[Itali.]
[Tanggal Mei 2013.]

"Hey, you were Adriana?"

Adriana menoleh melihat gerangan siapa yang memanggil.

Rupanya lelaki di kapal terbang.

"Jay."

"You remember my name!" dia bersuara girang.

"And you know mine." Adriana berkata skeptikal. Dia tidak pula memberitahu namanya tadi.

"Ah no. It's not like that. It might sounds absurd, but I d about you. I mean not you now... but you before. Eh what am I saying is-"

"I know. I believe you."

"Really!?" Jay seperti tidak percaya.

"Yeah. What about me?"

"You?" Jay memandang pelik.

"The dream. What you remember?" Adriana menekankan perkataan mimpi.

"Well, not much. I just heard someone said a name and then it's gone."

Adriana mengangguk faham. Maknanya Jay belum mengingati semuanya. Dia menoleh ke arah altar. "Well, you know why I come to Italy? Because I want to search for someone. But I guess, it doesn't matter anymore." Adriana memberitahu sambil melihat ke satu arah.

Jay melihat ke arah itu. "Who's he?"

"Someone from the past, and should stay there." Adriana melangkah ke arah lelaki di altar.

"Hello, Antoninus."

Anthony menoleh, terkejut mendengar nama itu. "Adriana!"

"Yes, it's me."

Tidak dapat ditahan, Anthony cuba memeluk wanita dihadapannya itu.

Adriana mengelak. "I just want to give you this."

"White rose?"

"I always bring you red one. Remember that one time you hold my hand and asked me why I put the flower here?"

Liam yang dari tadi diam tampil dengan wajah terkejut. "That's you?"

Adriana hanya tersengih. "I can't do this again, Antoninus. I can't just wait blindly and expect you to reciprocate."

"No, you're wrong. I come here today for you. For us."

"There's no us, okay? Not anymore. I go on with my life, and you go on with yours."

Wanita yang tampak elegen di sebelah Anthony sedikit bingung dengan perbincangan sensasi mereka. "Excuse me, what happen here? And why you call him Antoninus?"

"Uh Ver, this is..." Anthony cuba menerangkan.

"He is the man I once loved." Adriana berkata sebelum dia kembali menatap mata Anthony. "But my feeling changed."

Apabila Adriana ingin beredar, Anthony menahannya. "Was it because I killed you? Then kill me! Anyone have a knife? Gun... anything!"

"Antoninus!" Adriana menendang kaki Anthony kuat. "I have long forgive you. It's not your fault."

"Then why Adriana? Why?" serak suaranya bertanya.

Tidak pasal-pasal banyak orang singgah melihat drama sedih mereka.

"I just don't want to love you anymore. Please understand."

Jay kurang senang melihat Anthony yang tidak ingin mengalah, maka hadir untuk menarik Adriana pergi.

"Adriana, who's this?" Anthony cuba menahannya lagi.

"Let her go." Jay berkata tegas.

"Jay, let's go." dia kemudiannya memandang Anthony. "Just let me go, Antoninus. You have a life ahead. Don't stay with the past. Just live for the present. Maybe there'll be next life for us again, who knows?"

Anthony mengalirkan air mata yang tidak dapat ditahan lagi.

Liam memeluk erat kawannya. "It's gonna be okay, Ant."

Sepanjang perjalanan, dia mengingati hari-hari yang lalu ketika dia pertama kali bertemu kembali Anthony setelah mengingati semuanya.

Masa lalunya.

Anthony sedang berjalan-jalan di kota, seperti mencari sesuatu.

"Liam, where were you?" dia kedengaran cemas.

"Toilet." dia membuat muka tidak percaya. "Just gone for a few minutes. Chill."

"We're late."

"You're so dramatic. Let's go." Liam mendahului Anthony dengan rasa meluat. "What you so afraid of? You seems okay when pulling a stunt... Ant?"

Liam mencari Anthony yang hilang tiba-tiba. "Anthony?"

Anthony sebenarnya terdengar sesuatu dari hujung kedai yang membuatkannya berhenti. Seseorang seperti memanggilnya.

"Antoninus."

Dia mendengarnya lagi.

"Antoninus."

Suara itu semakin kuat bila dia menghampiri bahagian lorong yang sedikit sempit.

"Adriana?" dia tidak tahu mengapa, tetapi hatinya cepat saja menebak yang memanggil itu wanita yang telah lama dinantinya. Adakah hanya mainan perasaan?

Adriana yang berada di sebalik dinding terkejut. Hatinya berbisik, "It's him." tanpa sedar, air mata mengalir jatuh ke pipinya. "It's really him."

"Adriana?"

"Anthony!"

Serentak suara mereka bertalu. Suara keras Liam menggelamkan suara halus Adriana, seperti tenggelamnya sebuah sampan.

"Shh!" Anthony memarahinya kerana bimbang suara gemersik itu akan hilang.

"What's wrong? Ant!"

Anthony menolak Liam menjauh.

"Anthony!"

"Shut up!"

Mata mereka terkunci antara satu sama lain. Tampak sunyi seketika persekitaran.

"No I..."

Liam menggeleng. "Let's just go back. We'll talk later."

Dari jauh, Adriana melihat di sebalik dinding batu dengan lirikan sayu.

Babak melompat ke dua hari seterusnya, dimana Adriana masih lagi mengikuti Anthony dari jauh.

Bukan dia tidak ingin memperkenalkan diri, tetapi dia melihat Anthony berciuman dengan seorang wanita.

"I know what could ease your mind a little bit. Well, maybe more than imagine."

Anthony tersengih. "You can't, Ver. Why coming here?"

"Was it wrong for me to worry about my fiancè?"

"I'm sorry okay? It just, I have a lot in my head right now."

"I know, Ant. You know you can tell me what's wrong, right?" Veronica menggenggam erat tangan Anthony lalu menciumnya lembut. "Babe, come on."

Anthony mengeluh. "Alright. I'll tell you later. Let's order food first."

"We only sit here in this restaurant for a talk which we are half having before you cut it off."

"I know, Ver. Let's eat first okay? I don't have food yet since morning."

"What you could possibly be doing so busy that you can't take care of yourself?" Veronica mengeluh. "Fine. Let's talk later."

Anthony tersenyum kecil.
****

"So... you stalk him?"

"I just follow him around to know about that woman he's kissing with the other day."

"That is stalking. And it's creepy, and wrong."

"Agreed." Adriana berhenti melangkah. "Wait a minute. Who are you to talk to me like that? Are we friends?"

"Um yes."

"First; you stutter. Second; since when?"

"I only stuttering because..." Jay melihat jauh ke depan. "At first I want to say 'just now', but I heard someone's voice saying, 'Hello Luciana'. That's weird cause I know no one name Luciana before or am I going crazy?"

Adriana mengukir senyum. "Hello, Gaius."

"What?" Jay kurang dengar apa yang diutarakan Adriana.

"Nothing. So, why here?"

"Rome?"

Adriana mengangguk.

"It seems like I lost something here but I don't know just what is it." Jay menghela nafas yang ditahan. "Well, I talk a lot."

"Yeah."

"Never talk this much before." dia ketawa dengan janggal. "It just, I feel comfortable with you. I know we just met but... seems like I knew you."

"Yeah." dia juga merasakan yang sama. Tetapi berbeza dari Jay, Adriana tahu kenapa dia merasa sedikit syahdu.

"I'm sorry. That's sounds creepy... and weird I should go." Jay laju melangkah pergi.

"Hey Jay. " Adriana memanggil bila Jay belum lagi jauh. "I feel the same too."

Mereka bertukar senyum sebelum masing-masing berjalan mengikut haluan sendiri.

****
"I just don't want to ruin your happiness. You're better without me. May we not cross path again, hm?"

"How you know I'd be better without you? You don't know a single thing!"

"Then, farewell."

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