Magic Lantern
Struggles
Pras looked at his WhatsApp. Tania has not replied to her WhatsApp at all.
How busy is he? Until I can't reply to my WhatsApp?
Marsha's marriage was supposed to give her and Tania a chance.
In reality, their relationship is running in place. Even Tania was getting away.
Pras ventured to call. His phone was picked up as he intended to close it.
“Hello?”
The voice of a man. Pras' heart almost stopped. Has Tania changed? Following the free flow there.
“Hello.” Sahut Pras's.
“Do you want to talk to Tania?”
“Yeah. Right. Is she there?”
“She is in toilet. I will tell that you are call.”
“Ok!”
“Wait! She already finished. Tania! Your friend calling.”
“Thank you.” Tania's voice while receiving her phone call.
“Who is it?”
“Who is this?”
“Kok even back?”
“This who?”
“Pras!”
“Oh! Pras. What's up?”
“That's who?”
“My campus menu.”
“What are you doing?”
“What do you mean what?”
“Have you now been hanging out freely as is custom there?”
“What do you mean?” Tania was angry.
“For what did you two spend time together? Are you guys out..”
“What's up?” Tania sewot.
“Love. And you cleaned yourself up to the toilet.”
“Gosh! Your mind is so dirty. First, I am Indonesian. It still holds eastern cultural and religious values. Second, we're not in the same room as your filthy shadow. We were with fifty other people at my friend Darren.”'s house
“Name Darren?”
“Yeah. Friend with benefit?”
“I'll brainwash your dirty with sunlight.”
“Know where you're with so many people?”
Tania hung up. Replace it with video calls.
Pras raised the video call and saw that there were many people in the room. Tania menshut was not only those who were inside the room. But also the page.
“How?”
“Ok! Why don't you answer my WhatsApp?”
“I haven't answered it yet. Not not not answering.”
“It's been almost a week?”
“You see for yourself at this time I was busy with my social meeting.”
“You are as busy as what?”
“I went to college Monday through Friday. Freelance work Monday to Thursday. Saturday social meeting. Sunday I refreshing with my friends.”
“Ok! I'll wait for you to reply to my WhatsApp.”
“Speaking now only.”
“What do you mean talk now?”
“It just so happens that you'll call me. All right, you guys.”
“I want to talk casually with you.”
“Now can also. I'll find a comfortable place to talk.” Tania walked towards Darren asking for permission to use her room.
Darren nodded his head in agreement.
Tania closed Darren's room door.
“What do you want to talk to?”
“Just want to ask why you haven't answered my WhatsApp.”
“I've already said the reason.”
“Yeah. I want you to make some special time for me. So we can talk at least once a week.”
“For what the hell?” Tanya Tania is lazy.
“Why are you still avoiding me? Marsha is married. You don't have to keep anyone's feelings.”
“Marsha. I don't want him to misunderstand me.”
“You can't be so naive. Marsha gave way to both of us.”
“What path? Don't you misunderstand me. We're just friends. I never want to have a guy who has a lot of girlfriends.”
“I don't have a girlfriend at this time.”
“Not very different. I don't mind talking to you. But the general thing. Don't be personal let alone. Our relationship has nothing to do with the marriage of Marsha.”
“Not. He's my friend.”
“You guys seem very familiar.”
“Darren my first friend here. He helped me a lot. Yeah, we're very familiar.”
“Maybe you rejected me because of her?”
“I only think about my studies. Not besides. My father will give his company here to me.
So I have to study and work seriously.”
“You can share your burden if you get married.”
“What do you mean?”
“Leading company is not easy. Especially for a woman.”
“Not easy doesn't mean can't.”
“I don't mean to be a colot. But in the end as high as anything a woman achieves her education and career. Will end up in the kitchen, well and mattress.”
“I'm not a feminist. I'm also not a pro of those who don't want to use their uterus to give birth. Not a childfree person either. I feel in my capacity to take on the responsibilities that my father is charged with. Requires consistency and has consequences.”
“What do you want to say?”
“I haven't thought about marriage.”
Pras.
“You don't want to get married?”
“I didn't say that. Marriage is not my priority at this time.”
“Why are you still thinking about Marsha?”
“Because he's my best friend.”
“But now she is happy with her husband. Middle contains their baby.”
“That's a burden to me. Like there is an unwritten moral obligation.”
“Don't be too hard on yourself.”
“You yourself like to change pairs.”
“I haven't found a suitable one.”
“I know there's nothing that fits. Trying to match a lot.”
“I just don't want like buying a cat in a sack.”
“But what you're dating is a human not a cat.”
Pras' laughter broke.
“That's a term. It means I don't want to choose something I don't know very well.”
“Entahlah. The stereotype of the person who likes to change partners is not good.”
“You mean if it doesn't match or change your feelings. You disregarded? Before marriage. I think everyone is free to choose. Sometimes they get married. Some people choose to divorce if they feel they are not suitable or their relationship is bland. What else is unmarried?”
“That's why I'm probably too perfectionist. Idealists. I think, almost every woman wants their wedding like a fairy tale.”
“You know there are no fairy tales. Imagination only.”
“Yeah. But some of them find their true love. The dream come true.”
“Everyone will surely find true love in their life.”
“I don't want to talk about this. “
“Yeah. You're just filled with your ambition.”
“We talk to others. How are things at the office?”
“Diah is taking college again. Kreshna. Every time we meet or talk. He used to nag me.”
Tania laughing.
“I think he's right if you can hold back. You didn't lose Marsha and maybe I'm still working there.”
“You're like a child.”
“Your behavior is very disturbing and makes me uncomfortable.”
“You should separate the work and not.”
“I woman. Creature feeling. All the feelings. If the feeling is comfortable then all will be comfortable.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Maybe this argument is like fabricating. And tendentious. Women are very familiar with discrimination and betrayal.”
Pras laughed when he heard it.
“I think you're a bit overrated.”
“Even your own hormones betray you.”
“Ok! Men do not have such problems. And compared to women. Men are more unfaithful. Maybe because they use logic?”
“People feel more intimidated with women than men. Right?”
“You mean female or male boss?”
“One of them. But many things make women have to try harder amid their limitations than men.”
“The most common makes Kartini's struggle an icon of women's emancipation.”
... ...
