The Bridge Of Love
CHAPTER 3 Dead Lights
“You want a warm bath?” ask Chrysanthemum.
“Ya.”
“Wait here, I boiled hot water for you first. For the shower, I don't have any. You can use the dipper.”
“Rebus?” ask Carnation full of wonder.
“Yes, I have no water heater. Of course must boil water first before taking a warm bath.”
“Good, please prepare for me.”
Chrysanthemums turn to the kitchen, boil water and prepare warm water into the bath. The bathroom was small but kept clean because of the diligent chrysanthemum man.
“What's ready?” ask Carnation.
“Already.”
“Have you put a therapeutic scent into the bathtub?”
“It doesn't have that. But, my soap is very fragrant.”
Chrysanthemums remove soap rods from inside bathroom storage boxes. Soap bath stems with a picture wrap full of flowers. He opened the wrap and thrust at the Carnation. “Cium, so fragrant isn't it?”
Carnations receive the bar soap. “Iya scented.”
“Mandilah.”
“Krisan,” call Carnation.
“Ya?”
“The bathroom is safe ‘kan?”
“Of course, no one peeks and no wild animals enter. Oh yeah, you haven't told me how you know my name?”
Anyelir's gaze descended down, staring at Chrysanthemum's chest. The man followed the direction of Carnation. Instantly he chuckled to see his clothes which contained embroidery of his name. “So you know my name from here,” Chrysanthemum murmur.
Carnations just smiled then went inside the bathroom and started cleaning themselves. Although uncomfortable, he had to. Carnations could not linger in the bathroom, he sped up his bath. Take a towel and dry his body.
Jeps! The lights suddenly went out. Instantly Anyelir panicked, he shouted, “Krisan!”
Chrysanthemum was shocked when he heard the cry of Carnation, he hurriedly ran towards the bathroom. Tripped several times because there was no lighting. He opened the bathroom door that the key had been broken.
Chrysanthemums don't fix bathroom keys because they just stay alone. “Are you okay?” ask Chrysanthemum without knowing where the Carnations are.
Grep's! Carnations hugged the Chrysanthemum tightly. “Why did the lights go out? I'm afraid of the dark,” shrieked Carnations with vibrating bodies.
Chrysanthemum hugging Carnation. “Quiet, there I am here. Let's go out.”
The chrysanthemum led Carnations out of the bathroom. “Why is it dark once?”
“Through outage,” says Chrysanthemum.
“Oh.”
“You sit here first. I'll find candle.”
“No want, I'm afraid.” Carnations tightly grip the Chrysanthemum arm.
“Alright,” replied Chrysanthemum resigned. Chrysanthemum fingered into the kitchen table drawer. Look for the presence of candles.
“Ah!” shouting Carnations.
“What's up?”
“As if anyone touches my calf.”
“Maybe a mouse,” replied Chrysanthemum of origin.
“What?” Carnations further tighten the body on Chrysanthemums. He got into the man's chest.
Chrysanthemum was surprised, he grabbed the towel-clad Carnation waist. The fragrant fragrance of Anyelir's body pierced his nose. Unknowingly, he brought his nose closer to Carnation's hair. Inhaling the fragrance of the girl's hair.
Chrysanthemum's hand turned to the girl's shoulder. Gentle, the girl's skin was soft. Chrysanthemums have trouble swallowing their own saliva. “I find candles first.”
Carnations stretch her body, making room for Chrysanthemums looking for candles. The light began to shine. Carnation's face after the bath looks so bright, a tinge of red coloring the pretty face.
Chrysanthemum stared fixedly at the girl, only to realize, the girl he helped was very beautiful.
“Until when will the lights go out?”
“Can be 30 minutes or maybe 1 hour more.”
“For that? Is there no generator?”
Chrysanthemum laughs, “Do you think this is company?”
Carnations just grunt miserably. They sit on the kitchen bar mini bench. Although a simple house. However, Chrysanthemum decorates so that the dwelling is comfortable.
Chrysanthemum's eye gaze decreased, coinciding with his gaze seeing half of Carnation's thighs that were not perfectly covered by towels. He shifted his eyes.
“Do you want to get dressed first?” ask Chrysanthemum carefully.
“Can you take me to the room?
They came out of the kitchen and into the room. “Bring this candle, I wait outside,” Chrysanthemum order.
Carnations take candles from the hands of Chrysanthemums that stand upright on a small plate. He went straight into the room and changed clothes quickly. Carnation out of the room. The girl only wears a shirt and shorts.
The chrysanthemum only frowned at a glance, eager to get angry at the girl who was wearing half thigh pants. However, he had no right to be angry or judge the girl.
“Are you a student?” ask Chrysanthemum.
“New pass this year.”
“Oh, want to go to university?”
“No,” said Anyelir lowered his head.
“What makes you want to end your life?”
Carnations exhaled his breath. “My parents went bankrupt and they couldn't handle it. Heart attack caused the death of my parents, they died at close range,” said Anyelir by holding back tears.
“I am also a kara. In fact, ever since I was in elementary school.”
Carnations looked up at Chrysanthemums. “Then, how do you live?”
“Administration. Only that place supports me.” He stared at the carnation. However, his memories glanced to the past.
His family's dark times. He saw for himself how his parents destroyed his business partner. He shook his head slowly, casting away the shadow of the past.
“So you grew up in an orphanage?”
“Only to get a guardian. At least, I still have one house left by my parents. After graduating from school, I sold the house for college admission. It is not easy to sell a house. Many come to bid at low prices.”
“You're a student?”
Chrysanthemum clucking. “Not a student. I'm 25 years old, I'm working. You should have called me Mas, Brother or Brother!”
Carnations just chuckle. “You called like that?”
“Comfortable yourself only.”
“I ... how long can I stay here?”
“Until you get up and don't think about ending your life again.”
They chatted while waiting for the lights to turn on. Light chatter punctuated by candlelight. After a while, the lights came on.
“Already on.”
Chrysanthemums want to blow out the candles. However, it was stopped by Carnations. “Let me just.”
The huft! Carnations blow out the candles. A movement that simply blew out the candle, made Chrysanthemum's heart tremble.
“Are you hungry?”
“Ya, little.”
“You want fried rice?”
“Bby.”
“Wait here.”
“I'm coming.”
“You've taken a shower, you'll smell the cooking if you come.”
“I can help you.”
“You can cook?”
“No. But, I can help you chase away the rats. I'll hold a broom to scare her," said Anyelir excitedly.
Chrysanthemum laughs. “No rats, although this house is simple. However, I took good care of him. I was just talking. The possibility that touches your calf is just a tablecloth that dangles. I haven't tidied up the tablecloth in the kitchen.”
Carnations just smile. “But I want to come. Don't want to be alone.”
“Alright, look at my gastronomy,” said Chrysanthemum.
Chrysanthemums show their cooking skills. Without seasoning, everything is prepared manually. Peeling onions and other ingredients. Treading to be a spice. Then cut squid and some meatballs for fried rice mixture.”
Carnations see every move of chrysanthemum cooking. There was a warm feeling in his heart. The man who looks quite handsome, is very charming when cooking.
Two plates of fried rice have been finished. Carnations immediately tried the cuisine. “Enak once,” praise.
“Eat, make your stomach full.”
Carnations ate voraciously, he ate a little in a hurry. The eating ethic taught by his family seemed forgotten. Moreover, from yesterday afternoon he had not eaten due to grieving.
“Slow-slow,” says Chrysanthemum.
Carnations spend a plate of fried rice made in Chrysanthemum. He drank a glass of water. A scroll of fried rice leftover stuck to the corner of Carnation's lips.
“There is rice on your lips,” says Chrysanthemum.
Not just inform. However, Chrysanthemum reached out and removed the rice attached. The rice fell. But not with the Chrysanthemum hand. Chrysanthemum's thumb rubbed the girl's pink lips. Not once, Chrysanthemum rubbed those lips twice unknowingly.