Steps Connect

Bryan and Caroline

"Yes, it's me."

Bryan with his hair back left long just like that smiled to find the face that he had longed for. The face of his sidekick lover, how insolent I love the property of others.

Anara was still silent, all so stiff. Bryan was not surprised, obviously because the woman in front of him had already read the letter from him. The letter that became the reason for the strained relationship between her and Candra, also blocked WA number by the woman who is now standing clumsy in front of her.

"I'm tired of long trips. Guests not asked to come in?" Bryan said after the two looked foreign for so long.

"Oh yes, yes. Please enter!" Reply Anara shifted her body and gave Bryan space to step first.

On a sofa reserved for boarding guests downstairs, the two were sitting opposite each other. However, still with the mode of silence each other. Only the sound of the clinking of the glass met the glass table that had already been heard twice by the ears. Bryan put down the glass after sipping on Anara's sweet tea.

Bryan is still seen sweeping the entire corner of the room, this is the first time he visited Anara to sit on the sofa. After a long time only able to harbour a surge of feeling in his heart.

His gaze stopped at one point that made his heart ache all the way to the top. This was not the first time for Bryan to respond to the pain, already thousands of times he gulped in bitterness each time he saw Anara and Candra both-duaan. However, this time his heartache seemed unable to be tolerated anymore.

"How are you?" Bryan's question made Anara justify her sitting position.

"Good, Yan. You alone?" Reply Anara tried to make the atmosphere between them ordinary, like nothing had ever happened even though it was extraordinarily difficult.

"Do you believe that I'm okay?"

Because I'm not okay, An. Why is there a ring around your ring finger? it makes me feel like I'm officially losing out in a love that's just silent.

"I believe" Anara replied, cutting off eye contact.

Bryan smiled bitterly. Apparently Anara could lie too. That skill doesn't have one.

"Yes!" Anara began to put on her serious face, her eyes looking back at Bryan's brown irises. The eye beads that once made him reckless in sending letters, without hesitation without shame.

"Can we talk, An!"

"We're talking, Bryan."

"Beyond I mean. Not here" Bryan said with a pleading gaze.

"Bryan, sorry! But, I don't want any misunderstanding between the three of us."

Anara's words made Bryan fall silent again. As if his love must be dashed before it can develop, a speech with serious eyes that hint that his story will not have time, his love will not get a story.

"I'm sorry too, open your letter first. I was tempted by old feelings. With the comfort you bargained for when me and Candra weren't okay. But now everyone is walking where they should be. Sorry Yan .. I can't reply."

Bryan was still silent, waiting for the next sentence that might come out of Anara's lips. Her women who would completely disappear from reach.

"You see this! I'm the same Candra committed to more serious, Bryan. Anyway, we're different. It might not be possible even if Candra was a nobody, even if it had to be forced, not Yan."

Anara shook her head slowly. Lowering his left wrist on his ring finger embedded in the ring as a marker of his relationship with Candra.

"I lost, An."

Anara shook her head again, "it's just that you won Bryan everything. Your sincerity, your kindness, all your treatment of me, as well as Candra. It's not an easy thing. But, you .. interpret taste so precious."

"What does it mean to win without having, An?"

"Didn't all love have to be?" Anara asked back.

"Because we also might not have each other, Yan."

The difference in belief so firmly stretches out in front. And that's not a playful thing that can be contested as good as jidat.

"I don't want to hurt each other, Bryan. Let the past pass!" Anara looked down in disappointment, then looked at Bryan again, angling at the forced smile.

Bryan grabbed the glass in front of him, sipping a sweet tea that could not even affect his heart. All tastes bland and even bitter. A bitter taste in his heart that could not be reciprocated anymore.

The eyes of the man in front of Anara were already reddened, soft, and implying the hope that soon he would and should be extinguished. For the sake of another story that should be allowed to develop.

Bryan nodded, forcing himself to understand. Swallowing the cliche phrase 'love is not always a must-have' which ends up stuck in his throat, clogging his breath.

"May I ask you something?"

Anara knitted her eyebrows together, "because it makes sense and not to ask me to leave Candra. Maybe it can."

A bitter smile adorned her thin lips, "is that love you with Candra?"

"He's my future husband, Bryan."

"Yes. Don't you tell me anymore! It was amazingly painful," Bryan revealed an ordinary look despite his turbulent heart wanting to brush aside the reality.

"You've even gotten used to harboring pain a long time ago, haven't you? Why not be gentle before?

"You mean?" Bryan asked with a flat face. He was really re-made to think with Anara's words just now.

Fishing for a feeling I almost muffled alone.

"What if I told you a long time ago, would you? Even though we are different from God?"

Anara puts out a shoulder, "entah. At least maybe our imperfect story is longer, it could be a book."

"You gave me a last breath when I was almost picked up by her death, An," Bryan chuckled back to melt the atmosphere.

"Oh yeah, was that something you asked for?"

Bryan stretched his hand to grab Anara's fingers. Took him in a two-palm stalk and took him in a request with a pleading gaze. A split-second gaze hypnotized Anara's defense, again.

"Go with me, An! Tonight. Treat me to eat!"

Anara pulls her fingers, "Bryan, but-"

"Last time, only we know. I know how Candra ain't here."

Anara frowned, making Bryan say again, "you didn't forget that I was close to his family? I know all about your fiancee."

Anara seemed to think for a moment, after all just went to eat. It's not gonna be anything.

"Okay, but this is last and old. Itung-itung kutraktir because your business is far from Surabaya to Malang. One more thing, let me tell Candra. I don't want him to be mistaken if he finds out later."

Bryan nodded. Anara smiles, then is seen typing a message on her phone. Must be asking Candra for permission.

"Anara, someone's looking for you up ahead. Girl," said a new boarding house resident who came in a little hasty.

"Oh, yes. Thanks yeah!" Anara continued to focus on the screen of the device after being disconnected due to the arrival of news just now.

"Who else? A lot of people were actually saying something to me today," Anara murmured a glance at Bryan.

"I'm ahead!"

"Eh, An. Don't forget to unblock my number!" Bryan's Word.

Anara is seen stopping her steps and coming back to Bryan, showing the phone towards her, "already."

Anara walked out to meet her guests. Oriental-faced girl who a few weeks ago met in IndoJune, her body looks thinner.

Anara approached the girl who was sitting on the boarding terrace chair. Smiling to greet his guests.

"Caroline, tumblr?"

"An" said the woman.

"Your instincts are strong, or are you making a deal?"

Caroline put on a confused face, "do you mean?"

"Bryan is inside. Ih soul mate like," as long as Anara then sat next to Caroline, separated by a small table between the two.

"Bryan?"

"Yes," Anara replied again spreading her smile.

"But I'm not looking for Bryan, An. But, come on you."

"I? What's up Lin?" Anara's question was still adorned with the rest of the smile on her face.

Caroline shifted her seat to approach Anara, grabbing the soft fingers of the beautiful woman in front of her. The woman who accidentally injured him.

"Yes!"

"Hm."

"Candra, where is it?" Caroline asked with caution.

"Therea, still home," Anara replied with a face asking.

"I'm .. pregnant, An."

Anara put together sentence after sentence Caroline said, she was still speechless. His eyes are full of search. Until the sound of footsteps approached them, Bryan smiled towards the two.

"So, what's the connection?" Anara asked with a heart that was no problem. What's the matter? Did I miss something?

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