The Wedding With Converse

Episode 5's

Joana Raskal, three years ago.

“Jo, please give my prom invitation to your friend!”

which “Temen am I? I have a lot of.”

“Raskal. Your most handsome friend is him.” Joana twists her eyeballs. He picks up a letter from Desy, his classmate who is also a school prima donna. “Iya, yes. Entar I kasih.”

Desy smiled broadly. “Still yes, Joana.”

After hugging Joana for a moment, Desy left. Joana observes the girl's departure with half-dazzled and half-sullied eyes. Stunned because Desy was created so perfect with beauty and cleverness. Also because of some reason why girls as beautiful as Desy also followed to assess Raskal.

Joana exhaled loudly. When Desy is lost from sight, Joana's attention is turned to a prom night invitation that she is holding. If calculated, at least Joana has received twenty prom night invitation for Raskal from various girls. But, on average they are popular girls in their Junior High. If not beautiful, then smart. If not smart, then beautiful.

“Woy!”

The heavy sound accompanied by claps on his back instantly jolted Joana from the daydream. The girl looked back. When he saw a tall boy with brown eyes and disheveled hair, Joana immediately pollinated him with various variations of punches.

“Ouch! Ouch, Jo! Pain!” raskal groaned while continuing to dispel Joana's punch.

“Bodo highly! Some habits really ngagetin people. You don't know, ngagetin it has the potential to kill people? Huh?!” joana's nagging after she's satisfied beating Raskal.

Raskal. “Who told you to wait in the afternoon?

I thought you were kesambet.”

“Cambet? Is there a demon that dares to be with me?” reply Joana while continuing to glare at Raskal.

Raskal. “Again. I was afraid, what was the devil? Instead of dealing with lo, mending him back to hell time.”

Joana looked at Raskal who was still laughing. When he saw his body getting taller, Joana only realized how long he had been friends with this crybaby. From the time of the guy was still snot and just hang out with toy robots, until he turned into a popular guy who easily get along with everyone plus handsome also smart. Joana finally realized, there have been many changes to Raskal himself that he had witnessed.

“Tuh right! Lo dumbass again! Think what the hell?” raskal asked suddenly, again breaking Joana's daydream.

Joana clucking. Without answering any questions, Joana thrust Desy's care at Raskal. “Nih, prom invitation night.”

“Again? Which yesterday was the belom sepet I read,” said Raskal while taking an invitation from the hands of Joana. “Who's from?”

“Desy Widiastika Ajeng Ningtias. Primadona our school and at the same time one of the daughters of Keraton Solo. His blue blood. So, no reason to refuse an invitation from him?”

Raskal chuckles. “Blue blood? Avatar time!”

“Lo will receive an invitation from him, Kal?” ask Joana. Suddenly the tone became serious, making Raskal who heard it immediately look at the short-haired girl with a look of wonder.

Raskal shrugged his shoulders. “Ndon't know. He's not my taste.”

Joana's eyes narrowed. “Not your taste? Desy Lo class girl says not your taste? Not wrong? She's so beautiful, Raskal!”

Raskal. “Beautiful, but still looks like a kid. My type is an adult. More challenging.”

“Don't tell me you're going to take a high school kid to prom night our school later?”

“Why not?” Raskal chuckled again. “Ah, ah already! Why do I use it about the girl I'm taking to prom night? Tumben very much you care about this problem.”

Joana sneers. “Ya .. I want to know if the type of girl is a Raskal Galivan Anandio it's like how.”

“Lebay lo!” Raskal.

“But, seriously, Kal. What kind of girl are you like? No way you will macarin aunt?” Raskal. Before answering Joana's question, the guy suddenly stretched out his hands to the wall behind Joana, making Joana forced to be locked between the two arms of the boy. For a second, Joana who was still shocked just stared at Raskal with a wide gaze. If only his heart beat as usual, not pounding as now, he should have gotten rid of Raskal.

“Kayak lo.”

The deg!

Joana's heart stopped beating as soon as she heard it. His forehead suddenly drowned.

“What? Se ... seriously lo?” joana asked softly and awkwardly.

“Yes. Where maybe a messy girl like lo is my type,” said Raskal then with the accompaniment of his laughter that exploded again, making Joana immediately reflex stomp his feet strongly.

“Aaargh!” ringis Raskal holds the left leg that Joana just stepped on. “Sickness, Jo!”

“Bodo highly! I hate the same lo!” ketus Joana before she finally chose to leave Raskal with her footsteps jerked and a frowning face annoyed.

“Don't sulk dong, Jo! Want to shave my hair with me?!” raskal shouted at Joana loudly.

“No! I don't want you!” sahut Joana the fiery.

***

Almost fifteen minutes Joana was standing in front of the room mirror. From then on, he was still looking for whatever flaws were in him. When she counted, Joana only realized so many bad things that surrounded her from the past. For example, the appearance of a not-very-female aka tomboy, messy hair that is always dandruff, a puddle of saliva in the corners of his lips, and, and the most severe is the number of pimples and blackheads lodged in Joana's face. Not just a mess like Raskal said at school this afternoon. She looks absolutely horrible for a teenage girl.

“I think I'm a girl, right?” joana asked in a horrified tone.

Half a minute later, Joana suddenly ran into the closet and took all her clothes. When all the clothes he had lined up on the bed, Joana could not swallow. His head suddenly dizzy when he saw all his clothes were average T-shirts, flannel shirts, mountain pants, and butut jeans.

“Ya canuun! Is this a room or a ship broke anyway? Why is the shirt so messy?” the voice of Gea, the most feminine and chatty elder sister, just knew echoed Joana's room. The owner of the room was shocked.

“What are you doing again, Na? Why are his clothes out in all gini?” ask Joana again. His eyes were still paying attention to the condition of Joana's room which was like the express market.

“I'm looking for clothes to make prom night, Kak,” Joana said with a bent face.

Gea laughs. “Oh. Confused about what clothes to wear? After all, you if you buy a mulu shirt. Buy a dress once in a while. You are a girl.”

“Iya, yes. I also know that I'm a girl!” joana's snort is bad.

Gea smiled faintly. He approached Joana and ruffled her youngest sister's short hair. “Ya already, later pinjem clothes Aja brother.”

Joana scrunched her forehead. “Emang load? My body is wide.”

Gea twisting eyeball. “Meatya sports. Let's skinny. Ah, I want to go to college first. Brother pinjem your backpack, yes.”

“Iya, take aja in the closet.”

Just as Gea was about to leave the room, Joana suddenly remembered something. Something that must be asked.

“Kak Gea! Wait!”

Gea's steps stopped. She's looking. “What else?”

“Eng .. I want it, Kak.”

“Ya, ask aja.”

Joana walked towards her brother. Then he whispered something that made Gea unable to help but laugh.

“Ih! Gea, are you laughing at all? I'm serious!”

“Lagian, you are funny anyway. Raskal's time has the possibility to like you, what? The answer is definitely not!”

Joana immediately scowled. “Loh, why not? Why emang? I'm a girl. And people say, the friendship between a man and a girl is inevitable from the risk of liking his own best friend. Yeah, right?”

Gea grimacing. “Iya, really. That fact is true. Unless your case is the same Raskal. So, first point, you guys are friends from still kids. Take a shower once a bucket. You both know your ugliness towards each other. The second point, Raskal is handsome and you,” Gea pay attention to the appearance of Joana from top to bottom who is really like a boy, “bull too. Alias too boy. Shave your hair always together. So, there's no way Raskal sees you as a girl. The last point is, you're not his taste. Mirror please, Joana. You know that the girls who like Raskal are very funny. If compared to the same you who are messy, wide, and fierce, it seems not to be—”

“Udah! Stop, stop!” joana couldn't stand it. “Udah, do not need to be clarified. Brother leaves for college!” joana said while pushing Gea's body out of the room.

“Eh, Joana! Why are you asking about that?! Don't you like Raskal?!” jeered Gea from outside the room.

“No! It's there! Brother go to college!” reply Joana out loud.

“Cieee who again likes her own best friend!”

“Kak Gea go! Sanaaa!”

“Don't long like Raskal! Later heartache!”

“Bodo!”

Gea's screams were then not heard anymore. Only the echoes of giggling alone were vaguely caught Joana's ear. It made the girl again attacked with frustration.

Joana throws her body into the bed. Then, he closed his eyes for a moment. Come to think of it, the word Gea has a point. During his friendship with Raskal, despite his status as a pure woman, the man almost never saw Joana like a woman. The guy just sees it like a girl friend who can double as a boy friend. His school friends did too. On average, they only see his closeness to Raskal as a friend. Not more. So, no wonder if all her girl friends in school almost no one considers it as a rival or obstacle in terms of getting Raskal's heart. Clearly, compared to those who were pretty-beautiful, Joana was nothing. Boro-boro can be beautiful, distinguish blazer and sweater only sometimes he is still confused.

Joana took a long breath. He got up from the bed and walked to the study table. On the table lay a prom night invitation. Joanna took the invitation. He smiled wryly as he read the line of names on the cover. A line of names that may never accept this invitation. A line of names that will probably laugh out loud when reading the contents of this invitation. And a line of names that has been the center of his world for some time.

For enemies, friends, adventure partners, basketball rivals, and where the heart is first anchored, Raskal Galivan Anandio.

***

Raskal Joana, two years ago.

This condition makes Joana and Raskal's friendship more and more tenuous. It may even become more foreign. Moreover, Joana accidentally caught Raskal making out with Miss Stella— who is an intern teacher— in the back shed of the school.

I don't know what kind of feeling was getting into Joana's chest as soon as she saw the event. Clearly, the event made Joana slowly like taking distance from Raskal. It's nothing, since seeing the incident, Joana seemed to no longer recognize the figure of Raskal. He was confused as to what his feelings were like. In essence, since seeing the event, disappointment immediately shackled his heart. The feeling of disappointment continues to grow bigger when you see the changes Raskal from time to time. Maybe he can still open up to be friends with Raskal. But, he could no longer open his heart to continue to like the guy.

Joana numb on Raskal. At the same time, Reon's figure appears to fill Joana's empty heart state. Reon with a jail, rancid, and messy attitude that was originally hated by Joana, long ago even made Joana interested. The hilarious nature of Reon unknowingly makes Joana's days more colorful. Especially after he found out that Reon was a player maker on his school basketball team. Joana is more fascinated by the guy who was originally his great enemy. Raskal's absence in everyday Joana also makes the feeling of Reon more and more deep. Even so, Joana did not rush to accept Reon when the guy finally expressed his feelings. It's nothing, even though almost every day they are together, in fact the shadow of Raskal still likes to run around in his mind. This makes Joana choose to be friends with Reon first. “Gue likes lo, Joana,” I Reon when they are playing basketball one day.

Joana glanced at Reon. One eyebrow raised. “Why do you like me? Am I a lo?” type

Reon shakes. He was grinning wide. “Ngak too anyway. My type is meek, not the one that sangar kayak lo.”

Joana. “Lo is actually want to shoot what you want to be more in a fight anyway?”

Reon was grinning, but after that he looked back at Joana closely. “Lo is not my type. But, I like the same all the things that are in lo.”

“Oh, yes? What is it?” joana asked with curiosity.

“Eng .. I know that you are not as beautiful as Miranda Kerr. But, for now, somehow you are the only girl who looks beautiful in my eyes even when you are dry, smelly, or not if you snore fit again sleep. Lo emang not meek, but for now, I always see you like looking at the best girl in the world—even when I see you again give money gope1 to the buskers. You may have been the girl I hated all my life, but, again for now, you even become a girl that makes me willing to learn desperately so that it can look pantes to be my girl. I know that I'm not as cool, cool, and smart as Raskal. But, for you, I promise, I will keep trying to be better. I, this jerk, will keep trying to make you like me.”

Joana stunned. For the first time during her close relationship with Reon, she had just heard him speak this seriously. Since entering High School, not once twice Joana shot a guy and he felt bland. But, Reon's confession was—if there is not a single romantic sentence and rombal—entah why is able to make his heart pound slowly.

“Reon, I can't—”

“Don't rush mutusin. Think about it first. Whatever the length, I'm ready to wait,” cut Reon in a hurry.

Joana laughs amusedly. “Lo tuh, yes. I think very pessimistic for my answer.”

Reon scratched the nape that was not itchy. “This is the first time I've shot a girl. So ... it's only natural to dong if I'm afraid of being rejected.”

Joana nodded. “OK, I'll think,” he said as he smiled a big smile at Reon.

Reon who saw that could not help but hold his smile as well. “About, what are my chances of percent, Jo?”

Joana clings to Reon's head. “Lo thinks MTK uses calculate the odds of everything?” Joana sticks her tongue out at Reon before she runs off into the middle of the field.

“Awas lo, yes! I'm after you, Jo!” exclaiming Reon while chasing Joana who is currently still running around in the field.

In the roar of laughter Reon and Joana in the middle of the deserted school field, Raskal quietly observed the two from behind the pillar. The guy even heard their whole conversation. For some reason, when he saw and heard it, deep in there, in his chest, in the center of his inner circle, there was a rumbling and an angry cry. Some are calling out unwillingly. Some whine, asking Joana should not fall into the hands of any man other than himself.

Unknowingly, Raskal's hands clenched tightly. It was so strong that it hurt and his hand turned red.

***

Raskal Joana, one year ago.

Everything that is often overlooked will ultimately feel so valuable when we lose. Maybe that's a suitable sentence to describe the condition of Raskal's heart when he began to realize his feelings for Joana. I don't know when that feeling started to come up. Clearly, it was Reon who managed to provoke that feeling to come out.

All this time, Raskal always knew what he wanted. So, Raskal easily knew anything that became his desire. Including about getting the girl he likes. Unfortunately, Raskal is too stupid to realize what he really needs. Unfortunately, Joana is in that category. More than just the thing he wanted, Raskal realized that Joana was like air to him. Not visible, but always on the side. It has always been a basic and basic necessity in his life.

Not because Joana has turned into a beautiful girl

and almost liked the boys at school. Raskal liked Joana even long before the girl changed. Raskal has liked Joana from the first time he met the girl. Since the girl insisted on being her friend, since the girl was determined to paddle her, since the girl wanted to be her birthday gift, and since the girl accompanied her home in the rain. Since then, Raskal actually likes and secretly always pays attention to Joana. Unfortunately, Raskal was always evasive. He always thought that the feeling that was embedded in his heart was nothing more than a feeling of pleasure because Joana wanted to be his friend.

To that end, so that he does not feel more regret, Raskal immediately pursued a distance that slowly fortified their friendship. Raskal forced to break the foreign feelings between him and Joana. Raskal started it all over again. He even visited Joana's house more often.

Raskal began his old activity that had stopped for one year, bringing Joana home from school, observing all Joana's activities, becoming a partner playing girls basketball again, protect the girl from the temptations of the jerks at her school, and of course keep the girl tight from Reon. Right now, that guy is getting so dangerous for Raskal. Reon, the madman, who was never initially counted as a rival, even became a dark horse about approaching Joana.

“Lo home what time? Let me pick it up,” asked Raskal to Joana in an over protective tone that Joana is very familiar with.

“Jam five. I want to make the makeup of the women's basketball core team first because,” Joana replied without seeing Raskal. His eyes were now fixed on the phone displaying a line of messages from Reon.

Raskal who secretly saw the reflex took the phone by force. Joana who was aghast automatically immediately looked at Raskal with a dislike look.

“Reon?” ask Raskal cynically. “Well how many times have I told you that you can't be with her anymore?! He's a jerk!”

“What the hell are you, Kal? Here's not my HP!” joana exclaimed as she continued to reach her phone from Raskal's hand.

“You want to go together? Said he wanted to make the core team?” Raskal spoke again with a cynical tone, making Joana increasingly blood up.

“Back my HP, Raskal!”

Raskal shook his head strongly. While putting on a slanted smile, the guy puts Joana's phone in his pants pocket. “Gue will be at school. Until you go home.”

“Ah! Whatever! Basic byebelin!” ketus Joana before she finally left the class with her footsteps jerked. Raskal saw that he could only grin thinly.

You should be the same me! Forever the same! inner Raskal while stepping his feet out of class, following Joana who is now walking towards the sport center.

***

Joana Raskal, Joana's birthday, three months ago.

“Jadi ... lo ‘users’ now? Huh?!”

“Gue .. I just ‘make’ twice, Jo. I swear, I'll stop!”

Joana looked at Raskal with a look of disbelief. He really did not expect when he found out Raskal was taking drugs. In fact, today is his birthday. Joana even gets a surprise like this.

Joana suddenly loses strength. His forehead weakens. Her tears just flow. Joana fell to the floor. Both of his hands were holding heads that felt like they were about to break. Raskal's honesty completely numbed his entire body.

Raskal sat down in front of Joana. The man looked at Joana with a pushy look.

“Jo .. Jo, I'm sorry. I promise I will stop,” said Raskal lirih. One hand turned Joana's head slowly, telling the girl to look back at her.

“Why do you ‘make’ the item?” joana asked sharply.

Raskal. Not that he did not want to answer, but Raskal was unable to answer Joana's question. He was unable to pin down the reason why he was wearing the illicit item. There are injuries to that reason. There is an incomprehensible frustration. There are other feelings that Joana cannot possibly understand.

“Why? Answer me!”

Raskal remained silent. He was silent, making Joana who saw it instantly slap Raskal firmly.

“Udah. Thats enough. Our friendship got here,” Joana said before she finally got up, about to leave Raskal's apartment.

Raskal who could not let Joana go just like that stood up and pulled Joana's wrist. “If I tell you a story, you won't understand, Jo.”

Joana laughed softly. “Just because you never told me, I feel like the most useless friend in the world now!”

“Let me make a story. Now, I just need you there, Jo.”

Joana smiled wryly. He forcibly removed Raskal's hand from his hand, then was about to continue his steps to get out of Raskal's apartment. However, Joana had not been able to open the door, the sound of loud debums suddenly made Joana turn back. When he saw Raskal beating the wall and hit his own head, Joana immediately ran towards the guy and held the guy's body as hard as she could.

“Raskal stop! You want to die?! Huh?!”

“Iya! Go there! Go on another kayak! I don't need you! Go!!!” raskal snaps at Joana out loud.

Joana exhaled a strong breath. Raskal's bad habits are crumbling again. Habits he has known for a long time. Habits that I will break when the guy is angry but can not channel it with words. Rather than talk, Raskal would rather hurt himself like this.

“Go there! He said he doesn't want to be my best friend anymore! Go there!” raskal yelled again as he continued to beat the wall with his bare hands.

Not paying attention to Raskal's words just now, Joana just knew to approach the guy and hug his body from behind firmly. Then, with the face she had drowned on Raskal's back, Joana cried out loud.

“Gue will not go. I will never leave. Sorry

… I'm sorry, Kal. Sorry, I just don't want to see you die slowly because of that damn thing!” joana said with sobs that got bigger and bigger, making Raskal immediately stop the action and turn around the body. With both hands together, the man then hugged Joana tightly. Her face she hid deeply on the girl's shoulder.

For a while, the two no longer spoke. Until the silence wrapped around and to the point of fatigue, both Joana and Raskal were still hugging. Both of them threw themselves onto the living room sofa.

“Gue will stop ‘make’,” said Raskal later, breaking the silence.

Joana looked at Raskal. “Appointment?”

Raskal nodded slowly. “Appointments.”

Joana smiled, making the matimatian Raskal refrain from kissing the girl right now.

“Today is my birthday. Don't you give me a gift?” joana asked, switching the conversation.

“Nstill. I just bought the latest Converse release yesterday.”

Joana twists her eyeballs. “Out shoes? Every birthday, I always buy shoes. I don't think there's anything else.”

Raskal. “Abis, I don't know what you like other than Converse.”

Joana clucking. “Tersubmissive. Thanks for my birthday.”

Raskal ruffled Joana's hair. “Happy birthday, Joana. We both keep on yes like shoes.”

“Whatever, Raskal!” ketus Joana with the accompaniment of her little laugh.