THE AFTER 20 DAY
ROTTERDAM STORIES
...THE AFTER 20 DAY...
..."All things that take the form of travel, will always be coupled with a change, the longer you walk, the more changes you go through."...
..."You never know who's gonna meet in this world."...
..."In the present life he is yours, but in the next life he is only mine."...
The rumbling sound of rainwater colonizes parts of Europe, precisely in the land of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The sound of foot-banging and the splashing of water being stepped on sounded slowly. The brown shoes had been wet with a puddle of water at the base of the road. The long-haired girl, wearing a winter sweater to her knees, was taking shelter in one of the shops in mid-Rotterdam.
Her beautiful hands started to feel cold, as she forgot her gloves left behind in the inn.
"When the rain stops, my phone is lowbat. Want to take a taxi do not bring an umbrella," he murmured as he looked at the increasingly heavy rain.
Next to him sat an adult man playing a cell phone. The man momentarily glanced at her.
"Your feet will swell, because you continue to stand" said the man flatly.
The girl then sat next to him awkwardly. His eyes glanced nervously at the man whose face was invisible. The nozzle of his jacket covered half of his face, but what the girl saw from earlier was a sharp nose that he looked at from the side.
"Do you want to drink?" The man offered the girl a glass of warm water.
She's Nellsa Seralind, a beautiful girl who is observing in the Netherlands. She is a student at Yuniar University, Indonesia. One of the most prestigious universities.
Perfect body, round eyes, and also a sharp nose make it deserve to be called beautiful. The rain has not stopped. Sitting next to a man makes Nellsa uncomfortable. At first glance, he glanced at the book the man was reading. It spurred her curiosity. Nellsa loves books, especially reading novels that are mellow or teen romance.
"She read novels, she looked so good. But I read about love. Hhhh poetic," his inner self chuckled thinly.
"What's wrong?" Nellsa was like hearing lightning, after the man opened his voice, but he did not turn his head at her.
"Nope!"
The rain started to subside, Nellsa woke up to immediately exit the store.
"Sorry, I think you need this." The man held out his handkerchief. But he still hid his face. Half the man's face was visible as he was about to put back on his mouth mask and sunglasses. Nellsa was stunned to focus on her until she was unaware that her nose was bleeding.
"What?" Nellsa began to wonder.
"You seem to be cold, your nose is bleeding. Just take this." The man made Nellsa shocked, because he spoke Indonesian.
"Indonesia?" nellsa asked as she took the handkerchief.
A red-and-white flag was seen on Nellsa's bag. He is a student, therefore all junior students will be given a state mark. The man bowed, his face focused on looking at Nellsa's bag. Nellsa herself was confused, as the man wore sunglasses along with a mouth mask that covered almost his entire face. How could he know about that?
"Oh, I'm from Indonesia. Your handkerchief is dirty, do you mind?"
"Dluck..." Nellsa was busy stuffing her nose.
The man hurried away without giving a cue, leaving Nellsa busy holding blood out from her nose.
"Who's your name?"
"The chance and coincidence are always there, even many."
Nellsa's eyes glared as the man opened his mouth mask. A charming smile shocked Nellsa's sense of sight. Nellsa frowned confusedly. Nellsa then left the store.
"Thank You, Sir!" nellsa shouted at the shop owner.
Arriving at the inn, a girl confronted him.
"Sa, where are you from? Your nyariin guide earlier, we are not here just a vacation. I'm worried you why-why, heavy rain because," said Kian, he's a good friend that Nellsa has.
"Gue to the trial trap earlier Ki." Nellsa kept wiping her nose.
"Hidung lo, nosebleed? You okay?"
"What's this?" ask the guide who passed through their room door.
"No, not you!"
"Gue is cold like this. I don't know I did," he said flatly.
"Keep you just wipe the same handkerchief? Oh Nellsa .. let's cepet lo drink the water of the angel first deh."
"It's not my handkerchief." Nellsa makes you curious.
"Because? Where did you get from? Buy?"
"Gue loved this same guy, he gave this to me, I was shitting in one of the shops, and met that guy. He also speaks Indonesian Ki."
"Well, how handsome isn't it?" tanya Kian enthusiastically.
"Gue asked her name she left. His face was faint, but I felt no stranger to that face." His eyes were astonished.
"Mysterious. Yaudah .. lo cepet shower, continue to sleep directly, we are here for 20 days, quite well also Sa. I think for just a week, Yuniar really-was an amazing college. 2 Years ago he kept sending his students to study abroad."
Nellsa in the room kept daydreaming because of the events at the shop that afternoon. He seemed to have thought of something since meeting the man. Opened his diary and seen a photo sheet that he took in the folds of his diary book. Staring at her focus with her silent eyes, her tears instantly came out.
"No way, he can't be here." Nellsa tried to strengthen her mind.
