Rinai Longs from the Sky
Challenges
You don't know what it's like to be in a fire.
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"He's been bedridden by me."
"Aargh ...."
Bara ruffled his hair in frustration, the brightly lit laptop screen in front of him still displayed a blank page. The flickering cursor mocked Bara who had not yet written the script for the latest chapter of her novel project. I don't know, everything Bara wrote feels wrong. Every line of words he tried to pour out was lifeless. Until it ends in the delete button. As a result there has been nothing Bara pour in his word file for almost an hour.
Usually if Bara loses the mood of writing, he will visit his unit neighbors. Knock on the original door, until the owner comes out with a fierce look. Bara showed off a sinless grin.
"What the hell, Bar? Look, there's a fire on the door!" sewot Rana's.
"When there's a Fairy Godmother fire, you don't know?" reply Bara seriously.
"Huh? Over where? Then you're not papa? Did you see the fire?" The expression of panic from Rana's face is a separate entertainment for Bara. He almost laughed if he did not remember the show.
"I'm scared, Fairy Godmother." Bara hugged his own body, behaving as if completely scared.
"Yes Allah ...." Shutter's eyes glazed over. "How come you need something now?"
Bara nodded twice. "I need your magic wand, Fairy Godmother."
After that, you can be sure Rana will take a broom or anything that is affordable hands and pursue Bara to get punished.
Bara smiled to himself when the moment with Rana turned. Jail, that's Bara with Rana. But trying out the girl is powerful to restore the mood of writing it. Like the drug he used to often consume if the fear of fire disaster was haunting.
"He's been bedridden by me."
And Rana's statement piece the other day successfully eroded the smile line on Bara's lips. That is why the thick-browed man failed to write today. Bara does not know why Rana's speech is so attached to the head. Like a music playlist that is set repeatedly, played again and again.
"What if Rana is proposed. That's good, right?" Monologue in front of the laptop.
"Yes, if Rana's married to Bian, it means she and I can't be together anymore."
"Why are you, Bar, talking dialogue again?" Suddenly Riko's voice interrupted, the forehead of the man who had just returned was furrowed deeply.
"Eh, no .. this ...." Bara scratched his nape, wrong behavior. "Yes. I'm trying to write a dialogue in my script so I feel it." It's whinyesan.
Riko clucked, then he looked at the time marker that circled the left wrist. "Aren't you the way?" He looked at Bara who was still relaxed with a T-shirt and shorts.
Bara's eyebrows are linked while parroting the words of his friend. "Road?"
"Aren't you having an appointment with Dira?"
The next moment was the fog itself. The chair he was sitting on was strangled due to the blind movement. If Riko does not remind, it is certain that he forgot his appointment with Dira this Saturday afternoon.
"She had a crush, but forgot her own promise," ridiculed Riko when Bara had just closed the bathroom door.
***
Even though Bara had put the bike forward with above average speed, still he was late. Dira was waiting where they had made their agreement.
"Sori pretty jammed earlier," Bara reasoned. Classically. "Wait a long time, huh?"
"Ten minutes," Dira answered briefly while commenting on the smile that Bara could not understand what it meant.
"What about, anyway, late time?" protest Kevin who sat next to Dira. His mouth was a brown straw from the steak biscuits he was holding.
Bara grimaced, once again apologizing to the boy. He repeatedly cursed himself. Which man keeps women waiting? He reminded himself to install a reminder if there is another appointment.
"Kevin wants to play" replied Kevin enthusiastically.
"Others, handsome?"
"Main fire," replied Kevin Tangkas tangkas ended yel-yel exclaimed. While Bara's forehead frowned confusedly.
"Kevin wants to play damkar. It just so happens that downstairs there's a spot." Dira explained.
"What-what?!"
***
Do inhalation, exhale repeatedly. Hoping that the activity of taking a deep breath and throwing it out through the mouth can slightly reduce nervousness. The young man's hands were sweating. Although the place they will go to is a vehicle for children's education, still all the facilities used are real. Fire included.
"Let's go Kevin, Bar." Dira's speech increasingly makes Bara's airway narrowed.
"Dira, not that I don't want to, but you know, right, I ...." Bara was unable to mention his last word.
Right now he felt like a loser before the war. His hands clenched tightly beside the body. Really Bara wanted to accompany Kevin to be a damkar officer in the vehicle of the Conqueror of Fire. However, the invisible illness he suffered forced him to retreat. How will he progress, if lighting a match cannot? He could not be reckless, because it could be ascertained Bara will faint when looking at the simulation of the fire.
Dira stood facing Bara completely. "Bar, that fear has to be faced, you can't keep hiding. Moreover fire exists in the daily life—"
"I know, Dir, I know. "Bara cut off the woman's words. "You can say all that because you're not in the fire." Bara emphasized the last sentence, her chest rising up and down significantly, a symbol of restrained emotion. "You don't know what it's like to be in a fire. You also do not know how to watch someone you love die because we are selfish." His voice that rose an octave, made some visitors turn their heads towards them.
Dira commented a smile, casually responding to Bara. "And you'll be a coward forever?"
Telak. Dira's words really dropped Bara's pride. Unfortunately all of that was true, and Bara could not refute. His fist grew tighter, making the knuckles whiten.
"Papa, come!" Kevin's touch on the sleeve of Bara's long shirt made his emotions erode a little. The radiance of Kevin's pet-laden marbles made Bara full.
The young man crouched down, equating high with the boy. Then stroked his mane gently. "What if we play the other one? Bomb car, that's exciting too?" talk to Kevin. Wishing to please the boy without disappointment.
"No way!" reply Kevin firmly. "Kevin, right, wants to be a fire conqueror like Mama. Yeah, right, Ma?" Kevin looked up, looking at Dira who was also staring at him.
"Yes, honey," said Dira before turning to look at Bara. "It's not as bad as you'd imagine the bar, it's just a simulation. And your distance from the fire has also been secured." Dira tries to convince Bara.
Bara sighed, shuffling her hair in frustration. "I can't, Dir, sorry."
Looks like today is a bad day for Bara. After coming in not on time, he also disappointed for the second time the same person. In the end Dira no longer wants to force, entering the vehicle without coal. While the man was just like he said a moment ago, being the loser who chose to wait outside.
Actually, Bara's trauma has been better than it was years ago. At least now he was not hysterical when he saw the stove fire in the roadside vending cart. He never set foot in the kitchen of the family home. But to face the fire itself, Bara has not been able to. He can't light a match, what else is a stove. That's because in the first cost of the kitchen room only contains cutlery, without cooking equipment. And to deal with fire, even if it's a simulation, it can't.
I don't know, every time I see the fire of the shadow of the disaster just burst out. It was as if he could hear the sound of wooden planks starting to burn. He can also feel the heat of the red whiz burning the skin. As it were, it was like a fire he was experiencing.
"You're already home, Bar."
Bara had no idea how long he was pondering. But when Dira's voice greeted the ears, he knew time had gone a long way.
He stood up, approaching the two. Kevin looks very happy. Honey, it doesn't create that happiness. "No. The time has come late, the return even first," Bara said. The clumsy still dominates.
Dira chuckles. "Now we are hungry. Let's eat!"
Being accustomed to facing small children and fires that require extra patience may also affect Dira's attitude. That girl is that mature. So, it's not wrong, right, Bara chose it?
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