OPACAROPHILES

4. Luka and Mizka's Story

Gega, Cinta, and Zemira were sitting together on one of the canteen benches while enjoying their lunch. Love with his fried rice, Gega with meatballs, and Zemira with chicken noodles. The three of them were busy with their own food. The bustling atmosphere of the canteen did not bother them at all.

"Ta, it'll be my house, right?" asked Gega after finishing his meal.

"So, I happened to have the same permission, Jovita. You're coming, aren't you, Zem?,"

"Gue can't, Ta. Sorry, but I want to go home today" replied Zemira.

"Well, you let me be with Gega who is doing her job. It's nothing, Ge?" said Cinta, cleaning her lips with a tissue.

"I'm not a papa, but he can't do what?" asked Gega.

"Zemira let the work English, you are the same I work the same Maths Bahasa Indonesia," said Cinta.

"OK, but then go to the supermarket first, Ta. Mother asked to buy ingredients for this week, would you?,"

"You know, I like cooking by chance. So often buy groceries,"

"Zem, I'm listening to another classmate, huh?" Gega asked Zemira.

"Where are you from?" Zemira replied calmly. Who doesn't know how this is trying? Maybe only Love does not know as a child who is lazy to seek information.

"From Tito, he's a futsal boy and Tito's teammate. Pinter also you find her rich guy,"

"Well, Zemira that's it," Love just laughs crisply considering that Zemira is indeed beautiful and famous in school. So it is no wonder that he has many acquaintances and connections at school.

"If you, Ta? Who are you?" asked Gega to Love.

"You sure you ask me that? It's clear you yourself know what the answer is," Love replied with a carefree smile. This was the question he most often encountered at the end of this. Because almost all of her friends in class already have girlfriends, except her and Gega.

"Lo don't want to find a guy?" asked Zemira who really wants Love to have a boyfriend.

"I'm looking for money instead of looking for a guy. Find money can be useful a lot, while finding a girlfriend can only be hurt, right?," Zemira made silent not warty. While Gega smiled victory, because he and Love are equally unwilling to find a boyfriend and choose to be single.

"Good, Ta. Well, Zem, listen to our first lady," Gega told Zemira. Zemira stared at Gega.

"Udah yuk, to class," invite Cinta while rising from her seat followed by Gega and Zemira. The three of them walked past from the canteen. While passing the stairs that connect to the twelfth grade, Love meets Mizka and Luka who have just descended from there. Love smiled warmly greeting them.

"Hi, Cinta," said Mizka while stopping her footsteps to just say hello to Cinta.

"Hem...," replied Luka muttering.

"Sorry, Ta, my sister again canker sores so males by the way," said Mizka.

"Ohh that, get well quickly, Luka. I'm the same friend of friends ride first yes, sister," said Love pamit. Mizka nodded then waved her hand towards Cinta who had already turned around to continue her journey to class.

"Heh, you didn't answer his greeting instead ahem ahem doang. Whispering of your lips?" asked Mizka to Luka who had a flat face.

"What the hell, fuss yourself, he's just ordinary. Hurry, I'm hungry," then Luka walks over quickly leaving Mizka staring at her irritated.

"Great moon, my sister. Though he was happy, but pretentious and did not care," Mizka again followed Luka's footsteps away. Sometimes he is confused, actually who is older among them, himself or Luka. Because why instead he continues to follow his sister, as if Luka is his brother. Confusing.

"Ka, in two weeks we're going to go to Mama's place right? I really swear," asked Mizka while enjoying the food in front of her.

"Well, I'm busy" Luka replied lazily. He does not like to discuss his mother, he is very sensitive if anyone discusses her.

"Lo is still the same, Ka. Or it will never change. Why can't you just let go of the past that binds you? If rich gini continues, until when will we be far from-,"

"Gue wasn't ready to meet him. You know the reason, and stop discussing this problem when we eat again. You can go alone to meet him, I can't," Luka replied quickly interrupting Mizka's speech.

"Gue never taught you to be a brash kid rich gini. It's not all their fault, but it's their destiny to want them rich gini. Lo already big, not my little sister and must be explained many times just understand. Open your mind, we should be grateful we still have them. Not like those who have stayed away for as long as they can, and will never be able to meet again. We can still meet them, we should be able to benefit at that time before there is no chance anymore" said Mizka at length. Wounds remain wounds, frozen and dark.

"It is not only the will of fate, but those who do not really love each other. Those who choose to go in different directions and maintain their own egos. Without thinking of us who needed them at that time. But they abandoned us without wanting to know how we were here. We fought just the two of us, Miz. Why do you still care about them, huh?. They are just like their own world. We can fight both. Without them," Wound replied coldly. This is all because of a mistake ten years ago that ended up very imprinted in memory and became a black scratch in the story of their lives both.

When the two under the guise of loving each other first, choose to separate and take the opposite direction. Luka and Mizka could only dwell and digest the situation at common ground, without knowing what was really going on. They split up and built their own castles. Large walled castle with no gap to just welcome the two children they created with the meaning of love that is wrongly interpreted. Mizka and Luka are disillusioned, and they choose to build a cozy little house to shelter from the onslaught of nightmares that continue to haunt her sleep every night.

How not to be disappointed, they forgot about Luka and Mizka just like that. They both married a new couple. While Luka and Mizka can only hope that all this is only a nightmare that will be finished after they reopen their eyes. But it's not, it's all happened and left only a black mark without knowing how to remove it.

But now Mizka realized, that the black marks can be lost when he wants to finish what has not been resolved first. That is by making peace to their Mama and Papa. But Luka did not at all want peace with her two parents. Or even they do not deserve to be called parents at all. Because for Luka, her parents are Mizka, her real parents. Mizka took care of it since childhood without any interference from anyone. Until finally they both met an angel without wings who was present as a light for their dark lives.

His name is Alcetta Wira Kusuma, a detective famous for his greatness to uncover a mystery that is even tightly closed. Cetta means so much to the lives of these two teenagers. Cetta happily reached out her hand to help Mizka and Luka rise from the slump.

"Lo remembers that we had an appointment with Mas Cetta to meet them. We promise to forgive them even if we can't be together anymore. He must be disappointed if you know you are still this cold" said Mizka with a headband.

"Gue's sick of everything, Miz. Why do we look for them and waste time just to reopen the old past?. While they may have forgotten us, their proof is they are not looking for us at all. It's been ten years, but there's no sign that they're looking for us. So do what, too? I still don't want to find them, if you want. Lo can go alone," after saying that, Luka got up from her seat and left Mizka who was made silent by Luka's talk. Wounds were right, both of their parents had not searched for them at all for ten years. Do they really not remember with their two hearts.

"But what should I do, Luka?. I just want all of us to be better again, let's not continue to be a rich grudge gini. What am I supposed to do, Mah, Pah?. Where're you? Why don't you ever find me and Luka? You are evil, you are evil," muttered Mizka, drowning her head in the folds of her hands. Wanting it to feel he screamed loudly releasing all the claustrophobicity in his heart.