SYAHDU (Contract Sleep Friends)
The Loss of the Past

Should we end up here enough even though the heart says it can't..

I don't want to be late to end this situation. Maybe this is our path..

...*...

Syahdu was with Adit in the living room, teaching the boy to do his PR and Nani had just emerged from behind the front door with a beaming face.

"Mother, why are you smiling?" Tanya Syahdu.

Nani sat on the chair, she clasped Syahdu's hand beside him.

"Mother is happy, you finally want to open your heart again."

Syahdu eyes are round. "Tock.. Mother knows?"

"The artist said. He was happy, said thank you many times with Mother."

Syahdu looked down, embarrassed. Why did Arif come to that.

"Hopefully your relationship is smooth with Arif, yes. Mother come in first." Still with a smile on her face, Nani enters her room.

"Mother.." call Adit who has been sitting on the opposite bench. "Mother's getting married, huh?"

"What's? Haha. No, honey."

"But it was said Mother Nani, Mr. Arif..."

"The mother of Arif is good friends. Kan, all this time Adit saw himself, right?"

The boy did not answer, his eyes still looked at Syahdu with a frown, then continued writing without wanting to know the continuation again.

On the sidelines, Dance opened the door. He just got back from town with his friends. But not a happy face as usual, Dance just looks like a broken heart.

The girl threw her body on the chair. He drank Syahdu's warm tea just like that until it ran out.

"Why?" Ask Syahdu wonder. Usually the girl was carefree but now even lethargic.

"Sister, where's mother?"

"In the room."

The girl was a beard. "Eh, brother. There is no, the person who feels the same feeling for years as the person he has never met again."

"What?" Syahdu felt stifled.

"For example, there are guys who have a crush on one girl. Trus the girl said. The guy for years expected the girl to come back. Could it?"

Syahdu. Dance question could he answer easily because he felt that but...

"Adit, continue working on the PR in the room, son. Mommy will be followed."

Adit nodded, tidied up his books and went into the room.

"Maybe." Answer Syahdu on Dance.

Dance brought her face closer. "Sister is still expecting Brother Wicak back, huh?" The girl's face looked sad to see Syahdu.

Syahdu sighed, trying not to remember his past.

"Why is that all of a sudden?"

"So I listen to podcasts and they make me think nothing of it. How can yes, there are men who wait for a girl until very long. He did not know if the woman was alive or dead. Married or single, or maybe the girl has a husband. Or-"

"Hey. You've been thinking weird for a long time, anyway. You should shower, eat, and work PR! Talk about love." Omel Syahdu on Dance.

"But brother, it makes me sad."

"What election, anyway. Little boy knows the magic. Right there, take a shower. Brother wait for you here to take the PR."

"Mother.. Adit doesn't understand this." Shouted Adit from the room.

"Here, baby." Reply Syahdu when the discussion with Tari is over.

Dance is still daydreaming. Syahdu slapped the girl on the knee until she clucked and grumbled into her room to carry out the orders of Shahdu.

After finishing the bath and eating, Dance returned to the living room. There, he saw only Syahdu himself was reading a book that Tari loaned from his school library.

The girl sat under Syahdu, opening the bag to begin her studies.

"There's PR, Tar?" Ask Syahdu.

"Obserial, English. Ajarin yes, you know, big brother, jago."

"Easy." Syahdu closed the book, then sat down with Tari.

"Hmmm. hmm..🎶"

Syahdu was still silent, hearing that Dance was taking out a book from her bag.

Syahdu knows and feels familiar with the tone but where? Why it feels so close but he can't guess it. He was sure, he knew that tone but what tone it was.

"Sister." Dance with the arm of Syahdu. Makes the woman's daydream crumble.

"Cock daydreaming. I asked no questions."

"Oh, what?"

"Here, I bought a cookbook. Look, I really want this. Please cook this for tomorrow." Dance pointed to one dish of chicken oyster sauce in the cookbook.

Oyster sauce, used to be cooked for him. By someone whose name is never again called by Syahdu.

"Hmm. the ingredients are rich not sold here, deh."

"Tomorrow into town again yuk, brother. I really want to eat this." Dance Hand rapped on the magazine

Syahdu looked weighed. He also actually wanted to buy embroidery tools. He hasn't been embroidery for a long time.

"Okay, tomorrow we're going to town."

"Yeahy. That, dong. Ntar we stop by the boating cafe. Wanna see my shit." Dari said with a whimper, then started humming again.

Syahdu who noticed Tari with a mutter on his lips made Syahdu curious. Because he really knows the tone just forget what song and who.

"Tarr.."

"Hm?"

"That's. whose song?"

"Which one?"

"Just now."

Dari pointed at Syahdu with his pen. His face began to mock.

"Like, huh? Kaan! I told you, I would love it. Yesterday, I didn't want to stop me. I don't want to tell you. Week."

"Hh. Yes, my sister also does not want to help you with PR!" Syahdu began to move, but his hand was pulled again by Tari.

"Jude geez. This is the most romantic song of Sewindu. It's apaa, yes. Forget dance. English as it is. But the singer is Arga. It's handsome. aww.." Dance started to splash in her place, thinking of Arga's face.

Other things with Syahdu. He was completely silent like a statue. After hearing the name Arga, then his memory clearly reappeared where Arga several times sang it. On the balcony of Margaret's house, and also in her apartment.

'So.. Is Arga a famous singer?' Syahdu.

For a moment he felt Arga had become a successful person. Yeah, that's for sure. That's it, it should be.

"Aren't you going to see, the guy??"

Without waiting for an answer, Tari took out some photosheets and keychains with Arga.

"Handsome, kaaann..." Dari took one and then stroked Arga's face on a piece of the photo without seeing how silent Syahdu was. A man who had not seen his face for years, it has spread its wings to the music industry. And he's so handsome.

Syahdu took his breath slowly, something happened in his heart. He felt that the past was so close to him now.

"But. very dear. It turns out she has a boyfriend.."

A lover? What does Tari... wife mean? Shouldn't she have married Soraya and had children, perhaps? Syahdu was curious, but he was reluctant to ask.

"I don't know, the one I told you about was him! Arga, the one who's been hanging around waiting for his girl to come back. He is still waiting for me when it has been years apart. And what makes me surprised, it turns out he was once engaged but failed. He said he was waiting for the girl to come back. Poor tau, sis. Turns out he's made a song all for that girl.." Clearly Dance is passionate.

Syahdu shook, his mind was busy thinking.

'What does that mean? Arga's engagement failed? Who did he wait for for years? Meaning me?'

Syahdu's chest rumbles. Is she really the one Arga is waiting for her presence? It was like being struck by a powerful bolt of lightning, making Syahdu lose consciousness. He stood up and staggered while walking because he was not strong with the new facts from Arga-related Dance.

"Sister, Brother Syahdu!" Dari called out to her, but Syahdu just walked towards her room.

"Sister. Why go? What is my job??"

Syahdu closed the door, then he sat down and leaned behind the door.

This new reality made it hard to breathe. Whatisit? For 7 years Arga's been looking for him? So the man didn't get married and waited for her? Arga... Why did it come to that??

Syahdu can clearly answer that. The night of Arga's engagement, where she herself is stunned by Arga's expressions and whispers of love.

Syahdu chose to go up to the bed to lay his body in the hope that what he heard from Tari was wrong. 7 years he had gone and that night, for the first time, he had heard from Tari, Syahdu felt that there was no meaning in his journey to seek tranquility during this time if finally Arga made him dig back the past that he almost managed to bury in his memory and heart.

TB

**It's 27 guys, date of Syahdu's birthday. Saying dong to gw wakakaka. If there is any question about anything, Syahdu or Richi, Monggo asked, I must answer the question as long as the question is still safe hehe**