"Love Story" BELLE FILLE
CHAPTER-XII. Battle of Kandahar

The morning before dawn when we went to sleep suddenly we were surprised by the sound of a barrage of firearms, tereeetetett...tretertetettttt....! Duarrr...Iidaaarr...! Explosions everywhere, panic rushes the lives of Afghanistan at dawn.

Yep! this morning the troops in the fight returned, the location is about 1 kilo from our lodging.

Mummmm! Bumm! A huge explosion shook the earth, while we woke up and rushed to the bathroom and prepared our journalistic tools.

Rio immediately woke up his comrades sleeping in the next room, we immediately headed towards the vehicle and moved to the battle site.

The slightly dark Susana made our trip somewhat faltered, but the sounds of the firearms were still very clearly heard.

It was also seen in some streets the residents had packed to leave their homes who knew the attack targeted residential areas.

Now our car continues to accelerate near the location of the battle, at the end of the road there are several government soldiers with faces covered by a blow to the speed of our vehicles, he said, they checked all our papers and fittings then we were just told to get down and immediately park our car.

This time we were led to a safe place to monitor the war situation.

Seen in that location hundreds of journalists both from inside and outside the country and from print media to electronics have been in that place.

In the desert arena is quite wide, all the weapons of Arteleri exchange and exchange mortar, duaaaarr!! treeteteett..tretett...! Bummmm! Bum!! Explosions from the missiles interweave their respective defences.

Seen some damage hit the places of battle, human bodies flew into the sky due to the explosion of bombs that exploded.

The sky that morning turned into a reddish one accompanied by the sounds of a fierce explosion.

Following the sound of sirens continuing to roar to break the current state, some soldiers also seemed busy to come here and there to hurl bombs.

I don't know how many thousands of kilos of nuclear shells are scattered. Black and thick smoke rose there and here, I continued to observe the atmosphere at that time by recording the entire incident through my camera.

No matter how many hours this war situation occurred, which must have been long enough, the flames continued to burn the parts that were hit by the attack.

A moment later the sound and rumbling of the weapons had stopped, the soldiers had already pulled all of their Arteler guns to safety.

"Perhaps, the war is over" I said in my heart.

But we remained silent in the original position while keeping an eye on the situation.

Half an hour later, there was information that the battle was over.

We were directed to the Defense Ministry representative office, immediately Rio and I headed to the office to get information about the situation.

A few minutes later we arrived at the office.

Now the officers have been preparing to maintain security in the Press Conference which will be started by the head of the High Military representative of the city of Kandahar.

As the top military officials exited the room to the press conference site, the media crew had gathered there, with the official's strict guard beginning to give his account.

"So the morning the guerrilla forces had attacked the border area, they damaged the guard posts in the attack, we tried to block their advance, and finally the battle took place." Reveal from the speech.

After getting the information, the team and I immediately returned to the city to make a news report to our media office.

Our car then leads to the southern part of the city which is the safest place.

We stopped the car at a restaurant, in addition to making news material, we also wanted to have lunch. We immediately headed to the boarding table which was quite compressed and very spacious, was in the corner of the room next to the glass window we sat down and ordered food.

I just ordered Naan as a lunch menu.

Naan is a type of bread resembling cane bread that is in Arab or India, the shape is round and contains some nuts, in Afghanistan is very sparsely populated to eat in restaurants or cafes.

However, restaurant parties always provide rooms or rooms for Afghans who want to eat with family.

No wonder that every restaurant or cafe in Afghanistan looks lonely, because Afghans rarely eat outside the house, only foreign tourists or Asian tourists are allowed to go to restaurants and cafes here.

I immediately took out a laptop and filled out an e-mail page to write down news materials, shortly after the food we ordered came.

Soon my friends and I stopped work for a moment to eat the lunch.

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After doing work as a journalist we immediately sent the news, I myself just finished sending an e-mail to the editorial office in Indonesia, until by late afternoon, we rushed to return to the inn.

With the speed of the car we drive, immediately we slowly headed to the inn.

After arriving at the inn me and Rio rushed into the room, I immediately threw my body into the bed when it was in the room.

Today is quite tired I think, early in the morning this city has been showered by nuclear-nuclear assassins, I think, with the attack since this morning I and my friends must have been fighting I chased the news until the afternoon.

Just as I was just laying down my body, suddenly the door of the room was knocked from outside, a motel attendant gave word to Rio.

"Maybe it's a letter from his family or from his office in the Netherlands" I thought.

Then I went to the bathroom to clean my body that was very tired, the smell of sweat attached to my body, felt no longer wearing.

After bathing I immediately changed clothes and wore a sarong like my daily habits when going to sleep, I used to use a sarong when going to sleep.

The night has spread into the Kandahar region, the sounds of night animal sounds have been heard.

A quiet and serene atmosphere enveloped the night, and I hope that tonight I can sleep peacefully until morning comes, hopefully no more counterattacks for today, he said, I feel tired and tired today.

The events of this morning were still recorded before my eyes, accompanied by the sounds of explosions still ringing in my ears, gripping and spooky.

The atmosphere was so horrified by the powerful explosions, I tried to close my eyes, in the midst of the sounds and images that became memory in me.

The night continues to spread, the silence and silence of the night is quite soothing, hopefully tomorrow I can wake up quietly and open my eyes to see the beauty of this country of Afghanistan, I said in my heart, I can see, slowly but surely I was swept away by the night, and I did not feel the second I had fallen asleep in my sleep tonight.