Short Story (Cerpen)

Dusk Rainbow

Category: Triangle Love Cerpen

Title: The Dusk Rainbow

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The sun began to descend into his hiding place. Even a cloud of orange cloud is visible on the edge of the sun. Raindrops continue to fall soaking every surface of the earth. The leaves are dripping rainwater slipping on the surface.

To this day, I am still waiting for him here. In a place full of memories with him and here I can see his face that throws a sweet smile at me. However, it was only an instant and then it disappeared somewhere.

I still don't know, is my decision right now? The decision that led me into the endless abyss of waiting. The decision to wait for someone who has no news after 3 years has left me. Although he actually released me to find a replacement. But this heart cannot turn away from it and in my heart has been engraved its name and only its name.

At that instant my daydream of her vanished, as I felt the clap of a hand landing on my shoulder. At first I really hoped that the one patting my shoulder was 'DIA'. However, that hope disappeared as I looked towards him.

'Nadia, let's go home! your clothes are wet too. You will get sick!' invite the man while covering my body so as not to rain.

That man is Andreas Gabriel. The person who suddenly appeared in my life after Rio left my life and is now out of nowhere. Gabriel always paid more attention to me and the way he looked at me gave off a powerful ray of love. And the codes of love that he gave me I never thought I could turn away from Rio.

'Nadia, let's go home!' bring again.

'Who are you anyway? It's nobody to me, right? But the bells are like my mama. I'm a big boy, I can go home by myself!' cerocos.

'But, Nad it's almost night and it's still raining.' said Gabriel worried.

'I said now you're home!!!' expirku.

Gabriel lowered his head. And the look on his face depicted a deep disappointment. Was I too rude to him? Did my words hurt his heart? Gabriel's expression made me guilty and after I said that, he just mutely put an umbrella on my side and just walked away.

The sun had completely gone to its hiding place and the moon began to rise into the sky to illuminate the earth. The stars of space and the stars of the streets were already twinkling. The rain stopped too. My wet clothes started to dry. But, it turns out that the person I was waiting for had not come and I was thinking, maybe today did not come.

I stood up from my seat and set my foot towards the house and on the way. My guilt towards Gabriel reappeared. With a big step I went into the house and immediately approached my mother who was busy watching television.

'Ma, Gabriel was here?' my many.

'So he came here, he was looking for you, but mom said you were in the park and I told him to pick you up. Is he not there?' answered my mother whose gaze was fixed on the television screen she was watching.

'There is no ma. But, he just gave me an umbrella and he went straight home.' My answer.

I walked away from the television viewing room towards my room. That guilty feeling keeps on swirling in my heart. I'm worried. Do I have to call Gabriel now? But it feels less afdol if you have not apologized directly and I better meet him tomorrow at the campus.

I took a love-shaped picture frame from inside the dresser drawer. Inside the frame was clearly the face of Rio who kissed my forehead 3 years ago.

Unwittingly the water droplets dripped right above the glass frame. I miss his face, I miss his laughter, I miss his affection. If he knew how much I loved him and every twilight I waited for his arrival in the garden with a beautiful rainbow.

The day has changed and I only realized that last night I hugged a photo of Rio. Suddenly my head is a little dizzy. Maybe my influence was raining waiting for Rio yesterday. Even though I was a little dizzy, I still forced myself to go to campus to apologize to Gabriel.

I dragged my feet closer to the SUV parked in the yard. I opened the knob of my car and sat in front of the wheel. With moderate speed, I drove my car down the streets of Jakarta which is crowded with a sea of vehicles that chase time.

It's been 30 minutes and today is not as usual, because the previous days I only took 20 minutes to get to campus. Perhaps today so many people are scrambling for the road to reach the place they are headed.

Now I'm standing right in front of my campus. I took a deep breath and began to step foot inside the campus. The look in my eyes that looked around was immediately fixed on the figure of a man who was standing at the door of the medical faculty. I approached him half-run.

'GABRIEL' I shouted as I approached him.

I sped up and tightly gripped Gabriel's hand so as not to dodge from me. The grip actually managed to stop his steps, then he turned towards me.

'Why are you avoiding? Didn't you hear my call?' my many.

'I'm not avoiding. I'm sorry I had to quickly meet the lecturer.' Elak Gabriel and tried to take off my grip but the more he tried to take it off the stronger I grabbed him.

'Gabriel wait, I want to apologize.' I said as I stretched my grip.

'You're not wrong. I should have apologized for interrupting your wait. I shouldn't expect you too much either, because in your heart there is only Rio right?. I am a fool who waits for the love of a woman and she does not love me at all. And trust me Rio will come back and your wait all this time is not in vain.' Gabriel said as he patted my shoulder and passed away leaving me.

Gabriel's words really touched me and unknowingly, tears flooded my cheeks. I know when he told me that his heart must have been very sick. But so sternly he said it in front of me while looking into my eyes.

The sun has been felt overhead and today's course has been completed. I walked over to my SUV parked right next to Gabriel's sports car. And at the same time Gabriel will also get into his car.

'Nadia, I'll go home!' pammit Gabriel

I just stared at him flat. Did that quickly erase my name in his mind? Or is he really smart to hide feelings and keep smiling in front of me when his heart hurts?

Gabriel's sports car has completely moved away from the parking lot while I've been standing still looking at Gabriel's sports car that's been moving away.

I got in my SUV and drove it. I drove the car without a clear direction. I just follow my heart. After a while I drove this car, my heart said I should stop here in a garden waiting for me.

I opened the car knob and walked towards the seat I used to sit on. And from this moment I was again waiting for Rio.

The weather was so quick to change today. Is it possible that this is the effect of the ozone layer that continues to thin out every day? The originally blue sky was instantly covered by gray clouds. But the weather did not make me stop waiting for Rio's presence.

The sky began to weep dripping water that was useful for human life. I am still waiting for his presence. But my head cannot compromise. The pain continued and I was unable to endure it. My body began to relax and slowly my eyes could only see the fireflies that kept spinning in my head. Then my eyes closed and I could see nothing.

This helpless body of mine drooped limp on the park bench with the rain that kept flushing me nonstop. A sports car that crossed the streets of this park, saw me limp on the park bench and immediately the driver of the car stopped the speed of his vehicle. He ran to help me, but it was too late. A handsome man of high stature had already carried me and led me to a gazebo in the garden. The driver who turned out to be Gabriel stopped walking and hid behind a big tree while looking at me and the man who was holding me in his arms.

The man carrying me laid me in the gazebo with my head propped up at the man's feet. He rubbed my face with feeling.

'Nadia, please wake up! Why are you still waiting for me? Why are you more concerned with my presence than your health? Is your love so great to me? And I admit I also expected your presence to fill my days, said the man who turned out to be Rio Pradipta.

The day began to twilight and the heavy rain turned into drizzle and a rainbow had appeared slightly adorning the sky. Gabriel's still standing there. I started to open my eyes. The dimness of Rio's face slowly began to clear in my view. That face smiled towards me exactly like the last smile before Rio left me.

'Rio?' lirih.

'yes. I am Rio Pradipta the one who has the heart to leave you.

I sat my body facing towards Rio and I immediately hugged Rio's body tightly, the person I missed so much all this time and instantly my tears broke in his arms.

'Rio, thank you for coming back into my life.' I said sobbing.

'I also thank you for being loyal to your feelings for me.' Rio said as he stroked my back.

Now I feel happy because my soulmate who had been me all this time, back in my arms but another thing with Gabriel who stood looking at me and Rio.

'Nadia, I'm so happy, you've found the love you're going to find again. But for me you're still my first and last love even though I can't have you.' gabriel said with tears in his eyes, but his lips kept on shining a smile of happiness over bitterness and a rainbow that was once thin, now more and more clear and the rainbow became a witness to the love of three human children.

~Someone who sincerely loves is a person who is able to smile even though his heart is sick and he is able to survive and be happy if the person we love is also happy~