The coffee maker in the pantry was thundering. In the near future, Rio's favorite cappuccino will be ready. Next, he will pour it into the cup. Then sprinkle the top with chocolate granules and a little cinnamon powder. Finally, the handsome man completes the composition of his drink by placing cinnamon bars as a stirring spoon.
Rio always begins his days with a cup of thick bubbly cappuccino plus two sheets of whole wheat bread with creamy cheese. All the rituals were done on their own, in the pantry that cultivated the dining room, in the tiny apartment, and enjoyed it at a table right at the window, looking at the lonely and droopy view of the maple leaves bobbing in the June wind.
Another day her lover, Alyssa Saufika Umari, will be birthday. Afternoon, while lunch, Rio plans to go to a bookstore that is two blocks from his office to buy paper letters. Orange paper and long brown envelope. And, when he gets to the apartment he will write a letter and must be finished before 00:00 pm. Happy 35th birthday letter for Ify. Rio does not want anyone else to congratulate themselves.

The ritual has been going on for years since he retired to this distant land. He must remain the first person to congratulate the woman he loves. He knows exactly, Ify is always waiting for his letter. There was no other prize he was most waiting for but other pieces of orange art paper containing his handwriting.
The eyes sparkled. Ify is still motionless. His eyes faithfully followed letter by letter on the postcard sheet in his hand. To the point that he did not hear Ray's voice half-screaming for milk. "Maa ... I'm thirsty! Mama hear, do not you? "
Ugh! For many days now Ify spent much of his time reading repeatedly, a postcard with a picture of a snow-covered wooden hut in the middle of the pine forest. In fact, the letters printed there always the same. No one jumps and changes the point of the coma.
"Yeah, honey." But Ify's eyes still did not get out of the card in his hand.
"Come on, Ma!" Ray could not wait to grab his mother's hand. Finally Ify put her postcards in her dresser drawer carefully. As if to be stored it is an antique crystal worth tens of millions of dollars. After that he strolled into the kitchen, making milk for Ray.
The first time Rio knew that Ify really liked his handwriting was when at some point he casually sent a postcard from Alaska, as he had a chance to visit the cold country located near the North Pole. In the hotel lobby where he was staying he saw beautiful postcards at the reception desk. One of them is very interesting Rio. Draw a snow-covered wooden cottage, in the middle of a pine forest. Reflexively he took it and wrote a poem there, then sent it to the Ify address in Jakarta. At that time he still did not understand why he suddenly wanted to send a postcard and write a poem, too, for Ify.
Ify,
You are a flower,
The faithful in the season,
Who save the longing for the sun,
Who painted hope in the vast sky,
Who wrote crystal-clear words on your chest lazuardi,
Ify,
Sincerity always brings wisdom and
Patience surely gives birth to love.
Since then, whenever he leaves, out of town or abroad, Ify always asks to be sent postcards containing his handwritten poems, from every place he visits.
Rio loves Ify and his children because Alvin, Ify's husband, is a friend of his contemporaries at the Faculty of Engineering UI. They are even one costing for years. As sons of rantau they feel have the same fate, far from the family. Rio from Manado and Alvin from Malang. After graduation, Alvin worked at a major airline company in Jakarta, and Rio set up a contracting company with his friends in Manado.
Alvin when to go home fy? "asked Rio while receiving his coffee. as area manager in Papua, Alvin spend time in the duties of it. so ify everyday struggle own busy take care of three her still small." still five days. Jayapura are no problem quaint with the local government. Moreover, if not a matter of formal procedure that continue alternated every officials new rule. "ify respond to questions Rio while checking homework Angel, her eldest daughter." want I heat croissants to accompany work Lo tonight? "" baseball need fy, simply coffee is only. thank's. Oh Yes, the day after tomorrow I Denpasar. there are meeting by owner Ayana resort in London, which will use the services office me to the concept of Spa resortnya. "" do not forget obligation Lo, Yes! biasaaa ... "ify say sentence while flashes next to her eyes and smiled at meaningful. Rio knew is liability by ify. she should never be forgotten sent postcards, contains poetry handwriting. Rio nodding as he raised eyebrows his eyes, and raised his thumb into the air. he passed to his room on the second floor. since college and finally established companies in Manado, Rio always stay at home Alvin every time he was doing business travel to Jakarta. even he was given a private room on the second floor. Alvin serious soon married to ify, women who have dipacarinya for three years. while Rio continue single and always changing girlfriend. somehow, there are only thing that makes it lost interest to marry, though his girlfriend beautiful-beautiful.  -" Rio! please between me to the hospital. body temperature Ray very high. she should be taken to the emergency room! "one night ify banged door Rio. ditolehnya Wall clock. at 23:50. Alvin already three days duty in Singapore. driver family, of course it home since the afternoon. Rio like shock when fingered forehead Ray. in minutes he had run the car in the direction of beautiful cottage. during Ray observed in the emergency room, ify affected by the panic incredible. in the silent, Rio embrace small body Ray and holding hands ify. there warmth wishing dibagikannya maternal and child was secretly inhabit the corner of his heart. he never notice. that night, Ray admitted rspi. he is exposed thypus. since then, for a week he interchangeably with ify, stay in the hospital. and since night it all, Rio start infestation feeling strange every time to see ify busy take care of Ray. noise women Ayu bodied tiny when taking care of three her alone, because of her husband more traveling out the city and out of state, really touching Rio. since then, Rio turned into a more reserved. he pity see ify new 25 year old already have to be held responsible for household and three children. as a friend, Rio know football lunge Alvin outside the House. asides task, Alvin also still like berhura-Ray in discotheque and pub, with his friends. he no matter with all the hassles his wife. dipikirnya, as long as he could buy a home nice and sufficient ify and their children with a variety of luxury goods, are more than enough. but Rio never reveal keresahannya it on anyone. he just continue to pay attention to ify quietly, and as much as possible filling empty space left Alvin. once in a while he helped affairs school Angel and Deva, the first child and both of them, or when school holidays he invites mother and child the streets to dufan. of course it all he do with the permission of Alvin. eventually Rio helpless. that is in his mind only ify and her three children. apparently, he began to fall in love. actually there is nothing wrong. what is wrong with love? should, no. and what is wrong if Rio fall in love on ify?'s new one! because ify is wife Alvin. but why should be to ify he fell in love? it, he never planning love ify. he is also not choose to drop his love in the wife of his friend. he felt everything runs with reasonable and properly. Furthermore, all grown out logic. then,'s where the Rio and ify is located. in a room quiet, where there are only two of them. a planet not they plan, but secretly they dearer. a time not scheduled, but very they look forward to. a moment not they prepare, but very they dreamed of. what happened, only two of them know. clear, if until weeks they do not meet, nostalgia overlap and rolling in the chest. all cornucopia via email, SMS and the phone. feeling miss the stirring the liver. a missed the forbidden that throbbing stifling chest. up at a when the rumble in the chest like Magma volcano it was erupted and shed laharnya everywhere. damage was inevitable. heart Alvin go to pieces found his wife established in love with her best friend yourself." select one, Yo. go as far as possible from Indonesia or blow gun at the head Lo! "Alvin put revolver in desks with trembling hands holding angry. voice blaring and his breath breath-breath. Rio witnessed the wave anger in the eyes of Alvin from bench occupied. by hand and foot bound. that night feud they end up in a House empty whether whose. Alvin actually jerk, but he didn't want to lose wife and children. he is also not willing to submit them on a friend very he believed, but then mengkhianatainya it." if the first choice that Lo take, the trust I will be set up a passport, visa and deposits 3 billion in the Bank as severance Lo. immediately leave Jakarta and lifetime never set foot Lo again here! "
Rio tergugu. silence. "and if the second option that Lo take, I also already set up the final resting place create Lo, in a great place. complex funeral luxury, sandiego Hills in Karachi. I pilihkan lot to view his face Sunrise. also money 300m for families Lo take care of the cost of the funeral Lo and purchase tombstone to carve name Lo." Alvin say it with the furious, while merok * K, eye shiny-flash. Rio not afraid if he just drooping silent. he just worry if reaction saying will make Alvin the wrath. Rio aware, he has done error is huge. but, in addition, he also take into account the fate of ify and their children. then he chose silent thousand languages. let Alvin vent anger. not dipedulikannya blow and kick Alvin in all over her body. also not dihiraukannya all words insults trickle of mouth Alvin. that night, self-esteem Alvin as a man is torn by pengkhiantan wife and her best friend. and he vent anger in a way that almost perfect. in addition to the brutal he memukili Rio, he also neat to prepare a deposit money miliyaran of dollars in the Bank. that way Alvin about to insult Rio to the point most low. he was about to buy the lives and self-esteem Rio with money owned. with all the Alvin about to wreak sick his heart. if then Rio take first choice, not because he was scared to death. he thought, if he is still alive. at least, he still has hope one day be met again with ify. whether when and where. then, Rio was emigrate to Toronto - Ontario - Canada. city of specified by Alvin as a place 'pelarian' him. he never know why alvn choose the city of Toronto. a city sixth largest in Canada. then, in the city of well-known as the city of the most Green and creative in North America, the Rio then undergo the rest of age. in a new place that the distance of thousands of miles of Homeland the Rio continue to live his days quiet. although he managed to get a job in an office Bureau of architects local, the rest, his days is silence and silence like needles sharp rasp heart. he diligently undergo work, but he as lifeless. for eight years in the' exile 'not even if he liaise with a woman. love on ify seized the entire independence. proximity his soul on women who loved it also cut out the distance space of time. he continued to love her lover, with the trick. days continue to roll. in the weeks, months and years. is there a lasting on this Earth while all things is a necessity and mortality? mega above the Sky on March. sometimes as segerombol roses White jostling and sometimes as blob fragrant-sweet passions children. why all continue to trot go, leaving the present? why do lonely continue wobbly loyal day? Rio stunned when aware of only one who is not running. he continued own frozen by sense. so strong magnetic love on ify, so that he did not feel the need chasing with time. he continued to happy in pendiangan campfire warm named desire. Yes, Rio is human lonely boisterous in the campfire named in love. that night, he wrote a letter to her lover. "happy birthday 35th, Alyssa saufika umari lover of my heart. when the weather in your country unspeakable and wide Sky waiting cues from you, and i'm sure there are Sun that continue loyal on your days. because birthday to you not only the age of extending as night not only the full moon. Alyssa that I love, longing berdenyar stretched to all the pores my body transformed clink that berlesetan to basic memories. hope Blue is firs a deserted that menerbangkanku deep to your town. memjumpaimu, mendekapmu and kiss you with all my soul to rumble this subside. Alyssa my lover, drizzle it should never be transformed rain in your eyes and terika Sun will not let so dry in your heart. right I held Rainbow and kusematkan in the area of your soul with my prayer that shot through the light. Alyssa lover of my heart, I will continue to embrace miss this up Angel mengabariku that in a Galaxy later we will diperjumpakan. from me, lover non-stop love you, from a distance very much. Rio. after writing a letter, Rio folded carefully and menulisi address to complete. but surprisingly, he then headed wardrobe that is in the corner of the room and interesting a box antique velvet Red. he save his letter there with the seventh letter other. letters always made every year, right in the night birthday ify. he never post letters. he just keep it in the box antique. Rio save all his letter neatly with expectations continue blown secretly in his heart. end