Diga had just taken out his bicycle from the garage; he saw a girl with long hair complete with her sports clothes carrying her favorite bicycle.
"Have you had breakfast yet?" asked Maryam, the mother of Diga, who knew this girl very well.
"Not yet, ma'am! Since then, Diga has not opened the door!" said the girl with a cynical look at Diga.
Maryam heard that and immediately opened the door and scolded her son Diga for not opening the garage.
"You don't have to be told to come in. I want to go," said Diga, immediately taking his mother's hand to shake hands, followed by the girl who also had a handshake.
"Exercise first, ma'am!" said goodbye.
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"Why are you so gloomy since yesterday?" Kai asked while pedaling his bicycle.
Weekends have become their ritual of riding bicycles around the complex and having adventures somewhere, but Diga doesn't seem very enthusiastic this week.
Diga didn't answer Kai's question and continued to pedal his bicycle following the road; of course, this annoyed his best friend.
"Ga! You're being asked why are you silent?" Kai exclaimed, annoyed to see his best friend act like that.
Diga still didn't respond to Kai's words. He continued down the street until he finally stopped at a park in the compound; His feet immediately stepped towards the back of the garden where there was a large tree, and above it was a small house that only two people could enter.
This treehouse measuring 50x30 has been their playground since childhood which Surya, Kai's father, built.
"Go up," said Diga, pulling Kai's hand so he could climb the high stairs.
When they arrived at the tree house, childhood memories were immediately apparent; they could hear the laughter of two little boys who were delighted to have a tree house, which they visited almost every day after school.
Kai's eyes immediately fell on a dirty photo vase.
"Haha. Your eyes are like Mr.Bean!" Kai said while showing the dirty photo vase.
Diga still didn't get any response; he headed outside and sat on the edge of the tree house balcony.
"You still don't want to talk; why have you been so mean earlier?"
Diga immediately looked into Kai's eyes, deep and full of meaning, like a man who would express his feelings to the woman of his dreams.
"You don't have to look at me like that. I need your explanation!" annoyed Kai.
"Bella. Bella dumped me last night," said Diga calmly but with emphasis.
"What?! Why?" Kai asked because Diga and Bella's relationship, which had been going on for almost a year, was running smoothly.
"I was cheated on. Last night, when I was buying food out front, I saw Bella with another guy," explained Diga to Kai.
Kai's blood immediately rose when he heard that explanation because he was annoyed by other people, even though Bella was his girlfriend, hurting his best friend. His hands immediately clenched into fists, furious at Bella's behavior.
"So you just shut up?"
Diga just nodded his head, resigned to the situation was a trait that Diga couldn't get rid of since he was little, no matter how many times Kai kept pushing for Diga to leave his resigned nature.
"How are you? Bella has cheated on you, and you just shut up?!" Kai was angry while looking at Diga's eyes filled with emotion.
"Yeah, so what should I do? Hit that guy? It's not me, Kai!"
Kai took a deep breath, trying not to get too emotional.
"Okay then. I have also broken up with Bella; my problems with her has resolved. Now it's just how my heartache can go away, and I forget about him."
Kai fixed his gaze little boy who was laughing out loud and running here and there with his peers. It occurred to him that being a child was very exciting; it was easy to find pleasure in the little things he encountered.
"Look at the little boy," Kai said, pointing at the little boy.
"In the past, we could wipe away the tears on our cheeks and replace sadness with laughter from simple things."
"What do you mean?" asked Diga, surprised to hear Kai's words.
"Yes. Think about what little things can heal your sadness now; you absorb it. Try to close your eyes now," Kai ordered Diga.
Diga immediately closed his eyes without any suspicion of this friend.
"You absorb; you remember again what can make you happy," Kai said as he got up from his seat to take the cockroach in the corner of the balcony.
Kai's voice is getting further away, but Diga still has no suspicion.
"More and more impregnated, continue, continue," said Kai, his hand still struggling to pick up the cockroach, which made him have to lie down a little.
"Already?" Kai asked.
"Already!"
"Okay, now open your eyes!"
Diga immediately opened his eyes slowly, following Kai's instructions.
"TARAAAAAA!!!!!!!" Kai shouted excitedly, and his hands were holding the cockroach.
Diga saw a cockroach in his eyes and immediately got up from his seat and headed down the stairs.
"Damn you, Kai. How dare you wait for my revenge!" said Diga as he continued to run away.
Finally, they both ran here and there with Kai still holding the cockroach in his hand, until finally Diga gave up and tried to calm Kai to let go of it.
"Alright, Kai. Please, I drained," Diga begged in a breathless voice.
After Kai released the cockroach, they immediately took their respective bicycles to go to the porridge seller in front of the complex, and at that time, a tough conversation began.
"I already knew what little things made me happy and immediately forgot the sadness that was befalling me," said Diga seriously.
Kai furrowed his brow; apparently, his random words could be a bright spot for his friend's sadness.
"What?"
"Eating vanilla ice cream with you, I think it's one of the most powerful healers," said Diga seriously.
Kai, who was laughing loudly before, immediately fell silent hearing Diga's words; it was not strange for Diga to say that, but a strange feeling in Kai's heart immediately stuck out.
"Seriously?" Kai asked reassuringly.
Diga nodded his head excitedly.
To the porridge seller, Kai kept thinking about the strange feelings in his heart towards Diga; he always tried to get rid of those dirty thoughts because he didn't want to violate rule number 2 that they had agreed on.
"Am I wrong if I have these strange feelings towards Diga?" Kai muttered in his heart.