More Than a Boyfriend

~ First day.

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"You don't want to call your girlfriend?" Tanya Ridho who just finished praying isya.

There's no harm in contacting? later he will be entangled miss or fall into the hole of insomnia because it is imagined the face of the lover can be thought of later.

"Em... tomorrow our rations are just guarding the post right? not coming inside?" Ask Rama.

What he meant inside was a wild forest that became the lair of some clashing outback people.

"Yes, we're only in charge of guarding the post on the big road." Answer Ridho. " On pulses, you take it easy we just say commander." Said Ridho while giggling amusedly.

" Commander, commander! the report should be a good fit." Ketus the commander who was still awake and they thought they were asleep.

Risking his life, fighting for border security in a place where civil war is occurring is no easy feat. Rama is required to be ready and alert at all times and at all times. You can't be tired and complain tired.

"Ready Ndan!" Cicit Ridho chuckled.

Rama finally contacted the Mother to ask Bella first. But instead of her being happy, sadness surrounded her.

"Get's a Bun." Sapa Rama to the Mother.

"Dear walaikumsallam. You how are you? healthy Son? Already eaten?"

"It's Bun, Mommy's fine, right?"

"Dear, just a little cold. It was late at the airport."

"at the airport? what's Bun?"

" Oh, yes Mother forgot to tell a story. Mother delivered Bella, she was accepted as a student exchange participant in Japan. So I left and I drove her."

Rama was silent for a moment. His chest felt crushed by the rock. He was so claustrophobic and confused to say.

His girlfriend moved to college and didn't tell you? there's no saying goodbye? no one asking permission?

"Oh, that kid's smart, Bun, but I didn't think he'd be chosen." Rama covered his disappointment.

Rama was downcast feeling the void space in his heart. "Bun, if he calls Mommy, say hello to him?"

Rama hopes that the Mother will be a distributor between her and her boyfriend who has not been introduced to the family.

"Yes, or not we...."

Without asking permission from Rama, the holy Mother immediately combines the call into a group call and connects with Bella.

"Hi Bun, just split up." Bella said without seeing how many images were connected.

" Bell?" Secuil name called Rama even with lips frozen.

The signal in Rama's place is not so supportive to make video calls and dashed.

"Sister Rama?" Bella was stunned staring at the screen of her phone which brought up the image of the man who filled the space of her heart.

The call is paused only in Rama. Indeed, in the place where Rama was dark cloudy and the signal turned bad.

DUAR...!

There was a gunshot and Rama's call was cut off.

Holy Mother and Bella who were still connected to the video call were both so shocked to hear the sound of the gunfire.

"Bun, what? why is it at Rama's place?" Bella asked the holy Mother with her teary eyes.

Bella's mind was already raging erratically. All sorts of assumptions flew by. Bella with her eyes soaked in tears could only stare at the screen of her phone.

"Tante doesn't know either, dear. We just pray for the best. Aunt Rama is okay. She's fine, baby. He's fine."

Mother dismissed all negative thoughts about the bad possibilities that could befall her eldest son. His prayer in the air did not stop asking the Supreme for the safety of his son.

"Yes, Mother will ask the commander." Mommy Winda ended the call in haste without Bella's consent.

At a hotel in Sapporo.

Bella single-handedly became worried erratically and panicked. He also recalled the last time Rama called using a foreign number. Bella tried to contact him already by crying. All the bad thoughts were lodged in his brain.

"Protect her... Protect him, Lord." Bella wiped her tears.

Bella started calling numbers that had not been stored on her phone. Once or twice he was not picked up and Bella kept trying until finally the call was picked up.

" Yes hello!" Said Ridho answering.

"Ha... Hello..., Sis?" Not finished Bella asked, sobbing and making her voice unclear.

"Yes, who is it?" Ask Ridho.

"It's Bella Rama's boyfriend."

" Oh, Bella! Bell sorry this is fucked up! But Rama was fine, he was helping our friend who was shot dead with the commander. Already once! I'll call you back!!"

TUT! Call ended.

Bella felt relief but also disbelief. He hesitated at Ridho's words.

The guard post.

"Ram, your girlfriend's crying." Said Ridho who helped find gauze to stop the bleeding rate of his newly brought theme to the post with the medical team.

They were shaded because of the heavy rain.

"What did you tell him?" Ask Rama who also helped hold the theme by making his thigh as a cushion.

"Say you're okay and you'll call her later." Answer Ridho.

" Good!" Rama nodded.

" Good, good! look at me getting shot like this and you're huddling." Protest his friend who got a gunshot wound.

Then where's the commander?

The commander was already busy organizing and unloading reinforcements to deal with the unrest. Apparently the rebels carried out night raids and took advantage of the heavy rain.

They changed their strategy, but nothing was discovered by the members of the troops who were on guard and resulted in a shootout in the rain that disrupted visibility.

Last night, Bella could not sleep thinking about what was happening to her lover. The first day he set foot in Sapporo was even the day that stifled his chest.

Bella never thought she would be so tormented by this. A state of misgivings that seemed ready to kill him at any moment. Then, the mind begins to wander.

Bella thought of something like this,

"What if we live together? will my heart be strong whenever I worry about my husband keeping the peace and competing with death?" Bella laughs.

"Can I have a heart as strong as steel? Give up what I love for my homeland and country?"

All the bad possibilities alighted and made him even more agitated. Bella was just pacing around until morning.

In the morning, cold air strikes as Bella opens the door to the hotel lobby.

WHOA...!

The strong wind made Bella shudder coldly.

The first time he inhaled the cold from the snow made his nose redden and sneeze sneezing. Bella got the flu on her first day in Japan. Lack of sleep, fatigue, and also anxiety that makes him depressed further makes his physical weakness.

While in class for self-introduction, Bella collapsed with her head hitting the floor first. Bella was taken to the campus health room and checked. The doctor only stated that Bella needed to rest because of fatigue.

But, it had already made someone who was behind his desk furious at his assistant.

"Job like this isn't good! it's only his first day and you can't take care of him!" Robbie went on a rampage and broke down his desk.

"You want me to fire!!" Robbie exclaimed his anger at the incompetence of his envoy in watching Bella.