Deja Vu [ Lilian Ashley ]
11. Knowing New Things

A very crowded night on campus with the children of the college sift night.

Whether it's from the picket waiting for the library, studying, doing assignments in class or just hanging out for no apparent reason.

River took me to college and explained that he was a band member at the music club as a guitarist who was quite famous on campus. I was so amazed at his identity and did not expect that this super-jutek man had a popular degree on campus.

"It used to be a hobby to play my guitar. Whether it's discordant, cut it out, squeal." Oops, it turns out I'm a snub in contempt of the snapper class. "I managed to play guitar great."

I nodded in response sign.

My hands were so itchy at fiddling with music equipment at River's club music. I turned the mic on until I rang a screech, hit the drum with a stick and twisted the flute. Really exciting.

But the fun only gets there. When I turned on the piano keyboard at the corner of the stage, suddenly my body was twisted by two foreign hands to the point that River was the suspect. His face lowered towards me and his lips a little more would scatter me like after work then. Accidentally, my hand pressed the piano keyboard to support my body, which reflexively rewinded to produce an unpleasant discordant sound and made River shocked and froze for a moment. I think she was aware of my fear of resisting her vulgar desires until she fell silent and looked at me deeply.

"Gue thought, with kiss you would pull your memory back." Lirih River pitched disappointed as well as turned away. "Gue understands that you feel foreign and uncomfortable."

I also buried my face. "I'm sorry."

River breathed a heavy sigh. "Foreign, huh? So if this is the case, we should have just reworked from the beginning."

I felt so guilty when River's expression changed so grimly and looked sad. But, I can't force myself into this discomfort. Isn't it unfair to treat yourself badly? Well, I know that River isn't bad, I mean bad is just an alienation and an inconvenience.

"okay." River punched his hand while looking at me with a big smile. "We're reworking from the beginning. Ashley, you want to be my girlfriend?"

Like deja vu. Kai had said that before. But this time it was River who said it to make me confused in answering. " Em, we don't really know each other. Did we delay it first ..."

My sentence was cut off by a small whisper of River. "Udah thousands of times you sayain it from us Tk small. Even now repeat again. Worse, when accepted and spent three months, suddenly lo amnesia and I was rejected again."

How unfortunate the love story of River is. He shot me from TK? Just be right.

"So it's like that, yeah."

"You know how elo also remains my girlfriend. Who dares to deketin lo, I will jotos until not shaped." Crazy, sadist! "Forgot my talk, let's go to my house."

Instantly my face flushed. "Why what?"

"Find me, you remember him, one time" said River, pulling my hand hard. "Udah, don't have to suck much more, hunt."

"It's so rough" I said.

River laughed out loud for the first time I heard. "Indeed, and you always hit me if this rubbish is said accidentally."

I was really elusive when before the memory loss. When we got off campus, River booked a taxi online and we quickly drove to River's residence without a hitch. When we arrived, we saw a fairly simple house with a second floor and a trunk containing a foreign car. It was Kai's car that was used to pick me up in the hospital. Not everything changes from this life.

"Geez Ashley, it's been a long time since you moved into the apartment." Greet Nyokap River as we both enter the door of this house. What do you mean by moving apartment? "Let's go in, we'll have dinner together."

"Elo used to live here and moved since he had a job" whispered River as he turned to walk us to the dinner table.

"Gue lives together? Is ..."

"Where are you, huh, Auntie?" I asked accidentally and started to tense up. Is my call to River right?

"Oh, he's still out there. Probably hanging out with his friends." It's good that River didn't complain about my call to him.

Honestly, I'm starting to miss Kai's funny and hyperactive attitude. A very entertaining guy who understands me. The world seems to be upside down, of course, and of course there is a reversal in me as well.

"Ma, in two days our Manager will not be camping. So, I want permission to go" River said, munching on his fries.

Huh huh? The camping? It's like when the manager held an employee tour on July 22, but in a different place.

"You want to go anywhere if you're with Ashley, you'll also be Mama Permissionin" River replied with a flick of his hand.

"Kok that?" I asked with confusion.

"Because of my charmer" chirped River with twitching lips. I think he almost smiled but was embarrassed in front of his own face.

After finishing the dinner that was so exciting, I also looked around at River's orders to remember the past. When my eyes were fixed on the bookshelf, I was also interested in the pink book which was the largest in size among others. The idea has a proposal, it's an album. It contained photos of our childhoods—aku, River and Kai— while playing around, crying, eating at birthday parties and much more. I was more interested in the photo where I was crying on the beach sand that seemed to be lamenting the destruction of my sand castle. River who was laughing in stepping on the sand castle, while Kai held my shoulder with a look of concern. Really funny. It turns out that River was a naughty and rude guy to cover up his love for me, while Kai openly showed his hospitality that I did not know yet if he liked me as much as before.

"Don't take revenge on me, yes" said River who suddenly appeared next to me. His head lowered to the same level as my head in looking through this old album.

"It seems that from the beginning, Elo was really a hobby of torturing me," I said as I shook my head slowly. "But the torturer was diligent in shooting."

River laughed loudly near my ears. God, it looks like after coming home from this house I'm going to ENT. "Yeah, that's me."

After spending a lot of time at the River house or rather the River and Kai house, I also say goodbye to River nyokap who asked me to stay overnight. Of course I refused subtly on the grounds that I had no substitute for underwear.

The shit. The streets are darker than ever. Worse, this housing complex is an alley that is not too small but quiet to impress creepy and make myself shudder up to the nose. Thank goodness River took the initiative to drive me home.

"Angir, I'm wearing the wrong sandal!" ketus Rivers. My laughter almost gushed when I saw the River footwear that was used unmatched. The right foot uses an eiger, while the next is just a regular rubber sandal in green. "Just a minute, I'm back, like my phone's gone too."

So far, I can judge that River has quite a high prestige. And my God, I just realized that we'd be out of this lonely alley in a minute if River hadn't turned around. Standing in the middle of the darkness was so scary that I felt like a simulated test of paranormal guts. I ran towards the street lamp that was shining brightly and stood right under the light. It seems like I already look like a cast of horror characters who are being followed by terrible demons.

Suddenly a hand held my arm tightly. My head turned towards the owner of the hand. My eyes were wide open until barely out of their sockets when I saw the pale white and dark-eyed man I had seen from some places even clearly remembered right in the caffe as a customer. His face grinned more like an opera mask and his eyes were glaring now and look veins at the temple to make me scream as loud as possible.

"This time you won't get away from me" said the creepy guy who started to clutch my arm even stronger as I tried to jerk it. My fear was higher when the guy laughed with his jaws glazed like Villain in the movies.

"Woi! Who lo?! Release him!"

A moment of relief enveloped me when I heard the roar of a lion approaching us until the creepy guy was surprised and fled with lightning fast into the darkness. I survived, I've finally survived!

"Ley, you're out of the window? Sorry I was long. Fuck, I'll mark the thugs and if I see you again, I'll rub his face until he's plastic surgery," River scolded furiously. "Let's go home, I've taken a taxi."

I nodded slowly but the fear still covered me. The pale-skinned man's words were very imprinted on my brain. 'this time it will not escape me' and what does it mean from the word 'this time'? Is it possible that I who used to be targeted by him but always escaped until still alive until now? Could be. That's a reasonable theory. However, the guy looked so grim when I first met him at the cafe and across the highway by the red light which of course before me had a ridiculous accident that was falling into a ravine.

But who is that guy really?

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