"Love Story" BELLE FILLE
CHAPTER - XXIII. Longing

Amidst the hustle and bustle of Kandahar I sat down to enjoy lunch with Rio at a food stall.

"When will our task be finished here?" I asked Rio while eating the food in front of me.

"Sure, there are still many tasks to be completed here" Rio replied. "What's wrong?" rio asked me back while looking at me by not letting go of the food he was eating.

"Ah no!" I replied, "I just got word this morning that my embassy people have returned to Kabul" I told Rio who also enjoyed lunch.

"Then, you're going straight to Kabul after here?" ask Rio.

"Really! I will not come to Herat again" I replied.

We still continue to eat lunch together, in the middle of a hot city makes the sink often dry, for that mineral water we must often bring to fill the thirst drought every time we do coverage.

Our old dinner plates have now been cleaned one by one by the waiter, I light a cigarette to enjoy the mood after lunch.

"Tomorrow I will deliver Zuridah back to his village," I said as I leaned my body against the chair by releasing the cigarette smoke that I sucked into the air.

"Have you tapped for help?" rio asked me.

"Not yet! But I'll just deliver it tomorrow morning myself" I said, turning my head to the ceiling.

"You're serious! There's danger again, man...!" Rio said, "the situation there is unfriendly, the headquarters of the troublemakers is there!" he said with a rather loud tone.

"He can't stay here for long?" I said, "why..?" rio replied, "are you afraid of falling in love with her?" rio asked back with a smile.

"Ah you! I'm being serious!" I said with a serious face and I wrinkled my forehead.

Rio looked smiling looking at me, but a moment of silence.

"The girl is too dangerous if she linger here" I said, "it's up to you, sir! I have no problem" Rio replied.

"Ok, what are you going to do now?" ask Rio. I was silent and just took a deep breath.

"It feels like today I'll just take a break" I replied as I pulled the half-living cigarette.

Rio just scrunched his forehead while sneaking his lips.

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After I returned from eating with Rio I was only in the room, playing my laptop and opening my diary.

A few notes I wrote on the small note sheet as work and planning, but for some reason I remembered Hellen, it had been almost two weeks since I was here I had not told him.

I took my phone, I wanted to write a poem for her, and I typed it with a poem as my short message.

YOU ARE THE ONE I MISS

Very beautiful your face full of glory, your smile is like a sharp bullet through my heart, oh my juwita, this heart really misses you, he is like a grenade that will explain, like the rubble of a slashed soul, you are the one I miss in my soul, there is no direction in my heart without you, my path is step like thorns piercing my feet, you are the charm of my soul, your smile has broken my veins, your gaze has torn my soul, and you have made me die in the silence of my longing....."From me".

Then the poem was sent to him via SMS, smiling I saw my phone, written on the glass screen "message sent".

I look forward to his reply, while continuing to play my laptop.

Kinggg.kringgg... Not long after my phone rang, I saw it on the screen under the name Hellen.

Wooow, how happy I was, finally he called me, then immediately I picked up the phone from him while improving my sitting position.

"Callo.." My answer.

"A very beautiful poem" katana told me.

"So sweet" replied the girl on the other end of the phone.

"I miss you, baby" I said.

"I miss you too" he replied.

"How are you doing there?" he said to me, "why haven't you sent me nearly two weeks?" he said in longing.

"Oh my God, I'm really worried about you" he said.

"I was very confused thinking about your situation there," he told me.

"How long are you going to be there?" Ask him to me.

"I don't know yet, it's still a job I haven't finished yet" I told him.

A moment of silence.

"Tomorrow I will return to Kabul" Hellen told me.

"o yeah? What about your work in Herat? Is it done?" Ask her.

"Not yet, but the war in Kabul is mounting again, there are casualties there" he told me.

"Yes, I will also go straight to Kabul if my job is done here" I replied.

"honey....!" Said me.

"I miss you so much, when can we meet?" He said to me again.

"I have done so, but my duty is not yet over" I told him.

"well baby, we'll go back, I have a job" he told me.

"I miss you, I love you, and always forever" she told me.

"Me too, always love you, hug and kiss for you" I said.

"OK, bye...bye..!" he said, ending the call.

Ah how happy I am today to have told her, glad to have heard her voice.

That happiness comes from my deepest soul, though two happy ones I must give, first to my wife and son and second to my beloved Hellen martinez.

Love does make people go crazy, sometimes have to lie in one world, and sometimes have to be honest in bitterness.

We cannot let go of the love that comes, because it is the most beautiful gift that God tells us, love can reconcile the heart and the world, but love can also bring strife and hostility.

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That afternoon Rudi met Zuridah in his room, tok..tok.tok..! The sound of the room door being knocked by Rudi, before how long Sherly was seen coming out of the room.

"I want to meet Zuridah" I said. Then Zuridah came out of Kamir, the three of them standing at the door of the room.

"What's wrong?" said Zuridah while looking at Rudi's face.

"Tomorrow morning I will take you back to your village" I said, staring at the faces of Zuridah and Sherly.

Sherly looked a little dumbfounded, while Zuridah only scrunched her forehead while nodding her head.

"Hey! What are you gonna deliver it with?" Sherly said with her eyeballs raised.

"I will deliver it myself!" rudi said with a small smile.

"Are you sure!" sherly said back with a serious face.

Sherly looks so worried, because Zuridah's hometown is a place where there are many nests of troublemakers.

"You can't be so sure!" Sherly said make sure.

Arghabad is the hometown of Zuridah, the area is a hotbed of troublemakers, which is what Sherly fears, the area is quite dangerous for foreigners.

But Rudi was so sure of the situation, he would still send Zuridah back, so Rudi asked Zuridah to pack for departure tomorrow morning