LOVE DIARY

Chapter 11 The Heart Dilemma

In the middle of a highway in a city, people saw a tragic accident. A woman who was lying on the ground was covered in blood, and right next to her was a woman with the same face, crying bitterly while holding the woman's hand. "I'm sorry, this is all I can do for you, my sister. Live well and remember that you always love you, Cinta...."

Love again dreamed of an accident four years ago. The dream always overshadowed him, as if there was something he had missed from the incident. The longer the dream became clearer, the earlier the faint-looking appearance and incomplete words made him hesitate to recall it.

After Love awoke, she realized tears had washed her cheeks. " Sister.pardon Love." 

He rose from his sleeping position and sat pensively, unconsciously Tina who had fallen asleep next to him also woke up.

"Sister is conscious...." Rubbing his eyes. "Why is my sister crying? Is anyone sick?" 

Love shakes her head. "Sorry to trouble you, go to sleep."

With her hands, Tina wiped the tears of Love. "Alright Brother, but Brother don't cry anymore. Tina is so sad when you cry." 

Love slightly nodded her head and asked Tina to return to her room, then she who obediently left. "Thank you, Tina. You will always be family to me" muttered Love.

On a clear morning they prepare to make a sip together. 

Before Cinta became an artist they both had lived together, it had been almost 5 years Tina accompanied Cinta. Their relationship is like a sibling.

Long enough Love looked at Tina, "Tina might know, if I ask about sister." 

"Tina... Do you know anything about my sister?" ask Love.

"Sister Brother?"

"Yes, I dreamed about it last night. Other than the time of the accident, there was no other memory of brother. What's-her-name? Where does he live? I don't remember at all."

"Hmm.. that...." 

Not finished Tina replied, the sound of the doorbell ringing repeatedly. "Tin nong.tin nong."

"Whisper!" love with annoyance.

Love immediately opened the door and it turns out Rangga and Randi came while holding a plastic bag.

"I came to bring groceries for absorption" said Rangga while thrusting his plastic bag.

"I came with fruit. This fruit is good for maintaining health," said Randi who also thrust plastic.

"Oh thank you." He immediately took their gift and closed the door again.

The two of them looked at each other to see the behavior of Love. "This time what's our fault?" thought they.

Soon after, Love opened the door again. "You don't want to come in?"

"You, you" they answered simultaneously.

"The two of you won't fight anymore, will you?" 

"Of course not, we are already friends" Randi replied as she put her arm around Rangga's shoulder.

Rangga replied with a smile. Love finally decided to let them in.

"Remove your filthy hands from me" whispered Rangga as she let go of her embrace.

"Look at it later, I'll repay you" he threatened inwardly.

They all end up sinking together. During the meal, Love was silent without a sound, his bad mood could be felt by everyone around him.

"I'm full, I'm gonna take a break. Tina accompany them."

"Yes, sister" said Tina.

Love returned to her room. Lying on the bed and covering her eyes with her arms. His mind was filled with many things.

"What's wrong with me? My emotions can't be held back, I don't want to look pathetic in front of them."

"Many things have happened over the past week. I don't want to involve the others. They have their own lives too."

Tring a message from Rangga came in, "I know you need some alone time, but don't put it all on you. If needed, I'm ready to lend me my shoulder as a backrest."

Tring Rangga's second message came in, "Displaying your weakness in front of others, is not a bad thing. Telling your problems can also lighten a bit of the burden in your heart."

Tring the message to the three entered, "Filling yourself with positive things is the most powerful way to forget about sadness."

The atmosphere that had been crowded was already quiet, the figure he wanted to meet had already left his house. His heart felt a little disappointed, because Rangga left without saying goodbye first.

Seeing Love standing alone, Tina came to him. "What are you doing?" 

"Where are they?"

"Oh they're gone. He said there's work to be done."

"So so…." Walk back into his room.

"Kasian Sister... Is there nothing I can do for her?"

Love realizes that the atmosphere is increasingly quiet when he is alone. Standing by the window, he saw the figure of himself reflected off the glass. 

"Why do I feel, no one around me will know about my sister. Even inside of me there's nothing about him."

"Would it be that until I'm 15, I didn't know I had a sister?"

"Last note on me, only until I was 15. The crux of the matter, can be solved if my memory of the accident returns."

"But it's been almost five years, all I can remember, only when big brother is like that. How many more years will I have to wait to remember it."

He sighs. "Time alone can answer that...."

Love looked at her phone long enough and remembered Rangga's three previous messages. He decided to take the initiative first.

"Tonight, can you take a minute? I'll wait for you." Such is the content of the message that Love sent to Rangga.

Evening came the time was almost 10 p.m. Love sits on a swing behind the house, looking at her phone. There was no reply from the message he sent to Rangga.

"Is he busy? Shouldn't I have sent her that message?"

He looked up at the starry night sky. "The sky tonight is filled with stars as if waiting to be seen."

"What happened to you after the accident? I want to know why you were protecting me at that time."

From behind Love, someone covers her slowly. He thought the figure of the man he was waiting for had finally come, but it was Tina who had come to him.

"Silver it's night, the weather's a little cold, not good for health. How about you just wait inside?" 

"You're right, why should I wait for him. I never waited for anyone to come. It's my fault I've been hoping for something uncertain" he said as he moved in.

"Bu-no that's what Tina Kak means."

Arriving inside the house, Cinta tries to ask about her sister once again to Tina, to make sure it is true or not prejudiced.

"Tina do you know about my sister?"

"That's what you wanted to know about Tina this morning. Actually Tina also did not know about it, for 5 years Brother never talked about it. Did you remember anything?"

"I've guessed no one knows about brother," muttered Love.

"Why Brother?" 

"Ah is nothing. Do you remember what happened 4 years ago?"

"Tina didn't know what she meant, but for a few months, she didn't come home. When I came home, I didn't remember anything."

"Oh that time, if you think about it, it was a little strange. The owner of the shop where I work, gave us our boarding address. He was also the one who helped me at that time."

"Store owner?"

"Yes. Next time we go there, there is no harm in visiting at once asking, now I want to rest first."

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