Linger

Promise You's

Karel repeatedly turned his head to Gavin and Kalea in turn. I don't know how many minutes they sit three in the living room, accompanied by a cornbasket made by Mama and three glasses of hot tea that still reflects smoke.

Out there, the sky is starting to change color. The orange gush that originally looked beautiful to decorate the sky is now starting to fade, replaced by a dense cloud that comes along with the smell of a piercing cold-scented wind. Before long, the rain started to fall, leaving a trail of water tampias to a large glass window near the entrance.

Karel looked out, watching how the trees in the courtyard of Kalea's house swayed in the wind. Then as his breath was blown in a dramatic manner, he heard Kalea speak in a very slow voice. It was almost inaudible amidst the gurgling sounds of rain out there.

"Lo say what?" karel asked Kalea, who was sitting next to him. The woman lowered her head, looking at the cellphone even though there was no activity there. Kalea just shifted the screen without intending to open a single one from the menu that was plastered in front of her eyes.

"Send him home." Kalea Repeated. This time in a quieter voice, almost like a whisper.

"Outside the deres test." Karel with a loud voice. Intentionally so that Gavin who was sitting across from them could hear clearly.

"And he gets in the car, won't get wet."

"The car is parked in the yard, not in the garage. Do you think going to the yard won't make him wet?" when she said that, Karel glanced towards Gavin. He found the man's gaze fixed on Kalea, not at all changed since the past minutes.

"There's an umbrella." Kalea said again while bowing her head.

"Yaudah, take her umbrella."

"You are."

"Relieve it!" peekik Karel's. Apparently it was powerful enough to make Kalea raise her head. The woman glanced frantically at Gavin then looked at him sharply.

"No need to scream, noisily."

"Yes, there's nothing!" upset Karel. The capture of the phone from Kalea's hands and directly put it in the pocket of her pants, making the owner can not do anything but let her phone snatched away forcibly. "Gue don't know why you guys anymore, just don't know how." Karel continued to babble. He turned his gaze toward Gavin and Kalea in turn.

"Lo's passive aggressive method is totally unenforceable to everyone, Kale." He said to Kalea who was busy escaping in any direction. Anywhere, it's not in Gavin's direction.

"Gue same Mama may have been used to play guessing the same lo, think yourself lo again why and find a solution how to let you feel better." Karel folded his hands in front of his chest, looking at the serious Kalea that the woman replied with a timid look. "But others can't, Kale. They are not shamans who can read what you want just from the attitude you point. In this world, no human being can read minds. So you can't hope that other people can immediately understand what you want if you don't say."

"I told him, really!" sergeant Kalea. Feeling unacceptable because Karel scolded him, especially it was done in front of Gavin. Which made him embarrassed and annoyed at the same time.

"I just want to ask to be told if he gets home, but he's not being treated either."

"Where would you care if the hape is left here?" karel's question made Kalea speechless. No longer able to issue refutation.

Kalea. Back to bow his head deeply, reluctant to face Karel who was in seirus mode and fierce.

"Hobby overthinking, mengambek, his brain is also often not logical anyway." Chirps Karel. It sounded painful to Kalea, but because Karel said it Kalea did not put it in her heart at all. Instead, he secretly agreed with what Karel said.

"Lo's already big, not a baby anymore who can whine around everyone to ask to be understood."

Kalea's head was getting bowed. Her chest felt tight when there was no friendliness at all from Karel's tone of voice. The man sounded really angry.

"Just like me, Mama and Papa lo can still behave like a child. Same other people don't, because not necessarily they can understand the same attitude lo that childish." After saying that, Karel got up. He glanced at Gavin, giving the man the code to move closer to Kalea who was still bowed with his shoulders beginning to shake. Karel was convinced that Kalea was holding back tears right now, and he wanted Gavin to take his place to embrace the tiny body into a crib. Because Karel wants Gavin to know what to do when his girl is in a bad state like now.

Gavin receives the signal given by Karel. Slowly he walked up to Kalea, sat himself beside the girl and gently rubbed his trembling shoulders.

"Obrolin everything now. I want this to be the last time I see you behave like this with someone else. One more thing, hape lo I confiscated for a while, until you actually-has been better with Gavin." Then Karel passed from there. Giving space and time for the two human children to solve their problems even though Karel knew it was actually not a big problem. This is just a matter of Kalea who is in pre-menstrual period so that makes his mood easily changeable and tend to be more irritable. But if left alone, it is not impossible that this trivial problem will become something bigger and troublesome later.

Long after Karel disappeared from there, Kalea still did not open her voice. His head was still lowered and there was a sound of sobbing escaping from the sides of his lips. Feeling unable to do anything but offer a hug and a soft pat on the woman's back, Gavin moved closer. Before pulling the little body into his arms, he asked first the head of Kalea if he was allowed to hug her. And when the woman did not answer, Gavin caught her as a signal that she was allowed.

So in a slow motion, Gavin grabbed Kalea's body and clenched her tightly. Patted on Kalea's back many times to help the woman release more tears. The crackling coming out of Kalea's lips tightened, along with the wet felt in the front sweatshirt that Gavin was wearing.

"All out, Kalea. Out of all the negative emotions that you accumulate, I am ready to let you cry until you are finished." Gavin said, now resting his chin on Kalea's head. As he said, Kalea's cries were breaking. He let Kalea's tears soak his shirt until it was completely covered. Unheard of again the shirt that is now scuffed because squeezed by Kalea every time the tightness reached the chest of the woman was more powerful.

They stayed in that position for minutes. Gavin still faithfully patted Kalea's back until finally the woman's sobbing gradually subsided. But even though the crying that came out was not as hysterical as before, Kalea was still reluctant to distance herself from Gavin's embrace. In fact Gavin felt Kalea's hand squeezing the shirt tighter and the woman was increasingly hiding her face in the chest of her field. Honestly, Gavin had no problem with that. He doesn't mind. Even if he had to stay in this position last night, he did not mind.

"Sorry." Kalea said with a muffled voice.

"It's ok. My bad for not being able to fulfill your wishes, but it's just a simple thing."

"I'm just worried. Every time you haven't seen, I've always been afraid of anything happening to you while on the road. I just want to know that you got home safe, that's it."

"I'm so sorry. I promise I'll let you know that I arranged home safe as soon as I can. This is the last time I've made you wait for news from me. I will not repeat it again." Gavin said seriously.

"Promise me?" Kalea pulled herself from Gavin's embrace, looking up slightly so that their gazes could meet.

Gavin nodded confidently. "I promise." Then, out of nowhere, Gavin landed a kiss on the top of Kalea's head. A brief kiss that became the beginning of a new complexity for his heart. "I promise, Kal. I promise."