Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 58: Time
Time is the most mysterious thing in this world, defeating even wormholes or black holes. No one knows for sure what time is really like. Does it have a being, or is time a thing? Is he really invisible? Not tied? Or is it actually called time is the result of human imagination alone about their fears.
What exactly was that time? If you ask an expert, you may find that the experts are arguing about it. There may even be people who fight each other because of their frustration after long thinking about what exactly the time was.
Unknowingly, that time took everything. To take away happiness in childhood, to take precious time with loved ones and to take one's life. If that time was a blockbuster movie villain, he must have often got the Oscar.
The heat of time was also felt by Rizaldi, he felt that time had betrayed him by reuniting with a figure who made a big hole in his heart. The figure that hurt him so much and because of that figure his life became very gloomy, even more bleak in the past Junior High.
The figure he really wanted not to meet, but time and the universe seemed to joke on him so that Rizaldi again met the figure.
That afternoon, after Rizaldi finished shaving his hair at one of the barbershops, he met the figure. The figure of the woman who had hurt him, the figure who had once stuck a thorn so deep on him.
"You're Rizaldi, right?" the figure asked, as if still ringing in Rizaldi's ears the voice of the figure.
Rizaldi fell silent, his body as if pecking there. His mouth moved about to say something, but faltered in the middle of the road and finally made himself just silent.
"Hey Rizaldi, are you quiet?" the woman asked back.
Rizaldi was still silent, his soul as if leaving his body for a moment. Then his consciousness returned and just smiled in response to the question from the female figure.
That woman is Gina Sabrina. Rizaldi's classmate during Junior High, and he was also the one who fooled Rizaldi into being his fake girlfriend and made Rizaldi bear the shame for 3 years of his Junior High.
Rizaldi did not hate him, he just did not want to deal with the female figure anymore. He never hates people, if there is something he should hate it might be a carpenter who often interferes with his free Sunday first with the sound of a machine for new wood shavings.
"Where do you go to school now, Rizaldi? I'm at SMK Merito Department of Administration" Gina is still trying to get Rizaldi to chat.
But because the gloomy past still cannot be forgotten by Rizaldi, he became confused about how to overcome the problems that lie ahead of him this time. Finally Rizaldi replied with just as necessary. "I'm at SMA 1 Mining, which is near hehe" while smiling awkwardly.
Then Gina acted like she was very close to Rizaldi, she patted Rizaldi on the shoulder, embracing him with a big laugh. "I'm just supposed to find none at SMK Merito. I think you entered SMK Merito also, your value is high" said Gina.
Her white teeth were visible as Gina laughed, those beautiful black eyes that looked shiny like gemstones. Gina slightly flicked her beautiful long hair, this is a trick that is commonly used by women to better show their beauty and timidity and usually many men are immediately tempted just once in a glance.
Her face is beautiful, Gina is not wrong first is one of the school flowers and she said it is very difficult to get her heart. But Rizaldi knew the woman's rottenness, she was one of the women's victims whether she remembered it or not with her sin that she had committed.
After that came some other women, they approached Gina, like they were friends of Gina from her school.
"Gina! We're looking for it here" said the woman with straight hair.
"Who is Gina? Your friend?" the curly-haired woman also asked, but there was a sense of dislike from the glances of her eyes and facial expressions.
Rizaldi felt and knew about it, he immediately resigned from the presence of Gina without waiting for her approval before. Gina continued to call Rizaldi by name but Rizaldi no longer looked back, or even stayed once more to be pursued by him. Rizaldi continued to walk down the streets of the afternoon which was quite crowded will be people who had just returned from the office after a day of work.
"You why is this Gina? That cute guy like can't possibly know you"
"Here you go, let's go to the mall. Later the skincare promo even run out"
Both of Gina Sabrina's schoolmates tugged on Gina's arm to get out of there and get them on time to get the promo price of the item they wanted. Gina was still staring at Rizaldi's back from a distance, she actually wanted to chat a little longer with Rizaldi and talk about what happened to the two of them. If he waited for another chance, he might just miss the opportunity and could only hope with time whether to side with him or betray him instead.
Rizaldi himself had already boarded the city bus, the destination to Pembangunan where he lived. The mall is in the middle of the city, precisely in the Kuripan area of Cempaka Putih. Quite far along the journey if on foot, he can get home almost dusk or maybe it runs out in the evening, so he prefers to take a bus to shorten his time.
Feeling that today's day is a little gray, Rizaldi put earphones in his ears and listened to songs. The song Welcome to the Black Parade, popularized by New Jersey-based emo-punk-rock band My Chemical Romance, is played directly on the music player app on its smartphone.
Accompanied by the view of the afternoon in Banjarmasin City and the quiet atmosphere of the bus, Rizaldi fell into his world, he permeated all the lyrics of the song he heard and tried to find the meaning of each verse of the lyrics created by Gerard Way the band's vocalist. Rizaldi dissolves into his delusion until he does not realize the song is over and moves on to another song.
This time the song with the title Papercut, a song popularized by the old band Linkin Park. Upon hearing this song, Rizaldi looked out the window, looking at the sun that was slowly beginning to sink, like he was betraying himself.
"Sunset. I think the light also betrayed me" he said softly.