The Secret Love Story (End)

The Journey to the Heart

If you were for me, then,

No matter how good you are at hiding

And whatever distance separates

Ultimately, fate will bring us back

Because God has written our names in the same destiny

This dawn Ara was busy tidying up and packing all her belongings. Because he has completed his duties at this branch Office and mutated back to the Headquarters in the city where he lives. In a few days, Ara was about to leave this city, the city where that person was. The person he loved even though he could never say it. At first Ara did not know that this was the city where her loved ones lived, but after her memory returned and because of a destiny some time ago where she was reunited with the man she loved.

After finishing with his busy life, Ara opened her laptop and went back to reading every piece of writing she had written before. When he lost his memory, he was very curious about who exactly was the person who was the focus of all the poems he wrote. However, when he regained his memory he knew that it was Egha, Erlangga Satya Pradipta. Yes, he was just to him all the focus of writing in the poems that Ara composed.

"Destiny is funny, Gha. When I can truly let you go, God brings us back together. Even in a way we didn't expect before" murmured Ara.

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Erlangga drove his car to a residential complex according to the address listed on a small paper given by his mother some time ago. He then arrived in front of a house painted blue according to the address, he parked his car in an empty land near the field not far from the house, then immediately go down and head to the house not far from his reach. But suddenly when he saw the surrounding area, he realized that the area was nothing to him. He still did not realize that he often passed in the area until someone patted him on the shoulder. Erlangga looked back and was so surprised to find three people who were very familiar with him standing in front of him.

"Bad....Vin, Ndi, Fer.. Why are you here?" asked Erlangga with a frown.

"Lahh..kok even loe who nanya anyway..," cetus Ferdhy.

"Yes, Gha. I should go to Loe...Loe who does here. Pack a car parker in the field, why not just enter the garage.

"Haaahhh..," again Erlangga was surprised not to play. "Who's garage?" his tanya certainly made his three friends laugh out loud.

"Jeez Gha, rarely met in the last few months you are like a bego anyway," said Andy.

"Yes Gha, don't tell me you forgot my house." said Vino.

"Sir.meaning loe? I do not understand..," said Erlangga still with confusion. "Gosh..!!! this is really the area of loe ya Vin.., ", Erlangga said after researching the surrounding area.

"Astafirullah..loe really forgot my house Gha...?" ask Vino. Erlangga nodded.

"I am no stranger to this place. It's a loe kan..," said Erlangga while pointing to the house that impressed luxury owned by Vino. Vino nodded.

"Means that you're here, you don't mean to come to my house dong?" ask Vino.

"Yes, I have no purpose for the three of you today. I just returned from Jakarta yesterday, and I plan to go to the three of you tomorrow. Eh not even know you guys here..," explained Erlangga while his three friends were mangosteen.

"Well, if you don't mean to my house, what are you doing here?" ask Vino.

"Yes, Gha.loe is going to this area..," added Ferdhy.

"Gue came here to find this address..," said Erlangga by giving a small piece of paper to Vino.

The three companions of Erlangga scrunched their foreheads after reading the address listed on the small paper given by Erlangga earlier.

"Loe, seriously looking for this address?" ask Ferdhy in full search.

"Yes, I'm serious, why am I messing around too. Tau not so serious I nyari that address until I do not realize that this area loe house..," said Erlangga. Erlangga looked at his three friends who seemed to put on curious faces and was about to interrogate him.

"What's your relationship with him?" ask Vino full of probes.

"Yes, why do you know him?" ferdhy asked with a full glance as well.

"Yes, he said loe said he did not want to compete for the girl, uh now you even come to his house. Don't-don't you try to steal the start from us-we are...?" add another question from Andy that makes Erlangga increasingly frown because they do not understand what they mean.

"What do you mean, I don't understand..," said Erlangga. The three friends who had been staring at Erlangga's face saw that Erlangga was really confused by their question.

"This is the address of Aerylin's rented house, Gha," said Vino.

"Yes, or rather Aerylin Bellvania Az-Zahra." added Ferdhy.

"How do you not know Gha, we have been targeting the girl from when the day." Andy said.

"Loe meant...?" Erlangga is increasingly confused by this puzzle.

"Aerylin Bellvania Az-Zahra, is the long-veiled girl inceran we three have told you before Gha..," explained Vino.

"Astafirullah...so the girl you mean is Ara? The incerant girl you three see on the balcony every afternoon is Ara? So then....Ara...the girl...during this contracted here....?" tanya Erlangga bertilubi-tubi who answered nods by his three best friends.

"Wait a minute, Ara...Do you know him? Why did you call him Ara? His name is Aerylin, Gha." Vino explained.

"Of course I know him. I used to call him Ara long ago" said Erlangga.

"ever since? Mean loe?" ask Vino.

"He's Vin's guy. The girl I've been looking for a long time. The girl who made me never stopped thinking about her. He is Vin, he who you know by the name of Aerylin..," explained Erlangga who of course made his three friends glare so surprised.

"God...!!! Really it?" ask Ferdhy not believe it.

"So, the girl you've been looking for is here. Near loe...?" added Andy. And his questions were answered nods by Erlangga.

"God...!! I didn't expect it.." said Vino.

"Gue also..," said Erlangga.

"So, how's the story you can find him now?" ask Vino.

"The story is long Vin, I will tell everything to the three of you, before I meet him," said Erlangga who was answered nod by Vino, Andy and Ferdhy. And finally the three of them went to bascam, which was at the house of Vino. Erlangga intended to tell her everything first to her three friends before she met the girl she loved.

*****

I took my foot back to the blue house. After telling everything to my three friends, I was relieved and my three friends supported my goal, even though they had to stop trying to get Ara. I still remember what they said and the spirit they gave me before my footsteps were only a few meters away in front of the blue house.

"The destiny is unique. He's been right next to Loe and near loe all this time. But, you don't even know and find him anywhere," said Andy.

"Yes, Gha... But in the end, God brings you together in a way that is also unique after you are separated by a very long distance and time" said Ferdhy.

"He'em and may this be a sign of God, Gha. That Loe and he were indeed outlined in the same destiny by Him. Now wait, he's here now and don't waste the opportunity God gave you" said Vino.

I took a deep breath. I don't know why this time I was nervous about meeting Ara. Never once did I feel this big. Is it because I haven't met him in a long time? Ah, I don't know, obviously I'm just going to meet him and finish everything that's stuck in my heart. I knocked on the door of the blue-painted house whose courtyard was filled with those beautiful flowers. Not long after, a girl in her typical nightgown with a cartoon with a white continuous veil opened the door and looked at me with a look of disbelief. It was probably because of his surprise to see me suddenly in his house.

"Assalamu'alaikum..," I said nervously.

Still with a surprised look saw me the girl answered my greetings.

"Wa'alaikum salam..," he answered.

Silence was created for a while when he told me to sit in the living room. He moved into the room I thought was the kitchen, because he came back with a cup of warm tea and served it to me.

"How did you get here?" the question then broke the silence between us.

"Oh.that's from mama. Yes, I got your home address from my mom." I was obviously nervous that she might be able to see my nervousness as she smiled a little at me.

"Are you going?" ask later, because of my curiosity. She also nodded in small words answering my question. I stared at him sharply then, after knowing that answer.

"Why did you go. Why should I go again. You know I was looking for you everywhere, a few years ago. And you know how frustrated I was when I didn't find you, I even went to your house despite having to be strayed several times because I forgot the way. But, it wasn't until a few years ago that you were right near me but we never met. Until I finally decided to let you go and try to let you go. But, when God reunited me with you a while ago, I was delighted. And I don't want to let you go anymore. Nah! I don't want to go through those bad days anymore. So please don't go. Don't go again and stay here" I said at length in one breath. I didn't even realize that I was in a standing position right now.

I who realized my silly behavior and statement now sit back from my standing position again. I saw the girl looking at me questioningly after listening to my statement. And I don't understand what to do. I scratched my non-itchy nape then to hide my nervousness over my silly behavior. Silence was created between me and then until I finally heard her voice ask me.

"Why?" tanyanya brief. I was surprised to hear his question. I looked back at her face but she lowered her face. I don't know what he saw from the white floor, which he clearly was focusing on the white floor under his feet instead of looking at my face after he asked the question.

"It.it.it...kar..because.I want you to always be with me." I said. She looked at me with her surprised face as well as myself, I was also surprised that those words came out of my lips. The next few seconds she laughed gracefully and I could not understand why she laughed like that. I wonder if this is all because of my silly behavior?

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