Over Ons
Fainted
...15. ...
...FAINTED...
...This time not "he said", but Karl Marx said: "If history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a joke."...
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Dusk and Rain came down the stairs in a hurry. Ratna who saw her two daughters from the dining room can only shake her head.
"Breakfast first Rain, Dusk," Ratna said to her two daughters who were busy putting on each other's ties.
Rain wore his yellow knit blazer quickly. "No time, Ma.”
Ratna looked at the new wall clock showing at 6:55, there was still twenty minutes left before the school bell rang.
"You guys, aren't late. Why the rush?"
"Today's the ceremony, Ma, so the gate closes faster" replied Dusk, and he drank the milk Ratna gave him.
Ratna then gave Rain milk. "Why are you getting up late?"
"Rain, Ma, wake up so long!" Dusk annoyed.
"Once in a while what's wrong, anyway? Lo horrendous," Rain was annoyed at the twilight that was so unhappy to be late. During the two girls' school, they were late twice. Of course all the delay was caused by Rain.
After finishing each other's drinks, Dusk and Rain immediately walked out of the house, followed by Ratna behind them. After putting on the shoes, the two girls kissed Ratna's hand and then said goodbye.
"This, later if you have time to eat first, yes, before the ceremony." Ratna gave the bread she had held since then to Rain and Dusk, "Her bread you ate in the street, Rain. The twilight that brought the motor, right?"
Rain nodded.
"Be careful with the bike, Dusk," Ratna said after riding the bike.
***
Dusk and Rain arrive at school just as the bell rings. Fortunately, Bu Nunung was not standing in front of the fence as usual. So, the two of them did not need to listen to the endless advice from the bespectacled and big-tipped teacher. After putting the bike neatly, Dusk and Rain walked towards their class first to put the bag down. The twilight step stopped when he saw Rain stop his steps.
Rain flinched, the girl's gaze straight ahead. Dusk followed the direction of Rain who was staring at Arnav. The guy had also just arrived, but he was not alone. A girl with shoulder-length hair, Nisa, gets out of Arnav's car.
"Where are you going?" Dusk held onto Rain's arm as the girl was about to leave.
"Gue wants their samperin," Rain replied with an angry look in her eyes.
"THAT'S STILL IN THE PARKING LOT, LET'S QUICKLY SPACIOUS!" Bu Nunung's voice echoed from the school loudspeaker.
"Later on, Rain. The program is about to begin." Dusk did not want his cousin again to make a fuss again, especially when the ceremony will begin soon.
"But, Dusk—"
"So, you want to make a fuss before the ceremony?" cut Twilight fast.
Rain shook his head slowly. Afterwards, he chose to follow Dusk, heading to the field.
***
Today, the sun is very hot. It was only eight in the morning, but it felt like I was at twelve in the afternoon. The sun this morning was completely siding with Bu Nunung. The bespectacled teacher who became the ceremonial builder this morning.
Dusk saw Agum who looked hot, visible from the guy's eyes that narrowed because the row facing the sun directly. Agum did not join the line with the other students. Because it was late, the guy lined up not far from the teachers. Dusk then glanced at Rain who was the line beside him, the girl looked uneasy at where she stood.
"Lo nothing, Rain?"
Rain shook his head, his gaze was fixed on Arnav and Nisa who were lined up side by side in front there.
“For a long time, anyway, this is the lecture teacher!” Rain grumbled in his mind.
After nearly half an hour of Bu Nunung's lecture, the ceremony was finally over. All the teachers and students of Eternity High School disbanded from the ranks. Some students go straight to their classes. There is also a canteen first to buy a drink.
Dusk and Rain were still in the field. As the two of them stepped away from the field, Rain suddenly stopped his steps abruptly.
"Lo why, Rain?" ask Dusk worried. Rain's face was already very pale now.
"Gue's nothing, Sen," he replied. Rain then shook his head quickly as his gaze began to blur and flicker.
Bugh!
Rain fainted.
Quickly, Dusk restrained Rain's body from hitting the floor of the field. Dusk immediately sat down while holding Rain's head and placed it on his thighs. Some of the disciples ran back to the field to crowd them.
"Rain, Rain, wake up!" The twilight moved his cousin's feet.
Dusk looked around, looking for Arnav's whereabouts. I don't know where that guy went with Nisa.
"Rain why?" asked Agum with an irregular breath. It seemed, Agum ran to their place. Previously, Dusk had seen Agum who was being punished for picking up garbage by Bu Nunung.
Dusk just shook his head, his two eyes were already glazed over. "Please bring Rain to the UKS, Gum," said Dusk.
Agum crouched down to her back, then pulled Rain's hand to circle around her neck. Dusk helps put Rain on Agum's back to head for UKS soon.
Dusk fell silent for a moment. Suddenly a shadow three years ago between him, Rain, and Arnav comes to mind when he sees his cousin in Agum's sling. Dusk shook his head quickly, brushing off all the bad shadows in his brain. That event cannot be repeated.
There's no way his bad history is going to repeat itself, right? thought.
***
Dusk already put eucalyptus oil on Rain's hands and nose. But the girl did not wake up either. Dusk then gave the eucalyptus oil he held to Agum. "Lo keep Rain undaunted, yeah, Gum."
"Where are you going?"
"Let me alone," Agum bargained as Dusk looked so sad to see Rain faint.
"No, let me do it."
Agum pulled the twilight wrist before the girl came out. Then, he cupped with both hands. "Rain ain't nothing. Don't worry too much, okay?" Dusk nodded slowly.
After Dusk came out Agum directly directed the eucalyptus oil on Rain's nose, as per the instructions that Dusk said.
Rain bellowed, his eyes twitching softly while looking around.
"Lo nothing, Rain?"
Rain shook his head slowly. He feels so dizzy. "Where's that?"
"Also take medicine for you."
Chequek!
Rain and Agum looked at the door that was opened. They thought it was Dusk, it was Arnav who opened the door. The man approached Rain and stood by the side of the bed.
"Why did you come here?" Arnav had not yet spoken, Rain had already spoken first.
Arnav frowned, confused. "I—"
"I don't want to see you anymore" Rain turned his face away. "You're out."
Arnav was silent for a moment. He looked at Agum for a moment, then he moved. As Arnav opened the door, Dusk came with a packet of medicine as well as a bottle of mineral water. The eyes of Dusk and Arnav meet for a while until finally the girl decides first their eye contact and immediately enters.
"Lo took the medicine first, Rain," Dusk gave Rain some medicine. The girl took the medicine without protesting.
Silence suddenly dominated when Rain was taking his medicine.
After gulping down his drinking water, Rain made a sound,
"Thank You Gum."
"Can you also say thanks?"
Rain chuckled, "That's also me saying thank you forced,"
Dusk just silently watched the interaction between Rain and Agum, Why does it feel a little different? Is this just his feeling? The girl shook her own head. If Rain suddenly likes Agum, isn't that good? After all, Arnav did not love Rain either and Dusk did not have any feelings for Agum.
"Gue thought what, anyway?" inner Dusk.
***
Arnav followed Dusk from behind, walking down the corridor towards the warehouse. The girl had suddenly come to Arnav's class and invited him to talk. After arriving in front of the warehouse, Dusk watched around to make sure that there was no one in the place.
"Lo why, anyway, Ar?"
Arnav. "Why what?"
Dusk stared at Arnav sharply."Why has your attitude towards Rain changed this way? Then why did you leave with Nisa?"
"Lo likes Agum?" Instead of answering, Arnav asked back.
"Why are you talking about Agum?"
"Lo could just discuss Rain to me, why can't I discuss Agum?" Arnav takes a step closer to Dusk."Do you really have the same feelings as Agum?" ask Arnav again. The guy's face looks very serious.
The twilight froze, his tongue suddenly felt faint as he wanted to answer Arnav's question. Plus, the distance with Arnav so close makes the heart of Dusk beat faster.
"There or my reluctance to Agum is none of your business," replied Dusk with a face made as flat as possible.
Arnav looked down at Dusk. "My attitude changed or his reluctance to Rain means it's none of your business either."
"If the reason you Nerima Agum as a girlfriend so I stay away from you, free. Not bad for me. Because I know your heart is still for me" Arnav said it with confidence.
"Gue ngajak lo here to discuss Rain and Nisa if you forget," Dusk reminded with his sharp gaze.
The man in front of him is like not Arnav who Dusk knows first.
"Lo obviously knows, Nisa is my friend" Arnav said.
"Gue tau's. But, right, you also know Rain does not like to see you near Nisa."
"Rain doesn't have the right to share who I should be close to."
"Rain has a right. If you forget, Rain is your girlfriend, Ar," between twilight.
"And if you forget, let me remind you again. I don't have any feelings for Rain." Arnav sighed with rage. "Gue can not continue this continues the same Rain, Dusk. You should understand, I am tormented and you are equally tormented." The tone of Arnav's voice that had sounded creepy in the ear of Dusk, has now turned softer.
"Gue doesn't want to be rich like this, but Rain needs you, Ar. Rain needed you to continue beside him," the girl's voice sounded softly in Arnav's ears. "Rain less what, anyway, until you can not reply to his feelings? All this time your relationship has been fine, right?"
"The thing you see well is not necessarily really good. In this relationship, the only one who is happy is Rain. I'm not happy at all."
Dusk looked up at Arnav, the girl's eyes already glazed over. Supposedly, he had told Rain the truth a long time ago. Supposedly, he didn't cover this up from the start. Supposedly, he had been honest with the real Rain before the girl's feelings for Arnav grew even deeper in that time.
But, what? Time cannot be rotated. The more lies are committed to cover up the other lies, and the more hearts must be hurt. It's all because of the twilight.
The silence lasted a long time, then faded as Arnav pulled Dusk closer to him and tightly hugged the girl. There was no reply from Dusk and no rejection. The girl was just silent with her shoulders already shaking.
To be continued
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