Ash-boss
A Thousand Stories: The clanging of time

That strong and warm feeling brought Laras to the feeling of longing for a pair of soft smiling souls from under one of the shade trees on the hill. Before the shadows of the two souls completely disappeared, Laras had caught the two white-haired figures.

"Who?!"

The shadow of darkness instantly ambushed Laras. Binding Baras in the darkness that continues to cover every memory that Laras has.

"Saki!" laras Nintih.

He was lying on his bed. Sweat pours from his forehead. His hands tightly grasped the bolting pillow he was holding. Whimpering with a nightmare, Laras curled up and shivered in the cold.

The sight caught Eren's attention to continue staring with a gaze that made Rein extremely envious when he saw it. Attention and affection emanated from the young man's eye gaze towards Laras so Rein felt like he wanted to be in the current position of Laras.

"He why?" rein asked with anxious and envious feelings mixed in. "I guess he didn't come to college because he was late."

"He just needs a break" replied Eren who chose to step out of the room Laras because he felt another air stirring the calm in the room.

"All right!" rein replied awkwardly after coming out and driving the young man down the stairs.

"Thank you for being with her." Eren turned around and smiled at Rein.

The smile that made Rein really unable to let go of his feelings for that young man named Eren. High curiosity towards the young man began to grow in Rein's heart. Especially regarding the attachment of the young man to his best friend, Laras.

"I'm sorry if I'm being disrespectful,.."

Rein stopped Eren who was on the two steps below. He caught up with Eren by taking a quick step then slipped and fell onto the young man's back.

The young man did not turn around, he stretched out his hand to hold Rein's body. However Rein passes through it and pulls Eren's body down the stairs. Afflicting Rein's body is quite tiny when compared to the size of a man's body.

Rein gasped and looked at Eren with a very strong thumping feeling. Until he doesn't realize that the thing he's doing is captured by the vision of another figure Eren who grunts dislikes.

Eren tried to stand up from the fall position that managed to hold the hand position to keep the impact on the back of Rein's head and positioned his feet well so that they did not fall and come into contact with Rein except for his second gaze only the ones who meet each other.

"You okay?"

Eren finally sat down quietly after helping Rein to justify his position due to the fall. The hand still held Rein's head and released it slowly after believing there was no trauma to Rein's current state.

"Yes, I'm fine." Answer Rein.

Rein is further amazed by Eren's calm and mature nature. It made Rein think of Eren all day. Especially when Eren helped him to lie in his room because his leg was sprained due to the fall.

"But only three steps up.." murmured Rein as soon as Eren tried to check his sprained ankle after Rein tried to stand up from the fall.

"One rung of stairs if one misstep can be this severe." Eren replied without letting go of his attention to Rein's bruised and bluish-purple legs.

Eren rubbed it slowly.

"Is it still sick?" tanyanya while pressing slowly the bruise marks.

"Yes.." Rein replied hesitantly by enduring a slight pain.

"It looks like a sprain." Eren looked at Rein. "Would you call a doctor?"

"I'll call Randy's doctor who took care of us yesterday" Rein replied. "But I need to go back to my room..."

"I'll help get you into the room,"

Eren's offer was greeted by the Laras residence looking at him blankly. While Rein showed a pleased look by ignoring Laras who was standing at the end of the stairs with his gaze.

"Thank you for helping me" Rein said after Eren laid her on his bed.

"No problem. After all it's also wrong I can't hold your body, until you finally fall."

"He was good to everyone!" Rein chattered without realizing that Laras was standing at the door of the room with a tray of dinner.

"What did Dr. Randy say?" tanya Laras enters the room with a tray containing a packet of rice, side dishes, and low-fat milk for Rein to eat dinner.

"This?" Rein moved lightly his legs. While whimpering in pain, Rein added. "It's sprained!"

"Why smile?!"

"Belgium!"

Rein ignored Laras who wanted to ask him something but was reluctant to discuss it.

"Eat first, then when I'm done I bring it down."

"Makasi, Barrel. 😊 "Rein instantly enjoyed that dinner from the top of his bed.

The feeling of Rein was really blossoming right now. All night, Eren's shadow seizes his mind. Imagining the days he would spend with Eren made Rein happy not to play.

On the other hand, Laras even felt the opposite. After an excruciating headache, Laras still had to stay up all night thinking about the oddity Eren showed when he invited Laras home that afternoon.

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The barrel was suddenly startled with a breeze circling itself in the hills. Every air that exists makes Laras pay attention to the details of each corner of the place. At the end of his view, Laras found a school building that so seized all his attention. That was the school building. Kenanga High School.

Then another whispering voice slowly brought Laras's gaze to catch two shadow figures that faded in the wind on a shade tree in one corner of the hills.

The two shadowy figures showed a very warm smiling face to Laras. Bringing so great a longing that is rooted in the heart. To the extent that Laras felt his stomach like it was being poked and squeezed at the same time.

Not finished with the mixed feelings he felt, Laras suddenly had to face with a dark shadow that suddenly burst out from all directions of the wind. It comes up suddenly and tries to bring Laras' body into the darkest darkness.

The barrel instantly felt a limp all over his body. His neck was suffocating and parts of his body were being pulled one by one from each inch of his body.

The moaning barrel endured the pain. And at the same time, Eren was seen without hesitation squatting before Laras who had been suffocating but did not allow himself to be defeated by the darkness that was gnawing at him.

Eren extended his hand. Hands are not just hands. Dark white hand wrinkles that show bluish veins behind the white skin. The hand that stuck out cold but turned out to have the warmth that Laras had missed.

Laras looked and found the young man smiling and gave him peace. Something that can only be given by someone who has known him for a long time.

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"Who?" gerutu Laras was curious about all the excitement that was lodged in his mind.

Eren had just carried himself that afternoon. Supporting himself who had staggered because he felt a headache that immediately weakened his entire limb. But once turned back, the young man and himself were already in his room. He felt never unconscious, as Eren crouched before him, he was aware of what was happening.

Eren extended his pale white hand. The hand also looked old and wrinkled with a blue-purple pulse stroke that formed the path of his blood.

Trying to catch the figure of the owner of the wrinkled old hand, Laras was again attacked by dark air coming out from inside his body. Remembering and trying to stop the breath Laras by tightly wrapped around his neck.

The barrel tried to touch the black shadow forming a rope wrapped around his neck growing stronger. Once tried, the shadow broke. Then it fused back together and wrapped around it even stronger.

Baras had almost lost his life the stronger the black shadow wrapped around his neck. Making the barrel move violently which eventually rang a small silver bell on the bracelet it was wearing.

The clinking sound of the bracelet invites friction and the distinctive sound of the path of red bricks flowed on the hearing of Laras. Carrying a shadow where all the golden-red leaves burst forth in the wind.

Making a freshly finished character usher one soul on that journey was confused by what was going on.

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