Love In Longing
Ct. 79 (Insecure )

Receiving a video call while waiting for an order while looking at his rival in line at the checkout table. Cla chatted casually through a video call while spreading a smile for the lover who was on campus.

"Where are you going?" ask Arsen to Cla after saying he will try to make this day finished so that tomorrow can vacation and take a walk together.

"How about... Central Park?" cla conveyed the idea. "I'm gonna take a boat with you, baby!"

"Okay!" reply Arsen. "Why choose Central Park?" tanyakanya. "Many other places we can go.. Brooklyn, Lincoln center and all that."

"I want to take a boat with you." keukeh Cla repeated with a sweet smile.

"Okay, whatever you want I'll do! We're going there!" reply Arsen. "And we're going to go to one vacation spot another day."

"Yup! I also want to go to Manhattan with you." Cla replied with a full smile.

And it looks so beautiful in Arsen's eyes. But in addition to seeing the lover's smile, Arsen accidentally looked behind Cla's back, when he realized there was a figure passing behind Cla's chair.

And who would have thought, that figure was Lady. Lady flashed behind Cla's back by reflexively turning her head on Cla's phone. And it certainly made their eyes meet in one straight line by accident.

And all of that was not realized by Cla. Because the screen that shows itself is just a small box at the bottom right.

' Lady! They meet? '

The young man was stunned for a second or two.

' Why isn't Cla telling the story? '

"I've been to Central Park with Daddy and Mommy and the rest of the family" Cla said, bringing Arsen's attention back to the girl.

"And what I imagine when I see a couple riding a boat is. someday I will go there with a man who loves and loves me sincerely! And it must come true!"

"Now I ask... Are you sincere or do not love me?" cla asked looking at the lover with a slight squint of his eyes.

Although he is very aware this question is a silly question that is not worth asking a man who is willing to spend years because he failed to move on from the feelings that grow for him in adolescence.

"Oh my God, it is still in question." muttered Arsen made Cla suddenly laugh by holding back the urge to laugh out loud.

"Now I ask" said Arsen. "Are you sincere or don't love me?" tanyakanya. "You used to love why I'm an installment, a playboy, a bad boy and so on!" said it. "If I had called you a long time ago, dear."

"Emm..."

"Take a thought." - Syndir Arsen rolled one eye.

"Hehe! No! I love you sincerely... It's just that I used to lie too much. I'm a hypocrite because I love it when we're together. Since the 10th grade first." Cla replied in a serious tone.

Smile, "I love you ..."

"Love you too." replies Cla while including a small kiss bye.

"Who's at the cafe?" ask Arsen.

"Who's there?" cla asked confused.

"Tumben didn't say.." said Arsen.

"Tumben didn't say?" repeat Cla with a frown.

"After you..."

Cla looked back slowly, until his eyes finally found Lady sitting on her back. The girl looked back at the screen of her phone.

"Ooohh.." - Cla. "Where do you know, is he?"

"He was behind you." replied the young man as he was.

"Where are you from?"

"He came in from the fourth floor!"

"Oh..." Arsen nodded in understanding.

"I'm not sure, you really didn't know he lived on the fourth floor!" cla satirized with pouting lips.

"Oh, Baby.. please." said the young man, because he was lazy to argue about the Lady for the umpteenth time. "Don't make me reckless to go home and leave these tasks."

"Heheh! Sorry..." Cla giggled by showing all his rows of white teeth, as if not feeling guilty at all.

Their conversation is not understood by the rest of the Cafe, except the words I love you and love you too. Because they chat in Indonesian.

But if heard from the soft voice of the laughter of Cla, and the look on the face of the girl and the words of love, and, it is enough to show if this stranger looks very happy with the chat that was done with someone over there.

And that's how Lady, sitting at the back table of Cla, turned her back to each other. Each other's confusion, although one original and the other man-made.

It's okay, just not in black paint! That's what Mommy Calina said when Cla gave her permission to dye her hair to look different.

' You guys are a good couple... '

Lady muttered inwardly.

Lady, the girl was not at all concerned about the appearance of Cla who that afternoon looked very much what it was. Although she is a model who is very totality in maintaining appearance.

The only thing in question is... Cla could freely wear Arsenian clothes. And again.the luck of Cla loved by Arsen is so real.

Where ever since then, his relationship with the young man has increasingly stretched. There is no hope of returning like a few years ago.

' What can I do now? nothing's! '

Ask and answer yourself. She felt insecure about not being able to have Arsen even though millions of people said she was beautiful. Especially for his photos that are milling around in various advertisements and fashion magazines.

***

Cla returned to the apartment with a bag of crackers filled with tacos and hot dogs, as well as a glass of cold chocolate drinks, in the autumn which still feels cold because the temperature is still below 20 degrees Celsius.

"I'm totally crazy!" muttered. "Why did I order chocolate ice! The air still feels cold!" his grunts regretted that one 2-dollar glass of brown ice, or the equivalent of 31 thousand.

"Lady, I'm so out of focus!" his mumbling threw his body on the sofa that was last night occupied by Arsen to sleep with a hotdog in his grasp.

And all he can do to spend the day alone is watch a romantic Korean drama, even if only alone. Scroll the app to find something funny. Then laugh without worrying at hearing the neighbors, because Arsen's apartment is soundproofed.

And all of that really drove him to spend the day until it was about to end at night.

The apartment window is still open. The beautiful lights of New York City start to light up one by one. And the beauty of the city begins to look perfect when the time has shown at 18:00 New York time.

Besides because the sky that has not completely darkened, also because the lights that collided with the remaining sky light.

"Every day he spends time on campus." cla muttered staring at the campus building as seen from where he now sits. On the balcony of the living room overlooking a large street, and the Columbia University building is located across the street even though it is not parallel.

Some students were seen going in and out of an open iron fence with a guard standing there.

"Arsen is invisible." he murmured. "I've missed it." he continued to look at the picture frame of the two of them who since this afternoon he put on the nightstand corner sofa living room through a clean glass wall.

Until finally he fell asleep on the living room sofa by hugging a novel that he found on the bookshelf Arsen.

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