Swipe You, Swipe Me
Recluse "Argh, just leave me alone!"

Tara noticed the sound of her mechanical clock on the wall, her delicate voice could even make her sleep sometimes. His room dimmed once in a while and then darkened again. The light comes from the screen of the phone that occasionally turns on and dimmed along with the incoming notification on the phone. There was no desire to move the hand to reach that thing. Tara just lay down and looked at the ceiling of the room which refracted the shadow of the dim light from outside her window.

It's the fourth Saturday after he split from Rendi. Sometimes he checks the window of his conversation with Rendi who is only in silence and without photo images.

I really broke up, huh?

The question was so cool that it swam in his head these weeks, it made him more pensive and like a body without a spirit carrying out daily tasks.

Tara knew she had to be her old self. He was tired of just going through a routine without passion, but this is how it happened when the occupants of his heart checked out without any news. He felt so wrong, together with no news he was restless, separated without news He languished.

Tara got up and was about to leave the room. He thirsts. At first glance glimpsed his phone that is lying still with the occasional screen on because of notifications. Some from Kiara, his best friend. Some community groups and the rest of his office friends. There is absolutely no desire to just open the messaging application. Tara stepped open the door.

"Eh! Oh, my God," a woman was shocked when Tara opened the door. He almost fell because he was standing in front of the door. He tried to hear any sound from within. So when the door opened and he almost fell, fortunately Sekar can still control himself. Now, Mama Tara.

"Jeez, what's the mama doing?" Tara surprised.

"New mom. Mama has masakin sauteed your favorite papaya flowers," he reported.

There's nothing more bitter than that, huh? Huft screams Tara's heart. The atmosphere was bitter and his mother prepared the bitter papaya flower.

He peered over his daughter's shoulder. "Aren't you turning on the lights, Nduk?"

"So he wanted to go to sleep, but I was thirsty" he said as he passed his mother, who closed the door behind him.

"Aren't you laper?" tanya Sekar followed his son down from the second floor of his house.

"So Tara ate before she got home, Ma. Sorry Tara forgot to say," she lied. His interpretation to just see the pile of food on the plate vanished somewhere.

"Nduk, stop. Don't think too much. Maybe it's not the way you guys are together," said Sekar slowly as Tara began to gulp water in her glass.

Tara quiet. He held himself back from crying.

"Nduk" said Sekar to make sure his son heard his words.

"Yes, Ma" Tara stepped into the dishwasher and cleaned her glass. "The ride yes, sleepy. Tomorrow morning Kiara jogs to the park."

"Yowes, sleep there if you're tired" Sekar stroked her daughter's back.

***

"Eh, you're crazy," shouted a girl who was walking towards Tara.

Tara put away a cigarette tucked in her lips. He looked at Kiara not much surprised as when Kiara found out that her name was used as an excuse without her knowledge.

Tara looked at Kiara who was wearing an oversized jacket, knee-length jeans and flip-flops that Kiara used.

"Deady cigarettes!" hardik Kiara's. He dislikes Tara's new habits that have been running for more than half a year. Tara tried never to smoke in front of Kiara but this morning Kiara's arrival left her unprepared.

"The cave is looking in the garden lu ga there, fortunately the cave tau you like nyepi on the edge of the lake," the girl sat herself right next to Tara.

"Once in a while you should be as calm as a lake. Sometimes the cave thinks it's the mouth of a firecracker," replied Tara again inhaling the cigarette.

"Death!" he snapped but did not try to snatch the cigarette from Tara's hand.

"Huss.., rather than you screaming mending favors the calm lake," Tara looked ahead without blinking.

"From on you calm outside rumbling in the dalem. Ga use abcd story, bales chat cave cake, DM cave cake, pick up cave cake phone. Feel connected to the dead," he said.

"What matters is still connected, right? Than at all it's not connected. The sign of the cave is still alive, Ra," replied Tara lazily.

"Lu tu ye," Kiara clocked Tara's head slowly. "Gua's worried. Afraid you think macem-macem, afraid you. ah cave anyway scared. Tomorrow if the cave is connected, the cave does not want to know, you must lift. Want you another bath cake, kayang cake!"

"I know, thank you for that, dear." Tara breathed out a long smoke from her mouth. It felt like he wanted to rumble inside him coming out with the smoke, but nothing. "Too the cave notice the cave cell phone sounds."

Tara showed her phone she set did not receive any notifications. Kiara is getting worse.

"Gua knows that Lo Rasain is now. The cave was once in Lo's position," Kiara put both her hands in her jacket pocket.

That morning the air was quite cold around the artificial lake in their city. The trees surrounding the lake were infested with small birds on their branches here and there. Some of the flower petals and foliage are still shrouded by the thin gray dew left over at night.

Tara just nodded at the babble of her best friend. At least, even though Kiara did not know all the action it went into the right ear hole and crashed through the left hole. He kept giving his response. He knew this lecture would not end quickly because this one lawyer would be very difficult to dismiss when he started talking. Tara still wants to enjoy her solitude. The silence of the place was to calm his heart.

"Lo who was at that time telling the cave ga down continued," Kiara nudged with her elbow. "Lo says the wheel of life is rolling and it won't stay in a place like this forever. There's still something much better than that guy. He did not appreciate Lo, why Lo still lingered in a uncertain situation like this. It's a sissy one!"

Tara tetiba standing up. Honestly He was tired of hearing the suggestions that were revealed but He did not let the heart express. Sebal also heard Kiara calling Rendi a sissy. Regardless of how great Rendi is, the purchase is in the heart.

"Find a yuk, laper." over Tara and get up from the lake's cement bench. His eyes began to look for food that could attract his heart to try and fill the stomach. If he could swallow it.

"Ih, nih son," said Kiara annoyed and then followed Tara.

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