"Love Story" BELLE FILLE
CHAPTER - XXI. American Camp

After arriving at the barracks fence of the American soldiers, Rio and I tried to get inside, but we were confronted by a military soldier of the rank of Corporal One, "where are you going?" the Corporal told us in English, "we are going to meet your leader," Rio replied to the Corporal, "where are you from? Do you have a license to meet?" replied the Corporal, "no! We don't have permission," Rio replied, The corporal seemed a little emotional, his eyes widened with a strict face, "hey, how dare you meet our leader without a license?" the Corporal said earlier, it appeared that two American Military Soldiers of the Corporal's friends were approaching, one of the Chief Soldiers and another of the rank of Corporal Two, "want you here!" they snapped, "they want to meet with our leader, but they don't have a license," the One Corporal told his friend, "it's very brave of you!" said the Chief Warrior, the atmosphere was a little tense, "do you want to riot here!" said Corporal Two, suddenly they turned my body and Rio, they leaned me against the wall of the parapet, the Corporal Two slightly pressed behind my neck with his big elbow, they confiscated all the bags we were carrying, my neck hurt so much when it was treated like that, "hey, why are you being so rude to me?" I said, "hush you!" snapped by the Second Corporal, I saw Rio's body was being dropped to the ground by the Chief Warrior, his position was bent on the ground with his hands placed behind his back, the Head Warrior's knee was pressing on Rio's hip, Rio's hip, while the Corporal One was busy searching the contents of our luggage bag.

Dor.dor.dor...mdor...dor... There were gunshots in the air, the soldiers then let us go, a Major-ranking man approached "hey, is that Major Leonard?" I said in my heart, The Major was seen flying with three of his men who caught us, I saw Rio had risen and he was shaking off the dust in his body.

The Major walked over to me, still holding and twitching my neck which still hurt due to the pressure of the soldier's elbow.

"Hey, you're apparently Mr Rudi?" the Major said to me, Rio seemed confused to see the Major know me, "well apparently the memory of the master is still strong," I said, "yes.yes.how are you," he asked as he shook my hand, "let's go into my office, "take Major Leonard to me, then Rio and I walk behind the Major to his room. A First Lieutenant Second Officer opened the door when we were about to enter the room, "let's sit down, please" said Major Leonard.

"What do you need to do here?" the Major said, "i came here just to find information about American troops," I said, "oh, you're really a smart Correspondent apparently," said the Major, "what do you need from us?" said the Major again, "i just want to know about the war data," I said, "oh yeah, this is my friend, he's a Dutch TV Reporter, his name is Rio," I said while introducing Rio to the Major. "oh yes, nice to meet you," said the Major.

"if you need data as news material, let's come with me to the information room," he led us out to the information room, and we followed him from behind to the room. After he invited us inside, "this is the information room, you can find all the info here, both newspapers, television and radio to documentaries" said the Major. Rio and I looked at the room, it was huge, there were so many people in it, I don't know if they were journalists or not. "Ok sir, please find all the information you need" said the Major, "well, thank you, Major" I said.

"i'll just take this" I said, carrying the tapes, "yes, maybe I need this newspaper," he told me, "ok, then, let's go home?" ask me, after registering the items to be brought at the information table, we immediately left the barracks.

Walking on the sidewalks, we walked through the city of Kandahar, "how about we eat first?" ask Rio, "are you hungry?" I said, "a little hungry!" he said, I just smiled, "then let's find a stall near here," I asked, and we walked over to a small stall at the end of the hall, and we took our seats, a male servant came out and approached us, "want to order what sir," the man asked in Arabic, "i'm caffein," I said, "I asked for rice with fried chicken," Rio said. Then the waiter went inside to make our pesana.

"i'm so fed up with the Corporal's behavior" Rio muttered, "oh apparently he still remembers the incident," I said inwardly, smiling I just listened to his chatter. "if he wasn't a soldier, I'd have him fight" he said, hahahahahaha, I laughed at his chatter, "uh why are you laughing?" he asked, "no, I was just shocked to hear what you said," I said with a smile, "it turns out you have a pretty strong guts too," I said.

Then the waiter who had come out with our order, after the order was available on Rio's desk immediately devoured his order, while I only drank the caffeine I ordered, which I ordered, I saw him eating very greedily which made his body grow fatter.

The food had run out, now that Rio was sitting leaning on the chair, it was seen that he was already very full, while stroking his distended stomach, it seemed that he was no longer able to speak, I then took a sip of caffeine to wet my esophagus, "the weather here is quite hot," Rio said, "if there are many beaches, I will sunbathe," he said again, "Rudi, do you like sunbathing?" rio asked, "no, I don't like the heat," I said, "what about the beach in Bali," he asked, "have you ever been to Bali?" ask him without answering his question, "ever, but it's been a while," he replied, "yes, I haven't been there myself in a long time, I don't know what's going on there right now, too" I said. We had a casual conversation that day until late afternoon.