DANYOK: AFTER THE STORM

Yok's Time ⏳

Many times in life we ​​are faced with questions that we are not able to answer at the time, this is more common than we imagine, after all there are answers that we cannot give at the present moment, and that being said, we only have one solution that will be the correct one.

Let time tell us what we want and need to know. Of course, it's not an easy thing, because as human beings we are in a hurry, and that's not a bad thing either. Life goes by fast, the world is constantly changing and life is breathless and uncertain, we don't know if we will be alive tomorrow, so the thought of talking and doing what we want now is not wrong. Not even!

But when you still don't know what to do or say, letting time pass is the wisest decision to make. As much as it hurts, it requires immense love and enormous respect for something (or someone) to be able to make that decision, and it's also a love for yourself, it's giving yourself time to reflect on your thoughts and feelings, it's knowing if it's and how important that is. It's knowing if it's something you really don't want to give up.

Yok is a young man who knows how to have fun, but he also knows a lot about his responsibilities, you can see him boxing and speeding on his bike like someone who doesn't have great worries, but you will also see him immersed in his drawings, determined guaranteeing his mother's rights and having a fully formed opinion on matters he probably wouldn't have thought he had.

Yok is young, but very mature when it's needed, the type that doesn't need to expose it around so easily, his friends know that very well. He has no problem advising someone, as well as asking for advice when he needs it.

His older friend Gumpa often sees him as someone who may curiously have a kind of "old soul", among the gang members, Yok is in fact the most mature managing to be rational when for example Sean is impulsive, and also smart and brave. when Gram is fearful.But such qualities hide a weakness that not even Yok could have known about.

When seeing Dan for the first time, from the first moment he wanted to know more about this man, through the painting that Dan made on the wall of Tauí's house, Yok wanted to know who the person was who made such a drawing, what his motivations were, what this person waits with that...

From the first contact, Dan's gaze was always very marked in Yok's memory, he couldn't ignore it and he didn't want to either.

At first, Dan signed his paintings under the nickname Unar and had an Instagram account where he promoted his works but no one knew who he really was.And who he really was, that's exactly what Yok wanted to know.He went after it.

Yok didn't rest, didn't give up and wasn't even intimidated, even with the person of his desire having pointed a gun at him and made a direct and clear threat.He researched, investigated, deduced and followed Unar, to the point that Dan himself began to also want to know why someone who has no relationship with the police or Tauí wanted to know him so much.

Like a magnet, Dan continued to pull Yok towards himself without intending to at first, and Yok accepted and surrendered to it quickly and without any resistance.

He wanted Dan, wanted to know who he was and why he did what he did. The truth is that he admired that person, even without knowing him well, he admired his drawings and the messages behind his paintings, he admired the mystery behind the signature.

Unar... Yok used to pronounce such a name slowly at night when he was lying in his bed...

And still like a magnet, Dan remained in Yok's thoughts, even after everything that happened, even with the problems acquired by trying to face the corrupt, even after being shot and almost losing his life.

Dan continued to make a constant home in Yok's thoughts. It had been weeks since they'd last been in contact, and after all that they hadn't even seen or spoken to each other.

Yok had no idea where Dan could be and at first he suffered at the thought that the worst could have happened to him.After a few days and already with pride aside, Yok even tried to see if he could at least see Dan.He went to his secret (not so secret) location, he also went to where his work used to be and tried to look for any clues but found nothing.

Yok had days and nights of frantic crying at the thought that Dan was no longer alive, such a thought tortured him and he couldn't even share it with others.

Every now and then, even his mother would ask for his friend Dan and every now and then he would come over to their house again...

While painting Dan's drawing, Yok couldn't hold back his tears, the look in that painting penetrated Yok in such a way that like a spark of hope, Yok remembered one of Dan's last words to him.

~~ Wait for me~~

Somehow, something inside him said he would see Dan again, and the thought warmed his heart.

Since what happened, about 2 months had passed, and any doubts that could have been in Yok's mind had already been resolved, he just wanted to be able to find the person to whom he would say this, but sometimes it was as if that person was no longer there. show up, and it made him sad and angry, mostly angry.

But on the day of his college art exhibition, Yok got a big surprise, Dan, the person in his painting finally showed up.It looked like a lie, but it wasn't.

Yok's back was to him, but that was in fact his voice, and when he turned around, his eyes only confirmed what his ears already knew.

A mix of feelings filled Yok's heart, he was happy but also annoyed, after all he WAS GONE from the planet for weeks, he certainly had a good reason, but Yok couldn't help but be upset.

Hearing Dan's words that they certainly had a lot of feelings, Yok actually felt each of them, Yok really wanted to hug him and cry, but as a result of all his accumulated irritation, Yok's first action might not even make sense to those who saw them. saw it, but it certainly made sense to him.Yok punched Dan so hard in the face that even though he was taller and stronger, Dan couldn't stand.And even with such an action, he did not refuse the hand extended towards him by the person who will just do such an act.

Dan got up with Yok's help and the two hugged each other so tightly that they didn't seem to let go of each other anymore, and cried so intensely, a result of everything they went through together and also apart.Their relationship was full of love and pain, that was undeniable, and even they didn't want to deny it, because now, their focus was on STARTING OVER.