Love Johanna
Section 58

...LOVE JOHANNA...

...By: David Khanz...

...Section 58...

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The afternoon after returning home from college, Johanna deliberately stopped by first to her rented house. It has been a few days since his father —Jonathan-– was hospitalized until he died, he rarely occupied the room. More often sleep in the treatment room or sometimes spend the night on the outskirts of the ward. Deliberately the girl turned down Ravi's offer —tadi morn— to escort her back if needed.

"You sure you don't want me to pick up any more noon, Han?" asked the man after arriving at the campus courtyard and talked for a while. Hanna shook her head with a smile and then replied, "It's best not to, Mas. I can walk alone, really."

"Really?" ravi asked, sounding a little urgent.

Johanna nodded. "Yes, seriously," he said later. "Somehow, it's not good that Mas Ravi used to get out of the office."

Ravi sighs. "Okay if so," he said, taking some money out of his pants pocket, then thrusting it at Johanna. " … Make the fare later noon."

"Don't, Mas," Johanna refused to feel bad. "Money from Mas Ravi yesterday is still there, really."

"It's okay. This is just to add." Ravi insisted and returned the money sheet. But the girl was still hesitant. "Why are you still thinking? I'm sincere in my thoughts, Han. Take it."

Johanna was confused as to how. Accepting? To him, Ravi's kindness was already too much. Refuse? Worried about disappointing the man.

"Oh, less is more, huh?" Ravi intended to tag the girl by pretending to take some more money out of his pocket. Spontaneous Johanna immediately exclaimed, "Don't, Mas! Enough already! Enough's enough!"

But Ravi still trying to add money earlier — which of course— still with the same intention.  "Ih, why the hell? I just want to say a prayer, you know!"

"Enggaaakkk .. just jangaannn!" johanna said half sulked. "Have nothing to want."

"Must be accepted!"

"No!"

"Majib, ah!"

"No! No! No!" johanna exclaimed over and over again and acted like a child. But a moment later, he immediately realized and re-changed himself as normal as possible. "Ehem! I mean ... tetep no, Mas," he said lowering the volume and being biased 

Johanna glanced around the campus courtyard area. A few people who happened to pass by there, turned their heads, watching the two of them.

"So still, you refuse my gift?"

"Yeah, Mom. Thank you" replied Johanna.

"Why, anyway?"

"Why not."

"Why, dooonngg?"

"Engkkk."

"What's up, right?"

"Well, why is Mas Ravi so bad?" johanna asked pretending to be upset.

Ravi sighs.

"Is it because you're not going to live in a contract anymore?"

"No. Not because of that. Then I also belom mutusin want to stay at home again, really."

"Continue?"

"Yeah, there's no going on."

The man again sighed. Then he continued saying, "Originally you know, Han, even though you don't want to deket me, but I will continue to help you."

"Ih, what do you mean, anyway? what's the connection try?"

Ravi looked into Johanna's eyeballs. "Your lecture should be over, Han," he said, looking serious.

"Yaaa .. her plan is so, '" the girl said confidently. "Walopun is now my Papa is not there."

"Your college tuition .. I'm responsible, Han. Until you succeed and graduate."

Johanna's eyelids grew.

"Mass?"

"I'm serious" the man said. "And sorry, what I'm doing here .. has absolutely nothing to do with the same .. there is or does not exist .. your late father."

"Mass?"

Johanna felt her heart was not broken. Between pleasure, wonder, confusion, and shock mixed into one. Not without reason, the absence of the figure of Jonathan now, did slightly affect the mind of the girl in continuing education. His younger brother, Andrew, is still in school. Of course they cost a lot.

Receiving kindness and help from a figure like Ravi, Johanna thought, was indeed a blessing in itself. At least, for the problem of continuing education earlier, there is a way out. But the man had a family, had a wife, while Hanna herself ….

"I think we should talk a lot about this, Mas," said Johanna finally after a moment of thought, greeted by a cheerful response by the figure nearby. "Oh, sure. Should emang. When, Hhmmm?" asked Ravi enthusiastically.

Johanna nodded slowly. For him, free time is indeed a lot and can be cultivated. But what about Ravi? Is it permissible to meet him often at the expense of the man's family togetherness? As a woman, Hanna was aware even though she had no experience getting married.

"Later in the afternoon after I got to work, 'how?" asked Ravi with a cheerful look on her face. It was very different from when I left at the beginning of the trip. Is it because of the presence of a Johanna?

"Mas Ravi's wife?" Johanna tried to remind me. That means not to forget the time for his family.

Suddenly, Ravi's face turned wry. I don't know why. The man replied, "Make it temporary, I need someone I can talk to."

"Make it temporary?" Johanna underlined the sentence that Ravi said just now and was immediately replied by him. "I mean .. in the present moment, my heart is not comfortable like this, Han."

"Mas is having trouble with Mas's wife?" johanna asked as if she had the right opportunity to question that since this morning.

"You think ... Do I look like a happy man?"

A crybaby and implied question needs special attention from someone he chooses. Not the origin of the show. Rather on a foundation of trust and a level of a more sublime taste. It's a matter of the heart.

'Yes, Allah ..' Johanna murmured. 'What are the problems that Mas Ravi is facing with his wife? It feels ... really, I often hear them quarrel? Keep ... why it was me who became—'

Teett! Teett! Teett!

The sound of the class bell ringing.

"Later we obrolin, Han," said Ravi before turning on the engine. "I'll go first, yeah."

"But .. because of me, Mas Ravi got late for work, Mas."

"I don't care" the guy chimed. "Because whatever I've done so far, it never meant anything to my wife. Except ... to you, Han."

'uh? Meaning?' 

"I'm leaving first huh, Han. Assalamualaikum!"

Reply Johanna, "Yes, wa'alaikumussalaam. Careful, Mum. Don't speed, huh?"

A crisp smile immediately broke the cheek of the man upon hearing Johanna's last words just now. "Thank you, Han," he said, then hurried off to leave the campus courtyard. Leaving the figure of the girl who could only stand while thinking strangely.

There is a sense of empathy that slowly grows in the heart, —heard— so softly Ravi's voice when talking about him earlier. How valuable is Johanna compared to Ravi's wife? It was like the mysterious sentence he, who was still ringing, continued to run through the halls of the mind of a Johanna.

"Haann! Coming, yuk!" Someone called Johanna from a distance. "Time for class, Han! Asdos has arrived, but!"

'Ghea?' 

Johanna turned her head and hurriedly walked over. "O, yes .. cave daydreaming, Sis. Sorry." which."

The woman named Ghea said again, "Who was that? Om you, huh? Uh, but .. youth, anyway. Don't-don't your boyfriend, huh?"

"Don't you, what the hell?"

"Hi-hi-hi." Ghea. "Naahhh, 'that's dong! Move on from Reychan, straight from gacoan. Beuuhh, mantel. Cogan again. Ha-ha-ha!"

"What the hell, huh?" Johanna's skin suddenly felt hot. Red with a shy smile.

"Good, Hanna! You're having skin allergies?"

"Emang why?" johanna asked with concern as she walked towards the classroom.

Ghea looked at Johanna's face. "Your cheeks are red, Han."

"Times, anyway?"

"Yes. Sambel cilok, Han!" A moment later, Ghea's laughter broke again. "Ciieee ... fall in love again, huh? Ciieee .. ciieee!"

"Damn, Ghea!"

"Ciieee …."

"Gheaa! Iiihhh!"

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