So Many Times
DUA
...Sometimes God brings us together not to be together, but to learn...
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Dareel POVs
I walked into the campus, like the days I usually teach at Jogjakarta college. Here I am known as a lecturer who is cold and rarely smiles.
I don't know.just smiling is no longer an easy thing to do. Only one person can make me smile, until now even remembering it makes me happy.
"For the sir." Greet one of the students, whom I nod back.
"For Mr. Dareel." Sayings always come to me when I will enter my workspace and again - again I reply just nod.
"Reel, come with me and buy a gift for Nattali. I want to buy a watch." Take it to me when I'm just sitting my ass in the chair.
Yeah, he's my best friend, Dion Adelard. We were friends for a long time, only he was closest to me and understood my past. Its friendly, independent and intelligent carrying makes this figure so admired as the best young lecturer on this campus. Just like me, I'm not friendly, because I'm not good at getting along.
"My gues.. I'm coming too, use my car, '" said Edwin who we reply with a nod.
He was also my best friend, Edwin Kendrick
Different from the friendly Dion, Edwin has a ten times friendly nature than Dion. However.. he is only friendly to women, remember !!! To women only. Even the entire campus already knows, there are no more central lecturers besides Edwin. I got to know Edwin 2 years ago when I just got back from Singapore and worked at this college.
Tomorrow is Dion's engagement day with his girlfriend, Nattali. The event was not fancy and did not invite many guests, Dion said. Just the family - their nuclear family and Dion's best friend, me and Edwin of course.
The engagement? 8 Years ago, when I was 18 years old, I always dreamed of having a serious relationship like a relationship and marriage with a woman I loved and admired at that time. Not just at that time, but until now I still love him very much.
"Reel, I used to tell you a lot.. Nattali has a best friend who helps me so I can deket same Natt. That's how his face bule - bule how it is." Dion spoke to me, and I suspected that the woman Dion was referring to tomorrow would attend the event.
"Hemm I want to," I replied, not interested in the topic.
"Oh yeah I haven't told you what her name is, her name is Alana."
"W-What?" I was surprised, my mind started to drift apart. Ah I can't be like this, maybe the same name, not her. Yeah, I hope.
"Gue had a plan for a long time Nattali wanted to know you two, just you know I'm the same Nattali as LDR, so how can we meet you both. So tomorrow it's time to meet him, be ready. Learn to smile, learn to talk. Alana's son is cold, eleven twelve kayaks lo." Dion's long explanation left me unfocused, but what he said earlier, He had a cold attitude, It wasn't Alana I knew.
Yes, the Alana I know is very cheerful even she can talk all day without stopping. I didn't realize I was smiling just by remembering.
"Relax bro, as long as there's all I'm under control. What to do in make over from Mr. Dareel's handsome lecturer... Heem face is okay, the problem of talking to the girl is similar to me let me later teach this ice man".
"Lo is good at girl-to-girl issues" Dion said.
"Whatever, whatever." My disconnect at the sight of Edwin will follow Dion's words, if I don't end this conversation soon, then the debate will begin soon.
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When after I filled out the materials, we went to the mall. Because Edwin did not come, so we both left. Me and Dion.
Yes, she is Alana Lovata. She's a woman I love so much who makes my days heaven, full of color and happiness. Until now, this feeling is still the same as before. However, I left that paradise, I left Alana because I knew a girl like her would only get hurt if she was always with a guy like me.
She is the only daughter of a famous businessman in Indonesia even throughout Asia, Surya Abraham. As for me, the orphan who had nothing - what, even it felt so inappropriate for me as it walked, smiled and joined hands with Alana.
"Reel, why? From this morning, diem. Alana Karna? You're afraid that Alana I meant was Alana the woman you lived in first?" Dion asked immediately what I was thinking. Only Dion and Edwin knew about my time, I told them everything because to me they were the ones closest to me and the three of us almost had the same story.
"What do you think, someday I meet Alana. Does he hate me? Am I pantes standing in front of him?".
"I think you pantes to hate Reel, but like lo in hadepin situation where you will meet Alana. One, you don't go again. You once said that if you're going to find Alana, you don't care about her Papa, you're going to be next to Alana. You believe in destiny, right? If Alana is your destiny, there must be a way for both of you". Dion's words made me have a little hope.
True, said Dion, I should have never left him and stayed by his side.
* Flasback on
8 years ago
When he came home from basketball practice, in front of the school gate Mr. Surya, right Papa Alana was waiting for me. I knew he was Papa Alana because I saw him a lot when I drove Alana home.
"You're Dareel Aldari?" That sharp look and dislike was clearly on his face when he mentioned my name.
"Right sir, I'm Dareel." My hands stretched out to shake hands, but he avoided. I kept smiling, thinking I might be the usual thing when a father meets his daughter's lover.
Yeah right, Alana and I have been dating for a year. She's my underclassman, we're one year old.
"Come with me, there's something I want to talk about" Mr. Surya told me.
Right now I am in Mr. Surya's luxury car, I feel uncomfortable but I am also trying to look good.
"Listen, I know you're close to Alana. But do you realize who you are and who Alana is?" A question that left me gasping for a few seconds. I haven't answered yet, he's spoken again.
"You're Arnold Agler's adopted son, a gambler who's a police fugitive, he's your uncle. And do you know the widespread news about my affair?" Bright Mr. Surya, made me surprised. Then, what does this have to do with my fugitive uncle and the Alana papa affair.
"Alright, now I'll offer you a negotiation. From the smallness of your uncle who took care of and raised you, now he is hiding and becoming a fugitive. I will help you and your uncle so that you can be free from the police and can stay properly" explained Mr. Sunya again - again making me suspicious, what this man means. Is he gonna threaten me, or I don't know.
"Then about my affair, you love Alana very much right? You definitely don't want to make Alana's life suffer." It is true, the case of Mr. Surya's affair is no stranger to my ears. Every school knows that, and every teacher knows it. Because Papa Alana is one of the donors in our school.
"What do you mean you talk like that?" I still don't understand this situation.
"I won't hurt Alana and her mother if you leave her. Go abroad with your useless uncle, leave Alana. If you do not leave Alana and do not leave this country, then I will divorce Alana's mother and expel them both from my home. It's going to ruin Alana, you know what I mean?" Really, what's in front of me is really a father. Why would he do this, why would he destroy his own family.
"What do you say, Alana, he, he loves you very much. And the mother, she's your wife. What because you don't like me, and then you make your family's life ruined?" I don't know what he's saying, he's not really like a father.
"Not only you, but to all your family, I hate you all. Being close to Alana, it was the same as me degrading my social and family status. And if you don't leave him, not only will Alana and her mother be destroyed but the only family you have, your uncle, I will destroy her as well. Look, I've never played with my words. Leave Alana and live abroad or stay with Alana but you will see her destruction and torment".
Flasback off
My daydreams ran out when Dion and I got to a mall, our destination. I don't know why today I miss Alana so much, eight years and every day I miss her but it's different. I felt like we were in the same neighborhood.
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