Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 22 Part 3 "Searching For Riri"

POV Tantri

The faint sound of the alarm getting louder rang in my ears, waking me up from my slumber. I, who was still trying to gather consciousness tried to reach for my smartphone which I placed next to me and when my consciousness was fully collected, I realized that it was still 3 am and the sound of the alarm did not come from my smartphone but from Lodewijk's smartphone which he placed on the living room table close to him who still seemed to be lying soundly on the carpet.

I slowly got up from the lying position then sat down for a while then stood up, walked towards where Lodewijk was lying, sat on my knees next to him then rocked his body by pulling and pushing his left shoulder and upper arm trying to wake him up but he still hasn't woken up from his sleep so I bent my back and brought my face close to his ear.

"Hey, Lodewijk, Lodewijk, wake up!" I told him in a slightly harsh tone.

I slightly moved my face away from his ear and shook his left shoulder and upper arm again then brought my face closer and tried to wake him up again with my voice, asking him to wake up and in the end I could see his eyes slowly opened and while gathering his consciousness he rose from his lying position to sitting position and then rubbed his eyes with his left hand while his right hand tried to reach for his smartphone that was lying on the table. I immediately took his smartphone and gave it to him.

He turned off his smartphone's alarm then got up and walked away from me who was still sitting on her knees next to where he had been lying before. I just shook my head after I saw his behavior because I wondered why he set his smartphone's alarm to rang at 3 in the morning.

I got up and walked back to the sofa where I had slept before then when I wanted to lie down again I heard the sound of the bathroom door opening and saw Lodewijk's figure who was walking out of the toilet wet with ablution water on his face and arms filled with radiant light. I think this is the reason he set an alarm to go off at 3 am on his smartphone. He wanted to perform the non-obligatory midnight to early in the morning prayer.

He returned to where he had been lying before and performed the non-obligatory early in the morning prayer there. Seeing him perform that prayer makes me want to do the same thing, unfortunately my spare prayer clothes is in the car and I can't take it because the key card that needs to be used to activate elevator and open the entrance door to this apartment room is held by Reiss, maybe tomorrow I will do it.

After performing the non-obligatory early in the morning prayer, Lodewijk spread his hands and make his wishes for a moment then he laid his body back down and closed his eyes. For some reason I wonder why I was fascinated for a moment after I saw his face that looked radiant after he took his ablution water. I hope that's not a sign that I'm attracted to him.

I laid back down, closed my eyes and went back to sleep until a few moments later, while I was still asleep the sound of the alarm could be heard by both of my ears again which woke me up instantly from my sleep and not only me who woke up from my sleep, Ilya and Lodewijk also woke up from their sleep.

I immediately grabbed my smartphone and turned off the alarm that I set to rang at 4 in the morning and it turned out that I wasn't the only one who set the alarm to rang at 4 in the morning. My friends also set their alarms to rang at 4 am.

Reiss came out of his room then after he saw that we all had woken up from our sleep he said that he would pray at the mosque and asked Ilya and Lodewijk if they would pray in the mosque too or not.

Both of them said that they would go with Reiss while I chose to pray here and because my spare praying clothes was in my car, I went with my friends who were getting out of Reiss's apartment and went to the ground floor then asked Reiss to leave his apartment room keycard with me so that after I took my praying clothes in my car, I would be able to get back into his apartment room.