MY NAME IS RIO...
MEET CRESA!

I stepped out of Ngurah Rai airport. By taking an airport taxi, I drove to Hard Rock Cafe Bali. Tania had been waiting with Robin that afternoon, after Tania had finished showing the files of the contract the Notary had signed. We continued with a casual chat that afternoon. Finally Robin and Tania say goodbye, because there is an event elsewhere. I walked to the mall not far from there. The view of Kuta beach that afternoon was very crowded. I walked down the shop across the Kuta beach carrying my small suitcase. Soon I arrived at the mall which is located right across the Kuta beach. I stopped by a Resto & Cafe right in front of the mall entrance. I sat down to wait for the food I ordered. I sipped a bottle of beer while looking at the tourist-packed Kuta beach while waiting for Sunset. I called Eva, but there was no answer. I smoke while daydreaming.

I felt my shoulder being patted gently from behind.

"Rio???" A woman's voice came from behind my chair. I turned my head towards the direction the voice came from.

That beautiful woman's face I know so well!

THE CRESA! YES, HE IS CRESA! I took off my sunglasses slowly. Cresa moved back from where she stood. I looked at him with a sharp look. My hands are clenched and my jaws are tightly clenched. Breatheme. My chest was pounding violently holding back the emotions I had long stored.

"NO HURT FEELING, RIO!" I muttered repeatedly in my heart to calm my raging emotions. Cresa looked at me with teary eyes. I put out my anger that felt like it was about to explode. I took a deep long breath. I put my sunglasses in my shirt pocket. I feel a little better than I was. I stretched out my hand to shake her hand.

"How are you, Cresa!" Sapaku to her with a strange tone for the size of the person who has not met for a long time.

"Good, Rii. Can I sit there with you?"

I smiled wryly at her while moving to pull the chair across from me for her.

"Thank you!" He sat on that chair.

"Your news looks fine, Rii. How's Vina doing?" Ask again to melt the stiff atmosphere.

"Vina is fine..," I replied briefly as I sipped my beer straight from the bottle. My eyes while looking at the sun that was almost setting.

"Rii, I'd like to apologize. I know it doesn't matter, I owe you an apology!" Cresa said while bowing her face.

"You don't owe me anything! Especially not an apology. Let's just forget about it, Cresa!" I said with a wry smile I was still trying to temper my emotions.

I waved my hand from my chair calling the waiter.

"You don't want anything, Cresa? Mbok, I'm asking for 1 more bottle of beer huh!" Cresa ordered a glass of orange juice.

"Can I tell you now why I'm not missing you, Rii? Do you have time to hear my story, Rii?" He said with a clear face.

I just nodded my head while folding my hands. And Cresa started the story. That she moved to Semarang to marry her papa colleague to pay off her bankrupt papa debt. After High School she did not continue to college because her husband did not allow her to go to college. He started to shed his tears as the waiter delivered our order. The marriage was initially forced, as a return of the child to his parents. The beginning of her marriage was difficult because she did not love her husband. Her 15-year-old husband patiently faced the very young Cresa. After the completion of High School, Cresa had agreed with her husband to divorce. But circumstances say otherwise, Cresa's husband had an accident while out of town and finally her husband was sentenced to be paralyzed by a doctor. It was there that at first Cresa hated her husband so much, turned into loving her already paralyzed husband. And then her husband died 11 months ago. Cresa is now widowed. And now he lives a kara, while living away from his father and mother.

"I don't expect anything from you, Rii. If you want to be angry, I will accept your anger. I just want to apologize to you, Rii. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I don't want you to know my life and my dreams were ruined when I split up with you at the airport that day!" He said he closed the story while shedding tears.

I took a deep breath after hearing the story. I was thinking and being careful about what I was going to tell Cresa.

"Thanks, Cresa. You tell your sad story. I'm confused what to say. Hopefully you can live your life after this. We had a beautiful story once. I buried that story. I've heard your story, I hope we can still be good friends, Cresa! I'm sorry about you, when I buried my good memories with you!" I answered while patting the back of his hand. Cresa held onto my hand which clapped her hand. Then she hugged my body tightly. "Thanks to Rii, if you're sorry!" He said with a smile with his eyes still wet.

My phone's shaking, Eva's calling. I let go of Cresa's embrace from my body.

"Cresa, I have to go now!" I said as I stood up from my chair.

"Ok, Rii!" He answered while rising from his chair.

"Hmmm, can I have your number, Rii?" Ask Cresa again when I pay the bill.

"Oh yeah, you're okay! I'm saying goodbye!" I said as I turned around and walked away from Cresa.

I called Eva when I got my hotel room.

"Bebiiih, how did you not pick up the phone?" Eva said in an annoyed tone at the end of the phone.

"So I took a shower, baby!" I said lie to Eva.

"I'm sorry I lied to you today!" My regrets in my heart.

"When do you go home, baby? Am I the one who went there? I'm kangen!" He said again in a spoiled tone.

"Tomorrow or the day after I'll be home, baby! I missed u so much too, Honey!" I answered while throwing my body on the bed.

Eva and I called until midnight. Because of sleep, Eva stopped the phone that night. When the call with Eva was over. There was a notification tone there was a short message coming in. I saw that short message coming in. The short message was from a number I didn't know.

"This is my number, Rii. Your Bestie." So, that short message. That's a quick message from Cresa!

My eyes that night were awake again. Every time I close my eyes, always ringing again in my ears sad story Cresa this afternoon.

Cresa's sad face when she told me back imagined.

His face that was always cheerful when still with me was no longer visible in his face. Also the face of Eva who lately always accompany me. At that moment I felt a dilemma. I wish my meeting with Cresa had happened before I dropped my choice to get serious with Eva. If only I could turn back the time. Cresa was not yet 25 years old and she was already a widow! Something that must have never been imagined even crossed the mind of a beautiful girl like Cresta!

My phone's shaking on the table. I jumped out of my bed, I picked up a call from Vina.

"Hello! Rio hasn't slept you?" The sound of Vina's voice.

"Newly also want to brim, Vin. What's the matter at this time you call me?" I replied while taking a cold beer in the fridge.

"hihim! Just a whim, Rii. Suddenly your mind. You're good, right?" Ask Vina.

"I'm not well, Vin. Whoooohhhh!" I answered while taking a deep breath.

"Whats wrong? About Eva's again?" Vina asked in a raucous voice.

"It's not about Eva. Dengerin first, don't cut it before my story's finished, promise?"

"Yeah, iye! This story! The chunky!" Said Vina again.

Then I told Vina about the incident this afternoon. Vina listened to my story quietly until it was over.

"No comment, Bro. It's not your fault, and it's not Cresa's fault that she didn't know you back then. As I told you first, circumstances that make you and Cresa like that. Don't sacrifice Eva out of your sympathy for Cresa. Think of Eva's feelings too, Rii. You can pity the Cresa story. But inget! You're not alone now, you have Eva! Don't make your position harder! 4 Years without anyone. When you have a commitment there is a temptation. It'll always blow you, Rii. Cresa can you consider me a temen. Don't you give her any more hope, don't you like her?" Vina's advice is true, indeed my heart was worried since last afternoon because it thought about the story of Cresa.

"Yes Vin, Doain my relationship with Eva smoothly yes, Vin! Yes, yes, I'm so sleepy!" I answered Vina while ending the call that night. I don't know why Cresa's face filled my head that night.

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