ROMANCE (Based On True Story)
CHAPTER 22
Yeah, 'cause maybe that's the best thing I can give you,
“Oiya Cin, how is your relationship with Mang Syarif?” ask me on the chat
“Ko you know me deket same mang Syarif?” Reply astonished.
I paused for a moment, wanting to tell her that I had been watching and watching from far away for two years, but I didn't say I was ashamed, I don't think I deserve to say that.
“Emh, I know from your friend, but I'm sorry I couldn't tell you who it was.” reply
“Ouh so yaudah gpp, I am now no longer pik, it is rare, maybe he has a busy,”
reading that answer as fast as lightning I answered enthusiastically.
I felt that I was weird, kind in front of you, and I was so mean, hoping that Cindy was just mine
“Loh why? Though you guys fit you, your family already know each other too, dear Cin” Actually I'm hard to say it, but if in front of him I have to behave like someone he wants, I want to, act as a friend.
“Ko you know also the guy about it, from my friend also not?” his question was increasingly astonished.
I was confused as to what to say, if I lied and asked her a question earlier, I was afraid that she might have guessed, but if I was honestly embarrassed, I would not have told her the truth, we are just two friends, nothing more.
“Not ko Cin, emh I know from Mang Syarif's Instagram, at that time he once uploaded a photo of you who was in the middle of his family” reply me again.
“Ouh that, well you kepo policy, hehe” reply Cindy short.
That night I accompanied him to sleep, before long I also caught up with him, I did not want to linger to see him in dreamland.
For three years running I never really fell in love again, as long as I loved him with longing, I only kept one name, CINDY JANUARTY, even if I was called crazy by my friends, I just kept one name, I would like it because of him, believe me, my friend, the power of Love is the most important, actually I am often betrothed by my friends, with this one, with that one, it is, but baby, I always stop in the middle of the road.
Soon his birthday, maybe another six days, but I still haven't got a present for him, anyway I'm confused to give him how, he's now in the dorm, and it's very difficult to meet him there, even if I don't know which one, after all, he doesn't allow me, day after day I keep thinking about that, until then, I had found a way, I made him a video, although not shaped stuff but hopefully he likes, I was helped Aldi and other friends at that time, because they found out what I was like when it came to Cindy, they finally complied with my request, maybe about four hours I made it, Aldi who accompanied me, the others I just asked to congratulate, early in the morning I sent the results, but unfortunately it seems he is still in the Dormitory because his WA checklis one time, yasudah no matter, later also he opened my hope, I hope, then shortly after I sent him the video, my little phone lit up, I thought it was a reply from him, it turned out from his friend, he told me that Cindy's birthday today, he reminded me of fear I forgot he said, I laughed reading it, how could I forget the important days of his life, and he also said that now he was being celebrated with Mang Syarif in Dormitory, I was amazed, my hands were clenched and at once my laughter stopped, so painful it felt, why he was talking to me, why did he not keep it a secret, I thought, I had the intention to retract the video I had sent, but I was late, Cindy had already opened it.
“Thanks for the video pic, I like” a short message from him that appears on my phone screen.
I don't want to reply to her, but I have to make sure what her friend said was true
“Daddy Cin together, sorry I can not give you a gift this year, next year I promise you will love something for you” reply me fishing chat
“Daddy pik gpp, this is enough,” replied Cindy
“Daddy Cin sorry ya if ugly”
“Neither pic is good, I like” he said.
Either he really liked it or just made me happy,
“Alhamdulillah if you like, oiya Cin I want it can?” I said switch the theme of the chat at the time
“Emang really yes that you celebrate your birthday in dormitory with mang Syarif?” ask me a little awkward, how not awkward, at that time I was like someone important in his life, everything about him I asked, maybe he was also uncomfortable
“Not really pic, who said?” his reply.
Maybe if at that time I was face to face with him I would know very well with the reaction of his face, yes, surely he showed that creepy face, I really miss him, a beautiful face that was forced to lie.
A few days after the chat my relationship became more intimate with Cindy, as a friend of course, she often told me back about how she was in the Dormitory, even with great confidence he talked about his relationship with Mang Malik to me first, I was happy even though I had to be sad again afterwards, under the cobong room close to my house, he said, I felt physically close to her, even taking her little sister, salsabilla, with her, little girl who used to be 2 years ago she told me on the back bench in class, now we become more frequent chatter like this, chat vidio.
“Cin I'll go to your house, yeah?” Much
“You what? Do you know my home”? he said as he drew his face closer to the front of the camera
“ya want to chat, want to chat with prospective in-laws hehe” connect me while laughing, he also laughed at that time, then reconnect the chat with a small smile, he said
“Opaan thee pik, tickle me with her,”
“Yes yes Cin, Amiiniin kek, other friends have been to your house, I can too, right?” cut me
“Iya may, but you will be later yes, 5 years away, right dek?” he answered while asking his sister.
Whether he was really serious or not, but that answer was enough to make me laugh, if it were true, I would have waited year after year, I knew yesterday - yesterday my friend went there, to his house, and I was late to know that, I just found out after seeing the galih story at that time, he said when I asked him why not tell me, he forgot, he forgot, yasudah is what I can, forget natural to every human being.
The moon was so fast changing, soon enough, Cindy and my other friends were in 3rd grade, and usually before ascension or after, they would enjoy the air outside the city a little, I mean there will usually be a Pilgrimage event together, it's been very routine every year, I also used to be in 3rd grade MTS, and at that time I also got a necklace given by an old grandfather there who now I have entrusted to Him, said Grandpa who I had forgotten how to look at the face yes, yes, this necklace can take care of me because of the greatness of God, because I want Cindy who is always awake, eat it I give the necklace, now I don't know if she still takes care of him or not, or not, no matter what is keeping him, not only Allah, according to belief.
A few days after this, they really went to the city of Tasikmalaya, Pilgrimage there, I also used to go there, but we had time to Banten first, first, and I don't know now where they're going after that, before he left he called me, not by phone, si, more precisely video chat, when I picked up the phone, when I picked up the phone, he was sitting sweetly on the bus that seemed to be leaving soon, there was also Salma, my old MTS friend, but he did not continue his schooling, he only continued his pesantren education there, so since entering SMK I have never seen him again wearing school clothes, hehe, Salma said I was whiter he said, and this mustache in my lips added a sweet nuance to my face, I laughed a little and was a little embarrassed at that time, because he had praised me, in return I asked him to keep Cindy there, he also laughed at it, saying it was not a reward but an order, hehehe, we chatted shortly, because the bus had started to go and our chatter was interrupted by a shock there, I ask him to do a lot of’a, do not often play HP, except if it is to chat with me hahaha.
Two days he was there, and during that time I was not stopping to’a his safety, I did not ask anything from him, I just want him to come back with a better condition, he said, and my Do’a was granted, Cindy and the others went back to the dorm in good condition, without any abrasions, and none of them, if any, were lacking, maybe it's my do’a that is still stuck in the seat of the bus that hehe occupies, I don't want to bother him first, because I know he must be very tired, even though he did not say so, I don't want to bother him first, because I know he must be very tired, but I know that, because in fact he came home first not directly to the dorm.
“Rrrrrrrr” my phone vibrates, I see on the screen there is a message from Cindy, as fast as I open lightning and reply to the message, I don't want if he has to wait too long, I don't want to,
“Pik, I say goodbye to the dorm again yes,” he said
“Oiya Cin, aren't you tired?” repay me
“Not really pik, it's too soon now mah, even bosen at home tuh, habits in dormitory times, ya” continued Cindy
“Oyou've done that, you are careful there yes, take care of good health, eat and drink it also in the care, if you have anything to say yes to your friends who are out of school, and, so that they can tell me”, I continued with hope
“Ia pik, definitely kok, yaudah Assalamu’alaikum”
“Ia wa’alaikumsalam”
Before we actually ended the conversation that night, he was honest with me, about why he became so calm when I asked him to tell me if there was a problem when we met at the maulid event near his house that I told you about above, he said he wondered why I knew he was in so much trouble and didn't know who to tell, I said, I'll always know all about him, because I always watched him from afar, I was honest with him about the things I had kept secret from him, we were honest that night, too, until we no longer talk after he goes home to the hostel and will not bring HP.
For several days after he left, my activities here were still the same, teaching, working, teaching, and being taught, all unchanged, and this sense also remained the same, even more and more deep, day by day, in, and in, if one day he comes to his senses and asks me why I love him so much, I will answer if I have always loved him, since my hatred is gone I have loved him, ever since he used to tell me in the backseat, I have loved him, ever since he gave me a little letter I have loved him, even I have forgotten since when I loved him.
