Solar Throne
Golden Word

Gina looks at the clock on the wall of Surya's room showing it at 11 p.m. Gina got out of bed to go to the bathroom. But when looking at the bed Surya was sleeping, he was not there. Gina then walked out of her room to the bathroom. When he returned to the room, Surya had not returned. Gina was back on the bed. But when he closed his eyes, he opened them again. Remembering the incident that afternoon when he felt someone enter the room Surya. Gina then turned on the room lights. He lay down again but when he closed his eyes he felt something strange in the room. Gina opened her eyes again and circulated her gaze into the cramped room. Finally he grabbed his phone and called Surya.

"Suryas... Where're you?" Gina said softly when Surya had picked up his phone. There were boisterous voices of people talking across there.

"Hurry home. I'm afraid to be alone." Gina muttered behind the blanket.

"Let's all, I'll go home first." Pamit Surya to everyone in the stall after receiving change from the stall owner.

"Why go home now, Sur? Responsibility, not yet morning." Someone who puts his coffee cup forbids.

"Heh, Surya is a newlywed. Let alone. His wife called." This time Surya smiled at the words of the others there.

"Oh yes. Then go home. Good luck." The first person.

"What did it do, Mom?" Surya did not understand.

"Here, you're pretending not to know." Reply to that man. But then Surya paid no heed to their words.

"Oh yeah, thanks for paying for our coffee." Said the man next to the door.

"Yes, you're welcome." Surya then went out and headed home. The air is very cold at night because it was down the drizzle this afternoon. Surya walked to a house not far from the coffee shop where he was chatting earlier.

Arriving home, when opening the door of the room Surya found Gina who rolled her body inside the blanket. Surya smiled cutely seeing Gina acting like that. He remembered the pancake roll. Then Gina opened her blanket and turned to look at Surya who had just entered the room.

"Where are you? Why leave me here alone?" Gina woke up from her sleeping position.

"I went to the stall at the crossroads there, Miss."

"Why go to the stall at night like this?"

"Copy, Miss."

"Copy?"

"There's no cafe here, miss. This guy coped in a coffee shop."

"Oh, I think it's a rice stall."

"Yes Miss, besides rice, they also provide coffee, boiled noodles, fried." Gina mangosteen understands.

"You know, your house is a lot smaller than mine but it's a lot scarier. So I'm afraid of every single one alone. Don't go as you please without my knowledge."

"Surprising?" Surya frowned.

"You know, when I first slept in this room, I felt invited to 'acquaint' with the ghost of your room's guardian."

"My room-waiting ghost? This room you mean?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"How are you sure this room is haunted? As long as I occupy this room, I've never been disturbed."

"Of course you won't be disturbed. You're his friend."

"My friend?" Surya was amused by Gina's words. He became laughing.

"Usually the ghost of the waiter will not disturb the owner of the place. But he's gonna bother the stranger who came there."

"You know about all that?" Surya is holding a laugh.

"Yes, Ayu told me. He also said that if a room or house that is rarely inhabited by people, it will be a place for ghosts. While you rarely go home so your room is often empty." Hearing that Surya laughed. Gina pouted laughed like that.

"What do you mean the ghost came to you when you just arrived at this house while you were sleeping after coming home from the hospital?" Gina nodded.

"Look at me carefully, Miss." Gina looked at Surya in surprise. Why should he pay attention to Surya.

"Am I scary enough to be called a ghost?"

"That's me, Miss?"

"Huh?"

"Yes, I went home to get my car keys because I was allowed to go home. But I wanted to make sure if you were resting in the room so that time I came in, Miss. I'm hearing you say I don't want to wake up first so I'm not bothering you and letting you sleep back."

"So that's you?" Gina widened her eyes looking at the cute smiling Surya.

"Yes Miss."

"Yes God. Why do I believe in Ayu. He had clearly denied me before. But when he finally confirmed my bad thoughts why I didn't suspect him at all that he was lying to me. Ayu, look out, tomorrow I'm gonna beat him up and scare me." Gina looks upset.

"Alright Miss, please go back to sleep." Surya lowered his head to tidy up Gina's blanket which was already back in a sleeping position.

"Oh yeah, how's your wound Miss?" Surya looks for Gina's hand in the blanket. After finding it, he looked at his palm.

"Good, not swollen." While looking at Gina's wound that was covered by a water-repellent plaster.

"Surya..." Call Gina lirih.

"Yes Miss." Surya turned his gaze to Gina's face still while looking down.

"Thank you." Gina.

"For?"

"Always good to me." Surya blinked his eyes a few times. It was strange that suddenly a Gina said the golden word 'thank you'.

"I am often evil to you. My treatment of you has always been bad." Gina looked at Surya closely. Surya smiled and looked at it that way. Just this time he saw Gina speaking that sincerely. Seen from his eyes.

"I'm sorry." Surya was even more shocked when Gina added an apology afterwards.

"Yes Miss." Surya took Gina's hand off her hand and tidied up Gina's blanket again.

"Just right?" Gina could not believe that all of her words were just being responded to normally by Surya. Surya who had straightened his body so frowned.

"So, what should I do?"

"Ahh, stop. I'm gonna go to bed." Gina pulled the blanket up to the end of her head and turned her back to Surya. Surya smiled at that.

"Basic human robot. How could he just say that. Didn't he know I took the trouble to reveal everything." Gina muttered in her blanket in annoyance.

"He thinks this is easy for me? I've given up half a kilogram of my prestige for the sake of saying this and he's just saying 'yes Miss'. So annoying." Gina pulled out the blanket again and moved in. Seeing that Surya wanted to laugh a lot but he could stand it because he did not want Gina to scold him. Gina now really looks like a cocoon.

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Dinda checked the papers in front of her. As a teacher, he still has a job even though he is at home. Even though the night is late but the questions of repetition must be immediately corrected for the next given value. Being a teacher was her goal since childhood. He is the type of person with a high learning spirit. He was also happy when his friends asked for help to explain back the lessons they did not understand when the teacher explained. For him to know is something fun if it can finally be useful to others.

Surya also often asked about the lesson to him. As close friends since childhood, they often study together. Discuss each other and find solutions to the homework they do. Because of their closeness and similarity in accomplishments, her friends often match them up for dating.

"Once, you guys just date. If you are together, it will be better. You're gonna be a very sophisticated computer assembly." Temptation friends. Dinda and Surya just smiled in response.

But actually Dinda likes to be teased like that. He could not deny that he actually liked Surya. I don't know since when but clearly he liked his playmates since childhood. Although many men who say love to him but in fact they did not attract enough attention Dinda. It's just that he never knew if Surya felt the same way about him.

Surya was kind to him and also attentive. But Surya never expressed any fondness towards her. While he was also embarrassed enough to say his feelings first so that he could never tell Surya what he really felt.

Dinda put the ballpoint pen on the table with the papers scattered there. His mind was reminded of Surya whom he met a few days ago. He could not deny that Surya still occupies a space in his heart. Every time he met her, he was still pounding like someone in love.

But since the news of Surya's marriage he heard, he finally knew that all this time his love was indeed clapping hands. He never waited for Surya or tried to forget him. He always allows his feelings to develop without demanding a common feeling. He was too shy to reveal so keeping it to himself became what he considered the safest thing.

Dinda took a long breath. A clockwork was heard in his room. Surya's return to the village this time really disrupted his days. He always wants to meet her. Wanted to greet him and be with him like before. He never knew that Surya had a lover let alone have plans to get married. When Bebepa met when he came home, Surya never said that he had a girlfriend. But that was also because Dinda never asked him. He was too afraid of the answer Surya gave. So the news of Surya's marriage is a blow to Dinda's heart who always hopes Surya has the same feelings as her.

But I was the person she always cared about. After all, I was the first woman who was always next to him. Inner Dinda holds a picture of herself and Surya in high school uniform in front of a school gate.