Jogja, You & Memories
The 26th Temple

“We're in Parangtritis, but you're still crying. Was it not enough for you to wet my vest and shirt, Ras?” ask Dominic.

The foam of the waves touched our feet that jutted to the shoreline with the scorching afternoon sun that stung our right cheek hotter.

“I didn't ask you to bring me here, I just need myself to let my problem finish quickly.” I pursed my lips, “Since the beginning I did not want a reunion because it was. My heart aches, Dom. But it's good I want to be away from home. I am very tired, the documentary was kampret.” connect me cleanly while squeezing black sand.

“You want to rent a inn?” Dominic.

“Still.” I shook my head, ”Let's find a chance!” tandasku.

Dominic hugged my neck and banged it on his chest slowly. Next to my face was attached to his chest that was no longer wearing a vest. The white shirt that wrapped her body felt thinner as her chest expanded.

“Over time curialiga, I'm still intact. I'm just an ex-playboy, you know that. The problem should not be important, it has expired, wonder me, a girl who likes to reveal the past of her boyfriend. Want what? Want to be the best what? Aya-aya wae.” Dominic grunting.

I'm deheming. “I'm sure you know Pranata and Hetty's secrets are deeper and Pranata's parents don't agree to date me, Dom. Why did you just shut up as my best friend?” he said while looking up.

Dominic looked down, our gazes met in the distance as close as we were to the beach of Parangtritis which holds a million mysteries and panoramic beauty behind the ferocious waves as well as the southern end of the imaginary point of the city of Jogjakarta.

“Silence doesn't mean you don't care, Race. I'm sure even if I said you wouldn't believe it. To you I used to be just a bully, but to Pranata I'm a maid.”

“Kok can?” I cringe. In the awkwardness that had frozen this body earlier, I felt his warm breath colliding with my breath mixed with the scent of the sea.

“Hetty repeatedly asked Pranata to break up with you, over and over until Pranata said I must be among you so that Hetty does not burn jealous. Want to not want, besides having my own mission I was just between you guys.” Dominic grimacing.

“Why?” soft ask. In fact, instead of sticking to Dominic's chest that began to smell, I prefer to taste and wash my face with brownish sea water. May you suffer my dry lips and my painful eyes.

“I can see you up close and continue to know your habits. Pretty than manyun doang.” Dominic grinning. “Udah yes, Pranata, Hetty, her parents are old stories. You're almost crazy, no one cares. It's just me and your parents who were there for you during those bad days. Not good how I tried. It was slapped when it wasn't my fault! Juancokk coke.”

I pursed my lips. Pranata's death has something to do with you, Dom. Refusing to forget.

“Sure,” I nodded seriously as I straightened up, “thank you already there for me. Your good intentions I will love you one day. If I'm caught lying now!” my promise while looking at him as soon as I looked at Pranata.

I listened to the charm of Dominic who has a reddish lips typical of his mother who ranum pink westernized. His father's simple nose and beautiful eyes sucked me into staring at him for a long time.

Dominic looked down and threw his face the other way with red cheeks coming out of his wild and sexy charm.

“Do not look around, ntar has a crush.” always. Grasping the sand then scattered as he threw it into the air to dampen something that roiled in his mind. “You really should have seen me continue, Ras. Here..”

I stared at him under the sunlight that was beginning to recede. “Thank you.” I said sincerely.

Clumsy, Dominic moved his face slowly while holding back something he had endured so hard. I closed my eyes but not the first kiss I felt.

The waves hit the entire body. We were swept away while trying to embrace a moment before the waves receded without dragging us into the Indian Ocean.

Dominic moved, he pulled my hands together, staggering we walked in a drenched state, embarrassed and dumbfounded away from the shoreline. But the immediate awareness ambushed me just as big as the waves swept through my bag.

I ran a little over the wet sand that sank some of my tracks into the earth.

“Do not, Race. Danger!” Dominic half-jolted his voice, he held my wrist just as determinedly as he calmed me down in the courtyard of the student alumni bonding building. “Do not, let go.”

“Hpku, KTP-ku, wallet, ATM-ku?” I'm clucking.

“Not all of your Pranata photos you call?” dominic. “Let's lose mail in Polsek. Hpnya I buyin, certainly there is a photo Pranata there is very afraid to lose the bag.” Dominic grunting.

“That's the bag you bought when we went to Bali, don't remember you?” sentakku directly.

“Lho..” Dominic's eyes suddenly ran to the corners of the ocean that had swallowed my bag far towards the queen kidul throne. “Talklaskan ajalah, already far away. After all, that's a sign this beach knows Pranata is no longer important you save.” Dominic bowed respectfully as if giving thanks for the disaster that made us have to buy a change of clothes.

Dominic chuckled while holding his hand around my neck. “Cancel kiss, Race.”

I snorted while walking to the houses of the surrounding residents who sell souvenir clothes typical of Parangtritis beach. Dominic and I picked out the clothes you wanted to wear. It seems like this is commonplace until we were offered all using the bathroom or lodging around the beach.

“I want to relax and keep eating, Ras. My back is not tired of being the anchorage for your cries. I don't want to shower in a public toilet!”

“Terus do you think we should rent lodging? Your playboy's blood is swishing again, yes?” I turned Dominic back to pick out which shirt was good.

Dominic rubbed my back tightly together with a wet black satin cloth. My hair is thin and smells of sea water.

“Just take a shower, take a short break, keep out foraging, Ras. If we are lucky we can see the twilight on this beach. Or want to tandem paragliding so you can see the entire beach from above?” persuaded courtesy may be what I consider remains seduction former playboy.

“The moment is not right!” I said while piling up the items we bought in one place.

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