The After The Rain
Something in Jogja

It's a yeoreobun flashback...

After spending four hours in Malioboro, Atha broke away from the entourage. His other friends had their own promises so they had to end the play session with them.

At first, Atha intends to return to his grandfather's house and immediately rest because tomorrow he already has an appointment with Brian to hunt for good gudeg rice in the vicinity of Malioboro.

However, the intention was instantly blurred as his eyes caught the figure of the girl he knew had just entered a bar when he was driving his car to return to the grandfather's house.

Curious whether she was looking wrong or not, Atha turned the wheel and stopped at the parking area of the bar.

Atha's coming down. Slowly but surely, he swung a step into the bar which turned out not to be too crowded.

Because the lighting in the bar is dimly lit, Atha so must go deeper inside while squinting to find the whereabouts of the girl who had previously stolen his attention.

And after a while of circulating her gaze all over, Atha finally found the girl already sitting at one of the very end tables. Alone, with two bottles of local brand liquor lined up on the table.

Atha walked over to the girl and pulled the opposite chair without even bothering to greet the girl first.

Meanwhile, the girl, Dahayu, who felt that there had just been someone who disrespectfully joined her desk without permission, raised her face. He had almost spouted out swear words, but he stopped when he found that the man sitting in front of him was someone he knew.

"What are you doing here?" asked Dahayu, with a tone as thin as usual.

"I should be here, what am I doing?" Atha asked back casually.

With her back resting on the chair, Atha began to re-circulate her gaze exploring the entire contents of the bar. Starting from the yellowish lights hanging from the ceiling, beer bottles neatly arranged on the shelves to ancient paintings of pliers tacked on some parts of the bar walls are dark gray.

"Lo's not afraid to go to a place like this alone?" asked Atha again after he finished observing and returned to devote his attention to Dahayu.

"Fear what? There are no ghosts here." Dahayu said lightly. Then, he began to pull the glass available before him, opened the beer bottle with the bottle opener then poured the brownish liquid into the glass and brutally downed it.

Atha could only chuckle while shaking his head slowly looking at Dahayu who seemed to want to show how tough she was. Though, anyone could also definitely see how fragile the girl was through just the look in her eyes.

"A lot of messages, can you finish?" goda Atha when Dahayu was about to pour another beer into his glass.

Feeling himself being underestimated, Dahayu also filled his glass to the brim. However, he did not chug the beer in the glass and instead thrust it in front of Atha.

"Why do I have to finish myself, if you're here now?" he said while smiling sideways.

Again Atha chuckled. Dahayu is so. Never want to lose. So, rather than them ending up fighting for unnecessary things, Atha immediately grabbed the glass and then downed the contents until the toilet.

Actually, Atha was not used to drinking alcohol. It was not that he was a holy man who was reluctant to touch such illicit things, he just kept trying to hold back knowing that Kinara, was, the lover he loved so much did not like an alcoholic. For Kinara's sake, Atha was willing to leave behind a lot of things.

"Let's go home." He said after putting the empty glass back on the table. "Where is Lginep in the hotel? Let me take you."

"Gue can be alone." Decline Dahayu. "Somehow, I still want to drink." He continued, reaching for the empty glass in front of Atha and about to refill it.

But his movements stopped because Atha suddenly blocked his hand. The man looked at him fixedly, as if he was trying to intimidate through the look in his eyes.

"Drink at the hotel, not here. You don't realize how many pairs of eyes of men who had been eating lo, waiting for you to run?"

Dahayu spread his gaze. And sure enough, at one table a few meters across from his desk, there was a group of young men looking at him exactly like a bunch of hungry lions.

Since this was not his territory and Dahayu had no weapons whatsoever to defend himself in case something bad happened, he finally agreed to Atha's idea.

Atha nodded. Without waiting for long, he got up and started walking first towards the exit.

While Dahayu had to run a little to compensate for Atha's steps that were swung wide.

"Lo still not activein hape if again solo trip?" asked Atha when Dahayu had managed to align his steps with her.

"Still." Dahayu answered briefly.

"That's dangerous, you know? What if suddenly something bad happens to you, and you can not quickly find help because hape lo die?"

"Not to be fussy, mending my anterine quarry to the hotel because I want to drink." Ketus Dahayu, then he got into Atha's car without waiting for the owner to open the door.

"Minimum answer my question, monkey!" gerutu Atha's. But he got in the car and immediately drove his car away from the bar area.

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The hotel where Dahayu stayed was not far from Atha's grandfather's house. Where it is a budget hotel that Atha absolutely does not think that someone like Dahayu wants to stay there.

"Gue thinks you're five-star." Atha said while removing a grocery bag containing several bottles of beer from the rear passenger seat.

"Once in a while it feels like being poor." Dahayu answered lightly, then immediately walked into the five-story building.

The first thing that greeted them when they made it in was a female receptionist in her mid-twenties who was still trying to smile kindly despite the sight of her being so tired.

Then, as Atha had expected, there was no elevator in this building. So they had to take the stairs to get to the floor where Dahayu's room was located, which turned out to be on the fifth floor.

They stopped in front of a room at the very end. Dahayu immediately pulled out the key from inside the bag then used it to open the door.

Despite the slight difficulty, the door was finally able to open and Dahayu immediately shot into the room while Atha tailed behind.

Atha put a bag of beer on the table and began to observe the entire room.

While waiting for Atha to finish with her observation activities, Dahayu began to take out a beer bottle from inside the bag. His eyes sparkled brightly as he looked at the liquid inside the bottle that seemed to be waving to him, asking to be downed immediately.

"Gue went straight home, yeah." Pamit Atha after she finished observing around.

However, Dahayu actually pulled her hand to sit on the floor.

"Temenin I drink." The girl said with a straight look at the bottles in front of her.

Atha was about to refuse, but when Dahayu turned to him and gave him a pitiful look, he had no power not to nod his head.

"Okay, I'll drink you."

Because Atha thought, he could immediately stop Dahayu before the girl got too drunk.

Though supposedly, Atha never nodded his head so that the two of them did not cause a disaster for many people.

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