Hello Arvin!
Waiting for Rain to subside

Nara straightened her legs. Sit in the front seat of the minimarket near the Golden Flower Hotel. His eyes stared at the street in front of the motorbike and the car lined up waiting for the red light to change color. While his hands were busy bribing ice cream into his mouth many times, it cooled his mood and the heat was quite scorching.

His feelings are still not due to hear the story about Arvin. Maybe this is indeed Arvin's strategy so that Nara feels sorry for him, so that his feelings soften. Get rid of the hardened hate in his heart. But damn it worked.

Now Nara sees it in a slightly different way. Although his existence still feels annoying.

Arvin must have had a rough day after finding out that he was his father's cheating son, his birth mother was seriously ill when she first met, and he had never been picked up by his father since accompanying his biological mother. As if it were thrown away.

“You okay? Still want to cry me?” Tempta Arvin sitting next to him. Eating chocolate ice cream like Nara.

“Ngga. Ngapain nangisin lo long-time.” Answer Nara ketus. “Abis this you want to ngajakin where? Must be in some weird place again, right?”

“Ngga everywhere. Diem is here. I'm lazy if the road is hot-warm midday gini.”

“Makanya pack car. Why is it the same motor?”

“Males, jammed if use car. Difficult parking too.”

“So we've come all the way here just hanging out in front of Alfamart while eating cheap ice cream, so?” Nara was upset. “Turns with your girlfriends are doing fine dining. Ngabisin money bokap lo. Lah same turn I, even the streets like gembel.”

Arvin laughed at Nara who grumbled annoyed, “Yes already, later I invite you to a fancy dinner as well. Wanna where? The scusa? Namaz? SKYE?”

“Males. You have no initiative.” Nara opened her second ice cream. Licking vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce on it. “Definitely invite them to a luxurious place because they are rich girls who are high class right? Same as I'm just a regular guy.”

There was a feeling of envy that suddenly plagued Nara's heart. Arvin must have seduced many women by inviting them to a luxurious place to impress them. While with him, Arvin just take him around in strange places away from the image of himself who likes to splash.

“Kok said that? Yes, let's go to Tian Jing Lou now. I'm going to eat Chinese.”

“Make. I am males. Go back to hotel.”

“Wait not hot yes. Later my father overheated and became his leather item.” Arvin said seductively, while stroking Nara's hair and tidying up her bangs.

Nara left it without protest. He also did not want to drive in the middle of a hot day like this.

“And you were again shown Arvin without deceit. I live a simple life with my grandmother. We often go for a walk like this first. Snacks and walks are not clear while the story. Only after graduating from college did I get many luxury facilities and unlimited snacks from the mustache.”

“Terus abis it lo so a trickster and playboy?”

“If you are given kayak facilities so that it is used. I'm not a hypocrite. The moustache wants to improve and make up for his mistakes by giving me everything. I don't mind either. Can be sluggish but the money continues, who does not want?” Arvin chuckled.

“Waw. Madesu” (Surid Future)

“But now it's not. I've become a better version. Let's be proud to have a handsome father, diligent work, cool, funny, and pinter like me. Right, deck?” Arvin said as he stroked Nara's stomach which began to bulge.

This time Nara also let Arvin touch her as he pleased. He liked it when Arvin stroked his stomach. It feels weird but it's fun.

“His baby has not moved yet? Not that 4 months should have been motion huh?”

“Testing. Haven't. I don't feel anything.”

“Maybe it should be done first with his father.”

“Do not carelessly ya lo!” Nara glared at Arvin.

The second ice cream Nara had eaten was over. Now he unpacked the contents of the plastic bag then opened a snack of potato chips. Arvin looked at all of Nara's movements while making a smile. Happy because Nara now does not easily nausea and eat more greedy.

“I used to really want to be a conservationist, continue to work at the national park. Go out into the forest, research and protect the animals that live there. I want to live in the forest, away from humans.”

Nara. Remembering the words of his mother who said Arvin might just be the one who would feed the lion. Yes, he had wild ideals like that as well. It suits him perfectly.

“If you want to be what?”

“Testing. Anyway, I used to want to go to college so I could get a good job, a big salary, and a comfortable life. No need to think about debt and no shortage.”

“Udah reached dong. Comfortable life plus a handsome husband.”

Nara was silent for a moment. Realizing that his life over the past few months was indeed very comfortable materially. A life that many women may want. But somehow his heart is still riled and not intact. Is it because he's with Arvin not with the person he loves?

Now Nara herself is confused as to what love is like. Like his feelings for Reza who was now slowly becoming cold and almost gone? Or his feelings for Arvin that felt strange, foreign, but now the shape changes unexpectedly.

Nara rarely contacts Reza and asks him to meet. He's more with Arvin. Talking, taking a walk, fighting, such as finding new friends amid loneliness and more monotonous activities.

Nara believes her feelings for Arvin are not love, but habituation. All the weird stuff and his closeness to Arvin now is not love. He hasn't gone that far and doesn't want to go that far as having feelings for Arvin. Haven't. Nara is not willing to let go of her feelings of hatred for Arvin. He also doesn't know how.

“Go home! It started to cloud. The weather is not clear. It was hot, it's overcast.” Arvin said nagging himself.

Nara followed Arvin behind to a parked motorcycle not far from there. His heart suddenly felt uncomfortable. What if he falls in love with Arvin? Why did it feel like he was betraying himself by letting his heart fall on the person who made his life fall apart. He did not want his feelings to melt on Arvin who had touched him and without permission planted a seed on his body. Disgusting.

Not until 5 minutes they drive, suddenly rain fell unexpectedly. Enough to make their clothes wet. Fortunately, Arvin immediately pulled over to the row of shops that are now closed and quiet.

There are only those on the sidewalk in the middle of nowhere that cars occasionally pass. Sparking rainwater on the streets. The rain is getting heavier. Not giving them a gap to get through.

They are just standing, side by side. Waiting for the rain to stop, for how long. Arvin took off his jacket and put it on Nara. Of course Nara did not reject her, she was cold because her clothes were wet. Arvin's jacket at least provides a little warmth and also the smell of opium from the owner. Nara may have gone crazy for liking Arvin too much.

“Cold no?” Tanya Arvin was worried.

“Banget. My clothes are wet.”

Arvin clasps Nara's hand, making her face to face with him. Then point both hands to the back pocket of his jeans. Nara was shocked and refused. But Arvin didn't let it. Now both of Nara's hands are in Arvin's pocket, their bodies they hug each other. Arvin leaned his chin on Nara's head.

They hugged like that for a long time. Until Nara felt the warmth began to run through her body. Comfortable, warm, and fragrant. Arvin really made Nara's heart tremble. He said he would not fall in love with Arvin. But why was his heart thrashing so uncharacteristically just because of this?

“You go home first huh? I pesenin grab.” Said Arvin suddenly.

“Hah?”

“You go home first to the hotel. Your clothes are wet, you will get sick from the cold.”

“How do you want?”

“I wait until the rain subsides. Abis was turning Galih's motorcycle into Enin's house. Later back to hotel.”

Arvin ordered a taxi online from his cell phone. Long enough because of heavy rain makes lazy drivers receive orders. But fortunately there are those who are immediately willing and immediately go to their location.

“Mandi air angel and change clothes yes. Don't get cold.” Arvin said when the online taxi arrived.

Nara just nodded. Suddenly it felt unwilling to let go of Arvin's warm embrace and leave him alone on his unknown path. Although her body is cold and her skin starts to wrinkle, Nara still wants to wait for the rain to subside with Arvin there. It turned out to be true, with Arvin his heart seemed to change unexpectedly.