Perfume?

"We should not be drowning in constant sadness. We have to move forward. Arghi doesn't out anything, I'm neither in front nor behind you, but I'm beside you. We can walk hand in hand to get through that rocky road."

Arghi knew that he was indeed guilty here, his mind too narrow as if all the burdens of the world were in the world. Perhaps Arghi now cannot see how the beauty, the colors, the shapes, the shape of his world's environment, but that is certainly not the end of everything. He would surely find something more than beautiful that Arghi could only feel with his other senses.

Arghi convinced himself that he wasn't alone, there was Galant by his side. He wouldn't run away from trouble like a coward anymore.

"Don't run away from my life, Arghi. I have no one but you."

***

"You don't want to just move downstairs?" Galant asked himself while delivering a glass of water on the nightstand, Arghi knew from his crackling sound when it was placed. Arghi felt a touch on his arm from the warm hand that touched him.

Arghi thought, he would probably continue to trouble Galant if he remained stubborn or even the bad incident would happen again and Arghi would leave Galant alone. He realized whether or not everything was the same, Galant couldn't see the difference.

Although the balcony room is the corner of the house that Arghi most likes after the fish pond in the yard but what's the point now if Arghi can no longer see the beauty of the sea in the distance from his balcony.

After a long silence Arghi nodded and 'felt' a smile expand from Galant which he instantly said, "Alright then, I'll clean up his room. I've ordered food and it's still very warm, we'll eat down together."

Together? It was a sentence that Arghi seemed to have not heard for a long time after many emotionally draining events and the timing of the few days. He and Galant have made up and eating together will make the atmosphere between them even better and Arghi hopes this is the beginning of everything for the future to get better.

Arghi did not have time to open his mouth to respond to what Galant had said earlier because Galant had already first dragged Arghi out of the room. Galant slowly led Arghi very slowly and the patient Galant had to descend the stairs, which Arghi himself could do alone.

Galant herds Arghi to sit at the dinner table and Arghi doesn't know why Galant seems to get busy like this, Arghi wants Galant to stay as usual and Arghi doesn't want this kind of over-attention let alone this time Galant has spread a handkerchief on his thigh and also the clinking sounds of ceramic objects in front of Arghi explain everything that Galant prepares what Arghi will eat next.

Arghi took a slow breath and smelled the smell of the food that was in his room and he had already guessed what menu was presented there, through the scent that was spreading in front of him. He snorted with an arch rising in the corner of his mouth.

Galant laughed crisply filling the space and Arghi regretted his silence of late. And hope everything will run normally regardless of whether he can see it or not.

"These are all Galant's favorite foods," snores Arghi amused.

"Indeed," Galant said lightly.

Arghi groped slowly in search of a glass of water and how little al like this was so troublesome for Arghi to ask for help from others. Arghi had reached for the glass nearby, but also he held another finger inside his grasp and Arghi had accidentally grabbed the wrong glass.

"This is your drinking water, Arghi. Before eating you must drink a glass of water first, right?" Galant's voice broke down the awkwardness that occurred that was felt directly by Arghi. He had no idea Galant would notice such a small thing. Galant is usually a person who does not pay attention and ignores unimportant things around him.

Arghi nodded and began to vertical the water until the token. They ate in silence, no one dared to bring a conversation about his father. But the atmosphere this time was lighter than before.

"Arghi, are you wearing a new perfume?" asked Galant suddenly making Arghi furrow his brows ask.

Arghi didn't even think about wearing any perfume using just soap and shampoo as usual. So Arghi replied as he sniffed the air, "No, I didn't use it. What is it?"

"Your smell is everywhere from the room to the air. It's so new and I've never smelled a perfume like this before."

Hah? Arghi quickly kissed himself, but he didn't miss anything. "I didn't miss anything?"

"No?"

Arghi heard the sound of the chair opposite him being dragged backward and he gasped instantly rewinding his head when suddenly Galant was already right in front of Arghi's face when he felt his exhalation on the surface of Arghi's face.

"This is coming from you and strong," Galant said in his low voice. Arghi felt very strange about their current position especially when Galant got closer to smelling Arghi's neck blatantly like this, making Arghi embarrassed tremendously when Galant did things in this strange way. Galant is fully on the table, up the dinner table now.

"Galant, what are you doing?" Arghi pushed Galant away from him, with his face warming up after he felt a wet object sticking to the intersection of Arghi's neck earlier.

The sound of the pull of the chair came back and Arghi had freed from Galant then he exhaled his breath which he accidentally held.

"Sorry, Arghi. It's strange, you can't smell it at all, but your perfume has filled this house as if you were wearing a bottle of perfume. It's coming from you." said Galant who Arghi could hear him seem sorry for having done his strange behavior before.

"I don't wear any perfume, Galant. How could it be?"

"I don't know either, it started this morning. At first, it's very thin, but the longer your scent gets stronger. It's disturbing.'

Disturb? Galant was disturbed by what Arghi couldn't smell and Arghi felt so guilty that he should immediately go back to his room and shower even longer and rub his body even stronger.

"No, not disturbing like that, Arghi. It makes me a little bit, it means it makes me like a stone, it doesn't mean this—."

"We have to eat first, Galant. After this I will take a shower," Arghi cut off Galant's words and he knew, this time Galant was acting strangely he spoke with dismembered words like before, he also felt the nervousness experienced by Galant now only felt strange to Arghi.

"It's not disturbing like that, Arghi. It's soothing, fresh like in the forest, like rain, and something else I can't say in words. But it just seems like it makes me weird by just kissing his."

"Strange?" asked Arghi, bringing his curiosity to come.

Galant didn't answer right away, but in the end, he said it. "It makes my bottom hurt, Arghi."