GREY MARNI
The Awareness under the Moon

The sun had set in earnest. No more light shone upon them than the moon and the stars.

Rudi arranged the wood that he and his friends had been looking for this afternoon and lit a fire to warm the body as well as a source of light.

The night was so quiet, without the sound of the roar of the motor and its horn. The silence makes the atmosphere on the beach very pleasant. The burning bonfire brought them all together. They sit around and warm each other.

"Ga, grab your guitar" Rudi told Arga.

Arga did not say much and immediately picked up the guitar. After the guitar he brought to the campfire he handed it to Rudi so that he began to sing a song that would accompany their martyrdom night.

"What song?" Ask her friends and.

"Whatever, that's exciting" said Arga.

"How about the Fals' Affair?" Laura gave her advice.

"Yes right, the song fits perfectly with our atmosphere today." Elsa said.

"One day, when we sit on the beach..." Laura start.

Rudi immediately plucked the strings of his guitar slowly and fused together the rhythm of applause and Laura's melodious voice.

Erlang, Elsa and Andin stared in shock at Laura when they found out how beautiful her voice was. Laura closed her eyes, sang and patted her thighs.

The song floats on a fire that burns memories and sadness. The song was shared with the six of them. They sing and enjoy the melody at night.

The warmth of the fire that burns wood seems to be a friend as well as a medicine for a heart that is bitter.

Slowly, time passed until one song was finished. They all smiled happily. Rudi looked at the faces of his friend who were bright by the light of the campfire in front of him. The sumringah of their faces made Rudi even happier.

Andin became the specter that Rudi admired. Andin sat in front of him. To his right was Erlang and to his left was Laura. They did not see the pensive Rudi admiring Andin.

Rudi was still looking at the beautiful woman. With a large black shirt, bigger than his body and white shorts. Andin looks very charming under the black clouds and stars.

Laura stood up and made Rudi wake up from her daydream.

"Oh yeah, I brought something from home."

Laura went into the tent they had set up since they got there.

After a while he came out with some snacks and two big bottles and glasses.

"Is anyone hungry?" Ask Laura.

"I'm still full" replied Rudi.

"I'm still full too" Erlang said.

"Elsa? The arga? Andin?" Laura asked again.

The three of them shook their heads. Then Laura went back into the tent and came out again with some snacks that were ready to eat without the need to be cooked again.

Laura sat down and handed out snacks to all of them. He uncapped the bottle and began to pour a little drink into the small glass he was carrying with him a bottle and a snack.

Laura handed the glass to her friends.

Rudi started the melody again, song after song began to fill their nights. Along with bird chirping and crickets ringing, Rudi's quotes become very cool. Andin, Elsa and Arga really enjoy the sound of Rudi's guitar, they look at Rudi and Laura who seem to have one-way thoughts. The two of them understood each other and memorized each other with songs sung by each other.

Late at night in intimacy, the sound of the waves helps those who are in a time of tightness, calm wind accompanies the body that began to float.

Two bottles of the drink were left a little. Laura and Erlang leaned her head against Rudi's shoulders. They seem to be getting tired.

The fire in front of them had begun to shrink and extinguish. Leave the embers that are still burning reddish. One bottle of drink remains. Erlang returned to the tent and slept. So did Laura and Arga.

Rudi no longer plays his guitar. Elsa and Andin approached Rudi and sat down next to him.

They play coals using a twig that they can get out of nowhere. Rudi was just quietly flanked by the two beautiful women.

"Rudi why don't you use your real name? Do we know each other's stories?" Elsa asked.

"Of course, it's more convenient to be called Rudi than Doni. Sometimes I even forget that my name is actually Doni."

"Hahaha, take it easy I'll help you run the story you want to live."

"Hahaha, we're just friends I've taken it as a fun story"

"Sometimes take me to your house, I want to eat salmon run by your employees"

"Hahaha, just calm down."

"I rarely go on vacation. The days I spent were work and work. Very tiring"

"Why not just start a business"

"What business? Sometimes I want to do it but sometimes I feel lazy to make me not want to do it."

"Hahaha, that's not lazy. Just an idealism that's deeply ingrained"

"Hahaha it's just a softer language. It makes no difference."

"Open your father already owns a Sa business?" Andin asked suddenly after a long time of listening to them.

"Yes right, but the business was given to my first brother"

"What is your part?"

"Emmm... I only got the house that my mother and my brothers currently live in."

"After your father died, did anything change in your family"

"Only the second brother was quite unaccepted with the division handed down by my father"

"Why do you just want that house?"

"Let's know, I just thought the house was full of memories. I also said to my brother and sister that the house would remain a common home and be a home where we would gather and go home. I don't expect much about my father's legacy, I just want all the family to get along and love each other."

"It turns out you're a grown-up too" said Rudi.

Elsa pinched Rudi's cheek and made Rudi a little pained. After that he moved on and left Rudi alone with Andin outside.

Andin was still playing with charred wood scraps burned by the fire. He said nothing to Rudi. It was as if you were thinking about something very deeply. His eyes were fixed on the coals he was playing.

Rudi just looked at him slowly and poured the remaining drinks. He filled two glasses and gave them to Andin.

The night was already very dark, with no cold flames grabbing to the bottom of the heart. So the night passed with Andin who was still silent.

Long enough the silence was embracing a body that was starting to get cold. Rudi rubbed his palms together and swept his face. He looked at Andin again and did not invite him to chat first. He just stared at the star with the scent of calm perfume that was beside him.

"Rud, can you help me fall in love again?"

Suddenly Andin asks him to do something he doesn't even know how to do.

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