Love Above the Heart
- That Time -

*Flashback On

I sat by myself in a garden chair between the shade of the trees and the loud voices of some children playing in the park.

I stared at someone who from a distance seemed to be running around a little towards me.

"Sorry I'm late." He smiled while breathing.

"Ordinary people!" I answered briefly while rolling my eyeballs. Pantingly.

I leaned my head against the garden chair.

"I'm sorry. Don't get angry, it'll be pretty"

"Who is angry. A waste of time."

"Damn..... Seriously not angry? I got stuck, Yang. Usual." Persuade him again while smiling, sitting next to me and patting me gently on the back of my hand.

"Udah knew the road was indeed jammed every day. Yes repatin dong depart. I don't want to wait like this. Not in the dictionary of life I've been waiting for this. Males knows!" My complaint was staring at him and blotting out my lips.

"Hahaha, is that it? I was told to wait for you for as long as I can wait. Seriously!! if you're angry, I'll raise my hand, Yang. Not strong me. Forgive Nyai!"

Raising both hands and shaking his head slowly, Erick tried to put on his face.

"Yes, obviously you want to wait for me, I'm not going anywhere. There's also me who's always waiting for you." Say it again while still pouting.

Erick knew how often I nagged him for the same thing, but the evidence was that I was always waiting for him.

"Yaudah, so no? I've laper, Yang" he added again while stroking his own stomach.

"Otherwise me! I've wrinkled my stomach waiting for you."

A few seconds later we looked at each other and then we laughed.

Erick and I have been in a relationship for about four years. In that period of time almost every day we passed with a fight that has become commonplace for us.

And at the end of the day, I still win. Of course by wearing my signature style. Pouting while singing lips.

Sometimes I also choose to give up by melting the atmosphere. Laugh with him. Like at the moment.

We also walked together to our favorite Padang restaurant across the park.

We went into the restaurant and ordered some food and drinks.

This is one I like about Erick. He did not choose where to eat. "The important thing is clean and certainly delicious" he said.

Before long our food came and we started eating it.

"Yang, this brother sent me to the cafe bentaran ya. I'm going to grab the flash I missed, tomorrow it's going to be in the office." Erick said as he grabbed his drinking straw and sipped his glass of iced tea.

Erick has his own Cafe which he built with his hard-earned savings while still sitting in the First High School. He managed it himself to become a cafe that ngetrend among children today.

While the office in question is where he works as a Translator. So Erick has two earnings at once. But it makes him very busy even sometimes have to reduce his sleeping rations and rarely meet me of course.

"Huum. Ready boss" I said on the sidelines of my meal.

"But Sunday if you meet Kak Rina there do not be surprised" he added again.

I was silent and sluggish.

"Udah, relax there is me. Besides, there's no way he'd dare say anything to you, he's ashamed. Rame on Sunday mah."

"Well, everywhere I'm ashamed. I am the less. Even if only looked at the same as Rina." My complaint.

"So how's dong? Banging doang, Yang! The abis immediately pulled out. Promise!!" Erick tried to persuade me by pointing his two fingers together to form the letter V.

I'm lazy to have to meet her brother, to be honest her brother blatantly dislikes me in front of me and Erick.

The reason is very clear. Doesn't fit he said. Because I am not a scholar. My job is unclear. And my origin from a mediocre family. Can't bring yourself later.

That's what I think "Colot thought." But maybe for some people who have a family tree that is above will still look at me low and one eye. Only some yes. And Erick's family is part of it. Except for Erick, of course, who looks at me special. Hihahi

"OKAY. I was in the car, let's not meet. Very ribet!" My bargain is with Erick.

"Hmm, jaudah."

We continued eating until the bar. Then we headed to Erick's cafe.

Arriving there, I decided to wait in the car according to our agreement. I can see Erick walking into the cafe. I decided to play my phone. Surfing in maya. Not long after Erick's back.

"Not long, right?"

"No. Hehe."

"Where else is this?" Erick asked as he turned on his car engine and moved slowly.

"Anterin, I'm going home. I'm sleepy." Suddenly I was lazy everywhere.

Sometimes he looks at me.

"Rarely anything. We also walk every week."

"It will be a long time to wait another Sunday. Next week I have an office business, Yang. Friday he left for Jogja. Monday or Tuesday just come back here again."

"Loh I left again this is the story?" My words gawk.

"You don't want to, Yang. For our future too. I want to spend a lot of money so I don't ngarepin parents if I'm married to you."

"Would you marry me?" I said insinuate.

"Well you're asking me, Yang?" Erick's smile expanded to form an arch in his lips.

"Damn.....PeDe you yaaaaa!!!" I hit Erick's arm and he laughed.

"That's your question like someone's going to propose. It's not wrong that I asked and I'm sure I'm going to answer, Yang. Haha"

"Where is the guy who nags his girl. Huh." I said bitterly while looking out the car window.

"Yes yes, I told you I want to, so I'm saving for our future."

"What do you want to try?"

"Well, marry you, Anggia!"

"Erick, don't talk about this first" I said no longer excited.

I'm always badmood when it comes to Erick's marriage. No, I'm not serious about him. But discussing marriage always made me think of our family from different social circles. Not once twice has Erick mentioned marriage.

"You always do that when you talk about this. It's like I don't want to take you seriously, Yang."

I just kept quiet to hear Erick's statement. I know he is serious about me. And he wants to take us where our relationship is. I-i know.

But I refuse to think about it. Because it only made my heart expect too much. While we have tried and tried repeatedly, there are no light bulbs from our family. Especially the Erick family.

Offending the family, Erick is the youngest of three children. Her mother was a Lecturer, now a Boutique entrepreneur. His father retired from his job which was once a top official in one of the government agencies.

Her first sister is sister Rina, a successful career woman. He works at the State Embassy. Already married to her Husband who is also a rich businessman, successful businessman.

Son number two is his brother, Frans. Frans is a Lawyer who already has his own office and he married a young doctor who is beautiful and resplendent in his career.

They're Erick's race for suskes. When he was in school, Erick had instilled the values of his parents, which must be more able to boast than his two brothers. Must be above them. That's the burden on Erick's back as the youngest child. Must be more successful.

Because his parents do not have a company to be passed on to his children. So the three of them must be persistent and enterprising to be successful without anything inherited from their parents.

Erick could not escape from the shadow of his brother who had succeeded first to achieve a career. That's why he's trying his best.

Although he never had trouble buying things he wanted, and always lived happily from childhood.

One more thing, his intelligent brain is a boon so he can succeed with his own efforts.

And when Erick chose me who was just this grain of dust, I felt inferior before the war.

*Flashback Off

I was thinking about that time in Lyra and Nico's bed. I thought about Erick for a long time. The one who's been filling my day lately. The one I love. And the one who is the father of the child I bear.

*"I have to think about my future and my son's, I can't dissolve in that time anymore"* I murmured in my heart.

I decided to open my phone. I changed my number before I went to this town. I don't want any calls from the family or from Erick.

I have also closed all my social media accounts to cut ties with people who have known me. I came here with the intention of starting a new life without any shadow of the past.

But the universe's plans are sometimes very funny. I even met with Lyra. Worse with Nico.

I surfed in gugel. I'm looking for the address in the city I'm in. Which I can live and live. Looking for a resident settlement that I can rent at a sloping price. Adjusting the budget I have. The cheaper the better so I can downsize.

I searched around until I picked some suitable ones and sorted them out again.

When I'm done, I'm thinking of tomorrow's plan for me to leave Lyra and Nico's house.

I'll leave without them knowing. That's my plan. Because I don't want them to take me to the airport. And the ticket I said I would buy, of course, never entered my spending list alias I did not buy at all.

Tonight was too long, even to close my eyes I couldn't. I'm busy thinking about what to do tomorrow.

I write letters, as is the custom of the old man. Or the habit of people running away from home to leave messages.

*"Such as when I ran away from home, I've even been convinced of this"*My mind is giggling.

I also wrote letters to two people who helped me. The one brought me here. The other one even gave me a lot of money. I turned the corner of my lips to remember that.

Seriate...