Never A Stranger
WHY YOU?

Riri was shocked to see the person whom Aldo invited as if he could not believe.it was Bagas? how could the person Aldo meant be a bagas. Bagas approached and greeted them all.

"Old gas?" aldo asked shortly after Bagas arrived before them, "no bang, Bru nyampe also" replied Bagas.

While Riri didn't know what to say, she felt really awkward.

Bagas looked at Riri "hallo Riri, not thinking that you were coming too" Bagas told Riri as if he was teasing Riri. Riri just nodded with a smile as she was really awkward to face Bagas.

Bagas himself was the younger brother of Aldo in the past during Junior High School and they were only close after creating a community of motorcycle gangs led by Aldo when Bagas just entered High School, actually, the motorcycle gang was long formed only Bagas who just joined when he was in High School. That's how Aldo explained to Riri how the two of them knew each other.

"Gas knows this is my girl Dwi" Aldo introduced his girl to Bagas, Bagas and Dwi shake hands to get acquainted.

"Riri and Bagas know each other?" ask Dwi because he only knew Riri and Bagas already know each other, "yes brother, bang Bagas was a close friend of Riri" replied Riri while embarrassed to look at Bagas, Bagas knew Riri was lying, he did not dare to say that Bagas was actually his ex-girlfriend.

"Oh that way, not close anymore, is it?" asked Dwi again like they were mocking the two of them, they both seemed embarrassed by the question Dwi, as well as Aldo who laughed with the words of the Dwi.

"Dear, they look awkward" continued Aldo who mocked them.

"It's not so big brother, Bagas and Riri have not communication for a long time so it's awkward like this" said Bagas to reassure. They laughed and confirmed Bagas' statement

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After talking on the parking lot, they walked into the vehicle. When he arrived at the security guard post, Aldo said that they had to split up there, Aldo said that he wanted to spend time with his girl and told Bagas to be with Riri, who was his wife, Riri felt Aldo deliberately did that so that Riri and Bagas could be together but that would make Riri very awkward especially just the two with Bagas. Bagas confirmed the words of Aldo, including Riri who did not dare to reject what Aldo said. Eventually they split up there and headed for their respective goals.

"Riri, what do you want to play?" tanya Bagas started the conversation.

"Riri does not like to ride the bang rides" replied Riri with his face down because he was still embarrassed to look at Bagas.

"Well, what would Riri eat?" ask Bagas again. Riri just kept quiet and then dared to look at Bagas, Bagas wondered why Riri looked at him like that after he asked that question.

"What's ri?" tanya Bagas wonder. Riri regained his senses from his silence and said that at this moment he did not want to eat anything. The reason for that was because he had eaten at home before leaving. Hearing that Bagas so confused will take Riri where else, then Bagas remembered the circus. Circus just watch it so they do not need to follow the rides.

"How about we see a clown circus?" tanya Bagas invites Riri. It again made Riri shocked and looked at Bagas again, Bagas felt that he had spoken wrongly to Riri so he immediately said "if Riri does not want to gapapa we can do other things" said Bagas to melt the tense and gripping atmosphere.

"Riri wants to" replied Riri who immediately turned her face away from Bagas. Bagas smiled because Riri did not refuse his invitation, without Bagas knowing that actually Riri had a past trauma in the clown circus, but Riri did not want to tell the real Bagas for fear of Bagas being disappointed, but Riri did not want to tell Bagas, after all, Riri had twice rejected Bagas' invitation.

They stepped into the circus building, bought a ticket and entered. They sit in the middle seat to watch the circus, when the circus starts Riri gulps, Bagas realizes that and stares at Riri without Riri's knowledge.

"What's wrong with Riri" asked Bagas in his heart, he wondered why Riri was so afraid of these rides.

Clown out with their attractions, Riri saw the clown doing attractions to make him remember the past events, until finally the clown asked 2 small children to follow their attractions, and the clown, it's exactly what happened 15 years ago.

Riri immediately shouted "don't do that!" riri shouts like he saw the events of 15 years ago will happen again. All eyes were on Riri, Bagas saw Riri screaming to wonder why Riri did that when it was just an ordinary and safe attraction.

"What's Riri? you gapapa?" ask Bagas and try to calm Riri who looks panicked.

Riri looked at Bagas and then cried, she ran out regardless of the people around her watching her. Bagas also chased Riri out.

"Riri" cried Bagas calling Riri who ran while crying. However, Riri never stopped, Bagas continued to chase after Riri and finally Riri stopped at one of the parks there, he sat on a chair and was still crying. Bagas came over to Riri to calm her down.

"What's the ri, is there a problem?" tanya Bagas who was still astonished by what happened to Riri. Riri was still crying and did not answer Bagas's question, Bagas sat in the chair beside Riri "if you are afraid to see the circus we can watch other rides" said Bagas, but Bagas' speech turned out to make Riri upset and said that he did not like any rides, "why do you not understand also if I do not like to do that" Riri snapped.

However, when it was snapped Bagas Riri instead felt guilty then said that he was afraid. Bagas hugged Riri to calm her down, Riri was still crying in Bagas' arms.

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After he calmed down a little Bagas again asked what happened to him, hoping Riri would tell him the truth. unexpectedly it turns out Riri wanted to tell the events of 15 years ago it was to Bagas, the, Bagas who heard was shocked and he understood that Riri was still with his trauma, but why would he want to come to this vehicle if he was traumatized 15 years ago.

"I think the trauma is gone, it turns out he's still there. I was so scared that it happened again" Riri explained to Bagas.

Bagas tries to calm Riri by saying that Riri is okay, the trauma will soon disappear and he tells Riri not to force himself.

Bagas stood up and went to buy drinks for the two of them, they sat in the garden while looking at the sky and saw fireworks that passed in the sky. Riri had calmed down by now and had started to joke around again with Bagas. Bagas who saw Riri had calmed down to be relieved.

"Riri.. You know that I miss you so much?" said Bagas arrived, Riri was shocked by Bagas' statement.The atmosphere began to turn gripping. Riri just fell silent.

"Honestly, I didn't want to leave you at the time, it was my biggest mistake. Why was my mind immature at the time?" connect Bagas.

"I left you and picked a girl I thought was better, when in fact the better one was you, how stupid I was when it was because it was too hard to forget my past" Bagas still continued to speak to explain his mistake first, while Riri was still silent not knowing what to say.

"If you don't want to be my best friend anymore?" tanya Bagas, Bagas does not invite Riri to date but invites Riri to become his best friend.

"uh?" Riri was shocked and immediately looked towards Bagas.

"It's difficult if you have to start a romance from the beginning again, but it's not difficult to start a friendship again" said Bagas while smiling to see Riri, who is still in love, in Bagas's heart he still loves Riri very much but he is afraid if he starts again. If the ending remains the same their relationship will become tenuous, therefore Bagas chose to make them friends only, by making friends they can also be close.

"Why you and why me?" riri asked Bagas with glassy eyes

"It's our color" Bagas replied as if nothing had happened just yet.

"Ri. they're not all wrong, it's destiny. You are met with someone and then separated.. Can't you make it an experience?" Bagas tried to calm Riri down for the second time.

"What do you know?" ask Riri who has started emotions with her own circumstances.

"That's because of Fajri?" bagas' question suddenly made Riri shocked then spontaneously stared inside Bagas

"Who told you this?" Riri feels Bagas has passed, he finds out all about Riri including where Riri will continue his education that Riri had never told him before.

"Isn't that overdue?, you find out all about me, why?. I didn't even tell you who it was, and then you knew where I was going to college when I never told you, we just started communicating again and how did that happen?, what's wrong with you?" Riri revealed all of her heart in anger.

Bagas was just silent and lowered his head, trying not to get lost in emotion because he knew this time it was his fault, but that did not mean he was obsessed with riri.

In the end Bagas dared to explain the truth to Riri how he knew everything "you were right, it was indeed a mistake, but I am not that dangerous ri. It's true that we have just communicated but before I have asked someone about you" explained Bagas to convince Riri, Riri mute..

"Aldo.he was the one who told me you were going to college on the farm, that's why I came to know" Riri looked at Bagas and looked into his eyes, apparently Bagas was telling the truth.

"And as for the person who hurt you, how do I know? someone also told me and it wasn't yesterday or a year ago.. It's been since you've been hurt by it".

"Why did that person suddenly tell you?" tanya Riri hesitated with Bagas explanation.

"The day you were hurt by it was the day I had regretted my mistake too. So, that means I tell the person that I am sorry and he then explains that you have been hurt by Fajri, Fajri left you" explained Bagas again and immediately responded spontaneously by Riri "He did not leave me, he did not leave me, it's just that we can't continue together" Riri argued.

"Good, even when like this you still defend him" said Bagas who did not understand why Riri loved Fajri so much.

"And do you know, if there's anyone you should remember then it should be me, because what? because I didn't hurt you like that ri.. I did leave you, even then I didn't explain why. Now I'll explain to you that I had to" Bagas, as if he had been dissolved in his emotions, explained everything to Riri with his eyes already beginning to glaze over.

"Forced? you don't realize how I was at that moment? although I accept you to leave just like that but in my heart I am not willing and Fajri he came to heal my wounds because of you, he is also a medicine for me" Riri was also dissolved in his emotions, they both seem to be revealing everything tonight.

"Enough about Fajri is enough, you don't know what really happened.. I was forced to leave you because someone told me to leave you, you know who? she is Latifa" Riri is shocked to hear Bagas' statement saying Latifa caused all this.

Latifa herself was a sabahat near Riri during Junior High, she was also close friends with Fajri.

"Can't be.. Why are you trying to accuse Latifa here?" Riri denies.

"I know you won't believe it, just so you know he's saying that you're the one who's guilty here.. He sent me a picture of you with Rio" this time Bagas explanation really made Riri shocked as if he could not believe what happened because Rio was Latifa's boyfriend at that time, they had indeed a photo of three during Rio's birthday, possibly the photo was cut by Latifa.

"You must be wondering why I just kept quiet and just walked away? it was because Latifa who asked me, she said that you are now happy, she also said that she will not be related to you anymore because you snatched Rio from her, she said, but a few months later I saw you with Latifa again, how broken my heart was knowing that Latifa lied about it all, I wanted to tell you everything but I was guarding someone's heart. So, I chose to be quiet until this day comes, today is the day" Bagas continued. While Riri still can not believe the reality that he received.

"You know she likes Fajri then why are you dating Fajri?" ask Bagas after he finishes explaining everything.

"That's because Latifa asked me to. When she was still dating Rio, she asked me to forget about you and said that if I had to start over, she also said that it was not your fault, that it was not your fault, because he knows you are a good person and must have a reason for that, then he brought Fajri closer to me, after Fajri and I dated the four of us often to go together" replied Riri.

Bagas finally understood it turned out that it was a tactic from Latifa, if Riri's courtship with Fajri he could continue to be close to Fajri as well without having to break up with Rio. Riri who knew that really does not believe in reality. It turned out that his own best friend was trying to destroy him. However, strangely at that time he could not cry like that anymore, instead he just fell silent.

"Then why did you break up with Fajri?" ask Bagas

"On my birthday, Fajri didn't do anything, I don't mean I want him to buy something, give me a surprise or something special. I don't want that, I just want my birthday Fajri to stay with me. However, he reasoned that he had no time for it. I also had her covered by that time, until I finally found out that on that day she left with Latifa both" Riri tried to explain calmly so that she would not cry again.

"Even when I was discovered I was still thinking positively about him, maybe he would give something to me and ask Latifa for help because Latifa was my best friend. However, it turns out I was wrong, they really went both because they wanted to" continued Riri.

"What about Rio?"

"Rio was the same, he did nothing but end his relationship with Latifa, but strangely Fajri and Latifa were not dating either. I don't know what happened to the two of them, I never asked Latifa anything about it" explained Riri.

"And that's what you call medicine for your wounds?. Ri, he who became the medicine will never become a wound, and vice versa. If you feel treated with him then why do you also feel hurt? Don't be a fool if it's a matter of love, you're precious. So, do not just because Fajri you become numb like this" said Bagas who advised Riri as he advised his own sister.

"I say this because I love you, your future is still long ri. Then about Latifa, you were really so good at forgiving her and staying friends with her, no problem with that. Maybe you think that's the right thing. But what about Fajri? You still defend him after what he did to you?. I do love you ri but that doesn't mean I want to have you, if you want me to be able to make Fajri hurt in one day because he has hurt you, you're like my own sister now" connect Bagas.

"I didn't ask you to hit him bang" Riri was worried Bagas would do nothing to Fajri.

"Who am I going to hit him, getting hurt is a lot of ri, even that kind of thing you don't really know how you want to start a romance?".

Riri fell silent and realized what Bagas said was true, Riri is indeed stupid if it is about love and stupidity that finally makes him numb to not want to start a relationship again.

Riri looked at Bagas as if thanking him for what Bagas had done for him, he knew Bagas was indeed a good man, indeed, he was only instigated by someone at that time and added to it when their minds were still equally immature.

They had a conversation that night without realizing it was late, Riri had to go home soon because tomorrow morning he had started his first day of college, which was the introduction of campus.

However, because Aldo and Dwi are still busy playing together there, Aldo asked Bagas to take Riri home, Riri also could not refuse because if not Bagas who else would take him home.

After saying goodbye to Aldo and Dwi, Bagas and Riri to Bagas' car, they immediately set off for Riri's house. During the journey they still used to talk like they used to, there was no sense of awkward anymore. But, Bagas said something that made the atmosphere back silent, even after arriving at home they did not say anything but thanks from Riri to Bagas for bringing him home.

what did Bagas say?

Seriate..