Call Me Isha
18. The antagonist?

Slowly, I opened my eyelids but not for long I was surprised to see the figure of Brother Raefal and Orlin who somehow happened to have fallen on the surface of the ground while the two friends were silent peeking.

"Sister Raefal!" call me lirih.

The man I called his name stood up to remove all the ropes wrapped around the middle limb.

Finished with the rope, this leg could not hold the weight until it caused me to sit on the ground with a sigh of relief.

My eyes with Raefal's sister glanced at each other as the man crouched down while stroking my cheeks softly.

"Are you okay? "

Nodding my head I did before hugging the man tightly. "Thank you for coming for me, brother."

The palm of Raefal's hand rewinded my body that was hugging him. "Udah, now we go home. Poor old man you at home worried."

I resigned when Brother Raefal put my breath to embrace but, not a minute passed I fell again because of the push that came from Acel.

"Stop! You guys are too much!" snapped Brother Raefal.

Acel looked at the badboy-looking man intently. "Brother has a heart? Orlin had fallen just because Brother survived babu!"

"Shut your mouth!" show Brother Raefal. "Lo want a killer meeting?!"

"But what is in Brother's heart that there is no guilt at all because of Orlin's pain? He is the one who loves you the most!"

"Thousands of times Orlin struggled to get Big Brother but the cold response he always got!" Pause briefly. "Sister should be grateful, a person like Big Brother who is in Orlin's heart!"

Raefal's brother is grim."Are you satisfied talking?"

"Now ask me the same question. Did I ask him to like me? Have I ever told him to fight for me?" Paused while glancing at the glance of Orlin who was still sitting listless. "that right? I never asked for any of that."

Although the expression was not devoted to Acel yet, the girl had already cried out violently. "Bastardly men!"

"Acel stop!" shouted Orlin.

Aided by Anoora, Orlin straightened her feet to be brought to the place where Acel and Raefal had been feuding.

Different from before, Orlin's appearance looked extremely pitiful with tears in freefall.

"The feeling of love in the chest, you never know." Orlin said while sobbing violently. "For the sake of it I was willing to become an antagonist even, I to the point of putting aside my pride as a woman by chasing after Big Brother tirelessly."

No one said, not even Raefal himself was silent and watching every hand gesture Orlin created to remove eye fluid.

"But, all I got was a sense of abandonment. Do you think the feeling I have is nonsense?"

Orlin's hand moved to squeeze his clothes. "It hurts so much when for the umpteenth time Big Brother rejected me, considers my race trash and,"

A small laugh escapes even though the tears keep wetting the cheeks. "Wrongly, if I had more of that flavor?"

"Or, I don't deserve Brother?" ask again. "That whole pain, disappointment and broken feeling I swallowed myself but, may I say something?"

I don't know what Raefal's thinking was, but after Orlin finished the man preferred to help himself stand up to get out of the forest.

My mind branched out, and the most dominant one was thinking of Orlin, as a woman of course I knew the feelings she was feeling.

"Isha!" raefal shouted in surprise.

"Is-yes Brother?"

"I talked to you earlier. But you're even dumbfounded," grumbled Kak Raefal while focusing on driving.

"Sorry, I'm thinking a lot."

I can hear that Raefal's sister is breathing heavily. "That Orlin said, that's just bullshit."

This head turned to feel unacceptable. "So don't you see the devastation in Orlin's eyes? His feelings are not a joke."

"Gue doesn't want to talk about that anymore!" unilateral break-up.

"Do you clean first or go straight home?" ask Raefal, if he switched the subject.

"Beauty first Brother, afraid Mama and Papa know that I'm bullied."

"So they don't know that?"

"Engga," I replied, smiling stiffly and looking straight ahead. "Because, not everything in life we can tell, just understand, understand and then make a lesson."

"But--" he said that I deliberately cut.

"I just want to see their smile, not the feeling of worry when I let go of myself fighting against the world."

I knock on the door of the house, before long the figure who self longed to appear with a surprised face and then pulled the body into his warm embrace.

It felt so good, when I could feel the warm embrace of my mother.

"Pa! Isha! Already home!!" yelled Mama happily, before long appeared the figure of a man who did not want to lose happy when he saw me in front.

"Why just got home? She who?" tanya Papa pointed at Raefal with his index finger.

"This is Raefal's sister, he's my upperclassman." Give it a few seconds of distance. "He also drove me. Last time I went home a little longer because because there was an impromptu task, and then when I got to the parking lot the bike was leaking tires, then I saw Raefal in the parking lot too, so I came with him rather than late, and I'm sorry to worry Mama and Papa," I lie.

"Next time to do it at home, Nak Raefal would like to stop by first?" ask the friendly mom.

Papa nudged Mama's arm with a face of dislike, not that Papa did not like with Raefal or not know thank you but, Papa did object if I was close to men.

"Don't Auntie be late, I'm sorry, I'm afraid to look for Mama" replied Raefal politely.

"Alright, be careful on the road!"