The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
First time to Jakarta

Andre took me to a city called the metropolis. I was amazed to see the skyscrapers lined up neatly along our way to go somewhere Andre would take me.

"We have arrived in central Jakarta Nuri!" Andre told me in between driving. I who was staring in amazement at the building towering high through the car glass glanced at him.

"What does it mean we've reached your cousin's place?" ask me then.

"Oh no, my cousin is in east Jakarta."

I scrunched my forehead feeling astonished at him. How not surprisingly, his cousin was in east Jakarta but Andre took me to central Jakarta.

"Why did you bring me here? isn't central Jakarta to east Jakarta far enough?"

"But not as far from your village to Jakarta, is it Nuri?"

"Dre.I'm asking you seriously!"

Andre laughed broadly and said, "I deliberately brought you here who knows you want to enjoy the glitter of the city of Jakarta from a height." Again I frowned, not understanding what Andre said, but I chose not to ask again but to turn my eyes towards the car glass and enjoy the atmosphere of the city again.

After turning around, Andre finally parked his car under a building that I know is called basement, although I never went to Jakarta but I knew it.

"Look Nuri, we go down," Andre asked, and I nodded.

After that, Andre led me to a door I knew as an elevator. After the door opened, it was true that I thought it was an elevator. Then we entered the empty elevator and Andre pressed the number twenty button. I was a little surprised to see the button that Andre was pressing, it meant that Andre was going to take me to the twentieth floor. In my heart I asked exactly where Andre was going to take me? but my mouth chose silence. After the elevator door opened, we walked through the hallway that looked lonely there were only one or two people who were passing by.

We stopped at a door number 202. It looks like Andre took a key out of his pants pocket and opened the door.

"Look Nuri in!" invite her, I just according to enter the door that has been opened. Upon arriving inside I was astonished to see a room like a modern minimalist residence.

"This is where I stayed while I was in Jakarta Nuri !" I slightly enlarged my pupils."So..."

"Yes, this is my apartment!" then Andre walked towards the curtain that was wide enough then pulled the curtain wide, immediately my eyes widened to see it. The wide glass displays a view of Jakarta and I was at a height of twenty floors of an apartment.

"We rest here, because the show is about three to night."

"So this is what you mean by seeing the flickering city of Jakarta at night at the height of Dre?" I asked Andre who was looking out at the glass and he nodded without looking at me.

"So you mean we're gonna stay here?"

"Yes, we can't go straight to Nuri's village, because I don't know if the show will be finished until what time. Anyway I can't drive at night.sleep, except."

"You're taunting me?"

"Ha ha ha. I forgot that you can't drive a car." Andre mocked me, but I did not pay attention to the ledge but rather chose to sit on a long sofa and put Zain to sleep.

"Is Zain asleep?" andre asked, maybe he just realized that Zain was asleep. Zain had been asleep since entering the elevator.

"Do you want to go to bed with Zain Nuri? Andre offered me, I feel so tired that I really want to lay down my body, I asked back." Can I sleep in your bed?"

Andre laughed loudly and said, "may dong, let alone one day or two days, forever also may, I really want you to sleep in my bed for ever together.I." Andre started teasing me.

"Dre...!"

"I'm just kidding Nuri, but I'll wait for you until you're really ready to fuck me forever with me." Then Andre stepped out of the room after speaking so. I looked at his back with mixed feelings. Then I let out a big sigh and joined my body beside Zain and closed my eyes.

In the middle of my dream of meeting Raihan, I felt my body shake and little by little I opened my eyes that still felt sticky, the first face I saw was Andre's face. I was surprised then immediately sat down, it turned out that Andre woke me who had been asleep for quite a long time. I noticed Andre's performance was neat wearing a black suit and a tie around his neck.

"Mama," Zain greeted me who was standing next to Andre, he also looked neat.

"Your mama is like a buffalo when you sleep hard to wake up Zain." Andre mocked me but I was silent instead thinking about the dream of meeting with Raihan. I wonder during the day I dreamt of meeting him what because I missed him so much that I was carried away by dreams during the day.

"Be quick to take a shower, we're leaving soon" said Andre, and I nodded.

Fifteen minutes later I was ready for my performance. Wearing a long dress that I bought some time ago, wearing a high hill seven inches so that my body looks towering and do not forget also I put makeup on my face.

Andre was stunned to see me who had just walked out of his room."You are very beautiful Nuri," he said.

"Thank you for the compliment, so don't be ashamed to be there." Andre laughed loudly at my words, then he invited me out of his apartment.

After getting out of the elevator, we entered Andre's car and he drove his car out of the basement leaving the towering building. Along the way there wasn't much talk we were talking about but on a quarter of the way near the location I felt my heart beating fast. I was confused why my heart was like this when in the apartment my heart rate was normal. I held my chest that felt tight and my movements did not escape from the tail of Andre's eyes that were watching me.

"Nuri, are you okay?" tanya yes, half the tail of her eyes glanced at me. I nodded though less sure that I was okay.

"When will you hold on, huh?"again, as if I were seriously ill. But I ignored his words but tried to neutralize the feeling that my heart was beating normally. I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly so I felt my heartbeat return to normal.

"How's Nuri? do we need to go to the hospital?"

"Oh, no need, I'm fine." I immediately rejected it.

"Are you sure?" ask Andre again to make sure.

"Yeah, im sure." I replied confidently.

"Okey, I'm so calm to hear it," said Andre then smiled, as well as I joined in smiling.

Shortly afterwards Andre's car entered a car park that was already seen full of cars. Then we walked towards a three-story building and saw many people passing by and were seen also lined with bouquets of flowers written congratulations on a company that seemed to be newly established. But what makes me stunned to see dozens of rows of garlands is the name of the owner of the company like the name of the person I was thinking about all this time.

"R&N Group's. Mr. Raihan Hermawan." I read the names on all the garlands in my heart.

It came to my mind, was the owner of this newly established company the Raihan I had longed for all this time? But I immediately dismissed that thought, it felt impossible because the Raihan I knew was just a student and worked in a car showroom. I thought maybe by chance the name was the same.