MY LOVELY AUTHOR'S
VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS IN THE LIFE DRAMA PART 2
Luckily Arata has experience with this kind of problem. Several times in the course of his career, Arata was struck by various skewed issues and the experience was useful when the same situation came to me.
“I'm sorry, Author. But this time. . . we will not return to your apartment or my apartment which is next to my apartment.” After warning me, Arata approached the taxi driver and changed our destination address. “Sorry, Sir. Please change our destination address. Could you please go to this address immediately??”
“I understand, Sir. But there's an extra charge for that, sir.”
Arata nodded his head. “I will pay any cost required as long as we arrive at this address.”
“Good, Sir.”
“Where are we going?” I asked Arata after Arata finished changing our goals.
“Vila belongs to my brother. It is on the outskirts of the city and rarely visited by many people. We'll go there first. Later if Author needs any goods, let me contact Kak Rama and Nara to take the goods that Author needs.”
“Ah.” I nodded my head understanding.
“Author doesn't mind right??”
I glanced at Arata before looking out the window where the street view I saw. “Do I have any other choice, Arata??”
*
As soon as we arrived at the villa belonging to brother Arata, we went straight into it because Arata had the keys to the villa. Arata said that he often came to this villa to calm down if he was feeling tired with his job which sometimes did not have much time to rest.
The villa is a pretty beautiful villa. Located on the edge of a beautiful lake with a view of the mountain from a distance that looks as if it can be approached if crossing the lake.
“Come in here, Author.” Arata led the way into his brother's villa and led me to a room facing directly towards the lake. “Author can use this room and my room is across. So. .. If Author needs anything, Author can call me or knock on my room door.”
I nodded my head unaware of Arata's words to me. Nodding my head instantly came to a halt when I realized Arata's words. “You'll stay here? With me??”
Arata replied to me with his usual smile as if the slanted issue that was happening to me was unheard of by him. “Yes, Author. I'll be here accompanying Author. Maybe some days, our filming will be canceled because of the clearly untrue issue.”
I know it well. . . Arata idolizes me. But. . heard her remark that told me that she believed in me and not in the issues that circulated about me, for a moment I felt shocked and moved. His trust in me was an absolute value that no one would be able to shake and this was the first time in my life that I met someone who trusted me so deeply.
“You trust me, Arata?”
“Ya.” Arata answered briefly and without thinking twice.
“Why should I trust them, Author?” Arata turned to ask me and looked at me with a smile on his lips. “I'm the one who knows Author well. I'm also the one who for quite some time has always been next to Author. When I was with Author, I knew how Author behaves, thinks and acts. Even if we're together still in a long time, I won't misjudge Author. My idol is. . . This dear author of mine is a good person who will never hurt anyone else just because of the problem being talked about it.”
Both of Arata's eyes were staring at me. The depth that radiated in his black eyes seemed to say that his trust in me was so deep and as I said before his trust in me was an absolute value that no one would easily shake.
That look in the eye. . spontaneously made me step back. I took a few steps back before closing the door. Clik. I locked the door of the room while leaning against the door.
“Thank you, Arata. After Warda. . . you are the second person to believe in me and I am so happy to hear that, Arata. But. .”
“But what, Author?”
From behind the door, I heard the sound of Arata's body leaning against my door as I was doing. Although my mouth said that I was happy to hear that Arata believed me, but deep in my heart I felt something that I did not like. In this world. . .in a world that is much controlled by power, there is no such thing as absolute trust of a person. They wouldn't believe in someone if that person wasn't beneficial to them and I think Arata did the same. The trust that came out of his mouth was probably just his words to me because I was his current co-worker and he had already announced to the world that he was a huge fan of mine.
“You shouldn't stay with me, Arata. I thank you for bringing me here. But if you continue to be by my side, your fans will judge you badly. Your co-workers will do the same. So. .”
“So. . . It's better if I stay away from Author, isn't it?” Arata cut my words and guessed what I wanted to tell him.
“Yes, that's what I want to say. You guessed it right, Arata.” I glanced towards the door behind me and then slowly came down to sit by leaning against the door.
“Whatever people say, whatever people say be it right or wrong, my trust in Author will not change. Everyone in this world has their eyes, ears, mouth and mind. At the same time they have the right to choose believe or not, including me. And this time. . I chose to believe in Author. Ah no. . for the future I will always believe in Author, because Author is the idol I chose.”
Tears I did not invite suddenly fell upon hearing Arata's confession to me. The trust that comes out of his mouth, the trust of the one person I've always called with that shitty bitch it feels so touching my heart that my tears just fall. Benalu that always stick to its host may be detrimental but. . . Benalu who always stick to it for a long time it knows well its host because they share food and life. Possibly. . . Arata is the same. Because we've been together all this time, she has her own judgment of me that maybe only she's seen until she's so trusting of me.
I wiped my tears and tried not to cry anymore. I didn't want Arata to hear my cry and worry more about me. Benalu sucks this. . Benalu who always wanted me to drive away because it disturbed the peace of my life, who would have thought that the disrupting nature was actually my helper?
When my mind called out the word helper, my memory led me to the words that Arata had once said to me.
“Therefore I say, I am the first and only benefactor who will give a symbiosis of mutualism, Author. I'll be a profitable asset only to you, Author. Remember that, Author!”
I smiled a little remembering that. You really are as profitable as you say, Arata.
