TRAPPED IN THE NOVEL WORLD
The Heart of Ara
The Cafe Side of the Road.
"Wait on! I'm not having a birthday now. Why did you give me a gift?" ask Ara.
"Yesterday you saved my life. This gift is one form of my thanks, miss." Noah thrusts the cotton candy to Ara.
Because of the beautiful color, Ara was interested. His hand then grabbed it. "Thank you" he told Noah. "Have you had lunch? If not, I'll buy you now."
Noah's stomach was hungry, too. However, now he was not lustful, because his mind was very depressed and upset. "I'll order a drink" replied Noah. "May I sit down?"
Ara nodded, after which she called the waiter to order a drink for Noah.
Ten minutes passed.
After they finished eating, they walked outside together. Noah was lazy to go home. So did Ara, their minds were similarly depressed.
"Wait, I want to buy something first" Noah said. The man entered a mini market. Apparently Noah was about to buy a drink and a pack of cigarettes.
Actually, Noah had already decided to quit smoking from two years ago. However, for some reason this time his heart was so upset, his mind was raging, making him want to let go of the burden in his mind by sucking on the tobacco-based object.
After getting it, Noah invites Ara to a special room for smokers. They are forced to look elsewhere, because in their country, they do not allow anyone to smoke freely in public places.
"I accidentally passed by here and saw you in the cafe." Noah starts the conversation while igniting a fire on the tip of his cigarette.
Ara did not reply, from earlier the gaze of her eyes did not turn in the slightest attention to Noah. From the way the man exhaled his cigarette smoke, he seemed to be slowly releasing the burden on his mind.
"Eum .. can I ask for one?" Ara hesitantly asked for a cigarette from Noah.
Hearing him, Noah's forehead instantly frowned. "Are you a smoker?" askalanya.
The answer is certainly no. But because Helen in the novel world is a smoker. Automatically, Ara can do it too.
"I don't like women smokers and drunkards. But, if you want .. take it!" said Noah while exhaling cigarette smoke.
"Eum .. not so! I just want to lighten my load." Ara smiled bitterly. He still refused to imitate Helen's habits, even though in his heart he wanted to.
"Are you thinking a lot?"
"Is my face so frustrated?" Ara asked back.
"I wouldn't have told you that if you didn't believe that I wasn't from here" Ara said.
Noah looked intently at Ara's facial expression. He saw it as true, that the woman was not lying.
"I believe! Now tell!"
Hearing Noah believe it, Ara was so enthusiastic. He sat next to Noah.
"I come from the real world. When I woke up, I didn't realize that my soul was swapping with Helen. This woman and you are supporting characters in the novel I read." Ara touched Noah's face.
Noah chuckles. "What's? So you're saying I'm .. not real?!"
Ara nodded. "Yes, you are a character who is deliberately created by the author to complete his fiction. More precisely you exist, because of an imagination."
Hearing that Noah shifted his sitting position slightly. He exhaled the smoke he was smoking from his cigarette. Little by little he began to believe Ara's words about soul exchange. However, to believe that he was a character made from an imagination, he still did not believe it.
"I believe in the exchange of souls. If you're not Helen, then who are you in another world? And what I'm asking again, why should it be Helen that you chose her body for? Why not another woman?" Noah began to look closely at Ara's face.
"I'm Arabella. I was 19 years old in the real world. I am a leukaemic. I don't know why I was brought here and I have to be Helen. I want to go home! My sister Aluna is having surgery. He must be looking for me." Ara started telling me about it.
Aluna's? What a familiar name! Inner Noah.
Noah fell silent and continued to bathe. When Ara was pouring out her heart. Suddenly from the doorway a woman was staring cynically. His hands are ruffled by the waist. That woman is, Lisa.
"Uncle!" Shouted Lisa.
Lisa approached them. Lisa stared sinisterly at Ara, she looked at Ara from head to toe. "You! Aren't you Uncle Alvin's secretary?" ketus Lisa, "why are you here with my boyfriend?" Lisa pointed at Ara's face.
Ara stood up straight away. He looked back at Lisa. "Daughter? Is she your boyfriend? ask Ara to Noah.
At that very moment, Lisa held Noah's hand trying to pull him out. "This guy's my girlfriend. More precisely my future husband! Uncle, let's go home!"
"Lisa! What the fuck. We broke up! I'm not your boyfriend anymore!" Noah's screams smashed Lisa's hand.
Lisa did not give up. He who was angry because Noah did not want to go home instead approached Ara. The woman then pushed Ara's body hard. "So you're the woman who snatched my girlfriend, Ja lang!"