Only One Heart
The stolen heart
The wind was blowing slowly, hitting Aika's face which was blushing because it started to get cold. The girl's shoulder-length hair that was left unraveled, occasionally waving lightly in the evening air. The makeup drop that felt burdening his face had been removed a few minutes ago, shortly after the discussion about the acceptance of the Purna application was over. Now, this is where Aika is. Sitting in the back yard of his house is quite spacious. On a long bench under a mango tree. Aika's head held up, looking at the sky that stretched up there without a single star that seemed to be flickering bashfully. There was only a pale moon shining, poking out from behind the black clouds that were ready to shed the cries of the universe. The rainy season has indeed arrived, flooding some areas in the Capital City that have never been absent every year. Sighing long, Aika turned her head to the right side. Purna sits with a directed look at the Japanese grass that grows as hisan under his feet clad in black pantofel. Both have been silent since. No one wants to start a conversation first. Finally, Aika decided to give up. He then asked, “Why me, Na?” The one spoken to turned his head around, looking at Aika with a flat face before answering, “What's the matter?” “Elo know, we are both ..—” Aika words stuck in the throat. The girl was momentarily silent, staring in the distance while taking a deep breath from her mouth, feeling that the supply from her nose was still less than a relief to her lungs which were suddenly filled with a sudden rush of tightness that just suddenly came whack. Purna waited for the continuation of the sentence from Aika patiently and attentively. “We are both tasteless, Na.” And as for the affirmation of this sentence, Aika did not dare to look at Purna again. More have to let the moon's padangan increasingly hide behind the clouds, as if bored watching the drama of a pair of humans who never end. Purna took a long breath. He slightly bent his body forward and placed two elbows on his thighs. “Ya,” answered raucously, confirming Aika's words which had unknowingly managed to scratch a new wound on the surface of her still gaping heart. “We both have no taste.” Purna's forehead frowned when the amulet was thrown, holding a heart rate that felt sore because it was forced to deny reality in front of the idol girl. “But, Aika ..” he turned his head, looking at Aika's face that was still up, “we can try it, right? As Mas Riko said, we have known each other for a long time. It will be easier for us to live it.” “It's not that easy, Purna!” refute Aika, disagree. Staring at Purna's dark brown eyeballs deeply. Trying to find the gap of defeat in a pair of clear wells belonging to the young man. “In a relationship, especially marriage, it takes a strong foundation. Love is one of them.” “Then can you explain about their divorce - those who claim to be married for love?” ask Purna telak. Aika turned her eyes away in response. “The most important thing in a relationship is trust, Ai. Enough elo believe in me and I believe in the same elo, then everything will be fine aja.” Out of the blue, Aika laughed out loud. The bland laughter that sounded painful in Purna's ears. “As elo said earlier. Those who marry in love alone end up in divorce, right?” the girl attacked back. “Then what about us? Okay, I believe the same elo and elo believe the same me. But still, that's not enough, Purna! What if you fall in love with someone else? While we've tied the wedding, are you going to dump me, Na?” For a moment, Purna was silent. The young man's eyes rolled back against the weeds under his footing. Heartbeats rumbled behind his chest wrapped in a black linen shirt. In Purna's brain, Aika's question was precisely aimed at the girl herself. What if Aika falls in love with another man? They are tied up in a marriage. Will Aika abandon him? “Even now, my heart already belongs to someone else, Ai!” Purna answered slowly. And that other person was elo himself. Malaika Nareswari, who continued in the heart. Aika's mouth is open. Purna's words seemed to justify his prejudice regarding this young man's feelings for Jessica. Aika was at a loss for words to speak. His heart feels so painful. So ... I was really just an escape from you, Purnama? “So, I won't fall in love with anyone else anymore. Because, my heart has been stolen.” “Lalu ... elo me what, Na? Only limited elo escape from love clapping one hand?” The bland laughter returned from Aika's lips. She laughed at herself, who was probably mistaken for a foolish girl by Purna who had come to propose to make her his wife. A wife who does not need to be given a heart. How shiny. “No, so, Ai.” “Elo selfish, Na. Just thinking of myself, not thinking of my feelings at all. Elo not even before, am I willing? What if ...” Aika sentence hangs just like that, blowing empty air towards Purna's eardrum which is now waiting for its continuation with the eyes closed. To feel pain alone in silence. “Where if ... later, I fall in love with elo, Purna?” Eyelids After contact open. As fast as he could, the young man twisted his neck to be able to see Aika's facial expression that was still unwilling to return his gaze. For a fraction of a second long, Purna's heart seemed to find a stopping point, only to beat one tempo faster in the next second. All the collections of words he learned from starting to speak, as if disappearing from the brain of Purna who could only be silent. He wanted to open his mouth to talk, just say what. But when the young man opened his lip valve, no sound could be heard in his ears. Only the whirring wind grew louder, flying Aika's black hair as night. The moon was already hiding completely behind the clouds, making the darkness even more intense, only the garden lights and the light from the Handoyo family home were illuminated. “Where, Purna?” asked Aika again, looking at the interlocutor with a pair of clear eyeballs staring with millions of hidden meanings. Purna. He just needs to be honest, admit the truth about Aika. But again all the words that had been waiting in line at the end of his tongue were swallowed back through the esophagus, joining the large intestine and creating turmoil in the stomach Purna who immediately felt heartburn. Nausea with herself who can not be firm. Purna is indeed a coward if faced with a Malaiika Nareswari. Purna's afraid. “What can't, if we try first, Ai?” “You think marriage is a trial?” “Not so I mean, but ...” “From the beginning, we could never agree, right? I could never understand Elo's thinking, and vice versa. Without Jessica, we would not be in the same circle of friendship. And it should be. Now explain me, the picture of the household that will be built me and elo later? Because I know, forever I'm the same elo, will not change into us.” I am forever the same, I will not change into us. Can Purna hear the faint crack from behind his chest when he heard the end of Aika's sentence. It's like .. You better die. For the umpteenth time, Purna was heartbroken by the same man. “Mumpung is still now, Na. Release me!” After going so far? After Aika hurt him this badly? The girl asked to be released so easily. Lips Purna mnyeringai bitter. His selfish side was against Aika's wishes. And Purna wasn't too stupid to let go. If people say, you will be happy when you see the person you love happy, then that sentence does not apply to a Full Man. How can he be happy, if he imagines Aika with other men he is powerless? “Sorry, Ai! I can't!” Purna replied without looking into the eyes of the interlocutor. He straightened his back and looked away opposite to Aika's side. The young man's eyes piqued tightly, holding back the pain of having to support Aika by his side. “Elo selfish, Na!” aika shouted in front of her right ear. “Gue hate same elo!” the girl stood up. His eyes lit up with anger towards this young man. “And need elo know, Purna. My heart is no longer mine. So forget my words. And, yeah! Let's live this relationship in our own way!” then left, leaving Purna who was still sitting alone on the bench of the park which was suddenly quiet. The rustling sound of leaves being blown by the wind was like a heartbreaking melody, accompanying the void of Purnama who was still silent. “So, your heart has also been stolen, Ai?” purna whisper softly with a sore tone.
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