Name : Ismi Herdyanti
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English Business
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Make A Short
Story
20th
October
Swan. People called her Swan. Swan was a writer. Without
she realized, she had a strange syndrome since he found a reminder every year
on 20th October in her old mobile phone that she never used again
after 2 months. Because she could only lay in a hospital for 2 months. Until now,
she didn’t know why she was like that. The doctors and nurses at the hospital
just told her that she had an accident without know sure how the accident could
happen. And after recovered consciousness, she seemed strange with herself.
One of them is she felt don't have any idea about
the novel she wrote for one year and now delayed because of her unconsciousness
in the hospital. While the readers and publishing company expected for
continuation of the novel. But she still did not know how to start the continuation
of the novel. she didn’t even know where the story she made before. Then, strangely,
there's a comment from a fans who said that the novel was made by a true story.
Swan was confuse, how can the reader know if it was a true story, while herself
did not remember anything.
Today was snowed bring happiness to the people in
Los Angeles. In the snowy ground, behind the Swan's tiny steps, there was steps
two times bigger than hers. Mike. The man's name was Mike. Mike continued to
follow wherever Swan stepped. He also entered the coffee shop which is
currently visited by Swan. Mike was sitting right in front of Swan. And then,
when Swan confused to choose the drink that he wanted, Mike gave him a
recommendation.
“Caramel Latte,
Swan. Order it! Don't just drink americano everyday.”
However it, swan still choosed Americano. Her
favourite menu when she visited this coffee shop. Swan continued to look
towards the front. but, her eyes was vacant. Like dead, but her body was still alive.
Swan tried to get back on his past and memories
related to the 20th October. After from the coffee shop, Swan went
to her old residence where she lived before the accident. And Mike? Mike
continued to follow behind her. But, the weirdness was always going on. She
didn’t recognize her neighbors and what happened to her. One thing that she
knew, that the unique's images around his home was a result of her hardwork and
someone else. But, she didn't remember who is he. It was disturb her because
she did not know how to end the novel and always had a headache when she tried to find a suitable story.
Swan walked again. She just followed her footstep.
and mike too. He still followed Swan behind her and seemed that he want to keep
Swan and did not want Swan to get hurt. Unwittingly, Swan came to a strange
place. Like a small bar. Swan got into the bar. In the bar, no one people
except the old man who was a owner at the bar. and then, swan looked for a
chair to sit down. Her head was about to explode right there because of the
memories that haunted her slowly.
Suddenly, the old man was move toward Swan and give
her a drink and one small box. Swan suprised. She opened the box and found
three pills that look like medicine. Without thinking, she drank one of these
pills for relax her mind.
1 second …
2 second…
3 second…
Swan was surprise instantly.
Mike. It turned out that she was surprise to see
Mike was suddenly in front of her. Mike was immediately seat beside Swan. Mike
continued to stare at the Swan with a smile. Swan felt like ever see that
smile, but she don't know when it was.
“Do you know me?”
“Of course,
Swan.”
Uhuk …
Uhuk …
Uhuk …
Swan had cough and immediately drink the water that
supplied by the old man. She still wondered how the man, Mike, can know about
herself. While she did not know about him. However, when she lifted her head
towards Mike, Mike had disappeared. Don't know where he was. Didn't know when he
go. Beside it, there was many things she wanted to ask to him. Because he
didn't back eventhough Swan had waiting
for two hours, Swan decided to go back home.
That afternoon, the clock Showed 13:00 p.m and
Swan's phone kept ringing sound. While the owner of the phone was still asleep
in her bed. Shortly afterwards, without saw the name and number which contact
her, Swan was Immediately pick up the phone in a state of semi-conscious.
Because she knew, it was none other than the director who is sponsoring her novel
that she wrote during this time.
“Hello babe, how about your novel?
You know, everyone is impatient to wait for the latest series of your novel.”
“As soon as possible.”
Flip.
Swan decided their phonecall.
Swan felt headache again. A shadow of accident
suddenly spun in her mind like a movie. But soon as usual, that short movie was
the end. That things should be experienced by Swan everyday. once time, the
short movie spun longer than usual. Until she saw a male figure lying
unconscious in the place of the accident. However, once again, the short film
was always show a vague's things. Not clear. Until Swan was just consider it as
a illusion.
As soon as the phone rang endlessly, Swan went up to
the director of her novel in the office where he worked.
“Hei babe, so,
how about that?”
“This’s for you.”
“Good job, babe.”
Swan's face looked so woried. Yes, she had continue
the story of "20th October" which had delayed for a longtime.
However, she was conscious. She made it not with her heart. But only to avoid
the pressures that continue to haunt her.
“No, Swan. No. This story wasn't
your style. Come on, Swan. What's wrong with you? Is the accident change your
talent?”
Swan only be breathed in disgust. Actually, she
already knew what would happen to herself today. She came out and immediately
went to the coffee shop she used to visit. And again, Mike followed behind her
with smile.
Swan was about to take her phone in her pocket, but
at the same time she actually found a small box which contain 3 pieces of pills
from the old man the owner of a small bar. She returned drink one pill and left
the last one. When Swan lifted her head, she found Mike was there. Mike walked
over to sit in front of Swan.
“Hello.”
“Hi.”
Swan continued to look at Mike. It was not like the first
or the second meeting. She felt very familiar and comfortable with Mike.
“Don’t we know
each other?”
“Hm, of course,
Swan. Mike. My name’s Mike.”
“How can you
know about me?”
“It’s too long
to tell you about it..”
Suddenly, headache attacked her again. Snapshot of
the accident went back spin in Swan's memory. And now, the figure of the man
become Increasingly apparent. And then, very clear. But …
Uhuk
Uhuk
Uhuk
Swan wasn't stop of cough and felt pain in her head
at the same time.
“Swan, are you
ok? Drink it.”
Mike's face increasingly opaque. it made him look
more same with the figure man who always in her memory. Swan was drinking her
drink to calm her mind. After she calmed down, she realized one thing.
Mike.
Mike disappeared again.
One thing she realized, the man's face. The man who
always in her memory is Mike. The man who lay helpless in the place of the
accident is Mike.
The accident . . .
She almost forgot about that.
Swan was run out of the coffee shop to looked for
Mike. She was looking for there and there, even to places that felt similar to
the place of the accident. But, she still couldn't find Mike
It was already night and Swan still walked without
direction. She just followed her footstep. Until finally, she returned to the
small bar where there was the old man who gave him the pills.
“Excuse me, sir.”
No answer.
“Excuse me …”
Still no answer. And the bar felt like uninhabited.
“Excu…AAA!!!”
“Sorry if I make
you surprised.”
“No, it’s ok.”
Swan walked to follow the old man and took a chair
to sit near him while the old man made a drink for the Swan.
“I want to ask you, when the first
time I came here, you gave me a small box containing three pills. If I may
know, for what it's?”
“Just a painkillers.”
She didn't feel satisfied with the old man's answer.
She went back to ask and keep asking until finally she stoped and thought
everything.
“Do you know about Mike?
“Take care of your business with
him by yourself. I don't want to intervene. I just can to help you till this.
After this, take care it by your self. Try to remember anything that ever
happened to you.”
The old man was pulled away from her. Swan kept to
think how she could meet Mike again. The harder she thought, but the results
still didn't come. And finally, her headache got back on her. Similarly with
snapshot of short movie that spun in her memory.
However, the short movie was a bit different than
usual. The figure man who usually only lay helpless, the figure man who his
posture and facial she believed as Mike, now he walked side by side with a
woman. Joking together. Laughing together. And then, it wass clearly that the
man was keeping the woman next to him.
But…
There’s something strange…
Swan felt she was no stranger to that woman. Hair,
clothing, how she walked, until she was sure about her posture was very
familiar with that woman. At first glance, the woman turned around and that's
where Swan aware of everything.
Eventhough she still felt so pain, it is not the
important thing again for her. She thought this time just about how she could
meet with Mike. She immediately want to ran out from the bar. But earlier, she
drank the last one pill given by the old man. And shortly thereafter, Mike was
in front of her.
Swan just began to understand all about this.
Understood what was happen to him. Understood what the usefulness of that
pills. And understood where was Mike always be.
Yes, Mike was always close to her. Behind her.
Beside her. And in front of her. But, Swan couldn't always to see Mike. She
only could to see Mike after drank the pill given by the old man the owner of
the bar. And Mike immediately disappeared right after Swan drank a glass of
water. Like Mike was only an illusion.
Yeah.
Of course.
Mike didn’t exist.
Mike wasn’t real.
Mike hadn't live in the same world with Swan anymore.
“Mike…”
“Swan…”
“Mike, how can you do this to me?”
“Don’t ever cry. Because I can’t wipe
your tears like I used to do.”
Swan was drown in her tears. Somehow, her lost
memory had return to her. The memory of reminders every 20th October. And the
memory about Mike too.
The man who always followed her. The man who always
in the snapshot of her short movie. And the man who just lay in her memory. The
man named Mike. Mike was Swan's first love. Mike had an accident right on 20th
October. The date where they were supposed to be celebrated their one year
anniversary.
Actually, Mike couldn't in an accidents. Because
Swan was the one who should suffered the accident. On nights before 20th
October, Mike continued to have nightmares. A dream where Swan left her. Until
a dream where he saw Swan lay helpless after the accident. Mike didn't put up
with his dream until he kept praying that Swan always given the health and he
was ready to replace Swan's place. Eventhough it means he should die.
And right on 20th October, they planned
to meet at the usual coffee shop they visited. However, an uneasy feeling
continued to envelop Mike. So, Mike decided to follow wherever Swan went on
that day to make sure that Swan arrived safely at the coffee shop.
Now, mike's prayer becomes a real. He took over
Swan's place to face to God. Swan was
almost hit by a car has rescued by Mike . So that, Mike was the one who got hit
by the car until lifeless. While Swan only clashed in his head but she still be
saved.
“Mike, why you do
all of this?”
“Swan, you must to live your life
to be happy from now. You should be takecare for yourself. I'll miss you, Swan..”
“Mike, I−“
Uhuk
Uhuk
Uhuk
Swan kept coughing.
And now, the pain began to strike her head again.
One thing that hadn't realize by Swan, the pills did
not longlast. She should take a glass of water to avoid bad things due to side
effects of the pills.
How about she didn’t drink a glass of water?
If not, Swan could follow Mike now.
Mike who knew about it, told Swan to drink a glass
of water every time Swan began coughing.
“Swan, drink it.”
Without thinking, Swan was drink a glass of water to
relieve her cough. And when she was enjoy the water, she heard the sound of
faint and none other than Mike’s voice that spoke to Swan.
“Swan, I love
you.”
And then, Mike was disappear.
Swan realized everything after Mike disappeared.
Swan threw the glass till shatter. Swan felt sorry to drink a glass of water if
she didn't get to see Mike again.
Suddenly, Swan remembered the old man who gave her
the pills. Shee was look for the old man across the bar room till outside of
the bar but it's fail. She could;nt find the old man. Swan was just crying and
crying all night.
After considered all of these, Swan always hope Mike
could get back with a miracle. Now, Swan began to return to live her life as
usual. A novel which was delayed, now has completed. And Swan, still waited
because she was confident that Mike can came back to him.
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