Still Is Love
Still Is Love

“Is there still love?”

The question was always thrown by Erna whenever there was a man who expressed love to her. This is because he does not believe that love is still there. If the man who has expressed love answers still there, then he again asks, “What is it like and how is the embodiment of love?”

But if the man who has expressed love is silent, as Roy is today, Erna urges him by asking, “How, Roy, is there still love?”

Roy sighed deeply and asked back, “Is the answer important to that question, Erna?”

Erna nodded while saying in a serious tone, “Iya, Roy, that is very important to me.”

“Why?” asked Roy curiously.

“Because the answer to that question would be a reason for me to accept or reject that love of yours,” Erna explained. “How, Roy, is there still love?”

Roy remained silent. He looks confused.

“If you can not answer it, then you yourself do not understand what love is, Roy,” said Erna saw Roy confusion. “So why do you declare love if you yourself do not understand what love is?”

“Because I want you to be my girlfriend, Erna,” Roy replied in a serious tone.

Erna just smiled at the tip of her lips to hear Roy's words.

“I'm serious, Erna, I want you to be my girlfriend,” Roy said.

“So your girlfriend?” erna said as to herself. “Is it just that you declared love to me, Roy?” Erna asked.

Roy remained silent.

Roy remained silent.

“Low is that what love means to you, Roy?” Erna asked me.

“But it's ‘kan commonly understood by friends, Erna,” Roy said in self-defense. Then he mentioned one by one his friends who had been dating.

Erna just shook her head when Roy mentioned some of her friends who were already dating. His face looks cloudy. It was only after Roy finished mentioning all his friends who had been dating, Erna spoke up, “You are degrading the nature of love, Roy. You don't have principles, you don't have a handle, you just go along in love, Roy.”

“But isn't that also the assumption of people who see two lovebirds who are dating?” hatch Roy. “They must have thought that dating was turned away out of love, out of love, or out of love. Doesn't that mean, now love has been understood as a courtship activity? Without dating there is no love!”

Erna hush. His face is getting grim. Slowly but surely Erna's eyes glazed over.

Seeing the change in Erna, I who had been silent since just now watched and heard the conversation between Erna and Roy spontaneously exclaimed with a feeling of worry, “E-Erna, you-you are okay?”

Erna seemed to be indifferent to my alarm call. He said in a heavy voice, “Yes, we would think that they are in love and love each other. But then we witness the many tragedies that abound their love journey. Some are pregnant and then expelled from school, some are suicidal because of his girlfriend, some are arrested by the police for murdering his girlfriend cheating, some are so chili-cabean because they feel betrayed by his courtship, there is a break up and then hostile to each other and many other tragedies. Is it like love, which in the end to hurt each other?”

Roy hunchback.

“What is love for, Roy?” asked Erna who this time was decorated with restrained sobs. “Is love to hurt each other?”

Roy grew silent, then left without a word.

Erna who had no power to resist sobs immediately cried after Roy's death. In between her cries, several times slid Rita's name from her mouth.

I was silent, confused and did not know what to do. In my silence, I looked at Erna's face with a faint look…