STORIES FROM OUR COLORFUL HOME Editor: Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut Stories from our colorful home Editor: Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut 1 STORIES FROM OUR COLORFUL HOME Editor: Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut Illustrators: Graphic Novels class 2016 PT Maharsa Artha Mulia © 2016 Jl. Gabus VII N o. 24, RT 23/ RW 05, Minomartani Yogyakarta 55581 Ph.+628122710938 www.maharsa.co.id E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-602-0893-24-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher. ii From the Editor Stories from our colorful home is a collection of stories written by Indonesian young adults who were inspired to write short stories based on their home surrounding. School, forest, village, and city settings are situated in the home land of Indonesia. The young talented Indonesian writers have been challenged to use their creativity and imaginations to write stories with some effort of giving descriptive details on unique Indonesian food, herbal drink and traditional clothing as a way to elevate the colorful Indonesian culture. Although grammatically there are limitations with the competences of the writers, the stories to share here are worthy of publication. It is with pleasure, that the following stories written by third year students from the Graphic Novels class of the English Department of the Faculty of Language & Arts, of Soegijapranata Catholic University are brought to your perusal. May each story withh a total of 525 pages brings pride to the kinds of culture the Indonesian homeland has to offer to you lucky readers! September 2016 Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut iii Table of Contents My First Day at the Faculty (Liem Kezia Debora) 1 Dream (Florencia Devina Sari) 13 The Revealing Fate (Imel Chintya Rahayu) 27 The Yin The Yang (Maria Carmelita Gunawan) 38 The Efficacious Jamu (Siek, Wihayatia S.) 52 The Canvas of Life (Andreas Setiawan S.) 65 Between Love and Friendship (Lintang Dwiana) 80 Unforgettable for Everything (Rona Cita) 107 Lovebirds (Evelyn Boentoro) 120 Believe in Love (Tan, Flowren Tania) 131 Until I Meet You Again (Anna Violita) 146 Internet Love (Susan Edelweiss) 163 I Found Love in My New World (Vania Owena) 174 Dough and Roses (Regina Marchelin) 196 Red (Imelda Apriiani) 210 The First Love (Carolina Gita Pertiwi) 224 How to Tell a Love Story (Agil Surya Pradita) 237 Psychodelic Trip (Agustinus Istianto Sudiyo) 243 In Love (Ancela J. Andiani) 250 Bloodline (Bella Arti) 256 iv God’s wonderful Plan (Bonifasius Siwe) 274 That Pen (Denny Sanjaya) 286 Secret of Love (Elsa Tamti Denasia) 298 True Friendship (Flaura Felicia A.) 315 Miracl (Friska Anggreanika) 330 The Smiling General’s Treasure (Hendrikus Raka) 343 Lost (Ireneus Eki Nugroho) 352 Jasmine (Kukuh Galanag) 356 A Bench of Love (Mentari Kusumawati) 362 She’s Broken (Maya Indriani) 386 Unexpected Love (Melina Agustin) 395 Come Back Home (Monica Felicia Amanda) 409 Love Hate Thing (Novriwan Felik) 420 Hello New Boy (Riyanti Eka) 424 The Roller Coaster of Friendship (RR Elsa Puspita) 442 Unexpected Love in God’s Time (Selma Thayana) 461 Give Your Heart a Break (Stefi Wibisono) 466 The Clues (Tiffany Yunita) 479 A Hidden Treasure (Wendy Ravenska) 497 Burhan’s “Indonesia’s Vampire Hunter” (Yeremia Christiantus Sihombing) 505 An Uptown Girl (Yuvina Kuswandi) 518 v My First Day AT the Faculty Liem Kezia Debora 1 “Good morning, world!” I rubbed my eyes and smiled. It was still 6 o’clock and I thought this was the best Monday ever. Well...today was my first day as a college student. “Whoaaa...finally I am a college student now! O ya...let me introduce myself first. My name is Jessy and I studied at Faculty of Language and Arts. “Today will be a perfect Monday!” I smiled while took my soap, shampoo, tooth paste, and towel. It took 30 minutes for me to take a bath (usually it took 1 hour). After that, I wore my green sweater and jeans. I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled. “Still 6.35 a.m...ok..now I want to put some make up”. I took my powder, eye shadow, eye liner, mascara, and lipstick. I wanted to be a perfect girl today. After I finished, I looked at my wall clock and surprised. “What? 7 a.m?? I need to eat my breakfast now... or I will be late... I ran to my dining room and found my favorite food. Taraaaaamm.. pecel lele. Well well well... for me, pecel lele is not only an Indonesian traditional food which is consists of fried catfish with chili sauce and rice but also the most delicious food I ever tasted since I was a child. I ate my pecel lele while talking to my parents. Surprisingly, the clock shows that it was 7.15 a.m. So...it is time for me to go to campus with my new motorcycle. I took my helmet and hugged my parents. 2 On my way to college, suddenly a policeman shouted at me. He said that I need to show him my driving license. I opened my wallet BUT…o my God, I forgot to bring it!! My face turning red and I thought that I would be late today. “Sir..sorry, I forget to bring my driving license.” I said to the police. He kept silent for a while..and looked at my helmet. “Miss, you do not bring your driving license and your helmet is not the standard one. If you want, you can pay 250.000 rupiahs as a fine. But if you do not want to pay it, I will take your motorcycle at the police station.” I kept silent for a moment. I know that I had 700.000 rupiahs in my wallet, but it was not an easy thing to take 250.000 rupiahs and give to this policeman. I said to the police “Could I pay 150.000 rupiahs only? I am almost late to go to campus now.” I begged him. Suddenly, the policeman asked me to follow him and we talked at the corner of the road. “I know that you are in hurry...that’s why I give you a choice to pay your fine and I will let you go...it’s easy”, he said it with higher intonation. Well..I know if I gave him 250.000 rupiahs, I could ran from him easily..but it’s wrong...because I knew that we just needed to pay 50.000 rupiahs when we forgot to bring driver license. I looked at my watch.almost 7.30. I did not have any choices, so I just opened my wallet and gave him 250.000 rupiahs. He smiled at me and let me to go. I drove my motorcycle as fast as possible. 7.37 a.m. I have already arrived at campus parking area. I opened my helmet and asked to one of the cleaning services in my faculty. “Sorry sir. Do you know where Nottingham room is?” I hope that he knew my room. “Yes..just go directly to 5th floor and Nottingham room .besides 3 Language Laboratory.” I thanked him and ran to 5th floor. After I found the room, I knocked the door. Everyone in the class looked at me and I tried to smile with my class mate. I saw that there was no lecturer yet, so I just sit at the back. Everyone in the room seems strange except Lina and Anita. Well well well...they were my haters in high school and I did not that she would take the same faculty and even the same class with me. I wanted to go out from class because of them, but I thought that this is just the beginning, so I just sat at the back, took my bottle, and drink my mineral water. “Hello! What is your name?”, a girl who sat next to me tried to start a conversation. To be honest..the girl who sat next to me was beautiful because she had slim body, white skin, her eyes were big, and she had long natural curly hair. I smiled at her and said that my name is Jessy. She automatically gasped her mouth because my name was the same as her high school’s best friend. We laughed and I asked her name too. “I am Fenny and I come from Bali. How about you?”, she asked me another question. “I am from Semarang. Well, it is interesting. I remembered that 2 months ago I went to Bali for the first time. I visited Kuta Beach, Tanah Lot, and many more. Bali is such a wonderful island in Indonesia. By the way, how did you know about this university? And why did you choose this place?”, I asked her. Fenny put his glasses on and started to tell me a story about herself. She said to me that she did not know about the college before, but she was interested in learning English language in this college because there will be a lot of native speakers. I looked again to Lina and Anita. I remembered that I really hate them because they made a lot of bad news 4 about me while I was in high school. One of the bad news that made me so angry was about my parents. They said my parents are corruptors in their company, so my family have a lot of money. Yeah this country maybe had a lot of corruptors, but they could not judge people easily. If someone had a lot of money, it did not mean that they do corruption.