MAHMUD, I Love U
A Heart Crushed

The road in front of Griya is already crowded with two and four-wheeled vehicles. Mayra was there too. Lina, Wuni, and all the employees. Last night Rendra called Lina, saying her father's condition had improved. For that he said today can come for a photo shoot at 10 later. But it's past 9, Rendra has not come.

Several times Lina tried to contact, but Rendra's number was not active.

"It's just Anto today." Mayra made a choice. "Maybe Rendra's still looking after her father."

Lina and Wuni nodded. They were getting ready to leave for the shooting spot after all the combat tools each entered in the bag. Lina, Wuni, Anto, and Rudi have entered a white MPV car which on his body clearly read the words Griya Cantika. The car belonged to Griya. They're ready to go just waiting for Mayra. The woman was allowed to go to the toilet first.

KRISHIIING.

Mayra's phone rang. On the screen is written the name Rendra.

📞 "Hello, Ren." Mayra answered the phone in a hurry.

But not the voice of Rendra the first he heard, but the sound of the roar of people teaching. Mayra gulped her saliva as Rendra's heavy breathing sounded.

📞 "Ren??" Mayra can already guess what happened there. "Ren, send me your home address. I'm going to your house now."

Mayra cut off the phone with Rendra who had not spoken a word. He then rushed to his silver car.

📞 "Guys, please you guys handle the first job this afternoon. I'm hustling. I'll tell you the details" Mayra said as she directly planted the gas after she ordered her friends from behind the windshield.

On the way, Mayra's mind was in a state of turmoil. He had a very faint rumbling sound on the phone earlier. The voice of the teaching man. Women who that day wore a pair of jeans over the eyes and a short white shirt knew very well what a sign it was. He saw his cell phone, Rendra had sent him a map. Mayra actually knows where Asih Raya housing, where Rendra lives. But he doesn't know which way exactly. With the capital of the map that Rendra sent, Mayra drove his car quickly.

Before long, Mayra's car had arrived in front of a house in front of which was attached to a yellow flag. Mayra sighed. Imagine Rendra who yesterday only had a father, now must be really alone. His father followed his mother. The next night the man would be alone.

People passed in and out of the gate of the house Rendra that is not too high. They one by one say his martial will while strengthening the 23-year-old man who is now an orphan.

Mayra was still in the car. He actually wanted to get down. The clothes he was wearing were not fitting to show that he was grieving that day. The white shirt on her body read 'I'M HAPPY TODAY' with a small smile logo underneath. Mayra lowered her head reading a line of writing on her shirt. He's clucking pissed.

"Why do I have to wear these clothes?" his inner.

Before long, the iron coffin layered a green cover with a sling of a few rows of flowers on it came out of Rendra's house. Mayra watched him closely. One, two, three people pass by. But he has not found the man he was looking for. Until the group of the band carrier is quite far from sight, Rendra has not been seen. Mayra finally decided to get out of her car. He doesn't care about his clothes.

Mayra hurriedly entered the gate, continuing towards the living room. There he found Rendra sitting alone drowned limp.

"More?" Mayra sat in front of Rendra.

The man showed a heavy face. His eyes. Empty look. He saw the woman in front of him. Rendra's eyes suddenly filled again with stagnant water.

Brug.

Rendra hugged Mayra's body. Heart's crushed. Now he's completely alone. No parents, no sister, no brother. Lace is really dazed. He cried in the arms of a woman he should not have embraced.

***

📞 "Yank, where are you? Still in Griya?" Azka sounded worried on the phone. At 8pm his wife had not arrived home.

Mayra pandangi Rendra who pensive alone. He sat on the porch of the house, his favorite place to spend the night with his late father. Rendra's view is still empty. In his heart of hope, today was only a dream. A nightmare that will go away when the father's warm hands wake him up.

⬅️

"Well, you're handsome, you're not marrying again, Dad?" goda Rendra that time. They were watching TV together accompanied by a large pack of skin nuts.

"You're this. Do you want a stepmother?" Her father flirted back.

"Hahaha, what's the matter with stepmom, Dad?"

"If the one in the soap opera is the stepmother is evil." Rendra's father deliberately expressed ugly face.

"Haha. I'm not scared. I don't live in soap operas, Dad. After all, a good man's father, definitely gets a good wife later too."

"Your mom's the best, Ren. There will be no more women. Just your mother."

"Cieee's a loyal father. If you're still around, you're gonna be so happy."

"Haha. You're this. I really love your mother. But as much as you love me, I must have hurt your mother too. So there's no way your mom's 100% happy living with you."

Rendra listened to her father seriously.

"If you're 1000% happy%"

Rendra frowned confusedly. Father chuckles. The TV in front of them was no longer attractive. Two different men of that age were engrossed in his chatter.

"During your mother, I was always happy. His smile, his softness, his silly, his anger, to the point of being rude, always made me happy."

"Can't it be, Dad?"

"Yes, because all your mother's behavior now I can no longer feel. And dad misses me. Who would have thought that ugly and angry someone even made a strong longing one day?"

➡️

Rendra shed her tears again. His father's words he now felt. Only a day did his father leave him. But he understood, this was how his father felt first.

Mayra's chest was also crowded to see Rendra crying again and again even though the water as much as possible was held so as not to come out. Until she forgot to answer her husband's question.

📞 "Yank?" Azka's voice was shocking.

📞 "Yes, Yank," voice Mayra raucous. He cleared the clear mucus coming out of his nose.

📞 "You crying?"

📞 "Ha?? No, Yank. I'm too tired. Looks like I got a little flu," Mayra lied. "I'm still in Griya, Yank. I'm home late tonight. But by 10 I'll be home, all right."

Azka across from sighed. He knew his wife was lying. Azka called Lina first. And the woman told me that Mayra had been out of Griya from 9am.

Azka was silent, she could not guess where her wife was going. But all he knew was that something was covered by his wife.

📞 "Yes already, Yank. Careful, yeah. If there's anything, call me immediately." Azka chose to shut up.

📞 "Yes, Yank sure. Thank you, dear."

Phone disconnected. Mayra walked over to Rendra. He sat in the chair next to him. The chair that was usually sat by the deceased.

Rendra's eyes looked at the night sky whose stars were not too many. The moon up there shines alone, lonely. Like himself.

"May?"

"Yes?"

Mayra quickly replied as Rendra finally opened her voice.

"Thank you for being here."

Mayra. "You're in. Sleep on! Your eyes are tired."

Rendra chuckled softly at Mayra's words. He hasn't slept since two days.

"May?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

"For?" Mayra was confused because the adorable man in front of her said the same thing again.

"Thank you for being able to love me. By loving you, I still feel alive."

Rendra's words make Mayra clumsy. He knew that the man's heart was already fragile because of the loss of two people he loved so much. But how should Mayra? He can't do much either. He already belonged to Azka and Anggun.

But his concern for Rendra, makes Mayra realize that she also has an unusual taste for the man. Mayra bit her lip.

"More?"

Another voice rang out between Renda and Mayra. Rendra. There is already Bella who stands watching her ex-lover sitting alone with Mayra.