Love In Longing
Ct. 12 (The Story of Kala)

Standing face to face in front of the door of the Columbia University Student apartment that is none other than Arsen, two young people who used to be best friends now seem very awkward. Want to hug, but there are things that must be resolved soon.

Naufal, who has been carried away by emotions because he remembers Arsen deliberately avoiding his lover in Brazil, is determined to make the young man can not avoid him.

Reflected with various sentences that make Arsen silent and can not say anything more, now increasingly made to gawk when hit by one sentence that pierced his heart.

"You don't know if there's a girl who has to make herself a walking statue because she doesn't have love for any man!"

DEG!

Instantly Arsen raised his head, staring in disbelief at Naufal who was standing in front with a look that intimidated the rider.

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

"Wait on! We'd better talk inside!" cut Marco out before Naufal goes further on the subject of one name that should not be everywhere. Even though abroad.

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So now, the four young men with the age of the oldest Ben Adley are sitting on the sofa that was originally sat by Arsen. A single sofa was sat by Naufal. One sofa that fit sat by two people, sat by Arsen and Ben. Marco was sitting in a round seat with no backrest next to the largest sofa.

"Before I explain, answer my question first... Why did you suddenly disappear like you were swallowed by the Earth?" tanya Naufal stared fixedly at Arsen who was sitting limply. "I don't think you're coming to prom night. But it turns out on the guest list there's your name!" naufal.

"Hum..." Arsen nodded small. "I came here just for a moment... Then I left when Vino expressed his feelings for Clarice. I thought it was supposed to be over... And I don't want to hear if the love they're ready to knit starts being declared in front of a lot of friends! I'm thinking... I won't be able to!"

"Therein lies your folly, Sen!" Naufal Spray. "If you ask me if I miss you, then I miss you so much! I miss our cohesiveness, I miss our mischief." Naufal said very clearly.

"But if I remember your stupidity, I'm very disappointed and eager to strangle you when I find you! That's today!" naufal continued with eyes like a sword wielding his enemy.

"What's really going on, Fal?" tanya Arsen turned her head softly at Naufal who did look very hateful and missed her.

Naufal stared fixedly at Arsen's pair of eyes before beginning a long story that was then a bitter story for a Vino. And a comforting story for a Hanna who admired Vino a long time ago.

"That night... Vino has expressed his love for Cla.. I didn't even know much about Vino's plans until he prepared the flowers backstage. I only heard that Vino was about to express his feelings to someone" Naufal said in a very serious tone.

"Until the end of the dance, it starts and ends with a session that culminates in Vino having that chance."

"Initially... Everything looks so touching. Even if it ends happily, I won't mind."

Arsen frowned at Naufal's explanation, his pair of eyes squinting trying to interpret the meaning of what Naufal said. Arsen could have guessed, but the young man was reluctant to conclude for himself.

"You know... The continuation of that moment ended with no one's expectations supporting that night."

"They..." Arsen wanted to guess, but again hesitated to say and guess.

"Cla rejects Vino outright!" naufal replied half indifferently from the annoyance that was still restrained.

"Well!" naufal answered lightly but very intimidatingly. "And you're the dumbest person ever because you didn't see it all until the end! And draw the conclusion as you wrote in your letter" Naufal said.

"And even more stupid... You disappeared without news. Even if to this day I don't know Be, I'm sure I won't never find you!" hiss Naufal.

"You're not going to just show up, are you?"

"I'm sorry.." lirih Arsen sounded very sincere. "So Cla and Vino never dated?" naufal asked, answered with a head.

"Who is Cla dating?"

"Don't I say it at the beginning? You make a girl like a walking statue who has no love for any man. And that means she never dated!" spray Naufal at the end of his sentence.

"He never had a girlfriend?" arsen asked holding his breath because if Naufal's answer had never been, he would have felt like he was the dumbest man in the world.

"Yes! She never had a boyfriend!" naufal answered with a heavy voice. "He's waiting to give you an answer from your letter! But you disappeared and even turned off all your social media!"

"Well..." Arsen was speechless with a face that instantly turned deathly pale. He really did not expect that Cla never had a lover, when he had obtained permission to date.

And the blow was even louder when he found out that Cla was waiting for his arrival to ask the word I love you he wrote at the end of the letter he sent to Cla before leaving for the United States.

"Where's your brain, Sen?" ask Naufal. "Why say love if it's to disappear?" tanay Naufal's.

"I'm..." Arsenic tread was very limp with a look that looked down at the floor. "I don't know if it's like this, Fal." replied the driver. "I don't know if it turns out that Cla and Vino are not dating." she continued with a voice that almost shook.

"If you knew they weren't dating... I definitely wouldn't do something this stupid" his grunts brushed his hair roughly in a back-facing direction quickly.

Ben who was beside him immediately embraced the shoulder of his old friend. Clap slowly, and say...

"It's not too late, Sen... If you are serious, come... Meet him to explain."

"Tell and tell correctly the misunderstanding that occurred. And admit that you've been wrong with taking that attitude." said Marco.

"What if it turns out that reality doesn't match what Ben said?" sahut Naufal glanced back at Arsen.

"Because of what I heard... Postgraduate students who became campus idols at Binus are trying to get close to Clarice... He's very popular... And last night... Cla's going to the birthday party of that big brother's parents! At the personal invitation of his senior."

One more sentence, back to stomp the soul of the racer who was in an all-out shake.

In the most recent, in the squeeze and trampled by the reality that he first discovered after so many years he moved away from life in the country.

"Then what should I do?"

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