"Love Story" BELLE FILLE
CHAPTER - XIII. The Kandahar City Tragedy

Every minute the city is always crowded by community activities, but unfortunately since the war crisis this city is a little dim. The morning was quite bright I tried to walk myself through the side of the city of Kandahar, a lot of people up to the vehicles that passed by here, let alone foreigners who came to the city of Kandahar.

At a small shop on the side of the road, I sat down and ordered a hot cup of coffee. "What message, sir?" asked a male servant to me, "I ordered a cup of coffee" I replied. Then the waiter passed to prepare my order. The atmosphere is currently quite crowded even though there was just a battle yesterday morning, the citizens are very busy not by their activities in the form of buying and selling goods, while I myself open my phone and browse the internet to search for something foreign news. Not long ago the waiter came by to bring me a cup of coffee, "this is the coffee master," said the waiter, putting a cup of coffee on the table, "ok, thank you!" I said. Then the waiter passed. I am still engrossed in my laptop, while covering my hot coffee I indulge in my activities today.

A moment later I heard the screams of a woman down the street, Please! Helpg! Shouted the woman, "hey, what is it?" I asked in my heart, and then I immediately observed the woman who seemed to be in a crowd of three large tall Arab men.

But something tickled my mind, it seemed like the woman was in trouble. "Why him? It looks like he's being threatened!" I murmured in my heart. From a distance I saw one of the men pointing a knife at her face. It looks like the woman is a native Afghan woman. I tried to get close to them, "ah, let me see there, who knows if the woman needs help" I said in my heart, then I closed my lap and kept it in my rangsel bag, I called the waiter and told him not to take my drink because I would come back.

Then while walking Slowly I approached the location, suddenly one of them saw me coming towards them. Right, one of them carried a small knife the size of a bayonet that was pointed at the woman. "hi, what do you want him!" I cried as I walked faster towards them, the faces of the arab man all looked at me, one of them like whispering something to the man who was brandishing his sharp weapon at the woman. When I got closer, they left the Afghan woman.

I immediately approached the woman who was crying sobbing. "hi, what's wrong with you?" I tried to ask the woman. "help me, sir, they're bad guys" she said, showing a frightened face, "what did they do to the lady?" I asked to come back, but the woman did not answer, she just kept crying. Looking at the situation a little panicked, then I tried to invite him to sit in the stall where I was drinking, "what if we were just sanity," I said, pointing at the stall where I was sitting, he also obeyed my invitation, then I immediately took him to the stall.

"Miss wants to eat or drink,?" I said, "I drink warm water only," answered the woman, and I immediately called the waiter there, the waiter! The waiter! A waiter came over, "I'm a warm white water lesan one!" I said, the waiter passed by. "why miss? And who are they?" I asked, but the woman did not answer, she hanha cried sobbing with a slightly tense face. Not long after the warm white water had arrived, the waiter put it on the table, "miss drink first," I said, then he immediately drank the water. "It looks like this woman is very frightened," I muttered inwardly, crying she just lowered her head, I kept watching her, I tried to ask her again, "hi, why does the lady cry?" I asked who was still panicking to see the situation, "you don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person! I want to help you!" I said, and then he started talking, "they're bad guys" the girl replied, "what did they do to you?" I asked back, now the woman was silent again. Soon he told me, "they were the bouncer of the pimps" he said, "i am from a faraway village, and I was offered a job by a woman" he said, I listened to her lament as I looked deeply at her, "but up to here my friends and I were sold to a striped-nose man!" Answer the girl. I just kept quiet listening to the story, "i've been in this city for three days" he said. "For three days I was forced to serve foreign men!" her voice was a little raucous as a result of holding back her cries. "Six men have fucked me, but I have been paid very little, all taken by the pimp" she lamented. "Because I couldn't stand it, I tried to run and the guard chased me and then beat me, forcing me to go back to that place" the girl said. A moment of silence, the woman still sobbed while bowed.

"Why didn't Miss report to Poice's side?" I said, "i'm scared!" he said, "hmmm...What is the name of the lady and how old are you?" I asked, "my name is zuridah, I am twenty-one years old," he replied, "then what can I help you with?" I asked, "right now I just need a place to stay and go back to my village" he replied.

I also called the waiter and paid for all the orders, and I invited Zuridah to leave immediately. The taxi! The taxi! I ordered a taxi to send me and Zuridah to my inn.

Arriving at the inn, I immediately brought Zuridah to the room to immediately clean his body, "this is a towel and soap, clean your body first," I said as I gave him soap and towels, "thank you sir," he answered, and then he went to the bathroom.

After taking a bath the girl sat on a long bench in my room, and I ordered food for her and me so we could have dinner together. Not long after the order came and I was with Zuridah for dinner together. Rio has returned and entered the room, a little surprised to see the whereabouts of Zuridah Rio immediately asked me about the girl, "hey, who is this woman?" rio said, Zuridah was a bit panicked to see Rio coming, I then explained about the identity of the girl, "let's say, this lady was in danger, there were three men who pointed a knife at her," I said explaining the chronology of the incident, "then I helped her," I said again, Rio just listened to my talk, "it turns out he was a victim of human trafficking," I kept quiet for a moment, "he managed to escape from the brothel," I took a deep breath, "but the bodyguard went after him and was tortured and beaten to the point of threatening him with a knife" I said, "there I saved him, then bring him here for a while, "why not report to the police?" rio said, "he's scared! He just wanted to get back to his village," I said, "then I'll try to get him home!" I said, Rio took a breath and just nodded his head.

After listening to the story of the girl Rio calmed down a little and he also thought about how to save this girl and bring her back to his hometown. That night the three of us thought of each other to save the girl, because the night was late, I suggested to the girl to sleep one room with Sherly Mathias the Dutch female reporter of the friend. "how about tonight you sleep in the next room" I said, "there is a friend of ours who is also a woman, she is a journalist from the Netherlands" I said, while Zuridah nodded her head in a sign that she agreed. I immediately sent the girl to Sherly's room, tok...tok.....! The sound of my asking was tap, a moment later Sherly was seen coming out of her room. After being at the door I explained about Zuridah to Sherly, I asked her family to give Zuridah a place tonight. After hearing my story about Zuridah, Sherly looked a little sad and hugged her. Shortly after, Sherly invites Zuridah to enter his room, and the door is closed by Sherly. I was still standing in front of the door, I felt a little relieved to be able to help the girl, then I immediately moved to my room.

In the room I saw Rio still busy with his portable computer. "Maybe he's doing a lot of work" I said in my heart. I then walked towards a sofa beside the desk where Rio was working, while sipping a glass of mineral water I laid down for a moment my body on the sofa. So many problems that I face maybe this is part of my job challenge, while closing my eyes I keep thinking about all the events that happened today, "heloooo boy.... ! What are you thinking" Rio asked, "ah nothing, I just feel a little tired" I replied with a faint smile, "if you are tired rest first" Rio said, or do you want spagethi? Rio said back while bringing a plate of Spagethi. "Eat, this I bought for you earlier," said Rio.I just smiled, "thank you guys!" I said, "you don't have to think too much about the woman, then we find a way out together to save her from human trafficking," Rio said, I just nodded my head while devouring spaghetti.

Tonight we continued to chat with Rio, from Zuridah to our work, finally until the night grew late in silence, after we felt tired together tonight, he said, rio and I immediately headed to the bed, and Rio and I immediately poured our bodies into the bed on this dark night.

Tonight it feels very cold, outside it has rained hard, only this time during my time in Afghanistan it rained, may this rain bring blessings to my life.