
"I will start from the beginning" Salman said when he saw doubts on Anna's face.
"Let's start over, Zea. Don't ever see me as your teacher . all you need to see is me as a grown man who loves a Zeanna, a grown girl too" Salman continued.
"Give me a chance to love you fearlessly because our status is hindered by a dividing wall. You don't even have to be sad because right now we're talking not as former students with teachers, but mature women and adult men" Salman said.
"What makes you doubt?" guess Salman on Anna's facial expression.
"Who do I doubt? I have no doubt" replied Anna quickly.
"Then?" continued Salman.
"I'm just scared" replied Anna half-and-half to make Salman curious.
"Tell me clearly, Zea .. You make me curious" Salman said.
"I still can't believe what I'm seeing right now. I still assume if I was dreaming .. dream of meeting someone who left me without trying to talk directly." Anna remembers what happened.
"If I hadn't heard my classmates talking about you, I would have been the last to know you moved out and went somewhere." Anna paused her words.
"When I got my permission to go home, I went to look for you to ask your neighbor. My body is limp and shaky knowing that you've been gone since morning and I came at 11 p.m. My brain went blank and I decided to go home." Anna is starting to tear up.
"You know .. what made me survive until now, because of this." Anna showed me the necklace Salman gave her on her birthday.
"I assure myself .. I will wear this. If you forget the same I at least you won't forget the item you gave me. And I deliberately wear it to remind if I've ever felt what it's like to fall in love despite the wrong love" Anna continued.
"I'm down, I pulled myself out of communicating with all my friends and I took a lecture here because I wanted to forget everything that happened between us, but ...." Anna hung up her words and her tears could no longer bear it.
Salman smiled as he pulled Anna's body forward. Salman hugged Anna and Anna immediately shed her tears in Salman's arms.
"Whatever I try, I can't forget you .. Every day I'm tormented by remembering you, I can't even live quietly expecting to see you again." Anna cried and returned Salman's embrace.
"I'm sorry, Zea .. Now I promise I won't leave you again" Salman said, rubbing Anna's back.
"You never understand how tormented I am you leave behind, and you just want to stay here but even if I never see you" Anna lamented, letting go of her embrace.
Salman smiled as he wiped away Anna's tears. "I've actually seen you at a glance, but by then when I saw you again you were gone. I assumed that I was hallucinating but it seemed that at that moment all I saw was you" Salman said.
"I'm leaving because I have to run my business here, Zea. I also got an S2 scholarship here, so that all of me went to college I also run a family company. But, I was wrong because I didn't force you to meet with me" Salman continued.
"Now and on I promise. .. I will never leave you again." Salman smiled as he wiped back the remains of tears on Anna's cheeks.
"I miss, Zea ... Even this still feels like a dream" Salman said.
"I love you, Zeanna." Salman looked at Anna's black bead deeply.
Anna smiled and her tongue felt like it was a joke to answer and say the same thing as Salman.
Anna chose to embrace Salman and that was enough for Salman in response to his declaration of love for Anna.
"I'm not going to let you go, Zea. Whatever happens ... I have to get you," inner Salman.
***
During her hospital stay, Anna always helped Salman when she was done from her service duties. And Salman told his men that he was sick outside the city until no one would come to see him. All of Salman's work asked for him by email, and during his time at the hospital Salman could not do anything, because his phone was damaged and he could make calls using the hospital phone.
"Sorry, I'm old, huh?" anna said as she looked at Salman who was ready to go home.
"Nothing" Salman said with a smile.
"I'll book a taxi first" Anna said, ordering an online taxi.
While waiting for her order's taxi came Anna helping Salman to ride in a wheelchair, as Salman's legs wearing a cast were unlikely to walk.
"Want to buy a stick first. I can't keep using a wheelchair like this" Salman said.
"Yes, there will be a front, too" replied Anna.
Taxis were waiting for them in the parking lot. Salman, assisted by Anna, was finally able to get into the car and Anna sat down next to Salman.
Along the way home, Salman kept holding Anna's hand. He was so scared that this was the end of his dream.
"Why?" anna asked as she looked at Salman who was constantly staring at her face.
"I'm afraid if this is just a dream" Salman said, without Salman expecting Anna to pinch Salman's arm.
"Awww" ringis Salman.
"illness?" asked Anna and Salman nodded.
"That means it's not a dream" said Anna, chuckling.
Salman smiled and pulled Anna by the waist to sit closer.
"I love you, Zeanna" whispered Salman right in Anna's ear.
"Don't talk about being embarrassed by the driver" Anna said, whispering.
A red tinge on Anna's cheek appeared. He was still not used to listening to words that he considered luxurious when he used to only ever hear when he was 18 years old.
"You're getting pretty" Salman said.
"Udah deh .. if I say again alighted in the street, would you?" gertak Anna whom Salman responded to while chuckling.
"Don't want to" replied Salman who instead chose to lean his head on Anna's shoulder.
"Why not go home?" anna asked when Salman asked to be taken elsewhere.
"I often live in an apartment, not noisy," Salman explained.
"Bigger?" repeat Anna.
"When I go home, my neighbor will ask a lot of questions when he sees me coming home with you. My neighbor likes to gossip so mending me go home to the apartment, so not far from your boarding place, too" explained Salman.
"I became suspicious" Anna stared intently at Salman.
"I never took anyone to the apartment, only you did," explained Salman who understood Anna's words.