Jogja, You & Memories
The 37th Temple

I never imagined in my life that I would experience the unexpected in Surakarta. It should be all done, smooth, without shocks and leaving only the torture of rejection that I have tasted for a long time. It's easy to get rid of. But that day Kendranata stopped by my life and rummaged through everything I had agreed as the final way to forget Pranata.

I took my bike to Paijo's house. Because of the many alumni of students who are original and settled in Jogja, only he is close to Dominic and Pranata.

“Oi... Race...” Paijo waved his hand from the side of the Javanese-style house that some of the walls are still made of shiny wood will touch lacquer wood.

“Great classics of your house, Jo. Cool...” I said while getting off the motor. “Last time here was still industrial.”

“Gedek you mean?”

I laughed and regretted it. “Home.”

Paijo told me to sit down after he darted into his neighbor's shop and brought home two bottles of bottled coffee.

“Dominic told me you'd like to come here. What is it, Ras? Important until less than that.” Paijo took out a kretek cigarette from his pants pocket.

My goal is to taste the coffee from this bottle. “Copy milk, Jo?”

“He'eh, do you want a coffee item?”

“Concidentally, I wanted. Dominic often told me to drink coffee items to understand something more bitter than memories.”

“Oualhh... So you mean you want to meet me just want to make coffee together?” pepas curious.

“More than that, Jo.” I looked at him expectantly and nodded seriously. “I want to know how bitter it tastes!”

After doing strict consideration on the motor. Paijo and I officially went to klotok coffee in Pakembinangun area, Kaliurang street.

“Yakin, Jo. Here can order coffee as bitter as memories?” ask after whispering.

Without wasting any time, Paijo wrote down his order at the cashier table and took me to an open area with cool air.

“I made a report first let no one misunderstand.”

I'm stunned. “You mean Dominic?”

“Iya to, Race. He has made an announcement, another month married you on WhatsApp alumni family. If now anyone sees you walk the same other guys continue to tell Dominic half-and-half, you yourself are bothered!”

“Buset bye, really mating. Though I have not come to the printing press to make an invitation.”

“It's easy, make a digital invitation!” Paijo lowered his head while typing something on his phone quickly.

“I'm sure your arrival not only want to drink coffee items. What's up, Ras?” ask Paijo afterwards.

“I met yesterday Pranata.” twin

Paijo's eyes widened. He took his phone off the table and looked at me with a guessing look.

“Where?”

“Home, Surakarta.”

Paijo rubbed his face with both hands. He sighed tiredly and handed his phone to me.

“Why? No explanation of other specifications than a photo, Jo?” My eyes narrowed. “Now I'm sure why it's only you that I'm going after meeting Kendranata, I'm still afraid to talk to Dominic.” I said honestly.

“Yes Allah, Race. Ketitik significant style.” Paijo folded his hands together on his chest.

I snorted, the Javanese philosophy advises me that good and bad deeds will be revealed in the end.

“I'll tell you, Jo. The vow. But now clear it all up! I'm sure you're Dominic's and Pranata's honest trash can. You know Kendranata!” revealed I contained embers that stung my own chest.

Paijo pointed down with a very embarrassed expression. “Let your voice down, Race. Jian... Your voice is like Tarzan out of the woods... Braok.”

“Ben!” say, grunt.

Paijo's tears slowly changed after knowing my eyes were glazed over.

“Drink first it's coffee, keep talking to Dominic if you already know how pure black coffee tastes!”

I was pensive, the coffee served in the starfruit glass accompanied by a plate of fried bananas that both reflected the warm smoke was alluring. Unostentatious.

“Can be in cold drink, but warmer more favors.” advice Paijo more quiet.

I nodded, gathering the courage to gulp down pure black coffee similar to the circumstances I had encountered after Pranata's death.

My mouth closed to the lips of the glass, my nose inhaled the aroma of coffee roasted with dark roast level to quench my thirst. Black coffee.

I closed my eyes and took over some of the black coffee in my glass of starfruit cups into my mouth until it slowly flowed down my throat and stomach along with tears from my eyes.

“Bitter, sepat.” Paijo took over the glass I grabbed and smiled bitterly. “Yearly I live with the secret of your girlfriends, Ras. Dominic, Pranata, hold now Kendranata.” Paijo pulled the corner of his lips.

“If you can be likened to living a quadrilateral love. Pranata and Kendranata are far away, but the inner bond of twins who knows. I'm sure, Dominic deliberately hid Kendranata's existence for you, for the sake of his love for you who for years just to fertilizer pity. My cousin Ras until gatel heard him confide in Pranata's behavior and your moron that does not go back and forth with Pranata's behavior. Keep now, runyam..”

Paijo sighed. “There is more bitter than the coffee you drink, Ras. Not just memories, not just losses. But someone who's willing to open his arms wide to help you, to accept you, to bring you fun but still has to fight to make you happy, to make you fall in love, not to mention to erode your past. Bitter so Dominic, Race. He's a cute, sugih, off-road SUV he bought that's why it's not to meet your adrenaline.”

That explanation surprised me. But it's not enough. There's still a big secret that Paijo knows.

“Keep especially?” ask me with a blocked voice.

“No guy as crazy as Dominic wants to be with you, Ras. If you want to be able to get her artist, I know if the girl has not been sosor since she was, only I am a boy, already fiancee also.” Paijo flashed a proud smile while pointing at the ring on his left finger. “Dominic knows, the promise that a man says he must keep whatever the risk. Yo can be considered, there is indeed regret in Dominic's heart until Pranata must die like that, like that, hence the Pranata family as far as I also cut off business and family relations with the Dominic family after knowing the reason his son hung out at night because of what.”

“You mean they have a grudge against Dominic?”

“Could be,” Paijo sniffing shoulders. “Dominic should know as soon as you meet Kendranata. He's a businessman, a child, a Pranata twin, he knows a wide gap for revenge let alone his mother said you were depressed after Pranata's death and a will that made the problem even more troublesome. I'm sure Kendranata eleven twelve with Pranata, have big ambitions let alone your arrival arouse his curiosity.”

I finished the coffee that was left in the glass. “It seems from now on I should obey my father, Jo. Many times I have been hit by apes because I only nurutin egoku from my father's careless speech.”

Paijo picked up the fried banana and chewed it.

“If you used to be almost crazy, maybe now the situation can happen to Dominic if you even nguber-uber Kendranata just because it looks like Pranata, Ras. Don't mad! It's time you really opened your heart to Dominic.”

I plucked the fried banana and chewed it. That glass of pure black coffee made my stomach bubble and raised the excessive anxiety in my mind.

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