I Don't Understand
The actor
A man is now leaning on his motorbike, his gaze fixed on the sky in solitude above the hospital building, ignoring the scorching sun that seemed to lie above his head. his hand reached into the pocket of his jacket smiling tat as he looked at the cigarette in his grasp. That man is Arsaka.
"you will never know me" he said, keeping a cigarette at the end of his lips.
a memory that he had long been silent now began to reappear as if a wheel that had been stopped now began to run like without a hitch. she recalled first getting to know Mayla a woman who always made her envious of the harmonious life of her family. A woman who filled her childhood.
"now you've grown up may, I didn't think you'd be a very beautiful woman, while I'm even—" she hung up her words, sipped a cigarette and said again
"—more ruined". Arsaka never thought he'd be reunited with Mayla if it wasn't for Raksa he wouldn't have seen Mayla back. but her first meeting was always not a good one but instead Mayla had to see her quarrel with Arseno under the emergency stairs in Andromeda yesterday. Arsaka who was still in anger accidentally spilled all his anger on Mayla who without thinking long maybe he was scared at that time.
She is shocked that Mayla already knows Raksa, Dimas, Arseno, and Rega due to the fact that they are all interconnected like a pentagon. There is a transcendental polygon that connects each corner.
"why are you always a witness to my quarrel, why does God bring us together again?" he said Arsaka did not understand why God brought the two together always not in a good phase, why Mayla was always there every time he was in a great fight. if he could repeat the time, he hoped God would change their meeting.
"May, why should Raksa and Rega?, I guess you will only know Rega, AHGR...Why Raksa mayla" he cried annoyed.
Just when long ago, he accidentally saw a woman who had just come out of the same faculty as him. The woman seemed to be joking with her friends.she Mayla.
the corner of Arsaka's lips was interested in carving a smile, when considering the two were standing face to face in the corridor at that time. But the smile faded when he saw Mayla who looks close to his best friend—Raksa.
Since Arsaka knew, if he was a faculty member with Mayla the swade man often noticed it, from there he knew that Mayla was close to Raksa.
his daydream stopped when he threw a cellphone that almost hit the head, if only he was not evasive maybe his head was bumpy. not funny not his eel turned blue along with his bumpy head, oh no more!
"fuck, what are you doing Sa" he said throwing a clueless tanya with slingshot behavior.
The thrower—Raksa—tak responds, his feet knitting steps quickly walk towards him.
"stop grilling yourself alive here, you won't die so quickly" he insisted when he got two steps ahead of Arsaka.
"even if I kill myself several times I will not die" replied the youngest sadewa while throwing his face.
"what's up? ", the follower turned his head again, considering that it is impossible for Raksa to go all the way to his place willingly.
" fuck, how many times have you ignored the call bang Seno?" said Raksa his chin is directed at a cellphone that lies horribly not far from the Arsaka motor .
Arsaka again turned his head towards the intended phone, although not so clear, his view can catch a call notification on the phone.
"you're fighting again with your parents?" asked Raksa while walking towards the phone earlier and took it. Arsaka was silent not responding to why his head was throbbing pain plus his view was a little unclear, probably because he had been standing in the sun for a long time.
"why don't you just pick it up if you think it's important, instead you throw it at me damn it!" arsaka replied after feeling he could control himself in consciousness, but his views were getting blurry.
"close your bullshit, answer my fucking question first!" said Raksa shouted out anger, for whatever position Raksa was still on campus he got the news if Arsaka had not come home for almost a week. Moreover, Arseno had said that Arsaka had just quarreled with his parents.
Ignoring the passing of the class, Raksa rode his motorcycle. In a hurry he knew where Arsaka was. just when his bike was until everyone was staring strangely at him because of the ringing of the cellphone that continued to turn on, he said, he was ignoring everyone's call because he left class all of a sudden.fuck he wanted to beat Arsaka.
"you know I was in class earlier, if it wasn't for the Seno bang I wouldn't have come all the way to see you here" she continued.
"i never told you to come here" Arsaka said before dark to pick her up.
"you-" said Raksa restrained right when he saw Arsaka fall down in front of him, quickly Raksa directly carrying him.
"i told you not to waste my fucking sacrifice" he whispered softly, as if a cycle that keeps repeating in a life. Raksa will meet Arsaka in the same place and end up with Raksa holding Arsaka because of fainting.
"stop bothering me asshole" he said slowly.
...•••...
A woman leaning against the office window from the 2nd floor looked down at a stop where she and Arsaka met last night, Mayla said.
Because the rain that greeted the earth suddenly so loudly disengaged Mayla's intention to go home, she chose to brew coffee in her office pantry instead of running across and through the rain.
The aroma of coffee that he brewed was able to make the woman's mind a little calm, next to the phone's coffee cup was still ringing from the call of the same person.but already several calls were listed on the screen, he said, Mayla did not intend to lift it at all. chose to sip the coffee slowly, she managed to taste the bitter taste that met her senses because Mayla did deliberately not add sugar in her coffee. he just let his tongue taste bitter from the coffee.
honestly, all this feels unreal suddenly starting from divorce, college, Arsaka's present job, plus when the person who called him gave news that he did not want to hear.
"sucks" he said slowly.
"what a bitch"— an answer suddenly airs in silence making him immediately turn around, until his gaze meets a grown man standing in the pantry's doorway.
“pak Arseno?, what is Mr Arseno doing here? " mayla asked in shock, because her boss was not a prank around the office every floor just to check something? you see Mayla is in the lacerta pantry not in the casiopeaia—kafeteria in their office.
“i want to see Dimas, but he seems to be first" replied Arseno while walking towards mayla.
“you why haven't you come home yet?” after arriving next to Mayla sat, Mayla spontaneously shifted the seat so that her boss was not standing.
“In the rain I did not bring a raincoat, since earlier the online taxi was censored probably because they did not have a raincoat" replied Mayla. Arseno nodded in understanding.
For a while the awkwardness took over the atmosphere Mayla did not understand why Arseno even kept quiet here. He thought Arseno would refuse when Mayla threw a chair at him, unexpectedly the firstborn sat on the chair. even the sound of a drop of water from a leaky sink faucet that should not be heard is now quite loud.
until a call made them look at each other.
"your father called" Arseno pointed to Mayla's phone, but she nodded, not intending to pick it up while staring at the coffee cup in her hand.
Arseno who understands the realm of privacy chose to ignore, although she wondered why the woman next to her did not raise her father's call. Is it possible because he exists?
"why hasn't Arseno come home yet?" tanya Mayla tried to turn her head towards her superior.so far she can see clearly the face of Arseno from a close range.
"you kicked me out?"
"not so sir, I mean-"
"i'm kidding, besides I still have work. I also have an appointment with dimas but it looks like he forgot his promise" sela Arseno when she saw the reaction of Mayla who might feel bad for the question she just asked.
"so sir, I want to make coffee" Mayla bargained, actually she felt confused how to because from now on her boss was just silent. Arseno shook her head while saying
"i don't like coffee" his boss's reply surprised Mayla instead of the usual leader likes coffee? considering many in the novels that he often revised to edit all CEOs like coffee. turned out to be different from Arseno?
'keep that time?'
"why do you like coffee?" arseno asked, pointing to Mayla's cup.
"weird at all, or maybe just a suggestion. I don't know why, because for me coffee solves the problem" Mayla said making Arseno frown on knitting her forehead.
"there is just a basic young person" said Arseno inexhaustible.
'father is old?' it was like he voiced it but was stifled given the word manners.
"because for me the problem is like coffee, bitter but even though bitter everyone tasted it" said Mayla, again she took a sip of coffee while directing her eyes forward.
Arseno nodded faintly staring fixedly at Mayla there was nothing wrong with the words of the young lady beside her however, Didn't know that the grown man she was sitting with had never touched a coffee in her life.
"hm, if for example coffee is like a problem for you, I ask you a choice. in front of you there are two inget coffee, coffee here is a problem. as you said earlier" arseno said she unknowingly pulled the coffee cup that Mayla was holding and Mayla's phone as the only coffee parable.
"The first glass is filled with coffee that is very bitter without sugar but contains only half," Arseno thrust a cup of coffee in front of Mayla.
"while the second glass is full of coffee with sweet sugar, what will you choose?” tanya Arseno thrusting HP parallel to the cup earlier.
If the parable was instantly created in his brain just like that, he just wanted to realize it to the woman in front of him. Arseno herself did not understand, why she was silent with the young woman next to her.Just the topic of their conversation about coffee was quite interesting.
Mayla frowned, with a parable made by her superior.
'from which the parable came' he thought.
“if I choose a favorite, I like americano. obviously I will choose a bitter coffee even if only half. But if this coffee is a problem I will choose coffee added sugar. Because who wants his life full of problems is not it, or bitterness? everyone wants to live a balanced life either sweet or bitter. moreover coffee is added a lot of sugar already from the beginning of the coffee is sweet is not it? Even though we stop drinking it, until the end of the coffee it will taste sweet” explained Mayla. Arseno was silent for a moment for some reason.
'deservedly Dimas chose it at that time, I think because Mayla friend Raksa turned out to be the style of language and delivery of this woman in the field of language is quite qualified as well'— thought Arseno.
"rightly, may introduce me to coffee" said Arseno. make Mayla turn spontaneous said
"on the matter sir?" tanyanya, Arseno shook her head to interrupt quickly
"no, this is coffee in the true sense" he said while laughing crisply.
"sometimes I will take Mr. Arseno to the coffee shop" said Mayla,
"okay I wait" replied the elder.
the rain that night delivered a story before going to bed to the two children of Adam who were sitting side by side, discussing what came to mind both of them, breaking down the walls of awkwardness that had been circling earlier made the clumsiness now melt evaporate with the rain that night.
until the two did not realize far away in the entrance door pantri someone standing there.