The After The Rain
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"The wood is pregnant, the son of Atha," Kinara said moments after her cries subsided. He took a deep breath, filling his chest cavity with oxygen as a provision to combat the tightness that would arise later.

"They said it accidentally, because they were drunk. But ... does that make sense?" Kinara smiled miris.

Mama still didn't say anything. To be honest, she was also shocked and hurt by what her daughter was saying. Didn't expect that the young man who had been trusted to look after Kinara, instead hurt the girl in the most bastard way in the world.

"Nara doesn't believe the same unintentional reason they say, Ma." Kinara raised her gaze, looking at Mama with reddened eyes.

"They already knew that alcohol could mess things up, but they still drank the illegal drink, especially when they were in the hotel room together. According to Nara, they were not sane even before the alcohol was drunk." Kinara almost shed her tears again, but she hurriedly resisted the clear fog that enveloped her eyes so as not to melt back. He should not cry too much, especially if the reason for crying was because of a male bastard like Atha. These tears are not worth shed.

"Nara has decided to stay away from Atha and Dahayu, far away, Ma. It's okay, right? Nara won't be the bad guy for keeping away from them, will she?"

Mama shook her head, with all her might holding back the cries that had filled her eyes. "You're not evil, Nara. Those who are evil for betraying you. They're bad, honey." Mama grabbed Kinara's hand, rubbing her back several times. "You can stay away from them, that's okay. Even if you want to move campuses so you don't have to see them again, Mama will be able to."

"Not until you have to move campuses, Ma. Dear money. Lagian ... Not Nara was wrong, so why did Nara have to run away? Nara just wants to draw a clear line to not connect with the two of them anymore."

"Whatever it is, Ra. Whatever it is that can make you more comfortable, Mama will support." Afterwards, Mama pulled Kinara into a hug. "Anyone can go and betray you, my dear. But I promise you, Mama won't be like that. Mama will always be here, just like you, son." Mama said sincerely.

Now, having realized that there was no one in this world that she could trust enough to keep Kinara, Mama would start praying more vigorously, she said, in order for God to allow her to live longer so that she can accompany Kinara, at least until this child finds someone who can truly take responsibility for her life and heart.

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It had been almost half an early morning, but Kinara had not been able to close her eyes yet. Lestari, the chatty boy who had been so active comforted her so as not to grieve anymore was now asleep on the bed. The boy was not fussy at all, was not demanding and fell asleep immediately after Kinara took the initiative to sing him a song.

Realizing that she would not be able to sleep despite her efforts, Kinara got up from the bed. He walked towards the study table, turned on his study lamp and opened the laptop he had taken out of the bag.

While waiting for the laptop to turn on, Kinara opened the nightstand drawer, only to find her phone lying helpless, still dead. Initially, Kinara wanted to let the phone die longer, but after a second thought, she also needed the thing to get information about the things that were happening on her campus. To get notified in a class chat group about schedule changes, for example.

So, Kinara grabbed the phone from there and plugged in a charger to charge it because she wasn't sure the phone still had enough power to work.

Kinara put the phone on the table, then focused on the laptop screen that was already lit, showing the wallpaper in the form of a beautiful violet sky view.

Kinara's goal of turning on the laptop was to open her Instagram account. He intends to look for some interesting things, just comforting himself so as not to drag on in sadness.

Kinara immediately pressed the heart button, then left a comment on the post before surfing through the uploads from other accounts he followed.

Beautiful, as always. His comments, following some other comments that more or less also contain the same thing.

Kinara scrolled the screen, pressing the heart again for each upload she encountered. Until finally, he found a post from Dahayu's account, which finally made him fixated for a long time.

The post was made a few days ago, featuring the figure of her and Dahayu smiling brightly towards the Camera. The photo was taken in the front garden of the campus, minutes before they returned home.

Kinara sighed softly. Then, just like the uploads from the other accounts she followed, Kinara also pressed the button again. The difference, after pressing the heart button, Kinara immediately clicked on Dahayu's profile and immediately pressed the unfollow button. Not only unfollow, Kinara also decided to block Dahayu's account, so that they would no longer be connected there.

After that, Kinara went to the search field, typed in Atha's user name and then immediately did the same as she did to Dahayu's user name.

Succeeds. Kinara had already managed to cut off one access with those two people. The rest, he'll do it slowly.

For some time, Kinara pondered again. Come to think of it, the life he was living right now was exactly like a roller coaster, going up and down was not a hassle. Just now that he had managed to rise from the fallout of Papa's bankruptcy, he must now again try to pull himself back from such a painful betrayal.

"Lord ... Nara's way of life, motherfucker, yes." For the first time, Kinara complained about her way of life.

"If not happy ending, bad luck. So, please make a happy ending, yes, God. Pleaseee..."

After tossing the prayer, Kinara chuckled in amusement. He could have arranged how God would write his way of life.

"If God could speak directly, perhaps He would have tampered with and said you didn't know yourself." His monologue, before his mind returned full of things that happened to his life in the space of a few months.

Meanwhile, in the other hemisphere, there was a young man who was staring at the screen of his phone with a smile that grew perfectly.

Beautiful, as always.

Such was the comment he had just received from an account that had been waiting for his notification for days. For some reason, but from the beginning they interact with each other on social media, he already felt interested in the account owner named @cloudsyou. It is as if they have long been connected, and the universe is setting up a plan to bring them together in the real world, in the near future.

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