The Love of the Captain

Please, I'm Afraid!

It was raining down hard, the right decision not to go on and rest in the hut, otherwise, they will certainly be in trouble on the road due to heavy rain and accompanied by lightning flashes that continue to strike.

Arjuna got up from his lying position, he could not rest in peace anymore at this time, because he was worried that the landslide might happen again and could threaten their safety, for that he had to be vigilant, because he was afraid of landslides, moreover, his body had now gradually improved not as pathetic as before.

"What's this?" arjuna asked as Cheri offered him a medicine and a bottle of mineral water.

"That's your medicine, you should have taken it this afternoon, but I can't bear to wake you up." Chery said flat.

"I don't need it, my body is healthy now." Arjuna is still in his prestige mode.

"Hell up!" chery said desperately.

Chery sat at the door of the hut made of woven bamboo, looking at the darkness of the evening before night, in addition to the rain that had been her friend since the afternoon in loneliness because Arjuna was asleep on the bale-bale, maybe because of the influence of the medicine he drank, he did not want to disturb Arjuna's sleep, he just let the man fall asleep, at least that way Arjuna's body will quickly recover, he said, and of course he could be freed from the painful words of the handsome man's mouth.

"Is it night?" Arjuna walked over, then looked at the doorway where Chery was sitting cross-legged.

"Hemh, almost," only that short answer came out of Cheri's sensual lips.

"Sleep inside, replace me with the guard" said Arjuna, recalling that the girl had not fallen asleep three nights in a row, even Chery's eye-circle was blackened like a zombie when she gave him medicine and mineral water.

"I'm not sleepy!"

"Even bats sleep during the day, even if they stay awake at night,"

"I'm not a bat!"

"Do you take drugs, so you can't sleep for days?" accuse Arjuna.

Chery looked up at Arjuna who was now standing behind her and was also looking at her.

"What right do you have to accuse me of that?" annoyed Chery with narrowed eyes.

"I'm a cop" answered Arjuna haphazardly, he looked nervous just from being stared at by Chery, knowing that he was currently accusing someone without evidence, it was all just on the basis of his dislike and bad thinking alone.

"Honored father Arjuna Bimantara, I know you're a police officer in charge of fighting crime, then if you're a cop, then everyone who's not a cop like me is a criminal, in your eyes?" pissed Chery.

Chery really wanted to give Arjuna some sleeping pills at this time, so that he would calm down like before when the man was sound asleep.

"A study has shown that people who do not or rarely sleep, are at risk of heart failure and death." Arjuna.

"Did you not know that there is such a thing as destiny in this world? Regardless of sleep or not, if our contract is completed with God to live on this earth, then we will still die, in whatever way it is, he said, and if I die because I can never fall asleep, thank God, at least I feel full opening my eyes and enjoying the world before I leave it for good." Chery walked towards the porch of the hut, raising her hands to let rain water wash her hands, then release it into her beautiful face as if never afraid that it will create some kind of irritation or other bad things on her smooth skin.

"However, you are a desperate man who is not afraid of death, it is appropriate that your attitude is always careless in every face of danger." Cibir Arjuna drew closer to where Chery was standing.

"I have no reason to fear death, and no one will lose or cry over my death, the only one who may cry may be my mother, and that's just because he's not gonna get any more money from me, and Dion, he shouldn't be crying about me that much, because of my assets I'll pass on to him if I die later because he's been taking care of me all this time." Chery's eyes reddened, talking about death made her melancholic side touched, there was a sense of anger and sadness because when talking about death, inevitably he became reminded of his father who left so quickly left him who was still very small, so that he had to replace his father's duties to become the backbone even at the age of a toddler, isn't that too cruel and unfair for him?

Unconsciously Arjuna had been silent and listened to Chery's story carefully, his gaze could not even be separated from Chery's grim face with both beautiful eyes that looked teary when telling stories.

"Why, are you going to mock me? Insult me cynically? Or do you want to accuse me of what other contemptible accusation?" sewot Chery when he felt that he was currently being noticed by Arjuna.

"No, I just wanted to say that you might be too tired, get some rest, your body will hurt if you don't sleep for days like that," it was unexpected that Arjuna's speech was no longer cynical like before.

"What cares about you!"

"A-I-I just care, emh-pity you." Nervous Arjuna, because he himself did not know what was the reason to care for the girl.

"I don't need anyone else's mercy, I'm not your family, not your friend and not your lover, why care about me, stale!" Chery snarled and immediately went inside the house.

"Hey, you're outrageous, I'm trying to be nice to you but that's how you respond to me? I only care because on the basis of your fellow humans, after all you will trouble me if you get sick and die here!" Not wanting to lose face due to a cynical answer from Chery, Arjuna tried to fortify himself again and again used his cynical attitude as a weapon to fight the girl.

"How does it feel, after doing good but being repaid with evil? Even what you did to me was worse, after I took care of you all night!" chery shouted from the inside, making Arjuna instantly clench his mouth tightly and no longer dare to speak.

Feeling annoyed with Arjuna, Chery threw herself in the bale-bale where Arjuna was fast asleep, like hypnotized, a few minutes he lay there, his eyes suddenly felt heavy and sleepy, he said, over time his breathing became more regular and began to fall asleep, perhaps the effect of several days of sleepless his body naturally rested even though he did not want to fall asleep.

"That's what he said was not sleepy!" cibir Arjuna when he went back into the hut and found Chery curled up on the bale-bale, the woman's body curled up almost like a ball, wind and rain seemed to make Chery's body cold.

Whether the devil's tambet what, suddenly Arjuna felt pity and intended to cover Chery's body with a dry shirt that he took from his backpack, after all yesterday the woman had been taking care of him all night, think of it as a return, he thought.

But just as he bent his body beside Chery's body and was about to envelop her, Chery suddenly screamed hysterically, she jumped out of her sleep and immediately embraced Arjuna's confused body, while Chery continued to cry as she pleased and hid her face in the man's body while continuing to say the word "Please, I'm afraid!" over and over again in sobs makes Arjuna more confused to face Chery who is usually calm, relaxed, and sometimes brave it now suddenly shows the other side of him, he said, the girl looked very weak and frightened, I don't know what Chery was afraid of at that time, Arjuna could not ask the girl who was still crying, Arjuna, now Arjuna can only rub Chery's back slowly hoping it can ease her cries and fear a little at this time.