Written by Len
Written by Len

Outside

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The unrest covers both of them. But they try to soothe each other. The man, with his patience, attempts to make his woman quiet. On the contrary, when the man seems worried, the woman provokes her man's spirit.

The door is unlocked. It's free to go outside. But, it's just technically. Ethically, either the man or the woman, is supposed to make their feet stay in the place. How many times they try to ask, to be angry, to be anxiety, an answer always caws, "So dangerous outside."

"Why there is no window in this room?" The man concerns.

"Honey, honey, we need to calm down." The woman says calmly.

"I can't live like this! I can't live like this!"

"Neither I, nor somebody else. There is no human can live like this. It's a nasty situation."

"Are you sure that dangerous outside?"

"Well, there is no certain. If it's just a fictional, we supposed to be glad. But, how if it's the reality? There is no certain, honey."

"If so, I will make it certain."

"Don't be stupid!"

At last, the man is quiet. He wishes not to loss his soul and his woman's. There is no mind on him if it's just fictional or the reality anymore. What is on his mind just so dangerous outside.

Both of them are really quite. There are no swearing or even murmuring words come out. They're sticked on that 'not too roomy room'. Sometimes they walk around. But still, there is no words come around.

The day shows the afternoon. It's make the young couple heated. No wind, fan, or air conditioning on that room. Their body then prespiring. Finally, some words come out.

"I hate this afternoon." The woman blathering.

"Yeah, it's heat the room, and also our body." The man perceiving.

"Give me wind, honey."

"Give it to me too."

"Well."

"But how it's invited?"

"Come on, honey, think!"

"It's a bad situation. When you supposed for me to think, I can't think."

"Well, just don't think. Find something to invite it!"

Thus, the man begin to seek that something. He inspects every stuff in that room. He makes his body brings down on the floor to look underneath of the bed. Nothing to be found.

The woman seems more heated. Her body wetted by perspiration. She flaps her shirt to chase the heat away. But it's not enough. She or her man are need to invite the wind.

The man still moves back and forth. There is no stuff to invite the wind looked yet. But, a book titled 1984 is found by his eyes unexpectedly. His mind immediately exports an idea. He'll inviting the wind by the book. So he takes that book.

He shows the book to his woman. Firstly, she feels queer. But a moment later, she seems understood. The man comes near to his woman and tries to sway the book around her. Thus, the wind is invited successfully.

"We have to be take turn." The man asks.

"We'll, honey."

"How do you feel?"

"It's better. It's better. I hope the book blessed!"

"I hope so. Now, give me the wind."

"Don't be so fast, honey. Give me the times for a little bit."

"Well, if you want to."

The man continues to sway the book for his woman. The heat is felt fade away. The time passes. So they take the turn. It's the woman's turn to sway the book around her man. The wind is back invited.

"I think the afternoon will be over for a moment." The woman tells.

"There is no certain, like you said." The man perceives.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, how do you know if it's the afternoon? How if it's morning?"

"Impossible! How could be the morning gives us the heat?"

"Is possible that someone or some people create the heat in the morning?"

"Well, that is conspiracy theory."

"Yeah, but we can't accuse that theory."

"There is no certain, honey. There is no certain."

"Well, I'll make it certain."

"Don't be stupid! No one of us go outside. It's so dangerous!"

The room seems darker. It's proving that the night comes. Both of them stop their invitation of the wind. The man seeks for the switch lamp. He tries to chase the dark away on that room. Finally, the switch lamp is found easily. The man switches on the lamp. So the room seems brighter.

But the situation is still. They can't go outside. They're forced to live stucked on that room tonight. Worse, they can't see what happened outside. It can't be said as well as a fictional. But it also can't be said as the reality. There is no certain.

"Do you remember when our first met?" The woman asks.

"Yeah, it was the college period." The man answering.

"It was not! How could you forget it?"

"I think it was the college period! It's impossible for me to forget."

"No, honey. It was'nt. Morever, there is nobody remember about their forget."

"Are you sure if I forgetting it?"

The woman is quite.

"Are you angry?" The man asks.

"It's not the time to angry." The woman perceives.

"Are you hungry?"

"It's not the time to hungry."

"So what we'll do in this time?"

"Why you yell? Are you angry?"

"Ah, it's not the time to angry."

"The night is come. The time passes too fast. It's a sad situation. We can't gaze the moon. We can't gaze the dark sky. We can't gaze the stars." The woman is bewailing.

"No doubt. The night is coming. The time passes too fast. It's a bad situation. We can't live like before. We can't work like before. We can't step like before." The man is following his woman's lament.

They are return quite. No sound is heard, either in the room or the outside. The only sound have heard is the unheard sound. Like sadness, anxiety, fear, and also loneliness.

"Do you remember our marriage moment?" The woman asks suddenly.

"Of course. I do." The man is replying.

"It was a beautiful moment. How do you think?"

"That was a beautiful moment I have."

"I love you, honey."

"I love you too."

"Will we have a child?" The woman asks suddenly.

"I'll be glad to have it. But it's not the time to make it one." The man replies.

"Yeah. You're right. It's not the time to make it one."

"If the situation will be back to normal, what do you expect? Son or daughter?" The man wondering.

"I think I'll be glad to have a son." The woman receives.

"If so, I'll be glad to have a daughter. Then, how do you naming that us?"

"Ah honey, don't expecting so far. It's not certain if we'll live for tomorrow. Hope is also dangerous."

"What's the matter with you? We can't live without hopes! Besides, I think there is no dangerous outside. If you tell me that there is no certain, I'll tell you that I'll make it certain!"

"Don't be stupid! Calm down, honey. I think you're tired. It has been so night. I think we have to sleep. Let's sleep and hoping that tomorrow will be better."

After his woman refuses to name the child, the man follows his woman's advice to get sleep. The night becomes more late. But the situation is still. There is nobody can go outside. Peculiarly, both of them are sleep off on the bed in that situation.

***

The night passes. The day become the one new. The sun's ray is defeating the lamp's ray on the room. The time is changing, but the situation is still. There is no certain.

Both of them, the man and the woman, are still sleep off on their bed. They don't know that the morning is come. They don't know what will be coming later. At last, they are wake up!

"What time is it?" The woman asks.

"I think it's time when the night passes." The man replies.

"Is still dangerous outside?"

"I don't know. There is no certain."

"Well, we aren't allowed to go there yet."

"How do you know?"

"There is no certain, honey. There is no certain."

"Well, I'll make it certain."

"Don't be stupid!"

They are return quite. But it becomes a different situation for a moment later.

"Listen!" The man orders.

"I am. It's somebody knock on the door. Hold the door, honey!" The woman also orders.

"Well." The man is holding the door. Then he asks, "Why it have to be hold? How if that man outside is our savior?"

"And how if that man is our crusher? There is no certain! Remember?" The woman return to ask.

"Well, you have to help me. I think that man tries to break this door."

"What I have to do?"

"Just hold this door with me!"

"Well." The woman is holding the door. Then she complains, "I think it's a bad morning for us."

"It's a bad morning for somebody else. Listen!"

"I am. Where is the man? It's quite enough outside."

"I don't know. The possibility is he's gone."

"There is no certain!" They are yelling together.

For that uncertainty situation, both of them try to hold the door strongest. But, they don't intending to waste their energy of it. Thus, they're looking for something that can hold the door on.

"How about the bed?" The woman asks.

"Are you sure?" The man return to ask.

"Well, it's a big bed. I think it's heavier than we are."

"Well, let's try. Help me." The man orders.

The woman follows her man's command. They're trying to move the bed into the door. But they're seem in difficulty. It's wasting the time and their energy. Until now, their effort become effortlessly.

So they're decide to take a respite. In this morning, their body seem perspiring as well as before. They're return to quiet as well as before. Morever, they're stucked on the room as well as before.

"I am so tired, honey." The woman is sighing suddenly.

"Either I. Nobody doesn't tired on this situation." The man is perceiving.

"Will that man comes again?"

"I don't know. There is no certain."

"There is no certain."

"Well, we have to make it certain!"

"Don't be stupid! It's so dangerous outside! There is no certain, honey. Don't you remember?"

"Yeah. There is no certain in this situation. There is no certain if that man will not comes again. There is no certain if so dangerous outside. Do you understand?"

"So you decide to open that door and leaving?"

"Well, how about you? You supposed to go with me."

"But I am scared."

"Either I. But, there is no certain. Don't you remember?"

At last, they're deciding to open the door and leave the room. The sadness, anxiety, fear, and also the uncertainty cover both of them. But they're still go on. They're still go on to the dangerous outside.

"Honey, if I am die later, you have to know that I love you." The woman is bewailing while her tears fall out.

"So am I. If I decided to die then, you have to know that I am the man who always loving you. Now, don't cry, honey. Let's go to outside!"

The man who followed by his woman, begin to open the door. They're leaving the room. They're going to outside.


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