
That afternoon Ni Luh and Sephia were in a Mall on the beach. As usual they buy some bread and two cups of drinks that contain contemporary coffee. Sitting in the park with a stretch of grass, looking at the open sea ahead there.
Recalling earlier when Sephia came out of Danar's room her face turned red, not because she blushed shyly but held tightness in her chest.
And here she was with Ni Luh, Ni Luh happily accompanied the girl to vent her heart.
"You want to cry .. cry aja Phi," said Ni Luh staring at Sephia who was staring at the pounding waves chasing each other with teary eyes.
Sephia let out a long sigh, the tightness felt like a pile of mountain rocks stuck in her chest.
"Love is like not being able to stop Mbok, I don't know I feel I can't let go of the taste, to turn it into hate even I can't."
Sephia began to wipe away her tears.
"Phi, life is a choice .. but the heart is not to be chosen," Ni Luh said, citing a fragment of the song he often heard. "Danar made his life choice, yet he could not choose which heart would fill his own heart space, it was already karma for him." Don't forget Ni Luh is a Balinese who believes in karma.
"You want how much your love if you fall on the wrong person, it will be free," said Ni Luh again.
True what his friend said, want to say hundreds of times Sephia said love to the man if Danar is not his, then everything will be free.
"Sick Mbok ..," said Sephia, beating her chest and sobbing in tears.
"Expose all your resentment, your hurt, and then think ahead of you what it's like." Ni Luh hugged the girl.
Is it the wrong time that has brought them together or destiny that is not in his favor. The universe has not given him a chance to be happy.
For two more hours they were in the park, exactly eight in the evening, Sephia decided to go home. Stopping at the grounds of the two-story building, Sephia finds Danar standing exhaling his cigarette smoke into the night sky.
It seems like Danar has been there for a long time, seen from cigarette butts that have been scattered around his feet.
Danar looked at the girl. Sephia took off her helmet and got off the bike. Leisurely walked up the stairs without seeing Danar who was watching him.
Sephia's heart is only not ready to be hurt, if it has to face again with Danar. He was just afraid this would hurt more than before.
"Republic ...." Danar.
Sephia stopped her steps on the stairs without turning her head.
"What else do you want?"
"I ...." Danar felt pain in his chest. It may be as painful as the pain Sephia feels.
"I didn't tell you, don't see me anymore."
"Republic ...." Danar aligns himself.
He grabbed Sephia's hand. He clenched tightly into the girl's hand, taking her into his arms. Sephia still stood there stiff, not replying even impressed no response from him, but her eyes closed feeling the beating of the heart that interlocked with the pain in her heart.
"Love me a chance" whispered Danar.
"I'm too stupid to believe in you" Sephia said.
Danar pulled his body, looking at the netra that turned out to be swollen from crying.
"Where are you from?"
"What cares about you" Sephia took her hand off Danar's.
"Obviously I care" he replied.
"A superior only cares about the staff in the office, not outside the office," said Sephia ketus recalling this afternoon, still ringing clearly in his ear when Danar said if he was his staff.
"I'm sorry, Phi."
"Please, don't ever come again .. And it's better, we behave professionally like the drama of the afternoon."
Sephia stepped back up the stairs and left Danar still there. Danar stepped wide up two steps at once, chasing Sephia. Unfortunately, the girl's room was already sealed. Many times Danar knocked but there was no response from Sephia.
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Sephia really did her part well. Sephia tries to be professional like subordinates who do not have a special relationship with superiors.
While Danar, still with the same gaze, a gaze that never changed. Danar only restrained himself, at Sephia's request to behave professionally like superiors and subordinates.
The night before the launch of the new product of the company where he worked, Sephia came with Ni Luh. The girl was so sweet, wearing a long black dress with a hemisphere on the side above the knee, and a sleeveless dress model. Her hair was only in low midgets. Accessories are not excessive and make up is so simple.
But Sephia, managed to captivate all the eyes that see it, not least Danar. The girl was so graceful, Danar's eyes could not be separated from looking at her since the first time Sephia set foot in the hotel hall.
Sephia thoroughly enjoyed the night, occasionally seeing their eyes meet. Especially when Danar gives a word of greeting and inaugurates a product that has just been confirmed circulating in foreign and domestic markets, his gaze cannot be separated from Sephia.
Agung should have come as the company's highest-ranking representative, but unfortunately Mr Hermawan is in need of him for a health check-up in Singapore.
Wulan never stopped buying himself at Danar. Yes, the woman is still in Bali until the next day, she deliberately remained in Bali until the company event is completed.
So proud Wulan introduced herself as the future wife of the company's leader. The whispers of all the employees from the whispers flattering her beauty to talking about it like a parasite that always sticks to Danar was heard.
"Mbok, I went to the toilet for a while, yes, I put this on," Sephia said giving her clutch and cell phone to Ni Luh.
"Yes, don't be long .. it's half-nine" said Ni Luh who was talking to Made.
Sephia quickly moved her legs to the toilet, still searching where the toilet was and finally found it. Shudder in horror as he gets the most end toilet near the emergency staircase.
Sephia was shocked when she came out of the toilet to find Danar waiting for her there. Danar had indeed followed him, he was looking for a way to escape from Wulan only to meet Sephia while being alone.
Leaning against the wall near the toilet exit, Danar waited for Sephia there. Danar smiled when he saw Sephia's shocked face seeing her standing there.
"Shock it," said Danar.
"Excuse me." Sephia passed by Danar who was still smiling at her.
The man quickly led Sephia out of the emergency exit. Corner the girl on the wall near the stairs. He only needed to be alone with the girl, letting go of his longing for a moment. Prevent the girl from avoiding him anymore. And make that girl never go away from him.
I swear by anything, the feeling never goes away, even more fertile grows in the heart of Danar. True may be the expression, that life is a choice, but the heart is not to be chosen.
Yes, her heart chose Sephia even though she had to live her life with Wulan later. Selfish indeed, but do not forget the heart also can not be forced.
Danar looked at the girl before him, stroking the cheek gently. His heartache saw Sephia acting indifferent to him.
"You what?" tanya Sephia lirih's.
"You want to." Danar began to smell the girl's neck softly, inhaling the fragrance of Sephia's body that had long been unscented by her sense of smell. "I miss," he said squeezing the girl's waist.
Sephia was silent stiff and stiffened.
Oh my God, I also miss this inner Sephia man with teary eyes enjoying every touch of Danar.
"You are beautiful tonight .. always beautiful, I should be by your side not your friends, and remove all eyes that stare at you at will." Danar grunted in annoyance.
"Danar, stop." Danar was still down the neck, then raised his face, looking at the severed Sephia.
"Allow me, Sephia ...." Danar's eyes stared softly, there was a longing there, he touched the girl's lips, kissed her softly, held Sephia's bend for longer to link their lips.
"I beg Danar, don't make this more painful." Sephia pulled her body, Sephia cried.
"I love you" said Danar. "Great love for you, please allow me .. Just once give me a chance." Danar's eyes glazed over.
"I'm sorry I can't .. I don't want to be hurt anymore, I don't want to be among you, I don't want to be like your mother who is present between your Papa and your Mama, I don't want to be among you, I don't want to." Sepia was crying again.
"Phia, I beg you." Danar is restoring her hair in frustration.
Sephia got away from the man.
"Never go, I beg Phi ...."
Sephia kept on passing, opened the door and took a quick step and wiped away her tears.
This is the last time Danar .. Inner Sephia cries.
***just go away from me ...
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