
The lantern sat alone in the boarding room, its eyes not stopping staring at the large glass wall before it.
He will really fly this time.
The bottle of mineral water he held was tightly squeezed, his tears spilling again.
Who can stand if you have to part with a loved one long enough.
She covered her face and wiped her tears using the scarf Gilang gave her.
He strengthened himself again.
While waiting for his departure schedule which is still an hour away, he reached into his jacket pocket, took his phone and was shocked to stare at his mobile screen which contained many chat messages and calls from unknown numbers.
He then opened and looked at the profile photo of the new number that he had first seen.
Just the exact same big motor picture as Gilang's.
He was silent for a moment, realizing that the owner of the number was Gilang, he had already opened his message but did not immediately reply to it, as he was thinking about his current stupidity.
He didn't even have Gilang's contact number for the past few years.
I don't know who Gilang found his cell phone number from.
Since the message had been open about ten minutes ago, but he had no intention of replying to it, finally his mobile phone that had started to scratch here and there was shaking in his grasp.
He was unable to lift it, as he was still trying to enjoy his sadness.
His phone kept ringing up to five times.
Lanterns do not know, Disappear until upset himself in the yard of his house.
Gilang called back...
This time Tera picked it up because soon the plane will fly, and the phone must be turned off, he was afraid Gilang thought nothing of him if he still did not pick up the phone.
..."Lanterns..."...
..."You're from earlier doing it anyway, not appointed-upon, I until embarrassed nahan know ask for your number as bude."...
...'Oh apparently he got my number from mom...' Thought Tera...
..."Sorry about Gilang..." Her voice is raucous....
..."Are you crying again?"...
..."Hemh."...
..."It must be hard, right?"...
..."Hemhs"...
..."By the way dong Raa, don't ham hem hem."...
..."Yes mas Gilang..."...
..."What is it?"...
..."That's why Gilang told me to say..."...
..."So now what are you?"...
..."Again sitting from earlier, waiting for the flight schedule mas..."...
..."You're not sad that I left so."...
..."No.no..."...
..."Tera..."...
..."Not wrong again..."...
..."If I go back again."...
..."Later, if you graduate from college."...
..."Ra..."...
..."Why is Gilang?"...
..."Don't break me up, even if we're far away."...
..."I'm not sure..."...
..."Meaning you?"...
..."I'm not sure how long we're gonna last."...
..."I can do it, I want to wait for you ten years also I don't mind."...
..."But I object to Gilang."...
..."Why?"...
..."I don't know..."...
Silence is silent across there.
Apparently Tera is still too difficult to understand.
The lanterns are silent.
Until the announcement of the flight at half an hour was announced.
Gilang has not disconnected his phone call.
..."Mas Gilang, I'll hang up."...
..."Lanterns..."...
..."I have to get ready."...
..."Later that night when you arrive, don't forget to tell me."...
..."Yes, in Gilang."...
..."Oh yeah, save my number, I'm not gonna change it until you get home."...
..."Yes mas..."...
..."Yeah, you be careful..."...
...tuuutt...
Phone calls are cut off..
The lantern stores the Gilang number under the name Mas G.
Then deactivate the phone.
Completely dead, though he could have just turned on his airplane mode.
It was almost half an hour in the afternoon, all the passengers of the plane finally climbed to their seats.
The lantern sits by the window, on the left side of the cabin, so you can sleep in peace.
He stared out, before the plane actually left the airport, and again he cried there.
He closed his eyes and forced himself to fall asleep.
...*...
It's really up there.
The journey took about eight hours.
Not a moment.
He will arrive at his destination country when it is night.
Really exhausting and boring, he thought.
He fell asleep even though his memory could not escape from the house of Gilang.
He drives away his boss by occasionally staring out the window, even though he only sees a stretch of clouds there, but he can slightly forget his sadness.
But because it was all night he did not get enough sleep, he finally chose to go back to sleep.
The plane landed at ICHN airport.
The lanterns were only truly alone until this land of his dreams.
The clock there already showed at half-nine in the evening.
He stood up long after coming out of the airport.
Look around him in disbelief.
The buildings there almost all look tall.
A few minutes into the cold weather, he ordered a taxi around the airport.
Thanks to his ability to speak foreign languages before he got here, making it easy to explain the dorm address of his campus.
The journey to the city center takes about seventy minutes.
Tera was busy enjoying the view of the Ginseng Country at night.
And subconsciously amazed alone.
..."Whoaahhh..."...
..."I finally got here too."...
..."If you're still around, you're proud that I got to study abroad."...
He muttered to himself as he stared out the window of the taxi he was riding, the thin snow was still left there, so the first time until he felt a very cold piercing his skin.
Without feeling, an hour more trip, he had reached the area around the campus.
He opened his little bag, took the money to pay for the expensive taxi fare at night.
Lucky for him, because before leaving Jullie's mother had first exchanged the money, so he did not have to bother exchanging while at the airport earlier.
When confirmed by email, the dorm was not far from the campus.
So he decided to walk to the front of a tall building that might be his residence later.
He stared at the building with the same number as the address written in the email.
After a long time of standing, until he almost froze there, he decided to step his foot in.
Some students from other countries looked at him in surprise, making him feel strange.
He didn't know where to put his foot, he hadn't read more precisely on the floor where his room was.
One of the female students who was preparing to exit the dorm looked at him seriously.
Making the lanterns wrong on their own.
..."Excuse me..."...
..."Uhh yes, brother, are you an Indonesian?"...
..."Yes, you're a freshman coming?"...
..."Emh yes brother, but now even confused my room where?"...
..."We went up to the third floor, I think it was there again noisily because there are new students who want to come, maybe that's what you mean?"...
..."Emh good brother, thank you."...
..."Oh yeah, whose name are you?"...
..."My name is Lantern."...
..."Okay, my name is Hanindia, the S2 student who's been hitching a ride here for a while."...
..."Hehehe,iya."...
..."Yes, you've gone up there, you must be cold."...
Hanin, the beautiful female student who was about to leave the dormitory, came out to buy something.
Leaving the Lantern that was still staring at him in admiration.
..."Well she's so pretty, where's S2..."...
He was muttering alone again.
I immediately entered the elevator to go up to the third floor.
He felt a little relieved because he was only on the lower floor, because he felt afraid if he had to be on the high floor.
He arrived at room number 363, some Indonesian students immediately rushed to greet him.
..."You must be the new student, right?"...
..."Emh i-yeah..."...
Lanterns were nervous because only this time she was welcomed by the people she had just met.
..."You're so lucky, we're one room, we're all from Indonesia, so safe."...
..."What room is one person?"...
..."The four of us, but later if we want to find another rental place, we can get out of here."...
..."Oh yes, may you feel at home with me, hehehe."...
..."Surely, oh, what's your name?"...
..."Pradanian lanterns, you guys ?"...
..."Your name is unique too, hehe..."...
..."Eheheh can, call me Tera."...
..."Okay, oh my name is Kimi, this is Hani, and this is Amelia..."...
The girls introduced themselves and their friends, they were new students there too, only they arrived first.
They let Tera in because she saw her new friend was cold.
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