Late Autumn (English Fiction by Irene Putri)

The girl sits at the edge of her bed, palming her head before the sunshine comes through her window. She closed her eyes, enjoying the warmth that the sunshine gives to her. Opening her eyes slowly and suddenly caught a photo on her table. A photo of her sit nervously beside a grinning boy that threw his hand around her shoulder. Unconsciously, she rubbed her shoulder that used to be touch by that boy.


“I miss you…”, she whispered lowly.


Tried to wake up, she washes herself first then open the closet. She doesn't know why but her hand reach the clothes that she wore that day.
Standing in front of the mirror, she smiled bitterly..she look the same as back then. The difference is no one stood behind her, compliment on how she looked right now.




Even it's still early, she goes outside his old apartment. Walk in the middle of busy peoples. Look at the sunshine that slowly getting up.
She walks in to the coffee shop he used to be in.

"Welcome.." she is greeted by the workers that smile warmly at him.

"You can wait there while your coffee is making by me"



Minutes later, the worker gives him a cup of warm coffee. She looks up and staring at the worker that gives him coffee.
A minute passed by like an hour, she reaches out her hand and touch the worker's face.
Her cold hands touch the warm face of the worker.

"Your hands getting cold, wait here..". The worker suddenly walks and leave her smelling the scent of coffee that getting through his body.

"Here, wear this gloves. It's make your hand warm..", The worker said while smile warmly to her.

"I've gotta go, enjoy your coffee..", the worker walks away leaving her bitterly looking at the glimpse of him.

A tear escaped from her eyes, rolling down slowly when she mumbled someone's name that important to her.


"Dylan.."





While her hand holding a cup of warm coffee, she walks around the town and stops when she is looking at Winter clothes through the shop window.
That winter clothes she used to buy for someone.

She walks and someone suddenly approaching her, grinning but for her it's smile that can makes him warm.

"Nara..again you walked without gloves, it's getting more cold since the winter about late to come.."
 Dylan reaches out Nara's hands, squeezed it lightly and gives her hands warm breathe.


That girl just staring at him, tears again rolling down and stained her pale cheeks. Dylan held Nara's hands that now inside the latter's pocket, grinning like an idiot again and stopped when he sees the latter's crying and already stained his pale cheeks.

Dylan turn the girl to face him and held her chin, caressing the pale cheeks with both of his thumb.
"Don't cry Nara, I'm here..I'm not leaving you.." Dylan looking at him, giving his best smile and the girl reaches out the taller boy's cheeks.

"Are you even..real?".

"I'm inside your heart, Nara.."

Dylan is showing his smile again and before Nara could proceed the words, he turned out into a cold thin air.

He’s gone....Dylan is gone like mermaid disappear into bubbles.




That girl cries again, in the street that full of crowded people.

He's gone, of course..Dylan has already gone from her life and just buried deeply inside her heart.



My winter still has long nights. My approaching winter that has a lot of you..