The Love of the Captain

Are you human?

"Calm down, I'm here. What are you afraid of?" said Arjuna in a soft voice, he even forgot that he could speak softly like that. After Luna's death, her sense of self had turned into a cold, gluttonous, cynical person.

Hearing Arjuna's voice, Chery immediately regained consciousness and immediately released her embrace, still with a sad mimic that was clearly drawn on her beautiful face, Chery tried to wipe away the tears with the back of her hand, he tried to erase the remaining traces of sadness and fear, indeed the dream had always tormented him.

"Are you having nightmares?" Arjuna gave her a bottle of mineral water, and Chery immediately took a sip and sipped it a lot, it felt like her body was very tired, even cold sweat soaked her body in the cold air like this.

Chery nodded after she finished chugging her drink, her emotions had stabilized again, this was not the first time, this nightmare had lasted more than half a year, the accident that night really made her depressed, unfortunately, his memory of that night was partially lost and not recorded in the memory of his brain, so he was not very clear with the events of that night.

All she remembers is that she tried to escape from her stepfather's house trying to hug and kiss her forcibly and then she ran over someone, but when she woke up in the hospital, she said, Dion and his mother said that the victim of the accident that night survived and the man has now returned to his home, so Chery only asked not to bring up again about the accident, Chery insists on Dion and her mother saying the victim was a woman, but they also tell her that the victim was a man, and they even call the man to convince Chery, so inevitably Chery must believe that the victim he hit was a man.

But strangely after the incident he was often in the ghost of a woman whose face was covered in blood every time he closed his eyes,

Making it up to have to consult a psychister to eliminate the terrible thing that the psychiatrist said was the trauma, unfortunately all as if there was no result, he said, until now he still needed a high dose of sleeping pills just so that he could rest well, if not, can be sure the face of the bloody woman appeared in his dream as it is today.

"What do you dream about until you're scared like that?" Arjuna.

"Repo!" chery replied, not intending to tell the man what he was natural about, after all the man would judge him with words that were annoying and painful for him, too, so why share a story with a human like him is not important! Think Chery.

"Ishhh, you're such a bitch!" his fists Arjuna clenched his hands in annoyance, but he still felt pity for what he had just seen.

"You're more of a bitch!" chery won't lose.

"Can we talk like normal people?" ask Arjuna.

"Hey, haloooo, from the beginning you were the one who behaved abnormally and treated me like an enemy of a very dangerous country, why are you suddenly talking as if you're the most normal human being here!" spray Chery.

Arjuna again could not argue what Chery said, because it was the fact, he who had opened the conversation from the beginning was not good with the girl, even long before they were stranded on this small island.

"OK, just think of it that way. We can start all over again with a little bit better" Arjuna said lightly.

"Oh, shiiiit, is it that easy? What kind of man are you, unable to say sorry when feeling guilty, and unable to say thank you when receiving kindness? Are you human?" angry Chery because Arjuna lightly said consider himself guilty, it means he feels guilty but his mouth does not want to apologize to him, it's outrageous, it's just appropriate Chery to curse the rough.

"What kind of woman does she say to your mouth?" Arjuna scowled in annoyance, Chery's new-age dared to say rudely and even snapped at him like that, Luna always treated him gently and spoiled him, making him always feel at ease when with Luna, Luna, but Chery in almost every speech sounds rude and sometimes painful.

"Humans like you will run if they continue to be allowed to oppress me without a fight."

"OK okay, I-I'm sorry" he said very softly.

"I've said it, don't provoke any more ruckus, behave like a normal human being." Arjuna refused to repeat his apology.

But Chery does not mind it, Chery is not a vengeful person, only she will not stay silent if she is oppressed, but if she is treated well, he will repay it even better and the opposite will happen.

"Give me your hand!" chery.

"W-what?" nervous Arjuna won't do what Chery told him to do.

"Your band is wet, it looks like it was exposed to water earlier, here I'm changing, so that your wounds dry quickly." Chery grabbed the P3K box and took out the drugs she needed.

Arjuna continued to watch Chery who was seriously cleaning and rubbing her with medicine, then wrapped her in a new gauze, this woman did not speak and was as gentle as when Luna did her act, but the firm and sometimes harsh attitude shown by Chery can make him slowly give up and erode the wall of the ego he built himself.

As of right now, he could have treated and replaced his own bandages, which was easy for him, but for some reason he let Chery take care of his injuries willingly without rejection from him.

"Done!" seloroh Chery was so successful in sticking the last plaster on the gauze that covered the bite wound.

"When you get to town, you're gonna have to go to the hospital, who knows if you've got rabies or even got the mad dog virus!" he continued, chuckling, it only took a few minutes that the girl had forgotten her enmity after Arjuna invited her to conciliate a few minutes ago, seeing that the girl seemed to hold no grudge against him at all.

"Are you hungry?" ask Arjuna, please,

Chery shook her head, "My stomach is still full of the war soldier's nutritious food this morning, I just want to make a warm drink, I think I found a small thermos in your backpack, may the water still be hot."

A few minutes later, Chery brought two small cups that came from a flask lid that could also serve as that cup.

Chery gave him chocolate milk and a steeping coffee sachet, luckily the water in the flask was still pretty hot and could have slightly reduced their chill tonight.

"Say Tores you don't drink coffee, so I made chocolate milk" Chery said, she even remembered Tores' remarks about her commander who had a sensitive stomach with coffee.

"You can brew coffee and milk? It's great!" ledek Arjuna's.

"Haish, it just stayed in the hot springs and in the stir, not a drag to cook instant noodles, by the way,, it was the first instant noodle I ate, after decades, he said, last I ate it in 6th grade of elementary school, it had to be stealthy so my mother wouldn't know it, he said it was unhealthy and would make my body stretch so that no one would want to use me as a movie star again!" Chery smiled bitterly as she said that, how many things she had to sacrifice just for the sake of being an artist and making a lot of money, where the results were mostly enjoyed by his mother for fun and socialite style.

"I'll make you some really good instant noodles next time if we have a chance to meet again, and I won't tell your mom," said Arjuna tried to comfort Chery who began to look melow again, really Arjuna like could feel the pain that Chery felt, because every time the girl's face was moody and her eyes glazed, because, I don't know why there was such intense pain and tremor in his chest, but he couldn't interpret what that feeling was, he just guessed that it was all just because Chery was short of expressing his feelings worthy of him acting so that he was swept away in the role the girl played, he said, really he did not want to admit that he harbored other feelings for the beautiful girl who was currently his only friend in that place.

"Thank you, but we'd better not see each other next time, you're too handsome, I'm afraid to fall in love with you, haha!" tempt Cheri ended her crisp laughter, making Arjuna go awry hearing Chery's innocent speech.