Athena Narissa dan Dermaga Sahyl pernah hampir berciuman. Dulu. Untungnya batal. Bukan hanya karena Maga adalah kakak dari sahabatnya, Sera, tapi juga karena keduanya sangat bertolak belakang. Athena bagaikan musim semi di Eropa, sementara Maga adalah hujan badai di Jakarta. Dua tahun berlalu. Athena sibuk berpindah dari satu runway show ke lainnya di Paris. Sementara itu, Maga sebagai pilot tak pernah diam di satu tempat lebih dari tiga hari. Harusnya mereka tetap menjadi dua orang asing. Tapi, Maga tiba-tiba berdiri di depan EST Galerie, menantinya. Athena ragu, apakah Maga benar-benar ingin masuk ke dalam hidupnya, atau hanya berniat main-main - seperti insiden hampir ciuman mereka dulu?

[note : dilarang membagikan atau merepost cerita saya di menfess base twitter.] Shimika Bowers once stated, "Do they love you or the mask you put on every day?" Smiles, warmth, and kindness are all traits that both of them must exhibit in public to keep their family's reputation intact. "Never take that mask off!" they said. Then they noticed that others were becoming more comfortable with them, praising and loving them, not because of themselves but because of the masks they were wearing. Just when they thought they'd find someone who could see themselves beneath the masks they'd created, they found each other, outwitting and toying with one another until neither of them knew what they were doing to each other had gone too far.

[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."

Pernikahan yang ada di depan mata hancur berantakan dalam semalam. Mimpi, cinta, usaha dan segala hal yang selama ini ia tapaki seolah runtuh bersama dengan pengkhianatan yang ia terima. Mahika tak pernah menyangka hidupnya yang adem ayem akan mencapai titik klimaks rasa kecewa di usia dua puluh dua. Sikap optimis yang mendarah daging dalam dirinya tak lagi bersisa selepas malam itu. Tak lagi ada setitikpun cahaya yang bisa ia lihat ketika bangun di pagi hari. Cintanya selama dua tahun kandas di saat mereka harusnya tengah berbahagia. Bagaimana bisa dunia sekejam itu padanya? Narasi-narasi patah hati berkumandang nyaring sekali, menyambut kegagalan akbarnya yang mematahkan hati ; sepatah-patahnya. Mahika hancur, lebur dalam keping-keping rasa sakit yang tiada henti menikam, meluluh-lantahkan sedikit harga diri yang ia genggam. Luka itu terlalu dalam hingga ia meragu ... bertanya-tanya diantara isak tangis yang ia untai di depan Tuhan yang maha kuasa. Pasca rasa sakit ini, apakah ia akan bisa kembali jadi Mahika seperti sebelumnya? Apakah akan ada masa dimana ia percaya lagi pada cinta? Dan apakah ada di luar sana, setidaknya satu saja ... satu saja manusia yang bisa ia genggam tangannya tanpa menyakiti ataupun mengkhianati? (PERHATIAN ‼️ BEBERAPA PART DALAM CERITA INI SUDAH DI HAPUS OLEH PENULIS DAN BISA DI BACA DI KARYAKARSA. TERIMAKASIH.)

(PUBLISHED by PT ELEX MEDIA KOMPUTINDO on March 31, 2021) **THIS WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT - UU HAK CIPTA NO 28 TAHUN 2014** -NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION- "To love someone is nothing; to be loved by someone is something; but to be loved by the one you love is everything..." That's simply a quote from Bill Russel. Tapi bagi Alya, ucapan itu mendeskripsikan dirinya dengan baik. She is practically 'nothing'. She knows she loves Arga. She also knows Arga doesn't love her the way she does. "Kadang gue iri ama mobil. Lecet dikit, tinggal diketok magic langsung beres. Kalau urusan hati bisa kayak gitu, pagi-pagi buta gue udah antri depan bengkel." -Alya, a successful banker but pathetic in love- But sometimes, everything happened for a reason. Seperti salah satunya ketika tanpa ia sadari seseorang telah masuk ke kehidupannya yang tengah sibuk ia tata kembali. "We are not talking about financial term. I'm not doing a retrocession here." -Radit, a man to die for- * * * RETROCESSION is the first world in Retrology Universe ||stop plagiarism. respect each other's works. please tell me if you find any illegal copies of this story||