The Perfect Love

The Perfect Love

"To the Equatorial Monument yuk, see the culmination point," Arini invited to Andari at that time. The weather is so hot. Grey uniforms that they wear until sticky on the body because of sweat that flows from the body. The school's clock went off five minutes ago.

"So not going to her parents?" ask Fahri.

"We're walking, we're close."

"Ngg."

"Why?"

"Just remember I have to go home fast today help Mom cook. There's a family gathering at home" Arini reasoned and it was true. He just remembered at his house this afternoon family gathering. Thankfully so he had a good reason not to go to the Equator with Andari and Fahri.

"It's a shame."

"me first then."

Arini can only look at the departure of Fahri and Andari with an indeterminate heart. That feeling has long been actually Arini felt when Youari a few months ago introduced it to Fahri. But try it redam. He did not want to betray his own friend. Youari once told Arini that he liked Fahri but he did not dare to express it in front of Fahri about his feelings. After all, he has the principle of having a man first express love to him.

"Why should that be?" asked Arini at that time because he was surprised by the principles embraced Youari. They are currently in the school cafeteria

"I don't think a girl will declare her love to a guy. It's like how it is."

"Your point?"

You're snuggling.

"This is an era of emancipation you should not adhere to such a strange principle."

***

"Why are you Ri?" ask Arini who is sitting next to him. Their first break decided to stay in class because you brought a box of Dunkin Donuts that he bought yesterday at the Mega Mall.

You ask like that because he sees Arini as looking dreamy. He also did not touch the donuts you brought. Earlier, Andari told Arini how exciting it was yesterday afternoon he and Fahri after from the Equator Monument, watching a movie at Cineplex 21 then they both ate at Cafe Oh La La in Mega Mall. They also stopped by Dunkin Donuts to buy donuts.

"I'm really why?"

"You look dreamy. Are you sick or have a problem?"

"Yes I have a problem because I love Bang Fahri," Arini's inner.

"Ri!"

"I'm tired because yesterday I had to help Mom prepare this because at home it's family gathering," Arini told a lie. He smiled then so you wouldn't worry about him."

"You're sick or what's the problem."

"Other times if we go to Mega Mall I go with ya."

"OK!"

***

"Why are you sad?"

"I'm sad because I'm glad you graduated SMU."

Time passes so quickly. It does not feel like Fahri graduated from SMU. Fahri asks you to accompany him to pick up the graduation envelope at school.

"I think you're crying because you're afraid you can't see me again every day."

"Violence" you said lying. What Fahri said is true. He was afraid of not being able to meet Fahri every day.

What you do not know, the same thing actually also felt Arini who was standing next to him. You called Arini. He asked his best friend to accompany him to school. Arini who is powerless to refuse to accept your wishes even though in his heart he really wants to refuse the request of his friend. He didn't want to meet with Fahri that's the reason.

"You're daydreaming Ri?" ask Andari.

"Don't daydream often about being possessed" Fahri said.

To celebrate graduation, Fahri invites them to go to the Mega Mall. They decided to have lunch at the Ale-Ale Cottage located on the second floor.

Suddenly jealousy ambushed Arini as he saw Fahri and Andari talking so familiarly in front of him.

"You why Ri? How come it looks so agitated?" ask you to Arini who looks agitated at the moment.

He never answered that Nizar had come to his rescue.

"Sori was so late. Had to go to the nursery first."

***

Lately Fahri often daydreams in class. Often he was reprimanded lecturer because if asked he was like a person who shocked himself.

"Something seems to be in love in this class," his lecturer said when he asked Fahri but he was silent not answering and only returned to reality after his friend who was sitting not far beside him patted his shoulder.

The whole class laughed when they heard the lecturer's words. Fahri who as the object of the joke looks red met his face now.

***

Fahri stirred the orange ice with a plastic straw. His view is not focused. Arini looked at him concernedly. They are currently in the campus cafeteria for lunch. Arini felt lucky he could one campus with Fahri even so he could not reach out to the feelings of Fahri to like him. Fahri's heart has been tethered in you.

Time passed so quickly again. Andari and Arini graduated SMU later. Arini decided to continue her education at UPB. He majored in Argotechnology at the Faculty of Agriculture.

"Hopefully you don't faint right after planting. You'll be hot dried during the flag ceremony just fainted," Fahri said as he was amusedly.

"Definitely bothered that later your friends cut you fit again fainted," said Nizar no less amused ati he with his sister.

"Bang Nizar MTK."

"What is MTK?"

"Tadak lakka-lakka students aka ndak graduated from college" Arini said with a strong Sambas Malay accent. Both of his parents were from Sambas

Now it's Arini's turn to be amused by the heart as well as Fahri. Nizar's face was flushed with embarrassment.

***

Shocked Fahri when someone slapped his shoulder again. He stopped his movement stirring the orange ice with a plastic straw.

",Dark Deck?" Nizar asked while ordering Indomie soto mixed eggs plus mustard to the canteen keeper.

"Eh Bang, why go to college?"

"There are some things to be done about diplomas."

Nizar has now graduated college and a week ago graduated.

"Also miss the atmosphere of the campus," Nizar said as he thanked the canteen keeper who delivered his message. Immediately he took a bottle of sweet soy sauce, poured enough on the noodles, then continued to take a bottle of chili sauce, pouring enough on the noodles.

"Why were you daydreaming?" ask Nizar again while stirring the noodles to mix well with spices, sweet soy sauce, and sauce chili.

"Kangen Andari maybe," it was Arini who replied after a long time did not say. Fahri finally admitted his own feelings of joy towards Arini and Nizar. He said that a week ago at the Ale-Ale Lodge. It was Nizar's turn to treat them after they finished graduation.

Fahri at that time looked dreamy. Nizar who was worried about his condition then asked. Fahri then admitted his feelings of joy towards Andari.

"Have you contacted me?"

"Either."

"Then do you confess to you about your feelings."

"Never have I ever even contacted the boarding school where you nyantri. Andari instead said that if muhrim is not forbidden to call to the cottage fearing that I will be thought to be her boyfriend Andari and You can get in trouble because of this. You say it like that."

"Behold you are so the rules in the boarding school if not muhrim forbidden to call."

"Why don't you open your heart to others."

"Ndak easy Bang."

"It is the tablets that expect you."

Arini who was sitting next to him spontaneously stomped on his feet, making Nizar choke on the noodles he chewed.

"Be careful when you eat," Fahri handed over the iced oranges he had not drunk to Nizar.

Two years ago on a city bus. Arini is shocked when Nizar enters the city bus and sits next to her.

"Why take the bus, I'll host you near the campus."

"Abang to Siantan. There's a need with Fahri."

Fahri today did not go to college because there are no courses.

"So still don't be honest."

"What does Brother mean?"

"You don't have to pretend in front of you. You already know how you feel about Fahri."

"Don't tell me if I don't understand."

Nizar smile.

"Your true feelings with brother's sister."

Arini was speechless now, trying to hold back the tear drops falling from her two eyes.

"Don't cry later thought by Brother to say you again, after all Abang said that there was no meaning to anything."

"Where do you know how I feel about Bang Fahri?" tanya Arini wiped her tears.

"From your eyes that are always silently staring at Fahri with interest."

All this time without Arini noticing, Nizar always noticed him staring silently at Fahri if they were in the campus cafeteria.

"Bang!"

"What?"

"Don't say Bang Fahri. I don't want him to be hurt because we know that Bang Fahri is still expecting you."

***

Time rolled again until it did not feel Arini graduated from college. Fahri himself graduated from college two years ago. He then continued the development of the legacy of his father.

Arini himself decided to work in a cafe located in the area of New Town. Cooking and gardening are his separate hobbies. Capital is a stumbling block for him to open a cafe business with the concept of a flower garden. It was enough for him to be a cafe waitress. Hopefully in the future increased to become a cafe owner.

"My mother ordered a chocolate milk shake one" You mention the message while reading the menu book in front of her . He was shocked when he looked up and saw the cafe waiter standing in front of him.

"Ofucking!"

"Andar!"

***

"I order one chicken, add three tempeh, a small orange ice drink," Andari mentioned his order to one of the guards of the tent stall.

"What did you order?"

"No more side dishes."

"It's not enough of that."

They sat in a chair facing each other. Not far from them are seen vehicles passing by on the road Sultan Hamid Dua and also on the Landak Toll Bridge that stretches over the Landak River. This bridge is directly connected to Sultan Hamid Dua road. It is called a toll bridge because it was in the beginning of its construction around the early eighties until entering the early nineties every vehicle that climbed on the bridge was required to pay five hundred rupiahs. Now that doesn't happen anymore. Maybe if the payment system is enacted such as toll rides, the streets around the Landak Toll Bridge will become jammed while the road itself gets narrowed more and more due to the increasing volume of vehicles.

"You're strong too" Arini commented when she heard what you ordered for her dinner menu.

After work at the cafe Arini usually picked up Bang Riswan. His second brother lives in Parit Lengkong with his wife and one son. Bang Riswan works in a workshop near the cafe where he works.

Arini himself lives on the Long Strait road. If you want to go to the Lengkong Trench, you must pass the Long Strait, so Bang Riswan can take him home. But because today you drive him home then he contacted Bang Riswan so as not to pick him up to the cafe.

Feeling hungry Youari then turned the Honda Scoopy that he drove to a tent stall near the Landak Toll Bridge. Warung tent near Landak Toll Bridge is one of your favorite dining places. He also asked Arini if he was hungry or not and Arini replied that he was hungry too. So you don't have to wrap the food to take home.

"Bile you're balek?" arini asked along with that their order came. They thanked the food stall guards who delivered their order menu.

"Evening at about eight in the morning." You will taste the fried chicken pieces into the peanut sauce.

"Why didn't you tell me I was going to Pontianak?" Arini asked while putting a mouthful of rice into her mouth.

"Tomorrow I'm actually going to your house, uh even today we happened to meet at the cafe where you work."

Through an e-mail Arini once told You that he had worked as a waitress in a cafe in the area of New Town. One of his seniors at the campus, Bang Jul, said that the cafe his sister just managed needed several employees. Arini is interested in an offer from Bang Jul and then he submits himself. She was later accepted as a waitress at the cafe.

"Evening I met Bang Fahri in Kapuas Square."

"Bang Fahri expressed his love for me and asked me to be his girlfriend."

The continuation of the last word Youari makes Arini choke on the rice he just chewed. Quickly he snatched the tea bottle. He nearly finished the bottle of tea.

"Why you?"

"Ng..no surprise to hear it, then you accept it?" arini asked with a heart so anxious to hear your next answer.

"I refused it."

"Why did you reject him?"

"Because in Islam there is no such thing as dating."

You have changed a lot now. In terms of more closed. Unlike the Youari who used to be untold with her clothes a little closed or not that important polite. Perhaps this influence during his college and studying religion at the boarding school in Jogja.

"Then how did Bang Fahri react?"

"Bang Fahri asked me to marry him and I accepted." Your words are like a hammer that hit Arini's heart until broken to pieces can no longer be united.

"Why you?" You asked because he saw the change in Arini's face at the moment.

"I was shocked and also happy to hear this news, that's all," Arini picked up her tea bottle, finished off the rest of her tea, trying to cover up her nervousness as well as her sadness.

***

A week later Fahri and Andari had a wedding in a Malay traditional house. Fahri and Andari looked lawar wrapped in typical Malay wedding clothes.

Arini who looked at them sitting on the back of the guest chair, try to dampen his feelings that are not necessarily cloudy at this time. Happy, sad, disappointed to be one.

A month later Arini decided to stop working at the cafe. He then disappeared without a trace, making Youari astonished by the sudden loss of Arini. Where did his best friend go?"

"There's actually something you want to say about Arini" Nizar said after a week Arini disappeared without a trace. They are currently as usual being gathered at Fahri's house as it is Sunday.

"Arini left could be because of his feelings for Fahri.

"I mean Bang?"

"Actually you are forbidden to say this, but from the end like this you better just say that Arini has a liking towards Fahri."

"Where do you know that Arini likes Bang Fahri?"

"Because when we were in college, Arini always secretly noticed Fahri if we happened to be in the campus cafeteria. Arini also did not realize that Brother always paid attention to his behavior. Brother then asked Arini about his feelings during this time to Fahri and he later admitted there was a love for Fahri.

***

"You don't have to run like this" Zukri said, staring at Arini. Although two years older than Arini, Zukri's face seems to describe him as a man who was in the middle of forty years. It may be a factor of the hard work he goes through, making him older than his actual age.

"I don't know Usu, I want this feeling of love to be lost because Usu knows I shouldn't have this feeling. Bang Fahri loves you and they are now officially husband and wife."

Zukri paddled the sampan they rode. They are currently in Sebedang Lake. Although far from Sambas City, this lake is so beautiful. Surrounded hills. On the right side of the lake there is a protected forest called Mount Majau.

"What should I do Usu?"

"I told you in the beginning not to run away from this."

"So Usu thinks I should just be in Pontianak."

"That's what I think "

"I can't Usu."

"You will be tormented with your feelings, if you think that this problem can only be dealt with by avoiding it."

"How about you talk about this to you."

"What does Usu mean? Saying that I have a fondness for Bang Fahri can make you hate me."

"I know that. So this was when Usu you worked in Miri, Usu you have a feeling of liking a woman, yes like you are the case. The woman finally chose the man who is a close friend of Usu you nih. Usu nih you have never been honest with the woman that Usu there is a sense of liking him while the close friend Usu nih more open person and not shy to admit that he has a liking

with that woman."

"Then what did Usu do?"

"Run from problems like yours now. Usu chose to balek to Sambas."

"Your grandmother said this, admit your feelings to the woman you like and forget those feelings. The initial weight with time goes Insha Allah the feeling disappears by itself. You also have to be sure that one day there will be someone who will fill the void of your heart."

"Usu's initial doubt you're going to advice your grandmother, but Usu you finally decided to go back to Miri and do what your grandmother said. Once angry with Usu's friend you and the woman who has now become husband and wife. But Usu said again will forget the feeling of liking his wife."

"Usu was hard at first to forget the love for the woman. But it's true your grandmother said that as time goes by Usu you can forget the love."

"But Usu I still doubt."

"Why hesitate?"

"I'm afraid if I do as Usu did you'll hate me."

"You haven't tried it yet. You know the story of Bujang Nandi and Dare Nandung who ate it located not far from here "

"Ape Kene hit my problem with the story.

"There is little in common, both are already bad to think with their own minds. Bujang Nandi and Dare Nandung were killed because one of the palace guards thought they were going to have an inbreeding. The palace guards should review their words first, do not report the matter directly to the king who is their father.

***

There is a message from inside your phone. It opens the sms that comes from an unknown number.

Assalamualaikum Ri, it's me Arini. Can we meet? There's something I want to break.

Quickly reply to the sms.

Can kpn?

A few seconds later the reply text goes into your phone.

Could this afternoon?

You reply again to the sms.

God can be. Over where? Brp clock?

The answer from the phone came again to his phone a few seconds later.

Alun2 Kapuas, about three in the afternoon.

***

"There's something I want to say to you," Arini started talking. They are currently sitting on one of the benches in Kapuas Square Park. Not far ahead of them lay the Kapuas River. The river water seemed to sparkle with sunlight that began to shift westward.

Yesterday afternoon by bus Arini returned to Pontianak. He texts you in the morning to meet here.

"It's about my feelings with Bang Fahri."

"I know everything."

"Where do you know that?" Arini asks then she remembers Nizar because only Nizar knows how Arini feels about Fahri.

"Did Bang Nizar say it?"

"Yes" you briefly replied.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it......."

"You don't have to apologize. Bang Nizar also said he had to say this. You just disappeared without a trace. Bang Nizar guessed there must be something to do with your feelings with Bang Fahri."

"I'll forget it, I mean you have to believe me, I won't let my love for Bang Fahri grow, I'll leave town if you don't believe me."

"You don't have to leave this city anymore, I trust you," you smiled, looking at Arini.

"Because you're my best friend and I believe a best friend won't hurt his own, '" you continued.

One year later, Arini read in one of the local newspapers that the newly opened Indomaret several months in Pontianak was opening job vacancies. One of them became a cashier. Then try to register. He was later received and placed in Indomaret on Gusti Situt Mahmud road. This road is located not far from the Selap Panjang road where he lived.

NOTES

Kitak: you.

Kamek: Me or me.

Not necessarily rudu: Not clear.

Miang: Itching.

Cineplek 21: Now changed its name to XXI.

Hardness: Ge-r (Gede rumongso ne-sok felt).

Small orange ice: Lime ice.

Bile the crew balek: When do you come home.

Last night: Yesterday.

Smoothing: Dipping.

No story: It doesn't matter.

Ape kene menge/What to do: What to do.