Still Wishing He Back?
15. Memories that Suddenly Appear

"What if we depend on each other?''

"I love you, A..''

And, prang.., Darren dropped the drink he was holding, when his head suddenly just pulsed with a small piece of paled in his memory. He did not even care about broken glass and spilled drink stains and hit his sidelines.

''Darren, get up, let's just get out of here.'' Lucas shook Darren's still-silent body with his expression holding back the pain in his head.

Lucas escorted Darren out of the show, and took him home immediately, considering that he is currently the center of attention. Lucas looks worried to see Darren's condition that looks chaotic, even Darren remained silent in the car when on the way home.

"Lo gapapa? Is your head hurting again?" Lucas asked Darren, who was still holding his head.

"We go home to my apartment, I don't want to go home." Said Darren who finally spoke, although still holding his head that had pulsed earlier.

Shit, why did that memory appear again? And again, why at a time like this?

Inner Darren who felt annoyed at that memory always appeared in his mind, which would definitely cause pain to his fist.

"Did that memory appear again?" Lucas's question refers to Darren's pain.

"Eum.." Darren answered briefly, and still held his head which was still continuing to throb.

"When it's been almost two years since it appeared, why has it suddenly appeared again?" Lucas wonders about it.

"really? Why did it show up again?"

Darre seemed to be astonished by that as well, because in these two years he was able to live quietly without that pain again, and somehow this thing could reappear in him.

"Is this because of the effects of the accident, huh?"

Despite trying to remember, he still could not understand the small memories that always teased his head, to make him groan in pain every time it appeared in his head. Even when he just regained consciousness from his long coma after the accident, Darren still has not rediscovered his answer.

"Will I call Heru's doctor?" Lucas asked referring to Darren's personal doctor.

"No, today I want to rest." Replied Darren who looked uninspired.

...

In a different place, Airin was seen arranging his heart when he was about to return home to meet his aunt and son, he even tidied up his appearance that had fallen apart because he continued to cry. Although the remains of her tears are still visible, because her eyes really cannot lie if they cry.

"Well, they're gonna suspect no, huh?" He muttered looking into her red eyes from her cries, then tried to tidy up the viewer again and went back inside the house after getting out of the car.

"Mama..." Call Arka as soon as you see Airin's whereabouts, then run to him.

And Airin immediately greeted Arka by stretching out his two hands. "Arka must be waiting for mama, huh?" He said while hugging her.

"Yes, why is mom so old." Answer Arka

Hugging Airin with her pouting face.

"Duh, from earlier he whined to see you." Said bi Rahma who followed Arka from behind, and welcomed Airin's arrival.

"Why did you just come home? It's stuck, huh? or is there a problem with the same send?" Ask bi Rahma who came into the house.

"No, bi. It was a bit jammed as well, but the reason Airin came home late because he saw Silvia's wedding party, so Airin was stuck there." Obviously Airin on bi Rahma, although the look on her face said it was bad because it lied to her a little.

"Oh so, if so. Aunty was worried because you haven't come home since." Bi Rahma no longer bothered about the matter that became her worry earlier, considering that Airin had returned safely, and he let Airin and Arka who were about to go to the room.

Though Airin had anticipated if asked for his eyes that had swollen because of crying, but strangely not asked by the aunt.

"Looks like aunt didn't notice?" The stone that saw her aunt didn't ask about her performance.

Airin could only sigh in relief of that, because he also had time to feel confused if asked later.

"Mama, it was Dava to Arka school, you know.." Strike Arka when Airin lowered it on the mattress as soon as he got to the room.

"Om Dava's? Why did Dava go to Arka's school? Isn't it Dava there's still a school, huh?" Tanya Airin then, looked at her son's face fixedly.

"I don't know, he just gave this to Arka, then left again." Arka answered while showing a toy she was holding.

Airin smiled at the toy being held by his son, and shook his head at the behavior of his cousin's sister.

"Surely he tried to skip, right? Basic Dava, if aunt knows how, try?" Airin lost his word on his cousin's behavior.

"Oh, yeah, Arka's had lunch yet?" Ask Airin who now turned to look at her son.

"Udah really, Arka was bribed with Rahma's mother." Reply Arka looked at Airin with a smile.

Once staring at the face of the child, somehow Airin became reminded of his meeting with Darren earlier. He stared fixedly at the face of the child who looked so similar to Darren, even like a print because of its resemblance.

"They're really similar. What should I do if he finds out later? Especially with Arka, what would I do if she could one day meet her father?"

Presumably, Airin was afraid that if Arka knew about her father, but would become sad when his own father did not even remember him.

Maybe not only for Arka, until now Airin is still trying to find the answer when he saw the person who once filled his heart to not recognize him.

"He who doesn't recognize me is in trouble, so there's no way I can talk about this to aunts and uncles, let alone to Arka who doesn't know anything."

Airin was sitting limp at the thought of it, his heart was so sick that it felt like he wanted to vent his emotions, but was restrained by the presence of Arka in his front.

"Mom change clothes first, huh? We're out together." He said to the child who was playing.

"OK." Reply Arka agreed to her mother's words.

...

In his room after his return from the wedding, Darren re-thinks about his encounter with Airin, as well as the pain he is experiencing as the memories resurface after a long time.

"Although I tried to forget it, but it really didn't work." He muttered about the face of Airin who kept turning in his head.

"Actually who is he?"