Trapped in Ramadhan
Part 29 - Communication

...Communications...

18 Ramadan. Early morning.

"That's you, right?" Rian exclaimed with a voice that might be too high.

I'm still on a broken bike that's now back to its normal color. I didn't know what to do, so I just kept quiet.

"You were the one who helped me fight three people in this workshop, right?" Rian asked again, with both eyes shining towards me. "I can't see you. But I know you're here. " hereinafter. "I... Ah... Thanks for the help at the time!" Said later.

Rian can't see me. Maybe I can't hear it either. There seems to be no way to communicate with him. Maybe I should get out of this place.

"You're here, right?" Rian kept asking. "I know this isn't a hallucination." Said slowly. Then, while bowing his face. "I need to know it's you... Can you show me where you are? Please..."

I didn't think he would sound so desperate. If it just shows me whether I'm here or not. Maybe I can do it.

"Dokk! Dock!"

The sound came from the tap of my finger on the head of the motor.

Rian immediately raised his face with widened eyes. "That's you, right? You here?"

"Dokk! Dock!"

I knocked again.

"That's you!" Rian said with a smile on his face. "I know it's you!" He nodded while clenching both of his hands. "There's a lot I want to ask you. But how is it...?"

That's the same question I had in my head.

"Can you write?" Ask Rian.

I knocked on the head again, but this time it was three taps.

With a furrowed forehead Rian said, "Three times... Then, can't you?"

I knocked again, twice.

"Two means, yes." Rian. "But you can hold things, right? Like the exhaust of that time... Can you hold other things too?"

I knocked twice in response, yes.

Rian seemed to think hard before finally saying, "I know! Just a minute..." Then he picked up a book and pen from a nearby desk drawer and started writing something down. After he finished he tore the paper he had written and looked for something else.

"Ah... Here goes!" Rian exclaimed after finding what he was looking for, a new spark plug. He put the spark plug on the paper. "We can communicate now.." He said with a smile, but his look changed quickly. "You know the letters of the alphabet, right?"

I who approached now knocked on the wooden table twice.

"Good!" Said Rian. Then he revealed his plan to me. "I'll ask. You'll move this spark plug in these letters." He said while moving the spark plugs in the letters of the alphabet he wrote on a piece of paper. "Pronounce the letters. So, I can tell you the answer." Close it.

The plan is pretty smart in my opinion. After undergoing that memory piece, I started to realize something about Rian... He reacted quickly. When I got into his body a few days ago and was forced to flee from his three attackers, Rian's consciousness told me to drop their motor before I left. Then the night after that when I beat up three attackers who came back to gang him up, Rian came out of the workshop and came back with the people he asked to come to the workshop. And tonight, he also reacted quickly and without panic. The young man with a nose resembling a bird's beak may not look too tough. But he is clearly not a weak man.

"So I saw that the bike was shining red before I lit this light." Rian explained. "I can feel your presence on that bike, so I assume you came here because of that bike." He concluded. "So my question... What do you want from this bike?"

I started holding the spark plug and moving it from one letter to another. Rian quickly recorded each letter until it became a sentence that was my answer.

"Search for truth..?" Said Rian reading the sentence he just wrote. "I don't understand... What's that supposed?"

I thought of an easy way to answer without having to give a long explanation. And as soon as I found the right answer, I put another spark plug on the letters on the paper. When I finished and Rian finished taking notes, there was a voice calling out to Rian from outside the workshop. The familiar voice came from behind. Rian remained silent. Then the voice called again. After establishing himself, Rian replied and finally headed to the back room.

From where I could hear the door open and Rian talking to a girl. They're whispering. Then hush. Then they walked into this room, and I saw the girl. The long black haired girl with a speck of mole under her lips was Bella who came carrying a bushel of food for Rian's sahur meal. That means if this time has entered the sahur time, I was dragged into the memory pieces for about three hours! Usually the memory pieces take place faster than time in the real world. But tonight is different, this time it lasts even longer than in the real world.

"You said you always believed in me, right?"  Ask Rian.

Bella did not immediately reply, She noticed Rian who kept looking at her while waiting for an answer. "Why you?" Bella asked back.

Rian was silent for a moment. After that uncomfortable silence, He said, "Please show your whereabouts to Bella as well..."

I lifted the spark plug I was holding and moved it. From the point of view of ordinary humans, all they saw was a motor spark plug hovering in the air. And it must be a little weird and maybe a little creepy. But Bella did not scream in fear or faint at all. The girl just stood in her place with her eyes wide. From its highlight it is not fear, but rather amazement.

Without even turning back, Bella asked, "What's that..?"

"My protector..!" Cut Rian.

It didn't take long for Rian to explain to Bella the beginning of how he could think of a method of communication with me. Rian excitedly told it to Bella. Her spirit equaled that of a young child who had just seen a masked hero movie. Even though I like the way these two humans talk about me, I still have to stop them. So I knocked on the bushel Bella brought and lifted her up.

"Is that what he means to eat?" Ask Bella.

Whahuh? My good intentions were misunderstood by him? Damnit. I knocked the bushel three times and hoped Rian understood my point.

"No! That means he wants us to be honest first." Rian.

Well, that's just right. If I let them until they forgot sahur, Adam would have constantly blamed me every time we met. And that's gonna be really shitty.

"So he came because of this bike." Bella said as soon as she finished her meal. "But why?"

Rian pointed to the writing of both.

"Search for truth?" Bella read. "But what does that mean?"

"My question is the same." Said Rian. "And here's the answer." He pointed to the third letter.

Bella reads the inscription, "This motor is sought..." Then he said, "Do you mean anyone else is looking for this bike?"

Rian nodded. "Possibly yes. But question... Who?" He asked while looking at the spark plugs on the paper.

I gave an answer by moving the spark plug. And after I finished, Rian seemed surprised to read it.

"Chairman of two wheels.." Read Bella. With his eyebrows linked, he said, "That Wawan is?"

"Yes." Yeah." Rian replied while nodding. Then he continued to ask me. "What is your relationship with Wawan?"

I gave my answer; nothing.

"But you know Wawan is looking for this bike?" Ask Rian again.

I move the spark plug over the letters Y and A.

"Why is he looking for this bike?"

I also gave the final answer.

"Ask yourself.."

"You have his contact Wawan?" Bella asked after Rian was silent for quite a while.

"Have a contact who knows Wawan?"

"There may be..." Ucapa Rian while looking for contacts on his phone. "There!" Excited after finding it. Then he put the phone to his ear and waited for an answer.

I purposely directed Rian to Wawan because I was wondering what would happen if the two of them met. Both were Division Leaders, but one came out following their Chairman, while the other still carried the name of their Guild. And I am also curious what steps Wawan will take that deliberately save important information from Iptu Trijaya about this damaged motorbike. But now what makes me wonder is who Rian contacted.

"Hello, Assalamualaikum!" Rian said on his phone.

I faintly heard a voice from the cell phone replying, "Wa'alaikumsalam! Rian! How are you?"

"My news is good." Rian Sahut. "Become good too, right?"

The virgin? You mean the same Dara I met tonight?

"I'm good too." Voice reply on mobile. "Where's rian? In workshop?"

"Yes, now again in the workshop." Answer Rian.

"What's the phone at this hour? Need a delivery for this morning?"

"No, no! The goods in the workshop are still complete."

"So?"

"I just got word that Wawan is looking for a motorbike again..."

"Yes.. any information?"

Rian turned his voice call into a video call and pointed the camera at the motor in the middle of the room. "It's not?"

"Try the front." Said Dara whose face was now plastered on the screen of Rian's phone.

Rian walked around to the front of the motor.

"Wait a minute.." Dara. Who then heard calling someone. Then came a woman who was none other than Aidah to near Dara so that it was seen on the mobile phone screen.

"Yes, that's the bike!" Say Al-Qaeda while pointing at the screen.

"It was in your workshop, wasn't it?" Ask Dara.

"Yes." Yeah." Answer Rian.

"Hold the bike there." Pinta Dara's. "We'll be there in a few hours."

"Okay, I'll wait." Reply to Rian before disconnecting the video call.

"Who is that?" Bella asked who seemed to be deliberately putting on a flat expression.

"Bara. My friend." Answer Rian. "I've never told you?"

"Not yet." Bella's fast.

"We've known for a long time that we were members of two wheels."

Bella just makes a sound, "Hmm..." While raising both of his eyebrows to demand further explanation.

"The stuff here is often a message from his uncle who's out of town." Rian said as he spread his hands to the parts in this room. "Therefore I still keep his contacts."

"OK..." Bella. Still with a flat expression.

Now it was Rian's turn to look with both eyebrows raised. He did not expect that reaction. "It's rumored she's dating Wawan now."

"okay." Birthday Bella. But now his flat expression had faded, changing with a smile on the tip of his lips.

That's grand. I realized I was in the same annoying situation as when I had just arrived at House no.22 and had to see the intimacy of Aidah and Dwi. But the difference this time around is that Bella and Rian are on a lower level, more timid, and not as bright as the previous pair. Still, this felt even more upsetting because this time Bella and Rian were fully aware of my existence around them. Basic human!

I knocked on the head of the bike three times to wake them up I was still here and watching them. After waking up, Bella decided to go home. So it's just me and Rian here. On this occasion, I tapped the spark plug on the paper to get Rian's attention. Then move the spark plugs to other letters to form a whole sentence that is longer than the previous sentences.

"Ask the Wawan where the Chairman of the Two Wheels." Rian read. As he watched the series of words, He said, "I remember Adam asking the same question. So you asked him to ask that?"

I move the spark plugs to the letters Y and A.

With a serious expression on his face, Rian asked, "Why do you want to know where the Two-wheeled Chief is?"

I'm not giving you a new answer. Instead of moving the spark plugs right in the sentence that became my first answer earlier... Find truth.

After a brief silence as usual while he was thinking, Rian then said, "Let me ask."

It turns out that Dara is the type who does not like to come late, because he arrived at the Brothers motorbike in just about twenty minutes. And as I thought, Dara came with Wawan. But Aidah and the baby are also coming, which I didn't expect. Even if it is a natural thing considering that Aidah is a key witness as well as a victim of this case. But since he confirmed this bike was the same one he saw on the video call, I don't think he's coming.

"Oi..!" Sapa Wawan's.

"Y.O..!" Reply Rian. "Lake in!" Bring along. "This is the bike you're looking for?"

Wawan who noticed the motorbike whose front was damaged did not immediately answer, He turned to Aidah who nodded, then after that the Eastern Leader said, "Yes. It's the bike."

"Why are you looking for this bike?" Rian tried to pry information.

But Wawan did not intend to reveal the reason, "The story is long."

"Because this bike came into my workshop... I need to know why." Press Rian.

"But you don't want to get involved with the Two-wheeled Gang anymore, do you?"

Rian nodded weakly. "Exit two wheels is the right choice."

"So my choices and my friends are wrong?"

"See from the current situation? Yep. We used to be very confused. But we still have rules. We only attack other groups if provoked first. Now they're getting crazy! They're attacking everybody!"

"So we should run away? Like we've never been part of two wheels? Running from the past? Is that the right choice?"

Oh, I've seen this a lot with Ra-ul and Ri-val. Ideologies between people. Both considered themselves right. Usually this ends in a fight.

"That name and logo!" Said Rian while pointing at Wawan's jacket. "May make us walking targets! But not only us, the target is also in people who are close and we care about around us!" Continue in flames. I mean, I mean figuratively. It's not that his body is really as fiery as mine.

"People are always looking at the negative, because of the past!" Raung Rian's.

"That's why I want to change that!" Reply Wawan. "We can't change the past two brutal wheels. But we can still change the way other people look with our actions going forward."

"That means try to change someone else's mind." Rian concluded. "It's not easy."

"Yes. It's not easy." Wawan. "Therefore I also need help." Then He stepped up and stopped right in front of Rian and stretched out his hand, "You want to help?"