Love In Longing
Ct. 11 (Two Ever Near Raga)

"What can I do to help you?" ask Marco.

"Come on us until Arsen comes!" babble Ben with his laughter. "Until I know when he'll come! Haha!"

"If the problem is it's okay! My apartment door is wide open for you"

And along with that, the sound of a suitcase wheel spinning on the floor rang out all the way into Marco's apartment. Making the chatter that had arrived at the joking stage come to a halt and all switched focus on the sound that was heard.

"That might be Arsen! Only Arsen is out of the country right now!" said Marco.

Three young men ran to the door and Naufal peered at the small peephole in the door. Opening the lid, Naufal could see the figure pulling the silver-gray suitcase.

"Arsen!" lirih Naufal with a tongue that almost choked. Didn't think he'd actually find his best friend for three years.

"Seriously?"

"Let's see!" Ben pulls Arsen's arm to scramble to see Arsen outside. "Certainly Arsen!"

"Then what should we do so that he doesn't avoid me?" naufal asked his two new friends.

"We have to make a plan!" marco muttered that was leaning against the wall staring at two friends scrambling his peephole.

"Hemm, agreed!"

***

Arsen decided to return to New York early. In addition to avoiding Gwen, the young man is too busy with his studies, where he will get two degrees at once if he graduates this year.

It was crazy for the driver. But this was a decision he had thought through carefully, and again he worked very seriously and diligently.

Pulling a suitcase containing the equipment he needed while in Brazil, Arsen walked lazily in the hallway of the apartment he passed every day. Without looking to the right and to the left, unknowingly if being watched, the young man touched his fingers on the finger lock of his apartment which he only lived alone.

Plopping her body on a soft sofa in the living room that was fused with the pantry, Arsen suddenly froze, contemplating by staring at the dead television screen. His life this time was far from happy. Because he was far from the person he expected.

His body is in New York, his mind is in Brazil, and his heart is left behind in Indonesia.

That's a bit of what the young man is feeling right now. Raganya in the land of people to study. His brain thought about Gwen whom he had deliberately avoided, and about what the girl wanted to tell him. But the heart, since the beginning has been left behind in Indonesia.

Even the blonde girl who often came to him could not touch a single speck in his heart.

Finding a dead end to all that, where he did not know what to behave like, he finally stood up again. Step closer to the pantry area, and open the mini refrigerator on the kitchen table. Take a cold bottle of coffee and sip a third.

When sipping cold coffee that, suddenly the clink bell rang, to make him reflect turned to the brown door that is close to the kitchen area.

Closing his coffee bottle back and putting it on the kitchen table, Arsen immediately stepped closer to the door. Peering over who pressed the doorbell of his room. His forehead creased when he saw someone he knew very well was at the door of his room.

Cleks!

"Frankies!" exclaiming Ben immediately stretched out both hands to cuddle with a friend who had almost a year not met it.

"Ben!" replied Arsen welcoming the embrace of friendship quite tightly.

When the two people who had met after almost a year of not meeting were tying back to a once-familiar relationship, someone again walked out of the apartment door that was right on the right side of Arsen's apartment.

He is Naufal. Naufal stared longingly at the sabahat that used to always be together in joy, sorrow and that did not escape was naughty together. He used to hug the young man when the moment of separation took place. He used to be regarded as a very close friend by the young man. But now...?

Marco came out of his apartment, patting slowly on the shoulders of the man he had just known for no more than two hours. Despite only two hours of acquaintance, the two now look like good friends. A little bit Marco knows, how Naufal felt that he had been trying to find Arsen for a long time.

"Slightly good!" ben replied with a voice that sounded not as excited as the first meeting earlier.

Arsen immediately took off his embrace, still holding Ben's arm, Arsen looked at Ben's face which looked like there was a burden on his shoulders.

"What's up, Ben? Told me?" arsen lowered his hand.

Ben was speechless, only eyelids flashing occasionally. After Feeling Arsen must have been ready for the next moment, Ben turned to the left side, where Naufal was standing there with Marco.

Arsen, who had been focused on Ben, really didn't realize that anyone had seen what they were doing. So when Ben turned his head, Arsen also reflexes to look to the right.

And when the driver looked to the right, everything seemed to be moving very slowly. If this happens in a scene of a movie, then slow motion motion applies for a few seconds. It can happen in just one second.

DEG!

What Arsen saw really made his body that now looks much more mature than it used to freeze in silence. For a moment, even his eyes could not blink. Just focused on looking into the eyes of the young man who used to be very close to him.

The figure of a friend who used to always be next to him. Even when the XI and XII classes are sitting.

Long time no see, both have differences that are not too far away. Only slightly increased height and larger body size.

Two pairs of eyes were fixed in silence. Two pairs of eyes were always looking at each other. Always sharing a story, except the one about this one, Clarice.

Once on the same bench, the two often chatted to prank their friends or even teachers. Yes. like that IPS child in his time. Famous for joking and less serious in learning. Unlike IPA children who are always more serious in learning.

But therein lies the excitement in adolescence when in high school. Where school becomes the time and moment that will always be remembered until anytime. School uniforms, classrooms and every corner of the school are part of the silent witness to that historic moment.

Naufal walked slowly towards Arsen and Ben without taking a look at Arsen. There was a gaze of Naufal that he could not understand by Arsen. There are longs and hates that seem to radiate simultaneously.

Ben moved out of front of Arsen, and Naufal took over. Until now two pairs of eyes meet in a distance of vision that is not more than one step.

For a moment, the room containing the four young people froze like an empty room. Empty without human voice or two or more objects colliding. Even the breath could not be heard by each other.

"Why do you stay away from me, Sen?" naufal asked in a tone that seemed to hold him accountable. "What's wrong with us? Why did you disappear?"

Naufal's question made Arsen immediately lower his gaze.

"Even you leave before you know all the clarity!" naufal continues to intimidate.

"Jawab, Sen?" force Naufal with a relaxed tone but sounding quite firm.

"I... I don't know, Fal!" arsen replied, "I don't know..."

"Yes!" sahut Naufal. "You don't know!" said insinuate. "You don't know if there's someone who has to make himself like a walking statue because he doesn't have love for anyone!" cecar Naufal with a sentence that is quite heartbreaking for the driver.

DEG!

Arsen immediately raised his head, his pair of round eyes staring at Naufal question markingly.

"What do you mean, Fal?" ask Arsen seriously.

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