THE PRINCE FROM THE FUTURE
Yesterday, shine of the sun woke me up in my new day. The cold night was gone when I saw the sun brightened the blue sky. I let my step brought me to walk on my day. Strolling around the park where the leaves were falling down onto the road, the birds were singing on the trees and the wind touched me smoothly, all that made me forget my loneliness. I am Rose, an imaginative and loner girl. I never did any relationship with any man ever in my 18 years of life, until I saw him. There was a man who I do not know, the man who always there wherever I be, haunted me for over few weeks, looked after me like I was a criminal, but every time I turn around him, he always disappeared. At last, in that day, I found him, the man who I was waiting for along this time.
He sat there, on the porch above the tree, looked down the fishpond with his sharp brown eyes that were always watching me, and his hands crossed in front of his chest. I came close and took a sit next to him, he just stayed where he stay. The wind blew up and he made a move as something surprised him, but he was still calm. He pointed up his head and faced me, “Hi Rose!” he know me?! How could he know my name?! I myself never know this man! “How could you…”, but he took my hands and took me a walk. I still did not believe that, that was the first time I met him but he knew my name, it did not make sense. I just followed him with his hand grasped mine without said anything, then in time, I was stand in the edge of a cliff.
The sound of sea waves broke the cliff; we were still stand on the edge of it. I still did not remember how I could be there. I turned around my body, faced that mysterious icy man. “Tell me, tell me everything. Who are you? How did you know my name?” I still bent my head down when I asked him. “You know me Rose, I always around you.” He said that while came close to me. “I know you? I even never see you.” I started looked into his eyes. “You lie to me Rose; you have ever seen me, all days yesterday. I know if you tell lies, so do not do that. I know everything about you.” I felt myself freeze; all of my body trembled. He kept came close to me, but I stepped behind, avoided him. Almost felt down from the sea cliff, immediately, he caught my hands, grasped it hardly.
I saw the land full of flowers; I was right in the middle of it. I felt freeze again no more. He was stand beside me, I did not know since when, but it made me felt peaceful. In the other side of the land, I saw a girl, but it could not be; that girl was I myself! “Yes, she is you. You and me, we will be together in the time.” That man told me like he can read my mind. “Where are we? What is this place?” but just a wink, the land disappeared, I heard the roar of the sea again and my body started cold again. I walked away from the edge, came close to the tree near that and had a sit. I tried to made myself calm, but it kept shudder and I started be afraid.
“I want you to explain about everything, what was that? Where were we? Why I…I just moved over place to place without walking?” I could hold it no more, there was such a crazy thing for me, but I did not see any anxiety in his eyes, he was as calm as first. He took a sit right beside me, covered me from the wind. “You are not alone in this life; I will always beside you but you have to trust me.” He look into my eyes and I knew I could deny it, there I knew that he was right. “You do not believe of God’s plan. You feel that no one love you so you decide to walk on your life alone, never let anybody know you; even you do not believe that you have someone beloved to. You just pass your life with one thing, imagination…. And do not ask why I know about all this.”
I just sat there, my mind did not think about all of the oddities that the man brought, I thought about what he said, there were all-true. I never cared about my around, I just walked away with my own life. I did not know why I could be so trusted him, but heard all what he said to me before, it was just enough to make me believe him. His sight made me felt so peaceful, warm, and save. I kept replied his sight, there came a feeling about do not want to losing him, feeling about do not want he disappeared.
“Now, you trust me. My work is finished. I have to go.” He said to me while standing up. I held his hand tightly, “Wait! What do you mean you have to go? What do you mean with work?” he turned around, “I have made you trust me and made you awake from your loneliness, so I have to go.” then he let my clutches away. I felt sick, I did not want he passed away, “Wait!” I shouted. Once again, he turned around. “Can I trust you again?” I asked him and wished he could read my mind just like before. He smiled at me and said, “I have told you that I always beside you and I promised that I will come to you in the time, like I said, we will be together at the time.” He said that, he answered all of the questions in my mind. I smiled to him and he hugged me tightly, whispered me tenderly, “I am Leon. Now, close your eyes.” I felt fly in the sky, suddenly I did not feel his embrace again and I opened my eyes. I was lying on my bed with my note beside me where I wrote my story about Leon, “The Prince from the Future”. I smiled to it and fell asleep again.
By Meyza Pritama
