Behind the Eyes of INDIGO
The story behind the Cherry Tree

The day was getting late, the sounds of night insects began to die down and became very quiet. Mr. Aji told Alia to come in and rest.

Alia rushed into her room and laid her body on a thin mattress on the floor of her room.

His gaze stared at the ceiling of the room, his body was already feeling very tired but again his eyes still did not want to be closed.

Alia tries to pray to God so that she can make the best decision and also not be a burden for herself.

Slowly Alia's eyes began to close and she fell asleep in the late night.

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The next day Alia was getting ready early in the morning and was about to leave for college because today she had morning lecture hours.

"Alia you don't have breakfast first son" said Ms. Mia who saw Alia walking out of the house.

"I have breakfast in the cafeteria later mah, it's bad luck" replied Alia as she continued walking and headed to her motorcycle.

Alia left for college on her motorcycle. As soon as he reached the parking lot he rushed to get to his class. Just now Alia arrived at class and sat on her bench, suddenly the lecturer immediately entered and started the lecture activities.

"Alhamdulillah, I am not late" said Alia slowly.

This morning lecture lasts for 4 hours, from 8 to 12 noon. After the activity ended, the lecturer left the class. Alia rushed to go to the mosque because soon it will enter the Dzuhur prayer.

After finishing the mosque, Alia walked to the cafeteria because her stomach was no longer able to withstand hunger.

"Agh!!" suddenly Alia collided with someone as they were both walking in a hurry.

"Hey you again! use the eyes! or you're deliberately looking for the same problem I ha!"

The person turns out to be Meisya, she feels very upset and yells at Alia, but Alia does not want to fuss and tries to apologize.

"Sorry Mei I didn't intentionally"

"It's not intentional every day! are your eyes blind!"

Meisya still spoke in a high tone to Alia even though Alia had tried to apologize.

"Alisa..."

Suddenly someone came and approached Alia. That person turned out to be Irfan who had been looking for him since.

"Eh brother Irfan..."

"Why you?" ask Irfan.

"I accidentally hit my friend because I was in a hurry" explained Alia.

"Oh sorry well, Alia does like to be careless, sorry she has hit you, you don't papa right?" Irfan spoke to Meisya to represent Alia.

"Eh no way papa, hehe I'm sorry, besides Alia is my classmate so I understand kok hehe"

Suddenly Meisya's behavior turned very friendly in front of Irfan and it made Alia feel astonished.

"Thank God you're not papa"

"Em know me Meisya, can you know your sister's name?"

Meisya extended her hand while smiling towards Irfan.

"I'm Irfan, Alia's boyfriend."

Irfan did not return Meisya's hand but instead pulled Alia's hand and took her away. It makes Meisya upset and hates Alia even more.

"Daughter? so all this time they've been really dating?" Meisya muttered softly.

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"Can't you let go of my hand? sick loh!" alia.

Irfan kept pulling Alia's hand and took her to the park to talk. As soon as the park Irfan just released Alia's hand grip.

"Kok you bring me here si, do I want to go to the cafeteria?"

"Where have you been these two days? no word, no number can not be called, I asked friends you do not know!"

Irfan immediately threw out so many questions that made Alia confused about what to answer.

"Em it..."

"Jawab dong, or don't-don't you go with someone else well?" irfan's question further cornered Alia and began to annoy her.

"Kok say that! I had an event yesterday in MA! and I happen to have no time to hold the phone, so forget about you" explained Alia.

Alia spoke by showing an annoyed facial expression because she had been accused by Irfan. Irfan felt guilty for talking like that, he immediately apologized and melted the atmosphere.

"Why do you hold your stomach, your stomach hurts?" ask Irfan.

"No, but I'm actually hungry to know!"

"When you're hungry, why not say? I know that I immediately took you to the cafeteria".

"That's why I went to the cafeteria, but it was you who pulled me here, right?"

"Oh yeah yeah, hehe sorry sorry, yeah we're in the cafeteria now."

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The two of them walked to the cafeteria, because Alia was already very hungry, so she immediately ordered food and drinks.

"Pelan-pelan dong love to eat it"

Alia ignored Irfan's words. He continued to devour the food that was already in front of him.

"Darling you know?"

"What?"

"The Cherry Tree has fallen"

"I know!"

"Below there's a whole human skull"

"I know it too"

"And the tree was filled with maggots"

"Udah knows too. So you're deliberately making me no appetite then?"

"Oh sorry sorry that's not what it means"

Alia looked at Irfan with a cynical look as it made her slightly lose her appetite by telling him disgusting things while she was eating.

Finally Irfan immediately told the core of the human skull contained under the Cherry tree.

Irfan said police had found the identity of the skull. The skull was the skull of a grandfather of the manager of the garden and park campus.

He used to love growing cherry tree seedlings because his grandson loved Cherry fruit so much.

The grandfather lived alone with his little granddaughter. At that time as usual every day the grandfather took care and took care of the plants on campus, he usually brought the ripe Cherry fruit to his grandson.

But that day the grandfather did not come home, until a few days. The granddaughter continued to cry because her grandfather had never come home again since then. His grandson could also see mystical things, he knew that his grandfather was dead and buried somewhere, but no one would believe the little girl's words.

The little girl always said that her grandfather died while holding the Cherry fruit that would be brought for her. Because the little girl had no one left, finally the neighbors near her house wanted to take care of her. A few years later, the little girl always visited a small and unfruitful Cherry tree, she always said that her grandfather was there, but everyone thought he was crazy and could not accept his grandfather's departure. The mother who took care of the little girl said that the little girl often saw her grandfather, he was in the tree and asked people to cut down the tree, he said, until finally the girl began to go crazy and sickly, shortly after that he finally died.