What's up Selena ?
Chapter 8: The First Gift
“You work what the hell is ?” I asked Damar who almost every day came to visit me at home.
“I'm on sabbatical” said Damar who had been busy flipping through the blackbook of my friend list.
“Ia I know Damar, but I ask you what work, do you have, have a business?” as long as Damar met me, never once did he tell himself, every time he was asked he always dodged him with the reason of wanting to know me first, he said, because she thinks I'm not the kind of Selena she's known the longer she's been with, she feels like I'm too foreign to her.
“Okeh, if you are curious I work what yuk come with me” Damar looks at me with a smile.
Damar and I went to a bookstore, and I wondered why he had brought me here, whether he wanted to buy books first or if he was a staff member of this bookstore.
“What are we doing here?” manya curious.
“This is one of the places I make a living” replied Damar who smiled looking at me.
“You have this bookstore” my question again.
“Sebernarannya my parents did have some business, such as restaurants, cafes, futsal courts, and one of these bookstores, this bookstore, I continued to manage it happened to staff me on smart all so I can free nemenin kamu” said Damar.
“So the story wants to show off the treasure of parents” said I was a little tired.
“Shifting me again, rather than you being unemployed and just busy looking for a way to go back to the massalu” Damar chuckled.
I was speechless hearing Damar, right he said I was too caught up with my ambition to return, I forgot that I was living in this day and the future would come with me.
“Dam, you want to help me meet my past and also help me to adapt to a new world for me” said I.
Damar smiled looking at me while nodding his head slowly. Then Damar took me to a room and gave me a book called “Le Petit Prince” or his Indonesian language “Prince Cilik”.
“This book is from you as a birthday gift for me” Damar said.
***Flashback Damar memory
Ghandi and Selena are waiting in front of the fence of the Damar house tonight, they both wear white. Damar who came out of the house was surprised to see these two lovebirds even wear a couple shirt on his birthday while he only used a black shirt paired with jeans and flip-flops, even so for him he still looks more handsome than Ghandi.
“So where are we going?” ask Damar curiously.
“Lu come with us aja” said Ghandi.
“We go up what ?” ask Damar.
“Taraaa” Ghandi points towards a completed bajaj with his smiling driver looking at Damar. Damar was surprised to see Ghandi's behavior, but what made Damar more surprised was Selena who laughed and looked at Ghandi.
“You are beautiful when you laugh gini” said Damar praising Selena. Selena then closed her mouth and looked very nervous to hear Damar's praise.
“Girl I” said Ghandi patting Damar's shoulders a little hard.
“Aduhh, sick , I know again your girl, but I'm the bodyguard hahha” said Damar who embraces Punda Ghandi.
“Yuk buruan” said Ghandi who has joined Selena's hand towards bajaj.
“Eh, wait for me to sit where?” ask Damar in wonder.
“Gue and Selena sit in the back and you in front of the same pack this driver” said Damar followed by a smile bajaj driver.
“Emang can?” ask Damar who looks into the bajaj.
“We bisain mas” said the driver.
Eventually Damar and the bajaj driver became mosquitoes on this trip. Originally the theme of this trip was the surprise birthday of Damar from Ghandi and Selena, but this trip was more about dating Ghandi and Selena.
“Ghandi, I read your poem yesterday, thanks yah” Selena said smilingly looking at Ghandi.
“You like?” asked Ghandi who stroked Selena's head and Selena smiled looking at him.
“What poetry, curious me?” ask Damar ketus.
“There's deh” Ghandi said.
“Pak, play guessing yok, guess the title of Ghandi's poem to Selena” Damar invites drivers to tease Ghandi and Selena.
“Mbak the beautiful Selena?” guess the driver.
“What the heck pak” said Ghandi who laughed.
“Not sir, Ghandi the poet without Selena is a loveless Poet” Damar laughed out loud who was replied with a light blow to Damar's head by Ghandi. Inside the bajaj was very pleasant, the four of them laughed together, and that was where Damar first knew that he was also happy to see Selena laughing even if only to Ghandi.
“Until also” Ghandi helps Selena to get down.
“The park is beautiful, you both why did I come here?” ask Damar curiously.
“Thank you, pak”, Ghandi said to the bajaj driver who finally left them in a park that is not too crowded tonight.
“We go home beautiful how?” Damar hit Ghandi's shoulder softly.
“Aman, come with us” As usual Ghandi holding Selena's hand and make Damar like a mosquito among them, but Damar was used to his response just shaking his head.
“Blow the candle first” Ghandi told Selena to take out the cake that had been held earlier in her hand in a white totebag that was in line with the clothes of both of them.
Ghandi and Selena appear to be singing happy birthday towards Damar. Selena looks shy but Damar feels the sincerity of his friend.
“Udah I blow ni candlesnya” said Damar who blew the birthday candle that is sixteen.
“I want to give this to you” Selena took out a gift and gave it to Damar. Damar was surprised to see it. It never occurred to him that Selena would give him a gift, even he thought that only Ghandi cared about his birthday.
“Still well, can I open it now?” Damar took a gift from Selena who responded to a small nod from Selena.
Damar opened a gift from Selena is a novel entitled “Le Petit Prince” or Indonesian “Prince Cilik”.
“This is my gift, but in open nantik aja” Ghandi also gave a gift to Damar.
“This is all who's planning? Must be you yah?” ask Damar while pointing at Ghandi.
“Not me, Selena, even who remembers today your birthday is Selena, I just forgot earlier, right at school she who ingetin me, I just forget, that's why I said it when I finished resting” said Damar.
Ghandi is increasingly surprised to hear Damar's words, Selena the shy princess even remembers about herself and also prepares an idea to give this little surprise to her.
“You don't like well Dam?” ask Selena quietly.
“Like him” said Ghandi while embracing Damar's shoulder.
“This is what it is?” Damar whispered to Ghandi.
“CD bokep” Ghandi whispered to Damar.
“Ngaco you, since when do I want to watch ginian” said Damar who was still whispering.
“Cemen lu” Ghandi chuckles at Damar.
“Gue tells Selena well lu” says Damar.
Damar undoes his intention to tell Selena, he is stunned to see Selena who is focusing on looking at the stars and the moon.
“Ghandi, the sky is like the title of your poem yesterday, the moon that welcomed star” Selena saw Ghandi and Damar with a smile.
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“So Ghandi is that funny, but why is Ghandi who I know different well Dam?” my word.
“So as long as I tell you only pay attention to the part of Ghandi?” damar said teasing me.
“Not Damar, because I have a lot of Ghandi poetry at home, Ghandi poetry sounds hollow and sad Dam” said I who looked at Damar.
“The name is also Ghandi, a poet and Selena is the content of the verses right?” damar said teasing me.
“It looks like the poem he is not about me deh, maybe there are some, you want to try to read the poem Ghandi, eh you have read the poem Ghandi?” I said.
“Never, maybe tomorrow I borrow to you the poem Ghandi” said Damar who still teases me.
“So Ghandi really give you a porn CD?” ask me curious.
“Not, he loves me a Green Day” CD, said a smiling Damar.
“Sgratitude” I said relieved.
“Cock of thanks, afraid well Ghandi not according to your expectations?” damar said teasing me. We both laughed together.
“You are beautiful when you laugh” Damar looks at me with a smile. I was confused to respond to how I turned my gaze from him trying to avoid looking around this room and Damar who knew about my nervousness just followed me with a big smile on his face.
***
In my room I looked at the poem from Ghandi which was attached to the wall of my room. I read the poem and hoped the memories would come to me.
***Ghandi Poems \= Monthly welcomes stars***
The night that comes calls for a sparkling moon
Look at his face while showing his smile
The moon is bowed down in lethargy because of something
Afraid that night will replace it
The moon worries without certainty
The night that keeps laughing in its candlestick
The night that always held her tight
The moon was afraid to cry in front of her
The night needs something new
Helping her gives a sense for their happiness
Then the star of the light will be invited to help him
The moon welcomes the stars with doubt
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A beautiful poem in my opinion. Ghandi is smart in making the words dance beautiful. Then I looked carefully at the little prince's novel, I noticed the cover that showed a boy. I was curious about the contents, I opened it and suddenly from inside the book fell a paper and a photo sheet.
***Fill in Paper***
To Damar Anggara
Happy birthday to Damar, thank you for being my friend and guardian. I gave the little prince's novel to you because you are like the little prince in my life, you look at the world like him and today I decided to wear white with Ghandi because I want at least a second to be an angel who can give at least one smile to you.
Actually I want the three of us to eat breakfast in the morning, but because Ghandi does not want to be said to be more romantic at night.
From your friend Selena
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The photo shows me and Damar in a picture together in a park that I remember that Damar once took me to a park for breakfast, so who wanted breakfast there I was not Ghandi. I didn't know that I would write a letter like that to Damar. I started reading this novel to find out how Damar thinks of me.
