Andara's Revenge
EPILOGUE (TWO)

The two-story shophouse changed a lot. Some interiors shifted from where they once were, but the arrangement made this coffee shop look more spacious. The second floor was still using the concept of Lesehan. However, there, there is not only a bean bag, there is a Japanese-style foam sitting or a sofa without legs. Coffee shop managers certainly want visitors to be comfortable whatever activities will be done at the tables. 

Although the time has shown at nine o'clock at night, you can see there are still some tables filled. Starting from someone who looks busy struggling with his laptop to a group of students who look to be discussing. The atmosphere of this place feels warm, and for some reason, you believe there is Kin's intervention in dealing with all the changes that exist.

Someone blabbed over to the table and placed a yellowish metal container. Samovar is antique design, carved curved on the left right hand grip as well as the water tap. The waiter put two cups with a placemat, a small teapot, a beautiful brass spoon as well as small biscuits in a jar and a bowl containing box-shaped sweets. Then kindly, the waiter invited Andara and Kin to enjoy the dish.

Kin moved open the tap, pouring hot water into a small pitcher that had poured a lot of tea powder. Then pour the concentrated tea into two cups. "So ... now you stay in Medan, Ra?" tanya Kin while presenting a cup of tea for Andara.

"Yaps," answered you short. His hand held a colorful, crowded cup-patterned plate. He is convinced, this is a typical Turkish motif. Plain room, with patterned furniture. Nice idea's.

Kin nodded and filled his cup with tea water. "From that time, you don't come back here anymore?"

Youara drowned two packets of boxed sugar into the tea. Kin's question still hadn't been answered. He should have known what Kin meant from behind the invitation. But you are confused with yourself. Why did he end up following Kin when he knew what was going to be discussed at the table? She should have gone with Lisa and Katya just went back to the hotel. If only he had gone home, surely at this time, he had collapsed on the mattress that was stirred while lazily.

"Ra.." call Kin. "Gue. How are you going to college?"

Kin seemed to be researching inches per inch of his face, making you careless and throwing gazes at the window that was beside them.

"Four semester off, anyway." He sighed softly. "So that catch up with the chat," added Andara grimaced.

"That means going back to Jakarta?"

Andara nodded.

"Kok said Natha didn't go back to kosan?"

Again, Kin's question left him speechless, confused about choosing a word. There was no way that he said he was restricting himself from all of them. It is also impossible for him to accuse his environment of being toxic if he himself wants to be involved in being toxic. Andara's eyes stared at the night for a while and then returned to the tea.

"Yes... I moved in." He shrugged his shoulders. "Gue's gonna miss a lot, so I think I need one college friend's tuition too. So that focus and passion to catch up with all that is left behind."

"Block me, move the boarding, keep changing the phone number. Weird, huh?" Kin raised an eyebrow. The little eyeballs stared inside.

"What's weird? Just a regular time." Andara shook her hands at a glance and then sipped her tea again.

"That's a hell of a thing, Ra. We're friends."

Andara nodded her head again, understanding once their conversation would lead to where. "Yes, yes, it's a friend. I'm all friends, too" he relaxed as he breathed a glance. It was against the probing gaze that Kin gave. "Kin, I went through a lot and a lot of time to get to this point. If you sit down just to judge me, sori, I don't have time for that. And, I think, all too long to be told. That's so last century."

Youara can catch the shocked gesture at Kin. "Lo's angry?" ask the man who has rolled up his shirt arm.

Andara shakes. Kin then raised both hands and shifted the discussion. "Make not the samovar? I am hunting directly. Every time I go to Europe or the Middle East, I stop by the market."

In response, Andara just cleared his throat, breeding. Metal teapots in the style of Russia and other countries in Europe are typical. It's worth this antique-style cup, maybe Kin's search results are straightforward.

"Unique," added Kin.

Youara curled her lips, nodded back. Choose a busy with tea that tastes good with a soothing aroma.

"Kayak lo."

Reflexes, look your eyes back up and their views meet. Despite being reminded, Kin's review would still be back on track and somehow, the heart that was the size of a fist suddenly fell.

"Gue every time you meet samovar, meet raisin tea, you must immediately remember." Kin was silent for a moment while touching the samovar on the table. "In Jakarta, it's only here that the tea is samovar, Ra. Many come just make the same photo samovar or make ngeteh directly from samovar. Sometimes, I think, how could that be when your idea got this far."

"Lo knows, coffee shop has been a lot. I think the tea lovers are a little. Good tea can be brewed at home. But it turns out, tea lovers are many and there are still a few cafes serving tea menu full of variations. This place can survive because of the tea, because of the samovar."

You don't know what to say. He only watched Kin flinch for a moment. Not much changed, the charm of the man was still just as strong despite being serious talk.

"Indeed, this is not my main income, but this is my first effort that is purely not using family help. With this place afloat, I proved to the family that I could be independent .. And all this exists, because of your idea," explains Kin. "Actually, I'm always looking for news, Ra. Although I do not know directly how you are, if you see you post photos, either just a view or just a teacup. I'm pretty sure that's good news and I'm glad to know you're all right."

The corner of your eye becomes squashed. This guy saw the photo upload? Hasn't Kin's account been blocked?

"As long as your account is not private, you want to block me as well. I can still see it from the browser, Ra." Kin seemed to understand the meaning of his glance. The tea in his hand was then inhaled before continuing the chatter. Monologue chat because you have not commented.

"Gue didn't mean to talk about the past, but I think you need to know. At that time, Ocha came to Johor and called me. He's hitchhiking in the apartment. He said the atmosphere in Jakarta is not conducive, and he asked me not to tell lo or Natha."

"Gue didn't want to interfere with his business, until I finally found out for myself that he was looking for people because .. yes, you must know."

Only your eyelids are able to react: blink slowly, then the brain starts to put the pieces together. Then when caught by Devan's wife, Rossa ran to Johor. The case was indeed crowded on social media, because it was raised directly by Devan's wife who is the son of an important figure in Indonesia. Devan's wife's power can certainly terrorize Rossa down to the pit of ants.

"During the apartment, Ocha always complained of pain to the point that her legs were swollen. When I checked into the hospital, it was discovered that he was advanced stage. Nangis catches up to him, Ra."

You can imagine the story. Kin took Rossa to the hospital, then checked, then came out the surprising results. Rossa must be crying, and Kin must be calming. Maybe hugged, maybe rubbed his back or clasped his hands somehow Kin calms Rossa. But clearly, he was sure, Kin did not just shut up.

"Gue told him to tell one of his friends, at least lo or Natha, but he still didn't want to. He said, where the sick wolf is in the back, he doesn't want to be an omega. He's always gonna be the alpha."

Alpha female? Andara is slowly beating. From the beginning, Rossa always said that all must be calm, enough girls who set everything. However, Rossa's plans are dangerous, and his ways of getting things done are not based on common sense. An alpha female should always think of the herd and not act rashly.

"In the last moments, he always remembered lo the same Natha. So many stories about you guys, about The Wolves."

"Kin," cut Andara suddenly. He got all the power to act out Kin's story. It feels, all about Rossa does not need Kin to tell in full. "Everyone has been wrong, has been kilaf and it must be passed so that the person becomes an adult with it should be. So is Ocha, me or Natha. We faced each other's problems that finally dawned on us that what we'd done would come back to us too."

As long as they had been friends, Kin had never told her complete female stories. Loss shows the true form of a feeling. "Gue wishes Ocha happiness there, free from all pain and disappointment as the world is not always friendly" added Andara.

This time, it was Kin who chose silence. It was as if the story from earlier was indeed a fire inside the husk that was secretly burning your reaction.

"Gue knows what you're feeling. Losing a precious person seems ordinary, but it's not. Lo, I, we need time to heal from the loss of the closest people we care about. Yeah, well, remember the call, Kin. If in the end, everything will go away. Nothing is eternal, right?" Andara is trying to paint a smile. The years that passed built acceptance in him. She was no longer crying when she remembered Buana.

"Ra, I've never dated Ocha, you know." Kin stared right into his iris. The aura is quite serious and maybe, this is what you want to explain to Andara, from now on. "Ocha play take my phone, and immediately reply DM lo. At first, he told me that you were still my special. I said no way. You yourself told me that you still have the same taste of Buana. But Ocha ngeyel, she says she knows how you feel. He challenged me to upload a photo, he said if you immediately comment means you pay attention to me."

The room occupied by some people was suddenly quiet and Kin's explanation was able to nail you in freezing.

"Gue understands. That's so last century, so last summer, so last decade or something. I'm also not happy what Ocha says, but I also don't want to be my enemy." Kin explained something that made Andara's chest rustle. "Those years, Ra. For years I was considered non-existent, you remove it from your life. It's not just me, it's Natha and Ocha. You're a long way from all of us. I don't think anyone is too late to fix history. You must know the true story. Must be assuming you're weird to me."

"Sokot know." Andara's answer just took off and immediately emphasized the tea to neutralize body temperature again. The watch then rushed to clean the bag. Long time near Kin was able to flip through the defense.  "Kin, it's late. I have to go back."

"Lo's angry?" ask Kin.

Andara shook her head while breathing back. From the first time she saw a photo of Rossa with Kin, she wasn't angry. There is only an undefined feeling, between disbelief and non-acceptance. Natha said she was jealous. I don't know, you have a hard time translating the taste in her own chest.

"Remain angry?" rework Kin ensure.

"Why the hell ask me angry what was not just from earlier? You want me to be angry? I'm if you're angry, you can regret it later," added Andara smiled a little and then began to stand from the seat, re-looking the second floor room. "Gue can go back, right?"

Kin came to his feet without a word, opening the sliding door of the coffee shop. They walk to the parking lot. The man remained silent as he opened the car door for her. The Kin is still a high-end SUV. Years may pass, but tastes cannot shift far.

"Why lo?" asked Andara glanced at the suddenly mute Kin. "Gue wasn't angry. Just relax. Yeah, I was wrong to isolate myself from you guys, but again, I'm not mad."

Jemari Kin stuck in the handbrake. The man's eyes really focused all of their attention on Andara. Makes her body feel thinly skinned. "Ocha says, being angry means you're still in love."

"Not all the talk people can trust, Kin."

"Yes, I do, but I'll see the evidence. How you used to be the same Buana, obviously. You're angry with him and you're still in love with him." The handbrake began to be removed and Kin began to run the car out of the parking lot, towards the highway that began to deserted. As soon as he heard the deep breath of Youara, the man turned his head. "Couldn't move on yet?"

It's not about moving on, it's about being at peace with yourself. How day after day, month after month, year after year you fought your way out of all that drowning guilt. Rebuilding her little world, trying to trust people again even if it's hard, and learning from all the mistakes.

"Vu District, huh?" Kin chuckled quietly, focusing his attention on the streets. "So, is it just a greeting?"

Andara chuckled, trying to hide her increasingly disharmonious heart beat. So many years they had not met, why did Kin still remember that light talk? The talk was inconsequential when Kin picked him up after he poured Coca-Cola on Buana.

Your view swept outside, the atmosphere around the campus has changed a lot. Plangs, archways and gardens are much refurbished. They passed through the front of the Faculty of Economics, where many stories were created there. Before long, you are aware of the music he hears. Although only an acoustic tinkling, the melodic beat of the song is very distinctive. He smiled thinly. "Still love Mr.'s song. Brightside?"

"Always." Kin pulled a bright curve on his lips. "Moreover this part."

Kin then hummed according to the song. "And I just can't look, it's killing me and taking control. Jealousy, turning saints into the sea. Turning through sick lullabies. Choking on your alibis."

"But it's just the price I pay. Destiny is calling me. Open up my eyes.'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside," between Andara singing while singing. "Deni is still the same Diska?"

"They were married last year. They also had time to ask you lo, want to give you an invitation."

"Woooh. Continue ... Deni know you don't like this song because of Diska?"

Kin rounded his eyes, not expecting you to know about his favorite song. Before long smiling back, the corner of his eyes narrowed. "It used to be because of Diska. It used to be and has changed for a long time. Every time I hear this song I don't remember Diska, but I remember you."

AC this car is cold, but the speech Kin just now that is able to make the nape of Andara stand up. Thankfully, Kin's car started to enter the hotel grounds. Instead of dropping it off in front of the lobby, Kin instead parked the car at a nearby spot not far from the lobby.

"Ra, I didn't know we'd see you again or not. I don't know if you're going to disappear again or not, but may I ask for something the same lo?"

Is there anyone who can help relieve numbness in your face?

"Gue just asked for a hug. Can you?"

Those eyes were looking at him with a more moving gaze than the raining kitten by the side of the road. Slowly, Andara gripped the bag strap and nodded. Permitting Kin to embrace his body into that embrace of joy.

"Glad to see you here" whispered Kin with a hand that gently ruffled the tip of Andara's head.

"Kin," Andara sizzled away. That sentence made him remember when they met at Senai Airport and back then, his heart was too noisy to explain. Just like now, his body was getting nervous, and he was awkwardly half-dead. Not to mention, a heart burst that was too loud like a storm. Beat the fast beat of Mr.'s song. Brightside.

Kin's smile was still etched on the face. "Remember something?"

Andara nodded with a nod that I don't know how much for tonight.

"Thankful to remember. I did deliberately want to ngetes aja, do you still remember what not, too" Kimpal Kin semringah.

"Gue hasn't amnesia." Andara rotates the eyeballs. Crazy yes, his heart was like it was about to get out of place. It's been a long time that this blood-pumping organ has not been chasing. "Yes, I'm going down first. Thanks for the tea. Success continues to make your coffee shop. Uh, coffee what's a tea shop anyway?"

Kin raised his shoulders.

"Well, whatever it is. Thanks, Kin." He grabbed the bag and opened the car door. Today feels very long, just a few hours can make her feel adventurous to the past. Given how the combined flavors can be so beautiful, so strange, so absurd, but it still happens. Awakening youara that her heart is still very healthy and functioning. His heart was not numb either.

Because Andara once thought that she could no longer smile shyly to men. He once thought that the heart would not palpitate as a result of men. However, all of that was denied by Kin. The old man who's been in the story hangs for years.

"Rba..." Kin grabbed her hand. To prevent Andara from descending.

Andara.

"I swear, I really miss you. Really really miss you .. so bad."

Andara looked back at that face. The narrow eyes that if you smile will disappear. Curved lips that always laugh easily. The limp hair that looked neat despite being given nothing and the hopeful gaze that he did not want to miss just like that.

Because everyone deserves a second chance, everyone deserves to explain and correct mistakes. Because every moment is just waiting for the exact moment and when that moment arrives, there is no need for a long reason to start anything. So Andara who this time moved forward, spread her arms open and received Kin's embrace back. "I miss you, too," she replied after closing the car door.

Not only Kin, he also missed a lot. Secretly, he still keeps all his photos with Kin, still once twice to look at Kin social media just to find out the news Kin is fine. He also always wished Kin happy, and was happy if Kin was happy.

Kin held him tightly. "Really?"

Andara simply nodded, sinking her head into Kin's chest. Letting Kin's hand gently comb his manes.

"Who's boyfriend now, Ra?" Kin's question sounded from above his head. Andara just shook her head. She had no boyfriend and was more interested in Kin's soothing heartbeat. "Well, no one wants to?" cela Kin's.

Andara just melengos. The days after Buana were lived to break the tangles of the living thread, as well as unnecessary cutting. He even found it hard to open his heart after that to the point of thinking that his heart was numb.

"Lo?" Andara held her head. He forgot to confirm whether Kin was not in a relationship with someone. Kin shook his head and Andara hissed to reply, "Well, no one wants to?"

Being humiliated like that, Kin clamped slowly on your nose. "We're starting all over again, yuk? We start with good communication, mature relationships and the assumptions described."

"No, ah. Will be cut off by reason again peg own." Andara sneered full of ridicule. Do not forget to raise your chin slightly to look arrogant.

"No, really." Kin again squeezed the wrath of your nose. "Our biggest mistake when we were young was to quarrel and run, not to finish with compromise."

You start pretending to yawn. "It is very heavy for this discussion, let it be discussed again. It's been night, sleepy. I haven't packed, first flight tomorrow."

"No want. Want the answer now, you'll be gone again." Kin tightened his embrace again. "BTW, now I know why at that time Buana repeatedly connected lo, looking for lo. Turns out, losing you wasn't good, Ra. That's what it feels like."

"You mean, I rame kayak toa Kamtib?"

Kin chuckled. "I don't mean to say that, but if it's considered that's what it's going to do."

Andara throbbed, starting to pinch Kin's stomach which was just a long laugh. Their hugs were still tight and warm. Without much persuasion, he believed in Kin. Everything needs to be communicated, compromised, explained because their own feelings are difficult to understand, and they realize their own shortcomings in the past. Holding on to the life lessons once learned, there's no harm in starting over, right? Buana also certainly does not mind, because seeing him happy is the desire of the man.

Andara started buzzing, "But, I'm lazy boyfriend-girlfriend, anyway. Especially LDR."

"Yes, get married immediately. How's it?"

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Thank God, O Allah. This super duper story is finished as well. 🥳

Sorry if it's long. Seriously, this is my first adult romance. I used to always write teenlit, teenfic aka young people's stories. This 17-year-old boy finally tried to get himself into a crazy conflict, his character was crazy, the problem was crazy. Yes lord. 🤭

Okay, okay. Why are there still many who ask this story aseli what is not?

Gini's... Half of this story comes from real conflict. The characters that really exist are Andara, Buana, Kin, Natha and Rossa.

But ... the story is not pure anymore, it's been a writer if, Brother. Everything is not the same as the real story. The author takes some of the stories of interesting things in the life of Andara, Buana and Kin. Ceileh.

In the real world, the ending is not like this. For those of you who ask Buana, Buana is actually still alive, and has just had a birthday. He lived a healthy life, was still single and lived life from the lessons he learned.

The andara? Hohoho. He was happy, although not the same for both of them. Still occasionally laugh at the folly of youth and tell it to me.

Kin? Kin was also happy, already had two children. Not married to Rossa or Andara.

Clearly, all are happy with their own way of life, all learning from their own life experiences.

Thanks to Andara, to Buana who can be asked for additional clarification, to Kin who wants to help as well. Always healthy you guys yes, this story I present to you three.

I am also very grateful to the readers who love, who support, who patiently wait until the ones who recommend this story to everywhere. May the Lord repay all your kindness, Zheyeng.

Don't forget about my other stories, huh? Okeh.

I love you guys. ^^^^^^^^^^^