Deja Vu [ Lilian Ashley ]
26. What's up with Zack?

There was no more response I had to give other than to smile and shake my head.

I had not seen any sign of myself being in a relationship with any man until at last, the man next to me told me. It was a little unexpected when the DJ stated our relationship. A manager with his own employees dating is very strange to me.

Instantly seeped into my brain about the employee tour.

"In the morning, you haven't finished talking about the employee tour. Why do I have to do it?" I asked as we had crossed the zebra cross without the slightest obstacle.

DJ shook his head slowly. "For our organization's meeting."

I'm getting confused.

"I mean, we do tour and then do a meeting at a place with others? Isn't it fun to increase employee productivity?" I said and got a dumbfounded response from the DJ.

DJ put the back of his hand on my forehead and flipped through it. He turned his head until our faces looked at each other.

"Not hot and no panda eyes either. Lo why, Ley could be this forgetful?" DJ looked at me. He must have done this because my answer was not in his presence.

DJ was back in his original position, and at the same time, I saw Zack at a considerable distance. Then, he stepped away while putting the earphone that was always perched on his neck. Why do I always feel cared for by him these days?

After cramming, I decided to catch up with Zack to find out what he was hiding about the date, the accident and the death that came close to me.

"Ashley! Where are you going?" shouted DJ while following me.

I ran until I got to the bend Zack was aiming for. But I lost track of him. Again he disappeared from me. But, shouldn't I stay away from her because she's one of the threats that have harmed me before? Ah, so confusing. I don't know what to do.

"Lo chase what?" I looked over and DJ was staring at me fiercely. "Ashley, you freak. Let's go home and rest."

No, I'm not weird. But, I can't possibly say that I was chasing Zack because DJ recognized him. This business should not be mixed handled by others.

In the end, I was delivered home and I didn't care how the DJ got a few words out of his mouth. I was really uncomfortable and actually how my life went. It's hard to understand.

I rest myself and hope tomorrow to get answers to all my questions.

It's July 22nd morning. Waking up and going to caffe and repeatedly doing without interesting activities. Yeah, I'm doing my usual activities until I finally don't think I'm gonna meet someone right in front of my apartment building.

Zack, he finally showed up without me looking.

"Sorry." Zack looked at me with tears of compassion and his hands seemed to reach me. "This morning, it is better not to leave early. Go back to the apartment."

I was stunned for a moment in looking at Zack.

"Why?" I asked until Zack's face turned pale. "Why did you warn me like that ...,"

"Ah, I remember there was a lot of business. Bye bye!" Zack started running away, then he turned to me. "Remember my words! Come inside!"

I knew if he had warned me there would be an unexpected event. However, this time I will break it for some reason. One side, I also need to open the cafe because only I hold the key.

My feet stepped away and when I just came out of the housing complex, I realized that my sneaker straps were not tied. Fortunately, I did not fall because of this rope. I stopped in front of the outer area of the compound to tie the shoelaces, in an instant a fallen tree was present right in front of me. It was probably only half a meter away and if I had not stopped to tie my shoelaces, then I would have been the victim of a huge tree.

There was the sound of a runaway step towards me and a gasping breath.

"You're okay, right?" Zack appeared again. "I told you to stay in the apartment for a while. But, yeah, that's it. Better go to caffe. But remember, don't go to college just for today."

I was silent and it was hard to think clearly while still in shock like this.

"I'll go first!" pamit Zack's.

For the umpteenth time, he left again and I didn't get to talk to him.

In the end I arrived at the cafe without any travel obstacles. I found all the officers standing in front of the back door and looking at me simultaneously.

"Sorry, I'm late" I said as I opened the cafe door.

Ordinary activities began to take place and I remembered the DJ saying that now was my time to go to college. But Zack's warning could not be rejected because I had the umpteenth time I saw the cause of the man's words in forbidding me. He's like a fortune teller.

"Which Miss Manager? Woi, see Miss?!" yelled Kai with panicked water. "Miss's not on campus anymore, is it?"

"No, from yesterday he didn't leave. Miss is there" said Sherly, pointing to me about to enter my private workspace.

"Thank you!" said Kai who rubbed his forehead as if there was sweat flowing.

"What's wrong?" I asked to know what caused Kai's panic.

"This-this Manager." Kai pulled out his phone and displayed a recent news story in which there was a picture of a burning building. "On the campus that Miss and I entered there was a fire caused by an explosion in the labaratorium."

Instantly everyone gathered in watching Kai's phone. I find it strange to have a job title but one campus with my own employees, even though we are different sift anyway.

"Good thing is that the manager didn't go to college!" connect Vin with force in narrowing his head to look at Kai's phone. "Manager just menggampus at the night shift just kayak us. Don't be early."

"Dih, lo lo," said Megan. "Accidents are everywhere and unexpected. Despite the night shift, there could be another accident."

Everyone nodded in agreement from Megan's words. I saw DJ coming to see this news and he looked at me passively.

"Hey, let's take care of the door, Megan!" call River with a loud intonation to Megan, then when I turn to her, River's expression calms down.

I felt too bad for them in the past. River was quite a glutton and if he had to change that attitude towards me, my nature was completely outrageous.

My feet followed Megan and found the first customer present. That was Zack. The guy smiled at me and I meant that he was relieved if I didn't go to college to follow his warning. Good thing, if there's him, I can avoid my accident until July 26th.

A short day until no time to close the coffee has arrived.

"Gue has business with the organization. You go home first," said the DJ who spoke first before I stepped away from the cafe.

The guy ran away like he was in a hurry about something.

"Excuse me," I said, trying to wake Zack up. He didn't wake up and I started touching his hands. "Mir ...,"

Spontaneously his eyes opened, then he sat down in surprise and his breath was breathless like he had been hit by a nightmare. Zack turned to me with a sharp look, then both of his hands immediately grabbed my shoulder.

"You again, you again! You want to kill me, huh?!" snapped Zack to make my guts shriek as he stared at his fierce expression.

His facial water was exactly like the one in my previous life where he terrorized me at night. So what does it mean that I killed him? Wasn't he the one who killed me before?

"Eh ..," Zack's hand gripped and the expression on his face faded. Now his eyes were wide in my eyes and it was as if something that had possessed him had now disappeared. "I'm sorry! You should not come near me."

Zack got up and ran straight. Strange, not for a minute he's been acting creepy and thinks I'm a killer. Now he's scared and away from me. And before this he always approached me with a real warning business.

I set my foot in search of Zack and intend to ask him what really happened to him. In the end after going around a little, I found the guy sitting in a small alley and he buried his face in the leg he was bending.

"Hallo's? Can we talk?" I said as I approached Zack.

A voice of discordant laughter emerged from Zack. A laugh that reminded me of her before pushing me into the artificial lake before. My legs stepped back as Zack stood up with the same sinister expression he had initially woken up from sleep.

"Basically stubborn. Been warned not to approach me, still to approach." Zack walked up to me with the smile I had seen before when he was my night terror.

He ran again, but passed me like he was running away for the umpteenth time from me.

Without thinking any longer, of course I chased after him while shouting. "Hey, wait!"

"I told you! Don't come near me" raved Zack with low intonation and nothing like before. "Get out of me!"

"I want to ask you something!" my yelling.

Now we run in a fairly quiet house. Zack looked back at me and suddenly he turned the bow to dart towards me.

BRUK!

A flower pot fell to the point where I was before being pushed by Zack to avoid being hit by it. I looked up and someone in one of the buildings was on the run. He must be the same guy who dropped a flower pot on me, who else if not Vin's fans.

We who were still positioned lying on the ground to look at each other until at last the guy in front of me shed tears.

"I told you to stay away from me" isak Zack tried to get up. "I'm enough to come to you when it's necessary."

I took out the handkerchief I always carried in the bag and thrust it at Zack so that he would weep out the tears without cause.

Unexpectedly, Zack pulled out of his pants pocket a handkerchief just like mine. However, hers contained red stain spots.

I looked at this guy fixedly before saying, "It's like mine."

"That's yours" said Zack.

"Did we know each other before?"

Zack nodded his head confirming my words and he chuckled. His head looked up while covering his face with both hands. "You gave this to me once. Whatever I say, you won't believe me, will you, Ashley?"

"I'll try," I said and managed to get Zack to look back at me. "I'll believe whatever you say."

"Omong is empty" Zack said with a bitter smile. "Keep away if you don't want to die in my hands like in the lake first."

I gasped in shock after hearing the words that came out of the guy's mouth. He knows everything! Zack is not a different person in general, he's just like me! I held Zack's hand as he twisted his body to leave me again.

"What's wrong? Why did you tell me to stay away and ...," I stopped when Zack turned to me. "Why did you kill me in the lake?"

Zack slowly took my hand off him and resumed his journey, which happened to be passing through the railroad tracks.

"Go away and get away from me." Again the words came out of his mouth.

When I stepped up to catch up, suddenly my shoes got stuck on the railroad tracks. Feels deja vu, I've experienced this before.

I tried to pull my foot off the rail clasp on my shoe. It felt so hard that my voice provoked Zack to look over.

"Not again!" peek Zack as he approached me and began to help me in this leg of the rell.

"What do you mean by the word 'again'? You know if I've been like this before?" I asked in panic.

Zack didn't bother me and was busy helping me get my foot off the tracks. Suddenly the bell of the traffic fence rang out indicating soon the train will be present. For a second, we finally managed to get off the tracks and step away before the train came.

"You know everything, quickly tell me who you are?!" I snapped who had run out of patience in looking for answers from Zack. "I died in the lake, in the railway. All you know and why only now do you show up to save?"

This guy turned his face away and exhaled a heavy breath.

"And what do you mean if I'm going to kill you, when obviously you're trying to kill me?" ask me again with a clean sliver.

"You said you'd try to believe whatever I said. Can't you?" Zack looked at me fixedly and I nodded the confirming sign. "If I say I am ...,"

Instantly the train passed by and his loud voice had faded away Zack's speech that sounded in my ear.

"Do you believe it?" zack continued after saying what I didn't hear and all I could get was a look at the movement of his mouth.

I shook my head slowly and felt a little annoyed by the noise of the train. "Can you repeat?"

Zack sighed. "I am ...,"

Again the sound of the train engine appeared and all I could see was Zack's mouth movements.

"I am your lover."

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