SYAHDU (Contract Sleep Friends)
Happy Birthday, Arga.

...PoV Arga Alexander's...

Time keeps passing

And I realized there was just me and the memories

Still remembered clearly the last smile you gave me~

...***...

I lifted the blanket as I felt the cold wind gush to my bones. The light came in from the blinds slit into my eyes, and made me have to cover my whole face with a blanket. But what I felt was just stifling.

I opened the blanket, at the same time, I immediately remembered the night that felt so beautiful. The face of Syahdu that I had never seen before, the moment where he felt pleasure from my body, was now attached to the eye. The girl's sigh is always ringing in the ear.

I smiled remembering that. Syahdu, it really makes me like crazy. He was able to thrill and my mind kept on going to him. Even now I have been thinking how to keep myself and Syahdu together, because my feelings have paid off.

I look to the side. That woman wasn't there. I sat around. There is no sound that indicates that Syahdu exists. For a moment I remembered that Syahdu wanted to leave, but it was impossible. Syahdu promised last night not to leave me. Clothes up to ********* are still scattered on the floor.

Ah, maybe she's in the kitchen, or the bathroom. I got up looking for the girl. Feel like hugging her, or maybe doing it one more time this morning?

I went to the bathroom, there was no shahdu there. Then to the kitchen and walk in the closet, also not there.

Suddenly my body stiffened. What if Syahdu leaves? What if he doesn't keep his promise?

"SHAHDUUU!!" I shouted to call him. I feel Syahdu is lying to me. But I'm still looking around that room.

"SHAME!"

Silence, no answer at all.

I checked the closet, the clothes are still complete there. I saw his high heels were also still near the sofa.

I tried to open the closet to find the bag he used to wear. And it turns out there isn't.

I checked the place where he kept his girlfriend's jeket, and it wasn't there either.

Cell phones are always on the bed, nothing. The usual wallet he put on the nightstand, nothing. Only an ATM card I ever gave him was on the table. Then a small piece of paper.

My throat was stuck after reading it.

'Happy Birthday, Arga.'

That's all he wrote there. Where's she? Did he go buy a present, or what??

I froze when I realized Syahdu was gone. I clenched my hands tightly. I felt angry, but I held back because I was still trying to think calmly. Who knows, he's out for a while.

Syahdu must be out buying something. He couldn't have left me. He promised, didn't he. And his promise was very convincing.

I said cell phone, I didn't find any message from him. Only messages and many missed calls from Papa, Mami, and Soraya must have questioned my whereabouts, since I left the party secretly.

I don't give a shit. Right now all I want is Syahdu.

My hands were shaking, looking for Syahdu's name on Whatsapp contacts. Usually the girl's name is at the front, but it's gone and now, I don't find her name in my whatsapp contacts.

"Dam. My phone must be broken!!" I said when I saw the chat room was now dim, Syahdu photos were not shown there.

I tried calling his number. I'm quietly waiting...

'The number you are going to is not listed. Please-'

"ASSHOOK!!" I slammed the phone on the floor, and damn it's still alive.

Syahdu is really gone. Syahdu just left me without a message. He even deleted his number.

I sat down, grabbed my hair. Crying, wailing, and cursing myself. Why do I trust that girl so much. Why do I fall asleep in his arms when I should be awake, so that he does not run away.

"Mas Arga, good morning.." A security guard at the lobby door.

I'm approaching him right away. Who knows if he's seen Syahdu.

"Sir, see Syahdu?" I asked with a vibrating voice.

"Oh, Neng Syahdu was gone. Very early in the morning. He said he wanted to go far."

Go far?

"Where? Did he say where he was going??" I asked in a hurry, making the security look confused to see me.

"Eee. I don't know, mas."

Argh! Syahdu..

"But he gave me his phone. He said-"

I immediately grabbed the Syahdu phone that was in the hands of the security. Right, this is Syahdu's phone in a deactivated position.

I took out a stack of red sheets from my wallet and gave them to Security. "I bought his phone. I bought a new one."

I said then get out of there to the car to find Syahdu.

I spread the first glance all the way to find Syahdu. Who knows if he's still around. The only thing I want to go to is his contract. I'm sure he's there.

After arriving, I hurriedly bang on the door while shouting to call out his name. My heart wishes there was a voice from within that answered and opened the door, so that the body could embrace me again. And I grant her any request, even if she asks me to call off the engagement, I will gladly grant it. But many times I banged, there was no sound.

"Hey, who's looking, anyway? Don't be gedor-gedor, dong. Noisy knows!" The sound from next door made me quiet. An old woman came out of her house.

"The man doesn't exist. Just went and got his stuff."

"Where ya go, buk."

"Where do I know!" Then the touch went back into the house.

I stared at the door of Syahdu's contract long enough. It turns out that Syahdu has left me. It breaks my heart to know that. Where else should I look, I never know the purpose of Syahdu. All this time he was just around here, it was easy for me to find him. But now, he's gone. Completely disappeared.

I went back to the car and looked for Syahdu again. I'm not that easy to give up. I will find Syahdu at all costs. I'll look for him at the airport, the station, or whatever else is in town.

I'll find you, Syahdu.

...🍁...

I stopped at a park. Since then my phone has been shaking, but I have no intention of being bothered by anyone including an old man named Alex. I'm just waiting for Syahdu's call. Who knew he called me and asked me to pick him up.

Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I got one hard punch in the face.

"Brazed kid!"

One blow was enough to make me the middle lethargic staggered and fell on the ground. My eyes instantly caught the sky that was starting to blacken. All day long I searched but did not find Syahdu, until I realized, the girl was indeed gone from my life. She disappeared, she chose to leave from my side.

That fast, huh? I just felt the incredible happiness he created for me. The first time Syahdu returned my kiss. The first time Syahdu enjoyed my touch, the first time he cried for fear of losing me. But why is he missing now?

"Rise, dammit! You're embarrassing me! You could have betrayed Soraya the first day you were engaged to her!!" Shake the old man at me. But I don't care what he says. I couldn't hear her chatter when my head was full of Shahdu, Syahdu, and Syahdu.

I closed my eyes with my right arm. I felt my heart break to make me cry. My shoulders were shaken, I could hear the sound of my own crying until the old man stopped his chattering.

Hollows, wounds, and anger become one, making me then unable to feel anything else but that, because of your departure, Syahdu...

TB

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