[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] "What could be more painful than a broken heart?" "Fall madly in love..." He wants to be in love, whereas she doesn't want to know what it's like to be in love. "Our directions are different..." One wants to move forward, while the other wants to go nowhere. " Sharon, show us the way!" Having a partner is like herding cats. Even if you know where you're headed, you become lost in the middle of the road.

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] connected [ kuh-nek-tid ]: having a connection Alfian Djanuar Nandiardji is my first love. He is the only person I wish I could pass the future with. It used to be like that. Without knowing anything, I thought everything is fine. I will have my own perfect life soon... Until that night changed everything. "Maaf, sebenarnya rasa itu sudah lama nggak ada lagi, Na." I believe that I have laid my heart on a man who deserves it. But not with that all of the lies and what he had hidden behind me--behind the things that we called as a 'relationship'--when I have to admit that for all these years I'm just the extra person in his life. And then, it happened again, without realizing anything I have found someone... from my random lunch invitation. "Until he's gone... On the day when people told me that he's not here anymore... they don't know... for both of us, deep down in our hearts, we're both know..." ... that we're still connected."

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] Dari novel-novel yang dikoleksi Isthika, Isthika tahu satu fakta kalau semua penulis romansa itu PEMBOHONG! Bagaimana bisa seseorang mendapatkan pekerjaan yang bagus dan sesuai passion, juga bisa mendapatkan bonus berupa kekasih yang tampan dan mapan? Dari meet cute di cafe lobby kantor sampai cinlok di satu divisi yang sama-bagaimana bisa semua female lead dari novel yang dibaca Isthika bisa hidup dengan keberuntungan besar semacam itu? Well, hidup Isthika bisa dibilang tidak terlalu buruk juga. Dia mendapatkan pekerjaan di salah satu perusahaan besar di Singapore, atasannya seperti malaikat, teman-temannya di sana juga super baik. Sayangnya, kehidupan percintaan Isthika tidak berjalan mulus seperti yang diharapkannya. Bukannya merasakan pengalaman percintaan bak novel chicklit yang dibacanya, Isthika-yang hopeless romantic itu-harus berjuang melawan meet cute di cafe lobby kantornya dengan seorang pria di hari pertamanya bekerja-yang dikiranya akan berakhir bahagia seperti tokoh-tokoh novel bacaannya untuk berakhir merana karena pria yang ternyata berada di satu divisi yang sama dengannya itu menolak pengakuan cintannya. Kalau sudah begini, genre semacam apa yang harus dipilih Isthika untuk melanjutkan kehidupannya yang merana selagi bekerja di kantor dan divisi yang sama dengan mantan calon male leadnya?

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] Reksa si pria sempurna, mulai dari fisik sampai pekerjaannya itu DISELINGKUHI kekasihnya. Di hari di mana ia berkunjung ke Surabaya untuk menemui kekasihnya, Reksa harus menelan pil pahit karena menemukan bukti-bukti perselingkuhan tepat di hari ulang tahunnya! Di tengah perasaannya yang terombang-ambing karena patah hati, kehadiran seorang wanita yang dulu tidak pernah menarik perhatiannya justru menjadi warna baru dalam gelap yang menelan diri Reksa.

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] disconnected /ˌdɪskə ˈ nɛktəd/ : not connected to something. Nothing matters to them except the other person's perception of themselves. Achievement, success, intelligence, and wealth are all things that both parties strive to "keep" in order for others-those who judge things based on what they see-to keep them together. One lives on the flattery of many, whereas the other tries to live in order to receive flattery from others. When fate intervenes, everything-what they are attempting to achieve and keep-changes.