HATE Before LOVE
Ardan is in love.

A memory of his past made Ardan immediately get up, rushing until almost missed to get into the walk in closet. He opened the last cupboard and squatted down to pick up a box he had kept for years.

His heart was timid, his breath hunting like he was running. His hand slowly opened the lid of the square box. A small sandal that is just next to the picture of a batman that has been peeled off is in the small box.

Maybe the girl he helped years ago was an Elif? And these slippers are Adit's slippers? Could it possibly be so?

***

A few years ago.

At that time Ardan was very upset with his father and mother, he felt his life was very restrained by all the rules that required him for this tutoring, that tutoring, this course, that course, that course, and all of that was given by his father to equip Ardan with business knowledge. I think Ardan is fed up. He was not even schooled in schools in general, the school he went to once entered Junior High was a school that was intended to learn all about business, where the school did not have many students. Because the quota is limited and the cost is very expensive. It is certain that the children of the nation's successors who go to school that place will become superior seeds to advance the nation's economy. This is the vision and mission of the school.

And Ardan really can't stand it. He did not have many friends, or you could say he could not be friends with anyone at the school. Almost all of the students there were nerdy children. His life was quite lonely, as an only child Ardan expected to have friends at school, but in fact his parents even put him into a school that is not at all Ardan's dream, Ardan, no friends during his SD who entered the Junior High.

He was so bored, and it felt like he wanted to kill himself. He felt he could not achieve his dream to become a swimming athlete. Her mother had even started looking for a future match for Ardan in the child of her social friends.

Be, that afternoon, Ardan ran away from home, carrying only one backpack that contained no clothes but snacks. Because Ardan's blur is just to release fatigue and saturation, Ardan chose a simple recreation with a reservoir that became the best view, Ardan, which Ardan thought his parents wouldn't have thought possible if Ardan was in that place.

With his posture is already very high, no one would think that he was still a minor who was still slowly looking for comfort by sitting by the lake, contemplating fate, and looking for comfort, trying to positive thinking, and grateful for his life while enjoying a pack of snacks that he brought.

From where he was sitting, far away on the other side of the reservoir, he saw a little boy running around the stone barrier erected for seating as Ardan does today. The little boy ran up followed by a girl who looked like she was telling him to stop, and the feared thing happened, the little boy slipped and fell into the water.

Seeing the incident Ardan to choke on a snack that is being chewed. Hurriedly Ardan downed his drink then without thinking much, Ardan left his backpack and immediately ran towards the location where he saw the little boy splashing a distance away. Arriving there, the child had returned to the top with his body drenched in a crowd of people, sounding panicked his mother who asked her brother, the little boy pointed at the water, without a second thought, Ardan immediately threw himself into the reservoir.

It wasn't easy for him to see clearly under that pretty butek water. He had to come up to the surface to take a breath twice, only then was he someone with a foot stuck in a collection of plastic waste that was quite a lot up like nets and made the girl's feet stuck there. Ardan quickly took off the girl's already motionless legs and brought her to the surface.

People sounded excited as Ardan charged out a girl from the water. Because it seemed that they did not know that the little boy was not alone, so no one immediately looked for him until his mother came and asked. Once the Elif was at the top, not a single person performed CPR or the first treatment on the victim drowning in the water. So, as soon as Ardan came out of the water he immediately put on a CPR piercing without asking first, he just did what he should have done.

Come on, come on, get up! Don't leave your sister like this! Comeup!

Ardan continued to batin until performing CPR and artificial breath assistance. Until the girl finally coughed.

Seeing her daughter survived, her mother immediately hugged her, kissed her. Likewise with his sister who cried while embracing her brother.

"I'm afraid I only met one, Dit." said the girl before being shown the color to be taken to the hospital.

"Thank you, yeah, kid. I don't know what will happen to my son if you don't give me first aid" said the mother of the girl and the little boy she was carrying.

"Together, ma'am." answered Ardan, but Ardan understood that the mother could not linger to thank him, because she had to catch up with her daughter immediately.

Stay there Ardan, drenched, a little cough because it swallowed dirty reservoir water and swore at people of the type of environmentally unfriendly, he said, throw garbage into the reservoir until the garbage is transformed into a trap that can harm anyone.

Then he saw something underneath, something that was the reason why the girl was trapped in the water. A sandal with a picture of batman that has been peeled off a little.

"Hopefully you'll be fine" Ardan said, seeing the girl being carried by one of the residents, who was carrying a car with her mother and sister.

***

Ardan gasped in shock at himself looking at his reflection in the mirror, then he approached and took a closer look at his reflection. He remembered now, the face of the mother of the girl and the little boy was the face of the woman he had met earlier in the hospital. The woman who thanked me with eyes full of joy and gratitude. Although his appearance had changed, but the look of those eyes was still the same.

"I'll never let you go, Elif. It won't." said Ardan. "Prepare because you'll be my Lord Daughter."

Ardan looked back at the sandal, "Darling, it's Adit's flip-flop, if it were yours I would do a competition." Then chuckle to himself.

"You know Elif, looks like we're meant to be together. This may be called a match. Geez, our meeting even always starts with you being insan. And, ha! I gave you artificial breath! Doesn't that mean I stole a kiss from you?"

Ardan laughed again, he came out from inside the walk in closet while rubbing the chest of his own field feeling a strange sensation on his heart that gave the effect of his lips smiling widely, then throwing his body on the bed.

"I'm in love! I fell in love with the girl I saved twice, the girl who yelled at me kidnapper, the girl who always looked at me cynically. Oh my God.. Is this the answer to all your prayers?"