Behind the Eyes of INDIGO
An attitude

A few days later all the final semester students were busy preparing their KKN program after knowing the group and their member friends.

Alia's mood is still the same, she doesn't want to talk much to others except her best friend, Afi.

He didn't even know at all who the people who would be one group with him were.

That afternoon Alia was sitting on a garden chair alone holding a red rose that had bloomed. The color of the rose looks as dark as blood. Slowly Alia began to remove some of the flower crowns and devoured them as if she was eating sweet food.

"Ah, what a sweet taste this flower is, second to none!" alia.

Because it was so fun, to the extent that Alia was not aware that the crown of the flowers had been eaten and accidentally her hand held the stem of the rose.

"Aw!"

His finger was pierced by a thorn in the stem of the rose until it bled. He immediately wiped the blood using the tissue he had.

Soon Azam came to Alia while giving a white rose.

"What's this?" alia asked who was astonished to see Azam's attitude.

"You ate red roses, who knows you'd want to try white ones too"

Azam's words and expression looked very serious, so Alia responded and tried to eat the white rose crown.

"Curtain! how bitter! not good at all!" alia said while throwing away some crowns of flowers that were still in her mouth.

Azam just smiled a little to see the behavior of Alia who was so easily lied to.

"Laughs? you're fucking me!?" alia asked with a cynical face.

"No, just want to remind me, the problem will not be solved with you like this" explained Azam.

Alia fell silent, she felt bad because Azam always knew what she was feeling and also she was experiencing.

"Oh yeah, I haven't seen you in months, where have I been?" alia asked to distract him.

"I took over Abah's cattle business" Azam answered briefly.

Because his Abah is dead, the pesantren and his business no longer take care. Azam told me that his eldest brother had taken over to take care of the boarding school, so inevitably Azam had to be willing to take care of his Abah cattle business.

"Oh so, oh yeah, your mom's healthy? in the past time to your house I did not have time to meet" added Alia.

Instantly Azam's facial expression turned moody upon hearing Alia's question, he fell silent and lowered his head.

"You why? is there something wrong with my question?" Alia asked again because Azam was silent.

"Mother.mom died two months ago" Azam said slowly.

"What's? Innalilahi wa Inna Ilaihi Raji. Sorry, I don't know"

Alia was shocked and felt guilty when she heard that, she did not expect that the person sitting with her was now an orphan, but never showed his sadness in front of everyone. He became embarrassed because considering the problems he faced now was nothing compared to something that befell Azam.

"She can still smile when she experiences it? I'm really ashamed of myself" Alia murmured inwardly.

"You know we're a group?" Azam tried to shift the conversation so that he no longer remembered his sadness.

"One group? what group?" ask Alia who does not understand because her mind is still everywhere.

"What's? seriously you?" Alia was again surprised to hear that, because since yesterday she did not pay attention to anyone who was in a group with her.

Alia immediately left without saying a word, she walked quickly to meet Afi and saw the list of names of her group.

From a distance Nafisah saw Alia who was walking in a hurry, she continued to look at Alia because she felt astonished.

If usually Alia was always followed by some terrifying creatures and had a black aura, but now there was even a white-robed creature that emitted a bright white light around her body.

"It's like..." Nafisah continued to look at Alia with astonishment.

"Alia!" shouted Sandra who saw Alia walking in a hurry.

"Eh Sandra, why?" ask Alia.

"Have you seen our list of groups?"

"Our group?"

Sandra handed him a piece of paper containing the name of the group members, the location of the KKN and also a series of activity schedules.

There were 10 members in the group, 4 men and 6 women. They get a location that is still in the city, but the place is quite inside and quite far from the crowd.

"This is seriously San?" ask Alia.

"Why?"

"No papa"

Alia then handed the paper back to Sandra and left her. In his heart he was uncomfortable.

"Why should one group of Sharifah also be the one!" grouse Alia.

*****

H Day arrived, that morning all the final semester students were preparing with their respective groups to leave for the KKN location.

Alia was dressed very neatly in black pantofel shoes, black skirt and light blue campus alma mater suit. He also carries a large backpack containing clothes, and equipment that will be needed, as well as other members.

All the members had gathered in front of the campus except Azam. He hadn't arrived until the other members started to wait. Alia was just speechless, her eyes could not be separated from Nafisah, the two of them looked at each other like they were in a telepathic war.

"Try you call San!" pinta Afi's.

"Did I have the number?" alia was astonished.

"Oh yes I forgot"

"That's on the group list yesterday I've asked for one by one phone number each anyway" added Afi.

Sandra tries to call Azam after she gets her number. But before long Azam had appeared before them in very neat clothes like the others. But the difference is the plain black peci that is always attached to his head.

Alia and Nafisah stop their cold feud when Azam comes, they both try to cover their respective attitudes.

Alia looked at Azam with a somewhat different feeling.

"If you think about it I've never seen Arrafi not wear a peci" Alia murmured in her heart.

After all the members gathered, Sandra asked them all to leave immediately so that they would arrive sooner. Among the ten members, Sandra is the most chatty, noisy and outspoken, she is almost like a mother who guards her children.

Around 9am they all left from campus to the location. After traveling for about two hours they finally arrived at a village on the outskirts of the city. The village is located quite far from the city center and also the highway, but the access road there is quite easy because almost all the roads are already on the asphalt even though there are no public vehicles passing through.