Secrets (Who Are You?)

4. Deneb, Altair and Vega

In the night sky in July there will be a miracle. About an amazing love story. Anyone want to know. All right, let Reina tell everyone.

Youth camp when the semester break begins. Today will be a long day for Reina and her friends. Even though he can't do that camp with Meika.

Children of nature lovers will do a camp in the mountains. They set out in the afternoon when the sun had started to fall from his layover.

He tightened the knots of his shoes then gulped down his mineral water before starting a step. Small and sure steps it begins. The steep cliffs look so dangerous. Reina clung tightly to the roots of plants that ran wild along her hiking path. In front of him was someone who was always ready to help him.

"Can I ask for your help, it looks like my foot is stuck in the root." Pinta Reina on someone the young man in front of her.

Of course the young man turned around and helped to release Reina's leg from the wild root's entanglement.

"Other times be careful. If you are tired say. Let's hurry the others are getting further." he asked

"I'm first." Reina walked ahead of the young man. Sometimes they open small talk.

The group of climbers arrived at the camp site when night had arrived. Soon they divided the task, set up a tent and prepared dinner. One of the group took out a portable stove from his backpack. In modern times like this there is no longer a cooking camp with firewood, he said. But some of them keep looking for dry twigs to light up the bonfire as a cool night warmer.

When all was done, Reina walked through the wild weeds and giant teak trees that grew on the mountainsides. He heard rumors of a large rock that would be the best location to see the stars. Since childhood, Reina liked the stars that are always scattered in the Milky Way galaxy.

Reina lay on a big rock there. Staring at the starry sky or sometimes switching to staring at the glittering lights below that make the sky seem to turn around. The lights of the city seemed to make the land become like a starry sky. The breeze of the night moved the strands of her hair, making her smile. Enjoy God what else He should deny. Everything felt so perfect for his messy story.

Spread out both of his skinny hands. Enjoying every night breeze is not really a good thing for his health.

"Why alone? Not taking me."

"It's not so Han, I'm just watching a beautiful story up there." Reina said it without looking towards her interlocutor. Both of his neutrals were still staring at the dark flickering stars in the black sky.

"Is Orihime and Hikouboshi the same again?"

"In this moment I prefer to call them Vega and Altair." Reina answered him with a smile and turned her gaze once towards her interlocutor.

"Dearly." Call Reina to the young man next to her

"Yes?"

"Are you Altair?" Reina threw a single question that made the young man called Raihan look at her confusedly.

Silent for a moment, the pair of human children lost their words, looking away at the same sky. The stars shine as if they are giving you hope.

"If I were an Altair, does that mean you'd be Vega?" Raihan turned to throw a question to Reina, his lover.

"No. If I become Vega, the Milky Way will separate us. There are others who are more apt to be Vega for the Altair I love. I don't want to part with you." Reina said as she got up and hugged Raihan.

The young man was quite surprised but ended up returning a hug from his lover. After a while the two let go of each other's hugs then looked at each other.

Everyone who knew Reina would love her, and only a fool would be hostile to her. Reina is the brightest star among others. His presence in the life story of the person he met was like a blessing of God that could never be judged by numbers. He's too special.

"Of course I know it's Rein, you're a star to everyone's heart, and you're the brightest." Clearly Raihan was holding both of Reina's shoulders

"Therefore Han, I am not Vega. I am Deneb because he is the owner of the brightest light between the stories" Reina said then down from the stone where she was, walking away from it.

Raihan chased after her and tried to reach Reina's wrist. The girl stopped for a moment. A firefly flashed in front of him.

"Han, Meika said that the dead will become fireflies before they finally reincarnate, do you believe?" Suddenly Reina turned around and asked Raihan.

The girl smiled while hiding both hands behind her tiny back. Make Raihan also stopped to see fireflies that cross the distance between the two.

"The fireflies passed like a Milky way between Altair and Vega. If I'm Deneb, I don't have to part with you." said Reina who was still staring at the fireflies.

"Why go back to Greek mythology again? not your question of reincarnation? I tell you one thing Rein, I don't believe in reincarnation, if reincarnation really exists, why does the human population always increase, shouldn't the population remain because the dead are reborn?" The conversation ended

They returned to the camp site hand in hand. Reina looked up at the sky to make sure Deneb was still shining. Connecting the love story to Altair and Vega.

I want to stay connected with those I love, united in a bond that will not be broken forever.

Sometimes a story like this is just a dramatic story that is commonly found in teen romance dramas.

Altair will stay there, guard the Vega. Then Deneb was a loyal friend. Sacrificing his light for the love story of his two beloved.

***

The happy dragon was only coal left. Reina sat down holding her brown cup. One of the friends at the camp just gave it to him. Everybody loves him. It was not strange if someone asked her whether she had eaten or not, when Reina replied that they had not suddenly bribed her. That someone is them.

He kept thinking about the frail girl he was attached to. Their bond seems to be unbreakable by anything. He thought about Meika's words a moment ago about life expectancy. His friend was almost desperate. The more days the duration of his life is getting thinner. The disease was eating away at his soul.

Meika wants to also feel in love and loved. Just like Reina. From Meika's side, Reina's life looks perfect. Even though Reina continued to hide the facts of her life. He is healthy, surrounded by many people who are full of love, of course, has a heart.

"Rein, what does it feel like to be loved? it must be nice to be like you. While me? no one wants to love me because I was born with this fucking disease."

Meika's words then sounded painful. Is there a way to get the girl out of the stresses of life. Perhaps Meika's perfect side is her family's very peaceful existence.

"Yes are all born with their flaws and advantages. I was given a life and my friend instead fought for an extension of the duration of life."

The cup of chocolate in his grasp began to cool down. He also lost interest in re-sipping even a little. The stars that shone with hope were like greeting. He raised his head back greeted by billions of glints up there. Deneb special always wants him to puja. Then Altair shone with his gallantry and Vega seemed so dim and distant to reach. Only Deneb could connect the distances separated by the Milky Way.

"I have love and life. It makes me look perfect in Meika's eyes. Everyone deserves to be happy. I have a longer life contract and the love of a young man. I'm happy now, this is enough. All right if the rest is for Meika. I think life would be fairer that way." Reina also put her cup on the edge of the mat that became the base of contemplation. Then he lay looking at the embers that had blackened into charcoal until night brought him to sleep in a field full of hope.