Short Story (Cerpen)

Close the Love for a moment

Category: Romantic Love Short stories

Title: Close the Love for a Moment

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Silent night accompanied by a light rain, as if to be sad to see the tiara that time was staring at a portrait.

“I know you always love me, even when I can't love you” yet

The tiara reverie takes her memories to the past, when she meets someone who seizes her heart.

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“self.?” a man greeted the tiara who was sitting waiting for the customer queue

“hmm..., yes..!” tiara smiled slightly nodding in response to the handsome man

“by acquaintance..?” the man stretched out his hand. Tiara momentarily fell silent in confusion, but then she reached out to meet the introduction

“tiara..”.

“arka..”.

The handshake initiated the introduction between them. Since then warm chat always fills boredom when they are both waiting for customer queues. Meeting after meeting adds closeness between them, from exchanging phone numbers, even returning home from a man who has a six-year age gap with the tiara, it had become commonplace for tiara every time they met.

“may I fall in love.?” tiara in her room, hugging the heart pillow with a radiant face. Happiness is like mastering himself, feeling first love at the age of 20.

“tiara.!” call tiara's mother while knocking on the door

“iya ma...?”

“ada arka”

“arka.?” tiara immediately got out of her bed running to open the bedroom door

“thank you ma.!” with a hasty step towards getting out, the tiara's hands seemed busy tidying up her hair and clothes.

“calm down..” tiara calms down after taking a deep breath.

“arka.?” the sound of the tiara slowly greeted the arc that was already waiting for him

With a smile so wide for the tiara, arka started a chat. A lot of what they talk about, sometimes the tiara laughs with a light joke that the arcs make.

“you can make me laugh, you can make me comfortable linger near kamu” tiara in heart with fixed eyes on the arc. Suddenly the arka stopped the screwdriver

“tiara.!” arka after a moment of silence looked serious

“every word of your lips is always hard for me to forget, every time I feel missed I always want to see you, every night before going to bed my eyes always describe your face, I always want to see you, from the beginning I saw you somehow strange feeling what I felt, but now I know, when your gaze seemed to directly penetrate my heart, I have fallen in love with you. You want to be my companion.?” arka looked into the eyes of the tiara that time it was already sparkling. There's no reason to say no to a tiara, arka always makes her feel happy.

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“tiara, we have been together for almost six months and during that time my love has grown for you. May I ask you to meet my parents.?”.

“of course you can, with pleasure.!” tiara's face was so radiant hearing that, it would definitely be so pleasant tiara thought.

Without a doubt, that day the tiara fulfilled the request of the arcs to meet his parents, but what happened was all beyond the suspicion of the tiara, the arka family as if it did not welcome him, the presence of tiara as unheeded by the arka family.

“why like this, do they not like me, what is wrong with me.?”

Tiara felt increasingly uncomfortable when she saw the arc that changed attitude, she looked stiff as usual

“what really happened.?” tiara inwardly seemed to want to immediately open her mouth to speak

When he got home, the tiara did not say much, the bidding arka went home to him, he only responded with a small nod

“already maybe this is the first time.!” tiara inwardly headed for her room

Since that incident, every day tiara felt different things, even though everything went as usual but awkward as felt tiara. One day a man approached her after work.

“sorry, you tiara right..?, I look after the man's arka” while extending his hand to shake hands.

Tiara was confused by the man's arrival, although the tiara remembered little of the man she had seen when she met at a glance with her arch friends. Tiara replied to Rayan's hand department and then accepted the request of rayan who wanted to have a little chat with the tiara.

After a serious conversation, Rayan drove the tiara home

“you're okay.?”

“no, I'm fine.!” tiara with a smile

Tiara opened the door of her room then lay down, slowly tears began to fall out of the tiara's control. It felt like knowing the story he had heard earlier.

“but I can't just believe it, I have to confirm the truth, I will ask directly at arka” tiara in his heart while holding his chest trying to calm down.

That day, as usual, the arc began to act again as it once did, with a slightly hesitant beginning the tiara finally ventured to allude to the issue on the arc

“hmm...How are people at home.?”

“all is fine, why..?”.

“hmm.. Naw.. Just want to nanyain aja, if news of your wife.?”

Arka looked very surprised as the tiara said that

“what do you mean.?” arka tried to pretend not to understand. Tiara continued to stare at the arc without speaking waiting for an explanation from the arc

“you mean what tiara.?” looking at the tiara that remained like that finally the arc told of the true incident

“forgive me tiara, I didn't mean to hide anything from you”

“why didn't you say from the beginning.?” tiara tears began to trickle

“you must horrify me, I really love you ra, from the beginning saw you I really fell in love with you, ra, and about me who is married soon I want to divorce with him and you do not have to worry anymore because when it happens you will be the only one intact in my life”

“I don't want you to leave your wife just because of me, I don't want to be a destroyer of people” relationships

“no ra, you are not a destroyer of people's relationships, before meeting you I had planned to divorce him, just your presence became a new spirit in my life”

“I love you arka, but I need time to think of this” tiara wiped her tears then moved away.

It's been a few days tiara shies away from the arc, arka phone, sms arka no tiara ignore. But it didn't last long, the arcs that looked unyielding finally melted the tiara's heart. Their relationship slowly improved by not forgetting the tiara occasionally asked about the relationship arka with his wife.

“I assure you all will be fine” the arc that always assures the tiara when the tiara looks worried. She was back to enjoying the love that was growing in her heart

“this is wrong, he's married, this is wrong, but it has to be how, I love him I already love him and maybe I've been blind to reality especially with the confidence he always gives, especially with the confidence he always gives, I can't even let go of it” mused tiara in her room

“two weeks ago I did not meet arka, although communication still goes but where did he go..? Unlike usual disappeared like this” tiara in his heart with his feet constantly stepping towards the house. Suddenly the sound of a motorcycle horn was heard behind him, the tiara turned its head

“arka.!” tiara who looks very happy to see her lover. But the smile of the arc at that time seemed to have a burden.

“I'm okay, it's important I'm now here for you” all questions tiara as if no longer need answers with the presence of arka that has brushed aside her longing.

Along the way to the house, tiara felt astonished, in her heart she felt like something had happened, especially with the arc that had just been silent like never before.

“but never mind, I don't want to ruin this meeting” in tiara's heart

In his room, as the tiara lay with a happy smile at the presence of the arka back, but then came the sound of a phone breaking the daydream of the tiara.

“halo tiara.?” the sound of the arcs ensured it was a tiara

“iya arc, what's up, you want to talk something.?” the tiara's feeling turned unpleasant upon hearing the tone of the arc voice

“I beg you not to disconnect the phone before I finish talking yes.!” arka asked for a tiara who was increasingly wondering just speechless listening

“I love you, you know that, my soul came back to life because of you, I will never leave you, but I ask for your same time to really make you the only love of my life”

“time..?’ what exactly do you want to say ‘ka.?”

“I love you very much ra..I love you so much” arka sound sobbing holding his sadness

“apa ‘ka, what is it.?”

“my wife is now pregnant with Ra and I can't leave her at a time like this” tiara jolted, a sharp sword like she was stabbing her heart, she couldn't help her tears to fall

“I beg you to understand me ra..!” the sound of the arcs was heard increasingly pleading

“iya, I will understand you ‘ka and I want to always understand you” arc silent hearing tiara

“i also love you very much ‘ka, but maybe it's time I realized that I am in the middle of your love, and this is wrong”

“you mean ra.?’ do you want to leave me.?’ but I love you so much ra..?’”

“but your love makes me sick, I will never force you to leave your wife to be with me, even though it will be very painful and I don't know when I need time to treat this wound, but I don't want to survive like this, waiting for happiness by waiting for someone else to fall first, I can't like this ‘ka, I do’ you happy”

“forgive me ra..?” the arch apology regretfully became the last sentence the tiara heard before she hung up.

Since then, the tiara does not meet again with the arc, although occasionally the tiara sees the arc from a distance that is like wanting to approach it but the tiara tries not to care, not just because of his deep wounds but tiara does not want to live his love story wrong.

For more than two months, the tiara filled the time to cover the wound. This time he walked in the city park then sat on soft ground with green grass, he said, but when he turned his head there was a man who was seen sitting with his eyes closed in the shade with the tree. When the tiara wanted to move on suddenly the man greeted her

“it's okay if you also sit here.!” with a gentle smile, the man while staring at the tiara. But the tiara just shook her head and left.

The next day when the tiara went to the park and was about to sit in one of its places. Again, the man was there. Until the third day when the tiara was about to sit in the park even in a different place, the tiara again found the man there.

“you followed me yes.?” tiara with a slightly elevated tone to the man. Although at first the man slightly frowned but then smiled began to rise up to leave the place

“sorry, I didn't mean like that” tiara stopped the man's move.

“i was just being..” tiara did not continue, but then the man turned around and smiled at the tiara.

“hmm...My heart feels calm, what is this feeling..? Why is she smiling at me.?”

“if you want, you can share your problems..! I irman” the man reached out his hand then tiara greeted him

“hmm... Thank you, but probably not at this time” irman sat back followed by a tiara sitting next to him but not too close. Small talk began to intertwine between them

“my burden feels reduced after talking to him, even if it is just chatting, I am grateful.!” in tiara's heart after that meeting with irman

Slowly the tiara accepts the presence of irman in her life, as a sharing companion. Irman's daily attention is increasing on the tiara, until finally irman feels another feeling on the tiara and expresses it

“ra, I know you haven't known me for too long, but I'm sure with my feelings, I love you more” irman's expression of feelings makes tiara surprised

“sorry, if the affection you mean is more than friends, I can't yet” tiara goes straight to the point and finally tells about her previous love story with the arc. But it turns out that after hearing the story of tiara, irman instead of despair, his spirit even more passionate to get tiara love, various efforts made irman to prove his love.

It has not been nearly three years since he filled the days of the tiara, but Irman has not been able to see that his presence means in the eyes of the tiara. Irman decided to give up fighting for the tiara.

“maybe I am not the best for you, for that I want you to calm down without my presence” tiara who could not say anything at that time just looked at the irman who stepped away leaving her.

Tiara is sometimes unaware that Irman has left, she always feels irman is nearby, when she needs something tiara always remembers irman, but when it awakens it turns out irman has indeed gone.

“I lost you ‘ir.., where are you now.?” tiara in a heart that feels hollow. Tiara felt a more painful feeling compared to when she decided to leave the arc. This time not only empty, longing, even a sense of love that slowly tiara realized it was growing for irman. Tiara tries to find out the whereabouts of irman, she contacts Irman's friends who may know of her. After spending a lot of time there was finally news about Irman.

“o..Irman..? Now he's in a relationship with someone again, and it seems serious, they want to marry”

After hearing the news the tiara was happy, but of course the greater sadness she felt

A week after the tiara heard the news, her heart felt emptier. Tiara experienced the same event even more pain this time

“now that I realize, it turns out I love you ‘ir.., unfortunately I realized it after you go”

Tiara, sitting in her room looking at the irman portrait.

“I know you always love me, even when I can't love you” yet

“tiara, what are you doing..? Outside there are guests he said to meet you.” heard the voice of mother tiara from behind the door

“who..?” tiara slowly, with slow walking and eyes that still look a little wet. When the tiara opened the door it was Irman who was waiting for her. Tiara was shocked, her feelings mixed, tiara fell silent with tears which then dripped back.

“you why cry.” irman who smiles widely

“I want to apologize, I want to cry, I miss, I love you, but now I know it's impossible because you already have my replacement”

“hmm.. ! Do you remember the first time you met me”

“iya..., at that time you were sleeping” tiara gave a small nod

“hmm... You know what I'm really doing.?”

Tiara then shook her head

“at that time I was preaching for me to be reunited with my soul mate, and when I opened my eyes, I saw kamu” irman with a widened smile for a tiara

“that's why I came back here because I'm sure you're the best for me, and my love has loved you”

Tiara cried, sad when remembering the struggle of irman who tiara wasted, haru remembered irman who did not give up until then.

“will you be my companion for good.?”

With a slight sobbing tiara nodded her head repeatedly with a smile full of happiness.

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