Niken Areline
Twilight

    It seems like Dimas is on his leisure after finishing some of his work in the middle of the day. While waiting for the break, Dimas twirled the pen in the fingers of his right hand. The two colleagues behind his desk were chatting. His voice was heard to Dimas' ears. The two women were talking about a fiancee. Apparently one of them was happy after a day ago his lover proposed.

     Then the chatter he heard gave one memory to appear in Dimas' head. A memory of what his mother said at the dinner table with his father. He is your fiancee, said his mother. At that time Dimas saw a photograph together with Julia Nada on the top of the mountain while holding a plate that read 3428 TOP MT. SLAMET. They look happy with a smiling face that is exposed to the sunrise. However, Dimas did not remember it at all. Let alone the figure of the woman in the photo, his parents who were at one table with him were also no longer recognized.

    That memory made Dimas notice Nada from a distance. From behind her work monitor booth, looks squinty eyes and bangs Julia Nada. He seems to be seriously doing his job. After a while, the incoming call came to the phone that was on top of the notebook. A name and a photo of a woman from the call, Clara Gretchen. His hair was brownish black, a boat. His brown eyes and dimples perfected his smile. Dimas.

    “Hei.”

*

    “What is Kusno as strong as Arka?” alan asked in his chat with Niken on the roof of the house. After work, they sat staring at a rare twilight in November. It's really rare like a dragonfly on a river.

     “I don't know, but my father said: Arka is the most perfect human being. He became the god of choice and inherited the power that comes from Lonat's keris created by Aulia.”

    “Then, is it possible that Kusno will inherit that power?”

    “I don't know either, but maybe. To be sure, Keris Lonat chose his own master. Once Aulia disappeared and left Lonat's keris no one could lift it off the table. Many came, but they failed. Then Arka came, she lifted the dagger off Aulia's desk, it was so easy! After that, the keris turns into light and goes into the right arm of Arka.”

    “Come so?”

    “Yes, I think I fit into your heart. Arka continued to weaken, and fell unconscious. People say that when Arka opened her eyes, she forgot everyone in front of her. Mother, father, wife and child. But that's what people say.”

     “Did he also forget the war?” alan asked, he raised his slightly bent-over-please waiting. “Did he forget everything?”

    “No, but he forgot there was a keris inside his arm. Until his wife told him what had happened, Arka began to realize the power of the kris.”

    “So that,” said. “Maybe Arka was exposed to the effects of the power of keris Yonad.”

    “L, o, n, a, t, Leap!” Niken asked for Alan. “Arka was affected by the darikeris effect, all the memories of his loved ones disappeared.”

    “Ya Lonat, but isn't it terrible, we're forgetting the people we love.”

    “Where are your parents Alan?”

    “They are dead,” he replied. “At that time I wasn't even two years old.”

    “Sorry.”

    “Gapa,” said. “My sister said, we used to have a car accident on the highway. Only the two of us survived that day,” Then it made Niken more aware of Alan's previous words. That she did not want to stay apart from her brother. “I miss him.”

    “Av lei meisa nale,” says Niken.

    “What does it mean?”

    “I also miss my parents,” answered Niken. He has shed tears.

    He had no one else, Alan sat up as soon as he saw Niken who had been faint and crying. Her tears were bright with twilight light and her eyes were glazed. Alan's face followed meu. In front of them, the sky was starting to darken,

the sun also slowly sank in the horizon. But along with that, the horizon emits a beautiful orange glow throughout the visible land and trees.

    Like dusk, their memories of their two parents who were gone, lost turned dark. It's not really dark, there might be clouds and flashes of lightning there, which might make them miss dusk.

    Even so, Alan did not dare wipe the tears that dripped on Niken's face. Even the phrase don't cry is still stuck in his mouth, you loser. The cry of Niken sounded more dominant among the sounds of birds flying back to the nest. Not long after, Niken turned into a red light as usual and entered into Alan's heart. Alan sat alone staring at the sky

it was dark, there was a moon on it. Maybe he (moon) is bringing cold.

*

    At first glance Alan saw the bright green eyes of the twigs of guava trees in his yard. Cat. Alan thought after looking faintly at the black-colored cat figure behind the leaves. Then the cat jumped to the ground and walked outside the fence. The black cat. Is that the same cat? Alan thought of the incident that morning when he was attacked by a black cat.

    “Niken, did you see?” lirih Alan asked, but also did not expect Niken to answer it through his mind, as had been. Then the cat disappeared from his sight, running away somewhere.