Steps Connect

Each Way

After you finish cleaning. Anara who has looked refreshed, reached for a cellphone that is still in her backpack. Looking for Candra's name and tuuut's voice .. tuuut .. tuuut tried to connect her with the man across the street.

"Mazandra! I've arrived."

"Yes dear, Rati was picked up, right?"

"No, Bryan."

"Bryan! Why is he there?" Of course Anara had to explain at length times the height of Candra's question.

"Tomorrow I'll take a day off. Need me to take a dose of insulin?"

"Nevent .. the day after I'm back."

"Yes. Be careful for a long time and don't mess around! Always keep the word, keep the eyes, take care of the heart, take care of all!"

"Yes, Candraaa." Anara hung up the phone.

"Rati! Let's get some food, yuk!"

"What's the good sister eating?"

"Whatever. I follow you."

"Yes already, yuk!"

Anara and Rati get out of the boarding house and head to the center of the crowd of Jogja City to fill their stomachs. On the street, the two ordered goat-fried rice and sat down Lesehan.

"Sister, it's like the car was coming after us." Rati threw a glance at the car across the street.

"What time?"

"Yes. As I recall from the time we got out of the boarding house."

"Neighbor kali, happens to want to eat goat fried rice too."

"Oh, yes, yes, too."

Both of them enjoyed the goat fried rice voraciously. Enter the sound of a passing vehicle in front of him. Accompanied by the voices of street musicians who sometimes greet in a friendly manner.

"Go home or where, brother?" Tanya Rati as they walked towards the parking lot of the motorbike.

"Go home, Rat-ti!"

Suddenly someone stopped them both. Pulling Anara away from Rati. Makes Anara and Rati shocked when they see who the owner of the face is.

"Jan!"

"An, I want to talk. Just a minute."

"You don't have the hatches, do you? I said no, no." Anara tries to release Janu's hand. However, the man gripped even stronger.

"Please!"

"No."

"Janu, off!"

"I'm off but come with me!"

"No, not." Anara stared intently at the round netra in front of her.

Fucking men! Your words earlier this afternoon were still firmly stuck to your ears.

"Follow me, An!" Janu pulls Anara across the street.

"It-it!!!" Shouted Anara.

Unfortunately their existence is too far from the crowds of street stalls they just left. It felt like Anara's screams were in vain. Janu has now driven his car somewhere.

"Mas Bryan why not pick up too." Rati gruntu whose phone never lifted.

"Mas Bryan!"

"What else? What message or what message?"

"Sir Anara ...."

"Anara why?" Hearing Rati's uncanny voice made Bryan realize that this time the woman contacted him not to make him ojol.

"Kidnapped Janu."

"Huh?"

"Buck here!"

"Where are you?"

"Gondokusum."

"Geez, which area is that?"

"The Decease of Langensari Embung, Maaas."

"No idea, Rat. We'll meet where we are."

This is 2015 time. There is no share location feature in the WA application.

"Yes already. Meet you in Malioboro!" Rati said when she recalled that Bryan was a newcomer, very new here. Worth not understanding.

"okay."

"The spit's leaving!" Jerk Rati. Call disconnected. Rati drives her bike fast.

Janu pulled his car over at a lake in the Sleman area. Both are silent. Janu looked at the woman beside him who had just said crazy man.

Right, An. I'm bonkers. Crazy you. I'm sorry I left you just like that.

If only I could turn the time around. I'd rather continue beside you, than go calm down the messed up parting of my parents.

I'm sorry ... My parents are still divorced, I lost you. First love.

"Anyara!" Janu's voice broke the silence.

"I'm sorry, really sorry. I know you might be fed up, but I'm really sorry."

"I promise this is the last time I hurt you, An. Believe that! I'm also sure you still have the same feelings for me."

"Three times we meet again, An. In the city we once dreamed of together. You realize? It's nature's code that we're a soul mate."

Anara smiled bitterly at Janu's words. The man beside her besides being crazy also had a high level of confidence. Luckily Janu left her. If not, maybe he's crazy.

"An .. We can start over. I promise we'll be happy."

"Have you? Listen to me Janu! I'm sick of all your promises. You haven't changed a bit since. I love to be angry and begging at the same time."

"I'm serious this time, An."

"Tape! I've gotten everything you promised from the man who came to bid for pain when you stayed."

"Yes! You don't know how tormented I was when I was away from you?"

"Then, you came again after two years I waited here. In this place we dream of. But along with the hope you give. You just disappear again." Janu.

"I am the one who is tormented. I'm like an undead looking for you without knowing who I should ask you where you're going?"

"Why did you have to wait? Why have you never looked for me? Huh uh?" Anara Berang.

"Go back, An! We start again what's not finished."

"Sorry, Janu. I can't."

"Why?"

"You know the reason for that."

"I'm sure he's just your escape from me."

"You're wrong. I loved her so much. In fact, I already know his family. The opposite is true."

"Omong empty."

"As far as you are, Janu."

Janu grabs Anara's hand, about to reassure her ex-lover that this time she's really serious. Janu is determined to fix everything. Her heart ached so much to imagine Anara with her boyfriend.

"An, isn't there a second chance?"

"I gave you a lot of time, a lot of chances after two more years you left without any news. Butwhat? Not really looking for me either."

"I'm waiting for you, An."

"Why don't you look for me, Janu? Is that how you feel?"

"Anyara!" Janu held Anara's hand.

"Don't touch me!" Anara pulled her hand slowly.

"I have to what?"

"You must forget me!"

"Where can I, Aaaan?" Janu is restoring her hair in frustration.

Both of them were silent for so long. Janu still lowered his head in a hand that kept holding the wheel.

"Take me to where I was!"

"Why?"

"I'm tired. Today I ask for the last time you go crazy like this!'

"I'm crazy because of you, An."

"You're acting desperate because of your own actions. Don't ever blame me!"

The sound of breathing came out in disappointment. Janu's facial features still do not accept having to give up his first love. His memory goes back to their early days.

"An, the first time we took a seat in front of me. You're having trouble with math. Every math assignment I've ever written in your book." Janu smiling.

"While I am weak in language and lazy to read. My weakness you close with your advantages. If I had been good enough to defend, maybe this moment you would still meet my shortcomings." This time Janu's voice started to crackle.

"There's nothing to be sorry about, Janu!"

"I lost what I needed." Janu's voice was almost inaudible.

"I wish I was still given a second chance as a lover ...." Janu's sentence was cut off.

"It has. Don't continue! We can get it." Anara Tawar.

"Where is it, An? A man and a woman who will be immortal? I'm sure you'll lose one of them. And I've lost before I even started."

"I don't want to give you a chance or a hope. Our story is done, Janu. Let it not be beautiful! I'm not sorry, nor do I hold a grudge for being dumped."

"Ah Anaraa ... how stupid am I?"

"Even if we were together, you might never grow up. Nevermind! Learn to accept!"

"With time, you will be able to forget me. Open your heart to another woman!" Keep Anara.

"Everything is clear? You can take me home!"

Without replying, Janu starts his car. The car went back through the city streets. Though his heart has not yet been received, it is forced to accept. How you gonna do it again? The woman has sealed her heart and past.

It was all my fault. Regret only comes at the end of the story.

"Hopefully you, I can be better. Happier with each other's way of life."

Even to say amen, my tongue is twisted. Each other's roads? This is not really what I was expecting.

"If one day your heart hurts your man, I'm ready to make you happy again, An." Janu closed the meeting that night.

Anara stood in front of the gate. Waiting for Rati to come home, somehow the fog ratti was when Anara was forced to follow Janu?

It's all clear. Hope Janu can accept it!

Anara reached into her phone from inside the bag. He intentionally did not contact anyone. Now his phone has been filled with many missed calls and a series of WA messages from Rati and Candra.

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