The Indigo Love Story

Part 4's

"Mi, looks like my plans to go to your house this afternoon are off..." There was something different about Clara's voice, like the voice of someone who was exposed to the flu.

"Why Ra?" I asked curious.

"Mama suddenly had a heart attack. Now we're in the hospital..."

I gasp.

"At which hospital is Ra? I'll be there soon to see your mama..." I took a stand and went out to tell my parents.

However Clara was like a brother to me, her parents also had to be treated like my own parents, just like how Clara was treated to my parents when she visited here often.

*****

We were in front of the ER room, the atmosphere had started to cool at dusk. The position of the sun will soon be replaced by the earth's natural satellite. I was accompanied by my father and my mother here. Clara looks worried next to me. Her tears were unceasingly coming out, I understood how she was.

I grabbed Clara and hugged her arm, trying to calm her down, without me noticing my tears were coming out.

A middle-aged man stepped quickly towards where we were, wearing a gray tie and shiny black shoes. A black suit that had been deliberately removed was seen hanging on his wrist. That's Clara's dad. I recognized her from the picture Clara had shown me. Even though I never met him in person.

He just came because he was working. Clara's father is super busy, he works as a director at one of the foreign companies.

Clara hugged her father who also looked anxious, the three of us were saddened by this incident and prayed for the recovery of a very meaningful person in Clara's life.

After the wind blows, before the rain falls...

There was a forgotten drizzle...

He was there, between the skin of the earth and gravity...

Sneaking behind a blurry wall...

Behind questions that were never answered...

"Thank you" one source of voice was suddenly in front of me. When I sat on the long bench in front of the class let go of tired after fulfilling the task of cleaning the class.

I looked down at the white ceramic floor and a pair of sneakers were there, with neat rope ties. I looked at him up. Grey pants and white uniform deliberately removed. The instant I recognized her face, the school idol yesterday.

Alfath stood in front of me, leaning his body against one of the poles on the school terrace.

"For what?" I asked a question. That's all that came to my mind.

"I forgot to thank you yesterday in the cafeteria..." He smiles.

The smile that looked sincere was not like the smile of his feet when in the cafeteria yesterday. My mouth felt like it was in the subconscious, not a single word came out after that. I could only look at Alfath in surprise.

Alfath turned his back and walked away from my class.

I stared at his back that was getting further away and disappeared behind the school hallways. Just for that, he was in front of me for a moment, and in an instant he left.

Today Clara did not enter the class, she had to accompany her mother in the hospital. He said, the disease suffered by Aunt Jane is getting worse. There was a disruption in his heart valve.

While the atmosphere in the school was still quiet, as usual I came the earliest, and the second one to come today was Alfath. It turns out that he's not as cold as I thought, unlike the rumors.

"How much is everything?" ask me while opening my backpack to find a wallet.

"72 thousand rupiah, miss." In his hand was still holding a basket of fruits that I deliberately bought to see Aunt Jane.

I ruffled the contents of my bag, the wallet was not there.

"A little while, my mother." I approached the chair outside the store, unpacked the contents of my bag, and the wallet was gone. Probably got caught in school, I thought.

"She, my wallet doesn't exist, I'll go to school to find her after that I'll be here again." I started to get anxious, imagining not being able to see Aunt Jane and not being able to pay for the bus to go home if the wallet wasn't found.

I turned my body towards the highway. Fortunately this fruit shop was close to the school, I only needed to walk or run if I wanted to get to school quickly.

"You looking for this?" A male student suddenly restrained me when I was on the side of the road in front of the fruit shop. My purse is in his hand, if it's not mistaken for Aldo, the son of the donor remains at school. The class was next to mine, we were level.

He can also be categorized as a student who likes a lot in school, just maybe the dose is lower than Alfath. Aldo is known to break the rules, though not so often.

"Yes." I gasped for anxiety, he thrust the item at me. I took the wallet out of his hand.

"Thank you..." I was embarrassed by my carelessness.

"Your wallet fell in front of my class, luckily I didn't lose track, so I was able to follow you to hand over this wallet... Where are you going? Looks rushed once..."

"I'm going to the hospital, look at someone..." I began to make eye contact.

"When? Your boyfriend?" Aldo half quipped.

"No. I looked at my friend's mother, she was very sick..." I justify.

"What's your name?" He started interrogating me.

"Naumi, you?" I asked him back, even though I knew his name.

"Aldo, I'm going to the hospital too. We can shake hands..." He made that offer.

"Thank you, I'll take a cab..." I smiled lightly, she was still standing in front of me staring with a protesting gaze.

"Come with me, just think of it as your thanks to me. Lately there has been a lot of criminal activity in the taxi..." He made me a little anxious so I had to agree to his offer.

I went back to the fruit shop, while Aldo went back to school to pick up his private vehicle. Clara must be glad I came there, at least I can reduce her disturbing emotions.

*****

"I didn't know we were one school, I never saw you at school. You're a new student, aren't you?" Aldo asked a question.

"No, I've been there a long time, probably because I rarely go out of class..." I stared at the traffic that was quite stuck. Aldo beside me was driving his night blue sports car.

"Why?" Aldo looks serious.

"It's okay, I just prefer to be in class, enjoy my own time..."

"Oh. but now I've seen you..." Aldo started teasing me. I don't know why he seems so free to talk to me, maybe because he's used to talking to women. Not like I feel so awkward.