Like a Former Nail
Episodes 8.2

Asep slightly looked towards the back of Rion, looking towards the stairs that the eagle-eyed man had just passed. Already several times he did not find the beautiful girl who always followed Rion. Lisa likes to take drugs wherever Rion goes. Lisa now seems to rarely come with them hanging out, or doing college tasks together. Where is this virgin? What happened between them? Benak Asep kept wondering.

“Lisa to where, Yon?”

Rion just shrugged his shoulders a little, a sign of not knowing.

“Tumben he rarely follows you again,” exclaimed Asep with a frown.

“Entaihlah,” replied Rion while participating in occupying one of the wooden chairs that have been unused, there is no way he said that he had forbidden Lisa to follow him again.

After Kharisma explicitly said that she liked Gebri when they spoke at the Cinta Geprek 1 restaurant office a few days ago, Rion personally asked Lisa to no longer follow her every activity. Although for two years they were friends and became classmates, Rion never took issue and let it go. But the situation is different now. The girl who once bound his heart, also still tied him up until now has come. Rion wanted to focus more with the oval-faced girl, correcting and taking responsibility for all the deeds she should have done long ago. And its proximity to Lisa, may backfire someday.

“Kharisma seems to have really smitten with Gebri.”

Rion spontaneously turned his head towards Asep, then followed the man's gaze which led towards a large field filled with dozens of motorcycles. There is a lot of routine going on there. Some are looking for an empty parking lot, some are taking a ticket, some are chatting and sitting in their vehicles. Of the many routines that occur, there are two students who are getting off the motorcycle sport that attracted the attention of Rion since a few days ago. Several times he found Gebri and Kharisma going to college together. But there is a little different from the face of Kharisma in the morning before noon today. His face looked radiant. From a distance, Rion could see the arch that was imprinted from the lips of the male of his age.

This morning before going to campus, Rion sent a message for the umpteenth time. Not only through the Line application, but he also sent messages via WhatsApp, also sent via BBM whose pin was obtained after paying a classmate Gebri, but none of which was answered. Just a thread. Also countless times he had contacted through phone calls, and the results were still the same. None of his calls were answered. Even two days ago, he bought a new Telkomsel card just to get Gebri to reply to all his contacts. As expected, Gebri had answered and immediately decided on a phone call when he knew that the caller was him.

Actually Rion was about to go to the boarding house Gebri, but his actions might make it difficult for the girl, considering they never greeted each other or spoke in front of people. Moreover, Rion knew there were other children who also lived there. It could have led to untrue speculations, even though Rion was very unconcerned about what people were saying.

“Tak think yes if a girl as beautiful as him ever had terrible times,” said Asep again who was still staring at Kharisma and Gebri who were walking towards the faculty door. “When you were Junior High, which person was Gebri, Yon?” asep said again as he looked at Rion.

“She's a good girl and a cheap smile. His attitude made me fall in love with him.” It felt like Rion was saying those words out loud. But what came out was precisely the greeting, “I don't know.”

“You have different class with him?”

Rion simply replied with a nod.

“If the news of her pregnancy is not revealed, maybe many men will pursue her. She is beautiful and her body is tall. When looking at her face, she looks like a smart-brained girl. What do you think, Yon?”

“True what you said, Sep. Gebri is smart. Koning told me that his UN score alone was the highest in his school,” said Kharisma suddenly joined nimbrung, who was not, who then took a seat on a wooden bench that was not used in the classroom anymore.

“Cie... cie. the other kasmaran. Go home campus always alone,” assault Asep with his trademark grin.

“Call us so,” said Kharisma with a big smile.

“Amin, and when do you want to shoot him?”

“Actually I've stated per—”

BRACKET!

Kharisma and Asep spontaneously turned their gaze to the side, towards the source of the loud voice coming at once towards Rion who was still sitting in his position with a hunting breath, like anger. A wooden bench located right in front of the man was already not in his original position, already lying on the floor tragically. The leg of his chair was almost broken.

“What happened, Yon?” ask Kharisma and Asep in unison.

Rion was silent, thinking of the wind then. Then he got up from his seat, passing through a door in which there were already several students with their respective busy lives, leaving the two men with bewildered faces.

“Khar, are any of my words wrong?” asep asked with a finger pointing towards him.

^_^

Only they–Gebri, Koning, and Upi– are in the room located on the third floor right next to the stairs. Other friends have gone to the next lecture room or go to the faculty cafeteria. The three young women seemed busy with a laptop on the table, one of them is struggling with a laptop keyboard while the other is looking at the laptop screen once glanced at some sheets of photocopied material. Today they have a presentation in the Law in Business course.

“Yeeee... Finally done too,” cheers Upi with glee, her puffed cheeks slightly bubbling.

“You to canteen first or directly to room II-5?” gebri asked while putting some writing utensils and books into the bag.

“To the canteen yuk! I am hungry,” replied Koning who had risen from his seat.

“Yuk Geb, we go to the cafeteria!” koning exclaimed by pulling Gebri's arm, it seemed that the glasses girl was indeed starving and earlier when they were still discussing the task, Koning did complain of hunger several times.

When Gebri and Koning were on the first floor, some students seemed to be half running towards the cafeteria. Even Mr. Umar– whom they know as one of the academic staff–pun do not want to lose. Seeing the unusual situation, Koning pulled Gebri's arm back, following the steps of several other students. His mind was only afraid that the famous delicious Bu Kantin food was gone unceremoniously, especially now that he was on his lunch schedule.

The cafeteria room today is very crowded, so crowded and a little more crowded than the usual days. Noisy sounds are inevitable, like a night market. Suddenly Gebri's hand felt pulled over by someone, breaking through some students who were slightly cussing small as their bodies were pushed forward. At first he wanted to rebel, but was undone when he realized who the shoulder-haired figure was, Lisa.

Gebri really could not hide his surprise. Both of his eyes were wide open with his mouth wide open. What the hell is going on here? Why do canteen tables and chairs look a little cheesy like this? Like there was a great fight?

“Rion, stop. Daris is already powerless.he could die if you keep hitting him.”

Hearing Lisa's voice standing next to him, Gebri turned briefly towards the girl, then focused his gaze towards the man some students were holding. Rion's breathing seemed to roar violently, his chest rose and fell rapidly, and his eyes blocked in anger. Several times he was about to rebel, to re-launch action on the figure who was being swept by Mr. Umar. Again Gebri's brain asks, what exactly is going on here, especially with Rion and that man named Daris?

^_^

“I'm sorry for today's incident.”

Gebri did not turn his head at all, still looking at the street that showed some children running around. Somehow, Gebri is now in a car with a man whose hair has been disheveled, does not look neat again with angular fringe models that always adorn the mane of his head. All he remembered was sitting next to Lisa on the steps of the stairs on the south side of the building, where students and lecturers rarely passed by, while listening to the explanation why Rion and Daris can fight boxing. Suddenly Rion came and immediately pulled him towards the parking lot without caring for a few pairs of eyes that pay attention to their movements, and finally now they have been in front of the boarding house Wisma Bestari.

“I'm really sorry. I'm not—”

“You shouldn't hit Daris.”

“But he is vilifying you,” said Rion with a sudden roaring breath, feeling unaccepted with the opinion of the woman beside him who was still at home looking towards the streets.

“I've been used to receiving it.”

Rion's head was immediately bowed. His chest suddenly ached. The regret again gnawed at his heart.

“I... I'm really sorry. I didn't.. should have left you first.”

Rion's eyes were now glazed over.

Gebri was silent, his eyes still staring at the street.

“Au—”

“We better forget the events of five years ago and also the events of today,” Gebri but can still be heard by the man sitting in front of the steering wheel, his hand is already holding the handle of the car door, he said, Gebri intends to get down and away from this sensitive situation.

Rion pulls Gebri's right arm, forcing their sight to meet. “Why?”

“Last let it be the past. Don't be tipped off again.”

“BUT I CAN'T!” rion shouted loudly, suddenly anger flustered him, not liking to hear those words. “I can't forget it. I really can't forget it, because I want to fix our relationship. Because I want to take responsibility for what I should have done a long time ago. Because I want to know my son. Because I want to hold it. And because I...” Rion paused his sentence for a moment. “Because I still love you.”

Gebri's eyes immediately widened wide, just a moment before his hand then opened the door, slightly slammed into Rion's handle and left behind the line-eyed man who was also coming down from the car. No matter what Rion calls. Gebri steps in a hurry to enter the boarding gate. Really, Gebri no longer wants to bring up the past. No longer want to deal with Rion and his family, nor want to listen to the expression of love that momentarily made his heart tremble again like five years ago.

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