After He's gone
eighteen new wounds

Several days passed with the same activity. Ananta is still busy with his preparations for the Olympics. Alana who is bored waiting for Ananta will occasionally come to arkan to eat together in the cafeteria. Although often air first who approached Alana.

Alana does not have no friends at all from her class, only she thinks chatting with a slightly strange and funny is more fun than her classmate who is very diligent and a little boring.

On the other hand, Arkan also kept his promise to befriend Alana when Ananta could not be with her often. That's why he always agreed every time Alana invited him to spend hours of rest together.

"Gea is that the guy?" Alana started the conversation after the bowl of meatballs came.

"What's how?" Ananta frowned, only to find out that Alana also likes to talk about other people.

"Cool... Cool is how it looks. The man too." Continue Alana with sparkling eyes. Gea characters look cool. People who can freely look and freely express opinions without hesitation. Although sometimes such a character can be hated by people who do not know him.

"The cirain wants gossip. Her taunya was praised instead" Replied arkan a little annoyed at not thinking Alana would praise his friend.

He was secretly amazed, because most people would blaspheme others after seeing the appearance of others, but Alana was willing to observe and get to know first before judging others.

"Kids drama is funny... It looks awful, but the original is friendly and nice." Alana continued, ignoring one of the drama club members she was talking to.

"Hmmm... That's it" replied Rekan then, he was still too focused on observing Alana who told a very enthusiastic story.

Sometimes he forgets that he's only been friends with Alana for a few days. Because of the way Alana told me so many things as if they had been close a long time ago.

"You're not? God so sweet." Alana continued, considering other interesting things from the club he had just arrived once.

"Wait, you know?" Arkan again did not expect Alana to have understood that since the first meeting.

"Yes... It's just as jolly as gea who doesn't understand the way the gods look at him." Alana's mind was exactly what I had observed a long time ago. He was also enthusiastic because he found people with the same thoughts as him.

They were still engrossed in talking without realizing Ananta was already standing in the distance and observing them.

Ananta had wanted to invite Alana to eat together because her guidance today was completed sooner than usual. But after seeing Alana having a fun conversation with arkan, he undoes his intentions. He only watched the two for a moment and then went away.

Seeing Alana look alone made her sad. But now seeing Alana look close to arkan made the taste in her heart mix. On the one hand he was happy because Alana had a friend to talk to other than him. But on the other hand, he also felt strange to see Alana close to someone other than himself.

But more than that, he was glad Alana had many friends besides him. So that Alana will not be alone anymore. Moreover, this time the person who was close to Alana was Arkan, her best friend.

***

After school, Alana was waiting in front of the class. But this time Ananta had disappeared before Alana arrived. Finally Alana only found arkan who came home a little later because he had to collect assignments from teachers.

"Ananta where." Say hello to Alana every time you see her. He very rarely mentioned the name of the arkan as a greeting because what he was looking for was always Ananta.

Hearing him, Alana was immediately busy with her mobile phone. A sense of worry out of nowhere suddenly came upon hearing Ananta leave without inviting her. It felt strange because usually the two of them always go home together.

Not yet able to send a message, Ananta has sent a message to him.

"I have a little business, you go home just like you..." Write Ananta. Again Ananta did not tell his place at all. Just a word of affairs that usually ended there was no news for a long time.

"What did Nanta say?" Tanya also wanted to know where her best friend was going in a hurry.

"Told to go home alone" Alana told a lie, she did not want to follow Ananta's request to go home with him. He better go home alone.

"Not believing, look." Arkan snatched Alana's phone without warning. After that he smiled mischievously.

"That's it... He was told to go home with Arkan." Speak with confidence.

"Mending home alone." Alana said that she took back her phone and hurriedly left arkan who was secretly following her while making sure Alana really went home to the dormitory. He's like he's on a secret mission from Ananta, which is to make sure that Alana really gets back home safely.

***

Arkan thinks Ananta's only gonna be gone for a little while. But Ananta just went into his room at 10 p.m. A little late, Arkan was even a little surprised because Ananta could still escape from the dorm guard who was quite strict about the curfew.

"Where are you from... Tumben came home from the mallem" he said after Ananta entered the room with a sad look. Seeing her, arkan could not help but ask about the cause of the gloomy atmosphere that Ananta brought to their room

"She, she's gone." Answer Ananta briefly. He sat himself in his bed. Seeing the look on Ananta's face that seemed to be unable to speak, he chose to quietly approach Ananta and rubbed his back without saying anything.

Ananta's face looked empty, but did not cry at all. Seeing that look will understand, that whoever went was very valuable to Ananta. He knew very well that Ananta was very broken right now.

After a long time immersed in a gloomy atmosphere since Ananta's return, a message from Alana appears again on the phone screen still asking Ananta's whereabouts for umpteenth times.

He was a little sorry for giving his number to Alana. Now he is also affected by Alana's worries whenever Ananta can not be contacted.

"Here he goes." Answer the brief. He can't tell Alana about Ananta's situation right now. It would only make Alana worried.

"Udah get ready to go to bed" Add air take a photo of Ananta's back who is now curled up on the bed. Alana won't know how Ananta's expression is now because arkan covers it up so well.

Later he will ask Ananta to explain himself what happened to Alana. He did not want to be a spokesperson for two couples who are like LDR even though they are in the same place.

I don't know, he suddenly misses his own girlfriend because he sees Alana and Ananta who are like staying away from each other. It feels like her love story is a little more beautiful despite being really LDR. She was grateful.sadness in her story, not as much as Ananta. Moreover, the person he found was extremely valuable.