Young Miss Assistant
Memories

......Missing you, that's how I feel, walking through your footsteps. Looking at the traces of our togetherness, seeing you smile, with only a little happiness. If only this foot could catch up to your pace faster. If only this foot could step leaving you slower. Maybe it won't hurt like this, maybe I can step with you like I used to......

The author...

"There's another question?" ask a man full of smiles at his age is not young anymore to the students he gave motivation, as the request of the campus where he used to study.

The man today attended the seminar, became a motivator, not knowing what was happening in his office. After the final greeting, the students clapped their hands, exiting the hall.

Jony was stunned to see many changes at the campus where he used to study.

"Jony.." Someone patted him on the shoulder, stopped his daydream.

"When" he said with a smile to a man who was his age.

"Successful entrepreneurs..." Dika praised.

"Basic, rector," Jony chuckled.

Dika exhaled a coarse breath, "Let's get out, "he said, leading their way out of the hall.

"Over time no see, how old is your son!?" Jony followed Dika's steps, walking with his best friend who is also the rector and alumni of the campus.

"10 years old, he's still in elementary school." Dika smiled knots exhaling a rough breath.

"How's Rani doing?" ask Jony to a friend who has not met for a dozen years.

"He's fine." she replied.

A child looks like a Western mixed-blooded. Standing leaning, in the hallway they were about to walk through."Daddy!!" said the blond boy, hugging Dika.

"Dody, why are you here?" tanyanya, ruffling her son's hair.

"Mom asked me to deliver the dossier you left behind, here." replied Dody, giving the map a blue color.

"Pak Paijo is waiting in the parking lot, I have to go to school. I got a school schedule today. Dody's coming home.. Dad...!!" said the child, running away while throwing a bottle of fruit juice.

"Can..." Dika smiled full of laughter, catching the bottle her son threw.

"Great dad..." Dody ran away, still wearing his school uniform, towards the parking lot.

"Why your son!?" Jony clenched his forehead cluelessly, staring at the appearance of his best friend's son who looked a mixed-blood stranger. While Dika and his wife, did not come from mixed blood.

"We adopted it, the doctor said I had difficulty having offspring, because my body was weak from small," Dika exhaled a rough breath with a smile.

"At first I felt like a useless man, who only troubled Rita with my health condition, even asked her to leave me. You knew? He held my hand tightly. He said I was the dumbest man in the world, wanting him to regret seeing my health deteriorate from afar, maybe without me he would rather die...Rita said it seriously to me, "When she laughed.

"A few days later she brought a tiny baby from the orphanage, saying the baby was my son. Take care and grow up, make him my life spirit to heal, Rita's mouth continues to babble until now." he continued exhaling, smiling gently.

"Is your disease cured?" Jony breathed a rough breath.

"Cankers can grow back post-surgery, but there they are I'm quite happy... My life feels more energized, I will not give up. God won't be that bad will he take my happy life?" her joke walked away leaving Jony, who was trying to smile.

***

Jony's footsteps walked through the campus, stalled in a room, time as if repeated. The mirage is visible, the condition of the campus, back to how it used to be, even the cracks of the floor are visible to him. Ana was waiting for him in front of the room, carrying a box of supplies.

Jony smiled wryly, a moment later the young girl called out.

'I brought food...'Ana guides the mirage of young Jony eating on a bench, a length that is now gone.

'I'm not hungry!!' Jony averted his gaze, staring tofu, tempeh without the slightest spice.

'Come on, it's better than fried chicken...' Ana thrust her spoon. The young Jony slightly glanced, eating Ana's mouthful full of smiles.'Tasty, better than fried chicken.' he said full of lies.

'justified?' Ana uses the same spoon feeding herself, full of smiles. Return to feed young Jony alternately.

The mirage disappeared, Jony again walked to another place. Down the hall, seen the basketball court which has now become a fish pond. However, the mirage of his past is back.

'Ana!! I like you!!' a young man who was richer, more handsome and more popular than him, brought a red rose to Ana in the crowd of students on the basketball court.

Maybe if she was there now, she would ask Ana to accept it. The young man who might be able to take care of Ana is better than her.

'Sorry, I like other people.' replied the girl, pulling the hand of the young Jony who was watching her out of the crowd. Young Jony looks smiling, staring at the rejection of the woman he loves.

"Don't choose it, you stupid Ana. choose a rich man who loves you.." Jony's mature mess along with the mirage that disappeared again, the man who is not young anymore smiled, with tears in my eyes.

Jony continues in his footsteps, following the direction he remembers when Ana pulled him from the crowd 20 years ago.

'Why did you reject him? He's the son of the foundation's owner, Jony crossed his arms clueless.

'I like you!! Not as a friend, he answered.

Young Jony was upset, but feeling inferior, to let a young man declare the love of the girl he liked. Especially their status as friends. However, the love statement that Ana uttered made her feel like she had the world.

'I'm patiently waiting for you to become more successful, we will fight together, if failure is also okay, I will stay with you. So, do you want to be my girlfriend?' ana asked doubtfully, her hands trembling in fear, if her feelings would be rejected.

'Say it again!! You love me!!' Jony young enthusiastic.

'I love...' Ana's words came to a halt, the young man held her waist in his arms, then raised his body, twirled it, along with himself.

'Jonah!! Lower me!!' yelled Ana looked frightened.

'No way!! You are my girlfriend, now!!' Young Jony laughed happily, the burden of life was not felt for him.

'Jony!!' ana shouted loudly, still frightened.

The mirage disappeared again, wanting Jony to live in the past. Laughing and happy. Being a poor student, wearing a t-shirt that if torn in sewing by the tiny hands of his lover.

What's the point after the tens of millions of suits he's wearing now? Everything is just factory-made fabric. Waiting to be successful? After I was successful, you smiled less and less, depressed by your illness, and my desire that many times brought you to the doctor to immediately have offspring. I never supported your recovery, only made you more depressed.

The mirage of young Ana is seen smiling before him, then walking past through the campus hallway, disappearing slowly.

Jony shed her tears, stunned silent.

"Jony.." Someone's voice came back to surprise him. The man immediately wiped his tears.

"I have to go home, my wife is already nagging..." He spoke full of smiles.

"Yes, go home first..." Jony forced herself to smile. When he stepped away, towards the parking lot, his health seemed better than when he was in college.

If I had the heart and courage of Dika's wife. Maybe Ana will live, smile at me...

Seriate