Owner of Heart #1
Chapter 2
With nothing left I walked towards my friends' crowd, several SAR and TNI teams joined there circling the campfire deliberately made to warm the body from the cold weather of the mountains that pierced to the bone.
“Sini, Key, Mira where?” teh Devi asked as she shifted her seat over the fallen piece of mahogany tree.
“Still in Mushola with Yuni,” I replied after sitting next to Teh Devi, my senior at the OASIS Foundation, where I and other volunteers have been living all this time.
“Si Agus kamana? (Good where?)” asked Kang Adit while looking for Agus.
“Go ma si Cepi, nyari cassava to burn he said,” replied Fadhil my friend from Mining.
Kang Adit could only laugh while shaking his head hearing it.
“Things that you make to take home tomorrow at already cleared?”
“Already Kang,” answered us in unison making Kang Adit nod in satisfaction.
“You're home tomorrow?” ask Mr. Karyo, one of the SAR team members we already know.
“Iya, sir, but don't worry tomorrow there will be substitute friends who will help here,” replied Kang Adit who got a nod from Mr. Karyo.
“You're all still in college?”
“Yes, sir, but there are also those who have graduated, but some are now on the job so can not go to the field again, most be a guide and donor only.”
“You guys are great, still young but already care and want to volunteer like now.”
“If not us-we are young who else, sir, we are the generation of the streamers.”
“You are right, but most young people today seem to prefer to spend time hanging out in malls or internetan. But you guys, prefer cold, lack of sleep, lack of eating, to help others.”
“If it's been a soul call, sir, like Mr. Karyo, Mas Mul, Kang Dedi who prefers to work as a SAR team rather than working in an office, isn't being a member of the SAR team riskier than working in an office? What else the army should be ready to fight life, but because it has a soul call, yes difficult.”
“Tuh, Key, tumben pinter,” said Kang Adit made us laugh.
“Newly take vitamins, Kang, so still dilute his brain, do not know if in a few minutes the power begins to freeze again, cold because.”
“Hahaha... brash.” I hit Rendy's arm who happened to be sitting next to me.
“Mas Yudha! Here, Mas!”
Instantly I froze when I heard Kang Adit calling the name of the Sergeant. I slowly turned my gaze toward the steps of someone who was getting closer, and there the sergeant stood wrapped in an army jacket and dark blue jeans, she looks like she just finished a shower from her still wet hair. Is he not cold? The water here during the day is like ice water, especially the gini-rich nights.
“Sini, Yud!” Bang Eddy, a fellow TNI member patted the spot beside him, and the Sergeant immediately sat there.
“Again on chat what?” ask while looking around.
“This, they will return tomorrow to Bandung,” replied Bang Eddy, and immediately his eyes immediately looked at me who was also staring at him.
The deg! Damnit damnit! My heart was beating violently just because our eyes were looking at each other, and unfortunately again, the red color of the fire from the campfire even made it look very manly. God willing, this one creature of God is indeed extraordinary.
“So, you guys come home tomorrow to Bandung?”
“Iya, Mas, tomorrow there will be a team changing us.”
The Sergeant nodded his head in understanding, whereas I still could not react to anything other than playing the fire in front of me using a wooden rod.
“Still, have helped us a few days now.”
“Sama-sama, Mas.”
“Mas Yudha has eaten yet?”
I ate Mira who had just joined us and was now sitting next to Kang Adit. Aah.if I were as brave as Mira, I would have asked from earlier! With a slight annoyance I thrust the wood into the coals of the fire.
“Kok, who was asked only Yudha doang, Mir,” protested Bang Eddy while smiling ignorantly.
“Bang Eddy-kan had already eaten, if Mas Yudha had just come so definitely not eaten, Mas? Want to make Indomie not?”
“Awas, Mas, tuh mode, the edges must ask for phone no.”
Everyone laughed teasingly at Mira, and I could only bow down while thrusting the wood I was holding back into the fire with a slight force.
“Ih, do not be horrified Kang Adit, Mas, but if you want to give no phone anyway no anything, Mas, sincere Mira mah.”
Everyone laughed again and I was excited to burn the wood I was holding with annoyance.
“Still, Mir, but no need, still full.”
“From lunch have not eaten can be full.”
I said quietly without turning my gaze away from the crackling wood of the burning fire, but apparently my words were not as slow as I thought, the proof is that everyone is now looking at me with a seductive smile. Confused I looked back at everything.
“Ciee.. apparently there are those who secretly circumvent, until they know they have not had lunch,” said Teh Devi makes everyone now tease.
“Ih, lengga! Make Kekey Bang Kamal, who doesn't come home for lunch? Trus Bang Kamal tells anyone who does not eat lunch.”
“Oooooh..”
Good thing it was dark before the fire so I thought my red face would not be obvious, and I could still see a smile teasing everyone.
“Tuh, Key, Mas Sgtnya already had lunch, so you can calm down.”
I glared at Mira who only grinned the rich horse.
“If you don't mind.. coffee only coffee.”.
“Well! Right, coffee steady tuh!” exclaimed Mr. Karyo who got a word of agreement from the others.
“Oh... on want coffee, yes? Ready it! Tar, we make good coffee.”
“Bawa aja thermos the same coffee here, Mir, let's not make it complicated,” said Teh Devi who can understand nods from Mira.
“Yuk, Key, help bring it!”
I stood up and started walking towards the common kitchen with my arms cupped to each other to escape the cold.
“Baby alone if the one who embraces your hand now, Mas Sgt.”
“Ih, what the hell, Mir!” I laughed while imagining that what Mira said came true, I was sure that tonight would suddenly be full of stars.
“This is the last chance, Key, before tomorrow go home to Bandung, you do not want to ask his phone no what?”
I was silent for a moment, my hands were getting closer and closer to Mira's arm.
“Engga ah, shy.”
“Not to be ashamed of tar niesel, do you want me the mintain?”
Honestly my heart was a little tempted to say yes, but somehow my mouth felt heavy to say that. I just smiled while shaking.
“No need, Mir.”
“Yakin no need.”
“Song,” I answered honestly making Mira laugh.
“Ah you mah base, mintain no nih?”
“Ga wired.” I could finally say confidently making Mira look at me before finally smiling understandably.
We returned to the campfire with our hands carrying plastic cups and instant coffee, while Mira brought a thermos of hot water. When we arrived they were laughing at Agus' story. My friend who was the smartest mamang melted the atmosphere. Me, Mira and Yuni started brewing coffee. Agus, Kang Adit, and Yudi are seen burying cassava inside the embers.
“So, Agus original Cililin?” ask Mas Mul.
“Iya, Mas.”
“Bandung scrawl, Mas,” said Rendy while laughing.
“It is wrong (not wrong) Cililin is now rame, already have mall.”
“Mall naon, Gus, molor meureun,” said Kang Adit made us laugh, the molor was a regular puncture people used to use for the mall which means sleep.
“Ih! This is mah aslina seriusan (It's really serious) name tuh Ci-mol..Cililin mall.”
We all laughed again hearing the name of the mall like hawker, Agus was most able to make us laugh with his Sundanese accent that sounded distinctive.
“Profit not cilok, Gus.”
“Cilok mah atuh Cililin flea, Key.”
I laughed as I handed out the coffee that was ready.
“But the pedes crackers are delicious, Gus, which Agus once brought it.” I remember the long little crackers as big as kelilingking with a spicy savory taste that Agus had brought when he came home from his village.
“Oh crackers bokser, Kekey want? Nantilah insyaallah Agus bring a sack for Kekey mah.”
“Yes, Gus.”
“We are not brought, Gus?” yuni Protest.
“Just ask Kekey, if you bring two bags of tar Agus in kata-in, eh Nicholas Saputra selling crackers.”
“Hahahaha”
We laughed again to hear Agus who was getting nervous, and unconsciously now I was standing in front of the Sergeant with coffee in my hand, with still laughing we looked at each other. The deg! Instantly my heart went back to crazy, trying to behave normally I pushed a plastic glass filled with coffee that he immediately received.
“Thank you,” he said with a big smile still adorning his handsome face. And it was the first time I saw the Sergeant laughing like that, Oh my God! What a handsome!!!
“Sama-sama,” I replied with a smile. I was just about to return to my seat when I saw that place was now sitting on the Vita Tea, and there was no more seating available. Mira and Yuni had now sat down beside Kang Adit.
“Sit here only, Key.” Bang Eddy offered me his seat. Which means I'll sit next to the Sergeant! Ok, I honestly wanted to jump right up and down, but of course I didn't do that, with my heart pounding, I ended up sitting next to the Sergeant!
O my heart, cooperate for once lest the Sergeant hear your crazy beatings, and my face cooperate with no flushing, ok!?
But how could my chest not thump if it sat this close to the Sergeant? Because it turns out that not only my heart is crazy but my blood also seems to rustle every time accidentally our bodies are clashing, even my minimalist nose contributed to my brain work declining every time I smelled its fresh, soothing perfume.
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