Suddenly
Strangers and People Beside Us
The rain soaked the surface as my two feet just stepped.
It's dark. No one is with me.
Like there is no purpose other than waiting for the rain to subside on an increasingly dark day. 11 O'clock in the night at the station.
Mom was always not home after Dad left.
What happened, made me go away on my own. Go to my friend's house or to places I visit often.
“You're waiting for someone to pick you up?”
Someone was sitting on an empty chair that was near me, just a seat in between.
“What are you too?” he's more than me like him but that person isn't that old either. Has not stepped on the number 20 seems to be seen from his face.
“No.”
“The rain is really severe most of the day.”
“If you arrive tomorrow,” reply.
“Ya.”
“You alone?” tanyakanya.
“As you can see. You after your vacation or after vacation?”
“Both.”
“Ah..”
“You just escaped?”
Like they were caught red-handed. “What is telehat?”
“No.”
“How can you know?”
“Because you're alone.”
“Ah, that's the classic reason.”
“Means?”
“Everything that looks alone does not mean there is no destination.”
“So you have a destination?”
“Surely, shouldn't life have a purpose even if you're lost?”
“Wah, is your life so heavy? Wait..”
“Didn't you have school tomorrow morning?”
“Ya, tomorrow is Monday..why?”
“Wah, have you always been like this?”
“What do you see,” I said.
“Any day changes and you're still here? Where are your parents? Aren't you afraid of the people who could have been or even me?”
“Adults always say it like that. But wouldn't among good and bad people not admit in front of others?”
“Really? Did anyone tell you about it?”
“Wah, means you are not mature enough even though you look mature,” talk to strangers I don't know.
“Whoaa! You just gave me a rating?”
“Not really.”
‘The Day Our Eyes Met’, at 3pm.
“Halo, Sir!” my broom to Mr. Isyo who happens to be in a bookstore.
“You're not running away anymore, are you?”
“Pak, isn't this my real home?”
“Alright, consider it your own home. But you're okay, right?”
“As Mr. Isyo saw. Thanks for asking. Mr. Isyo...,” with a big smile.
“I'll let what you like,” he said.
“And my father is like Mr. Isyo.”
“Don't I already be your father?”
“Iya, but can not call with the designation ‘Ayah’...”
“Child Pak Isyo is hostile because of that, hahaha.
“He only teases you.”
“Should I call Mr Isyo, Dad?”
“Yes, whenever you can call me that.”
“Pak Isyo..”
“Sky, think happiness you want to realize.that's it.”.
“Iya, Mr. Isyo..”
“Good!”
“Ah, you apparently..si that old girl?”
Sky turned his head towards the source of the voice behind him.
Both of them blinked a few times. Like not believing what he saw. Sky thought only he would remember, the stranger he met would not remember.
That guy is in front of me. “Jeff?”
“You know each other?” Mr. Isyo pointed at me and the stranger.
“No.”
“No.”
“Hey, Mr. Isyo. Why spread my nickname?”
“He's the son of a friend of mine who always complained like you in this bookstore and I told him about you for example, that means you're amazing in my eyes at a young age,” said Mr. Isyo.
“Really? What did you hear from Mr Isyo?”
“That makes you curious?” sahut Jeff's.
“No.”
It was the second meeting and I couldn't help but continue.
There is nowhere else but a bookstore.
After school, there was always Jeff and me before the bookstore actually opened.
Jeff also did his college work there as well as me doing homework of schoolchildren who piled up.
Mr. Isyo seems to be adopting two children. Two kids who always complain.
The meeting is getting underway. Almost every day. At any moment other than the birthday party.
“Can I just say it? Least..”
“Hmm..”
“Alright, but just that.”
“You think I'm going to warm up something that moved you and.”.
“Stop, Jeff!”
“Haha, okay. Happy birthday, Sky. Like that?”
“Ya.”
“Thank you, Jeff.”
“You really won't come to my birthday?”
“Yes, unless you're my girlfriend.”
“So you want to be my girlfriend?”
“Me and you? We don't fit Jeff, hahaha.”.
“Wah, you just rejected me.”
“Ah, what is a love statement?”
“You want more serious?”
“No, just save all those words for someone right.”
“Hahaha, okay. May you also be with someone right.”
“Now, what exactly is the definition of someone right?” my spoken.
“Together to the end?”
“Hey, what on the same person, Jeff?”
“Hmm, I think it's going to be hard not everyone can be like that. Isn't that what it is, Sky?”
“Yes, despite trying. Never know when a heart and a person can change. Are you going to change too, Jeff?”
“Wah! Are we predicting the future? I don't know, are you going to change too, Sky?”
“If one of us changes. Who is that guy, Jeff?”
“Can both. Didn't I always answer her like that, Sky?”
“Wah, doesn't that scare you, Sky?”
“Fear of what will happen in the future you mean?”
“Ya.”
“Hei, Jeff! In the past, the future, and the present, isn't it the same? You were in all those days.”
“But not different?”
“Don't have to be different, Jeff? If your whole life is what you want, isn't it boring?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“I have to get what I want even if someone is taking it. Doesn't life also need to compete?”
“Well, you'll be tired if you live like that, Jeff.”
“It is precisely your boring life, Sky.”
“Hahaha, back it's an option, Jeff.”
“Alright, I'll lose hard if that guy is you. Who's going to be with you, Sky?”
“Yang sure..”.
“Tak allegedly.”
“Means?”
“Something that comes suddenly.”
“Ah, are you the type of person who loves at first sight?” ask Jeff.
“Depending on the situation, Jeff.”
“I don't know your way of thinking, Sky.”
“I told you we don't match.”
“Ah, true..I understand.”
“What do you know, Jeff?”
“Hahaha, you're hard to reach.”
“Really? It was humbling but it made me happy to hear it.”
“If one of us changes. Who is that man.”.
Jeffs.
“You're the one who changed Jeff. Do you remember that?”
“What is it because..behind your reason for doing it?”
“Jeff!”
“Speak, Jeff!”
“I have to get what I want even if someone is taking it. Doesn't life need to compete? Do you remember that too, Sky?”
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