama marathon."

My lips went forward for a few centis because this man did not comply with my request. I'm so bored here, is there nothing else I can do but lie here. I snorted in annoyance.

The man immediately returned his laptop to the main menu.

"Gee!" Prevent me.

"Why?"

"Oh, my picture used to fit High School. Uh not SMA anyway, SMK more precisely."

The photo is edited like a cartoon character, what he is editing.

"It's a marching band shirt, right?" I asked enthusiastically.

The man just nodded saying my words just now.

"If this one's a big brother, this one's long hair must be a girl." I pointed at the two people in the photo.

"Tu. wait a minute I seem to have seen this uniform." Tukas.

I thought for a moment about all this.

"Oh yeah, where?" Ask back, Sendy.

"It's like my marching band uniform!"

I finally remembered that, bingo! Yes, this is the exact same marching band uniform that I used to wear.

"Means one school sister dong same me. Not one school, but one team. The marching band team." I clearly.

"That means you're my junior brother dong." Reply Brother Sendy.

I nodded quickly to his words. Yeah right, I finally remembered everything. I remember if this guy was my senior brother. That means we've met before. I never thought I could see him again here, and we're even good friends. I never dreamed of being close to one of my seniors before.

"Serus this chick marching band boy too huh?" Ask again.

"Yes, she's beautiful. It's perfect for afternoon practice." Evidently.

"Who is this, brother?"

I'm still curious about the figure of the woman that I don't really recognize her face because this isn't the real picture.

"It's my boyfriend." Said Brother Sendy.

"Daughter?" I muttered slowly.

He also dated one of the marching band boys.

"You used to be in the ninth generation if you weren't wrong." Said the man who was trying to guess.

I nodded my head quickly. How could he know about that.

"Nobody can know that."

"You know what, you're bell's son, right? If in the line, bell's son is always in front. So automatically the one in the back will more often look forward, will squirm bell dong." Evidently.

"That means bell's child is always the center of attention dong if the right training. Hehe..."

"Don't be smart, please..."

"Yes reasonable dong. Uh, btw brother used to hold what tools?"

"Concussion." Answer's short.

"A lot of macems. There's snare, quint tom, same bass cymbal." I count my fingers one by one.

"Tell me guessing it yourself. I know you, when you didn't know me."

"Whatever!" I said, raising both my hands.

He laughed softly and then rattled the top of my head with anxiety.

"Now if you may know, what is the relationship between sister and sister's boyfriend?"

"Well, we split up."

His face immediately bowed and turned grim. I feel guilty for my senior brother on this one. I shouldn't have asked about it if it would end up like this. But I do know if he's going to be sad like this.

"I'm sorry I made you sad?"

I made sure this guy was okay.

"Ah? Not really." He said as he raised his head, pointing towards me.

I don't want to ask you more about her boyfriend if it'll just make her sad. I don't want his old wounds to reopen. It might hurt a little for him and it might also be difficult to recover, just like Arka. It seems like all the heartbroken men are indeed so if they are revealed again about their old wounds.

"So gini, do you remember not fitting we go to Binjai city?" Ask the man to me.

I nodded weakly.

"So it was on our way home from the bus that we had an accident, right?"

I nodded back. That horrible incident is still in my head. How can I forget the tragic incident that almost took my life and the bus. I shuddered in horror as I recalled that incident a while ago.

"I'm the same as him sitting next to each other on the back bench. Keep fitting the bus in the accident we both are one of the victims with severe injuries, and we both had a coma for a few days. We're being referred to the same hospital." Obviously Sendy seriously.

I listened to the story he told with great concentration. Because I myself experienced that too. Just like this man, I was also sitting on the back bench. But there are a lot of people sitting there so I don't pay much attention to my senior on this one maybe.

I also had a coma for a few days according to the confession of the mother who took care of me at that time there. And the first time I met Sis Sendy was when we met in the therapy waiting room.

I can finally draw a conclusion from this story. That means all bus passengers who were in an accident at that time were immediately rushed to the same hospital. That's why I met Sendy's sister there.

"Keep sister's boyfriend how was he in the accident?" My toot.

"The conditions are fine, just like me. We are slowly recovering and healthy again as usual. But the problem is that we both lose memories of previous relationships." Obviously Brother Sendy with a raucous tone.

His eyes were glazed over, there were tears stuck inside. I didn't want to bring this up again. But he started it first, Brother Sendy told me everything without me asking.

I thought it would end up like this. His heart was too fragile at this moment. I patted her gently on the shoulder trying to encourage her. It's okay if he wants to cry, he won't be ridiculed. Even a man can cry at their lowest point. They were not crying out of whiny, but they were real men. The strong man who had all this time covered all his sadness nicely.

"I remember everything about him. But not with him." Said the man.

Actually I wanted to tell her to stop telling me about her boyfriend. Because I knew that it would only further provoke her tears to flow more profusely. But maybe on the other side he'll have them a little relieved.

"Why don't you try to help her remember her past with you?" My toot.

"I tried but it felt like all the effort I was doing was in vain. Maybe he'll never have those memories again. His memory may never come back."

"Why?"

"Because fate has said something else." He said while trying to smile.

He tried to look good and strong. Even though I knew he was forcing his smile too much.

"I also feel like I lost someone after the accident." My word.

Now it's my turn to tell stories.

"Oh yeah, who?"

She immediately wiped away the trace of her tears, looking so enthusiastic to listen to my story.

"That's me I don't know."

"Can't that be it?"

"I forgot how he looked. Yeah, well, he's a guy."

"Keep up and what?"

"After the accident I couldn't remember his face clearly, until now. Lately he's always come to my dreams."

I paused my story for a bit to take a breath and then continued.

"I don't know if it was a dream or not. But it always happens when I'm unconscious, so maybe it can be said that way."

Breathe in again....

"Yesterday he took me up the hill and the last time he took me to school we used to. We're rehearsing Marching band."

"Well, can that be?"

"The name is also a dream, what the hell can't."

"How come?"

"He took me to one of the quint tom players. As this quint tom player penetrates my body it feels like my chest is tight and sore."

I don't know why this guy seems so serious about listening to my story. Is my story that interesting to him? This is just an event in the dream world.

"And he said it was a lost soul. I don't understand."

My head was getting dizzy as I explained my hard-to-describe dreams.

"What don't-don't...." My word.

"Don't-don't what?" Asked Sendy who looked impatient.

"Don't we couple that time huh. We both forgot something after the accident. But... Yes, I may be dating my sister." I said in a slightly shaky tone.

"Why is that impossible?" Ask the man.

Then he leaned his body towards me so elegantly. His movements can not be expected, he always gives a surprise in every movement he makes.

I'm getting a little nervous now.

"If you think about it anyway from the story of the sister there are indeed many similarities with my story." My word.

"Hmmm... Continues to?" Ask her while smiling sideways.

"It's impossible... Hehe,.." I said as though I were innocent.

The man immediately snorted in annoyance, then distanced himself from me. He again confirmed his sitting position.

"Whatever you have, you insensitive base." He muttered in a soft voice.

But the sentence had arrived first in my ear clearly, albeit with such a small frequency.

"Huh? What's?" I was trying to clarify.

"Ah? What the hell? Nothing to say either." His eagle.

Brother Sendy suddenly became misbehaved, he scratched his head that did not itch. His smile looked stiff, very strange. I scrunched my forehead, suspicious of this man's attitude.

"I don't know what that means, I really don't understand." My mind is inwardly wondering for myself.

All right now I'm giving up! I can't find the answer, it's even harder than a puzzle. Actually insensitive it can be classified into several meanings, the word has many definitions. Arghh! My head can't think about it.

"What the hell does that mean?"

I finally decided to ask back. There's a saying that goes like this "shame to ask, perverted in the street."

"Udah does not need to discuss Eresha Caitlyn Ananda..." The reply.

This time it was my turn to grunt annoyed that this man didn't want to tell me something I really wanted to know. It looks trivial indeed, but my yearning soul has thrashed.

He had absolutely no intention of answering my question. He seemed to divert his attention on the laptop, looking so busy struggling with his favorite thing.

My lips went forward a few centi, manyun because he ignored me. And now the feeling of boredom is again present in the middle of this room.

Before long he pulled over his laptop, then took a picture tube that he also brought here earlier.

"That's what?" I asked spontaneously while pointing at the thing that looked foreign to me.

Of course it looks foreign, it's not an everyday thing I meet. I'm a high school kid with an IPA. So it's only natural not to know something like that. It has gone far from the majors that I am currently working on.

"Picture tube." Short words.

I just round my mouth "Oooo...."

"Do you see?" Bargain for me.

I nodded quickly saying his words, besides I was also curious about the contents of this thing.

Then Brother Sendy unfurled a drawing paper that was not exactly how big. The point is very big, one single might? Or two? Ah I don't know.

He showed off a beautifully recorded pencil-streak trail. Really made with heart. It's breathtaking.

"This is the hotel's plan for my college assignment." He then rolled back the drawing paper.

"Great!"

I held my two thumbs up. If I could, I would like to give my big toe as well. But unfortunately I can't do that.

"Well, you said that you were SMK's kid, what department?" My toot.

He tidied up his drawing tube for a while and then answered.

"Slight vehicle technique." Speak clearly.

"Kok after college even majored in architecture?" My toot.

Obviously the college major he took at this time had deviated far from the majors he took when SMK first.

"I don't know, suddenly I want to be Arsi's son." Evidently.

"Why not study automotive engineering?"

"Males is that. After all, it used to be in the school age there was one of the most difficult lessons. His name is electricity, all children of light vehicle techniques on hand lift if the matter is. Well I also saw yesterday that in the automotive engineering department, there are courses on basic electricity and bla.bla..bla..." Clearly at length.

"Somehow where there's an automotive there's got to be that electrician." His complaint.

"They have been destined to be together, and can not be separated again." Reply with a little.