The Heart-Bitter

Andri, Julia and David

The day was still not up during the day when Andri was doing routine work in his office. Suddenly he had a guest who wanted to meet him, something that had never happened in the last five years, and he was so surprised to see the guest.

"You David? Julia's sister?" Andri immediately recognized him even though they had only met once.

"How's Bang Andri doing?" David put his hand out and smiled. Andri welcomes David's hand. The David he now sees is of course different after five years of not meeting, his body is bigger, straighter and fuller, the look on his face also shows he is more mature even though the thick glasses perched on his nose still remain.

"I'm fine, thank God, sit down! how did you get here?" Andri asked while handing over one of the seats in the guard post to David.

"I watched almost every game you played in college basketball yesterday Bang! Your game is ordinary! You play like a professional."

"You play basketball too? Where did you go to college?" Andri noticed David's stature, his arms wide and muscular typical of basketball players, but his thick glasses made him doubtful. They have not met for more than five years, the last time they met David just wanted to enter High School, if his life journey smoothly must be he is now in college.

"I'm at the University of Indonesia, yes I play basketball but not the core team, it's very difficult to penetrate the core team there." David smiled and continued his story..

"I thought I would see you, at first I watched you because our team would play later. I'm not sure if you're the same person, your skin looks darker than I remember, and your face is clearly different, looks more mature and authoritative, my hatred for you hasn't gone away by then, but I see you are so mature on the field, leading well, encouraging your team when they fail. Watching you play is very confusing to me considering I only got a bad story about you." Davud tried to regulate his breath and mixed emotions, Andri just listened.

"I try to find out about you, I often hang out in the campus Brother, I'm sure you will be trending topics in the campus since your success won the third rank. secretly listen to people talk about Brother, Brother, I just got a good story, no one seems to know you well, it seems your mysterious and closed life is going perfectly. Finally I went to the old Abang High School, and got the address of the parents' house, Brother, I met Bang Andri's parents, I came to apologize on behalf of my father for his insulting actions. I have to admit that Brother's parents are extraordinary, big-hearted people. They didn't take revenge on my parents and welcomed me warmly. They gave me your home address but directed me to come here first. I'm here to apologize for what we did to Julia's brother and sister."

"You don't have to apologize, I should be thanking you, you defended me when your father and the security guards wanted to beat me up. But there's one question I've been asking all along, when you stood up for me, when you said you hated me so much and why did it take five years for you to come? Have you not missed your brother all this time?" David was embarrassed to hear Andri's question.

"Come on Bang, I was instinctual at the time, probably because I didn't like violence in front of my eyes, even though at that time I was disappointed with my brother who had ruined my brother's life. why just come now? That's me, I never care about my surroundings, I just focus on my own thoughts. I could go to college on a scholarship and a myriad of non-academic achievements, on my campus I'm the smartest, people call me nerd, I don't care, but I don't have any friends, I don't have any, until I finally realized my life was empty when I saw you play basketball. I saw how you loved your friends and you appreciated them well. It was then that my life seemed empty when I realized I had lost my sister, Julia, who used to pay so much attention to me, so dear to me, so dear to me, but I didn't even defend her when you came home with a newborn baby and had to accept the harsh words and insults of my mother's father, forgive us Bang!" David's teary eyes had even begun to shed tears, he was down, Andri approached him and patted David on the shoulder.

"I can finally tell the truth about you guys, I know, you came to save my brother's pride and life, my nephew's life, but we were blinded by prestige, popularity, popularity, careers we're either taking with us."

David was really crying. Andri often heard Julia's story how a David, an anti-social who is very focused on his wishes, his life is only spent with computers and various robots made.

"Julia Sanga loves you David, she always tells me about you, meet him, she must be happy to meet you."

"I'm ashamed to meet him Bang! That's why I met Brother first, because you're a boy and I see you can accept and hang out with all your friends' models. I imagine your life has been very difficult the last five years, and I feel guilty about it, but it turns out I was wrong, you guys seem to have been happy and proved everyone's estimates wrong."

"What is shame for? You're his sister, let alone everything we do is our life choice, not your fault.I understand that you're also powerless with your parents' ego power like that, we can just be patient and pray for them, but that doesn't mean you cut ties with your brother, and you already have two nephews, they must be happy to meet his uncle who is smart to make robots and good at playing basketball."

"Well Bang, I'll be there, and maybe I'll come play at my brother's house to play with my nieces. I'll go home first." David stood up and kissed Andri's hand.

"The door of our house will always be open for you David, as will your father and mother, give them my regards." Andri hugged David tightly.

After the death of David Andri actually asked and was worried whether the results of surveillance David on his campus also managed to capture his relationship with Citra? At first glance the question was present but he did not dare to ask David. Andri tries to dispel his confused mind by doing his chores.

On the eve of his return from duty, he gets a message from David telling of his happiness to meet his brother. Andri who was ready to go home even became hesitant and anxious, but eventually he continued to run his bike to get home soon.