Interludes
The Wing of Eternal Love
Alina's heart almost jumped towards her throat, when the name that was calling on her phone was Pambudi. He glanced at the Editor's room, and imagined that if what his boss said came true, he was the first person to win the lottery twice in a row.
This is a golden opportunity, Pambudi invited him to meet if there is still news that Alina will be equipped about him, because she will be out of the country in a little while.
"Of course, I'm very happy that Mas called me. I still need some information for the third edition about Mas, well. " Alina felt like she was going to jump in excitement. In front of his eyes the bonus he will receive from the last edition about Pambudi is nearing reality, the amount of the bonus can increase the capital of his mother's business, buy a new washing machine, and, the old ones always stuffed so sometimes had to wash manually.
That afternoon Alina had returned home and opened the wooden wardrobe, worn out but still well maintained. It hung a few clothes and some were rarely used.
"Do I have to change my appearance? "..Alina was impregnating, but there was no proper dress here, everything was old and the color faded here and there like her jeans.
Alina sat down listlessly, and knocked on her own head.
"I'm invited for an exclusive interview, not dinner, why worry about my appearance?" Alina was back in the mood but this time with passion. I heard the voice of my mother calling and heading to her room.
" Feed first son, mother has prepared at the table" mother's pinta, mother's voice is always soft is a remedy for all fret, fatigue and distress.
"I've eaten at the office, ma'am, this is also an interview but over dinner. happens to be this figure only has 7 o'clock later tonight.
Alina approached the mother, and hugged the thin and withered body, devoured by age and the rigors of life. Alina took her mother to sit on the edge of the bed. And as usual he would sit at the feet of the mother and begin massaging her feet and hands.
"No need Alin, you yourself must be tired. mother is okay..."But Alin brushed off the mother's delicate hand and continued to massage her. It's a moment Alina spoiled with her mother, she's been busy lately, if there's a time like this then Alina won't miss it.
Suddenly the mother jumped in shock, Alina followed in shock.
"Oh my God, Alin mom forgot.it was someone who sent a package, he said to you.. "His mother immediately left Alin towards the middle room and looked for the package in question between the laundry packages.
"Who's Mom From? " Tanya Alin after receiving a box from her mother's hand, was quite large and a little heavy.
"You just rest first, I make tea yes" Her mother immediately disappeared into the kitchen leaving Alina who was a little confused by the parcel in her hand. There was no sender's name, and he never ordered items online. But the beautiful print on the cover of the parcel is indeed his name and the name of the online news agency where he works.
Slowly opened the binder of the parcel, and in it there are still other paper parcels as well as business cards :
"Pambudi.... Please accept and do not hesitate"
There is a brocade long-sleeved top dress and a maroon-red knee-length tule, and high hells are in tune.
"What the hell is this.. " Alina was getting confused and a little riled up. Why did Pambudi send her that pretty dress and shoes. What does this young entrepreneur mean. They only met once and Alina was very sure if Pambudi must have forgotten their meeting. His hand reflex reached out to the handhpne and began to contact Pambudi to ask. But Pambudi's number was busy and could not be reached.
Alina gave up calling Pambudi and looked back at the dress and shoes lying on her bed.
I never wear shoes like this, nor do I know how to walk on them. His legs almost sprained from trying to put on those shoes.
"Sorry mas Pambudi, the dress I might have used even if it didn't feel itchy, but the shoes didn't, I used to wear a sneaker, better than a mother's slipper"
Alina put down her thin body trying to sleep, For the first time Pambudi's face shadowed her memory.
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Pambudi closed the conversation after receiving a report that the driver had delivered the package to Alina's house. But he still had one surprise for the girl. In his heart Pambudi prayed that Alina would not misunderstand or feel offended.
Pambudi knows Alina is not the type of girl who is easy to seduce she looks sad and tired with determination as hard as a stone. So the surprise he gave could have meant nothing to him. The girl has a definite purpose, she lives and fights for it, not being enjoying life. So she will not be easily swayed, even if it is dinner with a young, tyrannical, handsome and friendly businessman.
The reservation has long been completed, pambudi tidied up his tie and unbuttoned his suit. The girl who had been disrupting her sleep since the first meeting. Is Alina going to wear the dress she sent? That girl will look like a princess. Pambudi walked back and forth in his study waiting for the right time to leave and pick up Alina.
Fortunately the alley where Alina's house is not so narrow, although the house is very tight, even some share the walls of the house. Atmosphere towards maghrib, the sun had long sunk, the tinge was already covered with night gray and faint moonlight erupted behind the nimbus clouds that were still sporadic. Already at the end of the drought.the sky began to show clouds of ash ash all moisture attracted towards the sky, the air became warm and sticky. The elders have returned from the surau and the children who teach alternately leave the surau boisterously.
Tesla was definitely striking the eye if parked in front of the lobby of the star hotel hotel, but digang it they saw it like an online taxi. People here don't care about four-wheeled things. The plot and drama of their lives is more than enough to keep them busy until tired and a little sleepy greeting in the dark of the night.
Alina was busy tidying up a dress that was so fitting in her body, and really she did not feel itchy.very different from the dress she wore when receiving a 6 Sd class report, out of nowhere her mother came home with the dress, as a gift for successfully ranking top in her school. Alina's body is itchy and must be well-grained with rubbing oil to eliminate the excruciating red rash.
Alina glared at her sister and smiled wryly towards Pambudi to hide her misdeeds. Fortunately, Pambudi immediately understood and after saying goodbye to his mother, he signaled that Alina immediately followed him to the car.
"Mother don't worry, I'll tell ya later" he whispered with a saying
"look out for you guys. "he said with a joking threat towards Anisa and Adit who laughed gigglingly looking at Alina's eyes that back glared.
Pambudi was already sitting waiting for him in the back seat. Alina felt like everything was going like magic, for a moment and unknowingly she had transformed into a princess from the middle of nowhere who rode a chariot leaving the wilderness of her life behind to the palace with a handsome prince. His tongue is usually he will immediately ask questions as a journalist. But Alina stared straight at the street. Pambudi realized the stiffness that occurred. He grabbed the bag lying on the floor of the car.
"you're probably going to like this" he said slowly as he placed the bag beside Alina. Alina began to feel nauseous and was forced to hold back, looking for the right word to say.
What this is all about, they don't know very well, and Alina needs no attention other than the news that will extend her contract and add to her bonus coffers. Pambudi. If not for the news that became the dead line, Alina had run away from Pambudi who she considered had acted beyond the ethical boundaries between sources and reporters.
"I don't want to spoil Mas's mood, but please stop all this stuff, I don't understand and really you don't have to do it. Please Mas, I'm just foraging for food by looking for news. I also did not produce any great news so Mas needed to do this all. Please I can't accept anything else from Mas, all this is excessive for me maybe even I don't deserve all this. "
Alina was shocked to death, she thought it was only in her head, in fact everything was thrown like bullets fired nonstop. Alina closed her mouth in shock, her eyes blinked in panic and looked desperately at Pambudi who was also looking at her fixedly precisely mesmerized towards Alina. If there is still a miracle left Alina begged to disappear from the presence of Pambudi at that moment. He had spoiled the news of the third episode and vaporized his bonus into the air. Also every girl's dream dinner is just a dream.
They had stopped at a parking lot inside the building. Alina was silent, she didn't want to think what else, everything was broken and could no longer be repaired for her. His mind turned out to be spoken. He could very well understand that Pambudi would cancel their meeting that night, and send him back to 'the wilderness' there was indeed the place, not in the dream palace. If this is a dream, even though it is very beautiful, Alina must wake up and return to reality.
Pambudi seemed not to have the slightest influence with Alina's speech. He grabbed the bag and opened the box bag inside it. A new sneaker that only Alina could have in a dream town.
"this will make your feet more comfortable"
he said while applying for maroon sneaker shoes with white strips on the inside and outside.
" Come on. for my sake.really this is nothing. "
Alina relented, let alone that she had said what she had to say, she grabbed the shoes and put them on. Furthermore, it feels grounded on cotton, soft, comfortable and light.The old sneaker is far from its appeal. Alina stepped up and aligned herself with Pambudi entering the restaurant hall and was greeted by a middle-aged man in a full suit. He was the manager of the restaurant, greeting Pambudi and himself very politely and showing the direction of the road towards their table.
That night was only the beginning of a miracle in Alina's life, and Pambudi's resolve to melt her heart. There is no miracle that can be explained with reason. She's like a beautiful madness in Alina's space of reason.
For Pambudi his fondness for Alina is opium, Like a bird that needs intact wings to be able to float freely and high in the air. Alina is the wing of her heart that makes her whole. Alina is the lost wing of her love and re-equips herself.
Episode by episode they pass. Pambudi with his immense Love and Alina with purity of soul in devoting himself and finally his heart to the sea of love Pambudi.
Until they were in the interlude before a tragedy occurred and the wing was amputated mercilessly.
Their two-year marriage is complemented by Alina's pregnancy. Unfortunately, Alina's pregnancy faced many problems. The fetus that it contains is troubled with the blood rhesus that Alina has, Alina's body seems to reject the fetus. So that the fetus does not survive and eventually dies. Alina is depressed and hates herself for killing her own child. The next pregnancy was even worse, and Alina again fell into a deep depression. Pambudi decides to delay the program of having children until Alina's psychic condition stabilizes.
The following year they communicated less and less. Alina with her own thoughts and several times wanted to end her life. And Pambudi immersed himself in the work. He still has the wings of his eternal love, but they don't take him anywhere. He chose to stay in his golden nest, waiting for his wings to have the power to help him climb back up.
One afternoon, she missed Alina. Alina had not wanted to meet anyone for two days, even refusing to meet her. She knew something was not right, but the voice of Alina pleading from behind the door restrained her desire to look at that sweet and haggard face this morning.
"Please Mas. I really don't want to meet anyone right now"
"Alina, I just want to see how you are. You didn't eat anything last night" Pambudi was really upset.
"Where is your hand, Mas." The door was opened and Alina's thin and pale hand extended out from behind the door.
Pambudi longed for the innocent and funny demeanor of Alina, she was born with it. His white and fragile heart was even still trying to comfort him from behind the door.
"Alina you can reach me all over, let me in. "Whisper Pambudi with glazed eyes. He could not imagine the suffering that Alina felt, thus forcing her love to live in heart misery.
He still felt the weak and cold hand grip from Alina. And slowly Alina let go of her hand and closed the door.
That afternoon, the hand was still frozen. The tyrannical face no longer smiled and Alina's eyes tightly closed. Alina chose to leave him, taking her wings away in eternity. Pambudi knew that he would never fly again. The wings of his eternal love are gone. He just had to wait for the time for him to catch up.