Pellucid

Chapter 4 - The World Collapses

When he woke up, Bening no longer found Arjuna beside him. He circulated his gaze throughout the room with neither Arjuna nor any of his police objects or uniforms.

What is left is only an elegant luxury pen with writing on one side of the pen, Honesty and Responsibility. Which means honesty and responsibility.

There is a logo of the institution Polri at the end of the pen and a letter like the initials of the name is ASM. What he believes ASM is an extension of the pen owner's name Arjuna Sabda Mahendra.

Because he had seen the full name of Arjuna on the uniform worn earlier even if only at a glance.

Bening tried to resist sobs and pain in the lower core. He is no longer holy. What she has retained for her future husband, extinct already.

For her as beautiful and as smart as any woman if not able to maintain her honor, then like a diamond that is very shiny but unfortunately the price fell on the market. Cheapo.

He saw the clock showing at seven in the morning. He had to get ready soon because his school group would return to Jakarta at nine in the morning. He doesn't want to be late.

After he cleaned himself and luckily his clothes can still be used even though a little tangled. Finally he went back to the room.

Luckily Stevi had not yet returned to their room. Looks like breakfast downstairs. He immediately cleaned up his things and acted as if nothing had happened.

Della and her friends asked her whereabouts last night while on the bus, saying she slept at a relative's house not far from the hotel where they were staying.

Of course Della believes. Because before moving to Jakarta, it was clear to go to school and live in Bandung. So he thinks in this flower city, Bening still has relatives when in fact there is no.

The dominant relatives of the Papa are in Yogyakarta while from the late Mama's side are in Malang.

Graduation day arrives,

All students of Cita Bangsa school welcome the happiness of graduation. Because today they will remove the attributes of high school and soon turn into students or students.

Rendra Mahardika and Della Wijaya. Accepted to the level of lecture at the faculty of Economics and Business, Trisakti University, Jakarta.

The Bening Putri Prasetyo. Accepted to study at the faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Depok.

Stevie. Accepted to study at the Faculty of Law, Trisakti University, Jakarta.

Luna. Accepted to study at the faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia, Depok.

Della deliberately chose the same major and campus as Rendra. Of course with one reason is to hope Rendra melt into him and accept his love.

Although Luna is different from the campus with Della and Stevi, but the three of them have promised to always be compact and still maintain friendship. The three will routinely meet to hangout together or just let go of longing.

The lecture schedule will start in unison in about two months.

Bening continued to wait for the figure. Both in every temple and in the house. While waiting to enter the lecture, he was busy writing all his activities in his diary book. To write some of the latest recipes on his laptop.

She has a hobby and talent for cooking. It's just that during his time in Jakarta, he did not apply when attending school in Bandung first. Only done at home is not to be explored to the outside.

And it worked. He did not think that his homemade snacks liked his friends at school. And he told the cafeteria to keep the maker a secret if anyone asked.

Not because of shame if news is heard that the son of a Kapolrestabes Bandung selling traditional snacks in the school cafeteria. But he wants others to buy his merchandise not because they see who makes it but because of its pure taste and quality.

Because there are many things out there we often encounter this kind of thing that is not good with friends, condolences or something like that. Buying the results of a friend's business because of pride is not because of the quality that is okay without frills who sells it.

But in Jakarta, Bening is being hit by the busyness of the school and the different atmosphere. So as to make the mood of selling snacks is lost somewhere. Instead, he focused on learning, learning and learning.

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A month has passed,

Bening could have told the Papa what Arjuna did to him. The level of Arjuna's office under his Papa. But he did not want to be rash.

He knows the character of the Papa. Hard and not easy to tolerate a mistake. Whatever reason. Bening did not want Arjuna's career that the man had built like now had to run aground because of the anger of the Papa.

So he waited more for Arjuna to come to him carefully to account for what he had done.

At the time of the incident, Arjuna had woken up and left earlier than himself. Of course logically, Arjuna has seen clearly his face and as an AKP who has a brilliant achievement will be easy to find his identity.

But what awaited never came to him. The saying goes that waiting is boring. Waiting for uncertainty.

One month after the night of the disaster, things he did not expect came to him. She is positively pregnant. Clear shock and trembling when he saw the test pack he used showed two red lines.

For this he is not stupid. He knows what that means. The world of Clear collapsed instantly in an instant. The excitement of his happiness greeted him on the dim college bench like his smile that no longer seemed to be on his face.

He slumped on the bathroom floor in his room. Crying to roar. I think he wants to go to his mom's place.

Being in the ground. Dead buried. Life without burden again. It could be better than living a life of shame on Papa. It was as if he was now throwing dirt on his face.

Intended to find his own way out and deliberately have not told the Papa, but the destiny of God says otherwise. Irjen Pol Prasetyo Pambudi finally found out that his biological daughter was pregnant.

But in the end, he did not know who his daughter was pregnant with. Because in the track record check Bening almost never walk with men. Even befriending fellow women in school alone can be counted on the fingers. Closed and without trace. Deadlocked.

While the man who impregnated Bening was agitated. Life is not calm. Filled with deep guilt. But unable to take a stand. Moreover, the mother continues to urge herself to accept arranged marriages with the son of her late father's best friend.

Arjuna is on the brink of death and has two options for survival. Her mother's choice or her choice?

Really dilemma.

Like eating simalakama fruit.

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