Queen Kepo

26. Hawks

...These are the tears of umpteenth that fall in your name...

After all this time, Gavin was here. In the cemetery where his father and mother were awakened the final resting place. Because of the incident of Luna yesterday, Gavin became increasingly homesick to his parents and intended to come here.

 

Gavin stared at the graves of his parents who died in an accident one year ago. Both tombs are decorated with beautiful colorful flowers, do not forget there is a small paper that folds into a square. Gavin knows who did this.

Gavin slowly began to speak in his heart to pray for his parents. Gavin did not want his words heard by others.

Gavin's outstretched hand carried the rectangular paper from his mother's grave. He opened the fold and Gavin began to read the contents of the Paper which was the short letter.

Tania I miss you ❤

- Bellas

Both ends of Gavin's lips lifted after reading one sentence from the man named Bella. Bella or Aunt Bella is no stranger to Gavin. Aunt Bella is a close friend of her mother. Gavin has regarded Aunt Bella as his own mother and Aunt Bella has regarded Gavin as his own. 

Every day Aunt Bella always comes to the tomb of Father and Mother Gavin to sprinkle flowers, pluck the grass around the tomb and give a short letter that always ends in the trash. Not only Bella, Gavin also misses her parents.  Really missed.

"Gavin"

Suddenly Gavin stood up from his initial position and looked at the man who had called out to him.

A tall man wearing a black shirt was given a questionable look by Gavin.

"Gue Eagle" I'm the guy who seems to know the meaning of Gavin's eyes.

Gavin scrunched his forehead. Gavin seemed to think hard before finally opening his mouth and saying "Lies"

"Gue Eagle, you don't want any time?  I'm the Eagle you used to pick up mangoes on RT's tree" The man tried to convince Gavin. There was a disappointed tone when Gavin accused him of lying.

Gavin continued to stare at the man with a questionable look and then his gaze moved to the man's arm.

"Elang has a tattoo of an Eagle. Lo have?"

The man named Eagle made his eyes. How could Gavin still remember his bird tattoo. So when Gavin and the Eagle were 10 years old, Gavin once drew an Eagle that looked more like a chicken on the Eagle's right hand using a marker. And that incident was 7 years ago after Gavin asked his masterpiece, there must have been no tattoo made. His gaze had disappeared as the Eagle wished.

"The tattoo of the Eagle is already flying" replied the original Eagle who made Gavin laugh crisply.

"My spark" said Gavin, laughing.

The eagle breathed a sigh of relief. Finally he was released from the drama Gavin. Only the Eagle and God know that Gavin has a very high dramatic soul.

"How are you?" Gavin asked the Eagle, crouching in front of his mother's grave.

Then silence. Gavin was speaking to his parents in his heart, and the Eagle knew it. The eagle will open his voice after Gavin who first invited him, it's not that the Eagle is only afraid to disturb Gavin.

"Well, why are you here?" After a few minutes of silence that's what Gavin asked the Eagle as a breaker of silence.

"My mother sent this letter to your father's grave" Eagle gave a small paper like the one given to Gavin's mother.

Gavin brought the short letter from the Eagle's hand, opened it and read it. The contents of the letter are Aunt Bella's orders for Gavin's father to keep Gavin's mother there.

"Gue returned to Bandung for good" One sentence came out of the Eagle's mouth.

Gavin who heard the Eagle's words clearly smiled happily. His best friend returned, after several years of leaving to move with his father out of town. Now the Eagle lives back here, with his mother. The Eagle's father and mother had indeed separated.

...**...

Gavin must be grateful thousands of times. Because he managed to get into the school area without punishment. Now the clock shows 10 o'clock which is the break time at Gavin school.

After coming from his parents' grave and meeting the Eagle, Gavin immediately went to school. There's no way Gavin doesn't go to school, because Gavin doesn't want school to be quiet without him.

When Gavin was sitting in one of the canteen chairs suddenly the Queen came with a box of supplies in her hand. As if Gavin did not know if the Queen was right next to him, Gavin closed his eyes.

"Today I promised you a treat, right? So I made fried rice. Yes, I should practice eating instead of making food. But I want to save money so it's okay?" The queen thrusts the provisions put into the place to eat gray.

Both of the Queen's eyes continued to look at Gavin's tightly shut eyes. Is Gavin asleep?

"Lo don't want to? It looks cold too. If it was so early in the morning it would still be anget.  Lo dihinteng dateng jam. I'll take it again, okay?"

Both of Gavin's eyes opened after hearing the Queen speak like that. The opening of Gavin's eyes was not to see the Queen but to look at the gray place to eat.

Gavin stood up and carried the provisions without saying a word to the Queen.  Let alone taking out a single word, staring at Ratupun not Gavin do.

I feel something strange. The queen chose to follow where Gavin went. The Queen wanted to ask why Gavin behaved like this when yesterday was not like this.

The Queen sped up her steps in order to equalize her steps with Gavin. After the same steps.  The queen opened her voice "Gavin lo why the hell? Yesterday's feelings weren't like this."

It was the first question the Queen did not get an answer from Gavin. The question kept the Queen repeated, up to 15 times but the result remained the same.  Gavin didn't say anything. The Queen is getting all the more confused with Gavin who is like this.

The Queen shouldn't be like this, right?  The Queen should be indifferent when Gavin is like this to her. Should the Queen be happy because her desire to be free away from Gavin was achieved. Why is the Queen unhappy? Why is the Queen in pain?

The Queen was still tangent with but her heart and mind were instantaneously not understood. When the Queen tangles with her thoughts, Gavin stops her steps. The queen also stopped her steps.

Instead of asking questions without being answered. The queen chose to see what Gavin would do. Now the Queen saw Gavin standing in a dumpster. Gavin keeps the Queen's gray-colored eatery in the trash. No not saving, Gavin threw away the place to eat that contains fried rice. The fried rice that the Queen made an hour for failing constantly. But Gavin threw it away instead of eating it. Gavin can refuse it, not throw it away.

Without the Queen noticing her tears slowly falling on her cheeks.