The Love of the Maharani

Girl Talk (Chat Girl)

"Sorry, Madam.." Bella said while removing the rest of the crying from the corner of her eyes.

"Anna. Call me, Anna, Bell!" Anna Pinta.

The two are sitting on the sand where Bella first cried. Ten minutes after Bella finished her crying, she finally stopped and invited Anna to sit first in the place.

And here they are now. Although some people who passed by seemed to occasionally look at them, especially at Bella who had been crying. But Anna and Bella don't mind them.

Anna decides to accompany Bella sitting on the white sand of Gili Trawangan Island. In silence, in silence, the two bind each other's hearts in a newly formed bond of friendship.

"Sorry, Anna!" Bella said back in a soft voice.

"Nothing.." said Anna with the view still fixed to the high sea.

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For the next ten minutes, the atmosphere between Anna and Bella was filled with a calming silence. Sometimes just participation alone is enough to eliminate the fatigue of the heart, even if only a little.

No need to say. No need for talks. Enough to accompany in silence. That is enough for a friend to do.

Shortly thereafter, Bella was separated.

"I used to live in Bogor. There I lived in a villa owned by Papa and Mama. Papa is a project foreman, while Mama is a teacher."

"For the first ten years of my life, I felt very happy. I have a beautiful room that all girls dream of. With pink walls and lots of dolls on display neatly on the glass cabinet shelf."

"Then, one day, the day before my tenth birthday. My mom and dad put me in our neighbor's house. Because at that time Mama and Papa want to check up on the pregnancy of Mama who has entered the age of the last month of pregnancy.

I didn't go because I had a fever. But I whine to come along. Either because of fever or maybe also a premonition, which I obviously cried for their departure at that time.

Although they have promised to buy the latest Barbie doll for my birthday the next day. I still cry to be with them. If only.."

Until here, Bella's voice began to choke. But not for long. Because then he continued his story.

"If only then did I insist on coming with them.." there was a shiver in Bella's voice that was captured by Anna's senses. He then grabbed Bella's right hand and pressed her gently. Wishing the woman beside him to become stronger.

"If only then had I prevented them from leaving, it might not have happened" Bella said in a nearly broken voice.

"..." - ".Anna doesn't know what to say to comfort Bella. She felt that Bella needed someone more to be a listener now. So he finally tried to be a good listener for Bella at this time.

"That was my childish thought at the time" a small smile fell on the thin lips of the Sunda girl.

"But of course. Is not everything predestined by the Almighty? Who are we to change His destiny? Especially if fate is related to life and death."

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Bella sighed for a moment. Before continuing his story again.

"In that day I waited for Papa and Mama's return until night. I don't know if the news of the accident that claimed their lives was known to my neighbors from the afternoon."

"They just don't know how to convey it to little Bella, who is still waiting for her Papa Mama's return even late at night. To the point that I fell asleep from exhaustion."

"The news was delivered to me the next day. When the bodies of Papa and Mama returned to our villa with an Ambulance car. The sound of the ambulance siren at that time felt like a painful trumpet in my heart at that moment."

"Just the day I was supposed to celebrate my tenth birthday, I had to accept the fact that I no longer had Papa and Mama. It was my worst experience, to date."

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"Mom and Papa were buried in the afternoon.."

"For some time I lived in our neighbor's house. While they try to contact relatives or relatives of Mama Papa who still exist."

"Unfortunately Mama and Papa are both only children and orphans. So I'm the only living successor to the second generation of Mama and Papa's family."

"At first my neighbors didn't want to let me be taken away by strangers they didn't know. But after the man left his identity card, and showed me his pictures with Mama and Papa, they finally let me go."

"I'm not crying. I was so saddened by the passing of Mama and Papa that I was no longer able to throw anger at fate or the world."

" I followed the man to a grand mansion. And for some time I lived in one of the rooms in the small building behind the big mansion."

"Then I went to school and stayed in the dormitory for a few years. When I graduated from college, I was seventeen. That was when I first realized my love for that man."

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Anna blinked her confused eyes. 'That guy? Who mean?' anna asked in silence.

But Anna kept her mouth from making the slightest sound. He let Bella continue her story again.

"For years I have harbored this feeling. I guess I've gone crazy. Because there shouldn't be this feeling, so thought I at the time."

"But how else? This feeling continues to grow without me being able to control it again. No matter how hard I hold it, still the love in my heart always blossoms every time we meet."

"More when I found out that he also had the same feelings for me through an accidental incident."

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"But he always. He felt his feelings for me shouldn't exist. In fact, we are still able to be together. If only he would fight for our relationship together.."

"But she chose to give up, even before our relationship had a name. And that was..."

"So, he called. If he's going to propose to a woman he knows! He said that he would kill his feelings for me by marrying that woman!"

"He asked me to also kill my feelings towards him! Isn't that so cruel, Anna?!" Bella asked immediately as she looked at Anna.

Anna stared back at Bella with a shady look. He is still confused to respond to Bella's curses with what sentences. Finally he just sighed softly and gave an ambiguous answer, "Okay, Bell.."

Although Anna's answer was simple, it seemed that Bella did not mind. He then continued saying again.

"Okay if he wants to reject me. I'll take it. If he wants to go and choose another woman, okay. I'll take it too. Although I may at first be very sad about the choice."

"But..! But obviously he has no right to forbid me to love him! He has no right to whom I love or hate! He has absolutely no right to it!" Bella's cockiness with a slightly raised tone.

The Sundanese woman struck her hand many times on a grain of sand beside her body. Both of his legs that from the beginning he deliberately bent also vibrated along with the outburst of his anger at the figure of the man he loved.

Tired of anger, Bella hid her face between her legs. Both of his hands hugged his knees tightly. Trying to hide the sobs that can no longer be contained.

Beside Bella, Anna was stunned. He still does not know the figure of the man who is loved by Bella but has hurt the woman's heart. If he could meet the man, Anna would probably teach him a lesson.

Anna wants to teach the man that love cannot be forced. Love cannot choose. And love can't be stopped by impingement.

Anna grabs Bella's shoulder and attaches it to her own shoulder. In silence, he attempts to send power to Bella for what she is facing right now.

Although actually Anna is still curious about the conditions that cause Bella and the man she loves can not be together.

"Who is that guy?" Unknowingly, Anna had already raised a question that bothered her mind.

Bella slowly raised her head. He looked back at the blue sea before him with a sad look. Before finally telling the name of the man he loved to Anna.

"He is.."

"Anna!"

A call made Bella stop her speech suddenly. The two women spontaneously looked back. Where they found a Daffa figure that turned out to be quite close to where they were sitting.

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