Never A Stranger
VERACITY

On this holiday, Riri went jogging in the field where he was jogging with Rendy first.

He also contacts Rendy to say that he is jogging by himself, even he tempts Fajri to run with him.

"Hello.." The voice from behind the phone.

"Hello sir" Riri said

"What's this call at this hour, hm currently there is still morning right?" said Rendy guessing.

"Bingo"

"What's wrong?" ask Rendy again.

"Do you like to run?" Riri asked the exact same question that Rendy asked Riri at the time.

Rendy laughed behind the phone, "You're mimicking me now?" said Rendy who was still laughing.

"Why? Come here! I'm jogging now" Take Riri.

Rendy still responded with a laugh. Riri also laughed.

"Why are you suddenly jogging? and why jogging alone?" ask Rendy afterwards.

"Why indeed? Can I not run?.. Oh right jogging is only owned by the Swiss master" said Riri teasing Rendy.

"Haha.. Then do you want to be the Swiss lady?" ask Fajri. Riri sontak went silent.

When Fajri says it like that, he remembers Renty's ex-girlfriend. That was when Riri became uncomfortable again to speak.

Riri pretended that he had to go jogging because it was almost noon, then he hung up the phone.

Riri continued his jogging and stopped at the bridge near the river, he daydreamed of the times he had been through. He also slightly regretted the bad things that had happened to him, but no matter how they had passed, nothing could be repeated or changed.

Someone came over to Riri who was daydreaming.

"Riri" call the guy, he's Latifa.

"Latifa?"

"What are you doing here?" ask latifa.

"ee.. I was just running in the morning" replied Riri.

"Now you like to jog? though you used to be the most anti if the problem is this" said Latifa who already knew about Riri first.

"Once upon a time we also need to reflect on our body muscles right" Riri replied with a smile.

"Hmm right anyway"

"You yourself why are you here?" ask Riri back.

"I? Ee.. I was just walking around here, then accidentally saw you here so I'm ignoring you" Latifa explained.

Riri nodded her head in agreement with Latifa's explanation.

"R.. We passed Junior High rarely do we talk together like this, only once I think that time when we gather again" said Latifa while staring at the clear river water.

"Hm.. I think so, because we all have our own stories" replied Riri.

"You're still disappointed in me, aren't you?" tanya Latifa who then looked at Riri.

Why did everyone from her past ask about Riri's disappointment to them? Did they all regret their mistakes to Riri first?

"Why should I be disappointed in you?" riri replied casually.

"I took Fajri from you and it happened on your birthday" Latifa said.

Riri laughed and looked at Latifa, "It's been a long time right, why should we bring it up again?" riri said with a smile, no one knew that in his heart he felt very pierced.

"I know how you always refuse to hang out with us, it's because there I am, right? You also rarely reply to my chat, it's also because you are disappointed in me" Latifa said as if regretting her mistake.

"Sorry ri"

"Why apologize?" riri asked Latifa who apologized.

"It's all my fault, not Fajri's.. When you were last night with Fajri, I felt guilty for separating the two of you first, even I felt guilty for taking away your happiness and also Fajri's happiness" Latifa explained.

"Fajri's happiness is you ri, he loves you so much.. He never forgot you either. I'm just too selfish to think about myself, I don't even think about you and Fajri" he said..

"What did you say? Why blame yourself" Riri responded well.

"That color is my fault, I am also guilty of Rio. She didn't even come to the reunion when I was waiting for her, I wanted to apologize to her." Latifa sincerely said her heart.

Apparently that night, Latifa always looked at Riri and Fajri with a silent gaze, because she was regretting her actions when she saw Riri and Fajri together again.

"That's all happened Latifa, we can't turn the clock, after all Rio must have his own life now" said Riri.

"You're right.. I would feel happy if Rio had already gotten someone who was truly sincere in love with him, unlike me", Latifa unceasingly blamed herself.

"You've been great about regretting what you did and admitting your mistake.. But don't blame yourself too much tif" said Riri trying to calm Latifa.

Latifa then hugged Riri, she cried. That's when Riri just felt Latifa's deep regret towards Riri. He is also like Riri, he said that he hopes to go back to that time and improve what has happened. But still no one can repeat history.

"I can't fix what happened first, but we can fix what has to happen in the future" Latifa said.

"How's it?"

"Can you give Fajri a chance?" pinta Latifa sincere.

Riri is silent, she is shocked by the words uttered by Latifa who asks her to give Fajri a second chance.

"I told you, Fajri wasn't wrong about this. I was wrong" Latifa said later.

"On your birthday, I did deliberately take Fajri out, he already rejected me but I still forced him. I even gave her an excuse that I wanted to buy something for you that day, then she agreed to it and said that she would also prepare a surprise for you." Latifa explained.

Riri made as if he did not believe in Latifa's confession at this time, it turns out that he had deliberately trapped Riri and Fajri.

"She didn't even know I was lying about it, and we went both ways. At first nothing happened, I deliberately took a friendly photo with Fajri and sent it to you through an anonymous number" he added, an anonymous person who told Riri at that time was also latifa.

"When it was discovered by you, Fajri became confused, he was busy with his phone calling you and did not care about my whereabouts anymore. He even left me at the time, then an unexpected incident happened where Fajri had an accident, his phone was held by me and I was the one who told you that we were both dating, and I was the one who told you we were both dating, that's not me Fajri. Until you finally asked to break up with Fajri, I was relieved that there was nothing else bothering me and Fajri, without you knowing that it was all my tactics" Latifa explained.

The truth that Riri heard made her feel helpless, she had already blamed Fajri for what happened first, but the truth was that it was all Latifa's stratagem.

Somehow Riri also could not get angry at the current Latifa, she was made weak by the confession from Latifa. even though it was what he wanted all along but still he could not accept that reality well.

"I told you everything, right? Please if you want to hate me, please if you want to be mad at me!" latifa said again.

Riri started to talk.

"If it's all true, did you break it all up because Fajri already knew all the truth about it?" riri asked after hearing a long explanation from Latifa.

"True, Fajri knew that it was all my fault, he was furious with me. Even he cursed me, a friend like Fajri who I always admired at that time cursed me" Latifa explained with teary eyes.

"Then what is the reason Fajri didn't tell me the reason directly?" ask Riri

"You think so? Of course he wants to explain everything to you, he's eager to clear up any misunderstandings. She always finds out about you, when she wants to meet you she accidentally sees you with another guy at High School, she undoes her intentions and chooses to let you along with the others" latifa replied explaining.

"I also know all this from the stars, in fact they are all keeping this a secret from you, no one is allowed to say anything about this to you, including Fajri. But now I've told you" Latifa added.

That's why Fajri didn't talk about the reason he did that to Riri last night, it's because he wanted Riri not to know about it.

"Can you give her a chance?" ask Latifa again.

Riri looked at Latifa, Latifa's gaze full of sincerity and hope on Riri. He must have truly regretted his actions and wanted to correct everything that happened.

But Riri has been very difficult to accept someone in his life, let alone the person who will return is Fajri.

Seriate...