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El breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the word cut from the director. He smiled and slightly bowed towards the crew and hosts even the other participants. This is their last shoot after almost four weeks in this area, an area in the interior of West Sumatra.
Nearly four weeks out in the open, befriending mosquitoes, and singing nighttime sleep delivery songs from crickets and other nocturnal animals. El is grateful for being able to go through this filming process until it is finished. Although there are some small problems, but everything can end well.
To get to the destination village, they must sit for hours in small boats that do not allow passengers to move much. And still have to walk on heavy, long and tiring terrain to get to the destination. The same goes for the return trip.
"I don't feel good, Na?"
"Not good how?" Alena approaches El, wipes the girl's sweat and gives her water to drink "Here to drink first"
El took a sip of water that Alena gave "I don't know, I feel that something is missing here" the girl held her chest. "gue doesn't know what, but it doesn't taste very good"
"Yes, rest first. Ready for the energy to go home, the terrain is also heavy" Alena gave advice.
"Let's just help me get El's bag, again"
El and Alena smiled at the only handsome man on the expedition team for filming this time. One of the most famous male soloists in the country. The man who helped El several times during difficulties on the road with heavy terrain for women.
"Thank you. Don't know what it would be like if there wasn't you" Alena represented El to thank him.
"Together, as humans, we should help each other. Some of the time yes I'm just a girl in distress"
"Hopefully I can reply back, Agam?" El chimed.
"so my MV model is well El?"
El nodded, assuring. With smile.
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Kayden's hand stopped in mid-air, so he did not open the car door when he saw a familiar figure appear alone, without being invited.
En smiled at the figure with a gaze judging "what made you come here? For Elisha's sake even if you never come here" En expressed his opinion, this time he uses informal language
"Please stop making things difficult for El, please stop torturing him again" Ed said to the point.
"Lo never even begged for Elisha" En shook his head in disbelief. Staring sharply at this unknown man in front of him.
"you don't even have one on his side" continued En reminded.
"Lisa still has lo, Jerome and papa to be on her side." Ed clenched his hands tightly until his handbooks turned white, "while El, the only grip he had just left for good, could not meet for the last time. If I'm not on whose side is he?"
You could see the man's eyes glazed over, with just one blink of an eye could turn into a clear crystal. What had happened without him knowing.
"If someday, you finally know it turns out everything is not as you think. Please don't be sorry for wasting the opportunity to get to know El better"
After saying that long line of words, Ed passed away without a word, without saying stale because he had visited.
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Alena almost dropped the phone in her hand, the girl shaking with mixed feelings.
Because the area where they were filming still included the interior, mobile phones and the like lost functions other than photographing or recording video.
They completely broke off their relationship with the outside world. There is no signal available in the area, only electricity is available to access it must travel a distance of approximately 1 km from the village where they were filming, he said, some of the crew would leave on a scheduled basis to charge all their electronic equipment, and return again to the village. And so on until the filming ends.
Currently they were already in the City Section, resting temporarily at the hotel before returning to the capital.
When the cellular network is turned on, the girl's mobile phone is immediately invaded with dozens maybe even can reach hundreds of notifications.
Alena mobile phone even hangs and must be restarted again.
'O**pa comma and follow-up oma fell ill, where are you**?'
'O**pa died, El. By God where are you**?'
'You've seen chat gw, plis kbar kasih as fast asny'
'oma died today, please answer the message Iw, what should I do'
Alena could not hold back her tears, the girl fell to the floor, desperately smothering her mouth, preventing his crying sounds from coming out and waking El who had just fallen asleep after nearly four weeks never fell asleep soundly.
Now what should he do? where does he have to start? how did he tell El? Alena is in a big dilemma. What about El?
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"Na, did you see my phone? I want to call opa, do not know why suddenly misses out" El who looks fresher because just finished bathing approached Alena who was busy packing their things, "why have you packed all? Don't we go back tomorrow? I want to go for a walk for souvenirs first today, make aunty Sonia same opa and oma"
Alena had since looked down not responding to El's words, she was still busy stuffing things into the suitcase.
"Lo why the hell, Na? Didn't the director tell us to come back? Any more impromptu work?" El concluded himself "Elo anyway, I've told you if the phone is not always active'in"
Alena still flinching, did not respond. made El finally join in aligning his body with the manager "Alena, lo why the hell? sick yeah?" the girl asked while shaking Alena's body.
Move El stopped when he realized something "Na, you cry? Wh why? Why are you crying?" El asked starting to panic "Alena see me, lo why?" El tried to make Alena look at him.
Unexpectedly, Alena hugged the girl tightly. El who had not expected to be hugged was a little jolted, but in the next second he returned the hug, his hand slapped gently on Alena's back. He didn't understand what made his manager come this way, but what he did understand, Alena was the type of person who couldn't cry much less until it was like this.
"Sorry El, sorry" said Alena.
El's forehead wrinkled "For What? Anyway I should have said sorry for making you go out of the forest for almost a month" El smiled broadly.
"El?"
"Yes? why, Na?"
Alena held back her tears, she took off their arms, her hands stretched out to hold El's hands "lo still got me, you still got Elluv, you got Ed"
El was silent, observing the look on Alena's face that didn't look okay. I don't know why she feels bad. The girl was silent, waiting for Alena to continue.
"Same oma has gone to a place far from here, they are happy in that place"
El's tears fell down her cheeks, she was not a child who could not understand the meaning of the words.
"Because they are happy, so you should also be happy?" alena said again, half hoping his words could happen to El.
The girl took off Alena's grasp, she stood back inside the bathroom and locked the door. Eleasha blamed the shower on her just a few minutes ago.
El's body slumped down on the cold ceramic floor, she bent both legs then hugged him tightly. Letting the splash of the Air shower hit the body, no matter if he has just taken a shower and changed clothes.
El's cry grew louder, fusing with the sound of water from the shower falling against the floor, fusing with the sound of Alena crying out her name while she was pushing through the door.
This girl was wondering why fate was so cruel to her?
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