Lover Replacement

NIGHTMARE

"The plane that Argha boarded yesterday the day after to return to Indonesia fell on one of the remote islands shortly after boarding. The cause is still not met but the information is certain..." Rizzi hung up her sentence by staring pusher at Keira.

"All the crew and passengers are confirmed dead, Kei." Rizzi continued in a hoarse voice that almost disappeared because it held back his own emotions.

Keira remained silent. His breathing was heavy as if the oxygen around him was no longer there. Keira just stared at Rizzi without a blink.

Then slowly his tears flowed by themselves wetting Keira's cheeks interspersed with restrained intercourse.

Beth and Said compactly covered their mouths with their shocked hands, while Vynt turned his head straight towards Keira.

Observing the change in the expression and reaction of the girl's body, be prepared in case Keira's mentality is unable to accept such a big shock.

And it turned out that Vynt's prediction was right, because it didn't take long Keira's eyes turned dark, the girl fainted in the depths of her heart.

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It had been three days since Keira heard the news about Argha's accident. Keira had locked herself in her apartment.

Just lie still without doing anything. Her lips refused to speak a word. His ears refused to hear any sound. His soul was empty, like an empty space left by its inhabitants somewhere.

Beth, who from the day Rizzi announces that Argha was killed in a plane crash that knocked Keira unconscious, continues to accompany the girl in her apartment.

Beth, Vynt, and Said never leave Keira alone. They accompanied the girl together or alternately. They did it because they were afraid that Keira would do something undesirable.

The three always tried to force him to eat even though he always failed. Trying to get him to talk but the results are still nil, futile.

Beth, who often accompanies Keira day and night, seems to be living together with the doll. Keira will fall asleep by herself when her eyes are tired of crying and will wake up by itself when her nightmares overshadow.

It was a nightmare as if he was on the same plane that Argha was on. It was as if he felt the pain that Argha felt when the young man's body crashed to the ground and was crushed to the ground along with the plane he was on.

A nightmare in which Keira sees many pieces of the human body scattered. Where he heard many cries for help and cries of pain from people whose bodies were burned.

"AAAHHHHHHH!!! Hah.hah.hah.." for the umpteenth time Keira screamed night after night accompanied by the roar of decapitated breath. Keira's sweat poured out accompanied by roiling cries.

A deep sense of loss and the memory of the video display he saw from Rizzi's notepad made Keira so dream of all those things.

Beth who always patiently faced Keira's hysteria in the early hours of the morning was responsive to get the girl a glass of water that Keira immediately gulped until it ran out.

Beth who was increasingly worried to see the condition of Keira could only hug the shivering body of her best friend was tight. His heart was also sliced because of the pity of seeing Keira who never recovered from her slump.

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Vynt gently stroked Keira's head in silence. The girl had just fallen asleep again shortly after the dawn sun rose from the eastern sky.

"When are we gonna tell Keira this, Vynt?" asked Beth who was standing next to Keira's bed anxiously.

Vynt just shook her head without being able to answer Beth's question. He also does not know for sure because the sense of loss is a matter of the heart. Only Keira herself could escape the shackles of her grief.

"It's a matter of the heart, Beth. Only Keira can heal herself." said Vynt.

Beth let out a long sigh while looking at Keira's deeply asleep face. He knew for sure how valuable the presence of Argha was in Keira.

A girl in her youth has had to live far away from her mother, abandoned by her father and forced to live independently alone.

Argha came with a million lifetimes for Keira. Having a loving and super considerate lover must be a soothing oasis in Keira's arid life of affection.

Beth also knows Keira's fall at this time. Losing the greatest spirit of life he had must have made the girl fragile as fragile as she was fragile.

Who wouldn't be like that? He is unlikely to give a different reaction when he is in Keira's current position, Beth thought.

Unknowingly Beth's tears melt again crying over the fate of Keira who is so miserable.

Vynt exhaled heavily and then stood up from the edge of Keira's bed which he had been sitting on.

"Lo needs to be strong, Beth. Keira needs us. It's just us that Keira has right now. Don't point your weak side at Keira let her get up. Stronger rich usually." Vynt hugs Beth while patting the girl on the back.

Beth nodded her head at Vynt's true words. He must also be strong to help Keira restore her life spirit again.

"Keira still don't want to eat?" Vynt walks into Keira's living room.

Beth answers Vynt's question while following the young man's steps towards the living room. "Not want to eat anything, just drink it if the tantrum relapses."

"Gue was worried about it too." Beth sat on the couch and leaned her back against the couch. "But the child is very difficult to be told to eat, I was confused to use any other way to tell him to eat."

"No word from Tyo yet?"

"Yet. Rizzi said Tyo went straight to the scene as soon as he heard from his parents about Argha's accident. Maybe because of its location in the interior so difficult signal to keep communication." beber Beth who is still intense communication with Rizzi.

Again Vynt took a deep breath and exhaled quickly.

"We've been waiting, I hope there's hope for Argha." Vynt stared at the partition closet in Keira's apartment that blocked the living room with a bedroom.

Vynt's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the partition and stared fixedly at Keira who was asleep in her bed.

One day has passed, but there has been no news of Tyo-sister Argha. Vynt and his friends can only wait.

Two days passed, and Tyo could not be reached by Rizzi to ask about his whereabouts or the certainty of Argha's fate.

And the next day again, the ringing of Beth's cell phone disbands the seriousness of the girl and her two friends - Vynt and Said.

The three of them were gathered in the living room of Keira's apartment to continue working on their tasks that fit the agenda will be executed tomorrow, with or without Keira joining the group.

"Hello, Riz." Beth answered quickly as soon as she saw Rizzi's contact name on the screen. "What's? Tyo and Argha are back? whereabouts? The Hospital? ooh that, hmm.okay ntar I got to go to Keanyah." replied Beth before her phone connection with Rizzi cut off.

"Where? what did Rizzi say?" Vynt asked enthusiastically.

"Say Rizzi, Tyo and Argha are back. But now they're in the hospital. Rizzi says Tyo's gonna pick up Keira tomorrow if all his business is in order." Beth explained the contents of her phone conversation with Rizzi just now.

"Does that mean there's a chance Argha's still alive?" ask Said.

Inside his room, Keira who was faint-hearted began to wake up from her sleep hearing the name Argha mentioned. The girl quickly got out of bed and rushed to her three friends in the living room.

"Gue didn't know, Rizzi didn't say that" Beth answered Said's question.

"Argha has gone home? really?" suddenly Keira was standing between the three of them.

"U-already." answered Beth so stammered in shock.

"Where is he now? I want nyamperin Argha."

Vynt stood up to Keira, "Say Rizzi tomorrow Tyo picked you up, but wait for everything to clear up first. Patience, Kei." Vynt held onto Keira's shoulder, trying to calm the girl down.

"No, I want to see Argha now. Beth, where's Argha now?" snapped Keira.

"Husada Utama Hospital" replied Beth slowly. His heart ached to see Keira who so missed Argha.

"Gue wants to go there now" Keira asked her friends.

"Patience, Kei. Sabaarrr." Vynt's voice went up. "Tyo says tomorrow isn't now." Vynt now holds Keira's shoulders. Keira gripped back and shook Vynt's arms.

"But I want to see Argha now, Vynt. I can't wait until tomorrow. I want it now.huuuhuhuuhuuuu" Tangis Keira broke when she begged Vynt to let her meet Argha that day.

The girl even went limp due to the condition of her body that became limp instantly the effect of the overflow of emotions that she had been holding in silence.

Luckily Vynt immediately supported Keira's body. Vynt's hardened jaw held back his own emotions seeing the girl's condition, his heart was filled to witness the deep sadness that his best friend experienced.

"Okay, we're getting you there now. But you have to be strong whatever you have to be there, you have to be strong, Kei!" Vynt emphasized his words to Keira by looking fixedly at the two eyes of the girl.

Still a nudge, Keira immediately replied to Vynt's words with a nod, her lips unable to speak anymore due to the pain she felt in the chest.

To Be Continue.....

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