Short Story (Cerpen)
Thausand Promise (Part 3)
Category: Sad Love Story
Title: A Thausand Promise (Part 3)
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20 Days have passed.
Nia never thought that her dream would run aground in the waves on the beach. Nor did he know that this was all real, or not. Clearly, he just wished all this was a joke or a riddle. Which will be answered, someday. After 2 weeks of slumbering from long sleep for a moment. Now, his life is just like that. Not eat. No drinking. Not doing the slightest activity. And, there is no life. Sometimes his mother told him to eat even if only for a moment. But the young woman did not care. He threw the plate full of food on the floor. As if he was innocent at all. Eyes glazed. How many minutes later she was crying again. Tia is very different now. Her body wasn't as fit as it used to be, when Andi was alive. Maybe because he also thought about the sadness of his son, now. Tia who is now very thin, her crimped body makes her look like a grandmother of hundreds of years. It was added with a black line below its eye line. Face's pale.
And Nia?
He was busy with his past. Faux life. Shadow only. Not real. Don't ask how he is right now. His body lives bones. His eyes are opening. I don't know how many times he cried. In fact, his love for Andi. He told the grave digger to make 2 graves. Special Nia on the right and Andi on the left. That crazy delusion tortures itself. That makes his body like a living skull. Very skinny.
That afternoon. Nia sat down. Looking out the window. Empty glare. He wrote his diary back.
Section 1,000
Yogyakarta. Saturday 31 December 2013. 23.59
'Today is exactly 1,000 we promised, Ndi. Do you remember, you?
1,000 days before we are made, we have made a promise to always love for up to 1,000 more days. Know it? It's now the 1,000th day after we tied the promise. You should be here, Ndi. We should be having fun today on the lawn. Sharing a laugh, Ndi. But, you're evil, Ndi. You forget all that. And, leaving me alone under the speck of rain that soaks my whole body. In the past, you held my body tightly every time it rained. I know, you didn't do it because you were looking for an opportunity in the middle of a cringe. You did that so I wouldn't get sick, right? In the past, you always bought me my favorite hot chocolate. And of course our two favorites. You used to be always willing to rain so I wouldn't get cold. Hahaha, the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. But I love everything you have, Ndi. All the…
Oh yes Ndi 1 again. You're supposed to be 22nd birthday today, young huh? Honey, you're not that old. In fact, I've been repeating prayers every night, so that your life is long. And, our promise is made. On the 1,000th day. Supposedly, on this 1,000th day, we get married. You're also a birthday. But, all illusions, Ndi. You know, since you're gone, I don't want to eat. In the past, when I went on hunger strike, you always seduced me with the lure of chocolate, my favorite and your favorite too. But it's a lot different now, Ndi. Since you're not in this world. I hope, on this 1,000th day, God takes my life. I want to sleep with you, Ndi. Next to you. But take it easy, Ndi you have nothing to fear. I've ordered 1 grave right next to yours. So, you don't have to be afraid of being alone. There's me beside you. Forever…'
Nia closed her diary in tears. Not forgetting her promise, Nia rushed to change her position to take the birthday cake she had prepared for a few days ago, before Andi died. In place of Andi, he placed a Teddy Bear doll right in front of the birthday cake. He lit a candle that formed the number 22, just at the turn of his age. That day. Then, he turned the candle off. To fill the loneliness, Nia gave a gift to Andi, in which there are all her stories for 1,000 days with Andi, which she made in the novel.
Elsewhere, Tia was looking at her son from behind the door of her room. His eyes glazed over, unable to stem his cries, finally the tears plunged to the end of his nose. Drop by drop. But he did not want to be found out that he had cried, because of it. Tia was saddened by her son's behavior as if he was insane. Hugging the Teddy Bear doll given Andi, then talking to the doll.
Intending to remember his past with Andi. Nia played the song Element 'Secret Heart' it was their favorite song.
'…Time keeps passing
Without me knowing there is only me and memories
Still remembered clearly
The last smile you gave me
I never tried
And I don't want to fill my heart with another love
I will leave a vacuum in my life
Ref;
When I have to love and share that heart only with you,
Will stay alive without making love
Only you ever calm me in your arms when I cry
(back to ref)…'
The girl closed her eyes.
Nia felt her body drifting in the past. While with Andi. In that dark sensibility, Nia saw a beam of light far away from her, then the beam of light approached. The man appeared to be wearing all-white clothes, his face beaming. Gosh darn. It's Andi! He approached me, and took me away from eternity…
While in the real world.
Tia cried after finding out that her son was lifeless. There is no life. Disappeared. Slender.
Next day.
Nia's comrades, Nia's relatives who were far away from the city and all the citizens came to Nia's residence. In a quiet, remote village. Peace. They passed by in the residence of Nia. Everything looks husyuk replying prayers to Nia, his favorite child. Tia was sobbing in her son's body.
While in another world.
Nia is with Andi in eternity. Nia saw her mother crying on her body. Friends, relatives and villagers. They offered thousands of prayers to Nia. Nia's tomb was placed on the right side of Andi's tomb. Just like her request in the last diary that Nia wrote
2 Years passed.
2 That year also Tia lived a kara. Without Nia. Without Roy (her father's alm). Only themselves. Slender. And, these 2 years, Tia finally breathed her last. Tia died of lung cancer because she was too exhausted to care for her late son while he was alive. He gave his life to God in 2015, exactly 2 years after Nia died.
He was taken to the hospital for a moment. However, his life was not helped. Just like Andi, her son's lover.
Now. It all went by so fast.
I know, it's your destiny.
Just me. Not the other one.
But I'm happy, I'm not alone anymore. Now I'm beside Andi's grave, my beloved. Even if we're no longer together. Hugging. Kiss. And holding hands. But I'm glad I'm no longer alone.
And for mama. I'm sorry, I've made you suffer, because of me.
Sorry ma, you were so nice to me. And on us. May you be in heaven with an angel, you deserve that. Because you're nothing more than an angel in this world. Yeah, you're the angel without wings I've ever had.
Thank you, Mom and Dad for everything.
Now we are both inside, eternity…
The End's
