The Last Cliff's

Chapter 37's

A mini van runs slowly, its four wheels seem reluctant to climb the asphalt road. Maybe because of his age that is too old to drive, or the rider who is not brave.

Dozens of other cars pass through, some while honking to just give greetings, but there are also those who deliberately blow farts from their exhaust holes, it can mean ridiculing, it can also mean giving a challenge. But all unheeded, the mini van still drove like without passion.

"Why can Rissa be at the songong's house ? When it comes to business, then why does everything look so fluid and familiar ? They are like a big family. You need to be more careful, Vinnie !" whispered the driver of the mini van to himself.

After sipping a mouthful of mineral water, the driver of a mini van that is none other than Arvine Dowson sighed deeply. Then his foot stepped on the gas pedal until it was almost exhausted, advancing the mini van at high speed. Like chasing something. Some bends even go through it while the wheels are crunched.

"Hani." suddenly the name was revealed, softly along with a long breath. The gas pedal he stepped on deepened, along with a strange thump in the heart of Arvine Dowson. His instincts were talking, his animal instincts were reporting the news of grief.

Sure enough, at the last corner, his sunken eyes caught the shadow of a red sedan car being driven unusually fast leaving the fence of Shanique Miller's house. The roar of his exhaust made Arvine Dowson's chest gripped with fear.

The speed of the mini van was suddenly uncontrollable, breaking up the traffic crowd with the creaking of its wheels and the sound of its horn, to arrive at the gate of the Miller family mansion.

Arvine Dowson left his car on the side of the road, leaving the mini-van engine on. He ran as fast as the wind, piercing through the garden towards the back veranda. I don't know what was pointing his tongue in that direction, but that step turned out to be right.

A pair of skinny hands were struggling, scattering the pool water, creating waves only to keep his head afloat on the surface. Then slowly the hand went limp, unable to move anymore. Drown the figure of Shanique Miller to the bottom of the pool. It ends with a final bubble.

"DANI !!!" hysteria of grief, echoing from a mouth full of anger.

Without stopping, Arvine Dowson threw his shoes into the sky, then plunged into the pool without calculation. His knees swept over the ledges, slamming the burly body into a somersault. Aww ... That hurt ! But ignored. Arvine Dowson continues his action by diving.

In his eyes was a scene of death. Unlike previous actions, Arvine Dowson shivered. In his heart there was no more confidence, changing with fear. Losing Hani for the second time, means the end of everything.

"Don't go, Han ! Dusk is looking for us." Arvine Dowson's lips said a word without a sound in Shanique Miller's ear.

Shanique Miller's body remained stiff, standing tensely at the bottom of the pond. Forcing Arvine Dowson to lift it with cramping knees.

At once, the bodies of the two floated in the water, then floated for a moment. When Shaique Miller's body was about to sink again, Arvine Dowson's arm immediately wrapped around his waist and then pulled him while swimming, reaching the edge.

Once their bodies are over the edge, "You can't die ! You can't go anymore ! You must stay here ! With me ! With our love." I don't know how many times that sentence was uttered by Arvine Dowson with trembling lips. Artificial breath from mouth to mouth has been repeatedly done, CVR continues to be tried, but all like in vain. Shanique Miller's body remained rigidly stretched.

Arvine Dowson surrendered, defeated by the will of fate. Then guilt enveloped his heart. If only he did not dissolve in his longing to Clarissa Mae, of course Shanique Miller could be saved. If Clarissa Mae hadn't urged him to get married, Shanique Miller wouldn't have been. If Clarissa Mae had never existed, Shanique Miller would have lived forever.

"Sorry, Han ! Rissa and I have killed you." Her eyes started to tear up.

"Anyone who has pushed your wheelchair into this pool will face death. Wounds for wounds, blood for blood, and lives for lives !" then the tears pongah, do not want to drip from those eyes. Stay there and then slowly disappear.

That's how Arvine Dowson, grudges and tears shouldn't grow together.

***

From the balcony of the side veranda of the Rodmeyer mansion, two pairs of eyes stared at the crowd of the city, they were sitting together.

"Your nose is funny, Eddy ! You look like you're a mess because of bandage iu."

"Not getting cool ?"

"Cool from where ? It's swollen."

"Bad yep, Riss ?"

"Wear it ! Xixixix."

Throughout the afternoon, Clarissa Mae was mocked by Edward Rodmeyer. Plastic surgery to restore his nose is perfect, but to restore the handsome face as before still takes at least a week.

"Really, Eddy. Your fans will run away if you see that look. Look at the glass !"

Clarissa Mae's words were like fishing for her, Edward Rodmeyer slowly got up from the chair and walked towards the glass wall next to her. Although a bit blur, the eye was still able to catch the reflection of his face that was still swelling here and there.

Then his jaw hardened, as the shadow of Arvine Dowson's face incarnated more and more real in the eye. A mocking face filled with satisfaction as the man broke his nose.

"Based on a fucking boy ! Just wait for my vengeance." his wrath was made even more evident by the clattering of his clenched teeth, also by his petrified fist.

"Chuck !? Whose boy ?"

Clarissa Mae does not know the origin of the wound on her friend's nose. When Edward Rodmeyer called the word 'child' then what was on his mind was Sean, the son of Edward Rodmeyer himself. How naive if there are parents who take revenge on their own children.

"Shasa's girlfriend."

The answer relieved Clarissa Mae's heart, because Edward Rodmeyer's madness was still measured and controlled. But to his confusion, Shasa is his girlfriend Edward Rodmeyer, when he hurts himself. Or maybe ....

"Shasa rejected you, Ed ?" there was a laugh in Clarissa Mae's words. But it managed to be perfectly hidden at the end of his sentence.

"Shasa chooses to be with her teenage lover. He rejected me because of his promise to the boy."

"I mean, the boy who hurt you ?"

"Yes, Rissa ! He took Shasa away from me, broke my nose. Is there something wrong if I'm going to get back at it ?"

"Waduhi ! Bastard people, just beat it up. I support you." Clarissa Mae sounds like she's fishing in the water.

"Originally don't tell me papa or mama."

Diiih cemen ! Dah gede still afraid of papa-mama. Udaaah jan bullied.

"Ga might be ! Why do I also love them. Anyway, what the hell does a guy look like who can lose your charm, Ed ?"

"You guys met, e means you've seen him ko, Riss."

"Masaq ... When ?"

"That's it, when we look at Shasa in the hospital ! Cowo who was sleeping near Shasa."

Deg.

Clarissa Mae is silent. His heart stopped beating. The breath auto stop. Everything about him suddenly deflated, barely visible. The philosophy of the elephant in the eye of the ant is prevailing over him. He could not see the 'elephant' exposed in his eye patch due to the visibility being too close. Yaah ... Clarissa Mae felt she could not see Arvine Dowson's behavior, because her eyes were too close, always filled with the man's shadow.

Clarissa Mae's logic is not clear anymore, the fact that Arvine Dowson and Shanique Miller were lovers in the past weakened her belief. "It turns out, it wasn't me in her heart all along, but Shasa. The woman he greedily kissed at the time." he concluded.

As before, then Clarissa Mae blinded her eyes, looking at her ears. Shut yourself off completely. He could no longer even see Edward Rodmeyer lifting the gadget, receiving it and opening the multimedia message in front of him.

A message with CCTV footage was posted at the Miller family home. A woman dressed in red was pushing a homeowner who was sitting in a wheelchair. Then throw it into the pool like garbage.At no sooner did a man run to try to give help. All of that is no longer digested by Clarissa Mae's eyes and brain.

Even when Edward Rodmeyer gave the order to remove the footage from the CCTV servers and hard drives, Clarissa Mae could no longer hear.

"As long as you still love me, I'll keep waiting for you to 'go home', Vin !" in Clarissa Mae's heart.