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Padjadjaran Universitas Indonesien

2016

Eva P. ©
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Category: Fiction (Short Story: Mystery)
Word Count: 905 words


A 'Friend' in Silence


Four years ago, there was this twelve year-old girl who happened to be caught in such a heart-breaking car accident. She lost her beloved family−the people that she would most likely describe as her source of strength and happiness. She was the only one who could get past the long, painful, and suffocating treatments in a horrible, smelly−not to mention, dead-body filled place called the hospital.

The thing is, even being the one who survived, she can no longer see the beauty of sun rise, the serene blue oceans, the unblinking starry nights, or anything the universe can offer to be seen by anyone who owns a pair of healthy eyes.


Day after day, she turned into somebody else. In spite of her disability to see, she couldn't help but feel the inevitable sensation of being looked at pitifully. And she was fit to be tied when all those unnecessary stares shot towards her from almost everyone she met.

She despised her life and continuously blame her dreary fate. She spent most of her time in places where people could barely see her, so then they wouldn't add more pain onto her already wounded soul with their looks of pity. If the matter is about to be put into an analogy, it'd be more like a torn book got labelled as the uninteresting one, hid in the bottom row of dusted shelves so it can't be found for it only to be thrown.


She noticed that she got some comfort in quietness, so that's why all she wanted to do was just to be dissolved in the deep air of silence. She became someone who filled with hatred, and her heart−which was once as soft as a morning dew−is now frozen into an icy one.

All in all, she intoxicated herself with rage, letting herself drowned in madness and finally got lost in the waves of wretchedness.


Now in the year she is turning sixteen, she already has a so-called friend. Though the burning flame that used to make her a cheerful girl never lit back, deep down she knows that her friend has a good intention to protect her from the cruelty of her world. However, it's not rare she gets upset with him, because as she does recall, he never once told her his name.


She indeed could not see her friend. But she knows he does exist. His undeniable presence is easy to be acknowledged. Truth be told this friend of hers never really speaks to her nor to anyone for that matter. In fact, the girl and her friend never even exchanged a word to each other nor she ever feels the warmth of his skin and vice-versa, but nonetheless he seems to always understand her feelings in a thoughtful yet cold silence.

The way he surrounds her, is kind of like a heavy atmospheric mist clouded a bewildered little girl in the midst of a winter night. Even so, to say the least, now with her friend stays still by her side, she's actually a bit more self-collected and kind of glad that the thoughts of being hurt−one of so many risks of being alive−finally stopped haunting her complicated labyrinths of mind.


It's been years that she does everything on her own−she never talks to anyone. She distanced herself from people, even the ones that used to be close to her. She also knew a little too much about how it felt to be drenched in pain and consumed by her own sadness. But now, to be more exact all she does feel is just this numb feeling.

And though her friend already promised her that he'd stay with her in a long period of time, it still doesn't help much to alleviate her great amount of depression. Moreover, she feels that her knotted strings of soul had actually collided with him in a way that no one will ever could.


Until one day, she finally figured it out, that her friend is actually something more than just an untouchable company in her frustrating life. This friend of hers has been poisoning her mind with such delusional thoughts this whole time. And she realized that in the beginning, she was the one who invited her friend to take such an unpleasant step in her life quite adamantly.

It was very clear yet she was oblivious to the fact that her mind deliberately kept playing some strange tricks on her, started with changing the original form of her 'friend' into something more acceptable and makes more sense. Until at last it changed herself altogether.

"I already figured you out, my friend. Now, let me call you Loneliness, would you?" her whisper echoes through the room, then fading slowly into the emptiness of silence.


Juliana, a college student.


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