A Night Walk in The First Quarter

Hai my diary,

Intermezzo ya. Aku mau cerita kejadian tadi malam. Semalam aku jalan-jalan sama Sasha setelah sekian lama kami berpisah. Kami pergi ke tepi laut, tempat ia pertama kali membawaku ke laut saat bulan purnama. Sasha tampak biasa saja, nggak terlalu serius, tapi lumayan cool juga. Kami ke tempat itu jam 12 malam (kata Sasha, itu waktu favoritnya dia, dasar makhluk creepy). Kayaknya dia seneng banget bisa jalan sama aku lagi. Kami sampai di tepi laut dan memandang laut di kejauhan. Sasha berkata,

“Too bad. The moon is only showing its half. You won’t see anything. It’s not as beautiful as we saw on the last time. Anyway, I still can see everything clearly.” Sasha memandang langit di atasnya.

“Yea, with your night-vision, you always get clearer vision. That’s not fair.” Sasha tersenyum mendengar komentarku.

“You sound envy. Don’t you want to see things the way I am?” Ia nyengir lebar menggodaku.

“No thanks. I’d love to but I’ll miss the beauty of morning lights instead.” Sasha cemberut mendengarnya.

“Thanks to technology, I can use my UV-gel and sunglasses everytime I need.” Aku melanjutkan,

“Yes but only in a couple of hours. After that all you have to is do your rituals again, rubbing the gel to make sure that the sun ray won’t burn your skin. Did you ever miss to see the sunlight? Seeing the beautiful colors of flowers, butterflies, the blue color sky with fluffy clouds spread the horizon? Don’t you  miss all that stuffs?” Sasha terdiam sejenak.

“Well.., sometimes.. but my night vision is actually not that dull. It’s not as dull as you guys see. There’s some degree of dark colors, colors that can be seen. Only by us. There are colors still…”

Kami terdiam sejenak.

“Sasha, can I ask you something?”

“Yes off course.”

“Uhm… where is your fangs? I don’t see it anymore.”  Sasha bingung mendengar pertanyaanku lalu tersenyum.

“Do I have to? What for? I’m not a tiger or that kind of omnivorous beast that using my fangs to chew fresh meat. I’m not like that…”

Aku bingung mendengar perkataannya. Sasha melanjutkan,

“But you drink humans blood?”

“Yes I do that.” Ia seperti geli mendengarku,

“Do you think the police won’t chase me if I do that? If I drained somebody’s blood till he died, that’s a murder. The mark of my teeth would stay on the corpse and people would get panic because of that. It would become a major disaster and the whole world would know my existence. Then I would be chased as a murderer. Don’t be fooled by that silly romantized fabels made by those ignorant moviemakers. Come on, be realistic. Who want to get caught by doing stupid things like that? I’d prefer taking a non-traditional way to nurture myself. I simply just take a couple of pint each, people won’t notice.” Uh, mengerikan membayangkan semua itu.

“I see. But you haven’t answered my question, how come you don’t have fangs now?”

Sasha tertawa,

“I still have mine. Do you really want to see my fangs? I can’t guarantee you won’t be scared seeing that.” Ia melirikku dengan agak creepy. Aduh, aku sedikit agak nyesel nanya-nanya hal itu.

“Well I won’t. Hopefully. Why they don’t show up now?” Sasha tersenyum.

“I grind it.”

“What? That’s hurt you know?” Aku merinding membayangkan ia mengikir giginya dengan gerinda.

“It’s true. I grind it everyday. Since there’s no use of them for regular basis, I’d better grind it. To hide it from people. To hide it from you… The teeth grow everyday so no need to worry about it.” Sasha menundukkan kepalanya dan mendekatkan bibirnya ke leherku seakan hendak menggigitku.

“Hey! Whar are you doing? Are you going to bite me?” Aku mendorongnya dengan sedikit panik. Sasha menengadahkan kepalanya dan nyengir lebar.

“Uhmm.. I would love to.. in some part maybe? In some way…” dia melirik ke arah leherku dengan nakal. Aku cemberut mendengarnya. Duh, sialan nih cowok. Ia melanjutkan,

“That scares you. Isn’t it?” Aku menggelengkan kepalaku.

“Not anymore.”

“Really? Why you got scared when I lower my head?”

“It’s just, I still remember that day… No. I’m pretty cool with that now.” Aku merebahkan kepalaku ke bahunya dan menyentuh pipinya yang dingin. Sasha membelai rambutku.

“Sorry you have to do that… ” Sasha terdiam. Kami berdua terdiam. Peristiwa itu masih terekam jelas di kepalaku.

“It’s okay Sasha. You are still alive. That’s more important to me.”

“I won’t let you do that again. I promise. I won’t hurt you anymore.” Sasha memelukku dan mengecupku lembut.

(song: “Terbaik Untukmu” – Tangga)