The Story Behind the Curtain
Disappointment of Love

Dilangit west, the light of the sunset and on this long and tiring day, Erli found his heart filled with sighs. The faint shadow, the dried up laughter added to the sadness of his heart and the gaping wound would not easily disappear.

In the middle he walked a darkness of greeting clouds and specks of rain kept flushing the earth and his body. The splashing sound of rain was irrigating his wrenching cry, Erli repeatedly patted his chest that felt tight. His lungs seemed unable to pump the Oxygen he breathed, Erli's breathing was choked many times.

Tears flowed along with rainwater that soaked the entire body; if Erli remembered the incident, he wanted to feel like he had gone and doused Rafan with a glass of drink served on the table. However, it was impossible for him to do so because he realized that between the two of them there was a dividing wall.

I thought you prepared that for me. It turns out that there is another woman in your heart, in vain I tried to win your heart and in vain I cultivated the love between us, Erli lamented in his heart.

Deep into his despair, Erli walked in the middle of the crowded vehicle. Some drivers yelled at him, completely indifferent to the screams of everyone standing on the shoulder of the road, until there was a pick up car driver who was willing to pull over his car, immediately he ran towards Erli with an umbrella in the left hand.

“What are you trying to do?” ask the woman.

The lightning that struck made Seri's voice not heard by Erli, with Seri's heavy heart repeating his question. “What do you do rain like this?”

“I don't know,” Erli replied as he walked closer to Seri's car.

The tomboyish woman tilted her head and she continued to stare at Erli's back which was getting further away. Erli shouted at Seri, hearing Erli's call, the tomboyish woman accelerated her pace.

“Why are you standing in the middle of the road like that? You're not afraid of the car tabarak or anything like that?” Series glanced at Erli for a moment.

Erli smiled and shook his head slowly. “For what fear?! We'll all die too ‘kan?”

“Iya really, but appreciate life while you have the chance. Don't you pity the baby that's in there?” The woman's index finger pointed towards Erli's stomach.

Seri's remarks made Erli cry again and he was very sorry for his behavior. There is a sobbing Erli asked the woman to drive him to the contract he once lived in, coincidentally the house still belongs to Erli until the next September.

“Thank you, Ma'am. If you can know whose name is Ma'am?” Erli opens the car door as Seri stops his car in front of Erli's rented house.

“Series, if your name is who?” Seri smiled while giving her a packet of bread and a bottle of mineral water. “Take it! I'm sure there's no food in this house.”

Erli stared in astonishment, “Where do you know, if I have no food?”

“See your home condition! Has this house not been occupied for a long time?” said Soft series.

“About three months it is not in this house.” Erli smiled faintly as he rubbed his nape.

Seri laughed at Erli's expression, after the introduction after Seri left Erli just like that. Erli rose to grab a key hidden in the air hole, moist air greeted him as he opened the door.

All the items were still neatly arranged in place, Erli opened the curtain of one of the rooms. The two-bodied woman was curled up in the dark corner of the room, her cries were heard again and she suddenly screamed moaning.

All the items in the room he threw carelessly, it seemed all the goods and bags scattered.

“When you touch your eyes, nose and lips up to your fingertips. I can still feel it,” Erli said sobbing. “But like a fire burn. Burned and destroyed, all our love is so painful.”

With her tears still flowing. It feels like Erli is forgetting Rafan, a man he has always respected and loved.

“Why did You create this taste, O God? Slave couldn't have done this without him!” erli asked sobbing, slowly he laid his body on the floor.

“If this is a dream, please wake me up?! Don't let me drown in this nightmare, O God. I ... I don't want to sleep too soundly.”

***

“Assalamualaikum ..” Rafan opened the door.

“Iya, it was noon. Indeed why?” The big man asked back.

“Mbak hasn't come home until now, Mas. Nia has tried calling but Mbak's number is off,” said Rania slowly.

Rafan's eyes were round looking at the younger brother.

“Yang right? Don't prank Mas anymore!” rafan exclaimed with a rising voice.

Rania's hands squeezed each other, “Rania did not mess around Mas .. This is real, Mbak has not come home since leaving this morning! I also do not know where Mbak,” said Rania full of emphasis.

Rafan again wears the shoes he just took off, “Mother where?”

Rania's finger turned inward and just as the girl was about to speak, Rafan had already gone inside her garage. The young girl was still looking at the curious sister.

“Where are you? Why did I comply with your request? Aargh ... what a fool!!” Rafan hit the steering wheel of his car repeatedly.

Throughout the journey Rafan's eyes continued to glance to the right and to the left, hoping to find the wife. His left hand grabbed the earphones, he calmly called Erli. However, Rafan's calls are always diverted to the ballot box.

Oh Allah ... Where's my wife now? Protect her wherever she is, ask Rafan in your heart.

Every place Erli likes has been visited, Rafan also called Erli's college friend who lives in Jakarta.

Rafan banged his head on the steering wheel while thinking about his wife.

“Why don't I get to mind that place? He must be there.” Hurry up, he steps on the gas pedal.

***

The sound of knocking on the door sounded. With a limp body Erli got up and staggered to open the door, as he opened the door his eyes glared at that face.

Slowly he walked back, his heart unable to believe what he was currently seeing. When Erli wanted to step forward his head felt dizzy his legs were unable to stand anymore, his face was also very pale. Without saying another word the man carried Erli and took him away from the dirty rented house.

After the departure of Pajero's car, Rafan came and checked the contract with a face decorated with a smile.

“Honey, here I come. Why didn't you tell me you wanted to come here?” Rafan goes inside and checks some rooms until he goes inside the room, there he sees a bag and some messy stuff.

Rafan runs out looking for a nearby neighbor to ask the whereabouts of the wife.

“So I heard Kak Erli yell, but I didn't see him out and I didn't hear any more commotion either,” said the female stall guard.

Anxiety was clearly visible on his face, Rafan closed the car door and turned to look at the small house Erli was in.

“Mas, who is Erli?” ask the old man.

“I am her husband, Sir.”

“Before the arrival, there was a man wearing a suit coming here and taking Mbak Erli away,” said the old man who guided the camel bike.

“What's right Sir? Which way did the car go, sir?” rafan asked chuckling.

“To there, Son. Looks like the guy is good,” concluded the old man.