Prison of Love

The Other Side of Hengky

#11

Almost five months passed. Five months also me and Hengky officially established a relationship.

Not felt, time passes very quickly.

Don't ask how hard Shinta refused Hengky's presence. He even kept me quiet for a week.

A week that feels like a year to me.

How not?

I was able to get through everything with her and was suddenly considered a stranger to her.

A very painful week.

Until finally I relented, came to his house crying a mouthful, saying I would end my relationship with Hengky if that was the reason that made him stay away from me.

Unexpectedly, she came crying with me, hugging me tightly while asking if I really liked Hengky.

When I saw him nod, he wiped my tears and tried to smile,

“I'm just worried, Naya. I hope my feelings have been wrong all along. If you heard your story before, it doesn't seem to hurt to try new things with him.”.

I'm moved.

This time I have a friend who really cares about me.

I used to be on the bridle at home, out of the house just for school or school, barely had any close friends.

For six years in Pondok Pesantren Java Island increasingly make my friendship list conical upwards.

Graduating from Pondok, my friends who come from all regions in Indonesia return to their respective places.

I who also returned to my birthplace felt very estranged.

Away from friends while in the cottage, occasionally exchanging news via phone and short messages until finally lost news.

The first day at the college was excruciating.

The introverted me feels very disturbed when it comes to the reality that I have to join with others.

Until suddenly Shinta sat next to me, smiling and her gaze led me to a crowd of freshmen, who were,

“You alone?” Ask at that time.

“You alone?” I asked back to him.

Suddenly we laughed together.

Realizing that we are the same, have not had friends, the same alone.

Since then we have not been separated.

Where there is me, there is Shinta.

As I said before, we are like brothers.

If I'm to be honest, sometimes friends can better understand us than family. Friends are there when we need a hug, not a snatch. Friends are there when we need a helping hand, not a pat that makes us stray.

Ironical.

But some realities are not as sweet as hope.

In fact, if my family knew about what had happened to me, would they reach out to me, or even push me deeper, towards a dark hole I had never thought of?

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The heat of the sun this afternoon was stinging. Me and Shinta who are in the Coffee Shop alone still feel angry.

Very long dry season.

It seems that Shinta's explanation was quite reasonable, during the dry season, the amount of water in the soil decreases, and the amount of water in the soil decreases, this makes the surface of the earth during the dry season drier and the water content in the soil thinning so that the amount of water vapor in the air is very little.

Well, the lack of amount of water vapor on the surface of the earth that makes the air feel so dry that it causes the daytime is so hot and the night feels cooler than usual.

I nodded in understanding as Shinta explained the weather mechanism like that. It seems that he listened well to the words of the teacher in school first.

Several times my phone shook but I ignored it.

Shinta frowned while asking who sent the message, I replied briefly, “Hengky”

“Why not be bales?”

I straightened my legs while sighing,

“Bosen, Ta. Every hour I have to tell you where I am, who I am. While he knows very well I will not be in a strange place, and he also knows me yes just you..”.

“Ehm... does its original nature begin to see..?” Shinta cleared her throat while pretending to cough, I knew she was insinuating me.

“People's heart we don't know, Taa..”.

"Because you don't know that's why I told you back then!”

“Trus do you feel bosen now? After five months of dating?”

“Not bosen, but saturated..”.

“That means samaaa, Nayaaa!” Shinta throws a tissue at me, “gregetan yaaa I'm the same you!”

“Yaa... I can't like you that can last years with Fahri..” I lowered my voice.

Shinta.

I know, Shinta doesn't like it the most when I talk about her boyfriend. For almost three years we were friends, can be counted fingers how many times I saw him meet his girlfriend.

He had a long-distance relationship and was not approved by his parents.

“He really did not think it was because of anything sii.. maybe he was just worried about you. You want when he talked aloud in class at that time? She said, you're her first boyfriend?”

Shinta had already mastered the conversation back.

I nodded assuringly, “Alau rada does not believe sii, with such a nature he has never dated.”.

“She said you were the first woman to pull her heart. Wih crazy siih he said it was loud bangettt in front of the class right yaa.”.

I nodded again.

At first I was fascinated to see him adoring and liking me.

But the longer I don't know why I feel he's drawn so many lines in my life, forcing me to put himself first more than anything.

“But he complies with the rules you made right?”

"Banget! Hold my hand can only be counted fingernail”

“Yea.. at least she's better than Andy.”.

This time Shinta's mobile phone vibrated on the table, we glanced simultaneously, Hengky's name appeared on the screen.

I scrunched my forehead, my eyes turning for answers.

“Don't tell him he nelfon you make me nyariin.”

Shinta shrugged her shoulders in ignorance, picked up her phone, spoke a few words and handed me the phone,

“He wants to talk to you”

I reached for her phone in doubt, somehow stung with fear in my heart,

“H-Halo..”.

"Tell me if you can't leave your HP in Kosan” Hengky's voice sounded annoyed.

“Sorry.. I did not hold HP from earlier..”.

“You didn't even know, I got safely to my house”

“Yes God... The same campus distance of your home is only ten minutes, Ky..!” I answered her words a little upset.

He's always overreacting. Thinking that the trivial becomes very heavy for him.

"Tetep ajaa.. You should have chatted me, bales my message. Don't cuddle me gini dong.”.

“You are a habit. Half an hour ago we were just on the phone, Ky. Just half an hour ago I didn't call you..”.

“I don't want to know. You should bales my message as soon as possible without later. Okay?”

“I do not promise ya” I replied ogah-ogahan.

“Where else are you now?”

“Di Cafe Queen”

“I'm there!”

“Eh, anything..gak u...”.

Phone calls are turned off.

I still can't believe it. My eyes looked at Shinta as if saying,

What the hell is this kid?!

Shinta shrugged her shoulders indifferent marks then sipped her coffee deliciously, she glanced at me as if to say, saying,

I TOLD YOU BEFORE, BUT YOU DON’ LISTEN TO ME!

I let out a breath.

Ah, dammit! I'm trapped again.

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